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Trump is here, blue suit and tie of yellow or gold, talking to Todd Blanche in lead counsel's seat at defense table.
All rise!
Clerk: This the People of the State of New York against the People of the State of New York!
Prosecutor: May we approach?
[Sidebar]

[During the whispered sidebar, Trump leans to his left and speaks with his (second?) lawyer Emil Bove. Nechless also in conversation, with the colleague behind her.
Justice Merchan: Bring in the witness, then the jury

Continued direct examination.
Prosecutor: Put up People's 39, in evidence.
Cohen: It's an email from Jeff McConney to me, Get me the invoices you spoke to Allen about. Thanks, Jeff.
Prosecutor: On Feb 8, 2017 did you visit the White House?
Cohen: I did.

Cohen: President Trump asked me if I needed money. I said, No, I was OK. He said, be sure you talk to Allen.
Prosecutor: Did you take any photos? Why?
Cohen: Yes. Visiting the White House.
[Photo of Michael Cohen at briefing room podium]
Prosecutor: People's 254

Cohen: It's my calendar, about February 8 [2017]
Prosecutor: And what's this?
Cohen: My reply to Jeff McConney, regarding two dollar signs. I wrote, Please have the January and February checks payable to Michael D. Cohen, Esquire. Jeff replied, Please invoice me

Cohen: I asked him to remind me of the monthly amount.
Prosecutor: Why?
Cohen: I didn't have the document with me.
Prosecutor: And you didn't have a retainer either?
Cohen: I did not. So I created an invoice and emailed it, Dear Allen, pursuant to the retainer

Prosecutor: Had you in fact rendered any services in those two months?
Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche: Objection.
Justice Merchan: Overruled.
Prosecutor: Was this invoice a false record?
Cohen: Yes.
Prosecutor: And the other invoices were false?
Cohen: Yes.

Prosecutor: Did you receive eleven checks in 2017?
Cohen: Yes, Ma'am.
Prosecutor: What is Exhibit 4?
Cohen: The check sent to me for $70,000 for January and February 2017.
Prosecutor: It had a stub attached to it?
Cohen: One of the stubs.

Prosecutor: Were the descriptions here on this check stub false?
Cohen: They were.
Prosecutor: Who signed them?
Cohen: Eric Trump and Allen Weisselberg, from the DJT Revocable Trust.
Prosecutor: The March invoice was false too?
Cohen: Yes ma'am.

Prosecutor: Who signed this check?
Cohen: Don Junior and Allen Weisselberg.
Prosecutor: April ... was the description on the check stub false?
Cohen: It was.
Prosecutor: Who signed this one?
Cohen: Donald J. Trump.
Prosecutor: Did you get eight more?
Cohen: Yes

Cohen: This invoice was for the month of June. 725 Fifth Avenue. Dear Allen [Cohen says he cut-and-pasted] This is for two months because the check for May was lost.
Prosecutor: Who signed this one?
Cohen: Donald J. Trump.
Prosecutor: And July?
Cohen: 725 Fifth

Prosecutor: And August and September, also false?
Cohen: Yes, Ma'am.
Prosecutor: Put up 37-i
Cohen: October invoice.
Prosecutor: Also false?
Cohen: Yes.
Prosecutor: 37-j
Cohen: November
Prosecutor: False?
Cohen: Yes
Prosecutor: Check and stub, false?
Cohen: Yes.

Prosecutor: 37-k.
Cohen: December... 725 Fifth Avenue... Dear Allen
Prosecutor: False?
Cohen: Yes, ma'am.
Prosecutor: Was this the last invoice you sent?
Cohen: Yes because now I had been reimbursed.
Prosecutor: This check, who signed it?
Cohen: Donald J. Trump.

Prosecutor: In 2017 did you do any work for Mr. Trump or his wife Melania?
Cohen: Minimal. One matter for Mr. Trump, Summer Zervos, and something about the likeness of Mrs. Trump
Prosecutor: Did you receive emails from Alan Garten?
Cohen: Very minimal work.

