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Andrew H. Giuliani
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Soros funded DA now questioning Costello about an email from Jeffrey Citron, one of Costello’s law partners, to Michael Cohen.

ADA is trying to push Costello to say that he wanted to represent Cohen and he pursued him out of desire for high profile cases.

Rudy Giuliani wasn’t involved in representing President Trump at that time.

Soros funded DA’s office says but a few days later Rudy Giuliani was announced to represent President Trump. Costello reiterates but not at the time.

Costello says he did not want Cohen as a client when asked by the ADA if he was motivated to represent a high profile client.

Soros funded DA’s office now asking about the meeting on April 17, 2018 at the Regency Hotel.

There is a back and forth with Costello between who initiated the meeting, Costello’s law partner, Citron, or convicted felon, Michael Cohen.

Costello continues answering from Soros funded DA’s office about April 17th meeting at the Regency. Costello says Cohen was, “suicidal that day, pacing back and forth. He was manic.”

Cohen said to Costello two nights before that he couldn’t handle the pressure and was thinking about jumping off the roof and killing himself.

Soros funded ADA asking Costello about the lawyer Cohen ended up going with. Costello answers Guy Patrillo.

(This is when Cohen “flipped” for the Mueller investigation)

ADA stops questioning. Merchan asks lawyers to approach.

We are breaking for the rest of the day. Merchan is giving the jury their instructions.

The jury has left, Merchan has dismissed Bob Costello from the witness stand. He is exiting stage right.

Costello obviously has mastery of the courtroom and this could affect the jury.

Blanche gets up and makes the case that the case should be DISMISSED.

Mr. Cohen on the stand admitted that the business records were not falsified.

There’s no other evidence that the invoices were mishandled.

Also there is no evidence of any intent of fraud by President Trump with these filings.

Blanche: the idea that there would be any intent of fraud by President Trump, which the President signed in the White House, there is no record that President Trump had any intent of fraud.

Blanche DISMISSAL attempt continues:

Blanche: third, there are no other crimes in relation to this. There’s also no evidence that anyone was thinking about a campaign finance charge when Cohen and Weiselberg met. They met months after the election.

DISMISSAL ATTEMPT CONTINUES:

Blanche: At the end of the day, there is absolutely no evidence that David Pecker, Michael Cohen, President Trump, Dylan Howard or any of the other players that there was any attempt to violate a misdemeanor of state law that they never had any intent to break.

DISMISSAL ATTEMPT CONTINUES:

Blanche: As it relates to Ms. Daniels, AMI wanted nothing to do with it. As it comes to a catch and kill, AMI jumped out of that alleged conspiracy.

There is simply no evidence of any criminal intent and for that reason, this case should be dismissed.

DISMISSAL ATTEMPT CONTINUES:

There is no way that this court can let this verdict go to the jury on Mr. Cohen’s testimony. He lied under oath and he lied to this court.

Blanche now highlighting the October 24, 2016, 8:02pm call and how Cohen changed his testimony.

Merchan clarifies that Trump team wants him to consider that Cohen, as a witness, is so not credible that he takes decision, out of the hands of the jury.

DISMISSAL ATTEMPT CONTINUES:

Blanche said that Cohen irrefutably lied under oath.

Merchan interupts: so you think he irrefutably lied under oath and you think that it’ll fool 12 New Yorkers?

Merchan asks now to hear from the Soros funded DA’s office.

DISMISSAL ATTEMPT CONTINUES:

Matthew Colangelo, the former Biden Justice Department Senior Official pushing back on all points that Blanche, Trump’s attorney made, trying to make the case to (what has been the obviously biased) Judge Merchan, to not dismiss the case.
Blanche back up: False filings on AMI records does not constitute a criminal conspiracy

At the end of the day you have a books and records violation, where you have a legal expense that’s false, allegedly. It’s hard to imagine, how was it supposed to be booked? It was a legal expense.

Now on Cohen: The exacting testimony about particular conversations he had with President Trump, we never saw those. Apparently the people knew he was gonna do that, we were never provided notes on that.

