It’s Day 2 of the actual trial! Day 6, if you include jury selection.
Best sources of live blogging that I have found.
Josh Kovensky at TPM – Live Blogging
*Mark Sumner at Daily Kos – Live Blogging
Tyler McBrien at Lawfare – Live Blogging on Twitter
*Mark Sumner at Daily Kos includes live blogging of the contempt hearing that started at 9 am.
Emotional support pup and kitty for the occasion.
Attempted Chemistry
Blanche doing the reputation-immolation thing Trump seems to require.
WaterGirl
Just catching up because I was out. What did I miss?
WaterGirl
@Attempted Chemistry: ooh, tell me more!
Who are you following for this?
smith
@WaterGirl: Blanche said out loud that he thinks Merchan runs a double tier system of justice in his court. Also that all of Donny’s speech and those of his critics is political, so nothing should be disallowed. Merchan was not amused.
ETA: I’m following Sumner at dkos. Pecker is testifying now, but it’s just establishing his connections so far.
NotMax
Balloon Juice EXCLUSIVE.
Captured on the street backing up to a certain Fifth Avenue building.
//
Harrison Wesley
@smith: Sounds like this lawyer has an AI-generated Generic Trump Defense. Hell, I could come up with some sort of bullshit like that, and I’ve got all the legal acumen of a garden snail.
lowtechcyclist
Here’s (TPM) Kovensky’s liveblog:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/trump-faces-sanction-hearing-over-allegations-he-violated-gag-order
WaterGirl
I like the sound of this:
@lowtechcyclist: Thanks so much for the link. Updated up top.
NotMax
Sorry, it’s day 6. The jury are the most significant element of a criminal trial.
TBone
Lump rhymes with…
🎶
https://youtu.be/9BccBuQlNJE
Can Pecker get his head any further up Rump’s ass? Even when testifying for the prosecution, he’s blowing smoke up there, hard.
Sorry, couldn’t help myself 😆
different-church-lady
The lead witness of a sex cover up trial being named Pecker is just so on the nose.
cain
@WaterGirl:
“Sir, I have not yet begun to torch my credibility!”
different-church-lady
@WaterGirl: Everything Trump touches dies.
NotMax
@different-church-lady
At a glans.
;)
TBone
@NotMax: tee hee
zeecube
puppy pic still cracks me up. Thanks.
TBone
Hubby is yelling many colorful expletives at Andrea Mitchell. It is a day ending in Y.
I kid. Usually we watch other stuff that actually breathes
smith
We’ve been told for years that TFG doesn’t have any actual friends, but his criming seems to have turned up two. How appropriate that their names are Mr. Hanky and Mr. Pecker.
TBone
For all who celebrate:
Kosh III
I understand today the judge hears arguments on the gag order. Any idea when he will rule?
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@Kosh III: He heard arguments prior to the jury coming in (that’s where he noted that defense counsel’s credibility was shaky). He said he was reserving judgment for the time being. (Could be later today, could be after they come back from the Passover break.)
WaterGirl
@smith: Mr. Panky was apparently unavailable at the time.
Baud
@TBone:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1cayf7o/trump_minutes_before_suggesting_injecting/
TBone
@Baud: this is the only way I can relive that trauma
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kvWhukh1dUg
Except for shot straight over to see the look on Birx’s face
PaulWartenberg
Twitter is revealing how Pecker had an “agreement” with Cohen and Trump to vilify every opponent trump had, especially during the primaries where the Enquirer would spread rumors (falsehoods) about Cruz, Rubio, and Carson.
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1782806681040068816
cain
@Kosh III: We are allowed to gag when Trump farts.
cain
@PaulWartenberg:
haha – and they still kiss the ring. Everyone who is in Trump’s abort ends up in FAFO.
TBone
When the rat fucks you
smith
@cain: I assume you meant “orbit”, but “abort” is so much more descriptive!
TBone
@cain: I know you meant orbit. Right? RIGHT? 😆
scav
@cain: Ah, but his very farts are political speech and thus protected! Outright and necessarily respected! No gags allowed.
SiubhanDuinne
@TBone:
Yup. And four years ago later today, I heard of Sarah Cooper for the first time.
schrodingers_cat
@different-church-lady: Pecker pokes a hole in Trump’s defense.
The headlines write themselves.
