A newly unsealed filing in fat former President Trump’s stalled espionage act violation reveals the orange slob still had classified documents at Mar-a-Lago even after the FBI’s 2022 raid.

“Santa” spotted outside of the courthouse in Manhattan in Tuesday morning.

Asked Tuesday morning by a local Pittsburgh TV station whether he supports “any restrictions on a person’s right to contraception,” fat former President Trump said “We’re looking at that, and I’m going to have a policy on that very shortly and I think it’s something that you’ll find interesting.”

Trump also said he’ll be releasing a “very comprehensive policy” on contraceptives “within a week or so,” adding “Things really do have a lot to do with the states and some states are going to have different policies than others,” whatever the fuck that’s supposed to mean. At least he’s promising a quicker response this time, saying “within a week or so” instead of two weeks.

But it’s true, according to Newsweek, who report that former top Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson has signed with state-owned outlet Russia 24 on a joint project with “Carlson TV.”

Disgraced former President Trump’s criminal trial for paying off a pornstar to stay quiet about two minutes of horrible sex winds down Tuesday as his defense is expected to rest after further abuse of his only fact witness, shitty MAGA lawyer Robert Costello, during cross-exam. It is 99.99999 percent certain the fat fuck won’t testify in his defense. Shame he doesn’t have the balls to do it.

Width swaths of Iowa, northwest Illinois, southwest Wisconsin, and northern Missouri face the threat of massive storms unleashing tornadoes with winds rated EF2 or higher and damaging hail on Tuesday as a low-pressure system develops and strengthens into the afternoon, CNN reports.

Diplomats and personnel at the US Embassy in London have racked up £14.6 million in unpaid congestion zone fees over 20 years, a result of the bloody yanks insisting they’re exempt from the charges because America First something something, Politico EU reports. Well it’s only America First in that the State Department owes the regional traffic authority the most, the figure accounting for just over 10 percent of the £143.5 million owed by all the embassies in town. The Japanese are in second at over £10 million owed, followed by India at £8.5 million.

Matthew Perry death, source of ketamine being investigated by law enforcement https://t.co/wfv0BmnKuW pic.twitter.com/3UVx8S0xQo

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A new analysis by the eggheads at the Petersen Institute for International Economics has determined that disgraced former President Trump’s planned trade policies, centered on aggressive tariffs “would reduce after-tax incomes by 3.5 percent for those in the bottom half of the income distribution and cost a typical household in the middle of the income distribution about $1,700 in increased taxes each year. If executed, these steps would increase the distortions and burdens created by the rounds of tariffs levied during the first Trump administration (and sustained during the Biden administration), while inflicting massive collateral damage on the US economy.”

A 70 year-old Homer, Alaska man is dead and a local mom on the loose in the woods after a violent altercation over the man attempting to take photos of her children on Sunday, KTUU reports.

“As they were approaching the area suddenly the moose came crashing out from wherever it was they hadn’t seen it, on the attack,” Tim Kizzia, a friend of murder victim Dale Chorman. “And they turned to run and his friend looked back and saw that Dale was already on the ground and the moose was standing over Dale.” Chorman had earlier captured pics of the moose giving birth to two calves and had been leading another friend back to the scene when the attack happened.

First responders were unable to locate the cow moose and Kizzia tells KTUU that Chorman’s family hope it stays that way, having “encouraged everyone not to do anything to the mom. She was just defending new born twins acting in a way that Dale would totally have understood and anticipated.”

Or maybe should have anticipated. Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist Cory Stantorf said to watch out for moose with “hackles on the back of their neck standing straight up, the ears pinned back against the head and the moose is licking their lips. Those are all signs that the moose is agitated and you are too close,” adding that the massive wild ungulates are especially fucking pissed this year due to excessive winter snowfall having made it harder to find food sources.

Trump posts a new ad foreshadowing a second Trump term that says he will create a “UNIFIED REICH,” echoing Nazi Germany pic.twitter.com/z4ZmMSWuRH

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A not-that-large 4.4 magnitude earthquake struck the town of Pozzuoli in southern Italy on Monday, causing minor damage to the surrounding region and the major city of Naples about 12 miles to the southeast, AFP reports on a potentially ominous warning sign from the threat under Pozzuoli: the Campi Flegrei supervolcano. The quake, at a depth of just 3 km, was just one of dozens to shake the area over the last 48 hours in a “seismic swarm” that could be a sign that magma is rising under the caldera. Or just superheated gases, if the 500,000 people living in the surrounding area are lucky.

Clearly angry over upcoming Trump 1970s film The Apprentice, large-headed Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung on Monday told the Daily Beast that the fat former President’s lawyers will be “filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers. This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked.”

“This ‘film’ is pure malicious defamation, should not see the light of day,” Cheung raged, adding “it doesn’t even deserve a place in the straight-to-DVD section of a bargain bin at a soon-to-be-closed discount movie store… it belongs in a dumpster fire,” and is “election interference by Hollywood elites” on the same level as “the illegal Biden Trials.” That bad, huh?

