Trump trial live updates: Jury back in court for 2nd day of deliberations

Trump trial live updates: Jury back in court for 2nd day of deliberations

The 12-member jury — who will decide whether former President Donald Trump is guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal a $130,000 hush...

JUST IN: The jury has requested the picture of Trump looking directly at the sun. - pourmecoffee

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• Ex-Trump Voter Makes Succinct Case Against the Ex-President: 'He Tried to Overthrow Our Government – And That's a Problem'
• North Korean missile debris found in Ukraine: Defense intelligence report
• Netanyahu criticizes Biden administration for not backing ICC sanctions 
• Israeli airstrike on Rafah kills 12 Palestinians, Gaza medics say
• ‘Disgusting Human Being’: Jamaal Bowman Tears Into Nikki Haley for Writing ‘Finish Them!’ on Israeli Bomb

SCOTUS was going to release their Trump immunity decision today but their spouses wouldn't let them. - Bradley P. Moss

Chief Justice John Roberts Takes A Shot Over The Bow. Your Turn, DEMOCRATS!!!

Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) in a response to a letter from the two legislators requesting a meeting with Roberts.

I would like to know why “Mrs. Alito” is the only woman in the entire country that Judge Alito thinks has a right to choice? - Woman In The Moon

Republican Shenanigans

• 'You Scared You'll Be Sent To Prison?' Reporter Drops Brutal Questions On Trump At Morning Trial Rant
• RFK Jr. Reveals NewsNation and Elon Musk Are Discussing a Joint Alternative to CNN’s Trump-Biden Debate
• Pennsylvania Republican Voters Hammer Trump On CNN — Raising Questions About Support in Crucial Swing State
• Texas AG Ken Paxton Rages at FBI, Calls For 'Gestapo' Agency to Be Fully Dismantled in Wild Rant
• Rove knocks Greene over Trump assassination ‘misinformation’

24 yrs ago—Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett & John Roberts were ALL on the legal team that helped Bush steal the presidency from Al Gore

24 yrs later—all 3 are now on the Supreme Court that’s helping to steal the presidency from the American people

Crooks will ALWAYS be crooks. - Lindy Li

I Want To Hear The Tapes! Then Biden Can Use Them In His Ads.
Former President Donald Trump is alleged to have used the n-word during deliberations of who should win the first season of The Apprentice, and according to a former producer whose NDA JUST expired, there are tapes of him saying the racial epithet.

Somewhere, the Trump campaign is committing another election crime by trying to catch and kill the n-word tape as he's set for a verdict in Stormy Daniels catch and kill trial. - BlackKnight10K

Mark Burnett has a tape of Trump saying the n-word?

But won't this hurt Trump w/the millions and millions of black ppl who, the media tells me, can't wait to vote for a racist? - John Fugelsang

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Rock The Voter News

• DNC to virtually nominate Biden and Harris to bypass Ohio ballot issues
• Senate Democrat urges Roberts to pressure Alito, Thomas on recusals
• Biden camp: Billionaires like Musk view Trump as ‘a sucker’
• Immigration group to the press: It’s the mass deportations, stupid

John Roberts is Chief Justice not just of SCOTUS but of the UNITED STATES. He chairs the Judicial Conference and heads the Judicial Branch. It’s absurd to say he’s impotent to prevent one renegade justice or two from wrecking that Branch and the whole Constitution. He must act. - Laurence Tribe

Dear Gawd, GOP To Investigate National Hero, Dr. Fauci.
The chairman of the House subcommittee investigating the COVID-19 pandemic is asking for Anthony Fauci’s private emails and cellphone records related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, EcoHealth and the origins of the coronavirus. 

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Business/Tech News

• Senate Democrats call for DOJ to probe Big Oil over price-fixing allegations
• Supreme Court unanimously rules for NRA in free speech fight
• Amazon expanding drone program after regulators’ clearance
• Pioneer's Scott Sheffield fires back at FTC allegations following $60 billion ExxonMobil deal

President Biden is calling on Congress to give middle-class first-time homebuyers a $10,000 tax credit to help lower their monthly mortgage costs. - The White House

Who's Sick of Presidential News Coverage? Most of Us!
Nearly two-thirds (62 percent) of Americans say they feel worn out by the high volume of news coverage of the 2024 presidential campaigns and candidates, according to a Pew Research Center survey published Tuesday.

'YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO GIVE UP' ~Alexi Navalny

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Odd News

• The ESA is visiting the asteroid punched by NASA’s DART mission
• Robotic Russian cargo ship leaves the ISS, burns up in Earth's atmosphere
• Webb telescope finds most distant galaxy ever observed
• Florida woman accused of trying to sell daughter for $20: Police
• Book borrowed from Finnish library in 1939 returned 84 years late
• Sherpa guide Kami Rita who climbed Everest 30 times vows to return to the mountain next year

Time To Deflate Photo

Lombard Street, San Francisco, California. I'm guessing that's the drone operator. Great shot.


Peace.

'KANGAROO COURT!' Trump Goes on ALL CAPS Panicked Rant Moments Before the Jury Decides His Fate

'KANGAROO COURT!' Trump Goes on ALL CAPS Panicked Rant Moments Before the Jury Decides His Fate

Former President Donald Trump appeared to reveal an agitated state of mind as he took to social media just minutes before Judge Juan Merchan is set to give jury instructions in his hush money-election interference trial.

They should let Hillary Clinton read the verdict. - Alex Cole

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• Top Biden aides signal openness to letting Ukraine strike Russia with US weapons
• Clashes erupt outside Israeli embassy in Mexico during Gaza war protest
• U.S.-made bomb used in Israeli strike on Rafah that killed dozens, munitions experts say
• Devastation in Gaza as Israel wages war on Hamas

Trump Vows to Deport Libertarians Back to Libertaria. - Andy Borowitz

Trump Says It Is Totally Unfair That He is Not Allowed to be a Juror. - Andy Borowitz

Whiny Hiney Wants A New Defense Strategy. Good Luck With That.

Former President Trump claimed Wednesday that he is being prevented from mounting an advice-of-counsel defense in his hush money trial — a defense his own lawyers made clear months ago that they would not invoke.

A formal advice-of-counsel defense would enable the former president to argue he was acting reasonably based on what lawyers around him were telling him.

It’s amazing that Trump has always surrounded himself with criminals but has never committed a single crime. - Windsor Mann

Republican Shenanigans

• Grisham: Melania Trump ‘thinking of her own optics’ by staying away from courthouse
• Trump Blows Off Shouting Reporters — Skips Daily Rant Before Court As Jury Prepares To Decide His Fate
• Fox News' Andy McCarthy Slams Judge Merchan for Giving Jury 'Menu of Choices' to Convict Trump: 'Pretty Outrageous'
• Vance asks Garland to probe gag order in Trump hush money case
• Bankruptcy Creditors Get Their Knives Out For Giuliani, Accusing Him of 'Crimes' and 'Egregious Spending Habits' in Motion to Seize Control
• 'No Change': Polls Show Trump's Trial Had Zero Impact on Public Opinion, Reports CNN's Harry Enten

Republicans have nearly broken all three branches of Government. - Brandon Unger

Alito Gives The Finger To Democrats. How Supreme Of Him.
Responding to calls from congressional Democrats, Justice Samuel Alito is flatly rejecting calls to recuse himself in two cases before the Supreme Court involving Donald Trump because of two flags that flew outside his homes.

So the Alitos literally LIED about their upside-down Insurrectionist flag. - Brandon Unger

Sam Alito, in declining to recuse, cites the legal doctrine of "because f*ck you, that's why." - Jeff Tiedrich

I’ll never get over how Ivana Trump fell down those steps and landed in a golf course. - Jen

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden Tells Black Voters He'll Pick 'Progressive' Supreme Court
• Fanone says mother was swatted after Jan. 6 officer called Trump ‘authoritarian’
• Jill Biden Tells The View 'We Will Lose All of Our Rights' If Another Conservative Gets on Supreme Court
• Fetterman: Trump has ‘strong position’ in Pennsylvania, but won’t win state

Does an orange cloud appear from the court building, once a verdict has been decided? - irishrygirl

Robert De Niro Irks Sean Hannity. Good.