TBone
Making toasted cheese. Is it a miracle when someone tore the last slice of cheese into the perfect shape of Idaho?
TBone
@SiubhanDuinne: 💙
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: I thought for sure I would see zhena’s name on that comment, not yours.
Manyakitty
@schrodingers_cat: 🤣
Chief Oshkosh
@smith:
Merchan’s response: “Upon reflection following Mr. Blance’s statements this morning, I find that I in fact have a double tier system of justice in my court. In the spirit of making amends, I am resolved to treat Mr. Blanche’s client as I would any other defendant. I find your client in contempt of the gag order. Bailiff, please take the defendant into custody and remand to Rikers until court meets again on the is case Thursday morning.”
WaterGirl
Steve Bannon!
WaterGirl
@Chief Oshkosh: That’s a made-up quote, yes?
Harrison Wesley
@TBone: You’ve got your own private Idaho?
TBone
@Harrison Wesley: always
Peke Daddy
TBone
@Peke Daddy: 😆
smith
@Chief Oshkosh: Well, one can dream. I really think that has to happen sooner or later. Why prosecute the guy for felonies if you think it’s not possible to imprison him? And the reasons usually given — he wants to be jailed, it will make him a martyr, the MAGA loons will start blowing things up — are pretty much belied by the fact that there are maybe 3 pro-TFG protesters outside the courtroom right now, and the MAGA response to his call to arms yesterday seems to have been bupkus.
I also think he would not face imprisonment with the Mandela-like stoicism that he kids himself that he would. He’d dissolve into screams and tears and pleading for mercy an hour after the cell door closes
TBone
Rip Van Stinkle
TBone
@smith: no makeup. no hair. no cell phone. no adoring club cult members. no hamberders.
He’ll be crying like a little bitch in 5 minutes.
Lock him up and throw away the jail.
WaterGirl
It appears that Blanche won that argument? That is my conclusion since they are not asking Pecker about Bannon, and have moved on to emails.
Surely if Bannon were important, the prosecution would have made that clear before the trial started?
TBone
@WaterGirl: the jurors heard it.
WaterGirl
@TBone: In this case, all the jury heard was the prosecution lawyer asking if Steve Bannon ever pitched a story to Pecker.
That in itself is neither damning or salacious.
WaterGirl
TBone
@WaterGirl: my comment at #28 was a quote lifted from TPM liveblog. If he heard it, wouldn’t the jurors?
Trivia Man
Bam! Shoe finally drops. There was great speculation- what is the underlying felony that elevates paperwork to a felony? A *STATE* law that forbids unlawful promotion of a specific candidate.
Jeffro
@Baud: his biggest flaw – which is kind of amazing, since there are SO many choices – is how utterly dumb he is.
Not just dumb, but “I think I’m a super-genius” dumb.
It’s kind of unreal.
TBone
@Trivia Man: scha-wing, batta batta batta
Citizen Dave
TBone
Here’s to you, Dino the Doorman 🎶
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K7jgZTDLeIs
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-doorman-love-child-story-hush-money-trial.html
WaterGirl
@TBone: It’s the question of whether Steve Bannon ever pitched a story to Pecker that was objected to. That’s what I am talking about.
That’s what they objected to, and the jury has no clues to what it’s about. So whatever link the prosecution wanted to make, didn’t get made.
So the jury knows that the prosecution wanted to ask about Bannon pitching a story, but without details, that’s not useful at all.
So your “the jury already heard it” is true of the earlier info about Bannon that was not objected to.
TBone
@WaterGirl: 👍
I’d make the inference if I were a juror. That’s why I’m not one 😂
Geminid
@Citizen Dave: The question everyone is asking: can Pecker stand up under cross examination?
Trivia Man
There was a concern defense had a case to dismiss the felony aspect. Federal crimes can be the underlying felony, but the DOJ and FEC declined to prosecute. That was an ugly complication that was getting hammered by trump world.
schrodingers_cat
@Kosh III: Throw the Orange Man in Rikers, or fine him.
M31
Mr. Skanky is the defendant
oklahomo
@Geminid: Pecker wilts after intense session.
Leto
@different-church-lady: I don’t think it was on the nose, but also not going to kink shame if it was…
TBone
@TBone: 😆
Leto
@different-church-lady: I guess that’s why he had to pay extra for the pills…
WaterGirl
@Trivia Man: Where are you following the trial today? That’s more explicit than what I’m seeing.
