Trump's muttering 'in the presence of the jury' riles judge in defamation case

U.S. District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan warned former President Donald Trump after he spoke out in front of a jury hearing a defamation case against him Wednesday.

On the second day of the trial, writer E. Jean Carroll testified about how she had been defamed after Trump denied raping her.

During Carroll's testimony, Trump was heard muttering loud enough for the jury to hear.

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"With the jury out of the room, Carroll's lawyer Shawn Crowley is complaining that Trump is muttering loud enough that the plaintiff's table can hear him," Politico's Erica Orden reported. "Crowley says Trump is saying Carroll's testimony is false and suggesting she has 'suddenly gotten her memory back.'"

Before taking a break from the trial, Kaplan suggested he would address Trump's remarks.

"What about Mr. Trump being vocal in the presence of the jury?" the judge asked. "I'm just going to ask that Mr. Trump take special care to keep his voice down when he's conferring with counsel so that the jury does not overhear it."

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A “key pocket” of Republican voters is furious with GOP leaders as the party is “already facing headwinds” heading into the midterms, and many are now threatening to buck the Republicans altogether at the voting booth next month, The Hill reported Friday.

Those voters are followers of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement, or MAHA, many of whom feel betrayed by Republican lawmakers who have backed a legislative provision that would delay a deadline for pesticide safety reviews.

“Do we vote for someone who supports vaccine mandates… or do we vote for someone who is actively supporting pesticides and poison in our foods that our babies and children eat on a daily basis?” asked Zen Honeycutt, the founder of Moms Across America, The Hill reported.

“It’s an impossible decision, and this is why many of our moms are saying they’re going to stay home, or vote independent, write somebody in.”

MAHA leaders were also frustrated with a recent MAHA summit in which Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was spotted mingling “with executives from drug developers, artificial intelligence companies, insurers and retailers like Walmart.”

Robert Malone, who previously served as the vice chair of Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine advisory committee, declared in a scathing write-up that the recent MAHA summit was a “betrayal of what MAHA claimed to stand for.”

“The people who built this movement were promised an end to this kind of Washington influence-peddling, not a MAHA-branded version of it,” Malone wrote.

“Meanwhile, many of the physicians, scientists, patients, parents, farmers and activists who built this movement are barely represented. This is not the reform we fought for. It is the system we fought against.”

MAHA frustrations have already turned into direct calls to action. Kelly Ryerson, a prominent MAHA activist, called on MAHA-aligned voters to ditch Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) in his bid for reelection and to instead consider backing his Democratic opponent.

“[MAHA- and Kennedy-aligned voters] should not be supporting Marshall and I think they should vote for the Democrat,” Ryerson said, The Hill reported.

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President Donald Trump was once again denied the Nobel Peace Prize, but the winner made sure to mention him in her initial remarks.

And not in a flattering way, reported The Daily Beast.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, 85, a South African jurist and former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, won the 2026 prize. Trump, 80, had long sought the honor.

Pillay was told she had won "while at the Nuremberg court in Germany," which was used for the post-World War II trials of Nazi leaders, the Beast reported. In a video captured by Agnès Callamard, the French human rights activist who heads Amnesty International, Pillay made a remark about Trump that the Beast described as mocking his eagerness for the prize.

“If you clap a little bit more, I may share this prize with Trump,” she told her applauding admirers.

Trump has openly campaigned for the prize, saying he deserves it and pointing to his claims that he has ended multiple conflicts and “pre-wars” since returning to the White House. The United States is currently in the eighth month of a war with Iran.

Committee chair Jørgen Watne Frydnes said Pillay won for her work being “instrumental in ensuring war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide” are prosecuted.

“Navi Pillay’s commitment to universal legal principles and her firm moral compass are constants in a long career,” Frydnes said. “A common thread runs from her early work defending Nelson Mandela and others who stood up against apartheid to her service as a judge in some of the key international court cases of our time.”

Pillay served as a judge on the International Criminal Court and was president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda before becoming the U.N.’s human rights chief in 2008.


Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) brought up road salt again Thursday night, and the internet was ready for her.

At her second debate with Democratic challenger Troy Jackson, which aired on C-SPAN, Collins was asked whether she could use the appropriations process to push back on President Donald Trump’s tariffs. She said the Appropriations Committee “does not have jurisdiction over tariffs.” She added that she has been working with the administration to get some of them lifted.

“I’ve already had some success on pulp, on road salt,” Collins said. “I know Troy makes fun of road salt, but the fact is, if you ask towns in...”

Jackson wasn’t buying it, so he brought up all the other tariffs that still exist and are still putting pressure on Maine residents.

“How much money is that going to cost the town of Presque Isle, the town of Frenchville? All people that work in the farming and fish and forestry industry,” Jackson said. “She didn’t answer your question... She has the purse. She could have used it against Donald Trump.”

“Nobody has been more outspoken against the Canadian tariffs than I,” Collins replied.

The exchange revived an attack that has dogged her since September. That month, road salt and cement were exempted from Trump’s Canadian tariffs and Collins took credit. Jackson’s response was “Thank you for the road salt,” the Washington Examiner reported.

Online, the reaction came fast.

“Susan Collins managed to walk right into another Road Salt moment,” wrote Acyn Torabi, whose clip of the exchange has more than 237,000 views.

“This is so bad for her,” wrote progressive influencer Lucas Sanders.

“Oops she did it again,” posted MeidasTouch.

“So tariffs are costing us money,” another user wrote.

Dem strategist Maine summed it up: “LET THEM EAT ROAD SALT AND PULP TOO, PEASANT!”

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