I know you know this, but for others reading the thread. You can stipulate that something is authentic, without stipulating it is admissible. That would eliminate the requirement to call a witness to authenticate the evidence and still preserve the right to appeal admissibility.
He certainly knows they were ordered taken down, and even an idiot like Trump knows that he has no recourse (or at least his lawyers have made that clear).
I have to say that it warms the cockles of my heart to think about how furious Trump must be at the enforcement of the gag order and warnings about future transgressions. His automatic reaction to being pissed off at anything or anyone is to issue hateful Tweets or Twuths about it, and this is precisely what he’s prohibited from doing against those that he currently hates most. I certainly hope that it’s not raising his blood pressure to unhealthy levels! Maybe throwing ketchup-laden hamberders at the walls of Mar-a-Lago will offer some relief. 
Not even ketchup-flinging at the Mar-a-Lago walls can he indulge in – he’s stuck in New York every day the trial goes on, right? Unless he’s flying back and forth.
It doesn’t appear that he has taken down the remaining four. The hearing for that is on Thursday.
Oh, right. He can throw the ketchup-laden hamberders out the window of his Trump Tower apartment, aimed at all those lib’rul New Yorkers, and hoping that maybe one of the ones it hits is one of the jury members.
I’m sure that will endear him to the judge.
If you were the DA, and were giving your closing argument, wouldn’t you highlight this line?
Maybe you’d even print it up and put it on some big poster board that’s behind you when you are speaking.
Of course I’d expect the prosecutor to emphasize that, for those who were buying McDougal’s silence, it was obvious why. Clearly, this was for the presidency.
Only McDougal was in the dark.
At first, I was wondering why they elicited direct testimony that she didn’t want to tell her story. But, as I think about it, I think it is intended to counter the expected rebuttal that she, Daniels, and even Cohen once disavowed all of these scandals.
I’m expecting that the prosecution argument is that, originally, they were loyal to donald and protecting him by hiding the truth. But, he’s so diabolical, or they are so compelled by the power of the law to be honest, that now they are telling the truth.
(Whereas the defense is going to hammer them on credibility; a bunch of liars and crooks, the whole lot of ‘em)
Thank you for the correction. I should have gone with my earlier draft: if you’ve stipulated to an issue, you’ve generally given up the right to appeal that issue.
Keith Davidson is being asked about what impact the release of the “Access Hollywood” tape had on the interest in Stormy Daniels’ story
Davidson says there was very little interest in the “marketplace” in Daniels’ story about an alleged affair with Trump in the summer of 2016 through the fall. But the “Access Hollywood” tape sparked interest in Daniels’ story, Davidson says. That’s when interest in her story “reached a crescendo.”
“So, far as I’m aware, it had tremendous influence,” Davidson says.
BOOM!
per cnn live updates:
Keith Davidson says he received 45% of the $150,000 deal.
Keith Davidson sent a “cease and desist” letter to the blog on Stormy Daniels’ behalf. The 2011 post was about Daniels’ relationship with Donald Trump.
Rodriguez, who represented Daniels in 2011 and referred her to Davidson then, called Davidson, saying: “Some jerk called me and was very very aggressive and threatened to sue me and I would like you, Keith, to call this jerk back.”
“Who was that jerk?” Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass asked.
“Michael Cohen,” Davidson said.
When he called Cohen, Davidson recalled being immediately “met with a hostile barrage of insults and insinuations and allegations and that went on for quite a while.”
“I don’t think he was accusing us of anything. He was just screaming,” Davidson said of Cohen.
Davidson said he was successful in “accomplishing my client’s goal” of getting the blog post taken down after he sent the “cease and desist” letter.
The jury is getting a picture that Cohen is aggressive and difficult to deal with.
“davidson: moral of the story is no one wanted to talk to cohen.”
National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard texted Keith Davidson on June 30, 2016:
“FYI Gina trying to hawk Stormy again,” a reference to her manager Gina Rodriguez.
“Part of Gina’s role and responsibility, the services she provided, was to monetize stories in the press. She was like a story broker,” Davidson said in explaining the text message.
“Gina was bringing this story back to market,” Davidson explained.
Davidson responded to Howard at the time: “Lol - she’s trying to sell a story to you?”
Keith Davidson is being asked about what impact the release of the “Access Hollywood” tape had on the interest in Stormy Daniels’ story
Davidson says there was very little interest in the “marketplace” in Daniels’ story about an alleged affair with Trump in the summer of 2016 through the fall. But the “Access Hollywood” tape sparked interest in Daniels’ story, Davidson says. That’s when interest in her story “reached a crescendo.”
“So, far as I’m aware, it had tremendous influence,” Davidson says.
text messaging:
davidson to howard " trump is f…"
howard to davidson: waive the white flag. it’s over people.
In another thread, @xizor pointed out that “part of his pretrial release for his other cases (Georgia, Florida, DC) states he is not to break any federal, state or local laws. He just broke a NY state law.”
I can’t link to Youtube at work, Glenn Kirschner pointed it out on his channel, although he doubts any of the other judges will actually act on it beyond a show cause hearing.
Got it. Well, I think those judges SHOULD act on it, in part because the violation is exactly what he’s GUARANTEED to do when they get their turn presiding over one of his cases.