Trollhattan
@schrodingers_cat: If he has to wear an orange inmate’s jumpsuit will he effectively disappear?
WaterGirl
@Geminid: We are all 10 years old today. :-)
Weapon X
@Geminid: Pecker stands firm!
Film at 11.
Manyakitty
@schrodingers_cat: he can share a cell with Weisselberg.
Trivia Man
NBC live blog headline: “Prosecutor cuts off pecker” 😟
Leto
@WaterGirl: I was thinking 8, but 10 is still appropriate! :p
WaterGirl
@M31: Hanky, Panky, and Skanky.
Trivia Man
@WaterGirl: NBC news live blog
11:48 update mentions NY 17-152. So far the biggest bombshell if i read that right.
Leto
@Trivia Man: I see Lorena Bobbet is back on the stand…
WaterGirl
@Trivia Man: Thanks. Every live blog has their own take on things. I guess we have to read them all!
WaterGirl
@Trivia Man: So then why do you supposed the prosecution lost the argument about being able to ask if Steve Bannon ever pitched a story?
Mousebumples
No wireless compliment printer to soothe his ego.
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples: Maybe that explains Trump’s stack of papers.
You are good enough.
You are smart enough.
Gosh darn it, everyone likes you.
That’s 3 papers right there.
Anonymous At Work
This is really really damaging stuff that Pecker is spewing on TFG. [Sorry, intended]
Changing company policy/breaking company tradition by paying for exclusive rights to a knowingly-untrue story to prevent others from publishing it, until after the campaign is over? And also paying “top dollar” that is only 23% of what it paid two other people?
How do you cross-examine the witness? Even his immunity deal with the federal government goes bad places: “Sure I got immunity for crimes I committed. I committed them at the defendant’s request.”
WaterGirl
The trial ends at 2:00 pm today, right. That’s 8 minutes from now.
WaterGirl
@Anonymous At Work: Can you explain this part? How is that damning?
Miss Bianca
@Baud:
OMG
Thanks…?…for the reminder of just how absolutely, mind-bogglingly, buggier-than-batshit insane Trump sounded back then.
And Time has not improved him, if his most recent ravings are any indication.
Anonymous At Work
@WaterGirl: Lack of proper notice that Bannon was part of things and a bad foundation. If Cohen was ponying up money on TFG’s behalf, he’d want to get repaid and kept records (no, he’s not that good a lawyer), but I betcha Bannon called, no records or fingerprints. So the prosecution would be limited to calling Bannon as a hostile witness AND having to deal with his lies.
Just my guess.
Quinerly
@Mousebumples:
I wish I could remember who here on BJ coined the term “emotional support printer.”
Will that person please step forward. When I flash on that, I always laugh.
M31
@WaterGirl:
on second thought, Mr. Stanky is the more apt name from what I’m hearing about his courtroom, uh, emissions
Anonymous At Work
@WaterGirl: You pay someone at the highest rate your company has ever paid for a story, $30000, that you know is a lie. That’s bad. You pay two other people over FOUR TIMES that amount, you are admitting that you know the stories are true, are damning, and are provable.
Oh, and it shows that the intent was to protect the campaign not the person.
Quinerly
@WaterGirl: cue the outrage of the obnoxious one.
WaterGirl
@Anonymous At Work: I would expect the prosecution to be better than that. Right?
Spanky
@different-church-lady:
Lady, that’s not his nose.
WaterGirl
@Anonymous At Work: That makes sense, thanks.
TBone
@Mousebumples: good eye! 😁
Anonymous At Work
@WaterGirl: 25% chance of admitting a no-complication set of answers from a cooperating witness, or questioning Steve Bannon as a hostile witness with possibly no written records to handle perjury?
But this is speculation from a non-practicing attorney. My instinct is that the prosecution wants everything from Pecker possible and to keep away from others. They will ask Pecker everything he ever discussed with everyone else and ask everyone else only to confirm that they did speak with Pecker about the general matter. Especially Cohen.
hueyplong
@WaterGirl: Best not to dwell too much over individual objections and rulings thereon. In the grand scheme no line of questioning about Bannon is going to make or break the case.
