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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The attorney who once represented Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against former President Donald J. Trump now says his former client has likely committed fraud and falsified business records in an effort to conceal income and avoid legal fees she owes the former President. Michael Avenatti posted a lengthy statement on X (formerly Twitter) detailing his accusation and asking whether Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg would be pursuing fraud and falsifying records charges against Daniels.
In June of last year, Avenatti says film producer Sarah Gibson contacted him regarding a documentary about his former client, Stormy Daniels. Suspicious of Gibson’s motives, Aventti says he recorded his conversations with her. If the production paid Daniels for her part, Avenatti said he suspected it to be a “puff piece” on Daniels’s behalf.
Avenatti claims Gibson admits on the recordings that Daniels was indeed being paid. He goes on to claim that the producer misunderstood the intent of his question and proceeded to explain how the production and Daniels were hiding the payments to avoid seizure by Trump and his attorneys.
“Among other things, she told me that they had fictionally ‘optioned’ the rights to Daniels’s book and then routed the money Daniels demanded through a fabricated ‘trust’ that had been set up in the name of Daniels’s daughter,” Avenatti explained in his statement. He added: “all to hide the money from Trump and avoid paying the judgment.”
After losing multiple lawsuits against Trump, Daniels was ordered to pay nearly $700,000 in legal fees to the former President. The National Pulse reported in March of this year that Daniels stated she’d rather go to jail than pay the money she owes Trump.
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Here is my statement regarding the testimony of Stormy Daniels. Will DA Bragg pursue charges against her for falsification of business records, fraud, etc. pic.twitter.com/ELPNzfMsIC
The attorney who once represented Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against former President Donald J. Trump now says his former client has likely committed fraud and falsified business records in an effort to conceal income and avoid legal fees she owes the former President. Michael Avenatti posted a lengthy statement on X (formerly Twitter) detailing his accusation and asking whether Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg would be pursuing fraud and falsifying records charges against Daniels.
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Attorneys for former President Donald J. Trump moved for an immediate mistrial in the Manhattan-based hush money trial following testimony from adult film performer Stormy Daniels. Democrat-aligned Judge JuanMerchan denied their motion after brief consideration.
Trump’s defense attorney, Todd Blanche, argued the testimony by Daniels was intended by the prosecution to tar his client. Blanche said the testimony prejudiced the jury against Trump, making a fair trial impossible.
“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,” he argued.
Judge Merchan denied the motion. However, he did acknowledge that Daniels’s testimony likely crossed the line. Merchan had warned the prosecution this morning that they were not allowed to let Daniels engage in detailed discussions of her alleged affair or sexual acts.
“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.
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Attorneys for former President Donald J. Trump moved for an immediate mistrial in the Manhattan-based hush money trial following testimony from adult film performer Stormy Daniels. Democrat-aligned Judge JuanMerchan denied their motion after brief consideration.
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Fayette Janitorial Service LLC, a Tennessee-based sanitation company, is paying approximately $650,000 in civil penalties after a federal investigation revealed it was unlawfully employing child migrants. A third of sanitation workers at a Perdue Farms meat-processing plant using Fayette’s services were found to be comprised of children. According to the Labor Department, a Tyson Foods plant and service provider, QSI Sanitation, are also being probed.
Investigators found at least four minors were working in an Iowa slaughterhouse as of December 12, 2023. The Labour Department also believes 15 children were employed at a Perdue Farms facility in Virginia, and nine more at a Seaboard Triumph Foods facility in Iowa. The hazardous work involved sanitizing machines like head splitters, jaw pullers, and meat bandsaws. A severe injury of a 14-year-old, Marcos Crux, was reported at the Virginia plant.
Crux, originally from Guatemala, was able to enter the U.S. alone, with his parents’ knowledge, by exploiting the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008. He was pulled into a conveyor belt while working a night shift, mangling his left arm.
CORPORATE ENABLERS.
Pro-mass migration companies like Tyson, which is also under investigation for allegedly dumping millions of pounds of toxic waste in American lakes and rivers, officially opposed child and illegal alien labor. However, the firm is part of a Barack Obama-linked organization called Tent, which lobbies for poorly vetted migrants awaiting asylum hearings to be given employment authorization documents while they wait.
“[W]hat they do is they sign up corporates all across America and they effectively say, ‘Hey, we’re going to get you cheap labor,’” explained Raheem Kassam, editor-in-chief of The National Pulse, in an appearance on War Room in March.
