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Post by aj2hall on Mar 1, 2024 15:25:40 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 1, 2024 15:43:45 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 1, 2024 15:50:19 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 1, 2024 16:20:46 GMT
Looks like he doesn’t have the cash on hand. Well, he has $1.3 million from gullible Americans. The lack of cash is about more than him lying about his wealth (in a courtroom). More importantly, who is going to loan him the money? What foreign entity will Trump be beholden to? Hungary? Orbán has said he would very much like to see Trump return to the White House. Seems Orban is coming for a visit soon ..
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dawnnikol
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Post by dawnnikol on Mar 1, 2024 17:04:55 GMT
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lizacreates
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Post by lizacreates on Mar 1, 2024 17:34:00 GMT
But hundreds of text messages obtained by The New York Times show that Mr. Bradley, a former law partner and friend of Mr. Wade, helped a defense lawyer to expose the relationship between the two prosecutors.
The texts reveal that Mr. Bradley, who served for a time as Mr. Wade’s divorce lawyer until the two men had a bitter falling-out, assisted the effort to reveal the romance and provide details about it for at least four months — countering the impression he left on the witness stand that he had known next to nothing about the romance.
In all fairness, that was the state’s fault, not Merchant's.
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 1, 2024 18:55:10 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 1, 2024 18:56:16 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 1, 2024 18:59:16 GMT
More of Trump's delay tactics - hoping the trial dates conflict www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-is-playing-games-with-the-trial-scheduleDonald Trump can't win any of his criminal cases in the traditional way by having them dismissed by a judge or with a verdict from a jury. That is why he has adopted a strategy that could only possibly work for Trump - delaying each of his trials until after the election.
Today was the day Jack Smith and Trump's lawyers were required to select a proposed trial date for Trump's favorite Judge Aileen Cannon to consider in the classified documents case. Smith requested a reasonable trial date of July 8. Trump's lawyers countered with an August 12 trial date. The case is not complex and has already been dragged out too long. Trump's main argument against Jack Smith's proposed date is that it is during the week of the Republican National Convention. Again, Trump uses the election calendar in his scheduling argument while Jack Smith is prevented from doing so by DOJ policy.
Why August? Because that is the trial date Fani Willis requested in the Georgia RICO case. Assuming that she is not disqualified from the case by Judge McAfee, the case was looking like it was on pace to go to trial in August. Trump is clearly trying to create a conflict to force one of the cases until after the election. If he can get the Georgia case pushed back to make room for the documents case to go in August, then he can go back to Judge Cannon in a few months with a new excuse to postpone that with a judge who is obviously biased in his favor.
Meanwhile, the J6 case is in limbo after 5 Republican-appointed Justices agreed to take his immunity appeal, then set the case for oral argument on the last available week on their calendar. That will likely the delay a prospective trial date in that case until at least July or August.
So Trump is playing the game of timing. Filing motions and appeals, getting appellate judges to continue to take his appeals, create conflicts on court dates, then delay, delay, delay. His tactic is clear - every continuance is a victory.
Certainly, the prosecutors on these cases are also culpable here. Merrick Garland didn't appoint Jack Smith until the J6 Committee's investigation shamed him into doing so - far too late. Fani Willis took forever to indict, although she may have had the best reasons for doing so because of the complexity of the case and how long it took to secure cooperation from witnesses. The Stormy Daniels hush money case also took years too long, and the schedule in the documents case has been wrecked by Aileen Cannon's bias.
It looks like New York will be first, and we will be hearing from Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen again. The weakest and least significant case will go to trial first. A case that will not likely move the needle with undecided voters one way or the other, unlike the others. This is exactly how Trump has hoped this would play out, thanks to a lot of help from several judges.
All I can say is, Alvin Bragg damn well better win it.
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 1, 2024 19:01:22 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 1, 2024 19:04:46 GMT
GREAT idea!!! Totally agree!!!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 1, 2024 19:11:32 GMT
Mr Gillen is struggling ....
*** Well then NY should go back to the expert witness TFG paid almost a million dollars for his testimony.
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 1, 2024 19:16:03 GMT
Maybe?
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lizacreates
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Post by lizacreates on Mar 1, 2024 19:20:59 GMT
Yeah, maybe. It'll be front and center and close enough to perhaps influence the independents/undecided.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 1, 2024 20:52:15 GMT
Only if Cannon gets the MAL documents case going in July.. August Sept will be pushing it and we surely don't want an aquital in that one... Hung might be better...of course guilty is best!!
