[Master Thread] Federal & State Charges Against Pres. Trump [merged]

[TBoneTX 45,287]

New York Prosecutes Couple For Fraud For Listing Their House For $499,000 When It Ultimately Sold For $485,000

 

NEW YORK — Local couple Marty and Shelly Cross have been officially charged with fraud after listing their home for $499,000 when it ultimately sold for slightly less.

"The Cross family knowingly and willfully tried to get a good deal when they sold their home," explained Attorney General Letitia James.  "The State of New York hereby assesses the Cross family a fine of $50 million for their egregious actions.  If they cannot pay by tomorrow, we will begin kidnapping their children to hold as ransom."  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/new-york-prosecutes-couple-for-fraud-for-listing-their-house-for-499000-when-it-ultimately-sold-for-485000

[Crazy Cat 41,845]

5 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

New York Prosecutes Couple For Fraud For Listing Their House For $499,000 When It Ultimately Sold For $485,000

 

NEW YORK — Local couple Marty and Shelly Cross have been officially charged with fraud after listing their home for $499,000 when it ultimately sold for slightly less.

"The Cross family knowingly and willfully tried to get a good deal when they sold their home," explained Attorney General Letitia James.  "The State of New York hereby assesses the Cross family a fine of $50 million for their egregious actions.  If they cannot pay by tomorrow, we will begin kidnapping their children to hold as ransom."  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/new-york-prosecutes-couple-for-fraud-for-listing-their-house-for-499000-when-it-ultimately-sold-for-485000

How can sane people see the Trump case as anything other than political persecution?  There were no complaints, there were no victims, there was no crime!!!  This is just a pre-emptive attack on Democracy and election interference.  

[Pooky 3,784]

4 hours ago, Crazy Cat said:

How can sane people see the Trump case as anything other than political persecution?  There were no complaints, there were no victims, there was no crime!!!  This is just a pre-emptive attack on Democracy and election interference.  

They can’t. And more and more people are coming to that realisation.

[TBoneTX 45,287]

BOMBSHELL:  The Biden Admin Planted an Operative in Fani Willis' Office to Target Trump, Say Sources

 

There are brand new concerns about the Biden administration's interference in the 2024 presidential election.  The Fulton County District Attorney's Office admitted during a hearing last month that they communicated with the Biden White House as it built its case to prosecute Donald Trump.  Now, sources have since come forward to reveal that the Biden administration allegedly placed a Democrat operative into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's office with the specific goal of targeting former President Donald Trump.  [...]

 

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/02/27/bombshell-the-biden-admin-planted-an-operative-in-fani-willis-office-to-target-trump-n4926794

[TBoneTX 45,287]

The 8th Amendment comes out in favor of Trump

 

On February 16, 2024, a judge in New York State imposed fines totaling just over $360 million on former president Donald J. Trump, The Trump Organization, and several related Trump companies and trusts in the civil case brought by the New York attorney general.  President Trump's sons Donald Trump, Jr. and Eric Trump were fined just over $4 million each.  The court imposed additional sanctions, including injunctions against former president Trump; Donald Trump, Jr.; and Eric Trump from serving as officers or directors in New York corporations for specified numbers of years, among other sanctions.

 

The media reporting on the court's decision has been massive since the decision was rendered.  However, little or no reporting focused on the constitutionality of the fines under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.  President Trump and his co-defendants all have substantial 8th Amendment "excessive fine" challenges to raise.  In fact, a review of the facts and applicable law reveal that this decision is simply more election interference.  [...]

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/02/the_8th_amendment_comes_out_in_favor_of_trump.html

[Crazy Cat 41,845]

Most of the Supreme Court Justices agreed with me that states cannot enact the 14th amendment.....Congress must act.

[Pooky 3,784]

4 hours ago, Crazy Cat said:

Most of the Supreme Court Justices agreed with me that states cannot enact the 14th amendment.....Congress must act.

All of them did. In a unanimous opinion, SCOTUS agreed that Democrats and Never-Trumpers, in their bid to preserve Democracy and prevent the presumed wannabe Dictator from even getting on the primary ballot, were, in fact, acting in a pseudo-dictatorial manner themselves and attempting to destroy Democracy. ☠️

 

Oh, the irony.

