Gagged Trump quickly deletes Truth Social post panicking over “unprecedented” witness… New York Times' Maggie Haberman reports that Donald Trump took Stormy Daniels’s testimony “personally” today because she may have given humiliating descriptions that were lost in the defense objection when she testified that they used the missionary sex position.
Judge Merchan found Trump in contempt for a tenth time Monday, and added a pointed warning about the possibility he could order the former president to be incarcerated, saying the $1,000 fines he has imposed were not effective.
Deleting the post suggests that may have been just the posture of a strong man who really doesn’t want to be in the pokey.
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The guy who paid $150,000 to boink a Playboy Playmate and then $130,000 to boink porn star Stormy Daniels and falsified business records to hide that payment to save his campaign while his third wife was pregnant with his fifth child from three different women is polling 46%? The same rapist who stole classified documents, defrauded students and charity donors, and tried to steal an election is polling 46%?
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WASHINGTON — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia authorized extensive efforts to hurt the candidacy of Joseph R. Biden Jr. during the election last year, including by mounting covert operations to influence people close to President Donald J. Trump, according to a declassified intelligence report released on Tuesday.
“Russian state and proxy actors who all serve the Kremlin’s interests worked to affect U.S. public perceptions,” the report said.
The declassified report represented the most comprehensive intelligence assessment of foreign efforts to influence the 2020 vote. Besides Russia, Iran and other countries also sought to sway the election, the report said. China considered its own efforts but ultimately concluded that they would fail and most likely backfire, intelligence officials concluded.
A companion report by the Justice and Homeland Security Departments also rejected false accusations promoted by Mr. Trump’s allies in the weeks after the vote that Venezuela or other countries had defrauded the election.
The reports, compiled by career officials, amounted to a repudiation of Mr. Trump, his allies and some of his top administration officials. They reaffirmed the intelligence agencies’ conclusions about Russia’s interference in 2016 on behalf of Mr. Trump and said that the Kremlin favored his re-election. And they categorically dismissed allegations of foreign-fed voter fraud, cast doubt on Republican accusations of Chinese intervention on behalf of Democrats and undermined claims that Mr. Trump and his allies had spread about the Biden family’s work in Ukraine.
The report also found that neither Russia nor other countries tried to change ballots themselves. Efforts by Russian hackers to gain access to state and local networks were unrelated to efforts by Moscow to influence the presidential vote.
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