Trump Denies Sleeping During Trial: ‘I Simply Close My Beautiful Blue Eyes’

Trump Denies Sleeping During Trial: ‘I Simply Close My Beautiful Blue Eyes’

Former President Donald Trump hit back Thursday at media reports that he has been sleeping during his New York hush money trial.

While various reporters from across the political spectrum have documented Trump asleep in court, cameras are not allowed in the courtroom, so the public has been unable to see exactly what the reporters have.

MAGA = Make Adderall Great Again. - The USASingers

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• ‘Destroying Property Is Not a Peaceful Protest': Biden Denounces Violence and Intimidation by Campus Protesters
• Fox’s McEnany: ‘I give Biden zero credit’ for statement on college protests
• 34 GOP senators call potential Biden plan for Palestinian refugees national security risk
• CNN Investigation Points to IDF Being Behind Airstrike That Killed 10 Children in Gaza -- Despite Denials

Trump thinks Israel has an actual dome over it that protects it from missiles, and wants one for the U.S.

He may have the Nuclear Codes again in 2024.

I'm terrified. - Brandon Unger

Welp, Russia Is Using Chemical Weapons. Anyone Surprised?

The State Department accused Russia on Thursday of using chemical weapons in Ukraine, following a new set of sanctions against the country.

Russia violated the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act by using the chemical weapon chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops, the department said. 

By the way, how did the Secret Service know in advance that it was a bad idea for Trump to go to the Capitol on January 6

That's why they deleted their text messages. - BlackKnight10K

Had no idea police could arrest people on the spot for a violent protest, I thought they just allowed them to go back home like on Jan. 6. - Covie

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump Rages At Judge Merchan Who Threatened Jail Over Gag Order Hours Before Hush Money Trial Resumes
• Trump attorney cross-examines Stormy Daniels lawyer over Cohen deal
• Steve Bannon Appearing Before Juan Merchan Ahead of Trial for Allegedly Defrauding Trump Voters
• Trump Claims London 'Unrecognisable' Since It Opened Its Doors To 'Jihad'
• Greene’s motion to vacate vote leaves conservatives with no easy options
• Marjorie Taylor Greene Changed 1 Letter In 'MAGA' — And It Didn't Go So Well
• Graham says FBI has his phone after possible hack
• Georgia governor signs controversial Republican-backed bill requiring cash bail for more offenses
• Lauren Boebert Met With Chants of 'Beetlejuice' During College Visit

I'm extremely skeptical that Mike Pence's life was ever in danger. I think in politics, people like to really exaggerate things from time to time. - Rep. JD Vance

Friend of Putin and Self-Proclaimed Anti-Communist Has Something To Say
Disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn revealed that he had been served with eight subpoenas in one night in what he said was an effort to keep Donald Trump out of office.

Abstinence Movement Urges People to Imagine Trump Having Sex. - Andy Borowitz

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden to meet with families of fallen police officers in Charlotte
• Biden to announce $3 billion to replace lead pipes
• Biden to expand two California national monuments Thursday
• Major College Democrats Organization Warns Biden: Our 'Votes Are Not to Be Taken for Granted'

Kristi Noem Claims She Shot Puppy in Self-defense. - Andy Borowitz

Hey, Good News From South Dakota!

South Dakota abortion-rights initiative supporters submitted enough signatures Wednesday to make the ballot in November. 

The signatures were submitted by Dakotans for Health, an abortion-rights group leading the effort in the state. The organization filed the petition with more than 55,000 signatures, which is higher than the 35,000 necessary to get the petition on the ballot. 

Why does "God" only seem to talk to people without Library Cards? - Brandon Unger

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Business/Tech News

• UAE Quietly Boosts Oil Production Capacity Ahead of OPEC Meeting 
• Southwest must offer $75 vouchers for delays: US DOT
• DeSantis signs bill banning lab-grown meat
• This question goes viral on TikTok: Would you rather be stuck in the forest with a man or a bear?

I’m confused by all this bears v. men talk. Aren’t “bears” just big hairy gay men? - George Takei

Wildlife or Oil Drilling? Hm. I Choose Wildlife.

The House on Wednesday approved controversial legislation that would reinstate rights to drill in a wildlife refuge that were overturned by the Biden administration. 

