WASHINGTON, D.C. – Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy is spending much of his plentiful free time “escalating his revenge campaign” against Congressman Matt Gaetz, according to a new POLITICOarticle, for which McCarthy was interviewed, repeating false Biden Department of Justice and FBI talking points against the Florida firebrand.
“Gaetz is the Hunter Biden of the Republican Party,” McCarthy told POLITICO‘s Olivia Beavers. “He’s got an opponent who is pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, trained at Pensacola, went to the Naval Academy and flew jets to defend us while Gaetz was getting kicked out of high school, buying coke and paying minors for sex.”
In fact, none of the lurid claims first peddled by the Biden regime via the New York Times were ever proven, despite a number of investigations, including one under McCarthy’s stewardship of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. Indeed, Gaetz emerged stronger from the attempt on his career, using said power to oust McCarthy, now serving as an entry-level campaign manager for Aaron Dimmock.
Dimmock, who flew surveillance planes for a few years before transitioning to become a management consultant, has previously posted on social media of his “commitment” to Black Lives Matter, as well as “diversity and inclusion.” In fact, the far-left candidate’s curriculum vitae of wokery is so expansive the Gaetz campaign set up a dedicated website for it.
Responding exclusively to The National Pulse over McCarthy’s new role as Dimmock’s campaign manager, Gaetz said: “Kevin will likely spend millions of dollars losing to House Conservatives in primaries this cycle. But it will probably still be cheaper than the therapy he needs.”
Swampier still, the POLITICO piece quotes Brian O. Walsh from Red Elephant Strategy, a new firm stood up in recent years which appears to have made most of its cash by defending McCarthy and his allies in Congress.
Walsh said he traveled to “Florida’s Panhandle in March to conduct focus groups and left pleased with the findings,” which is D.C. consultant speak for “the polling was terrible, so we’ve had to move on to focus groups.” Now, if only McCarthy knew (or lived with) someone who runs focus groups for a living. Hmm.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy is spending much of his plentiful free time "escalating his revenge campaign" against Congressman Matt Gaetz, according to a new POLITICOarticle, for which McCarthy was interviewed, repeating false Biden Department of Justice and FBI talking points against the Florida firebrand.
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Marie-Thérèse Kaiser, a politician from the Alternative für Deutschland Party (AfD), has been found guilty of ‘incitement’ for sharing a government link to statistics on rapes committed by migrants and questioning their disproportionately high incidence rate. In a 2021 social media post, Kaiser asked, in the context of refugee resettlement, “Afghan refugees, welcome culture for group rapes?”
In defense of her post, Kaiser explained her impetus was to spark a debate on the alarming crime rates among Afghan migrants. She stressed her concern as a woman feeling threatened, particularly by groups of male migrants. She also voiced concern that unchecked immigration might be fostering an atmosphere conducive to a surge in criminal activity. Her conviction was met with the pronouncement from the judge that “freedom of expression ends where human dignity begins.”
The announcement of the guilty verdict has sparked controversy and critique, including from entrepreneur and tech giant Elon Musk. “Are you saying the fine was for repeating accurate government statistics? Was there anything inaccurate in what she said?” Musk posted to X (formerly Twitter).
Kaiser has stated she will file an appeal against the verdict.
Germany has witnessed an 18 percent spike in foreign suspects, leading to 41 percent of all crime suspects belonging to foreign communities. Conservative factions in the country argue that these statistics point toward the need for a cap on immigration and a revision of integration policies. The German government, however, continues to focus on homegrown conservative ‘extremist’ threats, especially the AfD, which is expected to surge in this summer’s European elections.
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Marie-Thérèse Kaiser, a politician from the Alternative für Deutschland Party (AfD), has been found guilty of 'incitement' for sharing a government link to statistics on rapes committed by migrants and questioning their disproportionately high incidence rate. In a 2021 social media post, Kaiser asked, in the context of refugee resettlement, “Afghan refugees, welcome culture for group rapes?”
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According to the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, federallaw requires them — as the state Medicaid administrator — to provide voter registration information to every new filer for assistance, including noncitizens. The agency says it is bound by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) to provide voter registration services — including registration forms.
