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

[TBoneTX 45,591]

Lawfare Collapsing Amidst Harris' Vow To Prosecute Trump

 

Largely shedding Joe Biden's canard that Trump must be defeated to save democracy, Kamala Harris' conceit is that she prosecutes criminals and Donald Trump is one.  "I know Donald Trump's type," she sneers.

As San Francisco district attorney and then California attorney general, Harris supported jailing parents of truants, suppressed evidence, keeping an innocent man on death row, repeatedly covered up misconduct, leading to the dismissal of more than 600 cases, incarcerated prisoners beyond their sentences, violated Federal laws that protect donor privacy, and failed to disclose conflicts of interest arising from her personal relationships.  Her record of abusing prosecutorial power fits perfectly with Democrat lawfare against Trump and his advisers.

Now, following setbacks for prosecutors, Trump will have a reprieve in further substantive proceedings until after the election.  [...]

 

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/09/13/lawfare_collapsing_amidst_harris_vow_to_prosecute_trump_151609.html

[Family 4,065]

On 9/7/2024 at 10:19 PM, TBoneTX said:

America First Legal is suing both Merchan and ethics overseers

America First Legal (AFL) is an American conservative public interest organization founded in 2021

 

Leadership

America First Legal is led by a president, vice president, and executive director. Stephen Miller, the former senior advisor to president Donald Trump, is the organization's founder and president. The vice president is Gene Hamilton, a Department of Justice official under Trump, and the executive director is Matthew Whitaker, the acting U.S. attorney general under Trump following Jeff Sessions's resignation.^[1] America First Legal's board of directors includes Whitaker and former chief of staff for Trump, Mark Meadows.^[2

 

America First Legal is a conservative legal entity that focuses on administrative law and executive overreach in response to litigation during the Trump administration, including legal challenges to the Trump travel ban, an attempt to ban TikTok, and barring migrants from seeking asylum.^[2] The organization has filed lawsuits regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion,^[3] Title 42 expulsions,^[4] the First Amendment and social media services,^[5] Title IX and transgender people,^[6] and affirmative action.^[7] In January 2023, the organization joined a lawsuit led by Texasattorney general Ken Paxton claiming a federal migrant parole program was unlawful.^[8]

 

In October 2022, America First Legal sent flyers to voters in Colorado's 8th congressional district that were characterized as transphobic by the Latino Action Council.^[9] During the 2022 elections, the organization became involved in legal efforts relating to claims of apparent voter fraud in the election.^[10] Flyers obtained by The New York Times targeted Asian Americans with anti-affirmative action messaging.^[11] America First Legal ran advertisements accusing the Biden administration of "anti-white bigotry", spending US$5 million on radio advertisements, second to the Senate Leadership Fund.^[12] Following Trump's federal indictment on charges of retaining classified documents, the organization sent out fundraising emails.^[13]

America First Legal was a member of the advisory board of Project 2025, a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power should the Republican nominee win the 2024 presidential election, until July 2024.^[14][15]

 

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Legal#:~:text=until July 2024.-,History,in the 2020 presidential election.}

[Dashinka 24,635]

7 hours ago, Family said:

America First Legal (AFL) is an American conservative public interest organization founded in 2021

 

 

Leadership

America First Legal is led by a president, vice president, and executive director. Stephen Miller, the former senior advisor to president Donald Trump, is the organization's founder and president. The vice president is Gene Hamilton, a Department of Justice official under Trump, and the executive director is Matthew Whitaker, the acting U.S. attorney general under Trump following Jeff Sessions's resignation.^[1] America First Legal's board of directors includes Whitaker and former chief of staff for Trump, Mark Meadows.^[2

 

America First Legal is a conservative legal entity that focuses on administrative law and executive overreach in response to litigation during the Trump administration, including legal challenges to the Trump travel ban, an attempt to ban TikTok, and barring migrants from seeking asylum.^[2] The organization has filed lawsuits regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion,^[3] Title 42 expulsions,^[4] the First Amendment and social media services,^[5] Title IX and transgender people,^[6] and affirmative action.^[7] In January 2023, the organization joined a lawsuit led by Texasattorney general Ken Paxton claiming a federal migrant parole program was unlawful.^[8]

 

 

In October 2022, America First Legal sent flyers to voters in Colorado's 8th congressional district that were characterized as transphobic by the Latino Action Council.^[9] During the 2022 elections, the organization became involved in legal efforts relating to claims of apparent voter fraud in the election.^[10] Flyers obtained by The New York Times targeted Asian Americans with anti-affirmative action messaging.^[11] America First Legal ran advertisements accusing the Biden administration of "anti-white bigotry", spending US$5 million on radio advertisements, second to the Senate Leadership Fund.^[12] Following Trump's federal indictment on charges of retaining classified documents, the organization sent out fundraising emails.^[13]

America First Legal was a member of the advisory board of Project 2025, a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power should the Republican nominee win the 2024 presidential election, until July 2024.^[14][15]

 

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Legal#:~:text=until July 2024.-,History,in the 2020 presidential election.}

 

Why is this relevant?  Are you saying judges and other bureaucrats are above the law?  Someone has to challenge them.

[TBoneTX 45,591]

Not directly against Pres. Trump, but closely related.  Big stuff.

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Documents Expose WI Attorney General Josh Kaul's Fraudulent 'Fake Electors' Case

 

When Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul held a state capitol-steps press conference in early June to announce "forgery" charges against two former attorneys and an aide to former President Donald Trump for an alleged crime that took place nearly four years ago, it felt like the fix was in.

New unsealed documents in Dane County Circuit Court suggest the real forgery is Kaul's politically weaponized investigation into Trump allies involved in the 2020 alternative electors contingency plan — what Kaul and corporate media have falsely billed as a "fake electors scheme."  [...]

 

https://thefederalist.com/2024/09/16/documents-expose-wi-attorney-general-josh-kauls-fraudulent-fake-electors-case/

[TBoneTX 45,591]

Jonathan Turley is as hot as he ever allows himself to get.

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Jack Smith's 'October Surprise' was not that surprising…and that is the problem

 

[...] the Justice Department has long followed a policy against making potentially influential filings within 60 or 90 days of an election.  One section of the Justice Department manual states "Federal prosecutors… may never select the timing of any action, including investigative steps, criminal charges, or statements, for the purpose of affecting any election."

Jack Smith, however, has long dismissed such considerations.  For years, Smith has been unrelenting in his demands for a trial before the election.  He has even demanded that Donald Trump be barred from standard appellate options in order to expedite his trial.  [...]

 

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4917230-justice-department-october-surprise/

[Family 4,065]

Approximately 2000 pages released. He ordered a Diet Coke and a TV to watch the Hang Mike Pence chants.

 

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/18/politics/donald-trump-special-counsel-evidence-documents-release/index.html

 

 

 

[Family 4,065]

New evidence unsealed of how Trump's Jan. 6, 2021 rally was funded

 

A trove of new records released in the federal election-interference case against former President Donald Trump described how money was spent on Trump's "Stop the Steal" rally near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021.

The revelations were among 1,900 pages of evidence for federal charges against Trump that he tried to steal the 2020 election. The evidence also includes details of how his supporters spent election night at the White House and how Trump reacted to the riot at the Capitol.

…

The newly released documents also show that an unnamed organization budgeted as much as $3 million on the Jan. 6 rally and related events, including for bringing VIP guests and protesters to Washington…

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/18/donald-trump-election-interference-case-new-evidence/75714784007/

[TBoneTX 45,591]

Important squealing, but then selective amnesia -- surprise!

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Here's What Nathan Wade Told Congress About Fani Willis

 

The lover of Fulton County DA Fani Willis and ex-Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade spilled the beans before Congress in a damning deposition last week.

The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee, which is investigating the anti-Trump DA's financial affairs and prosecution of former President Donald Trump, released the 132-page testimony Monday in a move sure to spur Willis, who had demanded that Wade not answer certain questions under oath due to the "confidential" nature of the information.  [...]

 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2024/10/21/nathan-wade-transcript-n2646512

[Family 4,065]

Judge Aileen Cannon, who tossed Trump's classified docs case, on list of proposed candidates for attorney general

 

A proposed personnel roster circulating within Donald Trump's campaign and transition operation lists Aileen Cannon, the federal judge who threw out Trump's classified documents case, as a possible candidate for attorney general, multiple sources familiar with the matter have told ABC News.

 

Cannon's name appears on a document reviewed by ABC News titled "Transition Planning: Legal Principals," which lists potential staffing for the White House counsel's office, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and U.S. attorneys' offices, as well as proposed candidates for the top legal positions within multiple government agencies, should Trump be reelected.

The document was drafted by Trump's top advisers with input from Boris Epshteyn, who oversees Trump's legal team and is one of Trump's most trusted advisers, sources familiar with the matter said

 

..other documents circulated within Trump's transition operation show that potential candidates under consideration for attorney general include Jeffrey Clark, who pleaded not guilty after being indicted in Georgia for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election; Mike Davis, who has posted several controversial statements on social media promoting plans to target Trump's political opponents, imprison members of the media in "gulags" and put migrant children "in cages"; and Mark Paoletta, a former White House lawyer and longtime friend of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who also represented Thomas' wife Ginni during the House Select Committee's investigation into the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.

 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-tossed-trumps-classified-docs-case-list-proposed/story?id=114997807

[Pooky 3,816]

 

And the Jack Smith prosecutions are done. ☠️

[TBoneTX 45,591]

Jack Smith is toast, and he knows it.

We know it.

We also know the sole reason why his suits were filed in the first place.

We saw through it.

Take a long walk off a short pier, Jackie boy.

[TBoneTX 45,591]

Jonathan Turley.  Sounds reasonable, huh?

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Donald Trump just won the greatest jury verdict in American history

 

Nearly two years ago, I wrote that Democratic prosecutors' lawfare campaign against Donald Trump would make the 2024 election the single largest jury decision in history.  Now that the verdict is in, the question is whether prosecutors will continue their unrelenting campaign against the president-elect and his companies.

The answer is [...]

 

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4976533-trump-prosecutions-lawfare-end/

[Crazy Cat 41,982]

Seems Jack Smith has started the process to stop Trump prosecutions:

 

Special counsel Jack Smith takes first step to halt Trump prosecution - POLITICO

 

"“The Government respectfully requests that the Court vacate the remaining deadlines in the pretrial schedule to afford the Government time to assess this unprecedented circumstance and determine the appropriate course going forward consistent with Department of Justice policy,” they wrote."

Edited November 8 by Crazy Cat

[TBoneTX 45,591]

9 hours ago, Crazy Cat said:

Seems Jack Smith has started the process to stop Trump prosecutions:

Forevermore qualifying those efforts as pure lawfare and election interference.

[TBoneTX 45,591]

 

Trump To Declare January 6 A National Holiday

 

[...] "It's the greatest, most beautiful date on the calendar," Trump said in the statement.  "As soon as I take office, we will honor the PATRIOTS and GREAT AMERICANS who demonstrated their loyalty to our AMAZING COUNTRY on JANUARY 6.  These wonderful people are some of our nation's greatest heroes — far greater than the Avengers, I must say."

 

Several prominent Democrats, including Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who died several times during the Jan 6 riot at the Capitol, immediately came forward to protest Trump's plan.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-to-declare-january-6-a-national-holiday