Colangelo gets back up and says they gave hundreds of pages of notes to the defense.

DISMISSAL DECISION COMING…

Merchan said he is going to reserve the decision until tomorrow morning.

We are dismissed, not from the trial, but from the courtroom today until 9:30am tomorrow.

TODAY’S NEWS, May 20, 2024
The News of Today is the History of Tomorrow
Larry Schweikart (FR’s L S)

https://www.wildworldofpolitics.com/post/today-s-news-may-20-2024

The News of Today is the History of Tomorrow

Programming note: It’s convention time again, this time in Florida with the Florida Parent Educators Association (FPEA) at Kissimmee. I have a funny but long story about Kissimmee for another time. If you are in the neighborhood, email me at Larry@wildworldofhistory.com and I’ll get you in. So I will be gone Thursday and Friday, back on May 27.

IN POLITICAL NEWS

1) A longtime DemoKKKrat operative from Benghazi-by-the-Lake faces a lifetime in jail for racketeering. Now do Botoxic.

2) This Rutabaga staffer abruptly resigned, saying she could no longer serve in the administration. Maybe that’s because the demented dogturd said he was veep in 2020.

3) President Trump will hold his first New York rally since 2016, but in anticipation there was already a rally in the Bronx that brought out thousands. Meanwhile a new CBS poll has President Trump up 5 in AZ and 9 in FL, with illegal criminal aliens a major issue (psst: abortion ain’t moving the dials). President Trump has a 6- point lead on the economy (”cares for my economic situation”) but a 10 point lead among those who say Trump “cares a lot.” Unfortunately, the same poll has El Pollo Gallego up 13 over Kari Lake in the senate race. This discrepancy has left some DemoKKKrat minioniods not believing polls either. Gooooood.

4) The above mentioned discrepancy is leading other DemoKKKrats to worry about turnout.

5) A top DemoKKKrat Silicon Valley Jewish donor has switched and is now funding President Trump, while GOP Jewish groups emergized their fundraising for the President.

6) The Hill, a DemoKKKrat mouthpiece, admits vulnerable DemoKKKrats are “separating” themselves from Rutabaga. This tells you three important things. First, they know he is losing bad. Second, they know he is the candidate and cannot be replaced. Third, they know they can’t steal it again.

7) Meanwhile, per a message from Seth Keshel (@RealSKeshel) New Hamphire-—yet another state Rutabaga needs to hold to even hope for 270-—is now R +5 and the Rs have a lead of 44,000 after DemoKKKrats led by 87,000 in 2020. GOP Chairwoman Lara Trump confirmed as much by saying the competitive map is spreading past MN and VA-—likely NH, NM, and ME. Perhaps this is why the latest Harvard/Harris poll shows Trump beating Rutabaga like he was the Phoenix Suns in the playoffs: 49-43%, with leaners Trump is at 53%, and in two of the three scenarios involving a conviction in the cases, Trump wins one (still), ties one (still), and only loses by 1 in the third.

8) I been sayin’ it and sayin’ it. The Hamas Murder Pirate protesters are steadily expanding their terror methods, now camping on the front lawn of a University of Michigan regent.

9) New Kabul (NYC) has its lowest numbers of police officers since 1990, despite a larger population and more crime. In it’s counterpart, Benghazi-by-the-Lake (Chicago) there were 45 shot and one killed over the weekend.

10) In the Hoax trial by Boast ‘n’ Bragg his star witness Michael (the Rat) Cohen admitted to stealing money from President Trump.

11) A Viagra firm is offering an Ozempic variant. So now you can get an erection and diarrhea at the same time. How do you sit on the toilet?

IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS

12) President Trump’s advisors reveal plans for deporting 20 million illegal criminal invaders. Folks, if you want to see the economy just explode, get rid of the illegal invaders and watch Americans go to work.

13) A D.C. judge ruled against Botoxic (Nancy Pelosi) and said the Capitol steps are indeed a free speech zone.

