#and in other news a former US President was issued with a gag order by a judge for being horrid

[toughpaperround]

Seth Myers last night in 'A Closer Look', after the speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted:

If someone you love ever starts talking like that, you need to immediately call 9-1-1. Or, as Kevin would say, "Call one, then another one, and then before both of those a nine!!"

[mightyflamethrower]

None of the five civil and criminal cases currently lodged against former President Donald Trump have ever had merit.

They were all predicated on using the law to injure his re-election candidacy—given a widespread derangement syndrome among the left and a fear they cannot entrust a Trump/Biden election to the people.

These criminal and civil trials are merely the continuation of extra-legal efforts of the last eight years to destroy a presidential candidate in lieu of opposing him in transparent elections.

As such, the current lawfare joins the Mueller investigation of the Russian-collusion hoax. It is a continuation of the laptop disinformation caper and the “51 intelligence authorities” who lied about its Russian origins. It logically follows from the two impeachments, the Senate trial of Trump as a private citizen, and states’ efforts to remove him from their ballots.

The E. Jean Carroll case, the Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, and Fani Willis local and state trials, and the Smith federal indictment share various embarrassments.

Suspension of statutes of limitations: 

Carroll and Bragg could only go to court through the legal gymnastics of enlisting sympathetic judges and legislators to change or amend the law to suspend the statute of limitations as a veritable bill of attainder to go after Trump.

Violations of the Bill of Rights:

In the Bragg case, Judge Merchan’s selective and asymmetrical gag order likely violates the First Amendment (prohibiting “abridging the freedom of speech”). Bragg violated the Sixth Amendment by denying Trump the right “to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation”. Judge Engoron, in the juryless James case, violated the Eighth Amendment (“nor excessive fines imposed”) in assessing Donald Trump an unheard of $354 million fine for supposedly overstating the value of real estate collateral for loans, while violating the Sixth Amendment as well (“the accused shall enjoy the right … to trial by an impartial jury”). The FBI likely violated the Fourth Amendment (“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures”) by raiding Trump’s private residence, seizing his papers and effects (many of them private), and then lying about its own shenanigans of rearranging the seized classified files to incriminate Trump.

The invention of crimes:

The indictments of Bragg, James, Willis, and Smith had no prior precedents. These cases will likely never be seen again. Bragg bootstrapped a federal campaign violation allegation onto a state crime. Yet still, he has never explained exactly how Trump violated any particular law.

No one had ever been tried in New York for allegedly inflating real estate assets to obtain a loan from banks, whose auditors had reviewed favorably the applicant’s assets. Thus, the lending agencies issued the loans, profited from the interest, were paid back in full and on time, and had no complaint against the borrower, Trump. Nonetheless, James indicted Trump and convicted him of a non-crime without a victim, due the New York combination of a politicized left-wing Manhattan judge, prosecutor, and juror.

No local prosecutor until Willis had ever indicted a presidential candidate for calling up a registrar and complaining about the balloting or alleging that some votes cast were not yet counted, followed up by an additional request to find supposedly missing ballots. If such criminalization was the norm, a local Florida prosecutor in 2000 could have indicted both the Bush and Gore campaigns.

Prior to Smith’s federal indictment, all disagreements with presidents about the classification and removal of their private papers were handled administratively, not criminally, much less inaugurated by a staged, performance-art FBI swat-like raid on an ex-president’s residence.

Equal justice?: 

These indictments are asymmetrical, hounding Trump when other prominent left-wing politicians have been far greater violators of the same alleged crimes and yet were given exemptions. Special prosecutor Robert Hur found Biden culpable for removing classified files for far longer, in more places, in less secure circumstances, and without the presidential authority to declassify them. Yet Biden was not indicted on the Orwellian excuse that he, as president, was so mentally challenged no jury would convict such an amnesiac and debilitated defendant (who otherwise apparently can exercise the office of President of the United States.)

Tara Reade was as believable or unbelievable as E. Jean Carroll. Far poorer, and without Carroll’s New York elite connections, Reade alleged that Senator Joe Biden sexually assaulted her at about the same time as the Carroll claim. Yet Reade was written off as a nut, ostracized, and felt to have opportunistically piggy-banked on the #MeToo movement.

James and her predecessors were aware of hundreds of New York City developers who submitted loan applications with property assessment at odds with those of initial bank appraisals. She knows the solution is that either the bank’s sophisticated auditors refuse the loan or the disagreement is deemed not sufficient enough to sacrifice profit-making by offering a loan that will likely be timely paid back.

