re: NBC: Law enforcement agencies being told of trump indictment next week

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Stormy Daniels testifies on Avenatti: ‘He lied to me and betrayed me’

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Stormy Daniels, an adult-film actress who was allegedly defrauded by Michael Avenatti, testified Thursday in federal court as part of the criminal trial against the celebrity attorney.

Daniels testified that Avenatti said he was going to get “a big payday” from winning her lawsuit against then-President Donald Trump and a crowd funding legal defense fund they set up would also cover his costs.

“He lied to me and betrayed me and broke my trust, and I thought he was my friend,” Daniels said.

Stormy Daniels on Trump lawsuit: 'I have nothing left to lose'

Prosecutors allege that Avenatti – who helped negotiate the $800,000 advance for her September 2018 book “Full Disclosure” – defrauded her by instructing her literary agent to send two of the four installments of the book advance totaling nearly $300,000 to an account controlled by him, rather than directly to Daniels.

He allegedly sent a fabricated letter to the agent with a manufactured signature from Daniels redirecting book advance payments from Daniels’ account to another account he controlled without her knowledge, prosecutors say.

Avenatti told her the publisher mailed a check for the second book advance payment to his office and so he had a check submitted to her account, Daniels testified Thursday.

Trial evidence shows email correspondence in which Avenatti switched the routing information with the literary agent to an attorney-client trust account he controlled by allegedly fabricating her signature.

Daniels testified that Avenatti never told her about the trust account and did not sign any documents approving those transactions.

Prosecutor Robert Sobelman methodically went through months of text messages between Daniels and Avenatti in which she repeatedly asked him about the status of her third book advance payment for nearly $150,000.

In text messages, Avenatti told Daniels he was “working on it” and suggested to her the publishing company was withholding money from her because she hadn’t met her publicity requirement for the book.

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Stormy Daniels on Trump lawsuit: 'I have nothing left to lose'

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Reality check: Former Manhattan prosecutor Mark Pomerantz warned in his new book that if Bragg chooses to pursue that complex strategy, there is "a big risk that felony charges would be dismissed before a jury could even consider them."

Driving the news: Trump defense lawyer Joe Tacopina on Tuesday essentially dared Bragg to pursue charges.

"[I]f they bring this case, I believe this will catapult him into the White House," Tacopina said on MSNBC, his latest in a string of media appearances after the New York Times reported that Trump is likely to face charges soon.
Trump has promised to stay in the race if he's indicted, telling reporters ahead of his CPAC speech this month: "I wouldn't even think about leaving. Probably it will enhance my numbers."
He has a point: Polls suggest Trump received a boost among Republican voters after the FBI's search for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, and after his first and second impeachments.

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Somewhere around 2/3rds to 1/2 of the party do not support re-nominating him.

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HailHailtoMichigan!

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The Republican Party will not win a general election again in this country

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