Trump trial stay updates: Decide tells prosecutors to cease Michael Cohen speaking in regards to the case

Donald Trump went on a prolonged rant about Michael Cohen, the case and President Joe Biden as he left court docket on Friday.

The 77-year-old celebrated the decide ordering the prosecution to inform Cohen to not speak in regards to the case forward of his anticipated look as a witness on Monday.

‘There isn’t a gag order on Michael Cohen however what the decide did was superb really.’ Trump mentioned.

He then criticized Decide Juan Merchan after which complained that everybody was allowed to make remarks about him, whereas he couldn’t due to the gag order.

‘Everyone can say no matter they need,’ he mentioned. ‘However I am not allowed to say something about anyone.’

The previous president then learn by way of varied press clippings on the case after which turned his consideration to Biden.

He mentioned his probably 2024 rival lies about every part ‘together with his golf recreation’.

‘I’d be very proud to go to jail for our Structure,’ he added.

Decide Juan Merchan instructed the prosecution on Friday that Michael Cohen shouldn’t be speaking in regards to the case.

The previous president’s disgraced fixer is about to testify on Monday because the star witness.

Trump’s protection lawyer Todd Blanche urged the court docket to place a gag on Cohen, who has been posting TikTok movies and showing on podcasts.

‘Cohen continues to talk about this trial and President Trump. As lately as Wednesday he was on TikTok speaking extensively,’ Blanche mentioned.

‘He’s sporting a white t-shirt with an image of President Trump behind bars.’

‘Now we’ve got one week left of the trial, (we ask that) he be prohibited from talking simply as President Trump is.

Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass insisted that they don’t have any management over what witnesses say.

However Merchan insisted that prosecutors go on a message to Cohen.

‘I’d direct the individuals to speak to Mr Cohen that the decide is asking him to chorus from making any extra statements about this case.’

The prosecution says it plans to name two extra witnesses.

They may relaxation their case by the tip of subsequent week.

The prosecution’s questioning of Jarmel-Schneider wrapped up with him strolling by way of a data chart that confirmed the invoices, vouchers and checks within the case that coincide with the 34 fees.

Emil Bove is conducting cross examination.

Laughter rang out within the court docket as Bove requested: ‘Is it tedious work?’

‘Truthfully, I form of loved it,’ he responds to laughter all through the courtroom.

‘I hear that. Respect,’ Bove says shrugging.

It was a second of humor throughout some testimony that left individuals within the court docket yawning and struggling to concentrate.

Stormy Daniels trolled Donald Trump and his authorized group after her six-hour testimony within the hush cash trial.

‘Actual males reply to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in court docket. Oh…wait. Nevermind,’ the porn star mentioned on Thursday night time on X.

The grownup movie actress’ dig got here after Trump’s protection attorneys requested for a mistrial based mostly on her salacious testimony in regards to the alleged tryst in a lodge room in 2006.

Decide Juan Merchan denied the request, and requested why Trump’s attorneys didn’t object to her claims that they had intercourse with no condom.

The previous president has denied having an affair with Daniels.

Trump seems to be hunched ahead in his seat whereas they evaluate cellphone data.

He is studying one thing else and was highlighting some traces at one level.

Jaden Jarmel-Schneider is a paralegal within the Manhattan DA’s workplace who critiques data.

Trump is sitting on the protection desk studying a pile of what seem like information articles in regards to the case.

He is chewing one thing – popped one thing into his mouth.

The previous president is clearly zoned out and never on this line of testimony.

Because the paralegal reads by way of texts, some members of the jury are following alongside, however others seem like sinking into their seats.

One yawns, one other appears across the room. One man appears like he is struggling to remain awake.

Donald Trump’s bodily actions throughout testimony have been some extent of focus through the trial.

The previous president has been caught together with his eyes closed on a number of events, sparking claims he’s asleep.

Each immediately and yesterday, he has finished it extra continuously.

The presumptive nominee has denied napping throughout proceedings.