Willis knows that Stacey Abrams, in her own state, claimed herself the winner of the 2018 gubernatorial race (she lost by over 50,000 votes). Abrams then declared that the actual winner, current governor Brian Kemp, was and is an illegitimate governor. She further sued to overturn the election in the manner that Jill Stein had tried to overthrow the 2016 presidential election.

In a similar fashion of election denialism, Democratically-funded ad campaigns and sycophantic celebrities hit the airways in 2016 to flip the electors to become “faithless,” thus renouncing their constitutional duties to reflect their own states’ tallies and instead voting according to the national popular vote.

Bragg knows that Hillary Clinton was fined over $100,000 for 2016 campaign violations after she hid the nature of her illegal payments to foreign national Christopher Steele to collect dirt on her opponent Donald Trump. Barack Obama was fined—five years post facto!—by the same Federal Election Commission a whopping $375,000 for improperly reporting nearly $2 million in 2008 campaign donations. In neither case did a federal prosecutor, much less a local district attorney, seek to criminalize what was customarily considered an administrative or civil violation of federal law.

Bias: 

Never has an ex-president and leading presidential candidate been targeted with promises of indictment by candidates running for state and local offices. Yet that is precisely what Bragg, James, and Willis have done, fueling their campaigns for offices by promising to find ways to go after Donald Trump and subsequently raising money from such boasts.

Willis’s paramour, fellow prosecutor Nathan Wade, met with the White House counsel’s office. One of Bragg’s prosecutors, Matthew Colangelo, left his prestigious job as a senior federal prosecutor in the Biden DOJ temporarily to work on contract with Bragg’s Manhattan office to go after Trump.

Jack Smith was appointed by the Biden Department of Justice; his left-wing filmmaker spouse helped to produce a puff-piece documentary on Michelle Obama.

The judge in the Bragg case, Juan Merchan, donated to the 2020 Biden campaign. So did one of the lead prosecutors, Susan Hoffinger, who gave generously to Biden in 2020. Merchan’s own daughter, Loren, has made a small fortune as a Democratic campaign consultant, having guided her left-wing clients’ fundraising efforts to the tune of $90 million.

Given these egregious violations of the law, abject political bias, conflicts of interest, asymmetrical application of the law, and manipulations of the statutes of limitations, the public has slowly grown incensed. They rightly conclude that the lawfare is a left-wing coordinated effort to destroy candidate Trump by exhausting him physically and psychologically in five separate cases at the height of the campaign season, bankrupting him with what will likely be $1 billion in legal fees and fines, silencing him with gag orders, defaming him with salacious and sensational but irrelevant court testimonies, and keeping him off the campaign trail.

And now? The sheer preposterousness has resulted in two unexpected developments. One, the more the left tries to subvert the legal system to emasculate Trump, the more the latter wins popularity, especially in traditionally non-Republican constituencies, even as Biden slumps in the polls. And two, the four criminal cases are starting to fall apart because of their sheer ridiculousness and abject bias.

Will and her boyfriend, prosecutor Wade, likely lied under oath about both their covert romantic relationship and the money that fueled their global junketeering. A Georgia state appellate court is reviewing Willis’ suitability to continue the prosecution. One might ask, “How can a prosecutor who lied under oath while trying a case retain any credibility?” Whatever the state court’s findings, a state appellate or federal court will eventually exonerate Trump. No other prosecutor or jurisdiction would likely take over Willis’s tainted indictment.

Smith’s indictment is in limbo, largely because: 1) in unusual and partisan fashion, he sought to rush the prosecution to coincide with the 2024 campaign; 2) the Supreme Court is determining to what extent a president either has immunity or can be hauled into court by a special prosecutor appointed by the opposition party; and 3) his office lied to the court about the condition of the Trump files they found at his residence, collected, and then took possession of—in a fashion that was intended to prejudice the case in the government’s favor.

Bragg’s gambit of putting Stormy Daniels on the stand to offer irrelevant but lurid testimony to hurt candidate Trump may have backfired, given she proved unstable, narcissistic, unreliable, hateful, and promised to break the law and refuse a legally ordered payment to Trump after losing a defamation case against him. Convicted felon and liar Michael Cohen, the prosecution’s key witness, has already hit the internet trying to get rich and will have less credibility.

James’s civil conviction of Trump and massive fine (originally $450 million with interest) may also be overturned on appeal, given it violates Eight-Amendment protection from “unusual punishment” (“bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed”), in addition to the selective prosecution of Trump where there is no criminal act and no victim.

So what will be the endgame of all these attacks on the American legal system and the warping of it for blatant political purposes?

One, we have entered new territory. There will soon be hundreds of local and state prosecutors who feel they have now been given license in election years to go after national presidential candidates for political advantage, both local and national.

