News about impeachment, Donald Trump

Trump just said at his rally that he did, in fact, ask his Secret Service driver on Jan. 6 to take him to the Capitol. "I sat in the back. And you know what I did say? 'I’d like to go down there.' ... They said 'Sir, it’s better if you don’t.'

"Thanks to NY's strict laws about media access, the trial has precisely the wrong level of exposure for Trump. It's not totally behind closed doors, so he can’t just lie about what transpired. But no cameras also means he can’t turn things into a circus." www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-criminal-hush-money-trial-pecker-stormy

Some takeaways from the first day of the third week of Trump's criminal trial: 1) Trump ensured that several of his political aides, allies and even a member of his family were in the room after he was sensitive to reporting last week that, with the exception of his defense…

Judge Merchan to Trump's lawyer: "You're telling me the scrutiny is outrageous, but nobody's forcing him" to talk to the press in the hall. "The entire area has been set up the way it has been set up so that your client, who is a candidate for president," can exercise his…