Prosecutors Have Handwritten Notes of Trump Hush Money Scheme: ‘He Wrote All of It Down??’

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In their opening statement, prosecutors in Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial describe a document with notes in the margin, handwritten by former Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg, outlining the structure of the hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. Andrew Weissmann, former federal prosecutor, and Catherine Christian, former Manhattan prosecutor, discuss the significance of this evidence.

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:18:23am

Looks like personal use to me…

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:20:02am

Obligatory:

Criminal Conspiracy Notes

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:20:07am

If you write it down doesn’t it get protected by the Presidential Records Act?

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jaunte  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:21:37am

Old Soup & Stale Breath
Sounds like a community theater play out of Waiting for Guffman.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:23:08am

re: #3 darthstar

If you write it down doesn’t it get protected by the Presidential Records Act?

Definitely an important document to be added to the Trump Presidential Library.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:26:14am

The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library is the presidential library of Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States, a website administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and launched on January 20, 2021, when Trump officially left office.[1] It is the 15th NARA-managed presidential library.
Plans to build a library and museum are yet to be announced.

en.m.wikipedia.org

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:29:45am

re: #6 BeenHereAwhile

Plans to build a library and museum are yet to be announced.

How many imaginary subcontractors can you stuff into a presidential library budget? Trump will want that money when he gets out of prison.

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dat_said  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:31:46am

re: #7 darthstar

How many imaginary subcontractors can you stuff into a presidential library budget? Trump will want that money when he gets out of prison.

Are imaginary subcontractors any likelier to get paid?

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:33:09am

Watching this trial brings back memories:

44 minutes ago
Jonah Bromwich
Reporting from the courthouse
Pecker says Cohen called him furiously denying that the child in question was Trump’s, saying that he offered to take a DNA test and that because he was German-Irish and the woman was Hispanic, it was impossible for the child to be his.

43 minutes ago
Maggie Haberman
Reporting from the courthouse
To be clear, Pecker appeared to be saying that Cohen indicated that a child with a Hispanic mother couldn’t be Trump’s.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:34:52am

re: #9 BeenHereAwhile

Watching this trial brings back memories:

44 minutes ago
Jonah Bromwich
Reporting from the courthouse
Pecker says Cohen called him furiously denying that the child in question was Trump’s, saying that he offered to take a DNA test and that because he was German-Irish and the woman was Hispanic, it was impossible for the child to be his.

43 minutes ago
Maggie Haberman
Reporting from the courthouse
To be clear, Pecker appeared to be saying that Cohen indicated that a child with a Hispanic mother couldn’t be Trump’s.

Because German-Irish and Hispanic are incompatible species? WTF did he mean by that?

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:36:15am

Mastodon

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jaunte  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:37:19am

re: #9 BeenHereAwhile

My Venezuelan co-worker (who is more German than Trump) thinks the “Hispanic” category is irrationally broad.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:41:21am

re: #10 No Malarkey!

Because German-Irish and Hispanic are incompatible species? WTF did he mean by that?

Maggie Haberman is a newspaper reporter.
(senior political correspondent for The New York Times.)

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:42:49am

re: #10 No Malarkey!

Because German-Irish and Hispanic are incompatible species? WTF did he mean by that?

He’s saying that he is such a racist he would never assault a woman who was Hispanic. Of course, we all know that white slave owners routinely raped their slaves.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:44:33am

Is it too much to ask the Fallout writers to work on Bioshock next?

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:45:00am

quietly getting shit done

President Biden;s administration “unveiled a rule extending mandatory overtime pay to an estimated 4 million salaried workers, going even further than an Obama-era rule that was struck down in court,” Reuters reports.

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Jay C  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:45:26am

re: #12 jaunte

My Venezuelan co-worker (who is more German than Trump) thinks the “Hispanic” category is irrationally broad.

Well, Trump’s (or Michael Cohen’s) notions of human genetics aren’t much better, if he thinks The Donald is “German-Irish”, since his (Trump’s) mother was Scottish, not Irish.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:45:52am

re: #13 BeenHereAwhile

Maggie Haberman is a newspaper reporter.
(senior political correspondent for The New York Times.)

She was reporting Trump said the child couldn’t be his.