Two, conservatives are in a dilemma: whether to restore deterrence by boomeranging the left’s extra-legal effort to ruin a candidate and president or to refrain from what would be a descent into third-world, tit-for-tat criminalization of politics.

Three, the persecution of Trump, coupled with the derelict candidacy of Joe Biden, threatens to erode the traditional base of the Democratic Party and redefine politics in terms of class rather than race. Minorities are beginning to empathize with the gagged, railroaded, and victimized Trump while distancing themselves from the victimizers, who are using their “privilege” to warp the law on behalf of a bullying president.

Four, the U.S. has lost a great deal of credibility abroad due to the erosion of what was once seen as the greatest system of jurisprudence in the world. No longer.

Enemies like China and Russia now boast that America’s new political prosecutions are similar to their own systems, or even more egregious, and will welcome us into their own customs of bastardized justice.

Latin-American, African, and Asian dictators are delighted that the U.S. has lost the moral authority to lecture them on the need for a disinterested and independent judiciary and the rule of law.

Our democratic allies in Europe and Asia are increasingly disturbed that the instability and unlawfulness apparent in the current lawfare put into question the reliability of the United States and its adherence to a rules-based order—whether at home or aboard.

Any president who would sic the justice system on his opponent might be equally vindictive and lawless to his allies abroad.

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

We’re only one week into the first criminal trial of Donald Trump, yet he and his MAGA allies are already intervening to identify and drive off the jury anyone they think could pose a risk to the former president. At Fox News, host Jesse Watters has launched attacks on the jurors, saying at one point that any juror who says they can be unbiased in the case is a liar, and citing Trump’s legal team as having uncovered potential jurors who were “undercover activists.” Trump himself quickly amplified Watters’ remarks (and as Lawrence O’Donnell noted, partially altering Watters’ quote) on Truth Social — an action that risks violating Judge Juan Merchan’s gag order prohibiting attacks on jurors, potential witnesses and other people related to the case. A prosecutor in the case reportedly called his remark disturbing while saying that Trump did, in fact, violate the gag order.   None of this has stopped Watters, who continued attacking the jury Thursday evening after it was fully seated. Steve Bannon, set to face trial himself later in the year before Merchan over the “We Build The Wall” scheme, cited Watters’ remarks as a reason that Trump’s team should move for an immediate mistrial. Watters has gone further than merely making general complaints about jurors; his efforts may have contributed to a juror leaving the trial entirely. On Wednesday, Watters called out “juror number 2,” describing extensive details about her work and personal life. By the next morning, the juror noted in court, her friends and family seemingly had figured out she was a member of the jury, and she withdrew from the trial as a result. [...] But the core issue here is that Trump and his media allies don’t believe that they should have to be subject to the same legal system as the rest of us. Instead, there’s a clear and concerted effort by MAGA forces to use media pressure to give Trump more preferential treatment, and to drive off any juror they believe poses a risk to Trump. That’s why Fox Corp. personality Clay Travis is happy to publicly urge the former president’s supporters to “do everything you can” to get on the jury and acquit Trump, regardless of the evidence at hand. This coordinated attempt to use chaos to undermine public confidence in Trump’s trial should be understood as part and parcel of Trump and his supporters’ attack on democracy — and their media allies are fully on board.  [...] At the heart of what Watters and Bannon are saying is that Trump deserves special treatment because of his political following. Without getting into the minutiae of jury selection in New York state, their claims are preposterous. 

John Whitehouse for MSNBC.com on the MAGA media's attacks on the People of New York v. Trump jury selection (04.22.2024).

In a column on MSNBC.com, MMFA news director Jon Whitehouse exposes the MAGA media's jury tainting strategies in the jury selection for the People of New York v. Trump election interference/business record falsification criminal trial.

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MMFA: The MAGA attacks on Trump's jury are part of their anti-democracy push

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Mike Pence, Liz Cheney & Jack Smith are crying in their cheerios...

Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan will not hold the trial for former President Trump on charges stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith's Jan. 6 investigation until after the 2024 presidential election. 

Chutkan held a status hearing Thursday morning in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, in which lawyers for Trump pleaded not guilty on his behalf related to charges from Smith’s new indictment after the Supreme Court ruled a president is immune from prosecution for official acts in office.

In an order Thursday afternoon, Chutkan set deadlines for replies and paperwork from federal prosecutors and Trump's legal team for Nov. 7 — after Election Day. 

Trump did not appear in court Thursday. His lawyers pleaded not guilty on his behalf. Smith was in court Thursday morning. 

The case pertains to Trump's alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Last week, the former president was indicted and issued revised criminal charges by Smith, who alleges Trump pressured former Vice President Mike Pence to reject legitimate electoral votes, in addition to mounting fake electors in key states that went to President Biden and to attest to Trump's electoral victory.

