Trump accuses Biden of running a ‘Gestapo administration’ while attacking prosecutor

She initially remained friendly with Trump and visited him at Mar-a-Lago.

But the relationship soured in October 2022 after he was summoned to give evidence to the House select committee on the January 6 attacks.

She recalled Mr Trump saying: “Nobody will care about my legacy if I lose… The only thing that matters is winning.”

The committee also discussed text messages sent by Ms. Hicks related to the riot that were highly critical of the President’s conduct. This angered both Mr Trump and his daughter Ivanka.

Ms. Hicks went on to establish her own strategic consulting firm. According to , she is currently engaged to Goldman Sachs banker Jim Donovan, 57. daily Mail.

But as for the rocky relationship with the man who propelled her to one of the most prominent jobs in politics, a former administration official who was close to Ms. Hicks said Washington Post: “He still has warm feelings toward the President and has great admiration for him.”

A vulgar nickname for Donald Trump has now been formally entered into the public record in the former president’s hush-money trial, after his own defense attorney read the nickname in court.

“Von S****inpantz” debuted in court on Thursday after Mr Trump’s legal team complained to New York Judge Juan Merchan that the sanctions order against their client was unfair.

His attorney Todd Blanch explained to the judge, “Everyone can say anything, except President Trump.”

Mr. Blanche then proceeded to show the courtroom a series of posts from Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, which mocked the former president and labeled him with derogatory names.

The lawyer read aloud one particular post from Cohen, while Mr. Trump sat at the defense table and listened to his own crude jokes.

Moments before the second week of witness testimony began Tuesday morning, a New York judge juan merchan The bench issued a summary order finding the former president guilty of contempt of court and ordered a fine of $1,000 for nine violations. true social Post where he attacked witnesses in the case.

in his written orderThe judge warned that if Mr Trump continued to “willfully violate” the court order, he could face a “prison sentence” if it was “necessary and appropriate under the circumstances”.

Ms. Hicks says she found out about access hollywood tape On the afternoon of 7 October 2016 he received an email Washington Post Asking for comment” while she was in her office on the 14th floor of Trump Tower.

“I was concerned. Very concerned. Umm… yes. I was concerned about the content of the email, concerned about the lack of time to respond, concerned that we had a transcript and not a tape. Sports I had a lot of things,” she said.

She walked into a conference room where Trump and others were preparing for the debate and motioned for other aides to come over.

“Seeing five or six of us gathered there was a sign that something was happening. At some point, Trump called us and asked us to share what was happening.

“I shared the email verbally with Mr. Trump and we were trying to get a copy of the audio of the tape to further assess the situation at that time, and we were not yet sure how to respond. “

“It didn’t look like he was going to say anything,” Trump said.

He watched the tape within minutes of it going live.

Ms Hicks said she was “just…a little shocked” by the tape.

“Just…yeah, it’s hard to describe. It was definitely worrying. And I had a good sense that this was going to be a big story and dominate the news cycle for at least the next several days,” he added.

“Obviously it wasn’t helpful…There were too many layers to it, where we were trying to go with the campaign and it was holding us back. And it was going to be hard to recover from,” she said.

How were the discussions with Trump about how the campaign would respond?

“I don’t really have a strong memory of that conversation,” but Trump said it was “two guys who were discussing it privately in the locker room.”

“I think she felt like it was a pretty standard thing for two people, you know, interacting with each other.”

He acknowledged it was “not good”, he said.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has faced massive backlash for comments she made about her wirehaired pointer puppy as she writes about her dead dog in her upcoming book.

But it probably won’t be the worst news she got this week. politico The report said six people with knowledge of the matter said she had been “selected as a potential partner” – even long before the dog scandal.

In case you haven’t seen it, in her upcoming book, Ms. Noem opens up about the murder of her former dog, Cricket.

“I hate that dog,” he said, detailing that Cricket was “untrained”, “dangerous to anyone he came in contact with” and “less than useless as a hunting dog”.

“At that moment,” Ms. Noem continued, “I realized I had to put him down.”

He admitted that although “it was not a pleasant job…it had to be done”.

Nevertheless, Ms. Noem was invited to attend Mr. Trump’s event at Mar-a-Lago this weekend as a “special guest,” where she and other VP candidates will presumably meet in the GOP presidential primary. Will compete for the candidate’s attention.

Part of the recording — secretly recorded by Michael Cohen when Mr. Trump was in the midst of his 2016 campaign for the presidency — was played inside a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday, giving the jury a brief but important insight. That’s how his “fixer” kept his boss from hatching a scheme that is now the center of a criminal case against him.

In the recording, Cohen can be heard saying, “I need to open a company to transfer all the information about our friend David, so that – I’m going to do that immediately.”

“And I’ve talked to Allen Weisselberg about how to organize the whole thing,” Cohen says, referencing the now-indicted former chief financial officer for the Trump Organization.

“So, what do we have to pay for it?” Mr Trump can be heard saying. “150?”

That “David” appears to be the earlier David Pecker. National Enquirer Publisher.

In his trial testimony, Mr. Pecker acknowledged an agreement with Cohen and Mr. Trump in August 2015 to purchase the rights to politically compromising stories about Mr. Trump’s affairs — with no intention of publishing them. , a practice known as “catch and kill”.

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Two famous American men with notorious reputations appeared next to each other in a downtown Manhattan courtroom this week in the latest round of their long list of legal problems.

Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein appeared in New York State Supreme Court for the first time on Wednesday, as a New York appeals court overturned his 2020 conviction for the rape and sexual assault of two women.

Weinstein will now face a retrial in September after an appeals court ruled that the judge in the case made “serious errors” by allowing prosecutors to call witnesses who testified unrelated to the charges.

Just a block away, Donald Trump’s hush money trial continued this week in Manhattan Criminal Court. The former president faces 34 counts of falsifying business records in a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

The reimbursement given to him was later recorded as legal expenses. Prosecutors argue that the payments before the 2016 election amounted to election interference, making falsifying records a felony.