Trump Slated For Podcast With Star Hush Money Witness Who Helped Convict Him

According to new reporting from MS Now, citing a Trump White House official, Donald Trump is slated to sit down for a podcast interview with none other than Michael Cohen -- his former personal attorney who served as the prosecution's star witness in the President's infamous Hush Money trial, playing a large role in convicting Trump on 34 felony counts.

According to the official, who spoke with the publication on condition of anonymity about plans not yet made public, the interview will air on Cohen's show today.

Trump and his former attorney had an infamous, public falling out over FBI raids, guilty pleas, congressional testimony, and a bombshell tell-all book, making this newfound "thaw" between the pair particularly interesting, as Donald Trump has never been known to let go of a grudge easily.

Cohen spent more than a decade serving as Donald Trump's closest personal "fixer," which culminated in the now-former attorney personally cutting the hush money check for Stormy Daniels. However, his loyalty to Trump wavered when the FBI began to seize his devices and records in 2018. Eventually, he admitted to tax evasion, campaign finance crimes, and cutting fat checks to women who claimed to have had affairs with Donald Trump.

Under oath, Cohen stated, "I regret doing things for him that I should not have. To keep the loyalty and to do the things that he asked me to do, I violated my moral compass."

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Judge Threatens Trump DOJ W/ JAIL TIME Over Epstein Files

Today we had our usual roundtable for The Epstein Update--myself, Ellie Leonard & Kait Justice, but the main topic, gleefully, was unusual. Judge Emmet Sullivan, 41-year veteran of the bench, told Trump's DOJ its lawyers would face jail time if they keep stonewalling on releasing all the horrors of the Epstein files.

Ellie was actually in the courtroom for it. When Trump DOJ lawyer/hack Andrew Block said he couldn't commit to a time frame--in his attempt to continue the cover-up--but it would be “forthcoming,” Sullivan quipped: “Christmas is forthcoming." He followed up with: "You want me to issue another order and say, I really mean it this time?”

Finally, Sullivan was clear the attorneys be forewarned he's a judge who'll “enforce legitimate judicial orders” with whatever means available, including prison. He closed with, “I’m not in a habit of blindsiding people," and have "absolutely no desire to go down that road again,” But he also said that they had better be prepared that prison time for contempt was "not a threat. That's a promise."

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Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools

The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with companies like OpenAI.

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The Trump Kids Are Dodging Process Servers In Their Daddy's Lawsuit

The BBC wholeheartedly believes that Donald Trump's children -- namely his eldest daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared and his eldest son Don Jr. -- have "personal knowledge" about the President that's relevant to fighting the lawsuit the President has lodged against the British network. Still, the Trump kids are making it clear they won't do things the easy way.

The sitting President of the United States is currently embroiled in a defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation in connection with the network's 2024 documentary on the January 6th Capitol insurrection that aired in the UK. Trump claims defamation, arguing that the BBC spliced together parts of his infamous J6 speech.

The broadcaster did, in fact, combine two parts of Trump's speech.

In one segment of his speech, Trump told the crowd, "I’ll be there with you, we’re going to walk down, we’re going to walk down."

He added just a few minutes later, "We're going to walk down to the Capitol."

In their documentary, the BBC edited the footage of Trump's speech to say, "We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and I'll be there with you." They then included the line from the end of Trump's 55-minute speech, where he told the mob of supporters to "fight like hell."

"We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore," Trump said in his J6 speech.

The BBC has apologized for its editing but maintains that the edits are far from defamatory.

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Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform

Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code-hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred favorite, GitHub.

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TikTok explores peer-to-peer payments via DMs, report says

If rolled out, the feature would use the social media service’s TikTok Pay offering, which is already available in Southeast Asia for TikTok Shop purchases.

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‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators

Cybersecurity experts who investigate spyware attacks say the number of people who received a recent threat notification from Apple is unusually high.

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