The new indictment keeps the prior criminal charges but narrows and reframes the allegations against the Republican presidential nominee after a Supreme Court ruling that conferred broad immunity on former presidents.

Specifically, the indictment has been changed to remove allegations involving Department of Justice officials and other government officials. It clarifies Trump's role as a candidate and makes clear the allegations regarding his conversations with then-Vice President Pence in his ceremonial role as president of the Senate.

The new indictment removes a section of the previous indictment that had accused Trump of trying to use the Justice Department to undo his 2020 loss. The Supreme Court recently ruled in a 6-3 decision that Trump was immune from prosecution for official White House acts.

The new indictment removes a section of the previous indictment that had accused Trump of trying to use the Justice Department to undo his 2020 loss. The Supreme Court recently ruled in a 6-3 decision that Trump was immune from prosecution for official White House acts.

Trump has been charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. Those charges, to which Trump pleaded not guilty, remain. 

Smith alleges Trump participated in an effort to enlist slates of fake electors in key states won by Biden to attest that Trump had in fact won and that Trump pressured Pence to reject legitimate electoral votes.

The special counsel's office said the updated indictment, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., was issued by a grand jury that had not previously heard evidence in the case. The new grand jury has only heard this new information.

Sources familiar with the matter tell Fox News that discussions surrounding the superseding indictment will likely not speed things up, and it is unlikely it will go to trial before the November election. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Trump is still under a gag order

Liz Cheney on Kamala Harris in August 2020

Liz Cheney on Kamala Harris in September 2024

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

June 10, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

JUN 11, 2024

Former president Trump met with a New York City probation officer today for a pre-sentencing interview. They met over video for a first step in the sentencing process, in which an officer assesses the convicted criminal’s living situation, finances, mental health, addiction, and criminal record. Trump was expected to have his lawyer, Todd Blanche, with him when he linked in from Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. Judge Juan Merchan will take the information from the interview into account when he sentences Trump. He will also consider that Trump was held in contempt 10 times during the trial for violating the gag order designed to stop him from attacking witnesses and court personnel and their families.

Ever since a New York jury unanimously found the former president guilty of 34 felonies on Thursday, May 30, he and his supporters have tried to assert that he is, in fact, in a strong position for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination and for the November election itself. First, they insisted that his convictions made him more popular than ever, an assertion undermined by their own desperate avoidance of other trials and the demands of both Trump and House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to have the Supreme Court somehow step in to overturn a conviction by a state court.

Trump has also tried to reassert dominance by insisting in at least five interviews that he will seek “revenge” on Democrats for prosecuting him, and MAGA loyalists have echoed this threat. But as Greg Sargent pointed out today, this, too, is spin. 

There is a big difference between a prosecution advancing on the basis of evidence gathered by law enforcement, evidence that prompted grand juries to indict Trump, and his own threats to prosecute President Joe Biden and other Democrats simply because he had to endure a prosecution, not because there is any evidence that they have committed crimes. The first serves the rule of law, the second shatters it.

Since the conviction, as political analyst Simon Rosenberg points out, the right-wing Murdoch media empire “has gone into hyperdrive.” That empire, which includes the Fox News Channel, supports Trump and knowingly lied that the 2020 election had been stolen. On June 4, the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal printed a story saying that “behind closed doors, Biden shows signs of slipping,” but the piece quoted only former House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who previously had hammered Biden in public but privately assured colleagues he was mentally sharp.

One of the authors of the piece sparked outrage in October 2021 by tweeting that Biden, who was visiting the graves of his dead children and wife, “goes to church and walks through a graveyard in Wilmington as his legislative agenda is dying in Washington.” 

In November 2021, Biden signed into law the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act. In June 2022 he signed into law the Safer Communities Act, a gun safety law. In August 2022 he signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act that invested billions in semiconductor manufacturing and science, and the Inflation Reduction Act that provided record funding for addressing climate change and permitted Medicare to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies over drug prices. Together, those legislative accomplishments rival those of Presidents Lyndon Baines Johnson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose congressional majorities were far stronger than Biden’s.

The Republicans’ frantic pushback on Trump’s conviction reveals both that it has hurt him badly, and that without Trump projecting the dominance of a strongman, they have little to fall back on except for personal attacks on Biden. 

Trump had counted on using immigration against Biden and ordered his loyalists to scuttle the bipartisan immigration measure the Senate hammered out in February in order to keep the issue alive. Swing voters took notice: in March a focus group showed that 9 out of 13 Wisconsin swing voters blamed Trump for killing the bill.