“It’s indentured servitude, it’s a form of modern slavery… people who can en masse wash the chickens, people who don’t particularly care about health standards, wellbeing, minimum wage standards… just shove them into your factories and use them as human fodder,” Kassam said.
How are corporations able to profit from the illegal immigration crisis? By employing illegal aliens granted "emergency" authorization to work by Biden, while they wait for court cases that, for the most part, will never go anywhere. @RaheemKassam explains the scam in detail: pic.twitter.com/7guAbHZTsD
Fayette Janitorial Service LLC, a Tennessee-based sanitation company, is paying approximately $650,000 in civil penalties after a federal investigation revealed it was unlawfully employing child migrants. A third of sanitation workers at a Perdue Farms meat-processing plant using Fayette's services were found to be comprised of children. According to the Labor Department, a Tyson Foods plant and service provider, QSI Sanitation, are also being probed.
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Alex Soros, the son and chosen successor of billionaire plutocrat George Soros, met with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and various Arizona Democrats after Whitmer’s political action committee (PAC) and the Arizona Democratic Party contracted Authentic Campaigns as a vendor, according to investigative reporter Laura Loomer. Loren Merchan, the daughter of New York judge Juan Merchan, overseeing Donald Trump’s prosecution by Democrat District Attorney (DA) Alvin Bragg, is the president and a partner of Authentic Campaigns.
Alex Soros, who has visited Joe Biden’s White House at least 20 times, reportedly held the meetings amid Trump’s trial under Merchan. Loren Merchan’s firm has also worked for Vice President Kamala Harris and Russia hoaxer Adam Schiff. She is further linked to the Democrat Democrat Attorney’s General Association (DAGA).
Authentic Campaigns has been paid $412,000 by Whitmer PAC ‘Fight Like Hell’ and almost $160,000 by the Arizona Democratic Party.
Juan Merchan, a Biden donor, has faced calls to recuse himself over his familial links to the Democratic government. However, he has refused, and imposed a gag order banning Trump from discussing his family members.
Soros, the current partner of ex-Clinton aide Huma Abedin, met with Democrats including Whitmer and Senator Mark Kelly, and Cindy McCain, who served Joe Biden as a United Nations (UN) envoy.
“It’s obvious to everyone that there is coordination between the Democrat’s lawfarecampaign against Trump, and the Soros family,” Loomer commented.
George Soros funded Alvin Bragg’s campaign for DA via the Color of Change group, which bankrolls many progressive prosecutors.
Alex Soros, the son and chosen successor of billionaire plutocrat George Soros, met with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and various Arizona Democrats after Whitmer's political action committee (PAC) and the Arizona Democratic Party contracted Authentic Campaigns as a vendor, according to investigative reporter Laura Loomer. Loren Merchan, the daughter of New York judge Juan Merchan, overseeing Donald Trump's prosecution by Democrat District Attorney (DA) Alvin Bragg, is the president and a partner of Authentic Campaigns.
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Mass arrests took place as demonstrators staged a sizable protest blocks away from the high-profile Met Gala on Monday, on New York’s Upper East Side. Roughly the same number of police officers assigned to protect the gala were also dispatched to manage and control the protest.
The demonstration, which featured chants of “Rafah!” and “Gaza!”, raised tensions. However, police officers and metal barriers ensured disturbance at the high-profile event was minimized. “The NYPD won’t let them anywhere near the celebrities,” a protestor at nearby Hunter College told the press. Historically, there’s often a protest outside the Met Gala. But they get destroyed.”
While part of the crowd admitted intentions of interrupting the gala, others seemingly found themselves there unintentionally.
#NYC MASS ARRESTS, Pro-palestine protesters dragged on the ground outside #MetGala2024 during protest 'DAY OF RAGE' for Rafah. #HappeningNow
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) May 6, 2024
Last year, the gala raked in $22 million from brands and sponsors buying ticketing rights. This year’s lead corporate sponsor was TikTok, which faces a U.S. ban — after the November election — if Chinese parent company ByteDance does not divest from it. Joe Biden-supporting political action committees have spent substantial sums of money to win over influencers on TikTok and similar apps, despite Biden having signed the legislation that could ban it.
The theme for the Met Gala this year was J.G. Ballard’s The Garden of Time. Raheem Kassam, editor-in-chief of The National Pulse, observed that it was, perhaps unintentionally, “the perfect choice” for 2024, given the gala’s proximity to Columbia University and New York’s struggles with migrants.
