Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

To pay Stormy, Donald ordered his team
- to create a shell company
- to come up with fake names for the agreement
- to come up with fake invoices for repaying Cohen

NOT to hide it from Melania.

This was to hide it from campaign finance regulators, journalists, and all of us.

A former Secret Service agent is suing the New York Post and Daily Mail for defamation, accusing them of publishing stories based on fabricated text messages that he says falsely linked him to Hunter Biden. The publications claimed they came from "Hunter Biden's laptop," but they were apparently completely fabricated. The former agent says they knew the messages were fake when they published them.

https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/former-secret-service-agent-sues-new-york-post-daily-mail-hunter-biden-rcna150010

Cannabis is OFFICIALLY headed to Schedule III.

The DEA has made the move, the White House will most certainly approve.

#Cannabis #weed #prohibition

https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-biden-dea-criminal-justice-pot-f833a8dae6ceb31a8658a5d65832a3b8

If the #hostages are in #rafah, does #Israel have the right to use any methods of rescue?
#genevaconventions
@palestine
@israel

Via Kyle Cheney:

👉🏼House Dems make it official: If [Marj Q Greene] tries to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, they will help block it >>>>

23/ Emptywheel (re Klasfeld’s posts):

Not sure if journos present could answer this: But prosecutors OFTEN introduce such records via stipulation.

But by having a banker present all these records, you accord credibility to Michael Cohen when he tells the same story.

22/ Klasfeld:

Farro authenticates this request for a home equity line of credit in the names of Michael Cohen and his wife.

Next exhibit:

In an email assigned a "High" importance, the bank's staffer requests expedited processing on a $131,000 advance.

Ohio's *School Vouchers for All*: Expanded, Expensive, but Not Audited - A clear case of removing funding from public schools to finance private mostly religious schools. https://deutsch29.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/ohios-school-vouchers-for-all-expanded-expensive-but-not-audited/ #privatization

Man we live in crazy times…

Republican Bill Barr tells CNN, that when he was Attorney General, Trump would frequently inform him, he wanted specific US citizens killed, but according to Barr, it is not a problem, because the government did not carry out the order.

Imagine that: A president angrily suggesting to use the power of the state to assassinate people he does not like, and it all comes down to, whether the person he is talking to tries to calm him down… or not.

https://youtu.be/KqyjudAkFNQ?si=4mXvd9lR5qGN58tj

Justice #Merchan wrote that he was “keenly aware of, and protective of, Defendant’s First Amendment rights.” But nonetheless, he wrote that he would not tolerate continued violations of his orders and that if necessary & appropriate, he would “impose an incarceratory sentence.” In plain language, he is warning #Trump that he will send him to #jail if necessary.

#TrumpTrial #criminal #law

Already, prosecutors have alerted to the judge to 4 new potential violations. Those were not covered by Justice #Merchan’s order & will be discussed at another hearing, which will be held on Thurs morning.

In addition to fining #Trump after finding him in #contempt, Justice Merchan ordered him to remove the offending Truth Social posts today.

#TrumpTrial #criminal #law