Former President Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial suddenly erupted in shouting on Thursday.
Matthew Russell Lee of the Inner City Press reported on X, formerly Twitter, that at one point during the trial on Thursday, Trump’s lawyer brought up text messages between Dylan Howard, the former editor-in-chief of the National Inquirer and an unknown relative.
Justice Merchan: I think there are details that could be redacted.
— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) April 25, 2024
Prosecutor: We'll send around some proposed redactions to [defense] counsel
Trump's lawyer Bove: This is a text message between Dylan Howard and
Prosecutor: WOAH!
Bove: Sorry, I didn't mean that
According to Russell Lee, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said to both the defense and the prosecution that some details of the text messages could be redacted. Trump’s lawyer Emil Bove began speaking about the text messages and said, “This is a text message between Dylan Howard and,” before he was interrupted by the prosecution.
Newsweek’s Katherine Fung, who has been inside the courtroom covering Trump’s trial, reported that the prosecution shouted “woah” as they interrupted Bove.
“Sorry, I didn’t mean that,” Bove said in response.
On Thursday, Trump appeared in a Manhattan courtroom for the continuation of his ongoing criminal trial brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, for alleged hush money payments made to former adult film star Stormy Daniels.
Last April, the former president was indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who said Trump “fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal crimes that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election.”
Trump has continued to deny any wrongdoing in the case and was previously placed under a gag order after attacking the daughter of Merchan.
Earlier this week, David Pecker, the former chairman, president and CEO of the National Enquirer’s parent company, American Media Inc. (AMI), took the stand to testify on his relationship with Trump and a “catch and kill” operation in connection to a story about an alleged relationship between the former president and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
Pecker testified on Thursday that AMI owned the sole rights to the story under the agreement, and if McDougal took it elsewhere, she would have to return the $150,000. Steinglass shows an invoice for the $150,000 from McDougal’s attorney.
“We didn’t want the story to embarrass Mr. Trump or embarrass or hurt the campaign,” he says.
While speaking to reporters outside of his trial, Trump called Pecker a “nice guy.”
“David has been very nice, he’s a nice guy,” the former president said.
However, Prosecutor Christopher Conroy accused Trump of violating the gag order again on Thursday, which included Trump calling Michael Cohen a “convicted liar” in a TV interview and calling witness David Pecker “nice” during a surprise visit this morning to a Midtown construction site.
In addition to Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan, the U.S. Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments on the former president’s claims of presidential immunity, in connection to his federal indictment for alleged election interference.
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These corrupt prosecutors and judges should all go to prison after Trump becomes president again…
I agree 💯
Right on
The courts have gone third world, there is no other explanation for this unprofessional disgraceful display of election interference on made up laws that don’t exist.
This is a disgrace unparalleld in U.S. History and there is NO EQUITABLE JUSTICE IN THIS CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION! There s NO POSSIBILITY of due process because if it does not fit the anti-American Agendas of the lunatic , clearly MARXIST left. the opposing party WILL be vilified , excoriated victimized and harassed and even imprisoned UNCONSTITUTIONALLY , as were so many who were merely PRESENT on January 6th, 2020! I am a 100% Agent Orange disabled Vietnam Vet with a 57 year old degree in GOVERNMENT who is SICKENED at the moral and mental corruption now in control of what used to be the United , now Divided States by Design of the Deep State shadow Government behind Biden’s idiocies. The Lunatic Left KNOWS that if record of accomplishments are the basis for the Presidential election, THEY DO NOT STAND A SNOWBALL’S CHANCE IN HELL of winning without cheating as WAS done in 2020 and for THAT fact, there is ever increasing proof as ongoing investigations into the “weaponization” of most Government agencies and collusion by Big Tech CONTINUE TO REVEAL! Why are we spending hundreds of BILLIONS unnecessarily, of dollars on foreign felon invaders being called migrants when many of them are criminals in their countries of origin but come here unvetted, uninvestigated and rewarded at OUR expense and to OUR detriment and that of American families is NOT lawful or Constitutional and those responsible for this invasion destroying our culture freedoms and way of life SHOULD be removed from office, indicted, tried in the full due process denied to THEIR opposition and punished to the fullest extent of the penalties provided for such offenses as oath violation, malfeasance in Office, dereliction of duty and Obligation to American Citizens and a host of other offenses to be found in U.S.Code, Chapter 18. The crime rates in the U.S, have DRAMATICALLY RISEN BECAUSE OF THIS FOREIGN FELON INVASION ONGOING. AT THE SAME TIME THE CRIME RATES IN THEIR COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN HAVE DECREASED EXPONENTIALLY. How much longer we continue to suffer such outrages may be debatable but: THE FACT WE CAN END IT BY RIDDING OURSELVES OF THE POLS CAUSING IT IN THIS ELECTION AND THOSE TO FOLLOW: IS NOT!
You ar welcome at my table anytime!
You made some good points but as soon as you said that Trump had won the 2020 election your opinion was to be disregarded. Most people know and are aware that Trump did in fact lose the 2020 election. Why is it that some people don’t know that Trump lost? Even Trump and most others close to him including his family know , though seldom admit, that he did in fact lose the election.
You all have fallen for the bs of the hard right and Donny boy trump. Trump is a ( Adolph hitler) born again a vote for him is a vote against every thing this country stands for!!!!
Don’t know how old you are , but you share don’t know much about history !
You are so correct. Donny boy will destroy, what he couldn’t before, the rest this Country. A vote for Donny is a vote for a dictator.
That’a such superficial, brainwashed rot from the left. To equated MAGA with racism is more BS! I see your cognitively impaired JB besides failed policies pushing the DEI garbage such as calling Japan xenophobic. Hmm .., they have a very low crime rate as do other homogenous croutines except Africa. DEI needs to be proved. not assumed, and to-date the data overwhelmingly suggests DEI doesn’t work. Favoring America first is no different than an NFL fan having a favorite FB team. I’m guessing the vast majority of NFL fans don’t like all teams equally well. Hopefully, globalism gets defeated and the rise of other populist govts in the west is a good jump start.
MAGA Needs to happen soon as your Northern Neighbor has been invaded by KLAUSE SCHAWB , WEF Leader admitting he’s already infiltrated TRUDEAU and his CABINET in ”Canada’s Parliament House of Commons ”and soon to infiltrate your leaderless White House that stood loud and proud as we in Canada are being led by this man boy wanna be..
The democrats are modeling themselves after China, North Korea and Russia trying to eliminate anyone who opposes them since they do not have a single policy that is pro American. These desperate measures hopefully will doom them for many years to come.
Your comments reflect the absurdity and ignorance of our times. If that creep gets back into the White House, you will deserve all of the devastating outcomes that befall this nation. There will be no rule of law, there will be no checks and balances, just another dictator who cares about on one and nothing but DJT. I cannot believe how incredibly gullible and downright stupid these comments are. God help us if this is truly how so many Americans have devolved. DJT is the worst thing that has happened to this nation and you are merely his pawns.
It’s amazing how libs enjoy high prices of fuel , food, all utilities, influx of illegals with deadly drugs, and actually bringing diseases we eradicated years ago. President Trump will lower energy costs across the board, lower inflation secure our borders and the list goes on. The delusional democrats are going to benefit from Trump policies and thats regrettable.