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☆ Live Updates: Trump’s Criminal Trial Speeds Along, With Few Key Witnesses Remaining
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Ben Protess | Jonah E. Bromwich | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

The Manhattan district attorney has charged Mr. Trump, 77, with falsifying 34 business records to hide a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels, a porn star who says she and Mr. Trump had a tryst in 2006 while he was married. Mr. Trump, the first American president to face criminal prosecution, has denied the charges and says he did not have sex with Ms. Daniels. Here are five takeaways from Mr. Trump’s 11th day, and third week, on trial:A scandalous recording resurfaces. Ms. Hicks recalled consulting with Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, who eventually paid Ms. Daniels to keep quiet. On Thursday, prosecutors presented four more incidents and called Mr. Trump’s statements “corrosive.” Mr. Trump’s legal team argued that he was merely responding to political attacks.

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☆ This is the moment Trump changed American politics
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Being elected president shortly after surviving the publication of the leaked “Access Hollywood” tape in 2016 is the moment in which Donald Trump defied political gravity. The ‘Access Hollywood’ tape reexaminedTrump’s 2016 victory in the Electoral College seems only more improbable in the retelling. It is worth revisiting the earthquake the “Access Hollywood” tape set off in the 2016 campaign. Return of the tapeNow, the “Access Hollywood” tape is back. Video Ad Feedback Trump asked if he stands by comments from 'Access Hollywood' tape.

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That jury’s finding stemmed from statements Trump made in 2022, while the current case is dealing with statements Trump made while he was president in 2019. “Donald Trump sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll. “Now she wants President Trump to pay for the risks she took for the way she did this,” Habba said of Carroll. “She wants President Trump to pay for the mean tweets.”Jurors are familiar with TrumpThe jury selection process provided a window into the jury panel that will decide Trump’s defamation case. None of those prospective jurors were ultimately selected to the trial jury.

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☆ That Access Hollywood tape is grabbing Trump by the credibility as the E. Jean Carroll rape trial nears its end
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump's 'Access Hollywood' tape is in evidence as deliberations begin Tuesday in his civil rape trial. Either way, the Access Hollywood tape — in which he bragged to TV personality Billy Bush about kissing women and grabbing them by the genitals — has been a major factor in the two-week trial. Trump himself has defended his remarks as "locker room talk," including in a videotaped trial deposition played for jurors last week. "Historically, that's true with stars," Trump said of the Access Hollywood tape, when asked about it by Carroll attorney Roberta Kaplan. "They played that Access Hollywood tape how many times?"

☆ Watch Trump defend his lewd 'Access Hollywood' comments in deposition video: 'Historically, that's true with stars'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In it, Trump defended his "Access Hollywood" comments about grabbing women between the legs. The new clip is part of a 48-minute deposition video and was shown to jurors in Manhattan federal court on Thursday. In the "Access Hollywood" recording, Trump bragged about how women "let you" kiss them, saying stars "can do anything." In the deposition video, Trump watches the tape, expressionless. The Washington Post was the first to publish the "Access Hollywood" tape a month before the 2016 election.

☆ Watch the Donald Trump deposition for his rape trial, where he mixes up accuser E. Jean Carroll with his ex-wife
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Donald Trump was deposed for a rape and defamation lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll. Under oath, Trump denied the rapeIn response to deposition questions by Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan, Trump continued to deny raping Carroll, as she alleged, and called her "mentally sick" and "not my type." In the deposition, Trump said he seldom purchased gifts for women he dated and denied that he publicly dated other women while married to Maples. AP Photo/John MinchilloTrump appeared to mix up various timeframes throughout the deposition video shown to jurors. Trump's attorney Joe Tacopina has said Trump will not testify in the Carroll trial, and rested the defense case on Thursday afternoon without bringing any witnesses.

On Tuesday, Tacopina said the 76-year-old Trump would not testify before the jury in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Trump has not appeared in that court since the trial began last week. Carroll, 79, alleges that Trump raped her in a dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan after a chance encounter with him there. Trump has also said he would not have even had consensual sex with her because she was not his "type." However, during questioning under oath by Carroll's lawyer for his deposition, Trump mistook Carroll for his former wife Marla Maples in a photo that shows Carroll and her then-husband John Johnson with Trump and his then-wife Ivana Trump.

☆ Trump's deposition video will play in the E. Jean Carroll rape trial. He says stars 'historically' grabbed women's genitals
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump's lawyers had fought to keep jurors from seeing parts of his E. Jean Carroll trial deposition. A judge Tuesday ruled Trump's cringey explanation for his Access Hollywood remarks is admissible. In the disputed cut, Trump says 'stars' have 'historically' been allowed to grab women's genitals. Trump's attorneys previously tried, without success, to bar jurors from hearing any mention of the Access Hollywood tape. Trump was asked by Carroll's lawyers in the deposition.

☆ Stormy Daniels said she's aware of the 'insanity' of a porn star being behind Trump's indictment but also calls it 'poetic': 'This pussy grabbed back'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Adult actress Stormy Daniels is at the heart of Donald Trump's recent indictment. "I am fully aware of the insanity of it being a porn star," Daniels told The Times of London in an interview. The Manhattan district attorney's office has been investigating Trump's personal and business finances for nearly five years, including the hush-money payment. The crime in question likely has to do with how Trump handled a payment reimbursing Cohen for the hush-money payment to Daniels. A spokesperson for Daniels and Trump's lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.

☆ Donald Trump doesn't want his vulgar 'Access Hollywood' tape mentioned at his rape accuser's defamation trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Ashley Collman | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump's lawyers asked to have his infamous Access Hollywood tape banned from an upcoming trial. The request to exclude the "Access Hollywood" tape was made in the defamation case. Trump's lawyers argued in court filings Thursday that the "Access Hollywood" tape "must be precluded" from trial because it is "irrelevant and highly prejudicial." In the tape, a hot mic captured Trump bragging to "Access Hollywood" host Billy Bush in 2005 about groping women without their consent. Trump has denied ever sexually assaulting anyone and has dismissed his "Access Hollywood" comments as "locker-room talk."

☆ Sharon Stone a anunţat că face parte din echipa de tranziţie a lui Joe Biden
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-25 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

„Sunt în echipa de tranziţie a lui Biden şi dacă preşedintele sau vicepreşedintele Harris îmi va cere să lucrez pentru bolnavii infecţioşi, aş accepta şi aş folosi experienţa acumulată de-a lungul vieţii pentru acest subiect", a spus actriţa într-un interviu acordat jurnalistului Billy Bush pe postul american Extra. "Acum când încep al treilea act din viaţa mea, vreau să fiu mai productivă şi mai utilă", a continuat actriţa, care de mai mulţi ani este ambasadoare a luptei contra SIDA. Ea va primi săptămâna aceasta, la Research in Action Awards 2020 un premiu pentru acest angajament. Şi epidemiologul Anthony Fauci, cu care ea colaborează, va fi recompensat la aceeaşi ceremonie pentru activitatea sa. "Asta mă face foarte mândră şi lucrez de mult timp cu dr. Fauci.

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☆ The Tucker Carlson origin story
▼ + stars: | 1998-01-28 | by ( Aaron Short | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +57 min

Tucker Carlson is remembered as a provocateur and gleeful contrarian by those who knew him in his early days. It was Tucker Carlson. (Note on style: Tucker Carlson and the members of his family are referred to here by their first names to avoid confusion.) In 1979, Richard Carlson married Patricia Swanson, heiress to the Swanson frozen foods empire that perfected the frozen Salisbury steak for hassle-free dinners. Tucker Carlson attended St. George’s School, a boarding school starting at age 14.

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