Prosecutor: How many hours did you work for Mr. Trump in 2017?
Cohen: Ten. And in 2018, as a result of Stormy Daniels going public, Mr. Trump wanted arbitration action to be filed against her. I was contacted by Eric Trump and Mr. Trump. I worked with Larry Rosen

Prosecutor: Did you monetize the position as personal counsel?
Cohen: Yes. 5 clients, $4 million dollars. Also, Squire Patton Boggs. They paid me half a million dollars, bifurcated. I had offices in their space in NY and DC. They wanted me on their letter head

Prosecutor: Did you get subpoenaed by Congress?
Cohen: Yes. About Trump Tower Moscow.
Prosecutor: Did you have an attorney?
Cohen: Yes. Paid for by Trump Org, subject to a joint defense agreement.
Prosecutor: Did you make false statements to Congress?
Cohen: Yes

Prosecutor: Why did you make false statements to Congress?
Cohen: I was staying on President Trump's message that there was no Russia, Russia, Russia.
Prosecutor: Did you continue to lie, and pressure others to lie, about the payoffs to McDougal and Daniels?
Yes

Prosecutor: Did you speak with President Trump?
Cohen: Yes. Through Madeleine Westerhout.
Prosecutor: Who's on these texts ?
Cohen: Me and Keith Davidson.
Prosecutor: The joint defense agreement, who benefited from it?
Trump's lawyer Blanche: Objection
sidebar

Justice Merchan: Sustained.
Prosecutor: What was your understanding of who benefited from the joint defense agreement?
Trump's lawyer Blanche: Objection
Justice Merchan: Overruled.
Cohen: Mr. Trump

Prosecutor: Did you arrange to have Ms. Daniels on the Hannity show in this period?
Cohen: Yes. But she did not go on. She went on Kimmel but signed a statement before.
Prosecutor: Did you know the statement was false?
Cohen: Yes.

Prosecutor: Did you get an FEC complaint?
Cohen: Yes. McDermott Will & Emery firm replied.
Prosecutor: Was it false?
Cohen: Misleading.
Prosecutor: And this? "Big boss just approved me responding, start writing and I will call you soon."
Cohen: It'd be a scoop

Justice Merchant: Jurors, this to help you assess Mr. Cohen's credibility. Neither the fact of the FEC investigation nor the responses thereto constitute evidence in this case.
Prosecutor: Did you provide this to Jay Sekulow?
Cohen: I did.
People's 217

Prosecutor: What did Jay Sekulow write to you?
Cohen: He write, Client says thanks for what you do.
Prosecutor: Did you speak with David Pecker?
[Todd Blance asks to speak to the prosecutor, then asked Justice Merchan for a sidebar, gets it]

Justice Merchan: The information about AMI is only for you to assess the credibility of David Pecker.
Cohen: I told David Pecker that Jeff Sessions would take care of it. That's what President Trump had told me.
Prosecutor: Did you file for arbitration in CA?

Cohen: We had a Trump Org California lawyer file it. We served her new counsel - it was Michael Avenatti.
Prosecutor: Did Mr. Avenatti file a lawsuit for Ms. Daniels?
Cohen: Yes. President Trump would be required to sit for a deposition. So the NDA was stricken

Prosecution: What happened in April 2018?
Cohen: I was raided by the FBI. I was in the Regency Hotel. At 7 am, ton of people in the hall. They raided by apartment, my law office and TD Bank which had a safety deposit box I had just opened. They took my two phones

Cohen: After the raid, President Trump called me and said, Don't worry, I'm the US president, there's nothing to worry about.
Prosecutor: Have you spoken with him since?
Cohen: No.
Prosecutor: Did others reach out to you?
Cohen: Yes. They said, He has your back

Prosecutor: Here are his 3 tweets from April 21, 2018
Cohen: He was saying, Don't flip
Justice Merchan: Jurors, see you in a few minutes
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[They've back]
Justice Merchan: Please bring in the witness and jury.
Prosecutor: Are you familiar with Robert Costello?
Cohen: I was introduced by Jeffrey, we were both on an advisory board of Sterling National Bank. He said Costello was close with Rudy Giuliani

Prosecutor: What did Mr. Costello tell you about his relationship with Rudy Giuliani?
Cohen: He said he was very close with Rudy and it could be a backchannel communication to the President, to make sure you are still good and still secure.

