Merrick Garland Let Trump Get Away With It. The Bad Guys Have Won.

[Toddsterpatriot]

No, only the republican slime would do that.

But welcome to the new normal.

New normal?

Like a rule or something?

 

[Rambunctious]

No, only the republican slime would do that.

But welcome to the new normal.

Precedent..... an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances.....

 

[SeaMajor7]

The poor demented LEFT.
They can't recognize that their outdated ideology has been roundly REJECTED by the American Electorate.
Marxism FAILD in RUSSIA after they spent a CENTURY during the 20th.to warp society .
Well, now It is finally being REJECTED here, massively.in the 21st.

To all the demented avenger subverted demoralized Stalinist Marxist Leninist brainwashed zombies....
YOU LOST.
And, you all should try to understand WHY you lost!
That CRAP is absolutely antithetical to the FREEDOM and Liberty that this Nation was founded upon.
You IDIOTS will enjoy the freedom that you tried to destroy.
Hopefully, you will recognize the absurdity that you embraced.
Good luck!







tPomm

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[dudmuck]

Cohen violated the campaign finance law?

The charges relate to secret payments Cohen facilitated to two women during the presidential election campaign in 2016, to keep them from disclosing their affairs with Donald Trump. One of the women was the adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, who works under the name Stormy Daniels. She was paid $130,000. The other woman was the model Karen McDougal; she received $150,000. The payment to Karen McDougal came from the National Enquirer, with Cohen’s encouragement and assistance. Cohen paid Clifford himself, and then got disguised reimbursements from the Trump Organization.


In effect, the payments to Stephanie Clifford and Karen McDougal were contributions to Donald Trump’s campaign: they were hush money designed to help Donald Trump get elected. And that violated campaign finance laws, because corporations aren’t allowed to contribute directly to presidential campaigns, and individuals can’t contribute more than $2,700.

 

[kyzr]

The charges relate to secret payments Cohen facilitated to two women during the presidential election campaign in 2016, to keep them from disclosing their affairs with Donald Trump. One of the women was the adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, who works under the name Stormy Daniels. She was paid $130,000. The other woman was the model Karen McDougal; she received $150,000. The payment to Karen McDougal came from the National Enquirer, with Cohen’s encouragement and assistance. Cohen paid Clifford himself, and then got disguised reimbursements from the Trump Organization.

In effect, the payments to Stephanie Clifford and Karen McDougal were contributions to Donald Trump’s campaign: they were hush money designed to help Donald Trump get elected. And that violated campaign finance laws, because corporations aren’t allowed to contribute directly to presidential campaigns, and individuals can’t contribute more than $2,700.

1. The FEC investigated but did not charge Trump. Merchan would not let the head of the FEC testify to Federal Election Law

FEC drops investigation into Trump hush money payments

The Federal Elections Commission (FEC) has closed its investigation into whether former President Trump illegally made hush money payments to women prior to the 2016 election. The FEC vot…

thehill.com

FEC drops investigation into Trump hush money payments​

2. The 34 felonies are DOA, dead on appeal.

Buzz Kill: The Trump Conviction Presents a Target-Rich Environment for Appeal

Below is my column in the Hill on the most compelling grounds for an appeal in the Trump case after his conviction on 34 counts in Manhattan. There has been considerable criticism of the defense te…

jonathanturley.org

 

[the watcher]

Merrick Garland Let Trump Get Away With It. The Bad Guys Have Won.​

see how fast you can go from being a "good guy" to a "bad guy"? There ain't no good guy, there's just you and me.

 

[dudmuck]

1. The FEC investigated but did not charge Trump. Merchan would not let the head of the FEC testify to Federal Election Law

FEC drops investigation into Trump hush money payments

The Federal Elections Commission (FEC) has closed its investigation into whether former President Trump illegally made hush money payments to women prior to the 2016 election. The FEC vot…

thehill.com

FEC drops investigation into Trump hush money payments​

2. The 34 felonies are DOA, dead on appeal.

Buzz Kill: The Trump Conviction Presents a Target-Rich Environment for Appeal

Below is my column in the Hill on the most compelling grounds for an appeal in the Trump case after his conviction on 34 counts in Manhattan. There has been considerable criticism of the defense te…

jonathanturley.org

the FEC didn't absolve the crimes, its just corrupt republicans on the FEC commotion.

