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

[TBoneTX 45,596]

Judge Warns Trump Criminal Trial May Last Until, Say, November 6

 

[...] "I'm just picking a date off the top of my head here," Judge Merchan said.  "It can be difficult to nail down a possible end date for any case, but if I had to make an educated guess, I'd say that this specific case will probably end on, oh, I don't know, November 6.  That's just an arbitrary date that popped into my mind and anything else happening around that time is purely coincidental."  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/judge-warns-trump-criminal-trial-may-last-until-say-november-6

[Dashinka 24,635]

Loved this.  I do wonder if Trump properly documented the expense of paying for people at the bodega.

 

Trump's Perfect Jab in the Eye to Alvin Bragg During a Bodega Visit

 

Trump went to Harlem to speak to Maad Ahmed and small business advocate Francisco Marte at the Sanaa Convenient Store, formerly known as the Blue Convenient Store. This is the bodega where a clerk, Jose Alba, stabbed an ex-con to death in self-defense two years ago. The case became national news because Alba was charged with murder.

 

It was D.A. Alvin Bragg who decided to charge Jose with murder though Austin Simon, a 35-year-old ex-con, was caught on camera cornering Alba, 61, in a fight over chips. Simon's girlfriend, Tina Lee, stabbed Alba during the chaos. 

 

Jose was charged with second-degree murder and spent about a week in jail before prosecutors in Alvin Bragg's office agreed to lower his $250,000 bail. The charges were eventually dropped, thanks to the pressure from the public who were outraged. Jose was so traumatized by the whole experience that he returned to the Dominican Republic, where he remains today. 

 

https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2024/04/17/trumps-perfect-jab-in-the-eye-to-alvin-bragg-during-a-bodega-visit-n3786664

[TBoneTX 45,596]

9 hours ago, Dashinka said:

I do wonder if Trump properly documented the expense of paying for people at the bodega.

Charge and arrest him preemptively!!!!!

Mango Mussolini!  Fat orange Nixon!!!!!

Edited April 17 by TBoneTX

[TBoneTX 45,596]

Judge Announces Trump Will Not Be Permitted To Go To Son's Graduation Or To The Bathroom Until Trial Finished

 

NEW YORK, NY — Public sentiment was deeply divided on the subject of former President Donald Trump's criminal trial after the presiding judge announced Trump would not be permitted to go to his son's graduation or to the bathroom until the trial was finished.

The unorthodox decree to refuse Trump's right to use the men's room at any point over the next several months was met with both praise and criticism from different corners of the media, with Trump vowing to meet the requirement despite his disagreement with it.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/judge-announces-trump-will-not-be-permitted-to-go-to-sons-graduation-or-to-the-bathroom-until-trial-finished

[Ban Hammer 13,429]

9 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

The unorthodox decree to refuse Trump's right to use the men's room at any point over the next several months was met with both praise and criticism from different corners of the media, with Trump vowing to meet the requirement despite his disagreement with it.  [...]

 

the bad news is, trump might be mistaken for the current president.............

[TBoneTX 45,596]

Hillary Clinton Condemns Trump For Paying Hush Money To Political Liabilities Instead Of Just Killing Them

 

NEW YORK, NY — Former U.S. Senator and email expert Hilary Clinton issued a statement this week condemning Donald Trump for allegedly paying hush money to political liabilities instead of just killing them.

"How dumb do you have to be?" Clinton told reporters.  "There's an easy, tried-and-true method for dealing with people who make your life hard; just call my friend Guido and he takes care of it for you.  Or, if you're feeling up for an adventure, DIY!"  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/hillary-clinton-condemns-trump-for-paying-hush-money-to-political-liabilities-instead-of-just-killing-them

[TBoneTX 45,596]

Jonathan Turley Decimates the 'Hush Money' Case Against Trump

 

The hush money case against former President Donald Trump got underway with opening statements on Monday and the first witness in the case.

George Washington law school professor and Fox contributor Jonathan Turley said that the case has left him in "utter disbelief" that they've pursued this case against Trump. He noted some of the problems with the case.  [...]

 

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/04/22/jonathan-turley-decimates-the-hush-money-case-against-trump-n2173172

[TBoneTX 45,596]

Agreed.  Comments?

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Trump Should Ignore Gag Order

 

[...] The idea that Trump spouting off about the trial or any of the witnesses is intimidation is absurd, and everybody knows it.  If a witness is likely to be concerned about retaliation--none of them are, because they are rushing to testify--they wouldn't have agreed to testify against a former president.  They are all angling to peddle books, not quivering in fear.  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/04/23/trump-should-ignore-gag-order-n3787054

[TBoneTX 45,596]

Surprise, surprise...

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Anti-Trump Media Lawyers Hold Weekly Zoom Call to Discuss Trial

 

Remember JournoList, the private Google Groups forum created by Ezra Kein and consisting of some 400 "left-leaning" journalists and academics.  This is how all of the mainstream journalists formulated their talking points and expressed their violent fantasies about right-wingers like Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh.

