“It is hard to sit back and listen to lies and false statements be made against you,” Trump writes on Truth Social this morning — seemingly a reference to Stormy Daniels’ testimony yesterday, which he swore through.

'He made fun of me first,' Daniels just said in court under cross from Susan Necheles, as somewhat of a justification for this tweet, among other public statements

Stormy Daniels is testifying about her 2018 defamation case against Trump, which she lost, over this sketch of a man she said threatened her in 2011, telling her to stay silent about Trump.

“It seemed like a bad choice,” Daniels just said of the lawsuit.

Hindsight is 20/20.

The NYPD is pushing to encrypt police scanner transmissions, and has already begun with 10 precincts in Brooklyn and Staten Island. This affects the Daily News more than most publications-- we rely on the scanner day and night to cover breaking news.

Stormy now testifying about the Lake Tahoe charity golf tournament in July 2006, where she’s long said she slept with Trump.

A crazy detail: Trump reportedly ALSO brought and had sex w/ Playboy model Karen McDougal in Lake Tahoe on the same weekend.

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Stormy testifies about her start in porn and how she contemplated a run for Senate in Louisiana, challenging a misogynist Republican.

“Even I was a better choice than this guy,” she said, glancing towards Trump.

Trump has his eyes trained on the ceiling, away from Daniels.

Judge Merchan just very sternly threatened Trump with jail time for violations of his gag order, saying fines issued aren't doing the job.

“Going forward, this court will have to consider a jail sanction.”

“The magnitude of the decision is not lost on me.”

Cops are pushing in barricades to further confine protesters to a narrow strip of sidewalk.

Inches away and behind university gates, campus is tranquil.

Faculty rally at 116 and Amsterdam at the gates of Columbia U rn, which is locked down today.

“Wait until the numbers come put from One Police Plaza,” said Rashid Khalidi, a Columbia professor, calling the claims of outside agitators “lies”. “They were all students.”

“Estrogen mafia” would be an epic group chat name for the news girlies

A video of Trump raging against the women's allegations was just played in court.

Trump perked up and leaned forward towards the younger, orange-tinted, more energetic version of himself in the video.

'I have no idea who these women are, no idea.'

Trump is accused of breaking the law to cover up a tryst with a porn star and an affair with a Playboy bunny, and now he’s spending his wife’s birthday hearing all about them.

“It'd be nice to be with her but I'm at a courthouse for a rigged trial.'

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Laughter in court as prosecutors tried to get texts from Pecker’s deputy, Dylan Howard, into evidence. (Judge Merchan excluded them.)
“He’s just been named president elect. Oh dear,” Howard texted a relative.
“At least I’ll be pardoned for electoral fraud,” he wrote in another.

Massive: Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction is overturned by New York's high court, ruling that all the evidence of uncharged prior bad acts 'undermined defendant’s right to testify.'

'The remedy for these egregious errors is a new trial.'

As court proceedings began, Trump peered back at the gallery, adjusted in his seat and scratched his head, then licked his finger to pick up what appeared to be a mint from a tin on the defense table.

Courthouse News Unrelated, but pretty cool that there are four (4!) recent DePaul University and The DePaulia alums covering this historic trial in-person today.

Nika Schoonover
Ella Lee
Josie Stratman

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