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A Four-Word Text Message May Be What Sinks Trump In His Hush Money Trial

A four-word text between Keith Davidson, an attorney for Stormy Daniels and Dylan Howard, a former editor at the National Enquirer, could wind up being the most damning evidence that former president Donald Trump and his surrogates directly interfered in the 2016 election, which is a felony and could land Trump in prison for several years, according to legal expert Norm Eisen.

In an op-ed he wrote for CNN, Eisen notes that the text message is crucial to a larger understanding of what Trump was attempting to do: Hide an embarrassing sex scandal from voters shortly after the Access Hollywood tape had been aired and nearly upended his bid for the White House.

“Although Davidson is just a supporting actor in this drama, his role in negotiating the alleged payment to Daniels makes him an important witness to lay down the basic facts of the alleged ‘catch and kill’ plot — and to corroborate the details that former American Media, Inc. CEO and National Enquirer publisher David Pecker established and Cohen will ultimately testify about,” Eisen explains. “Perhaps the most dramatic moment of Davidson’s morning testimony came when he was asked about an election night 2016 text message exchange with Dylan Howard —a former editor of the National Enquirer who helped broker the negotiations for the story. The prosecution asked Davidson to explain the meaning of a text he had sent to Howard that evening. As the election was about to be called for Trump, Davidson sent a text to Howard asking, ‘What have we done?'”

The importance of that text message cannot be overstated, Eisen continues, because the New York hush money trial isn’t just about cash in exchange for silence or business fraud. It’s about the possibility that Trump and his associates acted to defraud voters.

“Without the intent to cover up another offense, falsifying documents is just a misdemeanor. The reason Trump has been charged with felony document falsification here is because it was allegedly done with intent to cover up a payment in excess of campaign contribution limits that was made in order to impact an election.”

Additionally, Eisen reveals, prosecutors don’t have to prove the hush money scheme with Daniels actually changed any votes or led to Trump’s victory in order for the ex-president to be found guilty. Having the intent to do so would be enough.

“I was watching the jury closely when Davidson spoke, and they were riveted. The prosecution is constantly finding ways to tell jurors that they are giving weeks of their life to weigh a matter that is not trivial, but critical for the honesty of our elections and our democracy. We will see if they agree when they ultimately deliver their verdict.”

Four simple words could be what doom Trump and lead to his incarceration before a single ballot is cast in the 2024 election. How ironic would that be?

 

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#RealMenWearDiapers Trends As The MAGA Faithful Go Deeper Down The Rabbit Hole

If you’ve been on Twitter this week, you may have seen a bizarre hashtag that left you scratching your head and wondering if social media had gotten even stranger than usual.

The hashtag? #RealMenWearDiapers. Go ahead and see for yourself.

Can you believe that?

So what exactly is going on here? Well, it appears that the MAGA faithful have fully embraced the notion that failed former president Donald Trump does indeed wear adult diapers and they’re completely cool with the whole idea, according to Harry Fletcher of Indy100.

“The posts from (former Trump attorney Michael) Cohen, which were posted in April, show him taunting Trump and calling him the nickname ‘Von S**itzInPantz’.”

“Since this bizarre turn of events, Trump’s supporters seem to have embraced the nickname in an unexpected way, turning up to rallies wearing diapers and shirts with the slogan ‘real men wear diapers’ written upon them.”

Take a look for yourself:

Can someone please make it make sense?

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‘Puffer Fish’ Trump Mocked For Looking Exhausted During Court Break

Returning to the courtroom yesterday after a break in his New York hush money trial, disgraced former president Donald Trump was caught by photographers in a less-than-flattering manner.

According to HuffPost, Trump had his cheeks expanded and looked like a “puffer fish,” according to one person on Twitter.

Here’s the photo:

Indeed, the failed ex-president looks both exhausted and worried. And he should be, because if he’s found guilty of falsifying business records to hide payoffs he allegedly made to Stormy Daniels in the 2016 campaign, he could be incarcerated on a felony charge of election interference.

The photo drew a great deal of attention and commentary on social media.

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WATCH Nancy Pelosi Swat Down MSNBC’s Katy Tur For Being A Trump Apologist

House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accused MSNBC host Katy Tur of being a Donald Trump “apologist” during a tense back-and-forth on the network yesterday afternoon, and all Tur could do was whine that she’d always been tough in her reporting on the disgraced former president.

The exchange was part of a larger conversation the two were having about the accomplishments of President Joe Biden and how they compare with the Trump administration.

“Donald Trump is a great threat to our democracy. What is a democracy, what are the pillars? What are the pillars?” Pelosi asked.

“A  free and independent press to tell the story,” she continued. “To keep everybody informed of what people are saying and doing. That transparency is essential.”

“Independent judiciary. An independent judiciary when they’re practically threatening on TV exposure of jurors in the trial of the president, or any trial, and any of that. What is an independent judiciary about? It’s about free and fair elections. And what do they do, but suppress the vote?”Independent judiciary. An independent judiciary when they’re practically threatening on TV exposure of jurors in the trial of the president, or any trial, and any of that. What is an independent judiciary about? It’s about free and fair elections. And what do they do, but suppress the vote?

