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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 1, 2024 17:34:50 GMT
Loser! Just another loser!!
Former President Donald Trump appears to have spent $250,000 of donor money while losing a lawsuit against Christopher Steele in London.
On Thursday, a high court dismissed Trump's request for damages after Steele's firm compiled a dossier about Trump during the 2016 election. Among other things, the dossier accused Trump of participating in sex parties and hiring prostitutes in Russia.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 2, 2024 21:28:32 GMT
March 4th DC court date postponed, awaiting Judge Chutkan's written order. Federal judge postpones trial in Trump’s DC election interference caseBy Katelyn Polantz, Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz and Devan Cole, CNN 3 minute read Updated 4:21 PM EST, Fri February 2, 2024 Washington CNN — The Washington, DC, trial date in the federal election subversion case against former President Donald Trump has been postponed because of ongoing appeals about the power of the presidency, according to a new court order in the case. The trial date was originally set for March 4, but the case was paused as a federal appeals court considers arguments from Trump that he should be immune from prosecution because of his role as president leading up to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. The appeals court has yet to issue a ruling on the matter of immunity. Though not official until US District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s order Friday, it became increasingly less likely that the March trial date would hold. In January, Trump’s team complained that prosecutors were continuing to submit court filings despite the case’s pause, and Chutkan warned Smith’s team that they should not continue without her permission. The delay is a win for the former president, who has repeatedly worked to delay the trial until after the 2024 presidential election, but it isn’t yet clear if he’ll be successful in holding off the trial until after November’s vote. A delay was also anticipated by the parties and even court officials – especially as each day has gone by without a ruling from the DC Circuit on presidential immunity. The court heard the case almost a month ago and can take weeks if not months to rule. It’s likely that the ruling from the DC Circuit will be appealed to the Supreme Court. As part of her order Friday, Chutkan also said that the prospective jurors, who had been asked to appear in court next week to fill out a written questionnaire, would no longer have to do so. “The court will set a new schedule if and when the mandate is returned,” Chutkan wrote in the order. www.cnn.com/2024/02/02/politics/trump-trial-date-postponed/index.html |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 2, 2024 22:16:16 GMT
Another bit of info... "At the short conference, Chutkan didn't explicitly mention Trump's case," Cheney wrote. "But she made clear that she’s keeping her calendar flexible in the event she is able to reschedule it." The report continues: "Chutkan recently scheduled the trial of Anthony Mastanduno, another Jan. 6 defendant, to begin on April 2, prompting inferences that she doesn’t anticipate Trump’s trial occurring before the latter half of that month. On Friday, she said she had already told Mastanduno that his trial 'may have to be moved depending on other matters.'" www.rawstory.com/revealed-chutkan-trump-trial-moves/*** Judge Chutkan appears to be getting a touch impatient with the appeals court. youtu.be/6lOHRTnnZ5g?si=zSssEi12gw44GCW8 |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 3, 2024 3:37:44 GMT
Jan 6th participants are complaining about the 'double standard' v TFG..
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 6, 2024 21:28:07 GMT
Relieved the appeals court refused to grant Trump immunity. Now, the Supreme Court needs to do the same. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/us/politics/trump-immunity-appeals-court.htmlFederal Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Claim of Absolute Immunity
The ruling answered a question that an appeals court had never addressed: Can former presidents escape being held accountable by the criminal justice system for things they did while in office?
A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected former President Donald J. Trump’s claim that he was immune from prosecution on charges of plotting to subvert the results of the 2020 election, ruling that he must go to trial on a criminal indictment accusing him of seeking to overturn his loss to President Biden.
The panel, composed of two judges appointed by Democrats and one Republican appointee, said in its decision that, despite the privileges of the office he once held, Mr. Trump was subject to federal criminal law like any other American.
“For the purpose of this criminal case, former President Trump has become citizen Trump, with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant,” the panel wrote. “But any executive immunity that may have protected him while he served as president no longer protects him against this prosecution.”
The three judges cast Mr. Trump’s immunity claims as a danger to the nation’s constitutional system.
“At bottom, former President Trump’s stance would collapse our system of separated powers by placing the president beyond the reach of all three branches,” they wrote. “Presidential immunity against federal indictment would mean that, as to the president, the Congress could not legislate, the executive could not prosecute and the judiciary could not review. We cannot accept that the office of the presidency places its former occupants above the law for all time thereafter.”
But the question of how to handle Mr. Trump’s immunity claim is heading the Supreme Court’s way as it prepares for arguments on Thursday about another momentous question related to the former president: whether he can be disqualified from the ballot for having engaged in an act of insurrection by encouraging his supporters to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. |
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 6, 2024 22:18:59 GMT
I don't know if he's right. But, the Supreme Court declining to take the case would be a good outcome. The trial could proceed sooner rather than later
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 6, 2024 22:27:24 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 7, 2024 2:32:42 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 7, 2024 2:43:21 GMT
Sorry I couldn't find this thread earlier....