 

[Contumacious]

the FEC didn't absolve the crimes, its just corrupt republicans on the FEC commotion.

The FEC voted 4-1 to close the inquiry after failing to find that Trump or his campaign “knowingly and willfully” violated campaign finance law when his former attorney Michael Cohen paid $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep her from disclosing an alleged affair.

FEC drops investigation into Trump hush money payments

The Federal Elections Commission (FEC) has closed its investigation into whether former President Trump illegally made hush money payments to women prior to the 2016 election. The FEC vot…

thehill.com

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

New normal?

Like a rule or something?

No, that's why we use the phrase "new normal", not "new rule". English can be complicated. Good luck.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

. The FEC investigated but did not charge Trump. Merchan would not let the head of the FEC testify to Federal Election Law

Lie.

 

[Contumacious]

Lie.

This poster doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground

 

[berg80]

Then why didn't Trump want to prove that in court?

Cuz, guilty.

 

[Godboy]

Garland should have started his Jan 6 criminal investigations of Trump on 20 Jan 2021, as soon as Joe Biden entered office. Instead, Garland wasted over 2 years prosecuting all of the imbecile MAGA bumpkins who attacked the Capitol on Jan 6.

Garland would have done absolutely nothing to prosecute Trump if it had not been for the House Jan 6 Committee putting pressure on Garland during the summer of 2022.

History is going to crucify both Merrick Garland and Joe Biden for letting Trump get away with this. It is like Jefferson Davis being allowed to run for President in 1868, as if nothing had ever happened. Biden campaigned in 2020 and 2022 and 2024 talking about what a threat to democracy Trump was....and then did nothing about it.

Biden and Garland actually gave Trump legitimacy to run for president, by failing to take action immediately in 2021. President Bernie Sanders would have thrown Trump's ass in jail in 2021 or 2022 and permanently lost the key.

Don't take my word for it...listen to Elie Mystal on this podcast with Michael Steel, starting at about 49:20.

The bad guys have won. It's a very bitter pill to swallow.

Get away with it?!!! Garland and Smith are going to be lucky if they stay out of prison after what they've done. The DOJ is coming for them and their lawfare.

Here you go...

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[berg80]

FBI resisted opening probe into Trump’s role in Jan. 6 for more than a year​

Hours after he was sworn in as attorney general, Merrick Garland and his deputies gathered in a wood-paneled conference room in the Justice Department for a private briefing on the investigation he had promised to make his highest priority: bringing to justice those responsible for the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

In the two months since the siege, federal agents had conducted 709 searches, charged 278 rioters and identified 885 likely suspects, said Michael R. Sherwin, then-acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, ticking through a slide presentation. Garland and some of his deputies nodded approvingly at the stats, and the new attorney general called the progress “remarkable,” according to people in the room.

Sherwin’s office, with the help of the FBI, was responsible for prosecuting all crimes stemming from the Jan. 6 attack. He had made headlines the day after by refusing to rule out the possibility that President Donald Trump himself could be culpable. “We are looking at all actors, not only the people who went into the building,” Sherwin said in response to a reporter’s question about Trump. “If the evidence fits the elements of a crime, they’re going to be charged.”
But according to a copy of the briefing document, absent from Sherwin’s 11-page presentation to Garland on March 11, 2021, was any reference to Trump or his advisers — those who did not go to the Capitol riot but orchestrated events that led to it.

A Washington Post investigation found that more than a year would pass before prosecutors and FBI agents jointly embarked on a formal probe of actions directed from the White House to try to steal the election. Even then, the FBI stopped short of identifying the former president as a focus of that investigation.

A wariness about appearing partisan, institutional caution, and clashes over how much evidence was sufficient to investigate the actions of Trump and those around him all contributed to the slow pace. Garland and the deputy attorney general, Lisa Monaco, charted a cautious course aimed at restoring public trust in the department while some prosecutors below them chafed, feeling top officials were shying away from looking at evidence of potential crimes by Trump and those close to him, The Post found.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/06/19/fbi-resisted-opening-probe-into-trumps-role-jan-6-more-than-year/

Why did it take the DOJ more than two years to indict Donald Trump in the 2020 election case?​

Why did it take 2.5 years to indict Trump in election case?