As soon as that measure failed, the administration began to talk of what Biden could do through an executive order, despite believing that such an order would be challenged in the courts. At the same time, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris continued their pressure on the Mexican government to increase its own immigration enforcement. That process worked, and undocumented migration has dropped sharply at the southern border. Meanwhile, the administration’s parole program for people from Venezuela, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Cuba has cut undocumented migration from those countries by almost 90%. 

Then on Tuesday, June 4, likely trying to get ahead of the usual summer rise in immigration, and after Senate Republicans once again killed the bipartisan border measure,  Biden issued an executive order permitting him to seal the southern border temporarily when undocumented crossings surge to more than 2,500 a day, a restriction stricter than that negotiated in the Senate measure Trump scuttled. This order looks more like Trump’s effort to curb migration—one that courts blocked—at least in part because without legislation, there is no new funding to provide the additional courts the administration wants in order to move asylum cases faster. 

As predicted, the order is likely to face legal challenges. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), who worked with Senator James Lankford (R-OK) on the Senate immigration bill, wrote in a statement: “I am sympathetic to the position the administration is in, but I am skeptical [that] the executive branch has the legal authority to shut down asylum processing between ports of entry on its own. Meaningful asylum reform requires a bipartisan solution in Congress.” 

Nonetheless, while Trump continues to demagogue immigration issues, the charge that Biden wants “open borders”—which was always disinformation—is now harder to make. 

Meanwhile, the measures Democrats advocate are so popular that Republican legislators are taking credit for projects funded by them even though they voted against the laws themselves. Katherine Tully-McManus of Politico pointed out today that Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) voted against the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that will deliver nearly $470 million to her district. She has attended a highway ribbon cutting and boasted of the modernization of locks and dams on the Mississippi River in her district despite her “no” vote.

Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) called the infrastructure law a “socialist wish list” and a “fiasco” but nonetheless celebrated a federal grant for nearly $26 million to invest in public transit in her district. 

This credit-taking is widespread among those who opposed the law. Just this weekend, Trump falsely asserted that it was he, not Biden, who lowered the cost of insulin to $35 a month. In fact, it was Biden who signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act that made such negotiations possible.

There is little else for Trump to stand on. The Republicans’ position on abortion is so unpopular that when Trump spoke today to the Danbury Institute, which calls for abortion to be “eradicated entirely,” he never mentioned the word abortion. Instead of delivering a keynote address, he spoke for less than two minutes and said that the attendees “can’t vote Democrat” because “[t]hey’re against religion.” 

Democrats pushed back on the Wall Street Journal’s article attacking Biden, calling it a “hit piece” and noting that their own quotations did not make the cut. Observers pointed out that reporters jump on Biden’s speech while Trump’s jumbled and offensive statements—like his crazy hash of MIT, electric batteries, boats, and sharks yesterday—rarely get reproduced.

The Biden campaign is addressing that lack with a new ad campaign, one that deliberately punctures the idea of Trump as a strongman. One ad shows foreign leaders laughing at Trump’s statements, and another, directed at Latino voters, shows Trump last week kissing former Maricopa County, Arizona, sheriff Joe Arpaio, whom Trump pardoned after his conviction related to racial profiling. Another ad from the Biden campaign in the wake of the 80th anniversary of D-Day focuses on Trump’s quotations mocking the military as suckers and losers and quoting some of his other offensive statements about those who serve. 

Finally, the Biden team rushed to produce an ad today using Trump’s own words from a rally this weekend in the broiling Nevada desert in which he said he didn’t want people to keel over because: “We need every voter. I don’t care about you. I just want your vote. I don’t care.”

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[gehayi]

The New York judge presiding over Donald J. Trump’s civil fraud trial ordered the former president Tuesday not to attack or even comment on court staff after Mr. Trump posted a message to social media targeting the judge’s law clerk.

Mr. Trump went after the clerk, Allison Greenfield, shortly before noon on his Truth Social site. His post was a picture of Ms. Greenfield with Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic majority leader. Mr. Trump mocked Ms. Greenfield as “Schumer’s girlfriend” and said that the case against him should be dismissed.

Mr. Trump posted his message in the midst of a trial in which he is accused by the New York attorney general, Letitia James, of inflating the value of his assets in his annual financial statements to gain favorable treatment from banks and insurance companies.

The post was taken down during a lunch break, shortly after a closed-door meeting between the parties in the room where Mr. Trump is being tried.

After the break, the judge, Arthur F. Engoron, explained what had happened, though he did not name Ms. Greenfield or Mr. Trump, referring to the former president only as a defendant.

“Personal attacks on members of my court staff are unacceptable, inappropriate and I will not tolerate them under any circumstances,” the judge said.

