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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Aug 19, 2022 9:51:57 GMT -5
It was an obvious outcome. No way a 75 yo wants to be in and potentially die in jail. Wonder how Trump feels about the outcome So I imagine the Trump gravy train has been shut down. If you have a whole family depending upon his largesse in order to exist, it’s going to be a rude awakening for the family when tuition bills are no longer paid, or you hav3 to leave your posh digs. |
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Aug 19, 2022 9:53:33 GMT -5
The bar for inadequate assistance of counsel is really low. I get that, but is it something that could get a verdict overturned if he screams about it loudly enough? |
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Post by swamp on Aug 19, 2022 9:58:07 GMT -5
The bar for inadequate assistance of counsel is really low. I get that, but is it something that could get a verdict overturned if he screams about it loudly enough? it could, yes. But the lawyer basically has to pass out at the table to be deemed inadequit. |
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Post by pulmonarymd on Aug 19, 2022 10:07:13 GMT -5
It was an obvious outcome. No way a 75 yo wants to be in and potentially die in jail. Wonder how Trump feels about the outcome So I imagine the Trump gravy train has been shut down. If you have a whole family depending upon his largesse in order to exist, it’s going to be a rude awakening for the family when tuition bills are no longer paid, or you hav3 to leave your posh digs. They will then be like "normal" people. Oh the horrors. How many people will go to jail at 75? Good chance he will die in jail, especially if he has significant medical problems. I would do a lot for my family; I will not go to jail for them in a similar situation. His kids will need to find a way to finance their lifestyles. Isn't that what conservatives tell poor people all the time? |
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Aug 19, 2022 10:32:23 GMT -5
I get that, but is it something that could get a verdict overturned if he screams about it loudly enough? it could, yes. But the lawyer basically has to pass out at the table to be deemed inadequit. I could see Trump finding a lawyer to comply.  Drag things out long enough, and people forget. |
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Post by djAdvocate on Aug 19, 2022 11:25:49 GMT -5
he never disappears long enough to be forgotten.
attention whores are like that.
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Post by djAdvocate on Aug 19, 2022 15:06:22 GMT -5
he never disappears long enough to be forgotten. attention whores are like that. people forget move on to the next issue ergo, donald trump is not a person. |
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Post by djAdvocate on Aug 25, 2022 9:46:54 GMT -5
it is being reported by WaPo that what started the archives investigation was the fact that Obama's letter to Trump and KJI's "love letters" were missing from the archives. they were requested PRIOR to Trump leaving office.
so, yeah. this has been going on for OVER TWO YEARS.
i can see why Trump THINKS those letters were "his", but he was told they were not by MANY people. once again, this is just something he refuses to believe.
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No donald, you are not innocent. But you are a ripe piece of shit. ‘I Am as Innocent as a Person Can Be’: Trump Goes Into Meltdown Mode With Flurry of Panicked Truth Social PostsIs former President Donald Trump freaking out? I mean, given the spate of legal actions in the wake of his questionable business and presidential behavior and the criminal investigations that have followed, it would totally make sense if he were panicking. And a Thursday-morning flurry of social media posts suggests that he is no longer committed to the pretense of being calm, cool, and collected under the heat of legal scrutiny. Let’s assume that if you are reading this article, you are familiar with the multitude of legal problems the former president faces, not least of which is an apparent felony offense of being in private possession of classified and top secret documents outside the accepted protocol. It is a felony because, in 2018, Trump himself signed that into law. That’s right, Citizen Trump appears to have broken the very law that President Trump signed. And Trump’s own supply of defiance and self-determination to get through these latest set of issues appears to be running dry. Or at least his public comments made on his own social media platform TruthSocial suggest that he’s not …. in a good place at the moment. Shortly before 9 AM, Trump opened with the always effective opener, “Even though I am as innocent as a person can be,” before launching into some old conspiratorial chestnuts familiar to anyone who’s watched a Trump rally. He ended with the curious, “it looks more and more like the Fake News Media is pushing hard for the Sleaze to do something that should not be done!” One can only assume that “the Sleaze” referenced here is the DOJ and “something that should not be done!” is an indictment for crimes? Not clear, but perhaps he is suggesting that he is still above the law, even one he signed. He then pivoted to an attack on President Joe Biden, calling the retrieval of classified documents from Mar-a-Lago “the greatest political attack in the history of the U.S.” He continued with a hit at DOJ and FBI leaking at levels never seen before, adding “and I did nothing wrong!!!” (The third exclamation point ALWAYS sells the point!!!) Trump then gave a clue as to his possible defense, going ALL CAPS with “PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT!” If only there were a third exclam there? Then he went on and now I’m sure you are just as bored as I am. We’ve had our fun. ‘I Am as Innocent as a Person Can Be’: Trump Goes Into Meltdown Mode With Flurry of Panicked Truth Social Posts |
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Post by Opti on Aug 26, 2022 6:36:40 GMT -5
