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“Barron Trump is declining Florida’s offer to be a delegate to the Republican National Convention this summer, citing ‘prior commitments,’ according to his mother’s office,” the Daily Mail reports.

“Rudy Giuliani was suspended by WABC radio on Friday and his daily talk show was canceled after he violated station policy by trying to discuss discredited claims about the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election on air,” the New York Times reports. “John Catsimatidis, the billionaire who is a major Republican donor and owns the station, said he had made the decision after Mr.

“At the request of Trump’s lawyers, Justice Juan Merchan has instructed prosecutors to ask Michael Cohen — who’s expected to take the witness stand Monday — to stop publicly talking about the case and Trump,” Politico reports.

“Just before court broke for the day, Justice Juan Merchan raised the possibility of calling former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg into court to see if he’s willing to testify in the case,” Politico reports. “Weisselberg is currently serving a five-month sentence for perjury, after serving a four-month sentence on tax fraud charges he pleaded guilty to in 2022.” Daily Beast: “Prosecutors have alleged in court that the Trump Organization offered former chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg more than $1 million to keep his mouth shut.”

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At the hush-money trial of former president Donald Trump in Manhattan, Stormy Daniels’ story is, in a sense, a proxy battle for the actual debate about bookkeeping: If you believe Daniels’s accounting of the affair she alleges they had, then you must find Trump—who denies any such encounter—unbelievable. If you don’t believe Daniels, then it becomes much easier to accept the defense narrative that this is all one big con. The sexual encounter that Daniels described in precise and disturbing detail under oath this week is technically irrelevant to the questions at hand.