“So, there’s nothing in his ‘performance,’ if that’s the word we’ll use, what he has done, that would indicate he cares, prioritizes, or ever valued, or ever did anything to support a democracy.”

The former Speaker of the House added, “And now on the ballot saying he should have immunity from whatever he might do, I mean, really, I have sympathy and respect for everybody who votes. I’m just glad people vote. I know some of them will never, will always reject those of us who might look different to them in leadership and the rest, and that’s that.”

“But there are those who have real legitimate concerns about immigration, globalization, innovation, and what does that mean to their job and their family’s future? And we have to address those concerns. And Joe Biden is doing that. Created nine million jobs in his term in office. Donald Trump has the worst record of job loss of a president. So, we just have to make sure people know.”

Tur interjected, “That was a global pandemic.”

Clearly irritated by the suggestion from Tur, Pelosi countered, “He had the worst record of any president. We’ve had other concerns in our country. If you want to be an apologist for Donald Trump, that may be your role, but it ain’t mine.”

Tur: “I don’t think anybody can accuse me of that.”

Actually, Katy, they most certainly can accuse you of just that. Trying to cover for the biggest failure of the Trump administration, their handling of the COVID pandemic which led to a jobless recession and over a million deaths is indeed being an apologist for the worst U.S. president of the past 100 years.

The 2024 election should not be the least bit competitive when you lay Biden’s accomplishments next to Trump’s incompetence and insurrection. Democracy is on the ballot. If we value this republic, we’d damn well better show up in November and reject Trump.

 

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Election Predictor Who’s Only Been Wrong Once Since 1984 Has Bad News For Donald Trump

Alan Lichtman is a history professor at American University who has correctly predicted the winner of all but one presidential election since 1984, and he has some bad news for failed former president Donald Trump: You’re about to lose back-to-back bids for the White House.

According to The Guardian, Lichtman believes “a lot would have to go wrong” before November for President Joe Biden to not win a second term in office.

Here’s how Lichtman makes his determination of who will win: He uses 13 true or false questions. If six or more go against the White House party, it will lose. If fewer than six are against them, the party in power will win.

What are the 13 criteria?

1. Party mandate: After the midterm elections, the incumbent party holds more seats in the US House of Representatives than after the previous midterm elections.

2. Contest: There is no serious contest for the incumbent party nomination.

3. Incumbency: The incumbent party candidate is the sitting president.

4. Third party: There is no significant third party or independent campaign.

5. Short-term economy: The economy is not in recession during the election campaign.

6. Long-term economy: Real per capita economic growth during the term equals or exceeds mean growth during the previous two terms.

7. Policy change: The incumbent administration effects major changes in national policy.

8. Social unrest: There is no sustained social unrest during the term.

9. Scandal: The incumbent administration is untainted by major scandal.

10. Foreign/military failure: The incumbent administration suffers no major failure in foreign or military affairs.

11. Foreign/military success: The incumbent administration achieves a major success in foreign or military affairs.

12. Incumbent charisma: The incumbent party candidate is charismatic or a national hero.

13. Challenger charisma: The challenging party candidate is not charismatic or a national hero.

Oh, and for those readers who think Lichtman is anti-Trump, he correctly predicted Donald would win in 2016 and then lose in 2020.

How did Lichtman correctly call the 2016 race for Trump when nearly every poll showed Hillary Clinton ahead?

“The critical sixth key was the contest key: Bernie Sanders’s contest against Clinton. It was an open seat so you lost the incumbency key. The Democrats had done poorly in 2014 so you lost that key. There was no big domestic accomplishment following the Affordable Care Act in the previous term, and no big foreign policy splashy success following the killing of Bin Laden in the first term, so there were just enough keys. It was not an easy call.”

Trump lost in 2020 due in large part to his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, Lichtman notes.

“The pandemic is what did him in. He congratulated me for predicting him but he didn’t understand the keys. The message of the keys is it’s governance not campaigning that counts and instead of dealing substantively with the pandemic, as we know, he thought he could talk his way out of it and that sank him.”

But perhaps most notable is that Lichtman discounts polling, suggesting it simply doesn’t consider enough factors and only succeeds in providing a snapshot of the overall horserace that’s rarely correct.

“Not only are polls a snapshot but they are not predictors. They don’t predict anything and there’s no such thing as, ‘if the election were held today’. That’s a meaningless statement.”

And what might happen if Trump is convicted of a crime?

“It’s always possible there could be a cataclysmic enough event outside the scope of the keys that could affect the election and here we do have, for the first time, not just a former president but a major party candidate sitting in a trial and who knows if he’s convicted – and there’s a good chance he will be – how that might scramble things.”

So what are we to make of a poll released last week that shows Trump leading Biden by six points? Based on history and how wrong the polls have been and how right Professor Lichtman has outperformed them, it’s safe to say those numbers will be wrong yet again and Lichtman will add another feather to his cap.