Cohen: He showed me a retainer agreement even though I was still speaking with other lawyers. It was sketchy. I didn't want what I told him to be told to Rudy and President Trump.
Prosecutor: Are these emails with Mr. Costello?
Cohen: Yes. Offering a backchannel.

Prosecutor: Please read it
Cohen: Costello wrote, "You have friends in high places, sleep well."
Prosecutor: What'd you think of Costello writing about his friend speaking to his client?
Cohen: It was i-Spyish, it was weird. I think they were dangling a pre-pardon

Cohen: They were concerned I was going to hire anothe lawyer, from a boutique firm
Prosecutor: What is this?
Cohen: Bob Costello said me a link to a YouTube. It was "Rudy Giuliani on possibility of Cohen cooperating in Mueller probe." I wrote, Why sent this to me?

Cohen: Costello wrote, SDNY is trying to drain you until you see them as your only salvation. These left wing journalists want you to fail. If you want more from your former boss you should make that known.
Prosecutor: What was this?
Cohen: Pressure campaign

Cohen: I hired other lawyers. I spoke with my family, What to do? They said, Why are you hanging on to that loyalty. We're supposed to come first.
Prosecutor: What did you decide?
Cohen: That my loyalty should be to my family, and to my country.

Prosecutor: Did you plead guilty to excessive campaign contribution to Stormy Daniels?
Cohen: Yes.
Prosecutor: To influence-
Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche: Objection.
[sidebar - during which Trump speaks with Emil Bove]

Justice Merchan: The objection is sustained.
Prosecutor: Why did you pay Stormy Daniels?
Cohen: For Mr. Trump's campaign.
Prosecutor: And you pled to a role in an FEC illegal corporate contribution?
Cohen: Yes, for AMI to Karen McDougal.

Justice Merchan: The FECA violation is only in to assess Mr. Cohen's credibility, and to provide context.
Prosecutor: Did you plead guilty to tax evasion and false statement to a financial institution?
Cohen: Yes. Those were unrelated to Mr. Trump.

Prosecutor: After you pled guilty, did President Trump tweet?
[Shows tweet about don't retain Michael Cohen, contrasting him to Manafort.]
Prosecutor: What effect did this have on you?
Cohen: Angst and anxiety.

Prosecutor: Did you then plead guilty to false statements to Congress about Trump Tower Moscow?
Cohen: Yes.
Prosecutor: December 12, 2018, were you sentenced?
Cohen: Yes: I was sentenced to 36 months. Restitution and two fines. I surrendered May 6, 2019

Prosecutor: Did you testify to Congress before surrender?
Cohen: Yes. Rep. Elijah Cummings reached out to me through Lanny Davis.
Prosecutor: Were you on TV?
Cohen: Yes. I apologized to the country.

Prosecutor: Did you provide testimony to the Office of the Special Counsel?
Cohen: Yes. I admitted that my previous testimony to Congress was false.
Prosecutor: How much time did you serve and where?
Cohen: 13 months in Otisville. Then home confinement

Prosecutor: Were you briefly sent back to prison?
Trump's lawyer Blanche: Objection
Justice Merchan: Overruled
Cohen: I was head up to Bronx to GEO. But I received a call from Adam at 500 Pearl Street, I'm told I need to go there. I asked Jeffrey K. Levine to come

Cohen: They showed me an agreement that violated the First Amendment
Trump's lawyer Blanche: Objection.
Prosecutor: I'll ask a few leading questions. Did the agreement constrain your ability to speak?
Cohen: Yes. I was writing a book -

Prosecutor: In March 2023 did you testify to the grand jury - and did you have immunity?
Cohen: Yes and that is my understanding, from my lawyer.
Prosecutor: Have you asked us to help get your Federal sentence reduced?
Cohen: Yes.

Prosecution: Was it your understanding that the SDNY prosecutors declined to receive such a letter to reduce
Cohen: Yes.
Prosecution: But our offer, has it influenced your testimony?
Cohen: No.
Prosecutor: What did you do with your old phones?
Cohen: 1 in a box

Cohen: Another in a pouch. I was FOIA-ing the BOP and I wanted to record the conversation. So I powered up the older cell phone.
Prosecutor: Were you under any legal restriction on how to use the phones?
Cohen: No.
Prosecutor: Did you give us the phones in 1/23?

