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Trump is here, blue suit, red tie.
All rise!
Justice Merchan: Good morning Mr. Trump. Yesterday we have a witness on the stand. Anything we need to discuss?
Prosecutor: With permission, may we approach?
Justice Merchan: Yes
[Sidebar - Blanche stays with Trump]

[Sidebar continues; Trump at defense table showing his lawyer Todd Blanche some papers. Then:]
Justice Merchan: Let's get the witness, please.... Welcome back. Let's get the jury, please
Jury entering!
Trump's lawyer Necheles: You were at the RNC?
Westerhout: Yes

Trump's lawyer Necheles: Would the RNC create a travel schedule for presumptive nominee Trump?
Westerhout: Yes.
Necheles: I want to show you L-8 and L-9. Oh, when they're ready. So People's 69 [the Trump contact list]

Trump's lawyer Necheles: You sent out this photo of the first time President Trump boarded Air Force One - he was proud, right?
Westerhout: Yes, he was proud.
Necheles: He often sent newspaper clippings to people?
Westerhout: He did.

Trump's lawyer Necheles: But only once to Allen Weisselberg?
Westerhout: It could have been.
Necheles: And he barely spoke to Allen Weisselberg in that first year, right?
Westerhout: Right
Necheles: I want to show you-
Prosecutor: Objection! Can we approach?
Yes

[Long sidebar. Then:]
Trump's lawyer Necheles: Do you recognize this travel schedule?
Westerhout: I saw them when I was at RNC.
Necheles: They were created and kept in the ordinary court of the RNC's business, right?
Westerhout: Yes.
Prosecutor: May I voir dire?

Then:
Prosecutor: We object [to admission of RNC travel schedule into evidence. Sidebar ensues]
Justice Merchan: The motion to introduce this into evidence is denied.
Trump's lawyer Necheles: You were asked about how checks were sent, right?
Westerhout: Yes.

Trump's lawyer Necheles: At some point you were told that there was a post office box set up for the President and his wife to receive personal items?
Westerhout: Yes.
Necheles: But it was slow and things got lost?
Westerhout: Yes.

Trump's lawyer Necheles: President Trump was upset because he thought it was disrespectful if he didn't respond promptly?
Westerhout: Definitely.
Necheles: So things would be sent to Keith Schiller, right?
Westerhout: Right.

Trump's lawyer Necheles: Is it your understanding that this work-around happened in previous Administrations?
Westerhout: I can't imagine it would have been any different.
Necheles: You didn't give packages to Ivanka Trump?
Westerhout: I didn't.

Trump's lawyer Necheles: He signed a lot of things. He felt if people were getting his signature they should get his real signature, right?
Justice Merchan: Sustained. Stricken from the record.
Necheles: He signed checks while on the phone?
Westerhout: Yes.

Trump's lawyer Necheles: He was a person who multi-tasked, right?
Westerhout: Definitely.
Necheles: People's 75 [Email of Rhona Graff asking about buying photo frame at TIffany's] You said you made the executive decision to spend the money because he was busy?
Yes

Trump's lawyer Necheles: You were working in the White House when Stormy Daniels' story came out?
Westerhout: Yes.
Necheles: He was upset?
Westerhout: Yes. He was concerned his family would see it.
Justice Merchan: Sustained. The answer is stricken. Any redirect?

Prosecutor: You did not meet Mr. Trump personally until after the election, right?
Westerhout: Yes. November 2016.
Prosecutor: At Trump Tower did you sit on a different floor than President Trump?
Westerhout: Yes.

Prosecutor: Ms. Necheles didn't ask if you'd spoken before. Have you?
Westerhout: Once.
Prosecutor: When?
Westerhout: This week.
Prosecutor: Do you work at American Political Strategies, for Robert O'Brien, who worked in the Trump Administration?
Westerhout: Yes

Prosecutor: No further questions.
Re-cross
Trump's lawyer Necheles: Again, you testified that President Trump was very close with his family and-
Justice Merchan: Sustained. Stricken. Next witness.
Prosecutor: The People call Daniel Dixon. Where do you work?
AT&T

Prosecutor: What do you do there?
Dixon: Respond to legal demands, help law enforcement interpretate [sic] call records.
Prosecutor: Did you review this thumb drive?
Dixon: Yes. There are 6 AT&T numbers & 11 others.
Prosecutor: PX 400. Subject to sealing order

[On the screen: A Michael Cohen account report, with a dot DonaldTrump dot com email address. fwiw this witness Dixon is wearing a hat]
Prosecutor: What is a mobility report?
Dixon: Cell phone to cell phone.