“SCDHHS does not believe the state Medicaid agency should have a role in voter registration,” Jeff Leieritz, a spokesman for the state agency, said in a statement. He added: “However, absent the legal authority to make this change, SCDHHS remains required by federal law to provide voter registration application forms with each Medicaid application.”
In late April, a noncitizen living in SouthCarolinanotified State Representative Adam Morgan that she had received voter registration information and forms when she applied for public assistance. The South Carolina lawmaker said the woman was unsure if she should fill them out and sought answers from a friend who informed her she could not vote as a noncitizen. When the woman tried to return the forms to the agency, they sent her more voter information.
In addition to the NVRA requirements, Executive Order 14019 — signed by JoeBiden in 2021 — requires federal agencies to prioritize voter registration and voter turnout strategies. The Biden government order has likely caused additional downward pressure on state agencies that manage federal programs to engage in the registration effort.
The South Carolina Election Commission has said they’re investigating the matter of noncitizens receiving voter registration information. “The SEC will not allow fraudulent voter registration to happen on our watch,” the commission’s executive director, Howie Knapp, said. In neighboring North Carolina, federal prosecutors have charged 37 noncitizens with voting in U.S. elections as far back as 1996.
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According to the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, federallaw requires them — as the state Medicaid administrator — to provide voter registration information to every new filer for assistance, including noncitizens. The agency says it is bound by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) to provide voter registration services — including registration forms.
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A 20-year-old illegal alien from Guatemala was arrested and charged with kidnapping and raping an 11-year-old girl in Palm Beach, Florida, after being released into the United States by the Bidengovernment. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office states that records indicated Marvin Perez Lopez entered the country illegally this past January. He was briefly detained by Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) before being released into the country with an order to appear in a federal immigration court in 2027.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s timeline of the assault reveals that on May 2, the mother of the victim discovered her daughter in a van with Lopez, who also resided in their apartment complex. The mother — initially hesitant to involve law enforcement because of her own immigration status — eventually reported her daughter’s assault.
Local police interviewed the girl, who claimed she was forcibly taken into the van by Lopez and sexually assaulted. While attempting to escape the van, the girl was held back by Lopez. Law enforcement officers arrived at Lopez’s residence the next day to arrest the illegalalien. He reportedly fled in an effort to try and avoid capture. Despite running, authorities quickly apprehended the illegal immigrant accused of sexual assault.
Lopez is being held without bail in the Palm Beach County Jail.
A 20-year-old illegal alien from Guatemala was arrested and charged with kidnapping and raping an 11-year-old girl in Palm Beach, Florida, after being released into the United States by the Bidengovernment. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office states that records indicated Marvin Perez Lopez entered the country illegally this past January. He was briefly detained by Biden's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) before being released into the country with an order to appear in a federal immigration court in 2027.
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The Joe Biden regime’s Small Business Administration (SBA) has partnered with Democratic Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to register voters in the crucial swing state in what Republicans are branding a “blatant” effort to boost votes for the incumbent.
The SBA has been subpoenaed by the House Small Business Committee, with chairman Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas) accusing the federal agency of “refus[ing] to comply with the Committee’s ongoing investigation into potential electioneering activities by the SBA.”
“It is unconscionable that during such a precarious time for our nation’s small businesses, the sole federal agency created to serve as their advocate is instead utilizing their limited taxpayer resources and time to advance partisan political campaigns,” commented Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa). He branded the scheme “a blatant attempt by the Biden administration to illegally use the SBA as an extension of the President’s campaign.”
The House Small Business Committee has been attempting to summon SBA officials to answer questions about the Michigan scheme for some time, with the subpoenas issued in response to stonewalling.
“The American people deserve answers and transparency on the electioneering activities of the SBA and how they have or plan to insert themselves in the upcoming federal elections,” said Chairman Williams, accusing the SBA of having “repeatedly strayed” from its “sole mission” of “help[ing Main Street thrive and grow.”
Officially, the purpose of the partnership between the SBA and the Michigan Secretary is to “promote civic engagement and voter registration.” However, such schemes can have the effect of boosting turnout for a particular candidate in elections. Supposedly nonpartisan efforts to increase “voter engagement” and overall turnout by election officials in 2020, funded by Mark Zuckerberg and Google, were funneled almost entirely into Democrat-leaning districts.
