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 Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/ReutersDonald Trump calls them "Perry Mason moments." The 77-year-old likes to reference the TV series from his childhood and the dramatic legal showdowns in real life which so far seem to be the only things keeping him fully awake during his own trials.
That altercation finally came midday Thursday, as his lead lawyer Todd Blanche eventually shed the apologetic tone he's maintained during two days of questioning Michael Cohen. The former prosecutor replaced his milky tone with an aggressive bark as he turned up the heat on the Manhattan District Attorney's star witness against his former boss.
"That. Was. A. Lie!" Blanche raised his voice, jabbing the pen in his right hand accusatorily at Cohen. "You did not talk to President Trump on that night... you admit it!"
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Fox Business NetworkRep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) made a bizarre claim Thursday, insisting that he has "evidence" to support his allegation that President Joe Biden was "jacked up on something" during the State of the Union address. He even offered to show his so-called proof to Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo "offline."
The MAGA congressman's wild accusation seemed to go too far for the pro-Trump conspiracy-loving Bartiromo, who once relied on "wackadoodle" claims made by a woman who thinks she's a ghost to peddle 2020 election lies on Fox airwaves that eventually led the network to settle a massive defamation lawsuit.
Appearing on Fox Business' Mornings with Maria, Murphy—a co-chair of the GOP Doctors Caucus— was asked to put his "doctor's hat on" and give his take on the
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 Win McNamee/Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden has used executive privilege in an attempt to block Trump-aligned Republican House leaders from obtaining audio recordings of his interviews with special counsel Robert Hur over Biden's handling of classified documents.
The transcripts of those interviews, conducted over two days, have already been released. In the explosive 345-page report, Hur concluded Biden had done nothing criminal but characterized the president as a "well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory," an assertion Biden's critics seized on and his advocates slammed as unprofessional on Hur's part.
Biden's use of executive privilege to prevent House committees from receiving tapes of the interviews was revealed in a series of letters from officials in his administration.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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In the historic criminal hush money election fraud trial of former President Donald Trump, New York prosecutors are wrapping up their case charging Trump with falsifying business records in an illegal effort to influence the 2016 presidential election. On Tuesday, Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen admitted he misled the Federal Election Commission about hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. In cross-examination, defense attorneys tried to suggest Cohen was motivated by vengeance against Trump. "He's the one who has firsthand knowledge of the actual deal that he and Donald Trump struck in order to pay the hush money, create a phony retainer, and ultimately falsify the business records," says criminal defense lawyer Ron Kuby. "The boss betrayed him. And now he, indeed, is out for revenge." Kuby says Trump and his right-wing allies are using the trial as a backdrop for politics, and discusses the possibility of Trump serving prison time. Kuby is also representing climate crisis activists arrested at Citibank headquarters in New York City during Earth Week last month and pro-Palestinian activists arrested at recent protests at Fordham University and SUNY Purchase. "I tend to view these struggles … as perennial struggles with each generation kind of rising up to do their part," Kuby says. "I just have mad respect for the young people who are literally risking their education, their careers and their futures to stand up for the planet, to stand up against the slaughter in Gaza."
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Outside the Manhattan courthouse where Donald J. Trump is being tried on criminal charges, Mike Johnson attacked a key witness who linked the former president to a plan to cover up hush money paid to a porn star.
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