The bill, which passed in a 214-199 vote, would reinstate six oil and gas leases to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that the Biden administration revoked last year.

Trump said in Wisconsin that Joe Biden took all of the oil out of the reserves right before the election.

How the fk can Biden take the oil while Trump was president?

This is how dumb you MAGAs are. - Alex Cole

Bison may look friend-shaped, but they already have all the friends they want. Keep your distance and don't make it awkward. - National Park Service

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Odd News

• The 'best meteor shower' of the year to peak soon
• Japan’s ‘Moon Sniper’ keeps baffling experts by waking up. It has shared images from its latest lunar ‘day’
• New Close-up Video Shows the Sun's Surface as the Hellscape We Always Imagined
• 'Monster' behind North Carolina toddler's wall revealed to be hive of over 50,000 bees
• Cat travels 500 miles in Amazon return package

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A bike path at Lake Garda in Italy. Wow, just wow.

Peace.

Columbia protester mocked after asking for food for occupiers

Columbia protester mocked after asking for food for occupiers

...A reporter then replied: “It seems like you’re sort of saying: ‘We want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food and water’.’’

So, apparently, not only will the revolution be televised, it will also be catered. - Mrs. Betty Bowers

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• Blinken says ‘time is now’ for Gaza cease-fire
• Israeli Newspaper Calls For Firing of Top Netanyahu Minister Over 'Repeated Calls For Genocide of Palestinians'
• ‘Left With No Choice’: Columbia Releases Statement Claiming Protesters Were ‘Led by Individuals Who Are Not Affiliated With the University’
• 'Jews In LA Have Had Enough!' UCLA Student Tells Fox Counter Protestors That Broke Up Pro-Palestine Encampment Were NOT Students
• Fox Airs Shocking Footage of Pro-Israel Protestors Violently Attacking Pro-Palestine Encampment on UCLA Campus
• UCLA, Columbia protests reach tipping point with 300 arrested in New York

The pro-Hamas propagandists are blaming Biden (!) for the NYPD having cleared trespassers out of the building at Columbia ("blame"? for what? No one got hurt!).

Got it? The whole performance of these faux-protests all over the country is a pro-Trump psyop. Can't be any clearer. - DC Petterson

Disney Honors George W. Bush and His Ongoing Art Therapy After Lying Us Into The Iraq War and Killing Thousands of Americans. Shame On Him and Disney.

Former President George W. Bush’s paintings are going to Disney World. 

EPCOT, one of the theme parks at Disney’s resort in Orlando, Fla., announced Wednesday it soon will be home to a special exhibit of Bush’s artwork.

“Portraits of Courage: A Commander’s Tribute to America’s Warriors” will feature more than 60 paintings from Bush of “service members and veterans who have served our nation with honor since 9/11, and whom the president has come to know personally since leaving office.”

You would think after Bill Clinton fixed the economy that George H.W. Bush broke & after Barack Obama fixed the economy that George W. Bush broke & after Joe Biden fixed the economy that Donald Trump broke that people would stop voting for Republicans. - Evan

How did the 1/6 insurrection plan and pay for itself? - smc249

Republican Shenanigans

• Law firm defending Trump wants to withdraw from long-running campaign case
• Florida’s 6-week abortion ban goes into effect.
• ‘I Didn’t Eat My Dog’: Mitt Romney Insists His Own Pet Scandal Was Different From Kristi Noem's
• Doug Burgum Makes the Case for Trump: 'If You're a Billionaire and You Care About Your Shareholders...'
• Firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene to force vote to oust US House Speaker Johnson
• Johnson: Greene not ‘proving to be’ a serious lawmaker
• Judges reject Louisiana congressional map with second majority-Black House district

How is it not a bigger story that Trump falls asleep every single day of the first criminal trial of a U.S. President in history? Somehow, we've already gotten bored with Don Snoreleone. - BlackKnight10K

I like how Joe Biden doesn’t want to track women’s pregnancies. - John Collins

Michael Cohen Stars In "THE JERK"
In 2011, Stormy Daniels’s manager phoned a lawyer to complain that “some jerk” had called her up threatening to sue over a blog post claiming the porn actress slept with Donald Trump...But the image of Cohen portrayed to jurors, at this point, is hardly one of valor.

