#trump election interference trial

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Congrats to Fulton County (Georgia) District Attorney Fani Willis who just won the Democratic primary for her current position by a 7 to 1 margin. Ms. Willis is the prosecutor behind the indictment of Donald Trump and a number of other GOP miscreants in the 2020 election interference case in Georgia.

Fani Willis's Republican opponent in the November election, interestingly, will be a former intern at the Trump White House.

Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, easily defeated Democrat Christian Wise Smith. Willis and Smith, whom she also beat in the 2020 primary, both worked in the district attorney’s office under former District Attorney Paul Howard. [ ... ] Willis is now set to face Republican lawyer Courtney Kramer in November. Kramer, who interned in the Trump White House, ran unopposed Tuesday. Willis is considered the heavy favorite for the general election in Fulton County, which includes Atlanta. Willis brought charges against Trump last year for his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election results, as well as co-conspirators, which include Georgia GOP state legislators and the former head of the state Republican Party.

[maaruin]

A take on Trump's Hush Money conviction: I don't think it was politically wise to put Trump on trial for this particular thing. It was a minor crime and unrelated to why his enemies actually want to see him convicted and prevented from running for president: That he tried to stage a coup to stay in power after loosing the election.

This conviction will:

Not prevent him from running for president and

convince his supporters that his enemies are grasping at straws but can't actually show that he did what they accuse him of.

The only trial against Trump that should have been pursued is the Election Interference trial. Unfortunately, it seems to have started way too late. There might not even be a verdict before the election.

The Republicans needed to know if Trump commited conspiracy against the United States before they started their primary.

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Dr. Phil Issues Stunning Statement on the Trump Trial

Dr. Phil says Judge Merchan “tipped” the scales against Trump.

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Biden makes a public admission but probably too ignorant to realize it.

As always, never buy anything made in china. Don't ever trust a democrat and NEVER leave your child alone with one.

[onenakedfarmer]

Live from the courtroom.

Jesus Fucking Christ.

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He's right, and anyone who's not a sheep, a coward or a traitor knows it.

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Biden Trials - 05/09/2024

Things seem to be going former president Donald Trump's way in the 4 criminal court cases against him. The documents case in Florida is being indefinitely delayed because of some pre-trial issues, as well as the appearance of the prosecuting attorney Jack Smith having been possibly hired illegally. The prosecutors recently admitted that the documents they seized were in a different order then the scanned copies they turned over to the defense, who argued for discovery, which could delay the proceedings even further.

The Epoch Times yesterday reported the following. "President Trump was charged with 40 counts related to allegedly mishandling classified information. His valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, were charged alongside him as codefendants." Judge Aileen Cannon, who's overseeing the case, wrote that to now set a date for the trial to commence before resolving the “myriad and interconnected pre-trial and CIPA [Classified Information Procedures Act] issues” would not be fair or prudent. From the same article, I quote. "The judge still has before her several motions to dismiss charges or the indictment entirely, motions to unseal information that the defendants argue is critical in the case, and ongoing discovery issues to resolve." She also said she has yet to rule on eight substantive motions, two of which have not yet been docketed publicly, and that there are extensive discovery issues.

On top of all these issues, Trump is currently required to be in attendance in the New York "Hush Money" trial, wherein the prosecutors say they will need two to three more weeks to present their case. The other two defendants in the case, Mr. Nauta and Mr. De Oliveira, wanted a speedy trial. The judge said she had considered that against due process rights. She wrote this. “Upon such review, the Court finds that the ends of justice served by this continuance, through the last deadline specified in this Order, July 22, 2024, outweigh the best interest of the public and Defendants in a speedy trial.”

Judge Cannon has scheduled a May 20th deadline (the original trial date) to resolve seal requests over a hearing on grand jury matters. On May 22nd, the judge will hear arguments on the defendants' motion to dismiss the indictment charges due to a vindictive and selective prosecution.

On June 21st, the court will hear arguments on whether special counsel Jack Smith's appointment was unconstitutional as what has been previously claimed by former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese. Meese has amicus briefs in both of Mr. Smith's cases against Trump.

Partial evidentiary hearings will be held from June 24th to June 26th for the defense's motion to compel discovery from prosecutors and the scope of what they are required to hand over.

The trial date is not likely to emerge until after the judges July 22nd status conference.

The goofy racketeering case in Fulton County Georgia is falling apart from the compromised prosecutor, Fanni Willis who hired a man with whom she had an affair with as her lead attorney. She's agreed to fire him while she's being investigated, so that trial is delayed and stands a good chance of being dismissed.

The New York "Hush Money" trial is becoming more ridiculous every day. Judge Juan Moron (Juan Merchan) is the presiding judge, who recently put another gag order on Trump, has fined him $1,000 for violating it on Truth Social. Mr. Moron said this. "Mr. Trump it’s important you understand the last thing I want to do is put you in jail. You are the former president of the United States and possibly the next president as well." If he does that the prison would probably have to shut down a wing of the prison on Rikers Island to secure it for his constitutional right to Secret Service protection. I doubt he'll do it, for if he does that would all but ensure a Trump victory, but with this heavily biased judge, you never know. Porn star Stormy Daniels testified yesterday about the affair which she previously denied happened in a letter signed by her, an incident she now apparently says did occur. Never mind that it's completely immaterial to the 34 misdemeanor counts of accounting errors which have expired from the statute of limitations running out but are kept alive by being linked and raised to a felony charge for a mysterious, unnamed crime. Dictators like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are probably envious, and I have no doubt that we're being mocked, ridiculed, and laughed at around the world.