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piratedan  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:46:57am

re: #14 Hecuba’s daughter

yeah, while Trump has a type (buxom platinum blondes), he’s been known to essentially fuck anything that moves (see playboy bunny payoff McDonald, a brunette) when the opportunity allows.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:50:03am

re: #19 piratedan

yeah, while Trump has a type (buxom platinum blondes), he’s been known to essentially fuck anything that moves (see playboy bunny payoff McDonald, a brunette) when the opportunity allows.

See also: Carroll, E. Jean, whom he repeatedly said he couldn’t have raped because “she wasn’t his type,” but a jury said he did.

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:50:55am

Couple of young teens went to see the Trump trial. Asked what her biggest take away was, the girl says, “Watching Trump’s lawyers getting annihilated by the judge made my day.”

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:51:43am

re: #18 No Malarkey!

She was reporting Trump said the child couldn’t be his.

Yea but - it could also be said Maggie Haberman was editorializing - what the witness didn’t say.

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:52:41am
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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:55:13am

re: #23 Dangerman

makes the whole thing a conspiracy

the whole ‘catch and kill’ was entirely itself illegal
it was an reported campaign donation of about $3M

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jaunte  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:56:08am

More evidence-hiding behavior:

Trump’s White House didn’t archive Twitter dms:
emptywheel.net

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:56:17am
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jaunte  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:57:14am

@kenwhite.bsky.social

In reviewing some of David Pecker’s testimony I was highly skeptical that any relationship Donald Trump has could be described credibly as “romantic.”

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:58:22am

re: #23 Dangerman

[Embedded content]

So now Trump’s team has to undermine Pecker’s credibility, primarily by pointing out that Pecker is testifying under a grant of immunity.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:01:04pm

re: #20 Nerdy Fish

See also: Carroll, E. Jean, whom he repeatedly said he couldn’t have raped because “she wasn’t his type,” but a jury said he did.

After Trump confused a photo of Carroll with his previous wife Marla, proving that Carroll was indeed his type.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:02:07pm

re: #28 No Malarkey!

So now Trump’s team has to undermine Pecker’s credibility, primarily by pointing out that Pecker is testifying under a grant of immunity.

Grant of immunity doesn’t protect you from perjury if you lie on the stand.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:03:57pm

A high ranking NYPD official characterized NYU faculty linking hands and refusing to move—a classic tactic of *peaceful* protest—as aggression toward its officers and he got it uncritically published by the local Fox station and every outlet that aggregated from them. wapo.st/3UwN0Vf 🎁

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) 2024-04-23T18:09:42.287Z

Hey, authority figures are once again expanding the definition of “aggression” in ways that criminalize passive resistance.

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:05:40pm

re: #28 No Malarkey!

So now Trump’s team has to undermine Pecker’s credibility, primarily by pointing out that Pecker is testifying under a grant of immunity.

tfg sure surrounds himself with squeaky clean people

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:06:58pm

re: #30 Hecuba’s daughter

Grant of immunity doesn’t protect you from perjury if you lie on the stand.

What you imply is that he is lying for the prosecutors, who obviously aren’t going to prosecute him for perjury when they are the ones suborning perjury.

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:06:58pm

re: #29 Hecuba’s daughter

After Trump confused a photo of Carroll with his previous wife Marla, proving that Carroll was indeed his type.

or that he didnt know what his ex- looked like //

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:07:13pm

re: #32 Dangerman

tfg sure surrounds himself with squeaky clean people

Only the best people!

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:07:52pm

re: #32 Dangerman

tfg sure surrounds himself with squeaky clean people

The Best People. That’s why he had to pardon so many of them.

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:08:36pm

re: #31 The Ghost of a Flea

Hey, authority figures are once again expanding the definition of “aggression” in ways that criminalize passive resistance.

it’s ‘aggression’ if you dont do exactly what i say, or if you defy me in any way

dont you know who’s in charge here?? //

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:09:32pm

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:09:36pm



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— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) Apr 23, 2024 at 8:34 AM

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:15:29pm

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:16:33pm

So can we just keep Trump in court for the rest of the campaign? It’s so nice not hearing really anything from him and watching him have to face some consequences.

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piratedan  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:17:41pm

re: #26 Dangerman

every accusation is a confession has entered the chat……

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:17:49pm

re: #41 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

So can we just keep Trump in court for the rest of the campaign? It’s so nice not hearing really anything from him and watching him have to face some consequences.