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 7, 2024 3:14:46 GMT
Love this guy and "dumb Trumpistan". Just s warning - there is lots of profanity
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 7, 2024 5:53:19 GMT
TFG is filing for immunity in Florida for protection from the Presidential Records Act.. Donald Trump's criminal legal team on Tuesday evening signaled he will argue presidential immunity in his criminal trial in Florida, where the ex-president stands accused of inappropriately holding onto confidential and classified documents from his time in office. Earlier in the day, an appeals court shot that same argument down in another case. *** The filing was flagged by national security lawyer Bradley Moss. "Trump seeks to postpone the deadline for some pre-trial motions until Cannon resolves bigger picture pre-trial motions he will file by February 22nd," Moss wrote on Tuesday. "He intends to claim President immunity (good luck with that) and argue he is protected by the Presidential Records Act."The court filing itself is a motion for "adequate time to file certain motions." Trump lawyers said they "respectfully request permission to file suppression motions and motions relating to evidence sought in the pending motions to compel within one month of the court's resolution of the pending motions." The filing further states that the defense intends to file motions relating to "presidential immunity, the Presidential Records Act," as well as security clearances, the vagueness doctrine, and selective and vindictive prosecution.www.rawstory.com/trump-immunity-documents/Found comment, not mine: So Trump is coming right out and saying Cannon is his little beotch, legally grabbing her by the kitty cat. 11th Circuit, how long are you going to let this bastardization of justice continue? Forget Cannon, 11the Circuit, this is on you! |
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Post by Gem Girl on Feb 7, 2024 22:54:14 GMT
argue he is protected by the Presidential Records Act." TFG clearly has still never bothered to read what's in The Presidential Records Act. |
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Post by refugeepea on Feb 7, 2024 23:14:24 GMT
TFG clearly has still never bothered to read what's in The Presidential Records Act. I'd be surprised if he reads anything. |
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Post by sabrinae on Feb 8, 2024 0:09:06 GMT
Regarding the $, per the NYT www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/nyregion/trump-carroll-pay-83-million.htmlDonald J. Trump might one day have to pay E. Jean Carroll the $83.3 million she was awarded, but that day is not today.
Mr. Trump called the jury’s decision “Absolutely ridiculous!” and vowed to appeal the verdict, a process that could take months or more.
And while he is waiting for an appellate court to rule, Mr. Trump need not cut Ms. Carroll a check.
Yet the former president is still on the hook to pay something — possibly a sizable sum — while he waits.
Mr. Trump can pay the $83.3 million to the court, which will hold the money while the appeal is pending. This is what he did last year when a jury ordered him to pay Ms. Carroll $5.5 million in a related case.
Or, Mr. Trump can try to secure a bond, which will save him from having to pay the full amount up front.
A bond might require him to pay a deposit and offer collateral, and would come with interest and fees. It would also require Mr. Trump to find a financial institution willing to lend him a large sum of money at a time when he is in significant legal jeopardy.
Although Mr. Trump likes to boast of his billions, much of his wealth is linked to the value of his properties, and he is loath to part with vast sums of cash at once.
And when it comes to his varied legal expenses — of which there are many — he tries to avoid spending his own money at all. Mr. Trump has tapped his political action committee’s coffers to pay for his own legal fees and other expenses stemming from his criminal indictments and civil trials.
Yet $83.3 million eclipses the amount in his political accounts. The verdict on Friday will require Mr. Trump to reach into his own pocket.Thank you for this. I wonder what the timeline is for him to pay. I also wonder what happens if he doesn't pay. If he doesn’t pay either a bond or deposit the money with the Court, he can’t appeal. The appeal will be dismissed and Carroll can ask the Court to put liens on his property or even garnish certain assets to satisfy the judgement. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 8, 2024 0:17:39 GMT
Unfortunately the judge has not filed the paper work yet, therefore everything is on hold...
