Trump Trial: Week 2 Testimony Wraps Up With Hope Hicks! … from Crooks & Liars Red Painter

The second week of testimony in Donald Trump’s first criminal trial is officially over and it ended with a HUGE witness on the stand: Hope Hicks!

No ruling on the 2nd gag order hearing, so we still await that. But the judge did open with a doozy of a comment directly in response to a lie that Trump told the media last night about his gag order:

BREAKING: Judge corrects Trump for lying outside court yesterday

Trump said gag order prevented him from testifying

Judge: you have an absolute right to testify at trial or not & gag order has nothing to do with it

Merchan is not tolerating Trump’s disinfo campaign!

— Norm Eisen (#TryingTrump out now!) (@NormEisen) May 3, 2024

Boom. Right into it.

Immediately after that *clarification*, Trump attorney Todd Blanche starts arguing about the admissibility of various posts Trump has made, starting with this one:

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