IN CULTURAL NEWS

14) From the great Ryan Burge, the “nones” (no religious affiliation have indeed peaked and are no longer rising, even in Gen X and Gen Z..

IN TRANSOID NEWS

15) Suicides are up 1,200% among transoids. You know, cuz “gender affirming care” is so good on the personality.

IN ECONOMIC NEWS

16) Wind power guzzles economic resources and raw materials like nothing else. Just look at what is involved in the foundation of one of these monstrosity windmills-—then imagine having to dig them all up in 20 years, which we will have to do.

17) Property insurance in the hurricane/tornado alley called Florida are now driving nursing homes out of bidiness.

18) The EV bloodbath continues: Tesla cut another 600 jobs.

19) A Minnesota bill trying to tackle soaring rents fails cuz it will not allow renters to boot evictees.

20) The sentiment for home buying neared an all times low.

21) Oh? Rutabaga has started subsidizing uranium?

22) Price inflation has sent high-end shoppers to Wal-Mart.

IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS

23) Truly sad news as Iran’s president and foreign minister are “missing” after a “hard landing.” A search (for body parts?) is on. Could this be our Israeli friends thanking them for the Ap. 14 drone attack? (UPDATE per Israeli media: THEY B DAID).

24) Three U.S. citizens were arrested in the Congo as being CIA agents.

25) Wait, I thought only our Congress got into these floorfights with Occasional Cortex and MTG? A brawl broke out on the floor of the Taiwanese parliament.

26) Was the hit on the Slovakian PM due to his comments last month about refusing to support Ukraine any longer?

27) A new tax in Australia will charge solar power customers for “exporting” their energy during the middle of the day because it might reduce the overall demand for solar.

28) Julian Assange won a victory in which a court allowed him an appeal of his extradition to the U.S.

29) The Russkie economy grew at 5.4% last quarter, or more than double the rate of the U.S. and above that of Chy-na as of the last stats I saw.

30) There is a global EV disaster as ports fill up with thousands of unwanted ChiCom electric cars that no one wants. Meanwhile idiotic net zero rules are destroying the Euro auto market. Gee, maybe GM and Ford can make a comeback if they focus on gas.

31) The UN says 800,000 Palestinians have evacuated Rafa. Common sense. It’s about to be flattened. Maybe because the UNRWA “relief organization” is stealing aid.

32) Japan has rejected the WHO treaty.

33) My favorite lib, Noah Smith, pulls back the curtain on the crumbling Chy-na economy. They have a massive overproduction problem and at some point the chickens will come home to roost.

34) The Euros are flirting with a return to the Dark Ages, as they unveil a new “superturbine” that will use hydrogen. I’m a big hydrogen fan, having worked on the X-30 hydrogen powered experimental plane (that didn’t work), but it ain’t ready, as the Euros will soon discover.

35) “I’m single, childless, and alone.” Throughout the west this is the lament of many women who drank the feminist kool aide.

IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

36) Director Oliver Stone, who once called President Trump “Mad King Lear,” says the trials against him are “a new form of warfare,” . . . “Lawfare.”

37) “Yellowstone” resumed filming for its 5th and final season.

38) Peter Jackson is working on a new “Lord of the Rings,” presumably with extensive Hobbit walking. They get in their 10,000 steps a day fo sho.

IN CHINA VIRUS NEWS

39) Really? The Supes ruled that the University of Colorado China Virus vax mandate was unconstitutional. Gee, they finally figured that out?

40) A New Jersey court threw out all 80 charges against gym owner Ian Smith, who resisted Governor Phil Murphy’s idiotic lockdown law. Now, how does Murphy get reimbursed for the seized gym assets and lost business?

41) More pigs are flying as ex-CDC director Robert Redfield said “it’s high time to admit significant side effects” of the China Virus vax.

AND FINALLY . . .

42) The most common baby names were Liam and Olivia. Well, thank God it’s not Adolf, Vladimir, Grizelda, Cankles, or Mohammed yet.