Former President Donald Trump and his fiercest critics agree on this: It took a long time to bring charges against Trump

www.politifact.com

Had Garland & CO not sat on their hands trump would be convicted by now.

 

[berg80]

1. The FEC investigated but did not charge Trump. Merchan would not let the head of the FEC testify to Federal Election Law

FEC drops investigation into Trump hush money payments

The Federal Elections Commission (FEC) has closed its investigation into whether former President Trump illegally made hush money payments to women prior to the 2016 election. The FEC vot…

thehill.com

FEC drops investigation into Trump hush money payments​

2. The 34 felonies are DOA, dead on appeal.

Buzz Kill: The Trump Conviction Presents a Target-Rich Environment for Appeal

Below is my column in the Hill on the most compelling grounds for an appeal in the Trump case after his conviction on 34 counts in Manhattan. There has been considerable criticism of the defense te…

jonathanturley.org

The FEC’s Office of General Counsel issued a report in December finding that there was “reason to believe” that Cohen and the Trump campaign knowingly and willfully violated campaign finance law.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Get away with it?!!! Garland and Smith are going to be lucky if they stay out of prison after what they've done. The DOJ is coming for them and their lawfare.

Here you go...

MSN

www.msn.com

What embarrassing delusions.

 

[kyzr]

the FEC didn't absolve the crimes, its just corrupt republicans on the FEC commotion.

Ok, so Linda McDougal's NDA is perfectly legal, but Stormy's is a Federal campaign finance violation? Nope.
NDA's are always legal. The USSC (and FEC) said that donating your own money to your own campaign is "free speech".

So can you describe the supposed "crimes" that were not prosecuted?

p.s. the independent on the FEC abstained, so it was not just a Republican decision.

 

[kyzr]

The FEC’s Office of General Counsel issued a report in December finding that there was “reason to believe” that Cohen and the Trump campaign knowingly and willfully violated campaign finance law.

That was the DOJ putting the screws to Cohen.
The FEC declined to prosecute Trump, probably because he has no limit on using his own money, the USSC said that is "free speech"

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Ok, so Linda McDougal's NDA is perfectly legal, but Stormy's is a Federal campaign finance violation?

Irrelevant, not a claim made by anyone.

Don't feed the sealions.

 

[kyzr]

FBI resisted opening probe into Trump’s role in Jan. 6 for more than a year​

Hours after he was sworn in as attorney general, Merrick Garland and his deputies gathered in a wood-paneled conference room in the Justice Department for a private briefing on the investigation he had promised to make his highest priority: bringing to justice those responsible for the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

In the two months since the siege, federal agents had conducted 709 searches, charged 278 rioters and identified 885 likely suspects, said Michael R. Sherwin, then-acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, ticking through a slide presentation. Garland and some of his deputies nodded approvingly at the stats, and the new attorney general called the progress “remarkable,” according to people in the room.

Sherwin’s office, with the help of the FBI, was responsible for prosecuting all crimes stemming from the Jan. 6 attack. He had made headlines the day after by refusing to rule out the possibility that President Donald Trump himself could be culpable. “We are looking at all actors, not only the people who went into the building,” Sherwin said in response to a reporter’s question about Trump. “If the evidence fits the elements of a crime, they’re going to be charged.”
But according to a copy of the briefing document, absent from Sherwin’s 11-page presentation to Garland on March 11, 2021, was any reference to Trump or his advisers — those who did not go to the Capitol riot but orchestrated events that led to it.

A Washington Post investigation found that more than a year would pass before prosecutors and FBI agents jointly embarked on a formal probe of actions directed from the White House to try to steal the election. Even then, the FBI stopped short of identifying the former president as a focus of that investigation.

A wariness about appearing partisan, institutional caution, and clashes over how much evidence was sufficient to investigate the actions of Trump and those around him all contributed to the slow pace. Garland and the deputy attorney general, Lisa Monaco, charted a cautious course aimed at restoring public trust in the department while some prosecutors below them chafed, feeling top officials were shying away from looking at evidence of potential crimes by Trump and those close to him, The Post found.

Why did it take the DOJ more than two years to indict Donald Trump in the 2020 election case?​

Because the FBI said Trump did not incite the J6 riot, and Nancy Pelosi takes responsibility for the riot since she denied the two early requests for the National Guard.