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Trump trial Day 9 highlights: Judge rules Trump violated gag order [1]

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Date: 2024-05 

Davidson reads aloud text messages mocking Trump’s wealth

As he did so, the former president pressed in to view the message on a monitor in front of him on the defense table. He then leaned over to whisper something to his lawyer Todd Blanche, sitting at his left, as the messages flashed by on the screen — rendered as a spreadsheet in black text on a green background.

Trump and Blanche whispered back and forth intermittently as Davidson continued testifying about the text message.

In the October 2016 message to Davidson, Howard was commenting on Cohen’s apparent reluctance to make good on an agreed-upon $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels.

“All because trump is tight,” Howard wrote in one of the messages, which Davidson said was a reference to Trump’s purported frugality. In a follow up message, the editor wrote: “I reckon that trump impersonator I hired has more cash.”

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[1] Url: https://apnews.com/live/trump-trial-hush-money-day-9

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