[TBoneTX 45,287]

One link to the happy news:

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Supreme Court rules Trump cannot be kicked off Colorado primary ballot

Former President Donald Trump was handed a major victory on Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that he cannot be excluded from Colorado's primary election ballot over his actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.  [...]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-rules-trump-cannot-be-kicked-off-colorado-primary-ballot-150547297.html

[TBoneTX 45,287]

This mistitled piece (the deep dive is the key part) is amazing in its plain-language readability and thoroughness.  Some fascinating details are included that you won't find elsewhere.

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Prof. Turley On SCOTUS Keeping Trump on the Ballot (and a Deep Dive Into Today’s Decision)

Earlier today we heard the good news that the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the once and future President Trump can indeed remain on the ballot.  It also shouldn't shock you that there is a meltdown happening today on the left—we knew one was coming the moment it was verified that the Supreme Court had ruled in Trump's favor.  [...]

 

https://twitchy.com/aaronwalker/2024/03/04/professor-turley-on-keeping-trump-on-the-ballot-and-a-deep-dive-into-todays-decision-n2393586

[Family 3,988]

Ex-Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg pleads guilty to perjury in civil fraud trial

Mr. Weisselberg pleads guilty to the charges," his attorney, Seth Rosenberg, told a judge in court.

 

 

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg recommended Weisselberg be sentenced to five months in jail and agreed to his release before sentencing, which is scheduled for April 10.

The charges accuse Weisselberg of committing perjury in a deposition, as well as in testimony, in Trump’s civil fraud trial. Bragg's office alleged Weisselberg lied in July 2020 in claiming he learned Trump’s triplex apartment had been dramatically overvalued only after Forbes published an article detailing the issue, when, in fact, he had known about the overvaluation before then. 

Bragg's office also said that as part of the plea, Weisselberg admitted that he committed conduct underlying other instances of perjury.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/ex-trump-cfo-weisselberg-plead-guilty-perjury-civil-fraud-case-rcna141612

[TBoneTX 45,287]

In Major Blow To Democracy, Supreme Court Rules Voters Can Vote For Favorite Candidate

 

[...] The landmark ruling, issued just as the 2024 Presidential Election prepared to ramp up, presents a grave new threat to American freedom, as all nine justices declared that voters can, in defiance of what the ruling authorities may want, select their preferred candidate.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/in-shocking-blow-to-democracy-supreme-court-affirms-voters-can-vote-for-candidate-they-want

[TBoneTX 45,287]

New Filing in Fani Willis Case: Witness Tampering?;  UPDATE: Another Witness?

 

Just when we all thought this case couldn't get any nuttier.  A late filing yesterday in the disqualification hearing might force Judge Scott McAfee to reopen the evidentiary portion of the hearing.  Or it might send him running for the hills, and who would blame him?  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/03/05/new-filing-in-fani-willis-case-witness-tampering-n3784097

[TBoneTX 45,287]

Nicely put by Jonathan Turley.

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Trump is still on the ballot.  Supreme Court ensures American democracy is the winner.

 

The Supreme Court opinion may be one of the most significant in its history, not because of what it did but what it would not allow to be done.  [...]

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2024/03/05/supreme-court-trump-ballot-unanimous-ruling-election/72843559007/

[Crazy Cat 41,845]

Letitia James Booed......and chants of Trump! Trump!

 

 

[Family 3,988]

Trump’s latest ploy to delay trials is to cry ‘election interference’, DoJ veterans say

Trump’s drive to have trials held post-election hinges on hopes of winning presidency, and then telling DoJ to kill the federal charges

Claims by Donald Trump and his lawyers that holding any of the four criminal trials he now faces before the US election in November would be “election interference” lack a solid legal basis and are brazen ploys to delay trials until post election, former justice department officials say.

As he campaigns to return to the White House, Trump is facing unprecedented legal and political perils: trials are pending in four federal and state jurisdictions, where he’s been charged with 91 felony counts including 17 about conspiring with allies to overturn his loss to Joe Biden in 2020.

Trump’s drive to have trials held post-election is premised heavily on hopes of winning the presidency again, and then telling DoJ to kill the federal charges, say DoJ veterans.Lawrence: History will remember SCOTUS calling Trump an '

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/08/trump-claims-election-interference-delay-trialsinsurrectionist'