No donald, you are not innocent. But you are a ripe piece of shit. ‘I Am as Innocent as a Person Can Be’: Trump Goes Into Meltdown Mode With Flurry of Panicked Truth Social PostsIs former President Donald Trump freaking out? I mean, given the spate of legal actions in the wake of his questionable business and presidential behavior and the criminal investigations that have followed, it would totally make sense if he were panicking. And a Thursday-morning flurry of social media posts suggests that he is no longer committed to the pretense of being calm, cool, and collected under the heat of legal scrutiny. Let’s assume that if you are reading this article, you are familiar with the multitude of legal problems the former president faces, not least of which is an apparent felony offense of being in private possession of classified and top secret documents outside the accepted protocol. It is a felony because, in 2018, Trump himself signed that into law. That’s right, Citizen Trump appears to have broken the very law that President Trump signed. And Trump’s own supply of defiance and self-determination to get through these latest set of issues appears to be running dry. Or at least his public comments made on his own social media platform TruthSocial suggest that he’s not …. in a good place at the moment. Shortly before 9 AM, Trump opened with the always effective opener, “Even though I am as innocent as a person can be,” before launching into some old conspiratorial chestnuts familiar to anyone who’s watched a Trump rally. He ended with the curious, “it looks more and more like the Fake News Media is pushing hard for the Sleaze to do something that should not be done!” One can only assume that “the Sleaze” referenced here is the DOJ and “something that should not be done!” is an indictment for crimes? Not clear, but perhaps he is suggesting that he is still above the law, even one he signed. He then pivoted to an attack on President Joe Biden, calling the retrieval of classified documents from Mar-a-Lago “the greatest political attack in the history of the U.S.” He continued with a hit at DOJ and FBI leaking at levels never seen before, adding “and I did nothing wrong!!!” (The third exclamation point ALWAYS sells the point!!!) Trump then gave a clue as to his possible defense, going ALL CAPS with “PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT!” If only there were a third exclam there? Then he went on and now I’m sure you are just as bored as I am. We’ve had our fun. ‘I Am as Innocent as a Person Can Be’: Trump Goes Into Meltdown Mode With Flurry of Panicked Truth Social PostsThe usual. Translates to I am very guilty but here are your sheeple words of the day so you and I can pretend I am innocent. Read an article earier that some idiot at Judicial Watch told him these records are his, and Trump always latches onto what he wants to hear versus what is legal or what is wise. |
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Newly obtained surveillance video shows fake Trump elector escorted operatives into Georgia county's elections office before voting machine breach
(CNN)A Republican county official in Georgia escorted two operatives working with an attorney for former President Donald Trump into the county's election offices on the same day a voting system there was breached, newly obtained video shows. The breach is now under investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and is of interest to the Fulton County District Attorney, who is conducting a wider criminal probe of interference in the 2020 election. The video sheds more light on how an effort spearheaded by lawyers and others around Trump to seek evidence of voter fraud was executed on the ground from Georgia to Michigan to Colorado, often with the assistance of sympathetic local officials. In the surveillance video, which was obtained by CNN, Cathy Latham, a former GOP chairwoman of Coffee County who is under criminal investigation for posing as a fake elector in 2020, escorts a team of pro-Trump operatives to the county's elections office on January 7, 2021, the same day a voting system there is known to have been breached. The two men seen in the video with Latham, Scott Hall and Paul Maggio, have acknowledged that they successfully gained access to a voting machine in Coffee County at the behest of Trump lawyer Sidney Powell. Text messages, emails and witness testimony filed as part of a long-running civil suit into the security of Georgia's voting systems show Latham communicated directly with the then-Coffee County elections supervisor about getting access to the office, both before and after the breach. One text message, according to the court document, shows Latham coordinating the arrival and whereabouts of a team "led by Paul Maggio" that traveled to Coffee County at the direction of Powell. Three days after the breach, Latham texted the Coffee County elections supervisor, "Did you all finish with the scanner?" According to court documents, Latham testified she did not know what Hall was doing in Coffee County. But when confronted with her texts about the scanner, she asserted her Fifth Amendment rights. Rest of article and video here: Newly obtained surveillance video shows fake Trump elector escorted operatives into Georgia county's elections office before voting machine breach
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The legal cases assigned to the faces below are identified in the linked article as is the description of the case. Tracking Trump's ongoing investigations, civil suits and countersuits(CNN)The inquiry that led to the August search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home and private club is only one of more than a dozen investigations and lawsuits against the former President and his orbit. There is a complicated web of ongoing investigations, civil suits and countersuits. While he has not been accused of any crime by a government, state or city attorney, Trump is under scrutiny from all three. He denies wrongdoing in all these matters. His efforts to overturn the 2020 election are on the radar of federal and Georgia prosecutors. His finances, which he long tried to hide from investigators, are under the microscope in New York. He's been sued for defamation, wrongful termination and for cutting a relative out of a will. The lawsuits and investigations included here do not encompass the multiple investigations of Trump underway by the House of Representatives, which is controlled by Democrats, but would end if Republicans take control after elections in November.  Tracking Trump's ongoing investigations, civil suits and countersuits |