The case in Washington D.C. spearheaded by Jack Smith is also being delayed because of the presidential immunity arguments being weighed by the justices at the U.S. Supreme Court. They might not make a determination on that until June or July. Jack Smith's appointment there is also being questioned on its legality.

So, there you have the Biden trials, all with serious issues of illegitimacy leading to ridiculous clown shows and numerous delays. And in spite of their obvious attempts to hurt Trump with multiple gag orders and demanding that he be detained in court, he continues to fight them stronger than ever while rising in popularity. Some of these trials appear at this point as unlikely to survive past the upcoming election this November. And Trump is correct to call these Biden trials, for they obviously really are political witch hunts at Biden's direction, election interference that's thankfully backfiring. Boy, what a joke, what a sham, what an embarrassing disgrace!

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[tomorrowusa]

When Trump tells you that crime is rampant, he's talking about his own personal ongoing crime wave.

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Lisa Needham at Public Notice:

Despite a comically high number of attempts to stave it off, Donald Trump is set to face his first criminal trial later today. It remains to be seen whether he’ll be able to control his behavior any better than he did in his civil trials for defamation and fraud. But given his inability — or willful refusal — to adhere to gag orders in the run up to the trial, it seems unlikely. First, since it’s difficult to keep track of all of Trump’s criminal charges, let’s remember what he faces in this one. Last year, a New York grand jury indicted Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Prosecutors allege that Trump faked business records to hide $130,000 in hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels in 2016 so she would stay quiet about their 2006 affair. 

Yes, these are the same payments that, in part, led to Trump’s former fixer, Michael Cohen, pleading guilty to federal charges back in 2018 and spending more than a year in prison. The government’s sentencing memorandum in that case didn’t name Trump but talked about Cohen arranging payments to two separate women with whom “Individual-1,” a person who later became president of the United States, had extramarital affairs. Though there was never any official confirmation, it appears that shortly after Trump left office, federal prosecutors in New York decided not to pursue charges against Trump. 

However, just because the feds stepped aside did not require New York state to stop pursuing similar charges. The 34 felony counts Trump now faces don’t refer to separate incidents but rather the multiple steps Trump took to hide the hush money payments. First, he is accused of faking a series of invoices to Cohen, saying they were for legal services when they were really reimbursement for Cohen paying the hush money. Correspondingly, Trump is alleged to have issued a series of checks to Cohen, which he falsely denoted as payment for legal services. Finally, prosecutors say that Trump then caused false entries about the payments to be created in the Trump Corporation general ledger. Trump is charged only with the falsifications as they relate to the payments to Stormy Daniels. However, prosecutors have also indicated they will be discussing the $150,000 paid to former Playboy model Karen McDougal so she too would keep quiet about her own affair with Trump.

Normally, falsifying business records is a misdemeanor, but if business records are falsified with intent to cover up or commit a different underlying crime, it is a felony. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has accused, but not charged, Trump of concealing violations of election laws and tax fraud. Prosecutors do not have to prove that Trump actually committed those crimes, or any other. All they have to prove is that when Trump falsified business records, he did it with “intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.” 

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None of this is good for Trump

This case is likely the only one that goes to trial before the election, given that Trump has had greater success obtaining procedural delays in his other criminal cases. Arguably, this case represents the least satisfying set of charges against Trump. That’s not because what Trump did here wasn’t a real crime or that his behavior isn’t indicative of his comprehensively criminal mindset. Instead, it’s that the underlying facts are already well-known because of Michael Cohen’s indictment and plea and that as appalling as the hush money scheme might be, it pales in comparison to stealing classified documents, trying to overturn an election, and inciting an insurrection. There’s a bit of an “Al Capone went down for tax evasion” vibe about the whole thing. However, Trump — who spent most of the weekend melting down on Truth Social — is not behaving like a person who thinks this criminal trial is small potatoes or that he is guaranteed a win.

Even if he prevails at trial or gets a conviction overturned on one of the numerous issues he’s already appealed, that won’t unring the bell of everyone outside the courtroom hearing all the evidence the prosecution will present. When you combine that with the fact Trump will likely not be able to control himself during the trial, there’s a real chance for the next several weeks to be wall-to-wall unfavorable coverage. No wonder he’s so desperate to make this all go away.

Lisa Needham wrote in Public Notice that the current Donald Trump falsification of business payments criminal trial that began yesterday is NOT a "nothingburger." #TrumpTrial

See Also:

Vox: How Trump’s hush money trial went from an afterthought to the main event

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Guilty as hell.

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The Donald Trump Hush Money Trial: Allegations of Election Interference and Constitutional Violations !

As always, never buy anything made in china. Don't ever trust a democrat and NEVER leave your child alone with one.