I agree. It’s not the kind of law violation that would lead to revoking his bail. (it could, but I personally think it’s highly unlikely.)
Criminal Contempt in the Second Degree looks to be a Class A Misdemeanor in NY:
[ETA: I nuked the OneBox because it displayed this law firm’s phone number. Just … no upside to that, here]
Yeah. This might technically be a violation of bond conditions … in at least some of these jurisdictions, but I tend to doubt they’re going to go anywhere with it – at least not immediately.
Rather than chomping at the bit to jail Trump, I suspect the opposite is at play.
I’m catching up on NY Times live updates from today and, understanding that the prosecution is in the driver’s seat at the moment and things can change when the defense gets to go, they appear to be laying out a detailed, thorough, and understandable story of the alleged crimes, with contemporaneous emails, texts, and other written evidence. From my biased perspective, it looks overwhelming and damning for Trump already, before Daniels or Cohen even take the stand.
Team Trump has been showing up late after breaks and has been warned for the behavior. They are apparently late again.
from cnn live updates
Davidson says he had conversations with Dylan Howard during this time, where he said he would express that Cohen “was not being truthful.”
“I thought he was trying to kick the can down the road until after the election,” Davidson testified about Cohen’s excuses for not coming up with the funding.
Davidson testified that he came to believe that Cohen didn’t have the authority to spend the money.
“I think you can tell by these emails I was sending him there was a great level of frustration by me and my client,” Davidson said.
“I let him know that the level of dissatisfaction was quite high. He stated, ‘Goddamn it. I’ll just do it myself,’” Davidson testified.
After days of excuses with no money wire, Davidson said he told Cohen, “I don’t believe a word really that you say.”
Cohen responded, “goddamnit what do you expect me to do, my guy is in five different states today.”
Davidson says that he believed Cohen began making excuses for “failure to fund” their agreement as he walked through emails he exchanged with Cohen in October 2016.
On October 14, 2016, Davidson sent Cohen wiring instructions for the second time after Cohen said he’d send the money that day.
On October 17, Davidson emailed Cohen at his Trump Org address again: "I have been charged by my client with forwarding the below message.
The messages included:
- We have a written settlement agreement which calls for settlement payment to be sent by the end of business this past Friday. October 14, 2016. No payment was received. "
- We spoke on Friday, October 14th & you stated that funds would be wired today, October 17, 2016. No funds have been received as of the sending of this e-mail. My client informs me that she intends to cancel the settlement contract if no funds are received by 5PM PST today.”
The agreement that Keith Davidson emailed included a requested deadline of October 14, 2016, for Michael Cohen to provide the money — but Davidson says the money was not sent by that date.
“We good?” Davidson emailed to Cohen on October 12, 2016.
Davidson said Daniels’ manager Gina Rodriguez approached him and asked him to close the deal.
“It’s going to be the easiest deal you’ve ever done in your entire life,” Davidson says, pauses, and then lets out a little laugh.
Rodriguez told him it had already been negotiated. “All you have to do is talk to that a**hole Cohen,” Davidson recalled.
He chuckled on the stand as he said it – with a dramatic pause for the jury to catch the irony.
Keith Davidson is explaining how they used fake names in the agreement between Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels.
“Peggy Peterson” was used Daniels because she was the plaintiff, and “David Dennison” was used for Trump because he was the defendant, Davidson said.
Asked if David Dennison is a real person, Davidson said, “Yes, he was on my high school hockey team.”
Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass asked him, "How does he feel about you know? "
“He’s very upset,” Davidson said, drawing laughs from some of the jurors.
While the hush money trial against former President Donald Trump is ongoing in a Manhattan courtroom, a full panel of appellate judges denied one of Trump’s attempts to stay the trial on Tuesday.
On April 10, Trump asked a New York appeals court for emergency relief to stop the criminal trial from going ahead so he could appeal a lower court’s ruling on presidential immunity and have the judge recused from the case. His attorneys also challenged Judge Juan Merchan’s previous ruling related to how dockets are made publicly.
At the time, a single appellate judge heard oral arguments and then swiftly denied the interim motion to delay the trial.
The full appellate panel, made up of five justices, issued their order to also deny the motion on Tuesday.
Judge Juan Merchan is on the bench and the prosecutors are back in the courtroom.
However, Donald Trump is not here yet.
The judge had warned Trump attorney Todd Blanche about not being late when they returned from lunch.
Thanks for that, rocking_chair. It was going so fast (for me) that it was getting a little difficult to follow. You provided a nice, clear, step-by-step explanation. Thanks again!
Oh, yeah
Life is bad
Gloom and misery everywhere
Stormy weather, stormy weather
And I just can get my poor self together
man. trump not paying people is really hoisting his petard.
cnn live update:
Davidson is back on the stand.
The jury is now being shown another string of text messages between Davidson and Dylan Howard after the deal to pay Stormy Daniels seemed to crumble.
Davidson texted, “I can’t believe Cohen let this go. It’s going to be a sh*t show.”
Howard replied, “I bet. All because Trump is tight.”
Davidson explained to the jury when Howard said Trump is tight he meant that Trump “was frugal.”
Davidson said he believed “they had this deal sort of on a silver platter and it was just there for the taking.”
He said the only reason the deal didn’t close was “because they didn’t want to spend the money.”
“In essence, Michael Cohen stepped into AMI’s shoes,” he said.