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Judge dismisses Trump suit against Hillary ClintonA federal judge in Florida has dismissed former President Donald Trump's lawsuit against his 2016 presidential challenger Hillary Clinton that accused her of "acting in concert" with top FBI leadership to invent what became known as the Russia investigation. U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks seemingly mocked the lawsuit in his order of dismissal, calling the suit "difficult to summarize in a concise and cohesive manner." "It was certainly not presented that way," the judge wrote. Trump had argued that the Russia probe was "prolonged and exacerbated by the presence of a small faction of Clinton loyalists who were well-positioned within the Department of Justice," a group that included defendants James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Kevin Clinesmith, and Bruce Ohr. The judge said the lawsuit was rife with "glaring problems," claims that were "not warranted under existing law," and legal theories that lacked factual support. "At its core, the problem with Plaintiff's Amended Complaint is that Plaintiff is not attempting to seek redress for any legal harm; instead, he is seeking to flaunt a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him, and this Court is not the appropriate forum," the order said. "We vehemently disagree with the opinion issued by the Court today," Trump's attorney, Alina Habba, said in a statement following the dismissal. "Not only is it rife with erroneous applications of the law, it disregards the numerous independent governmental investigations which substantiate our claim that the defendants conspired to falsely implicate our client and undermine the 2016 Presidential election." Rest of article here: Judge dismisses Trump suit against Hillary Clinton
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Saw yesterday they are opening an investigation over the $250 million Trump raised for his ‘stop the steal’ bitch fest.
Apparently some of the money may have been spent on questionable things.
Similar to Bannon currently being sued for siphoning off a million bucks of the ‘build the wall’ scam.
Great grifters think alike.
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Trump faces new legal problem in DOJ pressure allegationsFormer President Trump is facing a new political quagmire as Senate Democrats open an investigation into allegations he pressured the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate his political opponents. Former U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman wrote in a new book that the Justice Department under Trump pushed his office to pursue criminal cases against former Secretary of State John Kerry and others viewed as political opponents of Trump. Democrats, who have been happy to elevate Trump and his conduct in the wake of an FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago estate, will look into the matter, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced Monday night. “I welcome the investigation,” Berman said Tuesday morning on MSNBC. “The conduct that occurred was so outrageous and unprecedented. A light needs to be shined on it.” Berman, who served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) from 2018 until he was forced to resign in 2020, alleges in his new book that his office was pursuing charges stemming from a guilty plea by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. He also cited an investigation into former Trump White House official Stephen Bannon, who was eventually charged and later pardoned before Trump left office. In another instance, Berman said the DOJ referred a criminal case targeting Kerry to his office days after Trump sent two tweets attacking Kerry for communicating with Iranian officials about the Iran nuclear deal. The Justice Department suggested the SDNY cite Kerry using a statute from 1799 that had never been successfully prosecuted, Berman said Tuesday morning. The allegations levied by Berman, who ultimately left his post after then-Attorney General William Barr told him he had been fired at Trump’s request, present the latest headache for Trump as he preps for a 2024 presidential campaign. While Trump has not made an announcement, he is viewed as more likely than not to jump into the race. With that political backdrop, Democrats have seized on opportunities to elevate the former president’s conduct, which has made him unpopular with many independent voters. They’ve sought to tie him to GOP candidates for the House and Senate — a not terribly challenging task given Trump’s efforts to hold power over the GOP through primary endorsements. President Biden earlier this month delivered a speech decrying Trump and “MAGA Republicans” who are aligned with him as an urgent threat to democracy, framing the midterms as a matter of protecting democratic values. Rest of article here: Trump faces new legal problem in DOJ pressure allegations
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Trump warns of 'problems' like 'we've never seen' if he's indicted