Georgia Longstreet is now studying extra texts between Stormy Daniels’ publicist Gina Rodriguez and Nationwide Enquirer editor Dylan Howard into file.

They have been additionally introduced up throughout Daniels’ six-hour testimony.

Learn extra about them beneath.

Prosecutor Rebecca Mangold is asking Georgia Longstreet to learn aloud Twitter posts from @RealDonaldTrump.

The posts are dated from April, Could and August of 2018. In them, Trump first says his former lawyer Michael Cohen will not be going to ‘flip,’

In different ones, he assaults Cohen.

‘If anybody is on the lookout for an excellent lawyer, I’d strongly recommend you don’t retain the providers of Michael Cohen!’ one reads.

In one other thread, Trump additionally tweets about Stormy Daniels’ NDA.

Trump seems to hunch over to learn his previous tweets off the display earlier than him as Longstreet reads.

Georgia Longstreet works for the Manhattan’s district lawyer’s workplace as a paralegal.

She has been reviewing paperwork and social media posts associated to the case.

Longstreet is being questioned by prosecutor Rebecca Mangold.

Donald Trump walked again into court docket the place he seemed across the room together with within the path of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.

Bragg has retaken his seat two rows again from prosecution desk.

Donald Trump stood up and walked out of the courtroom for a break passing near the place Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg was standing.

He appeared to keep away from making eye contact as he walked up the aisle.

Trump did acknowledge Fox Information’ Jeanine Piro, touching her shoulder as she sat close to the aisle on his means out.

Tomalin was cross-examined shortly by protection lawyer Emil Bove.

From Sarah Ewall-Wice, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in court docket:

Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg entered the courtroom this morning.

He walked in carrying a brown folder and sat down a couple of rows again from the prosecution desk.

He’s watching Jennie Tomalin from Verizon testify about phone data.

Bragg has visited the courtroom for the hush cash trial earlier than however has not sat in to look at a lot of the case.

Donald Trump continues to look ahead as testimony continues.

Jennie is a senior analyst at Verizon.

She is testifying about data within the hush cash case.

Prosecutors launched data of twelve telephones from 2015 to 2017. One set of data belonged to Allen Weisselberg, the former chief monetary officer on the Trump Group.

Donald Trump’s protection lawyer Susan Necheles requested Madeleine Westerhout a collection of questions throughout cross-examination that present his group is attempting to distance the ex-president from a number of the private finance choices made whereas he was within the White Home.

At one level, Necheles requested ‘would you see him signing issues with out reviewing them?’

‘Sure,’ Westerhout mentioned.

‘Would you see him signing checks with out reviewing them?’

Necheles additionally urged Trump was multitasking whereas signing checks on the White Home – taking cellphone calls and conferences with individuals.

‘We was an individual who multitasked?’ Necheles requested.

‘Sure,’ Westerhout confirmed.

Daniel Dixon works for AT&T the place he’s a lead compliance analyst.

He’s being questioned by prosecutor Chris Conroy.

Madeleine Westerhout has left the witness stand.

Madeleine Westerhout testifies that she did have a dialog with Donald Trump after the story about Stormy Daniels got here out.

She remembers that he was ‘very upset by it.’

Westerhout says that it was her understanding that he felt the story could be ‘very hurtful to his household.’

She says nonetheless that he didn’t particularly talk about his household in that dialog.

Susan Necheles is asking a collection of questions in regards to the transition through the begin of Trump’s presidency.

Westerhout is testifying about how the president would obtain mail which was a really gradual course of attributable to safety. She additionally confirms that issues would get misplaced.

Necheles asks ‘Wasn’t that an issue about getting private mail to Trump to the White Home?’

‘Sure,’ Westerhout says.

She confirms they have been attempting to determine means for Trump and Melania to get mail promptly.

Concept got here up that mail could be despatched to Keith Schiller, Westerhout confirms.

Schiller would convey them in and provides them to her, and she or he would give them to Trump.

Donald Trump’s longtime government assistant Madeleine Westerhout spoke warmly of her previous boss on the stand on Thursday.