Enjoy yourself as you hear the story from the source:  Democratic Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes explains how agents from her office waited outside Rudy Giuliani’s birthday party for the oily former mayor of New York until he crept out to his car.

While the officers waited in the parking lot, a cocky Giuliani posted to social media, “If Arizona authorities can’t find me by tomorrow morning: 1. They must dismiss the indictment; 2. They must concede they can’t count votes.”  Seventy-five minutes, Rudy have the papers in his janky fingers.  And yes, the officers uttered the classic, “You’ve been served.”

Two former presidents who led criminal conspiracies were in the Manhattan courtroom, the 19th day of Donald Trump’s criminal election interference hush money trial included the typical media circus with Trump’s clown show including on Monday the former president of the New York chapter of the Hell’s Angels.  Oh, and there was another criminal in the cast:  disgraced New York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik.  … ‘cause the best character witnesses are the ones with criminal records.  And that doesn’t include the fireworks inside the courtroom.

• Among the other clowns:  Kash Patel, rich dude Steve Witkoff, co-conspirator Boris Epshteyn, disgraced The Hill contributor Alan Dershowitz, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, and Congress members Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Mary Miller of Illinois, Eric Burlison of Missouri, and Keith Self of Texas.  
• Cohen admits that he improperly gained $30,000 from the Trump Org via improper billing.  He claimed a vendor, Red Finch, who billed $20,000 was owned $50,000, which the Trump Org paid to Cohen; Cohen kept the difference.
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“Costello was trying to hide his contempt for the court, but the judge had such a thin skin that he threatened him,” man who never met a wrong opinion he didn’t like Alan Dershowitz blurts.  “He said he would strike the testimony and hold him in contempt if he rolled his eyes again.  You have a constitutional right to roll your eyes and to stare at anybody.”  Dershowitz then goes on to state that him sitting in the gallery rolling his eyes is the same as a witness in the dock reacting to judge’s rulings.

So yeah, MAGA lawyer Robert Costello’s testimony for fat former President Trump’s defense went badly Monday as not only was his credibility destroyed in minutes of cross-examination, Judge Juan Merchan got so pissed he threw everyone out of the courtroom – not just the jury – to rip Costello a new asshole while he was still sitting on the stand taking direct examination from Trump’s defense team. What follows is the heretofore unseen transcript of the closed-door exchange. Merchan had already ordered the jury out of the room to lay into Costello at this point of the afternoon:

Merchan: “Okay. So when there is a witness on the stand, if you don’t like my ruling, you don’t say ‘Jeeze,” okay. And then you don’t say ‘strike it,” because I’m the only one that can strike testimony in the courtroom. Do you understand that?”

Costello: “I understand.”

Merchan: “Okay. And then if you don’t like my ruling, you don’t give me side eye and you don’t roll your eyes. Do you understand that? Do you understand that?”

Costello: “I understand that. I understand what you’re saying.”

Merchan: “Okay. Thank you. Let’s get the jury back.”

Merchan: “Are you staring me down right now?”

Costello: “No. I’m just wondering how…”

Merchan: “Clear the courtroom, please. Clear the courtroom.”

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The campaigns reported their monthly fundraising numbers, with Trump beating Biden in fundraising in April by a $76.2 million to $51 million margin after Biden had beaten Trump in March $90 million to $65 million, CNN reports.  A few things to point out:  first, Biden held his all-star fundraiser in Manhattan in March, while Trump held his shakedown at the Mar-a-Lago buffet in April.

Second, Biden still holds a major lead in cash-on-hand:  $192 million in Biden’s bank account versus $45 million for Trump.  And third, Trump is spending far more on personal legal fees than Joe Biden, or more precisely, his donors are.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin will not order an investigation into Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito flying an upside-down American flag–a sign of distress and danger–in front of his house in January 2021, NBC News reports.  Alito blamed his wife, saying she got emotional and angry at a neighbor’s “Fuck Trump” yard sign.

“No, we haven’t got anything planned. I think he’s explained his situation. The American public understand what he did.  But I don’t think there’s much to be gained with a hearing at this point. I think he should recuse himself from cases involving Trump and his administration,” Durbin said Monday.  Asked what can be done if Alito refuses to recuse, he replied, “There’s no recourse other than impeachment, and we’re not at that point at all.”

A film about the rise of Donald Trump in pop culture in a thinly-veiled metaphor about the dangers of fascism elicited an eight-minute standing ovation from an audience full of liberal elites at the Cannes Film Festival, Variety reports.

Starring Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump, The Apprentice also features Maria Bakalova, perhaps best known for watching Rudy Giuliani reach down his pants while filming Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, playing Ivana with Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn.

The movie tracks Trump’s rise in power and popularity as he overtook his father, Fred Trump, to be the face of the family business as he learned underhanded business practices from his mentor, Cohn. “There is no nice metaphorical way to deal with the rising wave of fascism,” director Ali Abbasi said. “I think it’s time to make movies relevant. It’s time to make movies political again.”