Former President Donald Trump said Thursday the nation would face "problems ... the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen" if he is indicted over his handling of classified documents after leaving office, an apparent suggestion that such a move by the Justice Department could spark violence from Trump's supporters. The former president said an indictment wouldn’t stop him from running for the White House again and repeatedly said Americans “would not stand” for his prosecution. “If a thing like that happened, I would have no prohibition against running,” Trump said in an interview with conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt. “I think if it happened, I think you’d have problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen before. I don’t think the people of the United States would stand for it.” Hewitt asked Trump what he meant by “problems.” “I think they’d have big problems. Big problems. I just don’t think they’d stand for it. They will not sit still and stand for this ultimate of hoaxes,” Trump said. It’s not the first time Republicans have hinted at potential civil unrest if the DOJ indicts Trump. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham made headlines last month when he said there would be “riots in the street” if “there is a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information.” Graham’s comments were slammed as “irresponsible” and “shameful.” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, without naming the South Carolina senator, said these comments from “extreme Republicans” were “dangerous.” Hewitt appeared to see Trump’s comments as a nod toward potential unrest, asking the former president how he would respond when the “legacy media” accuses him of inciting violence. “That’s not inciting. I’m just saying what my opinion is,” Trump said. “I don’t think the people of this country would stand for it.” Such rhetoric is not out of character for Trump. In his speech on Jan. 6 to supporters before rioters stormed the Capitol in an effort to block the certification of President Joe Biden's Electoral College victory, the then-president told the crowd to “fight much harder” against “bad people” and to “show strength.” Trump warns of 'problems' like 'we've never seen' if he's indicted
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NY AG James May Sue Trump Soon—And His Kids—After Reportedly Rejecting Settlement OfferNew York Attorney General Letitia James may sue former President Donald Trump for fraud soon after rejecting an offer from his attorneys to settle the case against him, the New York Times reports, as part of a long-running civil investigation into the Trump Organization and its financial dealings—which could also punish at least one of Trump’s children. Key FactsJames’ office has rejected at least one settlement offer from Trump’s legal team after negotiations started over the summer, the Times reports based on anonymous sources familiar with the matter. It’s still possible that a deal could be reached and negotiations are expected to continue in the coming days, the Times reports, but notes the talks have so far “yet to gather much momentum.” Trump could be sued for fraud if negotiations fail, the Times notes, and the publication reports the AG’s office is also considering suing at least one of Trump’s children—Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., or Eric Trump—who have all served as Trump Organization executives. The possible lawsuit comes after James’ office subpoenaed Trump for documents and testimony, though the ex-president refused to answer questions and plead the Fifth Amendment when he was deposed in August. Trump’s children have also all testified in the probe, with the Times reporting that Eric Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment rights more than 500 times but Ivanka and Donald Trump, Jr., both answered questions. What To Watch ForAny lawsuit filed against Trump or his children will be civil rather than criminal, meaning they would pay financial penalties rather than face criminal charges or prison time. The potential financial consequences could go as far as a court ordering the dissolution of the Trump Organization, though the Times notes that James has said in interviews she doesn’t want to go that far. Key BackgroundJames’ office has been conducting a civil probe into the Trump Organization and its financial dealings since March 2019, which expanded to include a separate criminal investigation in May 2021. The investigation is looking into whether the Trump Organization fraudulently inflated or deflated the value of his assets on financial statements for personal gain, which the AG’s office revealed in January it had found “significant” evidence of. The AG’s office is working in cooperation with the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, which has also been conducting a criminal probe of the Trump Organization since July 2019. Trump himself has not yet faced any consequences in that investigation, but the Trump Organization and its longtime Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg were indicted in July 2021 for alleged tax fraud. Weisselberg has taken a plea deal confessing his guilt to all 15 charges against him, which will result in a five-month prison sentence, while the Trump Organization will face a trial in October for its alleged crimes. NY AG James May Sue Trump Soon—And His Kids—After Reportedly Rejecting Settlement Offer
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. They will not sit still and stand ... Nope. Trump may get away with inciting an insurrection on January 6, 2021 based on how he worded his comments leading up to and during his 'Stop The Steal' rally before the attack on the Capitol building. trump might not be so legally lucky about his most recent and any future comments of what could happen in the country if he is indicted. It sounds like January 6th all over again. Not this time, trump. Not this time. |
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. They will not sit still and stand ... Nope. Well, not at the same time, at least.... |
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. They will not sit still and stand ... Nope. The man just does not learn, does he. You’ll see an uprising the likes of which you’ve never seen if I get indicted. Threat against the DOJ or a call to his toadies - or both? And I guess there are MAGA minions willing to put their lives up n the line still for this craven man. You would think they would have learned from J6. |
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