Sean Hannity scoffed when asked about actor Robert De Niro’s appearance this week at Donald Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan.

De Niro, along with former Capitol police officers Michael Fanone and Harry Dunn, appeared on behalf of President Joe Biden’s campaign outside the courthouse on Tuesday, the same day closing arguments were given.

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Business/Tech News

• FBI Takes Down Massive Global Army of Zombie Computer Devices
• Elon Musk could become policy adviser if Trump wins election, WSJ reports
• Ramaswamy calls for changes to BuzzFeed after acquiring activist stake
• 4 million Iowa chickens being killed after bird flu detected at egg farm

The defense never even mentioned Hunter’s laptop. - John Collins

Even Costa Rica Has Its Scam Artists
The Judicial Investigation Organization (OIJ) has detected a type of scam targeting foreign tourists, mainly from Europe and the United States. The scam involves people pretending to be legitimate cab drivers who offer their services to people arriving in Costa Rica but end up charging exorbitant prices.

Out here waiting for the verdict and an enormous red tailed hawk just flew over. It’s probably nothing. But then again — ya never know. - Lakota Man

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Odd News

• Stegosaurus Fossil May Sell For $6 Million—Among Most Expensive Ever
• Aurora display could return to Northeast, upstate New York in June
• Chance eBay encounter returns long-lost charm to Utah family
• Crows can count in a way similar to toddlers: Study
• Florida woman arrested for cinnamon roll battery: police

Time To Deflate Photo

A thunderstorm as seen from space or it's a woman in a huge hat, chest high in foamy water.

Peace.

Closing arguments begin in historic hush money trial

Trump trial live updates: Closing arguments begin in historic hush money trial

Donald Trump's historic hush money trial entered its final act Tuesday morning as the former president's defense attorney Todd Blanche. Get info without

Hey New York jury,

No pressure.  Just the future of mankind. - Bill Johnson

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• Trump Wishes Happy Memorial Day to 'Human Scum' Trying 'So Hard to Destroy Our Once Great Country'
• Trump Suggests He’ll Give ‘Immunity’ to Police To Carry Out Mass Deportation of Illegal Immigrants: ‘We Have No Choice’
• 'Children Writhing in Pain': CNN's Jeremy Diamond Reports On Horrific Scene From Rafah Site Struck By Israel
• Human Rights Watch Founder — and Holocaust Survivor — Accuses Israel of Genocide on CNN
• AOC calls Israeli attack on Rafah camp ‘an indefensible atrocity’
• Russia is producing shells 3 times faster than Ukraine's NATO allies, and for less: report
• Sweden halts plan for Gripen jets to Ukraine, news agency TT reports
• Ukraine, Belgium announce $1 billion military aid deal with pledge of 30 F-16 jets
• Netherlands leads initiative to deliver Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine as soon as possible

They’ve been talking about Hillary calling Trump supporters “deplorables” for nearly a decade. I’m sure the media will cover Trump’s “human scum” comment the same way. - OhNoSheTwitnt

Apparently, Israel Has Serious Internal Problems
Former head of Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, Yossi Cohen allegedly “threatened” the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to drop a war crimes investigation.

"May God bless you all. And may God protect our troops." - Joe Biden

"Suckers and losers" - Donald J Trump

Vote accordingly. - Tea Pain

What a move: The Biden campaign is currently doing a press conference outside the NYC courthouse with Robert DeNiro & Jan. 6 police officers Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone while Trump is inside the courtroom listening to oral arguments. - Victor Shi