Prosecutor: And this is how was can tell how the records work?
Dixon: Yes.
Prosecutor: No further questions.
Trump's lawyer Bove: A cross market move is a change in ATT's accounting?
Dixon: Yes
Bove: So this Michael Cohen move, it begins Jan 2017?
Dixon: Zoom out

Trump's lawyer Bove: You're aware of pocket dialing, yes?
Dixon: I am...
Bove: Nothing further.
Justice Merchan: Next witness.
Prosecutor: The People call Jenny Tomalin - of Verizon...

Prosecutor: Does Verizon keep call records?
Tomalin: Yes.
[Now put on screen: "Details for Allen Weisselberg"
Prosecutor: Does min mean minutes and does Verizon round up?
Tomalin: Yes.
Prosecutor: No further questions.

Justice Merchan: Cross?
Trump's lawyer Bove: The subscriber records are not redacted... Is Keith Davidson linked to this number?
Tomalin: Yes...
Bove: No further question.
Justice Merchan: We'll break. [Jurors leave]
Bove: We object to 1999 statements

Prosecutor: In the 1999 video [not yet in evidence] Mr. Trump speaks of campaign finance laws going back to 1907, it's relevant
Justice Merchan: I'll rule after the break.
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[They're back...
Justice Merchan: 1999, it's too attenuate. Now you say you have only two more witnesses today? How long?
Prosecutor: A bit over an hour.
Justice Merchan: Shall we work to 1 pm or a bit past, and not come back in the afternoon?
Parties agree

Prosecutor: The People re-call Ms. Longstreet [DANY paralegal]
Justice Merchan: You are still under oath.
Prosecutor: Do you work with other paralegals on the Donald Trump case?
Longstreet: Yes.
[Trump at defense table is working on a piece of paper, with a pen

Prosecutor: Did you find and save public court filings that might be relevant to this prosecution?
Longstreet: Yes.
Prosecutor: How many relevant cases have you reviewed?
Longstreet: 75 cases.
Prosecutor: Is this a Twitter thread by at RealDonaldTrump?
A: Yes

[Thread asserts pressure's on Cohen to flip, then praises him.
Next tweet shown to jury: "If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggested you do not retain Michael Cohen"]
Prosecutor: Is there an exclamation point at the end?
Longstreet: Yes!

Prosecutor [after showing a tweet praising Paul Manafort for, by contrast, not flipping] Is this a three tweet thread?
Longstreet: Yes. May 3, 2018.
[Thread about NDA payment, "campaign contributions played no part in this transaction"]

Prosecutor: Who redacted these text messages?
Longstreet: I did.
Prosecutor: Please read them?
Longstreet: This is from Gina Rodriguez to Dylan Howard: Stormy Daniels was his mistress... She will talk under two conditions

Prosecutor: Read these please, from July 31, 2016
Longstreet: Gina R to Dylan H: Whatever happened with the Stormy Daniels interview? Then on August 8, 2016, Call me
Prosecutor: And these?
Longstreet: Dylan H to Gina R: He likely will pay. How much? Gina R: 250K

Prosecutor: Please read this from October 8-9, 2016
Longstreet: "$120,000 - sold." Then Dylan H to Gina, I'm at dinner but will forward contract. Gina R to Dylan H, I haven't told them anything accept [sic] what I said yesterday

Prosecutor: And this?
Longstreet: Gina H. to Dylan H. She's doing a press conference this morning, she hired another lawyer.
Prosecutor: No further questions.
Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche: I'm not going to re-ask you my questions from late Friday - 1000s of Tweets?

Trump's lawyer Blanche: You have not reviewed Michael Cohen's TikTok's for example from Wednesday night?
Longstreet: I have not.
Blanche: These texts you read, you have no personal knowledge if they are true or what they mean, do you?
Longstreet: I do not.