However her exit from the White Home was extra acrimonious, and the reminder sparked her to cry on the stand.

She was fired in 2019 after bragging to reporters that she had a greater relationship with Trump than his personal daughters Ivanka and Tiffany.

Studies urged on the time that she didn’t like being in images with Tiffany, as a result of she was perceived as chubby.

Westerhout labored extraordinarily carefully with Trump as his Director of Oval Workplace Operations and knew intimate particulars about his household and schedule.

Her departure could have been mired in pressure, nevertheless it seems she has since mended her relationship with Trump.

Madeleine Westerhout served as Donald Trump’s government assistant within the White Home.

She is sporting a cream silk shirt and a black jacket in court docket.

Westerhout is being cross-examined by protection lawyer Susan Necheles.

From U.S. Senior Political Reporter Sarah Ewall-Wice in court docket:

Donald Trump is again within the courtroom after slamming his ‘horrible gag order’ to reporters staged outdoors.

He additionally touted his rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, Saturday.

When he reached the protection desk contained in the courtroom, he appeared to slam his papers down.

He is joined in court docket by Boris Epshteyn immediately.

There was puzzlement on Thursday – not least from Decide Juan Merchan – as to why Donald Trump’s attorneys didn’t object to Stormy Daniels’ salacious proof that he didn’t put on a condom throughout their alleged sexual encounter.

The decide, referring to Trump lawyer Susan Necheles, mentioned: ‘Why on Earth she wouldn’t object to the point out of a condom I don’t perceive.’

Andrew Weissman, a former federal prosecutor, places foward the idea that it was ‘calculated gamesmanship’ by the protection to not object. He tells MSNBC:

I can’t say for certain, however each bone in my physique tells me that is calculated on the protection half. This isn’t form of ‘Oh, we forgot to object’. Susan Necheles is actually skilled. She doesn’t neglect to object. So when you could have gamesmanship, I imply, they need this within the case.

Wait till summation. They (the protection) are going to say in summation, ‘They (the prosecution) needed this to be as salacious as doable as a result of they don’t have a case they usually needed to usher in all of these items.’

After a photographer took a photograph from an space the place they weren’t speculated to, the ban on images within the courtroom stays in place.

Talks proceed to see if photographers could make a return.

For the primary few weeks of the trial, photographers have been allowed within the courtroom firstly of the day to take pictures of Donald Trump on the protection desk.

Trump is en path to the courthouse for Day 15 of his legal hush cash trial.

Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen is anticipated to testify himself on Monday, establishing an excellent showdown in court docket.

He’s more likely to be on the stand for a number of days.

Cohen’s recounting of occasions is central to the case, which hinges on the $130,000 hush cash cost he paid porn star Stormy Daniels to remain quiet about her sexual encounter with Donald Trump forward of the 2016 election.

Donald Trump’s former government assistant has revealed that Melania Trump was ‘positively the one in cost’ in her marriage to Donald Trump.

In dramatic testimony to Trump’s hush cash trial Madeleine Westerhout mentioned the previous first couple had a ‘particular relationship’ based on ‘mutual respect’.

When he was president Trump would name his spouse from the Oval Workplace and ask her to look down from a window within the White Home residence.

And when he was leaving on a helicopter he would name her to ‘verify in’.

Decide Juan Merchan gave a brutal dressing down of Donald Trump’s protection attorneys in entrance of the previous president Thursday as he denied their movement for a mistrial within the hush cash case Thursday afternoon.

It was the second movement for a mistrial from the protection this week after scandalous testimony from porn star Stormy Daniels about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump.

In his name for a mistrial, lawyer Todd Blanche known as Stormy Daniels’ testimony ‘terribly prejudicial’ and famous that even the decide had agreed a number of the testimony was ‘pointless.’

‘It virtually defies perception that we’re right here a few data case and the federal government is asking about an incident that occurred in 2006,’ Blanche argued referring to Daniels’ testimony on Tuesday about rolling up {a magazine} and spanking Trump with it almost 20 years in the past.