“The Met Gala, taking place close to the heaving and swearing hordes in New York, offers poetic irony… a living play about the destructiveness of mass migration and cultural relativism, slap bang in the middle of Manhattan.”
As protesters marched down a side street toward the Met, a protester snatched an American flag from a woman pic.twitter.com/bdp1D1ehOs
Read Raheem Kassam’s thoughts on the Met Gala in full here.
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Mass arrests took place as demonstrators staged a sizable protest blocks away from the high-profile Met Gala on Monday, on New York’s Upper East Side. Roughly the same number of police officers assigned to protect the gala were also dispatched to manage and control the protest.
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A chic hotel in the heart of New York City’s Broadway Theater District closed its doors and is now serving as temporary housing for illegalaliens. The Square Hotel, popular with tourists visiting Broadway, began housing illegalimmigrants last year after it announced recently on social media that it would be closing its doors to the public.
“To our valued guests: it is with great sadness that we announce the Square Hotel will be closed for the foreseeable future,” the hotel posted on its Facebook page. They added, “We appreciate your patronage and hope to welcome you back someday soon.” The hotel’s post does not mention why it is closing or that the property is being used as a shelter.
Known for its highly touted Japanese restaurant and artistic decor, the hotel now has NationalGuard troops stationed outside. Additionally, new signage outside the hotel prohibits the chaining of motorbikes to posts and bike racks nearby. Online food delivery through apps like Uber and DoorDash has become a booming business for illegalaliens. They often use unlicensed and unregulated motorbikes. Likewise, most delivery apps do not require workpermits for their drivers.
Critics contend that The Square Hotel is putting guaranteed profits from government contracts ahead of tourists. Additionally, the Roosevelt Hotel on Madison Avenue has engaged in a similar scheme. Dubbed the “new Ellis Island,” the Roosevelt Hotel converted much of its ballroom into a medical triage center and stockpiled supplies in its lobby for the illegalalienshoused there.
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A chic hotel in the heart of New York City's Broadway Theater District closed its doors and is now serving as temporary housing for illegalaliens. The Square Hotel, popular with tourists visiting Broadway, began housing illegalimmigrants last year after it announced recently on social media that it would be closing its doors to the public.
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George Soros, David Rockefeller Jr., Hyatt Hotel heirs Susan and Nick Pritzker, and other majordonors to the Joe Biden campaign are among the biggest funders of the Gaza protest movement accusing the 81-year-old Democrat of genocide.
The U.S. college campus crisis has helped to drive a wedge between Biden and the youth demographic, formerly one of his strongest bases of electoral support. An analysis by POLITICO suggests the pro-Palestinian protest movement, which has occupied buildings, set up encampments, and significantly disrupted colleges across the country, has paradoxically been bankrolled by Biden’s major donors.
David Rockefeller Jr. gave $300,000 to the Soros-seeded Tides Foundation, which has in turn given $500,000 to the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace.
“Why [is the Rockefeller Fund] giving significant grants to Jewish Voice for Peace, [which] blamed the horrific Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and the United States rather than Hamas?” questioned Elisha Wiesel, another Democrat donor.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation previously supported the Tides Foundation, but it has ceased allocating them active grants.
BIDEN’S VIETNAM.
Donald Trump has argued that Biden, whose official position is that there are fine people on both sides of the anti-Israel protests and counter-protests, is struggling to find a coherent position because he “hates Israel” but also “hates the Palestinians.”
The message appears to be cutting through with both younger voters and Muslim voters — crucial in the swing state of Michigan — with many people who would typically trend Democrat saying they will not vote for “Genocide Joe.”
“What do they say? ‘What are they going to do, vote for the guy that banned Arabs?’ And the answer is yes,” explained Palestinian-American comic Amer Zahr in April. “You’re really asking me whether I’m going to take a [travel] ban or a genocide? I’ll take a ban.”
Senator Bernie Sanders, whose supporters previously lobbied Michigan Democrats not to vote for Biden in the state’s primary, has said Gaza could prove to be Biden’s “Vietnam.”
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George Soros, David Rockefeller Jr., Hyatt Hotel heirs Susan and Nick Pritzker, and other major donors to the Joe Biden campaign are among the biggest funders of the Gaza protest movement accusing the 81-year-old Democrat of genocide.