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The Joe Biden regime's Small Business Administration (SBA) has partnered with Democratic Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to register voters in the crucial swing state in what Republicans are branding a "blatant" effort to boost votes for the incumbent.
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Consensus among analysts, including those working at networks hostile to Donald Trump and avowed ‘Never Trumpers,’ is that Stormy Daniels’s testimony in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s election interference case on Tuesday was “disastrous” for prosecutors.
CNN Chief Legal Analyst Paula Reid, who often peddles false and negative narratives against Trump, conceded the former president’s lawyers had executed a “devastating, eviscerating” cross-examination of Daniels.
“They’ve gotten Stormy Daniels to concede she hates Trump. That she said that she would dance if he went to jail. They have pointed to the fact that she has said she will never pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars that she owes him,” Reid said.
Daniels’s bringing a flimsy defamation case against Trump saw her ordered to pay substantial costs to the former president. Her lawyer at the time, Michael Avenatti, now describes her as “the most opportunistic person I’ve ever met” and accuses her of falsifying records and committing fraud to avoid the debt.
“They’ve effectively undercut her credibility by getting her to talk about conversations she had, that impeaching her with her own book,” Reid added. “I mean, this has been devastating for Stormy Daniels’ credibility.”
‘A BIG DAMN DEAL.’
Similarly, CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig said Daniels’s “responses were disastrous.”
“I mean, ‘Do you hate Donald Trump?’ ‘Yes.’ … That’s a big deal. When the witness hates the person whose liberty is at stake, that’s a big damn deal!” Honig exclaimed. “And she’s putting out tweets, fantasizing about him being in jail. That really undermines the credibility,” the analyst added.
“The fact that she owes him $500,000 by order of a court, owes Donald Trump a half million dollars, and said, ‘I will never pay him. I will defy a court order,’ the defense is gonna say, ‘She’s willing to defy a court order. She’s not willing to respect an order from a judge. Why is she gonna respect this oath she took?'” she added.
‘SALACIOUS DETAILS.’
Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump staffer who has since parlayed her betrayal of the former president into a job on The View, also believes Daniels’s testimony hurt the prosecution.
“I want to say this; I’m not an attorney, [but] I know Republican voters and I know the Republican public. I’m a bit stunned that the prosecution leaned so heavily into the salacious details about the sexual encounter,” she said, referring to the fact prosecutors repeatedly went into graphic details of the supposed affair the judge had told them to avoid.
“I think to really lean into that side of it… I don’t know that that’s going to play well with a jury,” she said.
Daniels’s graphic stories about her alleged liaison with Trump proved so prejudicial that defense lawyers moved, albeit unsuccessfully, for a mistrial, with Judge Juan Merchan — a Joe Biden donor — admitting some of her testimony crossed the line.
The trial resumes on Thursday with further cross-examination of Daniels.
CNN's Paula Reid admits the cross-examination of Stormy Daniels was "devastating" for the prosecution, as she admitted to hating Trump and wanting him in prison, and vowed she would defy court orders to pay him money she owes him. pic.twitter.com/CE1Xqx5ZFD
Consensus among analysts, including those working at networks hostile to Donald Trump and avowed 'Never Trumpers,' is that Stormy Daniels's testimony in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's election interference case on Tuesday was "disastrous" for prosecutors.
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An alliance formed by Germany‘s largest companies, including BMW, BASF, and Deutsche Bank, is campaigning against extremism ahead of the European elections. The campaign comes amidst predictions of significant gains for the nationalist populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party.
“Exclusion, extremism, and populism pose threats to Germany as a business location and to our prosperity,” the alliance, which comprises a total of 30 companies, said in a statement. “In their first joint campaign, the companies are calling on their combined 1.7 million employees to take part in the upcoming European elections and engaging in numerous activities to highlight the importance of European unity for prosperity, growth, and jobs,” it added.
The globalist industrial behemoths have been compelled to action due to recent opinion polls indicating the AfD may secure around 15 percent of the EU vote next month, landing them second place, tied with the Greens, following the conservative CDU-CSU alliance. There is some concern among business leaders that strong showings from the populist right could diminish the attractiveness of Europe’s largest economy for migrant labor, exacerbating existing shortfalls in skilled workers.
