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  1. CNN live update

    > Judge Juan Merchan said he wants to hear an assertion under oath that Donald Trump believed he wasn’t violating the gag order when he made the posts in question.

    Oh, dis gonna be good.

    [Jon Stewart popcorn clip]

  2. From Katie Phang:

    Now, Merchan asks Blanche about what Jesse Watters, in fact, said.

    Blanche: No.

    Merchan: “So your client manipulated what was said and put it in quotes?

    Blanche: I wouldn’t say it was a manipulation.

    Merchan: This isn’t a repost at all. Your client had to type it out. Use the shift-key and all.

  3. “Judge wants to hear assertion under oat that trump believed he wasn’t violating gag order” per CNN.

    Yes please.

  5. What’s cooking today? I’ve heard about a new tape maybe?

  7. “You’re losing all creditbility with the court”

    Merchan to Blance

    Fire.

  8. > “You’re losing all crediblity with the court,” Judge Merchan tells Todd Blanche.

    Per Kaitlan Collins/CNN/X

  10. Judge to Trump’s attorney: You’re losing all credibility.

    I’m definitely going to need more popcorn.

  11. Does all of Trump’s problems stem from not using his own money to pay his bills?

  13. I want to hear him say it?
    Why, so you can hear him lie again?

  14. Judge Merchan is reserving his decision. INAL but i imagine after a heated hearing it’s prob good for him to step away and not make it look like he’s making a decision based on the fact that Blanche pissed him off.

  15. “Mr. Blanche, you’re losing all credibility with this court”
    **Judge Merchan

  16. “You’re losing all credibility with this court”

    *coffin dancing intensifies*

  17. > Judge Merchan gets frustrated with Trump lawyer Todd Blanche.

    > “I am asking a question!” Merchan says. “I keep asking you over and over to give me an example, and I’m not getting an answer.”

    > **At another point, Merchan presses Blanche to show him what case law he has to support the notion that a repost isn’t an endorsement.**

    > **Blanche: “I don’t have case law … but it’s just common sense, Your Honor.”**

    https://www.threads.net/@griffinkyle/post/C6G6Lg7OFjJ/

  18. > When the judge asked for citations to cases to back that up, Blanche said he didn’t have any, but “it’s just common sense.”

    Peak lawyering. The best people. “It’s the vibe, your honor.”

  20. Maggie Haberman: *Trump has always treated his own words as if they’re a completely disposable commodity. That is not how it works in a courtroom.*

  22. Let Donnie talk so he fumbles over his dumb fucking lies.

  24. From Adam Klasfeld @KlasfeldReports:

    > Blanche: “President Trump is being very careful to comply” with the gag order.

    > **Merchan, sharply: “Mr. Blanche, you are losing all credibility.”**

  25. > Prosecutor Chris Conroy calls Trump quoting Fox host Jesse Watters “very troubling.”

    > Conroy says Trump quoted Watters claiming undercover liberal activists were lying to get onto the jury. **But Watters didn’t mention the jury in his comments. Conroy says Trump added that himself.**

    https://www.threads.net/@griffinkyle/post/C6G5m0dOwTD/

  30. Do you think the reserved decision could be a little jail time?!

  31. I love seeing trumps lawyers getting hammered by judges

  32. Imagine if Cannon was as qualified and as impartial as Merchan. This orange shitgibbon would be in jail already.

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