Morning, friends. I’m on my way to 100 Centre to join Lawrence O'Donnell & the rest of the @msnbc & @nbcnews teams covering the Trump trial. You can find my color from the courtroom at NBCNews.com, on @msnbc during breaks & after court, and of course, here.

Going to work early today.

“outside agitators” is a bad phrase with a history of being wrong. All outside sympathizers are not agitators. Often none of them are. News media shouldn’t adopt the phrase “outside agitators” except to challenge use of the term for proof like this:

NYPD Chief Jeffrey Maddrey who planned & commanded the Columbia arrests is a graduate of Columbia University’s Police Management Institute.

FOX 2 Detroit said they’d look into Trump’s claims and guess what? They confirmed it was a lie. fox2detroit.com/news/donald-tr…

More NYPD arrests last night at City College than Columbia.

No network cameras at City College.

1st NYPD campus protest arrests weren't at Columbia in 1968 but at City College in 1949.

One is an Ivy League college & other is a public college serving mostly local students.

One mark of a great reporter is noticing details that should’ve been obvious but others missed. So Jonathan Alter and the exact contours of Donald Trump’s combed-over bald spot. washingtonmonthly.com/2024/04/29/day… Washington Monthly

.Lawrence O'Donnell has some breaking @Celtics news.

30 April 1945 | As Soviet forces neared his command bunker in Berlin Adolf Hitler shot himself.

Hitler's Thousand Year Reich lasted twelve years, four months & eight days.

We need to commemorate all the victims & remember where ideologies of hatred may lead humanity to.

Join us Wed May 8th 7:30PM ET online and in person for a conversation with @lawrence on the new memoir from Jen Psaki. “Say More” shares Jen’s story the journey from the campaign trail, to the state department to the White House. Craig Newmark Civic Life Series

So after we highlighted how profoundly peculiar it was for Trump to have no family members supporting him in the courtroom, a Trump has been drafted into courtroom attendance.

Eric, of course.

1/ I am so tired of him.

I am tired of his face. I am tired of his style of speech. I am so tired of his lies. I am tired of his bluster, his narcissism. I am tired of his fraud and his crimes. I am tired of the relentless news coverage and the danger he poses to democracy.

I…

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I spoke with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and thanked him for his role in getting the Ukraine aid bill passed in Congress.

I appreciate the bipartisan support for Ukraine in Congress, as well as President Biden's leadership. I invited Congressman Jeffries to visit…

Appointed by G W Bush

The number of indicted people in the courtroom doubled this week.

And 15 minutes on election, Trump, etc.

Biden: Gotta be careful what I say about the Supreme Court.
Stern: Why!? They’re nuts!

And Stern on debating Trump: “Just stand there & say over & over, ‘Can you find me 11,000 votes?’ You don’t get to run if you fixed an election!” 2/2