The campaign plans to utilize social media to emphasize its call against extremism and enlist participation from other companies. The initiative intends to persist post-EU elections, focusing on regions where the AfD party leads in the polls, including Brandenburg, Thuringia, and Saxony.
Right-wing populist parties are surging across Europe, and the establishment in Germany is so scared of AfD that they are intent on banning it.
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An alliance formed by Germany's largest companies, including BMW, BASF, and Deutsche Bank, is campaigning against extremism ahead of the European elections. The campaign comes amidst predictions of significant gains for the nationalist populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party.
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Radical Islamic group Muslim Vote has issued a list of 18 demands to Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the UK Labour Party. These demands, related to both foreign and domestic policy, are presented as non-negotiable conditions, with the group threatening to strategically counter Labour MPs in the upcoming general election if they are not met.
The group’s foreign policy demands revolve around the ongoing conflict in Gaza and Labour’s response to it. Central to these requests is a call for the Labour Party leader to apologize for his ‘greenlighting’ of Israel‘s military actions in the region and to advocate for a permanent ceasefire. Further requests call for a public sector boycott of Israel, sanctions against senior Israeli politicians, the severe reduction of the UK’s military ties with Israel, and the recognition of a Palestinian state.
On the domestic front, the group has demanded provisions for Islamic prayer in all schools, a redefinition of extremism, and the availability of ‘Sharia-compliant’ pensions in all workplaces.
The group was formed in response to the escalation of conflict in Gaza following attacks by the militant group Hamas. Recently, the group has been vocal in its determination to challenge politicians who have not supported a ceasefire in the region. Representing the interests of four million UK Muslim voters, Muslim Vote says it is backed by over 25 organizations.
Sir Keir Starmer has not yet formally responded to these demands, and it remains to be seen how this will affect Labour’s campaign in the upcoming general election.
The brazenness of the group’s extremist demands reveals the extent to which radical Islam has taken hold in the UK. A recent poll found that nearly half of British Muslims are sympathetic towards terrorist group Hamas, and Islamic “no-go zones” are a common phenomenon in the country.
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Radical Islamic group Muslim Vote has issued a list of 18 demands to Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the UK Labour Party. These demands, related to both foreign and domestic policy, are presented as non-negotiable conditions, with the group threatening to strategically counter Labour MPs in the upcoming general election if they are not met.
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The ninth day of the Manhattan-based hush moneytrial of former President Donald J. Trump devolved into a gossip-filled and sordid affair. District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s prosecutors called one of the trial’s most anticipated and controversial witnesses — smut peddler Stormy Daniels. A pornographic entertainer, Daniels alleged she engaged in a brief affair with Trump following a 2006 celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe.
Daniels’s testimony was a tale of two different ‘characters’ in the witness box. Throughout the prosecution’s questioning, Daniels presented herself as relatively charming and engaged in gossip about her alleged affair with Trump. Before the court started its day, Democrat Judge JuanMerchan warned the prosecution not to delve too far into details as it could be seen as prejudicial.
The jurors saw a very different Daniels in the defense’s cross-examination. She appeared angry, combative, childish, and vindictive. Arguably, Daniels came across so poorly that she gravely undermined any damage her morning’s testimony inflicted.
PROSECUTION DEFINES DANIELS.
The initial round of questioning focused on establishing professional and biographical details about Daniels. She told prosecutors she preferred to go by her pornographic alias rather than her legal name, Stephanie Clifford. Daniels said she began her career in adult entertainment after misunderstanding a friend who told her she was a “dancer.” According to the smut performer, as an exotic dancer, she could make more in two nights of work “than I could shoveling manure eight hours a day.” As if those were the only two career options before her. The themes of quick and easy money, greed, and selfishness pervaded much of Daniels’s testimony.
PROSECUTION CROSSES THE LINE.
Despite Judge Merchan‘s aforementioned warning to the prosecution, she often strayed into an attempted character assassination of Trump. Daniels testified she met Trump in 2006 at the Lake Tahoe golf tournament. Later, she claimed one of his bodyguards, Keith Schiller, gave her Trump’s contact information after she had declined a dinner invitation. Daniels said her publicist later encouraged her to accept the dinner offer.