Cohen: Yes. I had not altered my previous recording with Mr. Trump.
Prosecutor: Have you made public statements that you should not have been prosecuted on tax and bank statement charges? Do you dispute the fact?
Trump's lawyer Blanche: Objection
Overruled

Cohen: They said they would charge my wife on the taxes, since she'd signed them. And the HELOC, I dispute that it was material.
Prosecutor: But you accepted responsibility?
Cohen: I did. In fact, I am still under supervised release.

Prosecutor: Did you testify in the NYAG's Trump Org case?
Cohen: Yes.
Prosecutor: And were you cross examined about statements - Oh, I see Mr. Blanche is rising, do you want to approach?
[Sidebar. Then:]
Justice Merchan: The objection is withdrawn

Prosecution: Did you admit to lying to SDNY Judge Pauley during your plea?
Cohen: I did. I was given 48 hours to plead guilty or they would indict my wife.
Prosecution: But you didn't lie to Judge Pauley about campaign finance?
Cohen: No, Ma'am.

Prosecutor: Are you a lawyer?
Cohen: No. I was disbarred. And as a felon I can't own NYC taxi medallions.
Prosecutor: Do you have real estate?
Cohen: Only one secondary apartment other than my residence.
Prosecutor: What do you do?
Cohen: Media and entertainment

Prosecutor: What do you do?
Cohen: Podcast called Mea Culpa - my initials. And another podcast with Meidas. I wrote Disloyal.
Prosecution: What about the book "Revenge"?
Cohen: It's about the SDNY's corrupt prosecution against me, the weaponization of DOJ.

Prosecutor: In February 2021 did you invite Stormy Daniels onto your Mea Culpa podcast?
Cohen: Yes.
Prosecutor: Have you continued to be the recipient of negative posts by Mr. Trump?
Cohen: I was.
[Horseface Truth Social post shown again: jailbird]

Prosecutor: Did Mr. Trump sue you?
Cohen: For half a billion dollars. He dismissed it.
Prosecution: Do you have any regrets about your past work with Donald Trump
Cohen: Yes. I did things for him I should not have. Bullying people. There were good times.

Cohen: I lost my moral compass.
Justice Merchan: We'll break.
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They're back.
Justice Merchan: Mr. Blanche?
Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche: We've never met, but you know who I am, don't you?
Cohen: Yes.
Blanche: You called me a little shit on TikTok?
Cohen: Sounds like something I would say.
Justice Mercan: Approach!

Trump's lawyer Blanche: You've commented about jury selection?
Prosecutor Hoffinger: Objection!
Justice Merchan: Sustained!
Blanche: You said on TIkTok that Mr. Pecker corroborated you?
Cohen: Someone called me and told me

Trump's lawyer Blanche: You have been following it on CNN and MSNBC, right?
Cohen: I watch, for example about protests about Israel. So I see it.
Blanche: You called President Trump a dictator douchebag?
Cohen: Sounds like I'd say that

Trump's lawyer Blanche: Lanny Davis, your lawyer, do you recall him saying line prosecutors to report to the top?
Prosecutor Hoffinger: Objection!
Justice Merchan: Sustained.
Blanche: Do you remember the prosecutors being frustrated you leaked to the press?
A: No

Trump's lawyer Blanche: Take a look at this email. Now?
Cohen: From this document, yes.
Blanche: In Feb 2021 you were going on TV talking about the investigation?
Cohen: I go on TV often, so I don't remember.
Blanche: You promised your attorney you'd stop TV?

Prosecutor Hoffinger: Objection!
Justice Merchan: Sustained.
Trump's lawyer Blanche: Look at this email
Cohen: It disappeared. It disappeared from my screen.
Blanche: Your lawyer told a member of the DA's office
Justice Merchant: Sustained

Trump's lawyer Blanche: You continue to talk to the press about this case, right?
Cohen: Sounds correct.
Blanche: I don't want it to sound correct - is it correct?
Cohen: It is.
Blanche: Feb 23, the DAs office, you gave them 2 phones - Jeremy Rosenberg?
A: Yes.

Trump's lawyer Blanche: Do you remember telling Don Lemon about giving your phones to the DA - then saying they already had the info?
Cohen: I don't recall either way.
Blanche: Look at this.
[Cohen puts in reading glasses]
Cohen: I don't recall.