Blanche: No further questions.
Next witness is another DANY paralegal.
Paralegal: I reviewed call logs and related records: subscriber information in People's 401. We have a software that works with the data AT&T provides. Verizon records were PDF, trickier

Prosecutor: Is People's 340 calls between Michael Cohen and David Pecker?
Paralegal: Yes.
Prosecutor: Is People's 349 calls between the Defendant and Michael Cohen?
Paralegal: Yes.
Prosecutor: Move to admit.
Trump's lawyer Blanche: No objection.
Admitted

Prosecutor: What are People's 1 through 34?
Paralegal: Checks and invoices.
Prosecutor: Move to admit this summary chart.
Trump's lawyer Bove: Objection to this, can we have a sidebar, please
[Sidebar]

[Trump continues flipping through and writing up papers during the sidebar. Then;]
Justice Merchan: We'll resolve your objection as discussed at the bench.
Prosecutor: When we are ready to display the summary chart - People's 350
Bove: As modified, no objection

[Chart: 11 invoices, 12 vouchers, 11 checks [adds up to 34...]]
Prosecutor: Each lines up to a count of the indictment?
Paralegal: Yes.
Prosecutor: I have nothing further.
Trump's lawyer Bove: Was this tedious work?
Paralegal: Actually I kind of enjoyed it

Trump's lawyer Bove: From 2018, there are about a page and half of calls cut?
Paralegal: I don't know.
Bove: Look at the government's exhibit list of April 16, 2024. Look at 336 and 337 - some pages were deleted - was this after our cross of Davidson?
A: What?

Trump's lawyer Bove: And here, 344 - you deleted several pages?
Paralegal: Yes.
Bove: With Michael Cohen, remember CP1 and CP2? PX 247, that recording file off the physical device CP1, Sept 6, 2016. In PX 400, go to Bates 2726
Paralegal: Can I explain?
Bove: Qs

Trump's lawyer Bove: These are the IMEIs-
Paralegal: I think you're blowing up the wrong column
Bove: Now CP1 is using another IMEI - do you remember what Mr. Dixon said?
Paralegal: I don't want to contradict him
Bove: Nothing further

Re-direct
Prosecutor: Why did we shorting the charts?
Paralegal: To include only what came up at trial. We're pretty well down the road, s...
Prosecutor: Earlier you wanted to explain - what did you want to say?
Paralegal: Mr. Bovay, Bove, sorry, it was AT&T

Prosecutor: Do people sometimes get a new phone but keep the same phone number?
Paralegal: I do.
Prosecutor: Nothing further
Trump's lawyer Bove: You're just speculating, right?
Paralegal: The importance of the call is the time stamp.
Bove: The recording cuts off

Trump's lawyer Bove: Nothing further.
Justice Merchan: Jurors, you may leave. [They do] Mr. Blanche, any objection to me getting People's 350, to help me prepare the jury charge?
Blanche: We're fine with that. We intend to submit some proposed charges.

Prosecutor: We intend to call two witnesses and it is entirely possible we will rest by the end of the week.
Trump's lawyer Bove: The separation agreement between the Trump Organization & Allen Weisselberg, it's unduly prejudicial. And not relevant. He's in prison

Prosecutor: We want to explain why he is not here. There are three payments due to Mr. Weisselberg this year, $250,000 each. He promised not to denigrate the company.
Trump's lawyer Bove: That's not why Mr. Weisselberg is not here. Mr. McConney has one too

Trump's lawyer Bove: The reason Mr. Weisselberg is not here is that the District Attorney decided to bring a perjury prosecution
Prosecutor: We'd stipulate that he's in prison for perjury
Justice Merchan: That could resolve it
Bove: no it wouldn't.

Justice Merchan: It would be helpful to me to see some effort to compel him to be here. It's a factor for me.
Prosecutor: We could subpoena him and put him up there cold.
Justice Merchan: We could do it out of the presence of the jury.

Trump's lawyer Bove: Mr. Weisselberg has never been on the government's witness list. We were barred today from introducing an exhibit -
Justice Merchan: It's different. You didn't think it was possible they would call Mr. Weisselberg?
Bove: Not from the list

Trump's lawyer Blanche: Mr. Cohen continues to go on TikTok, in a t-shirt with President Trump in jail on it - we ask you to order the People to order the witness to not talk about President Trump until the case is over.
Prosecutor: We tell me. We don't control it

Justice Merchan: I would direct the People to tell Mr. Cohen that the Judge is saying to not make any more public statements until the trial is over. Adjourned.

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