What happened next was likely both fictitious and prejudicial. Daniels went into every detail about her meeting with Trump prior to “dinner.” The details she provided can only be described as over the top. It quickly became apparent that the prosecution intended for Daniels’s testimony to smear the reputation of President Trump, rather than asking her to address details of the charges he faces.
For nearly an hour, the court allowed prosecutor Susan Hoffinger to lead Daniels through unverifiable recollections of her alleged conversations with Trump. Finally, even Judge Merchan appeared annoyed with the prosecution and interjected, telling Hoffinger, “The degree of detail we’re going into here is just unnecessary.” After the court took a short break, he added, “When she comes back to the stand, we can move it along more quickly.”
DANIELS GOES OFF THE RAILS.
With Daniels back on the stand, Merchan quickly lost control of the prosecution, witness, and court. Led by Hoffinger, Daniels dove into a personal and graphic description of her alleged liaison with Trump — explicitly against Merchan’s morning orders. Daniels remained engaging, however, with the jury captivated by her story. She often spoke while looking directly at jurors and used hand gestures to further engage with them from the stand.
In a new spin on the affair story, Daniels insinuated she felt there was a power imbalance between her and Trump, also noting that he was a lot bigger than her. While she acknowledged she didn’t feel threatened, the pornographic entertainer insinuated to the prosecution that the encounter wasn’t consensual. Prior public recollections by Daniels never intimated such details.
After another long run of questioning regarding her alleged ongoing contact with Trump following the initial liaison, Daniels told Hoffinger that she was threatened to stay quiet about her affair with Trump by an unknown man in a Las Vegas parking lot in June 2011. She said the incident “scared” her. “He approached me and threatened me not to continue to tell my story,” Daniels told the prosecutor. There has been no evidence offered to suggest this event ever took place. Daniels has admitted she never notified law enforcement or told her husband or daughter about the alleged threat.
It is important to note that in the past, Daniels denied the encounter and affair with Trump entirely. When asked by Hoffinger if going public with her story was to make money, Daniels dubiously replied: “My motivation wasn’t money. It was to get the story out.”
MOTION FOR MISTRIAL.
After the lunch break, attorneys for Trump moved for an immediate mistrial given Daniels’s testimony and the prosecution blatantly ignoring the guidelines.
“I don’t think anybody, anybody, can listen to what that witness said, think that has anything to do with the charges, and the entire testimony is so prejudicial that you run the very high risk of the jury not being able to focus on the evidence that actually does matter,” Trump’s defense attorney Todd Blanche argued.
Judge Merchan denied the motion. However, he did acknowledge that Daniels’s testimony likely crossed the line. “As a threshold matter, I agree, Mr. Blanche, that there were some things that probably would’ve been better left unsaid,” Merchan said. He additionally chastised the defense for not raising more objections, noting that even he had to step in and cut Daniels off at one point.
“Whether these are new stories or not new stories, the remedy is on cross-examination,” Merchan continued.
The judge did concede that he would be giving the jury limiting instructions regarding Daniels’s claims regarding the June 2011 threat in Las Vegas. While Trump’s legal defense lost the mistrial motion, the objection was necessary to preserve the issue as grounds for appeal.
STORMY GETS CROSSED.
After a brief period of additional questioning by Hoffringer regarding her interactions with MichaelCohen, Daniels’s testimony before the prosecution ended. Next up was Trump’s defense attorney, Susan Necheles, to conduct the cross-examination. Almost immediately, Daniels’s demeanor completely changed. The smiling and chatty porn star became angry and combative when Necheles began her questioning.
Necheles began the cross-examination by questioning whether Daniels had rehearsed her testimony. A now combative Daniels fired back, “No.” Trump’s defense attorney continued, recalling prior comments made by Daniels: “You agreed you were subjected to grueling prep sessions which included brutal mock cross-examination?”
“It is not rehearsing my testimony,” Daniels responded with a raised and angry voice. Necheles asked Daniels if she had been untruthful in her prior statement. “I was incorrect; I did not know what true court would be like,” she answered.
MOTIVATED BY ‘HATE.’
Necheles pressed Daniels about her motivations for speaking out about Trump. “Am I correct that you hate President Trump?” she asked.
“Yes,” Daniels replied.
Pushing further, Necheles asked Daniels if she wanted to see former President Trump put in jail. The pornographic performer responded, “I want him to be held accountable.”
