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Thursday, May 2nd:
*Trial continues (Day 6) (@ 10am ET) & Contempt Hearing ( 9:30am ET) – NY - *Donald John Trump (76/now 77) was indicted (3/30/23), formally arrested, charged & arraigned (4/4/23) with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the 1st degree & conspiracy in connection with hush money payments to two women [Stephanie Clifford aka adult actor Stormy Daniels & former Playboy model Karen McDougal] before the 2016 presidential election. Plead not guilty. Warrant vacated, released on own recognizance. New York County
New York: Submitting false invoices or checks. All 34 counts against Trump are felony charges (class E) instead of misdemeanors.
Trial began on 4/15/24 with jury selection & ended on 4/19/24. Trial expected to run 4 days a week. Jury Selection Day 1-4 (4/15-4/19/24).
Jurors selected: 12 jurors & 6 alternates. [Jurors: 7 men & 5 women/6 Alternates: 5 women & 1 man].
Trial began on 4/22/24. Trial is expected to run 4 days a week [Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays].
New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Marchan presiding. Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg. Prosecutors are Susan Hoffinger, Joshua Steinglass & Matthew Colangelo. Defense attorneys Todd Blanche, Emil Bove, Susan Necheles & Gedalia Stern.
Trump is required to attend each day in person — although the judge could grant permission for special absences. Trump has vowed to attend court during the day & travel to campaign events at night.
Investigation & court info from 3/30/23 thru 4/12/24 & Jury Selection Days 1-4 (4/15-4/19/24) & Trial Day 1-4 (4/22-4/26/24) reference post #930 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...s-apr-2023-trial-25-mar-2024-2.673176/page-47
4/30/24 Tuesday, Trial Day 5: *Before bringing in the jury, Judge Juan Merchan found Trump in criminal contempt for having repeatedly violated his gag order. The judge did not go into specifics from the ruling, but said he'd found Trump violated the order nine times & fined him $9,000. Prosecutors had argued that he'd done so 10 times. The amount of $1,000 per post is the maximum the judge can hand down. He noted in his ruling the amount likely doesn't mean much to Trump, but said he is not able to increase the amount. "Because this Court is not cloaked with such discretion, it must therefore consider whether in some instances, jail may be a necessary punishment" going forward, the judge wrote. "Defendant is hereby warned that the Court will not tolerate continued willful violations of its lawful orders & that if necessary & appropriate under the circumstances, it will impose an incarceratory punishment," he wrote. Judge Merchan ordered Trump to remove the posts from Truth Social that violated the gag order by 2:15pm ET. [see ruling post #945, page 48]. Trump has removed the social media posts that judge Juan Merchan ruled violated the gag order. All of the Truth Social & campaign website posts that the judge ordered Trump to remove have now been taken down [@ 1:24pm ET]
*The Judge also granted Trump's request to be excused from the trial on 5/17/24 for his son Barron's high school graduation. Trump had repeatedly falsely claimed since the trial began that the judge had rejected that request.
*State witnesses: Gary Farro, a Flagstar Bank employee who had had Cohen as a client & whose testimony was used to verify a paper trail of banking information from Cohen around the time of the 2016 election. He allegedly helped set up the home equity line of credit through which Cohen paid Daniels. Back on stand. Robert Browning, the director of C-SPAN's archives. Browning authenticated videos of then-candidate Trump that the network aired during the 2016 election, which prosecutors played for the jury, as well as one from Jan. 2017, when Trump was president-elect. In the 2017 clip, Trump called Cohen "a very talented lawyer." Phillip Thompson. The prosecution just played an excerpt of the deposition video in which E Jean Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, asked Donald Trump: “What is Truth Social?” Keith Davidson [an attorney who once represented Stormy Daniels & Karen McDougal].
