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Manny Schewitz

Axios  - In what likely would trigger a massive global trade war, Trump has called for 10% tariffs on all imports, 100% tariffs on cars made outside the U.S., and a minimum 60% tariffs on Chinese goods. An analysis by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a Democrat-aligned group, found that the 10% tariffs "would amount to a roughly $1,500 annual tax increase for the typical household."

During Daniels’ testimony, Judge Merchan told Trump’s defense attorney to stop the former president from “cursing audibly.”

Guardian UK -Adult film star Stormy Daniels took the stand on Tuesday and offered the most lurid, explosive testimony so far in the trial against Donald Trump. It was so lurid, in fact, that the former president’s attorneys unsuccessfully moved for a mistrial.Judge Juan Merchan had allowed Daniels to testify with the caveat that prosecutors should avoid the specific sexual details of her alleged 2006 affair with Trump. But Daniels repeatedly – and at times unprompted – offered those details anyways, mentioning that the sex was in the missionary position, that Trump didn’t wear a condom, and that her bra was still on.

Merchan warned her at one point to only answer the questions she was being asked, but Daniels just kept going. She also testified that she’d tried to avoid Trump’s advances but he’d told her: “I thought you were serious about what you wanted,” a suggestion that a possible role on his TV show The Apprentice was contingent on sleeping with him. She also mentioned that Trump’s bodyguard was outside the room, and while she said she was sober and never felt directly threatened, she felt like she “blacked out” and doesn’t remember the beginning of the encounter.

That led Trump’s attorneys to fight for a mistrial. Trump attorney Todd Blanche argued that the power dynamic Daniels described and the mention of Trump’s bodyguard looming outside did nothing but “inflame the jury”, calling it “extraordinarily prejudicial to insert safety concerns” into a trial about business record falsification. Merchan agreed with the defense that “there are probably some things that would have been [left] better unsaid,” but said that Daniels had been a difficult-to-control witness for the prosecution. He instructed prosecutors to talk to Daniels and instruct her to be more careful when she returned to the stand. “I’m going to deny the motion for a mistrial at this time,” he determined.

Radar Online -According to Daniels, she exited the hotel room bathroom and found Trump “sitting on his bed in only boxer shorts. And that’s when I had that moment where I felt like the room spun in slow motion," Daniels testified. “Great, I’ve put myself in this bad situation."

“He didn’t come at me, he didn’t rush at me, he didn’t put his hands on me, nothing like that," she added. “The next thing I know, I was on the bed, somehow on the opposite side of the bed from where we had been standing. I had my clothes and my shoes off.”

"I just left as fast as I could," Daniels said regarding the immediate aftermath of the alleged sexual encounter. “He didn’t give me anything, he didn’t offer to pay me or give me his cell phone number or anything like that.” 

Radar Online - According to Daniels, she and Trump discussed the former president’s current wife – Melania Trump – shortly after Daniels met Trump inside his Lake Tahoe hotel room that July.When Daniels called Melania “very beautiful,” Trump allegedly told her that he and Melania “don’t even sleep in the same room.”“Daniels says when Trump showed her a photo of Melania, she said she was beautiful,” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reported from inside the courtroom on Tuesday. “He said not to worry, ‘We don’t even sleep in the same room.’”

X.Com - Donald Trump's week from hell gets so much worse as a stunning new poll reveals that most registered votes expect him to be convicted in his hush money trial. And it gets even better... The Suffolk University/USA Today survey found that 65.1% of voters expect the jury to render a guilty verdict. 14.8% expect guilty on all counts. 50.3% expect guilty on some counts. Only 23.1% believe Trump will be found not guilty on all counts. 10.3% were undecided and 1.5% refused to answer. 85.7% of Democrats believe Trump will be found guilty. 7.8% of Democrats believe that he'll be found not guilty on all counts. 45.8% of Republicans expect a guilty verdict and 40.7% expect him to be found not guilty on all charges.