She wasn’t the first or last of his affairs. She wasn’t the highest or the lowest of the women he screwed over the decades and marriages.

I’ve known people like this before (men and a few women, to be honest) for whom sex isn’t about sex. It’s about a cluster of pathologies, insecurities, and, sometimes, evil.

Trump didn’t sexually assault E. Jean Carroll for pleasure; it was about his entitlement and hatred of women. He didn’t fuck Stormy for fun; it was a way of feeling above someone, better than someone. Her life and reputation led him to think of her as he seems to think of most women; as a whore, a hole, a tool for his lusts; Stormy was the kind of woman he viewed as essentially subhuman, interchangeable, and disposable.

Trump, an impulsive child raised by a domineering mother and a distant, cruel father, wasn’t trying to fuck Stormy for pleasure or release or even validation. He fucked her because she was one of the few women he felt superior to.

As he tried to seduce her, his desire crude and obvious, he said she reminded him of his daughter. “You remind me of my daughter because she’s smart, blonde, and beautiful, and people underestimate her.” This is not a line one might expect in the great history of seduction, but for Trump, it was practically Ars Amatoria. For all the MAGA folks who constantly bleat about how the elites hate them, Trump’s other line trying to get Daniels into bed is genuinely ironic: “This is the only way you're getting out of the trailer park."

The researchers found that hormone therapy didn’t increase mortality rates (deaths from all causes) in any age group, when compared with women of similar age taking a placebo.

There was no statistically significant difference in heart risk between hormone users and nonusers. When the study was stopped in 2002, the organizers reported a 29 percent increase in heart risk among women taking hormone drugs.

Stroke risk among young hormone users was relatively low — less than one extra case per 1,000 women using estrogen-progestin therapy and no excess risk with estrogen alone.

The different forms of hormone therapy (combination estrogen-progestin and estrogen alone) had opposite effects on breast cancer risk. Women who used estrogen alone (which is allowed only for those who have had a hysterectomy) saw a 20 percent reduction in breast cancer risk over the follow-up period. (With combination hormone drugs "The absolute risk is low" )

Bone fracture risk among hormone users was 33 percent lower across all age groups compared to placebo.

Let’s shift to the economy, sir. You have floated a 10% tariff on all imports, and a more than 60% tariff on Chinese imports. Can I just ask you now: Is that your plan?

Trump: It may be more than that. It may be a derivative of that. A derivative of that. But it will be somebody—look when they come in and they steal our jobs, and they steal our wealth, they steal our country.

When you say more than that, though: You mean maybe more than 10% on all imports?

Trump: More than 10%, yeah. I call it a ring around the country. We have a ring around the country. A reciprocal tax also, in addition to what we said. And if we do that, the numbers are staggering. I don't believe it will have much of an effect because they're making so much money off of us. I also don't believe that the costs will go up that much. And a lot of people say, “Oh, that's gonna be a tax on us.” I don't believe that. I think it's a tax on the country that's doing it. And I know. Look, I took in billions of dollars from China. Nobody else ever did anything on China. I also let people know what the threat of China was. China was going along making $500 to $600 billion a year and nobody was ever even mentioning it until I came along. What's happening in Detroit is very sad because electric cars with this EV mandate, which is ridiculous, because they don't go far. They cost too much and they're going to be made in China. They're all going to be made in China.

If she kills a puppy and brags about it, doesn’t that put her miles ahead of people like traitor Pence or beardy-weirdie J.D. Vance? Little Marco would break his hand if he fired a pistol bigger than a .22, and we both know it. Kari Lake fell off the Hot-Crazy Matrix, even for you. Tim Scott looks up to Lindsay Graham as a tough guy.

Unlike those weaklings, she’s tough, Donald. She’s perfect. No matter how dark and bloody the job, she’ll do it with all the cruelty and malice you crave. You’d never have to wink at her when stealing an election. She’d volunteer.

There’s another thing to think about, Donald.

Everyone piled on to poor Kristi before you even had a chance to tell them what to think. Your most passionate Very Online supporters — Catturd, Laura Loomer, HtlrWzRite1488, and others — attacked Noem before you said a word, trying to make you abandon Hot Kristi.

Imagine, Donald; they decided for you that she was a monster.

Donald J. Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial had barely begun when he started to turn his anger toward his lead lawyer, Todd Blanche.

Although Mr. Blanche has been Mr. Trump’s favorite lawyer for some time, behind closed doors and in phone calls, the former president has complained repeatedly about him in recent weeks, according to four people familiar with the situation.

He has griped that Mr. Blanche, a former federal prosecutor and veteran litigator, has not been following his instructions closely, and has been insufficiently aggressive. Mr. Trump wants him to attack witnesses, attack what the former president sees as a hostile jury pool, and attack the judge, Juan M. Merchan.

Mr. Trump, who often complains about legal fees and sometimes refuses to pay them, has also wondered aloud why his lawyers cost so much, according to the people, who all spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive topic.