"A lawyer known for representing people trying to sell celebrity sex tapes or other embarrassing information, Davidson negotiated the hush money deals for McDougal and Daniels.

He gave jurors an inside look at the negotiations and helped corroborate ------- testimony.

At first, Davidson said, the National Enquirer was not interested in acquiring McDougal's story, saying she "lacked documentary evidence." But the tabloid eventually bought it at ------- behest.

Davidson said he understood it would never be published because of "an unspoken understanding that there was an affiliation" between ------ and Trump and that the National Enquirer would not run the story "because it would hurt Donald Trump."

"------ told the jury he agreed to be the "eyes and ears" of Trump's campaign, looking out for damaging stories so they could be suppressed. He said he agreed to the role " and to a plan to publish positive stories about Trump and negative stories about his opponents " at an August 2015 meeting with Trump and Cohen."

"------ testified that the company squashed one potential story by paying $30,000 to a Trump Tower doorman. It paid $150,000 to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, to keep her from going public with a claim that she had had a yearlong affair with Trump.

But when Daniels came forward, ------ said, he told Howard: "I am not a bank, and we are not paying out any further disbursements or monies."

Instead, he alerted Cohen that Daniels was shopping a story about Trump, and let the lawyer handle it. Trump denies having sex with either McDougal or Daniels.

When The Wall Street Journal reported, just days before Election Day, that the Enquirer had paid McDougal, ------ said Trump was upset, saying, "How could this happen? I thought you had this under control?"

"Former Trump fixer and attorney Michael Cohen testified in court earlier in the day that Trump appeared unfazed by his wife's potential response to learning of his alleged 2006 sexual encounter with porn actor Stormy Daniels. Trump is accused of falsifying business documents during the 2016 election to cover up a payment for Daniels' silence. Trump denies the claims.

Cohen said Trump told him when they were arranging the payment, "How long do you think I'll be on the market for? Not long."

Cohen said Trump "wasn't thinking about Melania" and that the alleged scheme was "all about the campaign."

In the final weeks before the 2016 election, Cohen learned that Daniels was shopping her story to tabloids. It was a pivotal moment for the Trump campaign, which was reeling from the release of an audio recording from the TV show "Access Hollywood" in which Trump bragged about grabbing women's --------.

"He said to me, This is a disaster, a total disaster. Women are going to hate me,' Cohen, wearing a dark suit and pink tie, testified Trump had said.

"Guys, they think it's cool, but this is going to be a disaster for the campaign.'"

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Idiot, liar, or both?

"The ex-fixer also told jurors that Melania Trump again came up days later, during negotiations to pay porn actor Stormy Daniels $130,000 to stay quiet about an alleged affair with Trump, which he denies. Cohen said he asked Trump "how's things going to go upstairs," referring to the future first lady.

"'Don't worry,' he goes," Cohen said of Trump. "He goes: How long do you think I will be on the market for? Not long.'"

The comment bolstered the district attorney's office's claim that the payment to Daniels was tied to the campaign - not to concerns that Melania or Trump's family would be embarrassed, as Trump's lawyers have suggested."

"NATO is making Vlad do this!" - EffetePutin

- no contemporaneous proof that it was a MAGA thing in January of 2021. That's because no contemporaneous evidence exists.

"How Election Deniers Claimed the Upside-Down Flag
The practice started with sailors signaling distress but evolved into a form of protest, most recently among Trump supporters who believe the falsehood that the 2020 election was stolen.

It is now associated with the Stop the Steal' movement, which denies Donald Trump's 2020 defeat.

In 2020, the upside-down flag became more firmly established as an emblem of Trump supporters who denied the legitimacy of Mr. Biden's victory, said Alex Newhouse, a researcher at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

"It's very, very common in MAGA communities and QAnon communities," he said. "It caught on among hard-core MAGA people in the Stop the Steal' ecosystem in 2020."

Matthew Guterl, a professor of Africana Studies and American Studies at Brown University, said that flying the flag upside-down "seems to have become a part of our hyperpartisan symbolic surround, especially on the right, where it symbolizes the impending death of the nation and a call to arms."

Nato didn't invade anyone, Vlad did.

And he would have found another excuse had Ukraine been unified.

You need to get something through your thick skull.

Vlad is interested in restoring ALL the states of the Old Soviet Union.

