1/…🧵 #TrumpTrial #Trump #legal Let’s start with this, via @darthstar, because NY has laws that govern #GagOrders. I heard the Legals on TV say the same thing as Sean here:https://mastodon.online/@darthstar/112320741962522803
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59/ McB:
So it's your client's position that when he was reposting these things, he was not violating the gag order?...Are you testifying under oath that's your client's position? Merchan asks Blanche.
I'm going to revise my earlier tweet calling the contempt hearing a "fender bender."
This is a trainwreck.
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60/ McB:
Merchan jumps to exhibit 10, the Jesse Watters one, and points out that this wasn't a repost at all.
"He had to sit there, use quotation marks, [and] the shift key," Merchan says.
Blanche ties to end on this point: we are trying to comply with this gag order. Trump is being very careful
But Merchan cuts in: "You're losing all credibility, I'll tell you right now."BOOM
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62/ McB:
Merchan makes an analogy about if Trump grabs a sign from someone outside, one that says horrible things about the witnesses or jury, and walks around with it.
Blanche takes issue with that analogy, bc he says a news article is at issue here.
Merchan says: What you shoulda done, is probably said my client is thinking of reposting things, it's not really clear in the gag order, so Judge Merchan is that allowed? But you didn't.
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64/ McB:
"See you at 11," Merchan says. We'll be going straight from 11am to 2pm when we're back.
But we break, Merchan says he came up with an AMI limiting instruction, which is basically a combination of the two submissions.
ME: REMINDER, for me it’s a short day. Things to do. I’ll cover when I can.
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66/ McB:
Some more color for you.
When Justice Merchan said to Blanche just a bit ago that "You're losing all credibility," there was an audible gasp from the press.
I'm hearing from a reporter that a member of the public who made it into the courtroom today has been detained. Unclear right now why.
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67/ LOL
Via Vaughn Hillyard:
Trump just claimed that the police have shut down the streets around the courthouse for blocks & that his protesters can’t be here.
Just…not true. There is one pro-Trump person here & the main street along the courthouse is open to traffic.
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@GottaLaff NFL: Newspeak
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