Trump's Present and Future possible indictments

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Hanif Johnson, 27, who has been jailed three times, has become the youngest judge in Pennsylvania.
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Contemptible

In the category of things you can’t make up. This is a bar around the corner from where I am today. #SistersInLaw, the podcast I co-host with Barb McQuade, Jill Wine-Banks and Kimberly Atkins Stohr, is live in Chicago tonight, and the irony at this moment is just too rich! Because of the show...

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May 1, 2024

Today, at a rally in Wisconsin, Donald Trump acknowledged that he wanted to go to the Capitol on January 6. He told the crowd that after he left the January 6 rally on the Ellipse, he asked his Secret Service driver to take him to the Capitol. He did this while he was apparently trying to diminish Cassidy Hutchinson, who testified to this in her House January 6 Committee hearing. Now, Trump himself has confirmed it. “I sat in the back. And you know what I did say? ‘I’d like to go down there.’ … They said ‘Sir, it’s better if you don’t.’” Secret Service agents have disputed Hutchinson’s claim that Trump lunged for the wheel in an effort to force the wheel to take him to the Capitol. Trump has not confirmed that. Yet.

Frogs Continue to Ignore Rising Temperatures

Yesterday, Time magazine published an in-depth interview with Donald Trump titled “How Far Trump Would Go.” Notice that the title is not a question. It’s a definitive statement. Last November, we discussed this topic in a piece I wrote called “Frogs Boiled: What Trump is Planning for a Second Term.

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For whatever reason, it has always been difficult for people to call out Trump’s lies. In the early days of his presidency, it was, perhaps, understandable because we were so unprepared for an American leader who lied repeatedly, shamelessly, and obviously. Americans were used to respecting the office, if not the person holding it at the moment; it was uncomfortable to utter the words “president” and “lies” in the same sentence. Of course, that did not last for many of us, but even today, you will see people sugarcoat the lies Trump tells. Whether it’s fear of the punch back, a sense of polite reticence, or something else, Trump continues to cast his lies across the waters, often with little pushback.

The Washington Post’s Fact Checker estimated Trump made 30,573 “false or misleading claims,” as they termed it, while he was in office. And the rate accelerated over time. Almost half of Trump’s lies came in the final year of his term in office. He started with claims of excessive crowd size on inauguration day, leading his advisor Kellyanne Conway to coin the term “alternative facts,” which was an attempt by the people handling him to reframe Trump’s lies. Instead, it became a mantra on the left, watching first in surprise and then in horror as Trump was permitted to spew lies without any check from people in his own political party.

Among the many lies the Post’s Fact Checker documented are the following:

• The coronavirus would disappear on its own, along with pitching bogus cures;
• Trump created the best economy in U.S. history;
• Caravans of criminals were approaching the southern border every time an election loomed;
• Trump passed the biggest tax cuts of any president;
• A modified map altering the scientific assessment of a hurricane’s path in Sharpie marker, and of course, the biggest lie;
• The 2020 election was rigged, and Trump lost due to fraud.

Trump, unchecked, has been free to repeat those lies over and over again, even when the falsehood has been thoroughly exposed and his claims debunked. So it was refreshing to read that Judge Merchan was having none of that in court in Manhattan Friday morning. On Thursday, Trump lied, telling a gathering of reporters outside of the courtroom where he is on trial that he would not be able to take the stand and testify in his own defense, because of the gag order imposed by Judge Merchan. Of course, that’s a lie. Trump has been promising he would testify—perhaps he was looking for a way to walk that back as the reality of being on trial settled in. But Trump was peddling trash in classic fashion, blaming the Judge and lying about the gag order.

Judge Merchan got right to the point Friday morning in court, before the jury was brought in. He told Trump the gag order “does not prohibit you from taking the stand.” He continued, “As the name of the order indicates, it only applies to extrajudicial statements.” That means Trump is only limited in statements he makes outside of the courtroom. In other words, Trump is free to testify in court; the choice is his.

Judge Merchan undoubtedly knew Trump didn’t need to have him explain the gag order to him. Trump has excellent lawyers who are well aware of this. Trump had even walked back his Thursday comments with reporters as he walked into the courthouse Friday morning. But the Judge took the issue on directly, not giving Trump a pass for the rollback, because after all, with the clip still out there, what do you think Trump’s base is going to see and hear where they get their news? And how many times have we heard Trump continue to repeat a debunked lie? So Judge Merchan told Trump he had learned that there might be a “misunderstanding,” and he wanted to clear it up. He did that, advising Trump clearly that he has an absolute constitutional right to testify. That’s it, just like that. The authority Trump was lying about refused to bend the knee and called Trump on the lie.

Republican political leaders who have never mastered this art should take note. This is how it’s done.

It's crucial that we share this information with Trump supporters and others in our circles. The Judge, whom Trump has often criticized and called “conflicted,” has made it unequivocally clear that Trump has constitutional rights, including the right to testify, and the Judge is committed to protecting them. By sharing this, you can help spread awareness about the truth.

How It’s Done

For whatever reason, it has always been difficult for people to call out Trump’s lies. In the early days of his presidency, it was, perhaps, understandable because we were so unprepared for an American leader who lied repeatedly, shamelessly, and obviously. Americans were used to respecting the...

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[The Federal Cases]


If all the criminal investigations into former President Donald Trump end in conviction, then Trump will be a true renaissance man of crime.

The FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida residence because, as federal prosecutors said in a fiery court filing in August, they believed not only did the former president possess “dozens” of boxes “likely to contain classified information” but also that “efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation.” In that search, the FBI said it did remove over 100 classified documents, some of which reportedly contained information about nuclear weapons. That’s all part of just one investigation into possible violations of the Espionage Act, the improper handling of federal records, and obstruction of a federal investigation.

Meanwhile, a second federal investigation is looking into the January 6 attack on the Capitol and broader efforts to overturn the 2020 election, an issue that obviously could implicate the man who spent most of the 2020 lame-duck period trying to erase his loss to President Joe Biden.

In November, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith, a veteran prosecutor who previously oversaw war crimes prosecutions from an office in The Hague, as a special counsel in charge of these two Justice Department investigations into Trump.

In Georgia, a number of Trump allies were subpoenaed as part of a state criminal investigation into interference with the 2020 election in their state specifically. Trump consigliere Rudy Giuliani is a target of the investigation. Trump could also be implicated, and even criminally charged, before this Georgia investigation concludes. In a post-election call with Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Trump told the state’s top election official that he wants “to find 11,780 votes.” Biden defeated Trump in Georgia by 11,779 votes.

(On February 16, a Georgia judge released extremely limited excerptsfrom a report laying out this investigation’s conclusions. These brief excerpts, however, give very little insight into whether anyone will be charged with a crime, beyond a vague assertion that a majority of the grand jury overseeing the investigation “believes that perjury may have been committed by one or more witnesses testifying before it.”)

What you need to know about the 4 major criminal probes into Donald Trump

Keeping track of all the criminal investigations of Trump isn’t easy, so we did it for you.

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George Conway is bitter because Sean spicer stole his lady, Kellyanne Conway, a gifted trump spokesperson and advisor.

 

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[Thread of what is going on today in court, May 6th ]

 

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