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OAN Retracts and Apologizes for False Story Claiming Former Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Was the Person Sleeping with Stormy Daniels and Not Donald Trump
“OAN today has retracted its March 27 article entitled “Whistleblower: Avenatti Alleged Cohen Daniels Affair Since 2006, Pre-2016 Trump Extortion Plan,” and is taking it down from all sites and removing it from all social media,” a note from the network reads. “This retraction is part of a settlement reached with Michael Cohen. Mr. Avenatti has denied making the allegations. OAN apologizes to Mr. Cohen for any harm the publication may have caused him.“The article, quoting a source, falsely claimed that Mr. Cohen and Ms. Daniels “were having an affair since 2006” and that, according to a source, ‘the whole hush money scheme was cooked up by [Mr. Cohen] to extort the Trump Organization before the 2016 election.’ These statements were false. OAN regrets their publication.”
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What the heck ?
Trump’s New Legal Bills Are Hiding an $8 Million Mystery
Trump is using a GOP compliance firm as a go-between to pay lawyers, allowing him to hide who he’s actually paying. Experts have real questions whether he can do that.
www.thedailybeast.com
Trump says it's up to states if women should be prosecuted for getting an abortion
Stillwater Townie
Deputy
I bet a lot of Oklahoma Republican women would support a state law that would monitor their pregnancies and that of their daughters. After all, they didn't mind voting for Sen. Mullin who claims to be pro-life with no exceptions and supports a nationwide ban on abortion.
Actual post from the man who is
- promising to pardon violent criminals who injured more than 140 Capitol Police on Jan 6
- facing 88 felony charges himself
- arguing that he should be above the law, with "total immunity"
- promising to pardon violent criminals who injured more than 140 Capitol Police on Jan 6
- facing 88 felony charges himself
- arguing that he should be above the law, with "total immunity"
He is telling his supporters that they have to start fighting if he Loses and will only accept the results of the election if he Wins.
He can't even be Honest about the 2020 vote in Wisconsin.
"If everything's honest, I'll gladly accept the results. I don't change on that," Trump told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday when he was in the state for a rally. "If it's not, you have to fight for the right of the country."
In the same interview, Trump repeated the false claim that he won Wisconsin in the 2020 election — saying “all of the things that had been found out” showed he “actually won” — despite the fact that he lost the state by more than 20,000 votes to President Joe Biden.
Trump’s campaign paid for recounts in two of the state’s largest counties that confirmed the results in Biden’s favor, as did subsequent court rulings and independent studies. But Trump has continued to falsely claim his loss was the result of widespread voter fraud, despite many debunkings.
He told the Journal Sentinel that an honest election result would mean ballots were “counted honestly,” questioning some of the changes to voting practices during the pandemic.
The former president has made the 2020 election a central component of his campaign, pledging to release so-called hostages from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and repeatedly refusing to say he lost in 2020.
He can't even be Honest about the 2020 vote in Wisconsin.
Trump suggests he won't accept 2024 election results in Wisconsin
"If everything's honest, I'll gladly accept the results. I don't change on that," Trump told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday when he was in the state for a rally. "If it's not, you have to fight for the right of the country."
In the same interview, Trump repeated the false claim that he won Wisconsin in the 2020 election — saying “all of the things that had been found out” showed he “actually won” — despite the fact that he lost the state by more than 20,000 votes to President Joe Biden.
Trump’s campaign paid for recounts in two of the state’s largest counties that confirmed the results in Biden’s favor, as did subsequent court rulings and independent studies. But Trump has continued to falsely claim his loss was the result of widespread voter fraud, despite many debunkings.
He told the Journal Sentinel that an honest election result would mean ballots were “counted honestly,” questioning some of the changes to voting practices during the pandemic.
The former president has made the 2020 election a central component of his campaign, pledging to release so-called hostages from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and repeatedly refusing to say he lost in 2020.
HacklemanPoke
Deputy
Won’t the judge in session now remind him he has the right to testify and that the gag order does not prevent him from this right?
Not likely in the presence of the jury….unless Trump and/or his lawyers argued in front of the Jury that he can’t testify because of the gag order.
That might be reversible error.
More likely would be an on the record statement to Trump and his attorneys that the gag order in no way restricts his right to testify in his own defense or to exercise his right to remain silent along with an admonition to not tell the jury he can’t testify because of the gag order.
Bombshell audio captures Trump and Cohen in their own words discussing hush money ‘catch and kill’ plot
For the first time in Donald Trump’s hush money trial, jurors heard the former president’s own voice discussing a deal with his former attorney to buy the silence of a former Playboy model who alleged an affair with Mr Trump.
A portion of the recording – secretly recorded by Michael Cohen while Mr Trump was in the middle of his 2016 campaign for the presidency – was played inside a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday, giving the jury a brief but crucial look into how his “fixer” kept his boss up to date with a scheme that is now central to the criminal case against him.
“I need to open up a company for the transfer of all that info regarding our friend, David, you know, so that – I’m going to do that right away,” Cohen can be heard saying on the recording.
“And I’ve spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up,” Cohen says, referencing the now-convicted former chief financial officer for the Trump Organization.
“So, what do we got to pay for this?” Mr Trump can be heard saying. “150?”
That “David” appears to be David Pecker, the former National Enquirer publisher.
In his trial testimony, Mr Pecker admitted to an agreement with Cohen and Mr Trump in August 2015 to buy the rights to politically compromising stories about Mr Trump’s affairs – with no intention of publishing them, a practice known as “catch and kill.”
Two months before Election Day, under Cohen’s direction, Mr Pecker arranged a payment of $150,000 to Karen McDougal, the former model who alleged a 10-month-long affair with Mr Trump a decade earlier.
Mr Pecker was never reimbursed, he told the court.
In his testimony last week, he explained that he entered the contract to buy the rights to her allegations to boost Mr Trump’s chances of winning the 2016 election.
On the recording, Cohen can be heard saying: “We’ll have to pay him something.”
Mr Trump suggests paying in “cash.”
Cohen objects, repeatedly saying “no,” then, “I got it.”
Mr Trump then says “check.”
In court, Mr Trump hunched over and squinted at the small screen in front of him on the defense table, whispering to his defense attorney Todd Blanche as he read a transcript of the recording.
Cohen had urgently arranged an LLC – Resolution Consultants LLC – to wire the money to Mr Pecker for his payments to Ms McDougal, according to testimony from Mr Pecker and Cohen’s former banker.
But he never made the transaction. The LLC was never funded. And Mr Pecker said in his testimony that he called off the deal after speaking to his own attorneys.
The recording was submitted as evidence during the testimony of a forensic analyst who pulled data from Cohen’s phones, including call logs, text messages and thousands of contacts.
The recording did not include a discussion of the so-called “hush money” plan to buy the silence of adult film star Stormy Daniels, who alleged having sex with Mr Trump in 2006.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan started Friday’s proceedings by saying he needed to “clear up any misunderstandings” about the gag order preventing Trump from publicly remarking on witnesses and jurors.
“I want to stress, Mr. Trump, that you have an absolute right to testify at trial, if that’s what you decide to do,” the judge said, noting his order applies to “statements that are made outside of court, it does not apply to statements made from the witness stand.”
The gag order prevents Trump from making public statements — or directing others to — about jurors, witnesses involved in the case, or relatives of court employees, prosecutors, the judge, and District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
