Even though Trump was not physically in New York during the dates given for some of the counts in the indictment, the payments went through the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust and was processed by the Trump Organization which are in New York and formed under laws of that State.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
I'm not saying that Trump being elsewhere doesn't matter- it does.
Just saying that, as I understand this, the Trust and Org being in New York is how the DA gets there on these counts.
1) Opportunity here for Trump to produce that retainer agreement.
2) '....the prosecutor in the Cohen investigation said Tuesday that Cohen “sought reimbursement for that money by submitting invoices to the candidate’s company, which were untrue and false. They indicated that… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
(Sorry I am slow with threading this. I’m making dinner, minding a four year old, and trying to research and thread all at the same time haha)
TO Controller = Jeff McConney
TO Accounts Payable Supervisor = Deborah Tarasoff
These two were the first witnesses to be called by the prosecution in the Weisselberg case. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/t…
Some of these lines are practically copy/pasted from Cohen's guilty plea, haha.
Which... is gonna be a problem for Bragg.
Paid by DJT personally, BUT in accordance with the invoices he was given.
Lawyer C = ?
Lawyer D = ?
Possibilities are Robert Costello, David Schwartz, Rudy Giuliani, Lanny Davis...
The only crime charged in this thing is 'Falsifying business records.'
Normally a misdemeanor, Bragg is charging it as a felony.
Yet, he doesn't charge any other crimes or even spell out what the other crime, which is what allows him to upgrade the charges into a felony,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
There are so many problems with this thing that it's difficult to know where to begin.
-Stormy has previously stated there was no affair
-Cohen plead guilty to falsifying the very invoices/records these charges are built on
-Cohen also plead guilty to lying to Congress
-Weisselberg plead guilty to 15 felonies recently and one of the crimes was falsifying a payment to his wife
-Trump separated from the Trump Org when he became President and turned it over to trustees
-The fact Trump wasn't in NY during the alleged criminal acts, but was instead in DC and elsewhere, I think would normally kick this thing over to the SDNY.
They already looked at this matter and decided not to charge.
-And again, the underlying crime that Bragg is using as basis to bring what would normally be misdemeanors as felonies ISN'T EVEN NAMED OR EXPLAINED in the indictment or statement of facts.
One would ASSUME it is campaign finance fraud or similar, BUT the FEC already looked at… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
-Lastly, there's the issue of the statute of limitations. The alleged crimes took place outside of the 5yr limit. Even the most recent payment is out of it.
Just Security has an idea of how this could be dealt with - tolling.
Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control is abbreviated as OFAC, but when folks get administrative subpoenas from them, they often mispronounce the acronym.
According to CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin, the email from OFAC was sent to the other co-founder, Jodie Evans's, spam folder.
OFAC is seeking a lot of information from Codepink regarding their visit to Cuba.
"Approximately 170 people participated in the convoy and suggested the scope of the inquiry could require organizers to account for the activities of every participant."
It is not known when Rush stopped working for the CIA or why, but we know from the affidavit that he requested and received "a significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses" between November 2025 and March 2026.
So his employment must have run at least until then.
At some point, I'm guessing between March and early May, the CIA began an investigation/review of what Rush was up to.
They were "unable to locate the gold bars or significant amounts of the foreign currency Rush received pursuant to his requests or to identify the intended use of these funds."
The "data center hysteria" is largely a repacking of the "climate change hysteria."
The hysteria is fueled, in part, by bad data, lack of perspective, and influence operations that lead with emotional bait.
Like the 20th-century predictions of climate catastrophes, it is another form of anti-capitalism (pro-communism) propaganda meant to capture your mind through fear.
A teachable moment.
In 2025, a left-wing anti-AI author, Karen Hao, published her non-fiction book 'Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI.'
It's done very well. A NYT bestseller and winner of multiple awards, the book received much praise.
Anti-AI and anti-data center sentiments, which go hand in hand, are now mainstream, and this book boosted them there.
You may have noticed the uptick in opposition to both.
Sometimes the angle of surveillance, aka "Big Brother," is also included.
🧵Look past the language of Trump trying to "control" elections, and you see that DHS and DOJ are hard at work trying to clean up our elections.
Reuters uncovered a broader‑than‑previously known Trump administration effort to gain federal control over elections, historically run locally, in at least eight states – using investigations, raids and demands for access to balloting systems and voter ID."
Here's where Reuters gets the language of "control" from. It's understandable, but it's also hyperbole—hyperbole that Trump also uses, so fair is fair.
About one third of the way into the article, Reuters admits Trump isn't really trying to implement a federal takeover of elections.
"Rather than seek a sweeping federal takeover of elections, the administration appears to be testing constitutional limits one state and one county at a time"
Steve Baker, Joseph Hanneman, and their company Veritas Regnat LLC have failed to respond to the libel and slander lawsuit brought against them over their erroneous claims that former Capitol Police officer Shauni Kerkhoff was responsible for the J5 Pipe Bombs.
The judge has ordered the clerk to file an entry of default against them and for the plaintiffs to file a motion for default judgment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Blaze Media, which was also sued, has filed an unopposed motion for more time to respond to the suit. The judge gave them until June 11, 2026.
In public responses to the lawsuit, Baker has put on a "bring it on!" act, as if he were eager to fight it, to show what evidence he supposedly has, and to use the discovery process to expose some conspiracy to frame Brian J. Cole for the J5 pipe bombs when all along it was Shauni Kerkhoff who planted them as part of a sinister "fedsurrection" plot... or something.
Plaintiff Kerkhoff, who is suing Blaze Media, Steve Baker, Joseph Hanneman, and their company Veritas Regnet for falsely accusing Kerkhoff of being the J5 Pipe Bomber, has filed for a default against Steve Baker, as he has failed to respond to the lawsuit.