WaterGirl
WaterGirl
@Anonymous At Work: So you’re thinking tried to go there with Bannon, knowing full well that there was a good chance they would get shot down, but it was worth a shot?
edit: With the bonus that if they did get shot down, that might help on appeal to show that the judge was even-handed. I suppose.
Trivia Man
@Anonymous At Work: Agree. IANAL but I think we will hear much more about the underlying felonies going forward. The Bannon thing just happened to be near that conversation but wasn’t related.
Tip: watch what trump world says that night. Contrary to appearances, he has some very shrewd legal minds behind the scenes running cover. My guess: they keep harping on “DOJ declined to prosecute FEDERAL crimes” in hopes that gets in the public mind. A NY state law is a game changer.
Anonymous At Work
@WaterGirl: Yeah, bring in an advisor on the formal 2016 campaign pitching things to Pecker strengthens the “Pecker as a campaign asset” piece and adds that inner circle members knew Pecker was helping.
But, as both Jimmy McNulty AND Stringer Bell told each other at different times, “The word on the street is not worth anything in a court of law.”
That’d be my guess.
WaterGirl
I wonder if MSNBC will do a 2-hour show, like they did last night, to discuss today’s trial.
WaterGirl
@Anonymous At Work: Yeah, “It’s common sense!” didn’t seem to go over very well with Justice Merchan.
rikyrah
oh well
chris evans (@notcapnamerica) posted at 6:26 PM on Mon, Apr 22, 2024:
Hispanic restaurant owner Richard Gonzmart is a Republican who voted for DeSantis. Now he’s panicking because DeSantis’ new immigration law forced him to fire 19 members of his staff and pay a $500k fine because they are undocumented.
https://t.co/Qm0wB6nsxW
(https://x.com/notcapnamerica/status/1782551472070095116?t=YBg0c0GWrQr5V2KPkTW-rw&s=03)
Belafon
@rikyrah: Just wait until they deport you for your last name, Mr. Gonzmart.
rikyrah
Audacious but Anxious (@anxioudacity) posted at 9:40 AM on Mon, Apr 22, 2024:
I can’t help but note that the ratcheting up of tensions and rhetoric here comes on the eve of Trump’s first criminal trial. Almost like how the DNC emails dropped right after the access Hollywood tape.
Someone is putting chum in the water and the left is falling for it.
(https://x.com/anxioudacity/status/1782419319059591630?t=OhKoQcjqBg_ZAZ8pl-_gLA&s=03)
Baud
Via reddit, UAW vs. Alabama.
JoyceH
@smith: Hey, does anyone else remember when Mandela was released from prison? We were all familiar with his picture from the posters and tee shirts, in his activist prime, so when the then present-day Mandela appeared, my first thought was, “Well, who’s that old man?”
The Thin Black Duke
@rikyrah:
Dear Mr. Gonzmart,
You started it first.
Sincerely,
Karma
Dorothy A. Winsor
@rikyrah: FAFO
Old School
@rikyrah:
…
geg6
@rikyrah:
Context? I have no idea what this means.
JoyceH
@Old School: is that the right number? Where does a restaurant owner come up with half a MILLION to pay a fine?
WaterGirl
@Baud: “Damn right, it is!”
narya
I keep thinking of Fran Lebowitz’s comment that you do not know anyone as stupid as TIFG.
oldgold
@Quinerly: Well, the “obnoxious one” has not engaged in calling individuals with opinions different than his names.
Geminid
@rikyrah: That video is some weird shit.
suzanne
@rikyrah: Mr. Gonzmart seems to be a card-carrying member of the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.
#here’syourface
FAFO.
Another Scott
C-Span.org has a cloture vote on HR815 – the Supplemental.
74:17 at the moment. (60 votes needed)
Looks like it will be a short day/week for them – if I’m reading the score right.
Cheers,
Scott.
Manyakitty
@Another Scott: excellent, if true.
Quinerly
@oldgold:
Call them as I see them.
Glad I am not so thin skinned.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: Yeah, I have a post ready to go when there is some action.
The Senate has more than the 60 votes needed to “limit debate”, but I don’t know what the next step after that is.
Quinerly
@narya:
It still amazes me he was elected.
And that we mostly survived those 4 years.
Manyakitty
@Quinerly: I can’t believe we’re still dealing with his shit.
Harrison Wesley
@Anonymous At Work: Prosecutor picked the possible from Pecker?