Justice Engoron said that his statement should be considered a “gag order” forbidding any posts, emails or public remarks about members of his staff. He added that serious sanctions would follow were he to be disobeyed. He did not elaborate, but experts said that if the former president violates the order, the judge could fine Mr. Trump as much as $1,000 — or even hold him in jail for up to 30 days, though the chances of that happening are slim.

The former president’s social media posts have become an issue in several cases against him. Federal prosecutors who have accused Mr. Trump of seeking to overturn the 2020 election have asked a judge for a gag order, citing his threatening statements. In a criminal case against Mr. Trump in Manhattan that stems from a 2016 hush money payment to a porn star, the judge has restricted Mr. Trump’s ability to post about some evidence.

Mr. Trump has spent much of the first two days of his civil fraud trial attacking Justice Engoron and Ms. James, both Democrats. Last year, Ms. James filed the lawsuit that led to the trial, accusing Mr. Trump of “staggering fraud” by inflating the values of his assets.

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In a pretrial ruling, Justice Engoron found that the former president was liable for fraud and dissolved the companies he uses to run his New York properties. What remains to be determined at trial is whether the former president and his fellow defendants are liable for other illegal acts and whether there will be further punishment. Ms. James has asked Justice Engoron to fine the defendants $250 million.

Mr. Trump has called the judge “deranged” and said that he is biased. His attack on Ms. Greenfield, which also included a link to what appeared to be Ms. Greenfield’s Instagram account, pushed the idea of Democratic collusion against him, saying that the case should be dismissed immediately.

In a statement, a spokeswoman for Senator Schumer called the post “ridiculous, absurd, and false.”

“Senator Schumer does not know Ms. Greenfield,” the statement said. “As is well known, Senator Schumer attends countless events in every corner of the state where tens of thousands of constituents take photos with him, just like this one, which was taken at a stop at an annual brunch in Manhattan.”

Justice Engoron is known for keeping a lighthearted atmosphere in his courtroom, cracking jokes and making outdated pop culture references. On Tuesday, after news photographers snapped picture after picture of Mr. Trump, Justice Engoron remarked, “Oh, the wages of fame.”

He also gives unusual latitude to Ms. Greenfield, allowing her the occasional direct question to lawyers. The two have a rapport: Justice Engoron makes jokes and quips and Ms. Greenfield keeps the trains running on time

But the judge spoke gravely Tuesday as he explained the terms of his order. He noted that while Mr. Trump had taken down the Truth Social post about Ms. Greenfield, the former president’s campaign had sent out a copy in an email to millions of people.

The trial resumed soon after the judge’s stern warning with the cross-examination of a retired accountant who used to work with Mr. Trump. And Justice Engoron recovered his usual bearing quickly. Soon, he was correcting one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers on the proper pronunciation of triplex, leading many in the courtroom — Ms. James included — to laugh.

As for Mr. Trump, he sat quietly during the afternoon, occasionally making comments to his lawyers as he watched one aggressively question the accountant, Donald Bender.

After court concluded, he did not respond to questions about the judge’s order but said he would return to the trial Wednesday.

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Andrew McCarthy: Prepare for Trump to be sentenced to prison on September 18

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Andrew McCarthy: Prepare for Trump to be sentenced to prison on September 18