Some prosecutors’ witnesses have torn into him, casting Cohen as difficult to work with to the point where they actively wanted to avoid him.

The law-and-order guy found in contempt of court.

Let me say it again: Contempt. Of court.

Contempt.

The times we’re in.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. - Stephen King

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden to travel to Detroit for NAACP dinner
• Biden taps veteran campaign operative Greg Hale as director of presidential production
• Most in new survey worried about inaccuracies, misinformation being reported during election
• Democrats’ delight: ‘Moscow’ Marjorie Taylor Greene’s move sparks optimism

Jake Tapper Is Another Jerk That Is Full of Himself

Hunt: Our reporters are saying Trump is sitting next to his lawyer with his eyes closed

Tapper: Which doesn’t necessarily mean that he’s sleeping, but he has been known to fall asleep in this trial.

I Don't Like To Make Predictions BUT I Believe There Will Be Red State Incited Violence/Intimidation At Many Polling Places

Nearly 4 in 10 local election officials experienced threats, harassment or abuse while on the job, according to a new poll.

In the survey, published Wednesday by the Brennan Center for Justice, 38 percent of local election workers reported “threats, harassment or abuse,” while 54 percent said they were concerned about the safety of their colleagues.

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Business/Tech News

• This deadly paint stripper is now banned for consumer use in the U.S.
• After Hunter Biden threatens to sue, Fox News takes down miniseries
• Warner Bros. Discovery stock falls to all-time low
• Sam's Club using AI to check receipts at 120+ stores
• China to Build Massive Solar Power Plant in Nicaragua

I’m flying to Florida today on business. Does anyone know where I can buy a sundial? - Captain Obvious

GOP Senate candidate in Wisconsin is a multimillionaire from California

GOP Sen candidate in Pennsylvania is a hedge fund manager from CT

Missouri Senator Hawley lives in Virginia

Alabama Senator Tuberville lives in Florida

U wanna talk about voter fraud?!

Start with the GOP - Lindy Li

Costa Rica Mulling Dollarization
Congressman Jorge Dengo presented a new bill that is being processed under file No. 24,296 “Law for Dollarization.” “For decades, there has been a significant national discourse surrounding the ‘fair’ exchange rate between the Costa Rican Colón and the U.S. Dollar, the primary foreign currency used in the country for numerous internal and external transactions,” stated the PLP representative.

"I drink to make other people more interesting."

 ~Ernest Hemingway

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Mission Accomplished! 

Thank you all!

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Odd News

• Zippy meteors, a globular cluster, and more light up May's night sky
• Astronauts could run round ‘Wall of Death’ to keep fit on moon, say scientists
• Stunning image shows atoms transforming into quantum waves — just as Schrödinger predicted
• Florida Woman Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison For Shoplifting $20k Worth Of Designer Sunglasses
• “I would be dead if they didn’t take action”: Florida Woman credits Walmart employees for saving her life

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This is Vik, Iceland where puffins nest in its cliffs.

Peace.

Judge Merchan Rules Trump Violated Gag Order 9 Times, Warns That He Could Be Sent to Jail for Future Violations

Judge Merchan Rules Trump Violated Gag Order 9 Times, Warns That He Could Be Sent to Jail for Future Violations

Judge Juan Merchan ruled Tuesday on the gag order against former President Donald Trump, finding that he violated the original gag order nine times. Trump was fined $1,000 per violation and ordered to take the offending social media posts down by 2:15 PM ET on Tuesday.

He glared at me on the way out of the courtroom for the mid-morning break.

I grinned at him. - George Conway, ex-husband of Kellyanne Conway

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• 'These Aren't Civilians': Trump Says He's Willing to Deploy the Military to U.S. Cities to Conduct Mass Deportations
• Trump Comes Down Hard on Netanyahu: October 7 'Happened on His Watch'
• Mika Brzezinski Declares Pro-Palestinian College Protests 'Look Like January 6'
• White House Strongly Condemns Pro-Palestinian Protest at Columbia After Demonstrators Break Into Building: That's 'Not Peaceful'

Is it my imagination, or is every protest in this country now met with a militarized police force except for white supremacists? - bruce_steiner

Today I met with families from Gaza. I heard the suffering that they and their loved ones continue to endure. Some killed or wounded, others displaced.