Ask Georgia, or any of half a dozen others. Or Poland or Finland or Norway, for that matter.

Nato didn't incite anything; there wasn't a flood of countries joining them until after the Invasion.

And blaming Ukraine is like blaming the rape victim for wearing a short skirt. It's idiotic.

- Peace at this point

If Ukraine wants to accept Vlad's theft of part of their country, as he is now begging for a Ceasefire where his troops now stand, that's up to Ukraine and no one else.

HeffyB wants you to buh-lieve that the hush money payment just before the election had nothing to do with the election.

Fortunately, the NY Jury isn't that stupid, and may well see it as a potential 'intended' violation election laws of NY state law.

Which is enough to convict Trump of the most of the 30-something indictments.

Some Attention Trolls are better than others, it's true!

- Just trying to figure your actual positions.

No you aren't. You are just trying to make excuses for Vlad the Invader's targeting of Citizens in Ukraine. Much like he did in Syria.

Try to focus on the current topic, not your silly Whataboutisms.

= ordinary citizens

Yeah, sorry Sylvester, but Supreme Court Justices are not merely ordinary citizens; they are one of three branches of our Gov, and are obligated to act ethically, at least in public.

And this particular Justice is a far rwinger who's close associate on the Court's wife is a co-conspirator with several indicted co-conspirators, such as it's Planner John Edwards, in the Fake Elector scheme to overturn the election.

Of course, you may have missed all that.

People steal other people's symbols all the time.

Ask Hitler where he got his.

The Invading force is to blame, no one else.

When China starts targeting civilians in Taiwan rather than performing military exercises, one expects that will also be the fault of the West and Taiwan rather than the Invaders.

Vlad is such a Heroic mass murderer of civilians targeted in his dirty little war.

His supporters here must be SO proud!

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There you go again... demeaning Trump's crowd size.

I guess though, that one might pretend that Alito is stupid enough not to know what flying the US flag upside down a week or so after J6 means, or that the Q-Trumpers have usurped the Pine Flag.

And then blamed his wife, lol.

But trying to convince others of that pretense isn't going to werk.

Tories in the British Colonies didn't want to join the Rebellion.

One supposes that France should have minded their own business, and that America should still be a British colony according the 'logic' one finds on these pages.

- Russia is winning the war

Lmao! That must be why he is offering to call the whole thing off and begging for a Ceasefire if only he can have the pieces of Ukraine he's already stolen. What a Russian tool you are.

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You don't grok what the judge said... the jury has the state law, the testimony of Trump's already convicted accomplice (on the same charges), and the witness and documentary corroboration of that testimony.

They don't need the POLITICAL FEC investigation where the vote was a partisan 2-2 vote.... as you have already been told ad infinitum.

You are just trolling.

He's become an awful troll....

Jeffy still lying....

"Prosecutors argue that the other crime in this case was violating state election law 17-152 " conspiracy to promote or prevent an election.

That law makes it a misdemeanor when two or more people "conspire to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means.

Prosecutors have said in court that the "unlawful means" at issue in Trump's case were a violation of federal campaign law " meaning that the charges against the presumptive GOP presidential nominee are really a three-step process." more

Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC
Didn't get to bed last night
On the way the paper bag was on my knee
Man, I had a dreadful flight

I'm back in the USSR
You don't know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the USSR, yeah

Been away so long I early knew the place
Gee, it's good to be back home
Leave it till tomorrow to unpack my case
Honey disconnect the phone

I'm back in the USSR
You don't know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the US
Back in the US
Back in the USSR

Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the west behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
That Georgia's always on my my my my my my my my my mind

Oh, come on
Hu hey hu, hey, ah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm back in the USSR
You don't know how lucky you are, boys
Back in the USSR

Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the west behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
That Georgia's always on my my my my my my my my my mind

Oh, show me round your snow peaked
Mountain way down south
Take me to your daddy's farm
Let me hear your balalaika's ringing out
Come and keep your comrade warm

I'm back in the USSR
Hey, you don't know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the USSR
Oh, let me tell you, honey

Songwriters: John Lennon / Paul McCartney

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Like all your other posts, a claim, not an argument.

What's funny is that Trump is the quintessential Globalist Elite; a multi-national billionaire corporation that peddles his influence among authoritarian dictators.