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 8, 2024 22:21:36 GMT
Finally Judge Kaplan has issued a filing on the E Jean Carroll case. The clock is ticking for him to attempt an appeal or not. "Judge Kaplan has at least entered judgment in the second Carroll trial," wrote Rubin on X. "That starts the clock for Trump's post-trial motions and for him to post a bond."** "Specifically, federal rules governing civil cases stay a plaintiff's execution on a judgment for 30 days after the entry of judgment, which effectively means he has 30 days to provide a bond or other security to lengthen that stay pending an appeal," Rubin continued. "Trump also has 28 days after the entry of judgment to move for a new trial or to 'alter or amend' the judgment." The judgment affirms the award the jury said Carroll deserves. www.rawstory.com/trump-e-jean-carroll-judgment/ |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 9, 2024 5:25:08 GMT
TFG lawyer made a confession or 2 or 3... Democratic voting rights attorney Marc Elias told MSNBC's Alicia Menendez on Thursday. The Supreme Court was reviewing the decision by Colorado to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot under the Insurrection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment — and legal experts broadly believe the court is unlikely to uphold that decision. But that doesn't mean Trump will get a complete victory here, Elias said.I think it was going to be long odds from the get-go," said Elias. "But I don't think that that means that the argument itself was a total loss. I think there were some things that came out of it that actually may wind up having some long-term consequences, including, by the way, Donald Trump's lawyer saying that though January 6th was not an insurrection, the events were shameful, criminal, and violent. I think Donald Trump, in some other courtrooms, is going to be arguing that it was not criminal and violent.Can we zoom in on that for a second?" said Menendez. "That was clearly a very strategic choice, right, to make a series of concession in those arguments, in some ways allowed him to place 1/6 aside because he knew it was not firm ground for him to be having 1/6 front and center. Do you think it was considered the way in which those remarks would then complicate some of these other legal cases?" "Look, I think that, you know, to credit the lawyer for Donald Trump who argued the case today, I think he gave ground to win the case in front of him," said Elias. "And you know, I can — I can understand that. He's got nine justices looking at him today and figures we'll worry about tomorrow tomorrow. That doesn't mean when that tomorrow doesn't come, right, tomorrow does come. But I think he made those concessions, whether it was playing this democracy card that may frankly come back to haunt him in some of the election cases that I and others litigate, or it is this violent point that, you know, Donald Trump is — has said it was a peaceful gathering." www.rawstory.com/trump-lawyer-admitted-haunt-jan-6/ |
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 10, 2024 5:48:54 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 10, 2024 5:49:45 GMT
With all of the fuss over the Special Counsel's report, this is not getting enough attention
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 12, 2024 23:25:53 GMT
I hope the Supreme Court declines to hear Trump's immunity appeal www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/02/12/trump-immunity-supreme-court-appeal-jan-6/Donald Trump on Monday asked the Supreme Court to block a lower court ruling that he can be criminally prosecuted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, insisting that presidents are shielded from prosecution and that a trial would “radically disrupt” his reelection bid.
As they decide whether to grant Trump’s request to keep the proceedings on hold, the justices are also likely to consider whether to schedule the immunity issue for argument before the Supreme Court’s term ends in late June or early July. The justices could deny Trump’s request and allow the D.C. Circuit’s ruling that Trump can be prosecuted to stand, clearing the way for trial proceedings to resume immediately.
The votes of five of nine justices are required to keep the D.C. Circuit ruling on hold and the trial proceedings paused. It takes four justices to accept a case for review. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 12, 2024 23:27:21 GMT
Agreed!
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 12, 2024 23:29:02 GMT
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Post by Gem Girl on Feb 12, 2024 23:29:11 GMT
I hope the same. If they agree to hear something so silly, I will take that to mean that they're owned by TFG, and that they don't care who knows it. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 13, 2024 0:46:44 GMT
Weissmann was shocked that a Supreme Court filing — which argues Trump enjoyed absolute freedom as a sitting president — began with an oft-quoted quip from famous former New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra; “This application is ‘déjà vu all over again.”“Their position is that the President of the United States can kill people,” Weissmann said on MSNBC. “If you were going to be snarky, they might as well have cited Yogi Bear.” That the former president's lawyers had time for jokes surprised Weissmann, considering Trump stands accused in Washington D.C. federal court of criminally attempting to overturn a presidential election in 2020. www.rawstory.com/trump-scotus-presidential-immunity-argument/
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 13, 2024 23:19:09 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Feb 14, 2024 23:27:15 GMT
They need to stop trump from stalling. When people vote in the general election they have a right to know if one of the two candidates is guilty of election interference.
Kyle Griffin….
”Breaking; Special counsel Jack Smith is urging the Supreme Court to have Trump's election interference case proceed to trial — without further delay.
"Applicant seeks a stay to prevent proceedings in the district court from moving towards trial …. Applicant cannot show, as he must to merit a stay, a fair prospect of success in this Court. Nor can applicant show that the balance of equities or the public interest favors continued delay of the criminal proceedings."
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 14, 2024 23:53:46 GMT
Isn't he required to attend the criminal proceedings? Hummm.,.. |
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Post by lizacreates on Feb 15, 2024 0:47:15 GMT
This gives me no joy to say, but the GA RICO case is in serious jeopardy. I hope the hearing tomorrow is on YT because I want to watch the whole thing. If Willis is disqualified that means the whole Fulton County DA’s Office is disqualified. As to whether another county will take up the case is a big question mark. If no other county steps up, that case will be dismissed in its entirety. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 15, 2024 1:27:34 GMT
lizacreates what would happen to those who have pleaded guilty already? And yes I have benn concerned about the GA case. I agree with you!
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Post by lizacreates on Feb 15, 2024 1:38:06 GMT
lizacreates what would happen to those who have pleaded guilty already? And yes I have benn concerned about the GA case. I agree with you! The plea deals? There’ll be motions to withdraw the guilty pleas and vacate the judgement. (ETA: This was a very poor decision made by Willis. Sigh. I hate to say this, but I don't know what the heck she was thinking.) |
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