Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has died aged 63 after a horror helicopter crash.
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A lawyer for Donald Trump continued to hammer away this morning at changing details over the years in Stormy Daniels’ accounts of a 2006 sexual encounter with Trump — and got plenty of pushback from the adult entertainer turned high-profile witness in Trump’s hush money trial.
During rapid fire, back-and-forth sparring that lasted almost three hours, Susan Necheles also said that Daniels — after collecting $130,000 for a non-disclosure agreement — eagerly sold her memoir, hawked merchandise, appeared on a reality TV show, sat for a documentary film, advertised herself as a spiritual medium, and toured as an adult dancer using her “supposed” sexual encounter with Trump as the hook.
Necheles estimated that Daniels had made $1 million or more from assorted ventures after becoming known for an adulterous sexual encounter with Trump, and she said Daniels’ once told a writer for Slate “you either wanted money or you were going to hurt him politically.”
Daniels shot back that she was just doing her job and paying off the “extraordinary” legal bills she had amassed by tangling with Trump. She testified that she “hated” the marketing for a U.S. tour of strip clubs, billed as “Make America Horny Again” — a play on Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan — although she did post the promotional posters to her Instagram.
Necheles pressed Daniels on discrepancies between past accounts and her testimony on Tuesday, including whether Trump personally invited her to dinner at his Lake Tahoe hotel suite in the summer 2006, whether they actually broke bread in the hotel suite, and whether Daniels felt too powerless to refuse sex with Trump that night.
Necheles said that Daniels has performed in or directed hundreds of
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has died aged 63 after a horror helicopter crash.
John Oliver trolled Donald Trump on Last Week Tonight after the former POTUS said he had created a new nickname for corn.
GOP nominee Donald Trump is going to be a dictator bored him.“When people come up to me and say, ‘What are we going to do?’ I’m like, ‘It doesn’t look to me like the world is just falling apart. Maybe it will tomorrow,’” he told the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd in an interview. “Look, I lost my nervous system under Trump once.
Oliver Stone is in Cannes today for a Special Screening of Lula, a documentary he co-directed with Rob Wilson about the unbelievable comeback of Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva. The film chronicles his extraordinary journey in 2022 to regain the Brazilian presidency after spending nineteen months in prison. This happened after a hacker exposed a conspiracy meant to take down the labor leader in a corruption scandal that tied back to Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and the most powerful judge in the country. It’s a story you have to see to believe. Here, Stone discusses his film, and how the four-time Oscar winner hopes to mount one final major drama after a career spanning Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street, JFK, Natural Born Killers and so many others. He also revisits his position on Vladimir Putin, whom he interviewed extensively several years ago, in light of recent events that have ratcheted global tensions.
As Michael Cohen returned to the stand for cross-examination this morning, Donald Trump‘s attorney loudly accused him of lying about the nature of a phone call eight years ago, which Cohen said was to discuss with then-candidate Trump a payoff to the porn star Stormy Daniels.
Barron Trump as a Florida delegate to the Republican National Convention. However, it seems like the youngest son of Melania and Donald Trump will not be serving after all, as it was explained by the former First Lady.Ivanka Trump rides motorcycles with her kids; ‘Moto Mama’What Barron Trump revealed about his dad Donald Trump during a dinner at Mar-a-LagoMelania Trump’s birthday celebration details: ‘She finds comfort in her small family’It was previously revealed by the Republican Party of Florida chairman, Evan Power, that Barron, who is currently in high school, would serve as one of 41 delegates from Florida.
Jennifer Lawrence has attacked former US vice president Mike Pence over his alleged beliefs around conversion therapy.The harmful practice aims to change a person’s sexual or gender identity, and has long been discredited by medical and mental health experts, causing harmful effects on mental health.Speaking at the GLAAD media awards last night, the Oscar-winning actress was presenting the Vito Russo Award to singer Orville Peck when she cracked a joke at Pence.“I love the gay community. In fact, I was in love with a homosexual.
Jon Stewart has been watching the television coverage of the Donald Trump hush money trial, but that doesn’t mean he has to like it.
Donald Trump’s hush money trial resumed today with testimony from a former White House aide who was fired for talking with reporters about what she saw around the Oval Office.
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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem embarked this week on one of the more tumultuous book tours in recent memory, as she was peppered with questions about an anecdote about killing her dog Cricket, and another story about meeting North Korean leader Kim Jung Un. Major doubts were raised that the latter story was true.
Joe Biden‘s campaign team has used Kendrick Lamar‘s ‘Euphoria‘ lyrics to diss former US president Donald Trump.The current US President’s campaign team hit out at Trump via social media on Monday (May 6) by using the viral track in a video clip that features various photos of the former president as the song plays in the background.“It’s always been about love and hate, now let me say I’m the biggest hater. I hate the way that you walk over women’s rights, the way that you talk about immigrants.
As Stormy Daniels took the stand in Donald Trump‘s hush money trial today, the judge in the case complained to the former president’s lawyer that he could hear his client “cursing audibly” about what was being said.
UPDATE: Stormy Daniels is scheduled to testify today in Donald Trump‘s hush money trial in New York.
The stars were out in Miami this weekend for the 2024 Formula 1 Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix held at the Miami International Autodrome!
opening monologue on Wednesday night. “April showers bring may flowers,” Fallon began.
After calling Time magazine’s long interview with Donald Trump “shocking” and “reprehensible” earlier today, Joe Biden this evening doubled down on his predecessor’s dystopian second term plans.
Donald Trump's 'ability to maintain basic functions' in court has raised questions, with one psychologist linking the former president's behaviour to symptoms of dementia.
Well, what the hell did you expect in the Donald Trump days? Politicians have learned if they never show any shame, never apologize, and never accept any personal accountability… they’ll be fine.
Donald Trump’s reaction to last night’s White House Correspondents Dinner shows the much-indicted ex-POTUS still sucks at being the butt of a joke.