To the surprise of no one, Judge Juan Merchan has yet again denied former President Trump’s motion that the judge recuse himself. I am speaking, of course, about the case in which Manhattan’s elected progressive Democratic District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, is prosecuting Trump. In early June, a jury found the former president and current GOP presidential nominee guilty on 34 counts of business-records falsification.It is not just that Judge Merchan had previously denied the recusal motion. The judge has signaled that, come hell or high water, he intends to sentence Trump on Sept. 18.If you’re keeping score, that would be two days after early voting in the 2024 election begins in Pennsylvania.NEW YORK V. TRUMP: MERCHAN DELAYS SENTENCING HEARING UNTIL SEPTEMBERThe Trump defense team has been trying to stave off sentencing. And the lawyers have what, in a normal case, would be real ammunition. On July 1, the U.S. Supreme Court held that presidents (including former presidents) are (a) presumptively immune from criminal prosecution for any official acts taken as president, and (b) absolutely immune if the official acts are core constitutional duties of the chief executive. The court instructed that this immunity extends not only to charges but to evidence. That means prosecutors are not just barred from alleging official presidential acts as crimes; they are further prohibited from even using such acts as proof offered to establish other crimes.There is no denying that Bragg’s prosecutors used some of Trump’s official acts to prove their case. Indeed, they called as witnesses two of Trump’s White House staffers.Unsurprisingly then, Trump’s lawyers moved post-trial to have the guilty verdicts thrown out based on the high court’s immunity ruling. Further, they again argued that Merchan should recuse himself. On that score, they claimed the lucrative political work Merchan’s daughter has done for Vice President Kamala Harris should be seen as more significant now that Harris has replaced President Biden as Trump’s Democratic opponent in the upcoming election.TRUMP’S APPEAL TO LIFT REMAINING PARTS OF NY GAG ORDER DENIEDOn Tuesday, Merchan denied the recusal motion. He had signaled his intention to do so in a letter to the parties last week. He also said he plans to rule on Trump’s immunity claim by Sept. 16. Most importantly, though, Merchan admonished the parties to prepare for the court to move ahead with the imposition of sentence on Sept. 18. He instructed the lawyers to submit promptly any arguments they intend to make on that subject.If we may read the tea leaves, Merchan has already decided that he will deny Trump’s immunity motion. There is, moreover, a high likelihood that he will impose a prison sentence against Trump right after that.TRUMP CAMPAIGN PICKS UP THE PACE, EYES COUNTER-PROGRAMMING DURING DEMOCRATS’ CONVENTIONBy the time he’d issued his letter last week, Merchan had had weeks to mull over the Supreme Court’s immunity decision and Team Trump’s subsequent brief arguing that the guilty verdicts should be tossed out. He told the parties to get ready for sentencing anyway. Obviously, if Merchan had any intention of vacating the verdicts, or of recusing himself, he would not have stuck to the sentencing date.I suspect that Merchan will rationalize that Trump (a) was not charged based on official presidential acts, and (b) would have been convicted even if Bragg’s prosecutors had not introduced arguably immunized evidence. Such a ruling might be wrong, especially on the latter point (at trial, prosecutors described some of the testimony from Trump staffers as “devastating”); but Merchan made so many outrageous rulings in the case that it would be foolish to expect him to change course now. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONIn fact, my own view is that, even more than the Supreme Court’s immunity decision, another of its late-term rulings will bolster Trump’s eventual appeal — Erlinger v. United States. There, the court reaffirmed that in criminal cases, important proof elements affecting the potential sentence must be found unanimously by the jury. Merchan, to the contrary, denied Trump the right to a unanimous verdict on the supposed crime (conspiracy to influence the election by illegal conduct) that Bragg alleged Trump was trying to conceal by falsifying his business records. That crime is what turned a misdemeanor into a felony, and what allowed Bragg to get around the two-year misdemeanor statute of limitations. But this brings us to the main point. The New York prosecution of Trump was politics, not justice. That’s why we call it “lawfare.” The prosecutors and judge are not concerned about whether convictions ultimately get thrown out on appeal. And it’s not like Merchan is actually going to put Trump in prison; it is virtually certain that Trump will get bail pending appeal, so Merchan can appear to impose a stiff incarceration sentence without any real incarceration — at least for now, and probably ever.The objective here is to enable Vice President Harris and the media-Democratic complex to label Trump “a convicted felon sentenced to prison” just weeks before Election Day, at a time when Americans will already have started voting in many states, not least the potentially decisive Pennsylvania battleground.Prepare for Merchan to deny Trump’s immunity claim … and strap in for sentencing on Sept. 18.Editor’s note: This column has been corrected to reflect that Judge Merchan said he would rule on former President Trump’s immunity claim by Sept. 16, not Aug. 16.CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM ANDREW McCARTHY

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Leveraging Fox News and other mainstream media outlets, Rufo and his supporters sought to manufacture hysteria around the inclusion of critical race theory in schools and workplaces. After a 2020 appearance on Fox News where Rufo misrepresented the nature of federal trainings on oppression, white privilege, and intersectionality as indoctrination of critical race theory in our public spaces, Rufo convinced former President Trump to end federal DEI training. Rufo’s goal was to limit discourse, instruction, and research that refuted the false assertion that racism is not real in America – and he succeeded. Just three weeks later, Trump issued Executive Order 13950, which banned federal trainings on systemic racism and sexism. This Executive Order served as the template for most of the educational gag orders, or bills introduced to limit instruction on systemic sexism and racism in 40 states, 20 of which are now law. The ACLU has consistently opposed efforts to censor classroom instruction on racism and sexism, including in Florida where some of the most egregious attacks on DEI, critical race theory and inclusive education have been mounted. Following the far right’s “anti-wokeism” playbook, in April 2022, Florida Governor Ron Desantis signed the Stop W.O.K.E. Act, which seeks to ban training or instruction on systemic racism and sexism in workplaces, K-12 schools, and higher education. The ACLU, the ACLU of Florida and our co-counsel challenged the law, claiming it violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments by imposing viewpoint-based restrictions on instructors and students in higher education, and fails to state explicitly and definitely what conduct is punishable. A federal judge has blocked it from being enforced in public universities across the state.

