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I know you'll find this hard to believe, but Donald Trump isn't really a stable genius. What's that, you say? OK, you didn't say that. I did. Captain Capslock took to Truth Social while on break during the hush money/election interference trial to dramatically feign victimization again. But while throwing his pity party, the twice-impeached, four-times indicted former President, who left office in disgrace, accidentally admitted that the Stormy Daniel's $130,000 payoff would have mattered if it came out before the election.
"THIS ISN'T A TRIAL, IT'S A POLITICAL CAMPAIGN, A WITCH HUNT, JUST LIKE THE HIGHLY CONFLICTED AND BIASED JUDGE, JUAN MERCHAN, WANTED IT TO BE, "the former President wrote.
“The recent wave of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses came on suddenly and shocked people across the nation,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“But the political tactics underlying some of the demonstrations were the result of months of training, planning and encouragement by longtime activists and left-wing groups.”
“Just as Wall Street appeared to come to terms with the idea of high interest rates sticking around for longer, a cooler-than-expected jobs report on Friday brought the idea of rate cuts back into the conversation,” the New York Times reports.
“The Labor Department reported that job and wage growth in April came in lower than economists had expected, a shift after months of piping-hot labor market reports.
Donald Trump complained about a recording of a phone call between him and Michael Cohen played as evidence during his hush money trial, The Hill reports.
Trump said the tape, “while good for my case, was cut off at the end, in the early stages of something very positive that I was in the midst of saying.
“Moscow Marjorie has gone off the deep end — may be the result of a space laser.”
— Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), on X, slamming Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).