For more info see posts #954 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...s-apr-2023-trial-25-mar-2024-2.673176/page-48
The jury returns at 10am on 5/2/24, Thursday morning with another contempt hearing for Trump's alleged violations of the gag order will take place at 9:30am Thursday morning where the district attorney’s office will present four more instances in which they say Trump violated the gag order. [Wednesdays are Dark]
*Trial continues (Day 6) (@ 10am ET) & Contempt Hearing ( 9:30am ET) – NY - *Donald John Trump (76/now 77) was indicted (3/30/23), formally arrested, charged & arraigned (4/4/23) with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the 1st degree & conspiracy in connection with hush money payments to two women [Stephanie Clifford aka adult actor Stormy Daniels & former Playboy model Karen McDougal] before the 2016 presidential election. Plead not guilty. Warrant vacated, released on own recognizance. New York County
New York: Submitting false invoices or checks. All 34 counts against Trump are felony charges (class E) instead of misdemeanors.
Trial began on 4/15/24 with jury selection & ended on 4/19/24. Trial expected to run 4 days a week. Jury Selection Day 1-4 (4/15-4/19/24).
Jurors selected: 12 jurors & 6 alternates. [Jurors: 7 men & 5 women/6 Alternates: 5 women & 1 man].
Trial began on 4/22/24. Trial is expected to run 4 days a week [Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays].
New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Marchan presiding. Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg. Prosecutors are Susan Hoffinger, Joshua Steinglass & Matthew Colangelo. Defense attorneys Todd Blanche, Emil Bove, Susan Necheles & Gedalia Stern.
Trump is required to attend each day in person — although the judge could grant permission for special absences. Trump has vowed to attend court during the day & travel to campaign events at night.
Investigation & court info from 3/30/23 thru 4/12/24 & Jury Selection Days 1-4 (4/15-4/19/24) & Trial Day 1-4 (4/22-4/26/24) reference post #930 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...s-apr-2023-trial-25-mar-2024-2.673176/page-47
4/30/24 Tuesday, Trial Day 5: *Before bringing in the jury, Judge Juan Merchan found Trump in criminal contempt for having repeatedly violated his gag order. The judge did not go into specifics from the ruling, but said he'd found Trump violated the order nine times & fined him $9,000. Prosecutors had argued that he'd done so 10 times. The amount of $1,000 per post is the maximum the judge can hand down. He noted in his ruling the amount likely doesn't mean much to Trump, but said he is not able to increase the amount. "Because this Court is not cloaked with such discretion, it must therefore consider whether in some instances, jail may be a necessary punishment" going forward, the judge wrote. "Defendant is hereby warned that the Court will not tolerate continued willful violations of its lawful orders & that if necessary & appropriate under the circumstances, it will impose an incarceratory punishment," he wrote. Judge Merchan ordered Trump to remove the posts from Truth Social that violated the gag order by 2:15pm ET. [see ruling post #945, page 48]. Trump has removed the social media posts that judge Juan Merchan ruled violated the gag order. All of the Truth Social & campaign website posts that the judge ordered Trump to remove have now been taken down [@ 1:24pm ET]
*The Judge also granted Trump's request to be excused from the trial on 5/17/24 for his son Barron's high school graduation. Trump had repeatedly falsely claimed since the trial began that the judge had rejected that request.
*State witnesses: Gary Farro, a Flagstar Bank employee who had had Cohen as a client & whose testimony was used to verify a paper trail of banking information from Cohen around the time of the 2016 election. He allegedly helped set up the home equity line of credit through which Cohen paid Daniels. Back on stand. Robert Browning, the director of C-SPAN's archives. Browning authenticated videos of then-candidate Trump that the network aired during the 2016 election, which prosecutors played for the jury, as well as one from Jan. 2017, when Trump was president-elect. In the 2017 clip, Trump called Cohen "a very talented lawyer." Phillip Thompson. The prosecution just played an excerpt of the deposition video in which E Jean Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, asked Donald Trump: “What is Truth Social?” Keith Davidson [an attorney who once represented Stormy Daniels & Karen McDougal].
For more info see posts #954 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...s-apr-2023-trial-25-mar-2024-2.673176/page-48
The jury returns at 10am on 5/2/24, Thursday morning with another contempt hearing for Trump's alleged violations of the gag order will take place at 9:30am Thursday morning where the district attorney’s office will present four more instances in which they say Trump violated the gag order. [Wednesdays are Dark]