Trump's lawyer Blanche: Six days after the grand jury, once again the DA's office was frustrated you were continuing to talk on TV, right?
Cohen: I don't recall.
Blanche: You told them you'd do no more TV until after the indictment, right?
Cohen: I don't remember

Trump's lawyer Blanche: You testified in detail about calls with President Trump in 2016 - but now you can remember things from 2023? Is that your testimony?
Cohen: Not these conversations with Lanny Davis.
Blanche: How about last March, they told you to stop TV?

Trump's lawyer Blanche: You don't remember the DA's office telling you you were unwittingly helping President Trump by going on TV?
Cohen: I don't remember.
Blanche: You were called down to DA's Office as possible rebuttal of Costello testimony?

Cohen: I've spoken with them. They tell me, Probably better off if you don't speak out it. But I have a First Amendment right to speak.
Trump's lawyer Blanche: How often have they said it?
Cohen: I don't recall. Fewer than 5 times.
Blanche: And you haven't done it

Trump's lawyer Blanche: You do four podcasts a week?
Cohen: Yes.
Blanche: 100s since the case has been charged.
Cohen: I haven't done the math
Blanche: We can do it... 100s. You are active on X?
Cohen: Yes.
Blanche: And nightly TikTok?
Cohen: Yes. I can't sleep

Trump's lawyer Blanche: One of the reasons you do TikTok is to make money, right?
Cohen: Money is made
Blanche: You speak about Mr. Trump every day?
Cohen: It do it six days a week. Six days a week.
Blanche: On your Beat Down cast, March 19, you displayed a binder

Trump's lawyer Blanche: You've regularly commented that you want President Trump in jail?
Cohen: Yes I would like to see that. Sure.
Blanche: You sell a T-shirt depicting President Trump in an orange jumpsuit behind bars?
Cohen: Yes sit.

Cohen: That's 1 item.
Trump's lawyer Blanche: We offer this into evidence: a $32 t-shirt with President Trump in jail?
Cohen: Yes
Blanche: And the coffee cup, Send Him To The Big House Not the White House - so it's not just the tshirt?
Justice Merchan: Sustained.

Trump's lawyer Blanche: Obviously you changed your view of President Trump in August 2018
Cohen: When I spoke on George Stephanopoulos.
Blanche: You still live in a building with Trump's name on it?
Cohen: Yes.

Trump's lawyer Blanche: You rent out an apartment you own in Trump building for $15,000 a month?
Cohen: To an embassy...
Blanche: You made millions in taxi medallions?
Cohen: I did.
Blanche: President Trump was happy with your results?
Cohen: He was

Trump's lawyer Blanche: You helped present the Trump children to the media?
Cohen: I did.
Blanche: You've read Art of the Deal twice?
Cohen: Yes. An excellent book. A masterpiece.
Blanche: You saw yourself in President Trump?
Cohen: Innovative. Yes.

Trump's lawyer Blanche: You were obsessed with President Trump?
Cohen: I was in the cult of Donald Trump.
Blanche: What you said in 2015, it was the truth?
Cohen: It was how I felt.
Blanche: In 2016 you spoke in Cleveland for President Trump.
Cohen: A church

Trump's lawyer Blanche: You spoke to Vanity Fair and said you were the one who protected the president, stopped leaks, would take a bullet for him?
Cohen: Yes.
Trump's lawyer Blanche: You said you were offered $10 million to write a tell all... But you wouldn't?

Cohen: I would not.
Trump's lawyer Blanche: During the investigation, you said you didn't see the Trump children?
Cohen: Not that I couldn't.
Blanche: You lied in Feb 2017 to Congress -then got raided - did you say, Boss I miss you so much?
Cohen: Don't recall

Trump's lawyer Blanche: You remember when you decided to cooperate?
Cohen: I don't.
Blanche: At the first meeting, you gave a reason why you were going to meet with them - you said your life was turned upside down in the Steele Dossier, you've never been to Prague

Trump's lawyer Blanche: What you testified, it was a lie.
Cohen: It was not accurate.
Blanche: But it was a lie?
Cohen: I wouldn't call it that.
Blanche: So when you didn't testify truthfully, how many things did you lie about?
Cohen: I don't know.