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New York Times Executive Editor Joe Kahn slammed the Biden regime for its criticism of the newspaper’s coverage, suggesting that the White House would prefer the Times to document the administration’s activities much like Pravda, the state-run Soviet newspaper. The remarks follow allegations from the White House that the Times isn’t doing enough to prevent Donald Trump‘s return to office.
“To say that the threats of democracy are so great that the media is going to abandon its central role as a source of impartial information to help people vote — that’s essentially saying that the news media should become a propaganda arm for a single candidate, because we prefer that candidate’s agenda,” Kahn said.
“It’s our job to cover the full range of issues that people have. At the moment, democracy is one of them. But it’s not the top one — immigration happens to be the top [of polls], and the economy and inflation is the second. Should we stop covering those things because they’re favorable to Trump and minimize them?” Kahn asked rhetorically.
“I don’t even know how it’s supposed to work in the view of Dan Pfeiffer or the White House. We become an instrument of the Biden campaign? We turn ourselves into Xinhua News Agency or Pravda and put out a stream of stuff that’s very, very favorable to them and only write negative stories about the other side?”
The Biden White House has been highly hostile to media sources that dare to criticize the regime and has gone to great lengths to control media coverage. Last month, it was reported that the regime went as far as pressuring fact-checker Snopes to change one of its ratings.
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New York Times Executive Editor Joe Kahn slammed the Biden regime for its criticism of the newspaper's coverage, suggesting that the White House would prefer the Times to document the administration's activities much like Pravda, the state-run Soviet newspaper. The remarks follow allegations from the White House that the Times isn't doing enough to prevent Donald Trump's return to office.
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Former Trumpcampaign aide Hope Hicks had some choice things to say about Michael Cohen last week, which bear consideration. During defense attorney Emil Bove’s cross-examination, Hicks took aim at Cohen’s credibility. She told Bove that the disgraced attorney “used to like to call himself Mr. Fix It, but it was only because he first broke it.”
When Bove, who is one of former President Donald J. Trump‘s attorneys in the hush moneytrial, asked Hicks about Cohen’s role in the 2016 campaign, she threw additional cold water on the prosecution’s assertions. “No, he would try to insert himself at certain moments, but he wasn’t supposed to be on the campaign in any official capacity,” Hicks responded. She added: “There were things he did in a voluntary capacity because of his interest.”
Asked if Cohen was prone to going rogue, Hicks said, “Yes.”
MERCHAN HOLDS TRUMP IN CONTEMPT… AGAIN.
Day eight of former President DonaldTrump‘s Manhattan-based hush money trial ended about 30 minutes earlier than scheduled. Judge JuanMerchan gave no reason for the court’s adjournment.
The court’s morning session began with another hearing on alleged violations of the gag order placed on former President Trump by Democrat-aligned Judge Merchan. Once again, the former President was found in contempt of the order and fined $1,000 for the new violation. “I find you in criminal contempt for the 10th time,” the judge said. He added: “Going forward, this court will have to consider a jail sanction.”
“Mr. Trump, it’s important you understand that the last thing I want to do is put you in jail. You are the former president of the United States and possibly the next president as well,” Judge Merchan continued. He added, “The magnitude of this decision is not lost on me, but at the end of the day, I have a job to do.”
But even Democrat legal strategists admitted Merchan’s behavior didn’t stack up, with the judge seemingly rebuking Trump for statements that have been long-deleted.
I don’t get this. If, as Judge Merchan says, all the offending statements were made prior to the imposition of the first fine, why does he say that it’s evident that fines won’t deter Trump? Deterrence doesn’t work retroactively! https://t.co/E8gYk1Nq2Z
Following the testimony of Hope Hicks, the prosecution next brought Jeff McConney, the former controller — essentially the top accountant — for the Trump Organization. McConney has testified twice before in legal proceedings involving Donald Trump —before Judge Juan Merchan in the 2022 Trump Organization tax fraud trial and in last fall’s civil fraud trial against Trump brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Former Biden Justice Department attorney Matthew Colangelo handled the questioning for the prosecution.
The early part of McConney’s testimony was focused on establishing his role and chain of command within the Trump Organization. The former controller told Colangelo that he oversaw the company’s accounting department and Deb Tarasoff, the accounts payable supervisor. Tarasoff would be the next prosecution witness brought before the court adjourned for the day.
WHO CUTS THE CHECKS?
Early on, the prosecution focused on check signing authority. According to McConney, prior to 2017 — when Trump was inaugurated as President — DonaldTrump had the signing authority. Once he became President, however, a trust account was formed with Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, and Allen Weisselberg having signing authority.
