Mueller, She Wrote Quinta Jurecic @Neal_katyal tweeted 30 days suspended until end of trial. Dropped if he behaves. Something like that. See his page. I gotta go otherwise I’d fetch for you.

Xelon Muskrat Quinta Jurecic Because he would risk an appeal, and looking biased. You start with the fines, and then work your way up to jail. Throwing him in jail on the first offenses would be a really really really really bad idea.

THREAD: Lots of folks, myself included, have been thinking $1000 fine for gag order violations is low. But I just learned, thanks to Quinta Jurecic, that $1000 (or 30 days in jail) is the statutory max. 1/ codes.findlaw.com/ny/judiciary-l…

There has to be some correlation between all the day naps Trump has been taking and Congress passing legislation to fund our allies.

Pecker is now discussing his meeting with Steve Bannon. Trump had told Pecker that he and Bannon would “work very well together,” and Bannon then asked whether Pecker could send him other Enquirer issues for Bannon’s review.

After several objections by Trump's defense team, the

REMINDER: we have until *June 8* to stop this draconian near-total abortion ban from taking effect.

Per latest Justice Dept update:

Nearly 500 defendants have now been charged with assaulting/resisting police on Jan 6

So far....

This Democratic Party billboard will be greeting Robert F. Kennedy Jr in Scottsdale. Reminder:

✅ RFK Jr. was recruited to run by Trump allies

✅ His candidacy is being propped up by Trump’s largest donor

✅ His own campaign staffer said the campaign's top goal is stopping President Biden

NEW: Judge rejects request for prison release by Jan 6 defendant Larry Brock during his appeal of case

Judge notes in order: 'Brock wore a tactical vest and a helmet to the Capitol, carried flex cuffs at one point, roamed through the building and entered the Senate Floor'

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This evangelical is over Trump. 👇

Calls his Bible disgusting.

I wonder how Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson and others react to testimony by Pecker that negative stories about them were planted - part of a plot by Trump, the man they now serve. I wonder if they harbor anger, shame, are in touch with those feelings at all, or shelved them

Asked how often he saw Trump, Pecker responds 'maybe once a month, or once or twice a quarter,' until 2015.

Then, once Trump announced his run for the presidency, Pecker says: 'I saw Mr. Trump more frequently, maybe once a month.'

Q: So you did in fact launch Trump Style magazine?
A: Yes.

Katie Phang Judge Merchan should get to the bottom of Trump's inability to control himself.

Psych eval and drug test as conditions of continued pretrial release

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Katie Phang He wants Merchan to put him in jail. He thinks there’ll be an uprising/riots that will reinstall him in power.
He craves chaos.

So at 11:00 a.m. ET, Trump posts on Truth Social calling Judge Merchan's courtroom a 'kangaroo court' and calling on Merchan to recuse himself. Trump also assails the gag order, (falsely) claiming that he cannot defend himself.

This while we await a ruling from Judge Merchan on

The Shallow State I think it was a smart move on Merchands part two reserve his decision…no one can accuse him of deciding out of anger.

Instead of using our pets' names as passwords, maybe we should be naming our pets 'Password'.

Conroy, disputing the notion that Trump is simply engaging in political speech:

'Throwing a 'MAGA' into a post doesn't make it political. It may make it more ominous.'