Trump's lawyer Blanche: You told them when you heard of the Access Hollywood tape you were in London at the restaurant Lulul's right?
Cohen: Yes
Blanche: But then you told them you didn't speak with President, right?
Cohen: It says I might have
Blanche: Don't read

Trump's lawyer Blanche: So in 2018, two years after Access Hollywood, you said you didn't know if you spoke with President Trump. But yesterday, eight years out, you said you have a specific memory, of President Trump being there?

Trump's lawyer Blanche: You pled guilty twice, then spoke to Congress in February 2019, testifying completely differently than what you'd said before, right?
Cohen: Yes
Blanche: You were supposed to surrender in March 2019, but got it delayed to May and testified

Blanche: Did Anthony Scaramucci visit you in prison, in Otisville?
Cohen: Yes
Justice Merchan: Break
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They've back
Justice Merchan: Jurors, we don't meet this Friday either. And Thursday we'll only go to 4 pm. Mr. Blanche?
Trump's lawyer Blanche: You'd been in Otisville 3 months and you asked DANY prosecutors why you should meet with them?
Cohen: I asked.

Trump's lawyer Blanche: Look at these notes... You asked?
Cohen: The line, Why are you here?
Blanche: Two lines above. From December to August - under Rule 35 your sentence can be amended if there's cooperation, in a year
Cohen: Judge Pauley had that in his Order

Trump's lawyer Blanche: Your lawyer asked DANY if they would help write a Rule 35 motion, you were there?
Cohen: I believe so.
Blanche: And they didn't commit... Then in December Roger Adler filed a rule 35 motion?
Cohen: Yes. Based on cooperation

Trump's lawyer Blanche: The Federal judge denied your motion, right?
Cohen: He did.
Blanche: But after you got out due to COVID, you tried again, with Disloyal and Mea Culpa - you called Trump a boorish cartoon misogynist?
Cohen: Sounds like something I would say

Trump's lawyer Blanche: You called President Trump a Cheetos-dusted cartoon villain?
Cohen: Yes.
Blanche: You said, I f*cking want to see him locked up?
Cohen: Sounds like my language on Mea Culpa.
Blanche: I want you to listen to it, not the jury [headphones on]

Prosecutor Hoffinger: Your Honor, may we approach for a moment?
Justice Merchan: Yes.
[They do]
Trump's lawyer Blanche: You said President Trump should be in handcuffs- & you made money off it?
Cohen: I did.
Blanche: You are motived by a desire for fame?
Cohen: No

Trump's lawyer Blanche: You made $2 million from Disloyal?
Cohen: Yes.
Blanche: In January 2021 you thanked the DA's team for continuing their case, right?
Cohen: I did.
Blanche: You started meeting with Mark Pomerantz?
Cohen: Yes. By Zoom.
Prosecutor: Sidebar

Trump's lawyer Blanche: You wanted the DA's office to say you were helping, right?
Cohen: I would say so.
Blanche: Until Nov 2021 you were still under home confinement.
Cohen: I was allowed to go out 3 hours a day in Manhattan, with an ankle bracelet then phone

Trump's lawyer Blanche: You were doing your Mea Culpa podcast from your house - and going on TV? Like in January 2021 on MSNBC's Ali Velshi? And Joy Reid?
Cohen: I have appeared on their shows frequently.
Trump's lawyer Blanche: Have you met DA Bragg?
Cohen: No

Trump's lawyer Blanche: How much did you make from your book "Revenge"?
Cohen: $400,000.
Blanche: You call yourself a fixer.
Cohen: Yes.
Blanche: Are you fixing things that you broke?
Cohen: No.

Justice Merchan: This might be a good place to stop.
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Justice Merchan: Mr. Blanche, can you finish your cross examination of this witness by the end of Thursday?
Trump's lawyer Blanche: Yes. Our expert witness, we'd like to know about the charge

Judge Stein: He can testify to Senator Menendez' known inflows and outflows. He's a CPA. The other expert on Egypt, he can speak about Sisi and the Muslim Brotherhood. And Morsi. But we're not going back to the Pharaohs. And nothing about the halal contract