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Former President Donald Trump's hush money trial continues in New York.
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 Doug Mills/ReutersThe B-list celebrity lawyer who scored two hush-money deals for a porn star and a former Playboy model came off as an even shadier character on Thursday, as Donald Trump's team worked hard to show that the prosecution's witness was actually engaged in a scheme to extort the politician in the weeks before the 2016 election.
The third week of the former president's criminal trial in New York has focused mostly on the dirty world of scandal coverups, with a Beverly Hills lawyer describing how worried stars, conniving publicists, and unscrupulous entertainment "journalists" manage the underground market for embarrassing information.
But while the trial on Tuesday served as a primer, Thursday showed how even now—nearly eight years after these Trump deals were put into place—a key player still couldn't come to grips with reality over exactly what he did.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Doug Mills/GettyDonald Trump tried—and failed—to lure the judge overseeing his New York criminal trial into the position of greenlighting his angry screeds to ensure they don't violate a gag order that seeks to stop him from continuing to intimidate witnesses and jurors.
The move came after Trump got slapped with $9,000 in fines and a warning of a potential stay in the slammer on Tuesday, then had to fend off the risk of an additional $4,000 in penalties Thursday morning.
After a trial lunch break, the former president's legal team approached New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan with a curious request: If Trump keeps getting into hot water for sharing news stories about the trial but still theoretically has a First Amendment right to speak about the case in general terms, would the judge be willing to review and OK posts before he makes them?
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Attorney Keith Davidson is cross-examined after a hearing on allegations that Donald Trump again violated a gag order in his New York hush money trial.
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 Mark Peterson-Pool/Getty ImagesDonald Trump can dish it out, but he has shown, once again, that he simply cannot take it.
As proceedings began Thursday morning in the disgraced ex-president's criminal hush-money trial, defense attorney Todd Blanche complained to New York State Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan that the gag order put in place to prevent Trump from intimidating witnesses, jurors, and court staff was unfair to his client.
"Everybody can say anything they want, except for President Trump," Blanche grumbled.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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