Much of the morning focused on Colangelo and McConney walking through accounting practices, tax applicability to employee reimbursements, and the general ledger for Donald Trump’s personal account. While this was not the most riveting testimony, much of the prosecution‘s case hinges on the contention that the former President directed Michael Cohen‘s actions and understood the nature of the payments made to Cohen from the personal account.
COLANGELO BORES THE COURT.
As the trial neared lunchtime, Colangelo finally began to focus on Michael Cohen — though McConney’s testimony was less than helpful to the prosecution’s case. When asked if he knew Cohen, McConney responded: “He said he was a lawyer.”
The prosecutor followed up, asking, “Did he work in the legal department?” McConney drew audible laughs from the courtroom with his response. “I guess so,” he said.
Next, Colangelo probed McConney on checks cut to Cohen, with the former controller saying that Allen Weisselberg had told him that they needed to get some money to the disgraced lawyer. “We added everything up, and came up with the amount we would have to pay him,” McConney said.
He testified that $35,000 was to be wired to Cohen monthly from DonaldTrump‘s account. After reviewing Cohen’s invoices and the payment process for over an hour, McConney testified that he could not recall any further payments after December 2017. The prosecution ended its questioning after entering into evidence the invoices and financial disclosures relating to the payments to Cohen that allegedly covered the money he sent to Keith Davidson.
COHEN ACTED AS A VENDOR.
Emil Bove again handled the cross-examination for Trump‘s defense team. He kicked off the cross, asking McConney how often he spoke with Trump. The former Trump Organization controller said it wasn’t often. The defense attorney moved on to Cohen‘s employment status, asking McConney if Cohen used a Trump Organization account. McConney responded that Cohen did not and instead used a personal Gmail account. McConney explained that this meant Cohen was acting, essentially, as an outside vendor and not a Trump employee.
When Bove asked if McConney knew the nature of Cohen’s legal work or if the disgraced attorney was doing any personal work for Trump in 2017, McConney said: “I do not know.” Following up, when asked about his conversation with Weisselberg, McConney testified that he didn’t know what Cohen was seeking reimbursement for.
TRUMP DIDN’T ORDER PAYMENTS.
Moving on, Bove began chipping away at the core of the prosecution‘s case. Bragg’s team has spent a great deal of time insinuating that the payments made to Cohen were somehow illegal. Bove asked McConney, “These payments were also disclosed to the IRS, correct?” The former controller responded, “Yes.”
Bove, presenting McConney with an IRS 1099 form, asked: “There’s no place on this form to break out payments for legal services versus expenses incurred right?” McConney again responded, “Yes.”
Shifting to Cohen, the defense attorney asked McConney, “And it’s Michael Cohen’s job to figure out how to account for these payments on his personal taxes correct?” McConney once again responded, “Yes.” When asked if he knew whether Cohen had included the payments in his tax filings, McConney replied that he did not know.
In the most important moment, Bove asked McConney: “President Trump did not ask you to do any of the things you described?”
“He did not,” the former controller replied.
STILL NO EVIDENCE.
A brief redirect by Colangelo may have further undermined the prosecution. McConney testified that he merely did as directed by Weisselberg. However, the former controller also said he was never privy to, nor knew of, any conversations between Weisselberg and Trump regarding payments to Cohen.
Despite the prosecution continuing to insinuate that Trump knew the nature of and directed the payments to Cohen, not a single witness that it has brought has been able to establish this assertion. In fact, several of the witnesses, so far, have actually undermined the claim — adding to the Trump defense team’s argument that he thought the payments were, in fact, for legal services and was unaware of Cohen’s agreement with Keith Davidson.
The next witness brought by the prosecution was Deb Tarasoff. Again, despite the prosecution’s efforts, Tarasoff said that Weisselberg was the man who called most of the shots and had the most contact with Cohen. The remainder of her testimony was a rehash of the invoice and check signing process heard in McConney’s morning testimony. After the prosecution finished and the defense engaged in a brief cross-examination, the court adjourned.
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Former Trumpcampaign aide Hope Hicks had some choice things to say about Michael Cohen last week, which bear consideration. During defense attorney Emil Bove's cross-examination, Hicks took aim at Cohen's credibility. She told Bove that the disgraced attorney "used to like to call himself Mr. Fix It, but it was only because he first broke it."
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