We are working tirelessly to get more aid to people in Gaza and secure an immediate ceasefire and release of hostages. - Secretary Blinken

Surprise, Surprise, Trump Follows Judge's Order.

Former President Donald Trump deleted multiple posts on his Truth Social account Tuesday, in compliance with a deadline imposed by Judge Juan Merchan’s ruling that he had violated the gag order.

NBC News: Trump appears to have fallen asleep while listening to testimony — at times appearing to stir and then falling back to sleep.

Trump's eyes were closed for extended periods and his head has at times jerked in a way consistent with sleeping.

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump: It’s up to states to monitor pregnancies, prosecute abortions
• Fox's Jonathan Turley Rips Judge Merchan for Threatening Trump with Jailtime While Protecting 'Thuggish' Michael Cohen
• Whoopi Goldberg GOES OFF on Trump Saying There's an 'Anti-White Feeling' in the US: 'No One In Your Family Was Hung!'
• Sen. Rand Paul’s office reveals explanation for missed foreign aid, TikTok vote
• Rand Paul: Fauci Emails Reveal He Has 'Moral Culpability' for Pandemic
• House GOP Leaders Are Kindly Asking Their Slim Majority to Please Stop Jumping Out of Planes During Their Free Time: WSJ
• Long-time church employee arrested after being found with child porn, police say
• 'Surprising' and 'disturbing': Legal experts react to Supreme Court arguments on Trump's immunity claim

BREAKING: Barron Trump has appealed Judge Merchan's decision to let his father attend his graduation. - KellyScaletta

Apparently, Republicans Are Masochists
Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik is calling on the Justice Department to open an investigation into special counsel Jack Smith, alleging he violated department standards and ethical duties related to his prosecution of former President Donald Trump.

"Muslim headscarves? What a cruel & primitive superstition," said the circumcised Western man. - John Fugelsang

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Rock The Voter News

• Joe Biden tax proposal could hit Donald Trump with a $1 billion tax bill
• Morehouse College not rescinding Biden's commencement
• Manchin vows to introduce resolution to overturn Biden permitting rule
• Democrats fume at Mike Johnson over antisemitism vote

Kristi Noem owes a hat-tip to her role model, Sarah Palin, who bragged about all the animals she killed in Alaska (even though, on her short-lived reality show, she turned out to have terrible aim). Poor Kristi: she’s not just cruel, she’s derivative. - Andy Borowitz

Biden To Declassify Cannabis
The Biden administration will take a historic step toward easing federal restrictions on cannabis, with plans to announce an interim rule soon reclassifying the drug for the first time since the Controlled Substances Act was enacted more than 50 years ago, four sources with knowledge of the decision tell NBC News.

In the classified documents case, Trump is referred to as "F POTUS" throughout the FBI report. It means former. Allegedly. - adgirlMM

Please bring your dogs to the next Kirsti Noem event. Canine costumes and signs are optional. - NotHoodlum

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Business/Tech News

• Consumer confidence hits lowest level in nearly 2 years
• Fox News takes down Hunter Biden ‘mock trial’ miniseries after lawsuit threat
• Over 80,000 pounds of deli meat recalled across multiple states
• Coca-Cola CEO: Inflation will normalize throughout 2024

Top Trump ally Rudy Giuliani urges Mike Johnson and Jim Jordan to extort President Zelensky:

“Somebody should lean on Zelensky. You want another penny, give us your Biden file.”

Congratulations, Tennessee!

The unionization vote at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee has been certified by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), according to a Tuesday announcement from the manufacturer and the United Auto Workers (UAW).

Workers at the Chattanooga plant voted two weeks ago, with 73 percent, or 2,628 staffers, in favor of unionization, and 27 percent against, representing 985 employees.

Willie Nelson just turned 91 so I hope someone warns him that weed's a gateway drug to heroin before it's too late. - John Fugelsang

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Odd News

• NASA's Webb Maps Weather on Planet 280 Light-Years Away
• T. rex was probably about as intelligent as a crocodile
• 'Great enigma': Amateur archaeologists unearth mysterious Roman object
• Florida Woman shot with 97 pieces of birdshot while standing in her own yard
• Grandma bought lottery ticket while in line for chicken. Prize left her in ‘disbelief’

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Venice, California.

Peace.