 

Politico reports that media legal correspondents have their own version of JournoList now.  Once a week, these pundits get together over Zoom to coordinate talking points about the Donald Trump trial.  [...]

 

https://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/04/23/anti-trump-media-lawyers-hold-weekly-zoom-call-to-discuss-trial-n2395437

[TBoneTX 45,596]

Proof of collaboration between the Bidementia White House and NARA to concoct a case.

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Julie Kelly Shares DAMNING Unredacted Evidence from Trump's Classified Docs Case

 

If you want to know more about Trump's classified docs case, look no further than Julie Kelly's timeline.  When she's not covering what Biden's DOJ is doing to J6'rs she's busy exposing the ridiculousness of Jack Smith's case.

 

And now that key evidence in that case has been unredacted, Kelly has even more to share.  [...]

 

https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/04/23/julie-kelly-mar-a-lago-docs-n2395409

[TBoneTX 45,596]

DA Finally Reveals Underlying Crime Trump Allegedly Committed, and the Bidens Should be Nervous

 

Prosecutors in Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's office have finally revealed the underlying crime they allege Donald Trump was committing when he allegedly falsified business records.

 

According to Fox News, "New York prosecutor Joshua Steinglass on Tuesday said the other crime was a violation of a New York law called 'conspiracy to promote or prevent election.'"  [...]

 

https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/04/24/da-finally-reveals-underlying-crime-trump-allegedly-committed-n2173225

[TBoneTX 45,596]

In the NY Times, no less.

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I Thought the Bragg Case Against Trump Was a Legal Embarrassment.  Now I Think It's a Historic Mistake.

 

About a year ago, when Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, indicted former President Donald Trump, I was critical of the case and called it an embarrassment.  I thought an array of legal problems would and should lead to long delays in federal courts.  [...]

 

https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F04%2F23%2Fopinion%2Fbragg-trump-trial.html

[Dashinka 24,635]

So Trump's lawyer paid off women who claimed to have had an affair with Trump.  Hmm, I seem to remember one George Stephanopoulos creating a "war room" to handle Bill Clinton's women, and they were not looking to pay them off and obtain an NDA, they, George, Hillary, and the Democrats went for the throat against these women.  DC Establishment, and Democrats are so tolerant....

 

"Four more years...pause...."

 

‘YOU WERE OUT OF LINE’: MEGYN SLAMS GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS’ PAST SHAMING OF SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS AFTER NANCY MACE INTERVIEW

 

Stephanopoulos’ History

To be sure, that is a very real concern. It happens all the time, which you know because you invented it. Remember when you created a whole command center designed to smear Bill Clinton’s sexual assault and rape accusers so you could elevate him to the presidency?

The attorney representing many of Clinton’s accusers – and there were many, George, including Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers to name a few – said, at Hillary Clinton’s direction, you and James Carville formed a so-called ‘war room’ that’s purpose was “to destroy any woman that would challenge Bill Clinton.” You know the war room, they made a whole movie about it.

This attorney points out that you don’t like to talk about this, George. Maybe that’s why you skipped it in your discussion with Nancy Mace. But, as you know, private detectives were hired, the women say they were threatened, and they were publicly shamed by you and your well-funded team. Did you worry then that this behavior might shame victims from “coming forward”? 

You admitted in your own memoir that Hillary Clinton told you about one accuser: “We have to destroy her story.” Did you object? Did you say, “That’s shaming”? In fact, you later described yourself as Mr. Clinton’s “enabler.” But sir, how could you have enabled and defended a man like this who was accused by multiple women of sexual assault, rape, and harassment.

 

https://www.megynkelly.com/2024/03/11/megyn-kelly-slams-george-stephanopoulos-nancy-mace-interview/

Edited April 25 by Dashinka

[TBoneTX 45,596]

Jonathan Turley rather icily nails it.

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Alvin Bragg has his Trump trial, all he needs now is a crime

 

[...] The prosecution must show Trump falsified business records in "furtherance of another crime."  After months of confusion on just what crime underpinned the indictment, the prosecution offered a new theory so ambiguous and undefined, it would have made Stewart blush.

 

Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass told the jury that in listing payments to Stormy Daniels as a "legal expense," Trump violated this New York law: "Any two or more persons who conspire to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means and which conspiracy is acted upon by one or more of the parties thereto, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."

 

So Trump committed a crime by conspiring to unlawfully promote his own candidacy, by paying to quash a potentially embarrassing story and then reimbursing his lawyer Michael Cohen with other legal expenses.  [...]

 

https://nypost.com/2024/04/24/opinion/alvin-bragg-has-his-trump-trial-all-he-needs-now-is-a-crime/

[TBoneTX 45,596]

The logic is inescapable, truly.

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This New York City Prosecution of Trump Is a Dangerous Legal Jenga Game for Democrats

 

The New York City trial of former President Donald Trump has ended its second week in a heap of confusion.

The question is the same now as when the charges were announced years after the alleged "criminal" bookkeeping acts occurred:  Dude, where's the case?  [...]

 

https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2024/04/27/so-if-trump-didnt-pay-to-n4928517