This was a marked change from past statements made by Daniels, including a 2023 interview with Piers Morgan. When asked then if Trump should go to jail, Daniels demurred while referencing unknown crimes he’s allegedly committed against her. “I don’t think that his crimes against me are worthy of incarceration,” Daniels said, while adding: “The other things that he has done — if he is found guilty, then absolutely.”
Moments later, Daniels was asked about her tweets suggesting she wanted to see former President Trump in jail. The pornographic actress laughed about her social media posts. When asked why she found them funny, Daniels quickly covered up for herself, saying it was just the words she had chosen to use in the posts.
VINDICTIVE AND CHILDISH.
As Necheles pushed forward, she next pressed Daniels on her losing a series of lawsuits against the former President, in which she was later ordered to pay his legal fees. “He prevailed, but I was not found to have lost,” Daniels said of the matter, later admitting she still owes Trump about $560,000 in fees.
“You didn’t take any money out of your pocket and pay it to President Trump, did you?” Necheles asked. Daniels replied, “No.”
“You have money, right?” Trump’s defense attorney followed up. Daniels responded snarkily: “We all have money.”
Remaining on the subject of her debts owed to Trump, Daniels acknowledged her authorship of a 2022 social post in which she claimed she’d rather go to jail than “pay a penny.”
The porn star defended her defiance of the court-ordered financial judgment. “My motivation was because I was telling the truth,” Daniels contended.
Necheles next addressed a social media post in which Daniels wrote, “I’ll never give that orange turd a dime.” Trump’s defense attorney observed that Daniels often calls the former President names on social media. Becoming almost childish, Daniels claimed she only called Trump names “Because he made fun of me first.”
DANIELS DENIES ILLEGALLY HIDING MONEY.
Returning to the subject of the money Daniels owes Trump, Necheles asked the porn star and exotic dancer why she failed to report her husband’s finances on the forms she had to submit to the court following its judgment against her. “I won’t fill out information that endangers my family or my daughter,” Daniels replied defiantly.
“Isn’t it true that you’ve been hiding your assets because you don’t want to pay the judgment against you?” Necheles asked Daniels next, and she replied, “No.” Daniels went on to deny having set up a trust in her daughter’s name to hide income, an accusation leveled earlier today by Daniels’s former attorney, Michael Avenatti.
Before the court adjourned for the day, Daniels acknowledged that she had made a lot of money selling her story. When pressed if the most money came in when she discussed “sex,” the porn star at first denied that was the case but eventually acknowledged that she did get more attention when she brought up sordid details.
The trial will resume on Thursday with Trump’s defense team continuing its cross-examination of Stormy Daniels.
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The ninth day of the Manhattan-based hush money trial of former President Donald J. Trump devolved into a gossip-filled and sordid affair. District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecutors called one of the trial's most anticipated and controversial witnesses — smut peddler Stormy Daniels. A pornographic entertainer, Daniels alleged she engaged in a brief affair with Trump following a 2006 celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe.
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American citizen William Russell Nycum has been detained in Moscow, Russia. He is accused of breaking into a children’s library and undressing himself.
“In accordance with the protocol on an administrative offense, a U.S. citizen drank alcoholic beverages, then was found in the yard, naked, expressed obvious disrespect for society, citizens and public order, for which he was detained by police officers,” according to a Moscow court.
The U.S. Embassy says it is “aware of reports that a U.S. citizen has been detained in Russia,” and “take[s] seriously our commitment to assist U.S. citizens abroad and provide all appropriate consular assistance.”
The Embassy refused to offer any comment on the case beyond this “[d]ue to privacy considerations.”
News of Nycum’s detention comes as another American citizen, Staff Sergeant Gordon Black, was detained in the Russian Far East. Black, stationed in South Korea, traveled to Vladivostok without authorization, reportedly to meet a woman he was romantically involved with. He was arrested after allegedly attacking and robbing her.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, suggested Staff Sergeant Black could be a “hostage.” Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, detained since 2023, has been described in similar terms.
Donald Trump has blamed the situation on Joe Biden’s ineptitude and weakness and vowed he will secure Gershkovich’s release when he is reelected.
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American citizen William Russell Nycum has been detained in Moscow, Russia. He is accused of breaking into a children's library and undressing himself.
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