Republican Shenanigans

• BREAKING: Trump-Appointed Judge DENIES Gag Order — Rules Motion 'Lacking In Substance And Professional Courtesy'
• 'Sweaty, Deer in the Headlights': CNN Analyst Tears Apart Trump's Handling of Booing Libertarians
• Trump Pledges to Deport American College Students Protesting Israel in Private Meeting With Donors
• Trump Claims He Will Get 'Majority Of The Libertarian Votes' After Getting Booed At The Convention
• Republican Senators Slam Trump's Bid for 'Absolute Immunity': That's Why 'We Fought the Revolutionary War'
• Republicans irked that Herschel Walker is sitting on millions in unspent campaign funds
• Texas runoffs put Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales, state's GOP House speaker in middle of party feud
• Texas GOP Amendment Would Stop Democrats Winning Any State Election
• All The Trump Allies Going To Hush Money Trial: Don Jr., Tiffany Trump Show Up In Court
• Fla. school choice programs succeed, but public schools may close

I like how Joe Biden never refers to us as human scum. - John Collins

The Republican party as America knew it, died with Senator John McCain. - ShawnInArizona

Is There Going To Be A Resurrection of January 6th ?

Refusing to commit to accepting the results of the 2024 election has become a litmus test for Republicans jockeying to become former President Trump’s running mate, but that’s making their Senate GOP colleagues uncomfortable about the prospect of another Jan. 6-style standoff if Trump loses.

Tiffany Trump coming out of obscurity to support her father is like being on a lifeboat and swimming back to the Titanic. - OhNoSheTwitnt

I wonder why no college invited Donald Trump to speak at their graduation ceremony? - piyushmittal

 

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden honors late son Beau in somber Memorial Day message: ‘The hurt is still real’
• Capitol Police officers attacked on Jan. 6 to campaign for Biden
• Hillary Clinton Accuses 'Complacent' Democrats of Not Taking Her Warnings on Abortion Seriously
• Fani Willis wins Georgia Democratic primary race

E Jean Carroll hints at a 3rd lawsuit after Trump attacks her again today. Trump keeps going she will be worth more than him. - Prez

Apparently, Bill Maher Has Caught The Dennis Miller Disease

Bill Maher has come under fire from Democrats who claim his rhetoric toward them has flipped — but he says it’s the left that has changed.

“I haven’t turned. Yes, people have said to me, ‘You made fun of the left more than you used to,’ and guilty, I have, because the left has changed,” Maher told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria during a sit-down interview.

“School choice” sounds an awful lot like “send public funds to our for-profit, religious, indoctrination camps.” - John Collins

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Business/Tech News

• Washington pushes for new AI rules as Hollywood backlash mounts
• Growth in US home prices picks up pace in March
• Musk raises $6 billion for xAI to challenge OpenAI
• Melinda French Gates commits $1B to advance women, families

Trump Honors Those Who Helped Others Avoid Service at Tomb of the Unknown Podiatrist. - Andy Borowitz

Cannes Film Festival Gives "The Apprentice" 8 Minute Standing Ovation But Not One Award. Ouch.

“The Apprentice,” a new biopic about former President Trump’s rise in the real estate industry, did not clinch any awards at the Cannes Film Festival over the weekend.

The biopic is directed by Iranian Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi and stars actor Sebastian Stan playing the then-New York real estate developer Trump and Jeremy Strong as Trump’s real-life former attorney and mentor Roy Cohn. The movie reportedly received an eight-minute standing ovation after it premiered at the festival.

I’d be fine with Mrs. Alito flying her husband upside down from their flagpole. - Andy Borowitz

The rest of the world must think Americans are out of their minds for giving Donald Trump a shot at retaking the White House.

And they’d be right. - Mark Jacob

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UPDATE:

Fixed the problem with thanks to the Google Community Forum.

Apparently, Google Chrome's update coincided with the link problem and caused other problems. I have to do an extra step to correct the problem. No prob!

The links/headlines appear in red, I hope that is not a problem for you. I am trying to change it to black.

Whew! 

Thank you for your patience.

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Odd News

• SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida on May 28
• Get Ready for More Auroras: The Enormous Sunspot Cluster Is Back
• World's largest wildlife crossing represents boon for struggling species
• 81-year-old arrested after police say he terrorized a California neighborhood with a slingshot
• Pope Francis apologizes after reported use of homophobic slur

Time To Deflate Photo

This is exactly what I would do on this Philippine beach.

Peace.