Love the mugs. Including the podcast one— Prosecuting Donald Trump.

'He just needs to be, frankly, like Stormy Daniels - which is smart, careful and unflappable... On cross examination, she was humanized. And you saw just how effective she was.'

Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻 on why Michael Cohen should emulate Stormy Daniels's demeanor on the stand.

Justice Thomas is calling criticism of the Supreme Court “nastiness.” Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻 says that’s ironic because people see him as the cause of the decline of support for the Supreme Court.

Donald Trump says he would take the stand in his hush-money case. Legal experts say it's unlikely because there will be consequences for lying.

“He is going to be forced to answer questions and not to rattle on.” Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻

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This argument was denied repeatedly, including by judges appointed by Republicans (including Trump), when the appointment of Special Counsel Mueller was challenged. Will Cannon say the appointments of John Durham by AG Barr and of special counsels to investigate Biden and his son…

Listen to a new episode of Andrew Weissmann & Mary McCord's illuminating podcast, talking abt witness testimony, and Andrew's impressions, at the NY criminal trial + addressing Judge Cannon's delay of the documents case. Unmatched & essential: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its… ⬇️

The Weisselberg severance agreement and frankly all his compensation are entirely relevant to show his loyalty to Trump and visa versa- which will be an issue in summation as to why Weisselberg would not have done and do not do the hush money scheme behind Trumps back.

JUST IN: Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss are asking a federal bankruptcy judge to enjoin Rudy Giuliani from continuing to defame them.

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A good summary re Weisselberg options. The state is entitled to explain why a witness is unavailable. To do that they can show he wd assert the 5th in response to a subpoena, which can be done by either subpoenaing him or having his counsel so represent. They need to do that to…

Justice Merchan cited this passage from one of Trump's books as a reason he's not touching the gag order.

It's not just about Stormy Daniels, he said.

For Trump, it's also about being seen on the attack, according to the passage.

Paul Manafort, poised to rejoin Trump world, aided Chinese media deal wapo.st/4dt0KYB

Here is the evidence admitted through this witness:

337 MICHAEL COHEN AND KEITH DAVIDSON CALLS 
338  MICHAEL COHEN AND HOPE HICKS CALLS
339  MICHAEL COHEN AND DYLAN HOWARD CALLS
340  MICHAEL COHEN AND DAVID PECKER CALLS
341  MICHAEL COHEN AND KEITH SCHILLER CALLS
342 MICHAEL…

👀👀 more Trump confirmation he reimbursed the hush money payments.

BREAKING: Judge MERCHAN has just quashed Trump's effort to subpoena Mark Pomerantz, former prosecutors in Bragg's office. nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/pre…

Andrew Weissmann and Claire McCaskill on Morning Joe, report w/video: youtube.com/watch?v=H6EdAV….

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