Trump trial date set in Stormy Daniels hush money case

A Manhattan judge Tuesday set the trial date for Donald Trump’s hush money case.

Judge Juan Merchan has set the date for March 25, 2024, CNN’s Abby D. Phillip tweeted.

Trump is charged with 34 felony counts on allegations he falsified business records. The former president has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Trump “repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election,” charging documents state.

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I’ve often said that the best way to trigger MAGA is to use its own tactics and words against it, because it’s an incredibly effective way to showcase how bad they are at doing everything, including their internet bullying.

They don’t like to be ridiculed or told they’re racist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, etc. They don’t want to hear any truths about Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. They use projection and immature juvenile name-calling as a replacement for discussing policy, as Trump has no policies other than enriching himself. They ignore all of Trump’s failures, bankruptcies, affairs, and multiple crimes against the United States, all in the name of “owning the Libs.”

I can’t speak for all liberals, but I don’t think any of us have ever once felt owned by the Red Hat Death Squad, considering they share a collective IQ point. But plenty of people on our side of Twitter and other apps have repeatedly owned them.

California Governor Gavin “Studly” Newsom and his digi team were the first to truly understand how to get under Trump’s legendarily thin skin like no one since Hillary Clinton. And all they did to trigger the Trumpflakes was use the Trump Template of braggadociously bloviating all-caps and lots of exclamation points.

More recently, Paulina Mangubat, the DNC’s Deputy Chief Mobilization Officer, used a totally MAGA tactic in a reply to Kapo Nosferatu Stephen Miller.

MAGA really didn’t like that, with a mass pearl-clutching at a Democrat daring to speak out against the Regime.

Which is what we all should be doing, but some of us are suppressed on Twitter.

But now, a new hero has emerged on Twitter, one whose name alone can set off a blizzard of MAGA snowflakes like no one else:

Hunter Biden.

The beloved only surviving son of Joe and Jill Biden, Hunter’s struggles with drugs and alcohol have been well-documented. It’s so profoundly stupid that MAGA’s dual obsessions with Hunter are his addiction and his laptop. I’m not sure how they would go about trolling him if projection language wasn’t a thing, because they love to accuse Hunter of profiting from his father’s presidency while Trump’s Large Adult Sons are raking in millions between Bitcoin and shady investments.

We also have to talk about former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s full-on obsession with the handsome Hunter, because she kept bringing giant thirst trap photos of him (along with graphic pics) to Congressional hearings in 2023. I always imagined the employees at the Kinko’s closest to the Capitol cringing every time one of MTG’s staffers came in with another hard drive full of photos of Hunter that made him look like a Calvin Klein model shot by Herb Ritts in the '90s.

All bullying is rooted in jealousy, and MAGA doesn’t have anyone nearly as dreamy as Hunter Biden. Even the most unflattering photo of Hunter is better than any shot of Don Jr and Eric. Also, Hunter doesn’t seem to have gotten any plastic surgery, unlike literally every member of the Trump family and all of the women who work for them or marry into the worst family this country has ever produced.

Hunter Biden didn’t come to Twitter to play games, my friends. He hit the algorithms swinging, and everyone on the left was delighted by watching his DGAF takes on everything MAGA.

He’s also killing it in the replies.


Hunter Biden triggers Trump and Trump Jr like no one else, because he has something neither of them will ever have:

A loving father.



That photo haunts Don Jr, whose father is so incapable of expressing love that he wasn’t even at his namesake son’s most recent wedding.

Those are some very toxic Trump family dynamics. Meanwhile, no matter how hard things got for Hunter, from rehabs to relapses to facing federal prison, the one thing he never lost was the love and support from his father and the rest of his family.

It seems most of MAGA were raised without unconditional love, because they see that photo and can’t recognize the pure paternal love expressed. They can’t see themselves in Hunter because they’ve never felt that acceptance. And so they mock what they’ve never had and never will have, just like their petty, jealous Dear Leader.

What sets Hunter’s tweets and trolling apart from anyone else who’s taken on MAGA is that he’s mocking his past with the same kind of self-deprecating Irish humor his father often uses. If you can make fun of yourself, then it takes the power out of anything else anyone says about you. Joe Biden was the first to bring up his age before anyone else could, remarking that “I know I look a lot younger” than his actual age.

Hunter’s sass and fearless MAGA stomping already have plenty of people calling for him to run for office.

As for me, I’m happy to see anyone poking MAGA where it hurts them the most. I’d also love to land him for an interview, as I’m filling in for Dean Obeidallah on SiriusXM Progress on Tuesday, June 9th, and I can’t think of anyone I’d rather interview more right now. What a blast it would be to let Hunter Biden speak his mind, swears and all, for up to 40 minutes of live radio!

Until I can land that for sure, I fully encourage you to keep up with Hunter Biden. Truth matters now more than ever, so if he doesn’t run for office, he should at the very least have his own podcast.

Preferably with his dad and me as the first guests on the premier episode. Welcome to the Resistance, Hunter Biden!

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Ivanka Trump's story about how she and Jared Kushner seemed to stumble upon the Albanian island where they want to build their $1.4 billion resort has a glaring hole, according to an ex-GOP operative.

Steve Schmidt couldn't help but laugh during his podcast and sing "Albania! Albania!" while he broke apart Ivanka's story about discovering the island while swimming in the Mediterranean Sea and then walking ashore to explore it.

"She got five words in," before she started lying, as he notes that "She would have stepped on her first landmine."

Schmidt explained with the help of his guest, Canadian podcaster Dean Blundell, that the Albanian island of Sazan is littered with landmines and ordnance.

On top of that, even though Ivanka says the island is in the Mediterranean, Blundell points out that it sits squarely "in the Adriatic" Sea.

Dead Air: Ivanka and Jared's special "discovery" by Steve Schmidt

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Pollsters are finding that swing voters are increasingly worried about a trending issue that's being overlooked.

Sarah Longwell, a Republican pollster and the publisher of The Bulwark, revealed in a podcast that swing voters are sharing a long list of concerns about AI data centers with pollsters.

The issue is "flying under the radar as a big picture issue for folks in D.C., but I hear it coming up all the time in focus groups," Longwell said. "I know some people are paying attention to this, but I mean, the voters talk about it all the time."

She played audio from a focus group interview with a Georgia small-town voter who described the impact of AI data centers as "devastating" and explained why she's bothered.

"I'm in the middle of a huge countywide fight against data centers," one voter said. "People are showing up about their water already, and about 40 people are being pushed out of their homes. It's just very personal."

The voter added that the fight against AI data centers "took the cake for me on whether or not I might vote. The only reason I'm going to is because maybe when I go to heaven, it'll count for something."

Another voter from Pittsburgh said that data centers are replacing "old mill sites," and "people are saying, 'We don't want them! We don't want them! We don't want them!'" Pittsburgh residents are opposed to the water consumption and pollution created by data centers, "but they just keep coming," he went on.

"It doesn't matter who the governor is, who the mayor is," he said. "They're all on board because it's job creation."

Longwell predicted, "Does this become a 2028 issue?" referring to the next presidential election. "I suspect it does."

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