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Donald Trump has told many dumb lies. He has demanded that his subordinates tell many dumb lies. Some of Trump’s lies could cost him dearly. But his lawyers’ recent denials that Trump had sex with Stormy Daniels may turn out to be the most costly. It’s impossible to know how Trump’s New York criminal trial over his hush money payment to Daniels would have ended if his attorneys hadn’t insisted that the affair never happened.

It's hard to predict how Trump's conviction will affect the vote, says David Axelrod, but "The thing to watch is how the two candidates deal with it. Does Trump continued to fulminate in the kind of irrational way he did? He won't be a very good candidate if that's the case.

Because of how the Trump hush-money jury was instructed, says Elie Honig, "There's a lot of uncertainty in what the jury actually decided." But, he adds, when it comes to sentencing, "the fact that he's violated the contempt order, the fact that his conduct, according to prosecutors and the jury, impact in an election," means its "a razor's edge 50-50 call about whether Judge Merchan sentences him to some prison time."

“There are lots of people who say, ‘Nimby, nimby, nimby,’ and the people who say, ‘Nimby, nimby, nimby,’ they don’t live right next door to it.” That’s what one retiree told Reveal’s Jonathan Jones when he traveled to upstate New York to find out why so many people in the rural town of Copake are fighting to stop a massive solar energy project from being built. jQuery(document).ready(function(){prx("https:\/\/play.prx.org\/listen?uf=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.revealradio.org%2Frevealpodcast&ge=prx_149_e4b871a8-4b6d-4cd3-82ed-405b457de4bc", "prx-0", "shortcode")});Subscribe to Mother Jones podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Jonathan’s story, a version of which first aired in January, sheds light on one of the key reasons why it’s so difficult to build the green energy infrastructure we need to transition away from fossil fuels—even in a deep-blue state.

As President Joe Biden started walking out of the press room on Friday afternoon, after finishing a speech outlining a cease-fire plan for the Israel-Hamas war, a journalist called out, questioning him on former President Donald Trump’s historic hush-money trial conviction. “Donald Trump refers to himself as a ‘political prisoner’ and blames you [Biden] directly.

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