Old School
@JoyceH:
Seems like it. The Miami Herald article the tweet links to is behind a paywall. The article is from last August, so I’m not sure if everything is still current.
oldgold
Today I heard an interesting discussion about what the Judge might do should Trump continue to violate the gag Order.
The problem has been that it appeared the Judge had only two punishments choices. One was to fine Trump $1000.00 for each violation. The problem with this punishment is that for Trump this is less than chump change and would serve as no deterrent. The other choice was to place Trump in jail for up to 30 days. The problems with this punishment is it presented a logistical nightmare and had the potential of making him a martyr.
But, there is a third option that I had previously not heard discussed. It is to clamp an ankle bracelet on Trump and during the time the Court is not in session confine him to his penthouse apartment in Trump Tower for two or three weeks. This would be a fairly significant punishment, avoid the logistical problems of a jail stay and be less prone to render Trump a martyr.
smith
@Old School: Here it is without the paywall, if anyone’s interested.
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: There’s apparently going to be a delay, up to 30 hours, before the final vote.
(Via TheHill.com)
Cheers,
Scott.
Quinerly
@Manyakitty:
Don’t mean to sound dramatic but I wake up sometimes thinking it was a crazy dream.
How a country could have elected him, how with his diet/etc he still survives, and the path the Repug Party has gone down since he came on the scene. (My dear father born n the deep South in the 1920’s despised the Republican Party from about 1963 on. He called them “Repugs”…..for “Repugnant.” I carry on his tradition.)
lowtechcyclist
@rikyrah:
He may have thought GOP racism just applied to lesser folks of his ethnic background. I know at least one Hispanic Republican who I’m sure thinks that. Good luck with that, my friend.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: Then why is Schumer speaking saying it’s done?
edit: Answering my own question. It’s a procedural thing. The final vote might take up to 30 hours, or it could be as soon as tonight.
I have linked to an article with more details on the next thread about the senate.
rikyrah
@geg6:
People suspicious about all these protests around the country on college campuses
rikyrah
Fly Sistah (@Fly_Sistah) posted at 6:50 AM on Tue, Apr 23, 2024:
Trump needs to take a plea, but it would kill him politically. There is no way around Trump’s signature on the checks, the tape conspiring to pay off Karen McDougal, David Pecker confirming & Allen Weisselberg wrote down details to hide the Stormy reimbursement to Michael Cohen. https://t.co/fNtDXbJB2r
(https://x.com/Fly_Sistah/status/1782738736276533408?t=LqIxOPk_199VA8Vh77UTBg&s=03)
rikyrah
Renee (@PettyLupone) posted at 11:51 AM on Tue, Apr 23, 2024:
Welp. Pecker leaked.
This trial is such a waste of time. trump is guilty as sin. And he absolutely knows that he is.
And if he did this in 2016, just imagine the mess he’s concocting right now when he’s more desperate than he’s ever been in his life. https://t.co/NdF4eVA4D8
(https://x.com/PettyLupone/status/1782814575471259682?t=efnHcB8b9Cl6wS6H87mhng&s=03)
rikyrah
Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) posted at 11:17 PM on Mon, Apr 22, 2024:
“I don’t like guilt by association, but if I was participating in a protest and I was trying to do it peacefully and my ‘ceasefire now’ protests became a ‘bomb Tel Aviv’ protest, maybe I would leave. Or if we were holding up the Palestinian flag and all of a sudden people started screaming pro hamas things, maybe I would leave. But that’s not what happened.” Rep. @JaredEMoskowitz tells me after visiting Columbia U.
https://t.co/i2rTFXnqf4
(https://x.com/abbydphillip/status/1782624689224827108?t=ZqEkW_T30keVSBYdpaPBIg&s=03)
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: I think the rest is just a formality, but I dunno.
Lots of speechifying.
The Senate can do anything it wants if it gets Unanimous Consent. Maybe Schumer knows that’s coming, or something.
[ shrug emoji ]
I’ll assume it’s really done when it shows up on
https://nitter.poast.org/senschumer
;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Manyakitty
@Quinerly: seriously. It’s like a mass insanity or something. Or, maybe we shot into an alternate universe when David Bowie died. It almost makes more sense than what passes for our current reality.
