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While media attention is currently focused on the salacious details of former President Donald Trump's hush-money scheme with adult film star Stormy Daniels, one former Trump official believes the American public is getting robbed of the more salient trial that could expose his actions related to the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

"I'm devastated," said Alyssa Farah Griffin, who worked as Trump's White House Communications Director during a CNN appearance in which she revealed how she texts with fellow officials who worked at the pleasure of the president before he was voted out of office in 2020.

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A single, short text message discussed during former President Donald Trump's hush money trial in Manhattan carries an "ominous" sign for the former president, legal expert Norm Eisen explained in a writeup for CNN on Thursday.

The text came about during the testimony of Keith Davidson, an attorney who represented adult film star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal. Both allege they were sexually involved with Trump, and received payments to buy their silence. The Daniels payments, and the alleged illegal methods Trump took to conceal them, form the basis of the prosecution.

"Although Davidson is just a supporting actor in this drama, his role in negotiating the alleged payment to Daniels makes him an important witness to lay down the basic facts of the alleged 'catch and kill' plot — and to corroborate the details that former American Media, Inc. CEO and National Enquirer publisher David Pecker established and Cohen will ultimately testify about," wrote Eisen. "Perhaps the most dramatic moment of Davidson’s morning testimony came when he was asked about an election night 2016 text message exchange with Dylan Howard — a former editor of the National Enquirer who helped broker the negotiations for the story. The prosecution asked Davidson to explain the meaning of a text he had sent to Howard that evening. As the election was about to be called for Trump, Davidson sent a text to Howard asking, 'What have we done?'"...

A fiery exchange between Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) and CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins occurred on Wednesday over the intention and lack of contrition over sending a text message to then Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows days before Biden was set to be inaugurated as president to compel the president to bring in the U.S. troops to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

"It was three days before President Biden was inaugurated and you were urging the White House to use the U.S. military to prevent the peaceful transfer of power," said Collins. "Do you regret sending that text?"

Norman responded quickly. ...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanded that Syria "take every possible step" to protect American diplomats after supporters of President Bashar al-Assad tried to attack the US ambassador.

Twitter on Monday announced that the number of applications registered at the popular microblogging service has topped a million.

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