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Post by Gem Girl on Mar 1, 2024 21:03:03 GMT
The good news is that Mar-a-Lago is an LLC formed in New York, so that's up for grabs.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 1, 2024 21:08:16 GMT
Yes!!! TFG lawyers are missing some info, 😊.. Special Counsel Jack Smith's prosecution of Donald Trump in the Espionage Act case, which will be tried in Florida, will not be stalled by the U.S. Dept. of Justice's policy of not taking certain actions 60 days before an election. The case, often referred to as the classified documents case, includes 31 charges under the Espionage Act.MSNBC legal analyst and contributor Katie Phang Friday afternoon reports on the "BIG news out of Ft. Pierce." The DOJ advises Judge Cannon that the '60-day rule' does NOT apply in Trump's case as he has already been indicted & the case is already being litigated," Phang writes. "So, no reason to delay taking him to trial, even with elections in November." Phang notes professor of law and her fellow MSNBC contributor Joyce Vance has been making that point. "Read the policy for yourself," Vance added Friday. "it doesn't apply after a case is indicted, when the judge, not DOJ, is in charge of the schedule. Trump's lawyers got it dead wrong." www.rawstory.com/trumps-lawyers-got-it-wrong-espionage-act-trial-will-not-be-stalled-by-doj-rule-2667409643/
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 1, 2024 21:18:40 GMT
Fulton County Judge McAfee, decision in two weeks...
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 1, 2024 22:45:59 GMT
Also:
Addressing Trump's proposed scheduling for an August trial, prosecutor Jay Bratt told Judge Cannon that they were "fake dates" made in "bad faith."
Bratt said Trump's proposed trial date was aimed at blocking a summer trial in DC if SCOTUS sends that case back to Judge Chutkan.
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Gem Girl
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Post by Gem Girl on Mar 1, 2024 22:57:28 GMT
Also: Addressing Trump's proposed scheduling for an August trial, prosecutor Jay Bratt told Judge Cannon that they were "fake dates" made in "bad faith." Bratt said Trump's proposed trial date was aimed at blocking a summer trial in DC if SCOTUS sends that case back to Judge Chutkan. They need that witness list. Death threats need to be worked on. Yeesh.
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 1, 2024 23:05:39 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 1, 2024 23:10:59 GMT
There's a lot more to the article, but here's Ron Filipkowski's prediction www.meidastouch.com/news/summary-of-closing-arguments-in-fani-willis-hearingPart of the issue for Abbate is he steadfastly wanted to defend his boss and argue that she did nothing wrong, unethical or improper, when Judge McAfee seemed more focused on the fact she may have done some things that were improper, but it still may not rise to the level of the legal standard for disqualification of a DA. It is likely that if he denies this disqualification motion, he will do so using his own legal reasoning and not the more limited standard suggested by Abbate.
If I had to take a guess on what the outcome of this will be based on what I heard and read from Judge McAfee, I think he will shy away from wanting to make any specific finding on Willis's credibility about when their relationship began. I think he will say that the issue of their alleged financial improprieties is a matter for the Georgia Bar and the voters and not a basis for disqualification. I think he will reject the narrower legal standard suggested by the DA of requiring "actual conflict," and instead will use the "appearance of impropriety" standard argued by the defense. However, I think McAfee will rule that the totality of circumstances do not rise to the level of disqualification.
Judge McAfee said he expects to render his decision in two weeks.
Hopefully not a 'Trump Healthcare Plan' two weeks.
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 2, 2024 0:20:31 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 2, 2024 1:08:31 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 2, 2024 1:09:52 GMT
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Post by morecowbell on Mar 2, 2024 2:18:04 GMT
Hunter confirms that the Big Guy is Joe. So, "10% for the Big Guy, held by H"
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 2, 2024 2:48:17 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 2, 2024 2:52:04 GMT
Just putting this here to reflect Hunter Biden's actual testimony. He was well prepared and answered all of the Republican questions (Comer didn't even ask any and left early). Republicans hammered Hunter with lots of inappropriate, irrelevant and potentially embarrassing questions. Hunter kept his cool and answered the questions. And after months of investigating, Republicans don't have any evidence that President Biden profited from Hunter's business. Hunter Biden is an addict and made some poor decisions, but he's just a private citizen.
I think morecowbdll was trying to deflect from the former guy's legal problems. False comparison. One is a private citizen, the other a former president.
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Post by morecowbell on Mar 2, 2024 2:53:54 GMT
Yes, it is. You might want to look a little more intently and not rely on a single tweet that is lying to you.
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 2, 2024 3:02:06 GMT
Yes, it is. You might want to look a little more intently and not rely on a single tweet that is lying to you. Did you look at the actual document? It's exactly the same as the screen shot. Speaking of single tweets that might not be truthful, what evidence do you have that Hunter acknowledged President Biden is the big guy? page 134 www.documentcloud.org/documents/24451159-hunter-biden-transcript_redacted
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