Miss Bianca
@Old School: How’s that good old saying go… “You can’t fix stoopid”?
Something like that, anyway
Miss Bianca
@oldgold: Door Number 3 sounds like a fine option to me.
smith
@oldgold: One thing I’m puzzled by — Judge Engoron levied fines of $5k and $10k for violating his gag order, but Merchan is limited to $1k per violation. Both are operating under NY law. Are there different limits for civil vs criminal trials?
WaterGirl
@smith: Before I got to your final sentence, I was about to reply with:
Civil vs. Criminal
WaterGirl
@oldgold: You would also need to make it so he cannot access the internet.
Otherwise, he could still be spewing his lies on social media.
Scout211
@smith: Is it really a limit? IANAL, but I thought the $1k per violation was a first step and could be increased for future violations. I am reading that the $1k per violation was what the prosecution asked for. But I haven’t read anywhere that there is a limit.
smith
@Scout211: I keep seeing variations of this (Nitter link) all over the net.
Scout211
@Scout211: @smith: (I can’t read nitter links for some reason)
I stand corrected.
ETA: I just tried the nitter link again and it worked this time. It says the same thing I posted up above. ⬆️
JoyceH
@Scout211: should emphasize that term of “up to” thirty days. So many pundits seem to think the only option is thirty days at Rikers. Heck, every courthouse has holding cells. Give Trump an overnight there for the next offense. Give him the same treatment as other prisoners of the state, the same clothes, food, restrictions on visits and communications. Let him know that further violations would result in longer confinements. Heck, I think you’d only need to do it once – I think just an overnight incarceration would send him catatonic.
TBone
@rikyrah: Fux Snewz has been pushing stories about “the unrest” all day long. With glee. Not word one about today’s court proceedings. Pooty must be proud.
Jackie
@JoyceH: Agreed. One night in the courthouse overnight facilities; no phone, no gold toilet, no Diet Coke, KFC or McDs, makeup or hair products would be one hella rude awakening.
TBone
@JoyceH: 👍 make him show up in court the next day in the same clothes. Rumpled, with orange tear stains. Rumplethinskin.
Quinerly
@Manyakitty:
Oh….Bowie…..I still grieve.
For the last few days all these beautiful pics (mostly B&W) keep coming up in my FB feed. His last few years with Iman. Stunning couple.
Jacel
@TBone: Decades ago a David Letterman guest was a boy who tore and nibbled cheese slices into the shapes of states. This led to airing of a calming minute of network television showing two humans wordlessly munching on slices of cheese.
pat
Just imagine if he had accepted his loss. Go back to being just another billionaire…..
And why did this pecker guy not change his name? I got several chuckles reading these comments.. hehehe
Manyakitty
@Quinerly: and they were for REAL, too.
Back before Twitter became an utterly toxic hellhole, I followed Duncan (Zowie) Jones. What a sweet and talented guy! He talked about how, the first Christmas after his dad died, he was wrapping presents and he wrote a card to his kid, also named Zowie: “To Zowie, love Dad.” And then he promptly burst into tears.
Good people.
rikyrah
@Manyakitty:
2016 was rough – musically.
TBone
@Jacel: that sounds nice 🤣
Manyakitty
@rikyrah: no lie.
Steeplejack
@geg6:
Nitter link, where you can see the thread context.
SW
Sickening listening to “respectable” journalists piling on the National Enquirer for their scheme with the Trump campaign when the mainline outlets like the NYT and Wapo used the crap that the Enquirer was spewing to justify their own coverage on the grounds that this stuff was “out there” and it was therefore their responsibility to amplify and embellish it.
Baud
@SW:
Yep.
WaterGirl
@SW:
Exactly!
Scout211
@SW: Well said.
And just slightly less awful compared to the Enquirer’s “catch and kill” are the “respectable” journalists with their “catch and save for my book.”
Melancholy Jaques
@rikyrah:
He’s rolling the dice on a hung jury. If it happens, he will claim exoneration. Most of the press will go along with that.
WaterGirl
@Scout211:
The people who could have done the right thing but instead either hid the Trump awfulness or enabled him, but saved it all for their books are just as sleazy as David Pecker.
It’s really like the difference between the hookers who work on the corner and the high-end hookers.
They might hold important jobs and dress differently, but it’s all the same thing.
Quinerly
@Manyakitty: ❤️