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Dec 2 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
Twitter's still not dead, so let's celebrate #ff.

Check out @SollenbergerRC, who keeps exposing Herschel Walker for the fraud he is.

thedailybeast.com/herschel-walke…
@SollenbergerRC And how about @WillBredderman, who churns out scoops like an ice cream man.

You don't want to be on the receiving end of his investigations.

thedailybeast.com/republican-geo…
@SollenbergerRC @WillBredderman I envy @JakeLahut's notebook. This guy gets elucidating details everywhere he goes.

thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-d…
@SollenbergerRC @WillBredderman @JakeLahut If you want to understand progressive politicians and see some smart takes, read @UrsulaPerano.

thedailybeast.com/biden-and-demo…
@SollenbergerRC @WillBredderman @JakeLahut @UrsulaPerano Okay, I ran out of time. Need to get back to the Trump Org trial. Follow my day's reporting here:

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Dec 2
It's a bitter cold morning in NYC, where the Trump Org is reaching what's likely its final day on trial for criminal tax fraud.

Prosecutors & defense lawyers are bickering before the jury walks in.

The topic at hand: Mr. Donald J Trump himself.
Justice Juan Merchan, a cool-headed judge, is throwing his hands in the air.

He's losing his patience with the Trump Org lawyers over the way they keep bringing up ex-President Trump.

DJT isn't charged with a crime in this case. And yet defense lawyers keep name-dropping.
Judge: "Much of the discussion during jury selection resolved around, 'we have to make sure the jury understands Donald Trump isn’t at the defense table.' When we met with the jurors in the back we tried to make that clear..."
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Dec 1
I'm back in Manhattan criminal court, where jurors are about to hear closing arguments from the Trump Org & local prosecutors.

Did the ex-president's company dodge taxes? Did it fake biz records?

"You and you alone are the judges of fact in this case," Justice Juan Merchan says
The Trump Org's lawyer, Susan Necheles, is first up.

"We are here today because of one reason and one reason only: the greed of Allen Weisselberg."

The strategy here is to make it seem as if the CFO & company controller did this on their own, and the Trumps were blameless.
Necheles: "No member of the Trump family knew about his ongoing efforts to evade taxes. He was ashamed of what he was doing. You saw him on the witness stand almost crying."

Oh man, I knew Weisselberg's emotional moment on the witness stand was going to factor into the defense.
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Nov 28
Earlier this year, I exposed how a judge in West Virginia pulled out his gun on lawyers in his courtroom.

He lied to me repeatedly. We proved it anyway.

He just resigned.
In our initial investigation, we talked to scared witnesses.

The judge insisted it never happened, but his story kept changing.

We dug further.

thedailybeast.com/west-virginia-…
At first, the judge and local sheriff said there was no evidence of this ever happening.

Then we discovered there was video. We raced to get it.

Smile at the camera, Your Honor 😉

cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/Q9dqD…
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Nov 22
I'm in my fourth Trump-related court hearing today. Whew.

This time we're in Manhattan federal court, where we're getting an update on the civil case involving Trump's alleged rape of journalist E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s.
Carroll's lawyer, Robbie Kaplan, says she plans to consolidate the current lawsuit with the new one they plan to file in the coming days under New York's recent adult survivor's law.

She wants to go to trial against Trump first thing in 2023.
Meanwhile, Trump's lawyer echoes the same arguments they made this morning in NY state court on a totally different case: slow your roll, no need to have trial soon, there's so much discovery to be done.
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Nov 22
Yet another change of venue. I'm now tuning into the 11th Circuit federal appeals court, where DOJ is trying to get rid of the special master appointed to slow down the Mar-a-Lago classified docs investigation.

For those keeping count, this is the 3rd Trump court hearing *today*
You can listen along with me. But for those who don't understand how federal court works, I'll be covering this here and at @thedailybeast.
@thedailybeast Judges on this appellate panel:
Andrew Brasher (appointed by Trump)
Britt Grant (Trump)
William Pryor Jr. (George W Bush),

As @joshgerstein pointed out, Brasher and Grant previously ruled against Trump, permitting FBI agents to keep using documents they seized
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Nov 22
Change of scenery. I just stepped into Manhattan criminal court, where the Trump Organization is simultaneously on trial for tax dodging.

Donald Bender, the outside accountant at MazarsUSA who always did the company's taxes, is on the witness stand.
Why yes, I am everywhere all at once.
Alina Habba, Clifford Robert, and the other lawyers representing the Trump Org in the AG's separate civil lawsuit walked over here as well. They're sitting in the pews watching Donald Bender talk about doing Trump's taxes.
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