Witnesses cry or get emotional on the stand for a lot of different reasons. But here, given Hope Hick's relationship with Trump, it suggests that because she's under oath, she's had to reveal facts she'd rather have left unsaid & she's concerned she's damaged Trump.

The judge in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial disputed his claim that a gag order barring him from attacking jurors or witnesses bars him from taking the witness stand: “I want to stress, Mr. Trump, that you have an absolute right to testify”
bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

The family of a gay British-Mexican man held in Qatar for allegedly false drug offences has given further details of what they say was a 'honeytrap' operation where police used the gay dating app Grindr to entrap him bbc.com/news/uk-688598…

'What have we done?'

'Oh, my god.'

The lawyer for Stormy Daniels when she took $130,000 to keep quiet about an affair with Donald Trump before the 2016 election testified about texts in which he fretted he may have helped the mogul win bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

Almost every Republican in the Arizona Senate voted to keep the ban in place huffpost.com/entry/arizona-…

Today: Destruction, violence and hate overtake college campuses across the country with Jewish students feeling unsafe at their own schools. It is unacceptable, and harkening back to the 1930s in Europe. Our Inside Politics show open, here.

Is it really reasonable to demand that Portland State University cut ties with Intel, one of Oregon's biggest employers, because the company happens to do business with Israel? Are these demands realistic or are they designed to fail, to force conflict? oregonlive.com/politics/2024/…

'Noem’s Cricket story didn’t drop into this moral pit from outer space. It wasn’t inserted in her manuscript by accident. It’s there to signal solidarity with a political culture that increasingly honors cruelty and valorizes violence' writes Francis Wilkinson bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Trump and Biden are complete opposites on the climate, yet the president’s accomplishments have gained little traction in public opinion, Mark Gongloff says bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion