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Post by Tennesseer on Mar 22, 2023 20:28:29 GMT -5
i thought he still had a residence in NY. but i guess he is not considered a resident there? trump officially changed his primary residence to Florida in late 2019/early 2020. From Twitter:
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Post by djAdvocate on Mar 24, 2023 12:10:59 GMT -5
there HAS to be a law against that. add it to the pile.
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Post by happyhoix on Mar 24, 2023 14:12:38 GMT -5
there HAS to be a law against that. add it to the pile. A law against being an idiot? i wish. 🫢
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Post by djAdvocate on Mar 24, 2023 14:35:15 GMT -5
there HAS to be a law against that. add it to the pile. A law against being an idiot? i wish. 🫢 no. a law against threatening a sitting judge. am i wrong interpreting it that way?
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Post by happyhoix on Mar 24, 2023 22:02:08 GMT -5
A law against being an idiot? i wish. 🫢 no. a law against threatening a sitting judge. am i wrong interpreting it that way? No you are exactly right, that is a felony. Add it to the list. He’s never going to get to the end of the list if he doesn’t stop adding to it. I think he’s in a death spiral panic, throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks, and for once his minions are kind of ignoring him.
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Post by djAdvocate on Mar 25, 2023 13:49:47 GMT -5
i don't think he is afraid. i think he is petulant. like a spoilt child.
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Post by djAdvocate on Mar 25, 2023 14:41:38 GMT -5
i just checked the status of the cases, and about 1/3 of the Trump criminal cases are closed. half of those were dismissed and the others were settled. one case (Mary Trump) is on appeal.
i have not reviewed the civil cases, but a larger proportion are closed.
i stand by the guestimate i made earlier.
edit: i just reviewed the civil cases, and five are closed. i didn't see how many were settled.
so, i am thinking that Trump has about thirty cases open against him right now. only one case has been decided so far, and he lost it. if i were on the "this is all nothing" side of the argument right now, i would not be too confident about how that will play out. January of 2023, as an example, was terrible for Trump. at least half a dozen of his appeals were denied.
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Post by Tennesseer on Mar 25, 2023 16:52:06 GMT -5
i just checked the status of the cases, and about 1/3 of the Trump criminal cases are closed. half of those were dismissed and the others were settled. one case (Mary Trump) is on appeal. i have not reviewed the civil cases, but a larger proportion are closed. i stand by the guestimate i made earlier. edit: i just reviewed the civil cases, and five are closed. i didn't see how many were settled. so, i am thinking that Trump has about thirty cases open against him right now. only one case has been decided so far, and he lost it. if i were on the "this is all nothing" side of the argument right now, i would not be too confident about how that will play out. January of 2023, as an example, was terrible for Trump. at least half a dozen of his appeals were denied. The wacko's in Waco today.
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Post by djAdvocate on Mar 30, 2023 18:38:08 GMT -5
As news spread on Thursday that a Manhattan grand jury had handed up an indictment against former President Donald J. Trump, the reactions broke down along drearily familiar partisan lines, reflecting a country still deeply divided by Mr. Trump’s turbulent time in office and his rejection of the 2020 election results.
House Republicans, who have tried to intervene in the case, reacted with anger and vowed revenge.
revenge away, dumbasses. seriously.
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Judge: If news taints rape-trial jurors, Trump shares blameNEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s rape trial will begin next week as scheduled after a federal judge on Monday rejected his lawyer's request for a one-month delay, saying the former president cannot make public statements to promote pretrial publicity and then claim it's prejudicial to him and reason to delay a trial. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan in Manhattan said the civil trial on claims against Trump by a longtime columnist, E. Jean Carroll, will begin as scheduled on April 25. Trump denies the rape happened or that he ever knew Carroll. Kaplan rejected arguments by Trump attorney Joe Tacopina that Trump’s recent indictment in New York state court on criminal falsification of business records charges had created such a wave of negative publicity that a one-month cooling off period was needed before the rape trial begins. "There was, of course, a great deal of media coverage — some of it invited and, indeed, provoked by Mr. Trump — first of the apparently impending indictment, then the indictment itself, and finally the arraignment. But the connection that Mr. Trump seeks to draw between that coverage and either the need for or the effectiveness of a ‘cooling off’ period is unsupported by any evidence," the judge said. Rest of article here: Judge: If news taints rape-trial jurors, Trump shares blame
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 19, 2023 23:25:55 GMT -5
Trump may not appear at upcoming trial in NYC due to 'logistical burdens': AttorneyIf former President Donald Trump declines to attend his trial next week in which he stands accused of defaming and battering writer E. Jean Carroll, his attorney wants the jury to know it would be to spare New York City the burden of keeping him safe. Trump "wishes to appear at trial," defense attorney Joe Tacopina said in a pre-trial filing Wednesday, but asked the court to inform the jury about the "logistical burdens associated with his appearance in a courtroom." An attorney for Carroll chided the request, writing in a separate letter that "the notion that Mr. Trump would not appear as some sort of favor to the City of New York -- and that the jury should be instructed as much -- taxes the credulity of the credulous." Another Carroll attorney, Roberta Kaplan, pointed out that Trump has recently attended events around the country including an Ultimate Fighting Championship event, a meeting of the National Rifle Association, and a deposition as part of a different civil case. "On Monday, he announced that he has scheduled a New Hampshire campaign event for next Thursday, April 27-- in other words, in the middle of the trial in this case," Kaplan said. "If Mr. Trump can find a way to attend wrestling championships, political conventions, civil depositions, and campaign functions, then surely he could surmount the logistics of attending his own federal trial." The former president has until this Thursday to let the court know for sure whether he's coming. Rest of article here: Trump may not appear at upcoming trial in NYC due to 'logistical burdens': Attorney
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Post by happyhoix on Apr 22, 2023 17:12:26 GMT -5
I’m feeling thick headed today. I’ve seen a couple ‘bombshell’ headlines about some new emails between some Trump minions discussing some Coffee Co Georgia voting data that they had gotten their hands on. They were speculating whether or not they wanted to use the data in order to try to contest the GA senate races. www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bombshell-revelation-of-trump-election-texts-is-more-damning-than-his-georgia-phone-call-legal-analyst/ar-AA1ac5fO?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=ae61fe1991084b8684e03cacac5b56af&ei=20Someone in this article claims this is more damning for Trump than the phone call to Rattzenburger that Trump made. I’m not sure why this is a bombshell. Of course Trump’s minions were busy plotting illegal ways to overthrow the 2020 presidential election, and trying to over throw the 2021 senate race isn’t that much of a stretch. But this was Trump minions, not Trump, having this debate. Trump can and will claim he was completely unaware of this activity. He’ll claim he didn’t know ‘those guys’ and that they were ‘only there to go get coffee.’ The reason the phone call to Rattzenburger is so damning is everyone recognizes Trump’s voice, and there is zero wiggle room for him to claim he either didn’t make the call, or that he didn’t intend for Rattzenburger to get illegal votes. (Although he has tried). To me, that’s what will hang him (not literally) if nothing else will. I’m not understanding why this latest discovery is that important, maybe someone else can explain it.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Apr 22, 2023 17:16:34 GMT -5
I’m feeling thick headed today. I’ve seen a couple ‘bombshell’ headlines about some new emails between some Trump minions discussing some Coffee Co Georgia voting data that they had gotten their hands on. They were speculating whether or not they wanted to use the data in order to try to contest the GA senate races. www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bombshell-revelation-of-trump-election-texts-is-more-damning-than-his-georgia-phone-call-legal-analyst/ar-AA1ac5fO?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=ae61fe1991084b8684e03cacac5b56af&ei=20Someone in this article claims this is more damning for Trump than the phone call to Rattzenburger that Trump made. I’m not sure why this is a bombshell. Of course Trump’s minions were busy plotting illegal ways to overthrow the 2020 presidential election, and trying to over throw the 2021 senate race isn’t that much of a stretch. But this was Trump minions, not Trump, having this debate. Trump can and will claim he was completely unaware of this activity. He’ll claim he didn’t know ‘those guys’ and that they were ‘only there to go get coffee.’ The reason the phone call to Rattzenburger is so damning is everyone recognizes Trump’s voice, and there is zero wiggle room for him to claim he either didn’t make the call, or that he didn’t intend for Rattzenburger to get illegal votes. (Although he has tried). To me, that’s what will hang him (not literally) if nothing else will. I’m not understanding why this latest discovery is that important, maybe someone else can explain it. I think it is a “look! Squirrel!” thing.
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 22, 2023 17:25:16 GMT -5
I’m feeling thick headed today. I’ve seen a couple ‘bombshell’ headlines about some new emails between some Trump minions discussing some Coffee Co Georgia voting data that they had gotten their hands on. They were speculating whether or not they wanted to use the data in order to try to contest the GA senate races. www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bombshell-revelation-of-trump-election-texts-is-more-damning-than-his-georgia-phone-call-legal-analyst/ar-AA1ac5fO?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=ae61fe1991084b8684e03cacac5b56af&ei=20Someone in this article claims this is more damning for Trump than the phone call to Rattzenburger that Trump made. I’m not sure why this is a bombshell. Of course Trump’s minions were busy plotting illegal ways to overthrow the 2020 presidential election, and trying to over throw the 2021 senate race isn’t that much of a stretch. But this was Trump minions, not Trump, having this debate. Trump can and will claim he was completely unaware of this activity. He’ll claim he didn’t know ‘those guys’ and that they were ‘only there to go get coffee.’ The reason the phone call to Rattzenburger is so damning is everyone recognizes Trump’s voice, and there is zero wiggle room for him to claim he either didn’t make the call, or that he didn’t intend for Rattzenburger to get illegal votes. (Although he has tried). To me, that’s what will hang him (not literally) if nothing else will. I’m not understanding why this latest discovery is that important, maybe someone else can explain it. I don't understand the statement either. I'll wait for more information.
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Post by tallguy on Apr 22, 2023 17:48:23 GMT -5
I would guess that it makes it much easier to bring a racketeering case or conspiracy charges. If that happens, multiple people get charged as part of a criminal enterprise. If any start to turn to try and save themselves, it pretty much destroys Trump's defense that he was not involved in any of those activities. An ongoing criminal enterprise is going to be more serious than one phone call, I would guess is the argument.
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Post by billisonboard on Apr 22, 2023 17:51:22 GMT -5
They didn't simply "get their hands on" the data. They broke the law to get it. The Georgia State Elections Board revealed Wednesday that the board has asked the FBI to participate in an ongoing criminal investigation into the voting system breach in Coffee County ... link The question is who all was involved in plan to get it and/or use it after the fact. My understanding is a couple of low level guys did the actual act of getting it. You get into all the more serious charges if there was an organized group plan to illegally get it and use it.
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Post by happyhoix on Apr 22, 2023 18:37:20 GMT -5
Ok, the article does mention RICO charges, which are usually used to prosecute organized crime. Would be interesting to see what kind of proof the minions have that Trump himself had his thumb in the pie.
Coffee County - that’s in the piney flats part of SE Georgia. I remember quite a while back seeing video of some of the county employees (the woman in charge of voting was one of them) meeting up with some of Trump’s minions in front of the polling place when it was closed. They unlocked the door and went in (this was all caught on security video) and were in there for a while, and later it was determined that one of the county employees accessed the computer system with the voting tallies during this time frame. I can’t remember if it was Coffee County, though. At the time, I thought it looked pretty damning, but then nothing ever came from it.
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 22, 2023 19:26:37 GMT -5
Ok, the article does mention RICO charges, which are usually used to prosecute organized crime. Would be interesting to see what kind of proof the minions have that Trump himself had his thumb in the pie. Coffee County - that’s in the piney flats part of SE Georgia. I remember quite a while back seeing video of some of the county employees (the woman in charge of voting was one of them) meeting up with some of Trump’s minions in front of the polling place when it was closed. They unlocked the door and went in (this was all caught on security video) and were in there for a while, and later it was determined that one of the county employees accessed the computer system with the voting tallies during this time frame. I can’t remember if it was Coffee County, though. At the time, I thought it looked pretty damning, but then nothing ever came from it.
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Post by happyhoix on Apr 22, 2023 20:29:41 GMT -5
You found it!! It was Coffee county then…. That seems pretty blatant, if they can link it to Trump.
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NYT article. Behind a pay wall. only posting the first few paragraphs. If anyone is interest in the entire article , I will gladly 'summarize' it for you and send it as a Proboards message to you. OPINION KATHERINE MILLER Donald Trump May Have Begun LosingWhat’s the right form of justice for the problem of Donald Trump? There’s already been one indictment. There’s expected to be another in Georgia, possibly a sprawling one, about the effort to overturn the 2020 election. Although there’s a literal point to an investigation (find out what went wrong) followed by a prosecution (hold people accountable), investigations and prosecutions can also take on cultural or symbolic meaning. The Fox News settlement last week offered a microcosm of what’s happening now with Mr. Trump: The Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit was about one thing (the claim of defamation against a business), but it took on a broader meaning (the public learned more about how Republican politics really works right now). And, notably, few agree what the settlement means, whether the $787.5 million paid by Fox to Dominion reflects accountability or inconsequence, whether an apology was required or whether a trial was, even as the case risked a ruling with unpredictable repercussions. Different people have different views of what the real problem and the right form of justice look like for Mr. Trump. Maybe the only certainty right now is that the answer will be unsatisfying. He, meanwhile, has never let up. Last month, Mr. Trump stood with his hand over his heart in Waco, Texas, as scenes from the Jan. 6 riot played on a big screen and a recording by the J6 Prison Choir blasted through speakers at a rally for his presidential campaign. Rest of article here: lDonald Trump May Have Begun Losing
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Post by djAdvocate on Apr 29, 2023 20:50:55 GMT -5
NYT article. Behind a pay wall. only posting the first few paragraphs. If anyone is interest in the entire article , I will gladly 'summarize' it for you and send it as a Proboards message to you. OPINION KATHERINE MILLER Donald Trump May Have Begun LosingWhat’s the right form of justice for the problem of Donald Trump? There’s already been one indictment. There’s expected to be another in Georgia, possibly a sprawling one, about the effort to overturn the 2020 election. Although there’s a literal point to an investigation (find out what went wrong) followed by a prosecution (hold people accountable), investigations and prosecutions can also take on cultural or symbolic meaning. The Fox News settlement last week offered a microcosm of what’s happening now with Mr. Trump: The Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit was about one thing (the claim of defamation against a business), but it took on a broader meaning (the public learned more about how Republican politics really works right now). And, notably, few agree what the settlement means, whether the $787.5 million paid by Fox to Dominion reflects accountability or inconsequence, whether an apology was required or whether a trial was, even as the case risked a ruling with unpredictable repercussions. Different people have different views of what the real problem and the right form of justice look like for Mr. Trump. Maybe the only certainty right now is that the answer will be unsatisfying. He, meanwhile, has never let up. Last month, Mr. Trump stood with his hand over his heart in Waco, Texas, as scenes from the Jan. 6 riot played on a big screen and a recording by the J6 Prison Choir blasted through speakers at a rally for his presidential campaign. Rest of article here: lDonald Trump May Have Begun Losingplease send.
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NYT article. Behind a pay wall. only posting the first few paragraphs. If anyone is interest in the entire article , I will gladly 'summarize' it for you and send it as a Proboards message to you. OPINION KATHERINE MILLER Donald Trump May Have Begun LosingWhat’s the right form of justice for the problem of Donald Trump? There’s already been one indictment. There’s expected to be another in Georgia, possibly a sprawling one, about the effort to overturn the 2020 election. Although there’s a literal point to an investigation (find out what went wrong) followed by a prosecution (hold people accountable), investigations and prosecutions can also take on cultural or symbolic meaning. The Fox News settlement last week offered a microcosm of what’s happening now with Mr. Trump: The Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit was about one thing (the claim of defamation against a business), but it took on a broader meaning (the public learned more about how Republican politics really works right now). And, notably, few agree what the settlement means, whether the $787.5 million paid by Fox to Dominion reflects accountability or inconsequence, whether an apology was required or whether a trial was, even as the case risked a ruling with unpredictable repercussions. Different people have different views of what the real problem and the right form of justice look like for Mr. Trump. Maybe the only certainty right now is that the answer will be unsatisfying. He, meanwhile, has never let up. Last month, Mr. Trump stood with his hand over his heart in Waco, Texas, as scenes from the Jan. 6 riot played on a big screen and a recording by the J6 Prison Choir blasted through speakers at a rally for his presidential campaign. Rest of article here: lDonald Trump May Have Begun Losingplease send. Just got home. Will do in the a.m.
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Why E. Jean Carroll's Trump testimony transcript is required readingThis act of defiance must resonate far beyond the corners of a Manhattan courtroom. When writer E. Jean Carroll was asked under oath this week why she was in court, she didn’t mince words. “I am here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it didn’t happen,” the former advice columnist said. “He lied and shattered my reputation, and I am here to try to get my life back.” It’s that last part that has been rattling around in my brain since I read the transcript of Carroll’s first day of testimony. “I am here to get my life back.” It’s striking because it’s a sentence about Carroll, not the former president she testified she encountered at Bergdorf Goodman nearly 30 years ago. The former president she says raped her in the dressing room of Bergdorf’s. The former president who she claims held her against the wall with “his whole weight” and put her in a situation where she was “too frightened to think if I was afraid or not.” The former president whose actions Carroll says left an indelible negative impact on her career and left her “unable to ever have a romantic life again.” (Trump has denied these allegations, calling them “fiction.”) That former president’s lengthy history of alleged sexual misconduct and assault has been well documented. It was written about before, during and after his disastrous and destructive presidency, and will certainly be written about again as he gears up for the 2024 presidential election. More than 26 women have accused him of sexual misconduct, and in 2016 he vowed he would sue them all. In 2020, journalists Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy published a book containing 43 new allegations. (Trump, as recently as October 2022, claimed he has never kissed any woman without her consent.) Rest of article here: Why E. Jean Carroll's Trump testimony transcript is required reading
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New York Times article. It is behind a paywall. OPINION Why Didn’t She Scream? And Other Questions Not to Ask a Rape Accuser She pushed him off her. She stomped on his foot. She hit him with her handbag. She kneed him. She fought so hard that for nearly 30 years, E. Jean Carroll, the woman who has accused former President Donald Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s, has preferred calling it a “fight” instead of a “rape” — because she fought back. What Ms. Carroll did not do that day in the lingerie department dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman, where she says Mr. Trump pinned her against a wall, pulled down her tights and shoved his fingers and then his penis into her vagina, is scream. “I’m not a screamer,” she testified in civil court last week, when asked by an attorney for Mr. Trump why she hadn’t cried out. “I was too much in a panic to scream. I was fighting.” Ms. Carroll was on the stand in a federal courtroom in Manhattan, where a jury will determine whether Mr. Trump is liable for causing Ms. Carroll bodily harm (using New York State’s definition of “battery”) — and defaming her by calling her a liar when she spoke about it. Mr. Trump, who has denied Ms. Carroll’s allegations and said he has never met her, has so far declined to attend the trial, though he has chosen to weigh in (to the judge’s admonition) on social media, including about the absence of a scream. “You can’t beat up on me for not screaming,” Ms. Carroll told Mr. Trump’s lawyer Joseph Tacopina when pressed on her silence. One of the reasons women don’t come forward, she continued, “is because they are always asked, ‘Why didn’t you scream?’” Ms. Carroll, who had been unflappable until this point, became emotional. “I’m telling you,” she said, raising her voice, “he raped me whether I screamed or not!” Rest of article here: Why Didn’t She Scream? And Other Questions Not to Ask a Rape Accuser
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Post by Tennesseer on May 5, 2023 10:39:28 GMT -5
Just my opinion but trump wants to move it to federal court in the event he is convicted and there is a sitting republican president at the time of conviction able to pardon him. Donald Trump's Last-Minute Legal Plea Doomed to FailDonald Trump's request for his upcoming criminal trial for allegedly falsifying business records to be moved from a state court to a federal court looks certain to fail, legal experts have said. On Thursday, lawyers for the former president filed a request for Trump's trial— where he faces 34 charges of falsifying business records, which he has pleaded not guilty to—to be moved to a federal court in Manhattan as the case "involves important federal questions," including alleged violations of federal election law. In April, Trump became the first U.S. president in history to be charged with a crime over allegations of falsifying business records in connection with a $130,000 payment that Trump arranged for his former attorney, Michael Cohen to pay adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election to keep quiet about an alleged affair she had with the former president. Trump also denies having an affair with Daniels in 2006. Rest of article here: Donald Trump's Last-Minute Legal Plea Doomed to Fail
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