Charges

[jfish26]

Gosh, the convicted rapist, twice impeached, 4 times indicted with 91 charges pending guy who lead the coup because he was too much of a --ssy to admit he lost, can't seem to catch a break!

Trump is liable for defamation in second E. Jean Carroll case, judge rules

U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan found Carroll had already proven Trump defamed her and ruled her impending civil trial will be solely for damages.

Writer E. Jean Carroll has already proven that Donald Trump defamed her and an upcoming trial on her civil claims against the former president will focus solely on what money damages he owes her, a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday.

In a 25-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan found the substance of Carroll's pending defamation claims were the same as the Trump insults that a jury had determined were defamatory earlier this year...

The whole world is conspiring against him.

The likes of which have never been seen before.

Meanwhile, from the guy running for the nomination by the “anti government weaponization” party.

[Shirley]

I'm not a lawyer, but this isn't good for Trump, is it?

Mar-a-Lago IT worker Yuscil Taveras struck an agreement with the special counsel’s office in the federal case over former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, Taveras’ former defense attorney said.

[jfish26]

I'm not a lawyer, but this isn't good for Trump, is it?

Mar-a-Lago IT worker Yuscil Taveras struck an agreement with the special counsel’s office in the federal case over former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, Taveras’ former defense attorney said.

The Defendant's fate is, essentially, dependent on getting at least one person in each of these juries to buy what he's selling: that everything and everyone is conspiring against him.

[Sparko]

Normally bad news, but Cannon will vacate the verdict. Hope she gets sanctioned out of business.

[jfish26]

Normally bad news, but Cannon will vacate the verdict. Hope she gets sanctioned out of business.

I don't think she can quite do that.

The good news here - and it seems like we've heard this echoing elsewhere - is that I'm not sure she's seasoned or savvy enough to understand all of the subtle and imperceptible ways she really could thumb the scale. Seems likely she's going to do overtly thumby shit.

[jhawks99]

But if it's subtle and imperceptible, DDD won't get to X on it.

[Shirley]

Lol:

[Shirley]

Note to self: Don't piss Fani Willis off:

[Shirley]

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[Sparko]

That connects the dots. Thanks Shirley

[japhy]

(Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump and his lawyers may only review classified evidence in a secure place as he prepares for a criminal trial over his handling of secret documents after he left office in 2021, a judge ruled on Wednesday.

Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has been charged along with two aides with illegally storing troves of classified documents at his personal residence and lying to federal investigators who sought to retrieve them.

He had opposed strict security protocols for the classified evidence as inconvenient, saying he and his lawyers should be able to review them in his office at his Mar-a-Lago estate, his personal residence in Palm Beach, Florida.

Wednesday's ruling by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in Florida is a win for prosecutors, who said it would be inappropriate for Trump to be able to review classified documents at the very location where he is accused of illegally and haphazardly storing them.

The order requires Trump and his lawyers to review and discuss all classified evidence in what is known as a sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF.

[jfish26]

The Defendant's team has to feel like part of what's happening here is that the sheer volume of proceedings and jurisdictions and requirements and so on overwhelms an effective defense.

To which I say: (1) mmhmm, and (2) an easy way to avoid this would be to not go on a multijurisdictional crime spree.

[japhy]

The Defendant's team has to feel like part of what's happening here is that the sheer volume of proceedings and jurisdictions and requirements and so on overwhelms an effective defense.

To which I say: (1) mmhmm, and (2) an easy way to avoid this would be to not go on a multijurisdictional crime spree.

The delusional Emperor God could also have just turned over the documents when it was requested and avoided this. The extents of "in plain sight of cameras" efforts that the power drunk, half witted, political loser went to in his attempt to show his cultboys he really is above the law, is comical.

Would he get to continue his $ix figure haircare regimen in prison? Do any of the prisons have par 3 courses on the premises or even a putting green? Would tucker be allowed to come into the prison and interview him in his cell or would they build a special gold leaf encrusted interview booth that has capacity for two big boys in the prison yard?

Now that the insurrectionists have seen their lives reduced to sitting in a prison cell waiting to get old while their Emperor God gorges his bloated self on Big Macs in his country clubs, what rubes will be willing to step up next and give up their lives in defense of their orange messiah?

[jfish26]

The Defendant's team has to feel like part of what's happening here is that the sheer volume of proceedings and jurisdictions and requirements and so on overwhelms an effective defense.

To which I say: (1) mmhmm, and (2) an easy way to avoid this would be to not go on a multijurisdictional crime spree.

The delusional Emperor God could also have just turned over the documents when it was requested and avoided this. The extents of "in plain sight of cameras" efforts that the power drunk, half witted, political loser went to in his attempt to show his cultboys he really is above the law, is comical.

Would he get to continue his $ix figure haircare regimen in prison? Do any of the prisons have par 3 courses on the premises or even a putting green? Would tucker be allowed to come into the prison and interview him in his cell or would they build a special gold leaf encrusted interview booth that has capacity for two big boys in the prison yard?

Now that the insurrectionists have seen their lives reduced to sitting in a prison cell waiting to get old while their Emperor God gorges his bloated self on Big Macs in his country clubs, what rubes will be willing to step up next and give up their lives in defense of their orange messiah?

The "normalizing" analysis I just put in the "war" thread applies, in spirit, here.

Because Trump has spent 60+ years being a flagrant asshole without ever being held accountable, it literally does not compute to him that consequences are real and can apply to him.

[jfish26]

[Shirley]

All this from a man whose party preaches law & order…

[Shirley]

Today In: Obstruction of Justice

One of former President Donald Trump's long-time assistants told federal investigators that Trump repeatedly wrote to-do lists for her on documents from the White House that were marked classified, according to sources familiar with her statements.

As described to ABC News, the aide, Molly Michael, told investigators that -- more than once -- she received requests or taskings from Trump that were written on the back of notecards, and she later recognized those notecards as sensitive White House materials -- with visible classification markings -- used to brief Trump while he was still in office about phone calls with foreign leaders or other international-related matters.

The notecards with classification markings were at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate when FBI agents searched the property on Aug. 8, 2022 -- but the materials were not taken by the FBI, according to sources familiar with what Michael told investigators.

When Michael, who was not present for the search, returned to Mar-a-Lago the next day to clean up her office space, she found the documents underneath a drawer organizer and helped transfer them to the FBI that same day, sources told ABC News.

The sources said Michael also told federal investigators that last year she grew increasingly concerned with how Trump handled recurring requests from the National Archives for the return of all government documents being kept in boxes at Mar-a-Lago -- and she felt that Trump's claims about it at the time would be easy to disprove, according to the sources.

Sources said that after Trump heard the FBI wanted to interview Michael last year, Trump allegedly told her, "You don't know anything about the boxes."

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[Sparko]

Trump is cognitively compromised. Might be a good time for him to plead out as crazy.