Its certainly possible that one of his other criminal trials will begin a few weeks after this one ends.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:21:36pm

re: #6 BeenHereAwhile

The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library is the presidential library of Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States, a website administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and launched on January 20, 2021, when Trump officially left office.[1] It is the 15th NARA-managed presidential library.
Plans to build a library and museum are yet to be announced.

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Dave In Austin  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:22:20pm

re: #1 darthstar

Looks like personal use to me…

[Embedded content]

So we’re exporting now? We have become “Them”.

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Mattand  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:26:20pm

re: #44 Joe Bacon ✅

“Books” written as “Book’s” is the chef’s kiss on that whole joke.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:28:03pm

A sign that the economy is in pretty good shape? 49 of the 50 US governors are more popular than not, 40 of them by 10 points or more.* Live link to Xitter in the box; a lot of these people will be running for President in four years.

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* The only one underwater is Tina Kotek, D-Oregon, who is -2 points; I have no idea why.

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A Cranky One  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:35:58pm

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steve_davis  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:39:36pm

re: #20 Nerdy Fish

See also: Carroll, E. Jean, whom he repeatedly said he couldn’t have raped because “she wasn’t his type,” but a jury said he did.

“she wasn’t his type” and then proceeded to confuse her picture with one of his ex-wives.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:40:14pm

re: #44 Joe Bacon ✅


amazon.com
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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:44:03pm

Steve Shultz always has the facial expression of a guy who snorted half a pound of cocaine.

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A Cranky One  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:47:01pm

Some talking heads are suggesting that TFG wants to be jailed for contempt, thinking it will make him a martyr..

I don’t buy it for one simple reason: I doubt that the jail would have hair spray and facilities for TFG to do his ridiculous combover before appearing in public.

You know the press would be waiting for his appearance and he would be mortified to be seen without the prepped dead ferret on his head being ready.

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A Cranky One  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:52:35pm

I’m thoroughly disgusted with the media calling the incident with Stormy Daniels an “affair”. They had sex. Once. And she has said she felt trapped and it was easier to just let things happen than otherwise.

This wasn’t an “affair”. It was a coerced sexual encounter.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:53:18pm

re: #52 A Cranky One

One can guess what Trump would look like when he comes out of jail…

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garzooma  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:57:02pm

re: #52 A Cranky One

Some talking heads are suggesting that TFG wants to be jailed for contempt, thinking it will make him a martyr..

I don’t buy it for one simple reason: I doubt that the jail would have hair spray and facilities for TFG to do his ridiculous combover before appearing in public.

You know the press would be waiting for his appearance and he would be mortified to be seen without the prepped dead ferret on his head being ready.

The question is even if he doesn’t want to be jailed, can he control himself enough to prevent it from happening?

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:57:15pm

re: #54 Joe Bacon ✅

One can guess what Trump would look like when he comes out of jail…

[Embedded content]

Embedded Image

Not that handsome.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:10:19pm

re: #55 garzooma

The question is even if he doesn’t want to be jailed, can he control himself enough to prevent it from happening?

I hope not. I want to see that fucker behind bars. Even if it is only for a day or two.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:12:36pm

re: #57 Eclectic Cyborg

I hope not. I want to see that fucker behind bars. Even if it is only for a day or two.

Anything over a day, so we see what he looks like on his own with no hair and makeup team.

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BeachDem  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:28:50pm

re: #39 No Malarkey!

[Embedded content]

Let’s not forget the Orangeburg Massacre—where the only person who went to jail was Bakari Sellers’ father, for inciting the protests.
ldhi.library.cofc.edu

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:15:24pm

re: #57 Eclectic Cyborg

I hope not. I want to see that fucker behind bars. Even if it is only for a day or two.

Protective custody in the County slammer. With the added perk of a flat screen TV behind a protective screen turned to MSNBC. I’ll be nice and toss in a remote with only two functions. Volume and power.

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wrenchwench  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:09:53pm

re: #47 No Malarkey!

A sign that the economy is in pretty good shape? 49 of the 50 US governors are more popular than not, 40 of them by 10 points or more.* Live link to Xitter in the box; a lot of these people will be running for President in four years.

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* The only one underwater is Tina Kotek, D-Oregon, who is -2 points; I have no idea why.

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