Trump braces for fraud trial verdict as allies pledge ‘holy war’ against Taylor Swift: Live updates

Are there any prepared legal professionals left?

Ariana Baio and Gustaf Kilander report:

Whereas Ms Habba was mocked on-line for her efficiency in courtroom, there was a extra sympathetic statement from one among Ms Carroll’s legal professionals, Shawn Crowley, who informed Rachel Maddow on MSNBC: “I believe that she had a tough job and you would undoubtedly see a distinction between her form of fashion when [Trump] was within the courtroom.”

She added: “She was way more disciplined and admittedly acted extra like a lawyer when he wasn’t there. When he was, you would hear him telling her when to object and muttering issues and loudly being pissed off together with her.”

Donald Trump continues to rage in opposition to the border invoice, claiming it’s “silly” and pointless.

The previous president wrote on Reality Social:

The unlawful Aliens which might be pouring into our Nation are taking up our cities and attacking our police. They’re forming gangs, and they’re powerful. Shut the Border, you don’t want a ridiculous Border Invoice that can permit 5000 folks into our Nation a day. Name it the “Silly Invoice” and ensure it doesn’t get handed. It is going to make issues MUCH WORSE. CLOSE THE SOUTHERN BORDER, NO BILL NECESSARY!!!

Andrew Feinberg seems to be on the evolution of Mr Trump’s altering place on the southern border, and the way it has left him twisted in knots:

Even Fox Information thinks Donald Trump must be quiet, in keeping with late-night host Seth Meyers.

On Monday evening, whereas discussing the E Jean Carroll defamation trial, wherein Trump was ordered to pay the author $83.3m in damages for his defamatory statements about her, Meyers performed footage from a Fox Information interview with George W Bush-era deputy assistant lawyer normal John Yoo, who had some sturdy phrases to share in regards to the candidate.

“The entire level of this, this huge damages, unprecedented damages now, is to inform Donald Trump to close up,” Yoo mentioned.

“Cease attacking people who find themselves not public residents, cease attacking folks once you’ve already misplaced and the courtroom has already mentioned what you’ve achieved is liable. By persevering with to defy the courtroom by saying this stuff he’s exhibiting a elementary disrespect for the justice system and for the views of his fellow residents, the jurors.

“I imply, it’s not a decide who’s punishing him. It is a randomly chosen jury of his friends.”

Right here’s the newest from Martha McHardy.

California consultant Robert Garcia introduced a scrumptious throwback to Trump’s cartoonish plans for border deterrents throughout yesteday’s Home listening to to advance the proposed impeachment of homeland safety secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Robert F Kennedy Jr has claimed he was approached by Trump’s workforce about being his 2024 working mate, regardless of agency denials from the previous president’s camp.

A report in The New York Submit over the weekend acknowledged that the Trump marketing campaign had tapped up Kennedy in April 2023 to be on the presidential ticket and that, regardless of the strategy going nowhere, “something” was nonetheless doable.

Kennedy confirmed the overture had occurred in a NewsNation interview this week however mentioned he was not taken with serving as Trump’s vice chairman.

Trump’s former UN ambassador remains to be gunning for him as she seeks to make up floor within the major race.

She’s now becoming a member of Biden in going after her outdated boss’s stewardship of the financial system and cosying as much as China.

Mike Johnson hotly rejected as “absurd” reporter Manu Raju’s suggestion yesterday that he was below stress from Trump to abort Congress’s proposed partisan deal on the US-Mexico border… earlier than admitting that he had certainly been in touch with the Republican front-runner on exactly that problem.

Democratic congressman Dan Goldman informed Anderson Cooper on CNN final evening that Trump was the “solely cause” the deal had been scuppered.

“The Senate Republicans now ditch this bipartisan deal that they’ve reached with the President and with Senate Democrats, it’s solely as a result of Donald Trump has directed Republicans to not give Joe Biden a coverage win in an election yr as a result of he needs to run on the chaos on the border,” Goldman mentioned.

“That’s the solely cause this has been derailed, is as a result of Donald Trump doesn’t need Republicans to resolve our issues. He needs the issues to persist in order that he can use it for his election marketing campaign.”

Right here’s a little bit extra pro-Trump lunacy from Laura Ingraham, who accuses the MSM (howdy!) of cheering on Trump’s authorized adversaries and failing to hide its bias in opposition to the massive orange goon.

Additionally, this assault on MSNBC from Jesse Watters is among the most astounding servings of hypocrisy you’ll ever witness.

You think he is aware of exactly what he’s doing however, even so, the cojones on the person…

On an in any other case comparatively quiet evening on social media for the previous president, primarily dedicated to praising Texas Republican representatives and issuing imprecise assaults on Biden, Trump additionally thanked the Illinois State Board of Elections for defying the “Radical Left Lunatics” to maintain him on the state’s poll papers.

Ariana Baio has extra on that story.

Trump mentioned on his social media platform final evening that he was buying round for a brand new legislation agency, suggesting he blames his most outstanding lawyer for the disastrous E Jean Carroll payout he was ordered to make on Friday.

“I’m within the course of, together with my workforce, of interviewing numerous legislation corporations to signify me in an Attraction of one of the ridiculous and unfair Witch Hunts our Nation has ever seen,” he wrote, earlier than launching into his common conspiracy spiel.

Habba raged in entrance of the press after Friday’s $83.3m verdict, calling the New York jury accountable “ridiculous” however was criticised all through the proceedings and accused of “complete clown automobile madness” by former assistant New York lawyer normal Tristan Snell on MSNBC.

Yesterday, Habba needed to rapidly rowback her help for a declare first raised in The New York Submit that Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan and Decide Lewis Kaplan (no relation) had a mentor/mentee relationship, after being threatened with sanctions for making “false allegations”.

In a hasty new letter to Decide Kaplan, Habba mentioned Ms Kaplan “mischaracterizes the substance of a letter submitted on behalf of President Trump and makes inflammatory and unwarranted accusations” in opposition to her and that she was merely inquiring as to “whether or not there may be any advantage” the Submit story had any advantage.