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Led by the same far-right leaders, including Rufo and various think-tanks, these anti-DEI efforts utilize the same methods as the attack on critical race theory. They represent yet another attempt to re-whitewash America’s history of racial subjugation, and to reverse efforts to pursue racial justice—or any progress at all. Anti-DEI rhetoric has been used to invalidate immunological research supporting the COVID-19 vaccine, conclusions by economists on mass migration, and even the January 6 insurrection. But these false claims are not what DEI is about. By definition equity means levelling the playing field so qualified people from underrepresented backgrounds have a fair chance to succeed. We cannot let a loud fringe movement convince us otherwise. In its attacks on DEI, the far right undermines not only racial justice efforts, but also violates our right to free speech and free association. Today, the ACLU is determined to push back on anti-DEI efforts just as we fought efforts to censor instruction on systemic racism and sexism from schools.

(@mitigatedchaos)

[davidpwilson2564]

Bloglet (22-23)

Monday, April 22, 2024

Trump hush money trial begins. Mr. Pecker, of National Inquirer fame, speaks for a little while. The topic is "catch and kill." The paying for and killing of stories. Trump's lawyer makes a little speech about the Boss's being a regular guy: husband, father, etc. Total b.s. of course. We note that in most criminal trials the defendant is accompanied by his family. Not this time, no sir. It's just Trump, in this unadnorned room...with his law team. He keeps violating the gag order laid down by the Judge Merchan. For anyone else it would mean going to jail. Not our former president. He is given all of the rights he would (gleefully) deny others.

Nice weather.

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

More of hush money trial. More of Mr. Pecker's testimony. Note that Mr. Pecker and Trump are neighbors in Florida. They are (or were) friends, we are told. Both deal in lies. The National Enquirer is news in the way that Fox News is the news. Genres of entertainment. Both enterprises are wildly successful. The Tabloid market...

A move to arm public school teachers in Tennessee. (Librarians, I'm sure you saw this coming, are to be issued silencers.)

More about the gag order. Trump is not used to being restrained. He never has been. The judge could jail Trump for mouthing off. Would the Secret Service detail be sent with him? And what is that sheaf of papers Trump carries with him? Fan mail? I suspect it is something like that. He riffles the pages. Holds those pages lovingly...

Note: Pecker isn't through talking. More to come. More dirt.

Acting on impulse I phone Gwill in Toronto. Long talk with him after which I feel better. (Must make an effort to reach out. FOMO, they call it. Fear of missing out.)

to be continued

[the-firebird69]

NY judge issues gag order on Trump in hush money trial | CNN Politics

The last stuff to say but really the new stereo is pretty good on two speakers is kind of loud on four it doesn't make much noise on small speakers it can be pretty loud but it's not massively loud and it's not that powerful and yeah it's nowhere near 300 watts and then and they said 30 Watts total like 15 a channel that's more like it it sounds very nice it says it does and he does not need it as loud as this other stereo although at the time it helps.

-another news Donald Trump is under scrutiny by a lot of people and he was in court threatening making stupid faces and calling people names and the judge stopped the proceedings and said I'm putting a gag on you and applies in court too and he said why and he said because you're threatening people it's not becoming for someone who held your position that you had. Now that's what he said it's in the news all over the world that the judge said he's a little brat and people are starting to get it people don't like this guy and for good reason now he is an a****** he's been threatening her son all day long and he delivered the package and had the stereo in it hey made a hole in it and he's trying to do stuff on the way over and people said if you do we're going to cut you off and throw you into the ditch and take off and we were going to take you away and that's it so he said okay and he thinks it's BG and it's not so he delivered it and our son was standing right there and he said no way and as soon as he got up he signed standing right over him he saw him and it was our son standing at the window and he said I'm actually in trouble and he built a hole in a thing didn't do anything and he's not strong enough to do anything at the time and we said this we need him away from him and this is a major crime and we're calling on people to put it and list it as a major crime we need to enforce order if we have these big problems and people like him trying to take advantage of it. He wrote out and he felt great so you did a good job and stuff and then he said I poked a hole in it and you remembered it and he said what do they do so why don't you ask them so he's asking them and they said we are going to poke a hole in you and they're going ahead and they're going to do that and he's running around and he's out there vulnerable and someone said this we need to stop him from harassing him and right now we don't need him running about getting this or that and he's tired and it shows so it's good we have a couple more things to announce

-the people who are getting checks ready to send aren't going to send a notification letter ahead of time and it will state that our son is owed such and such an amount and for him to prepare to receive it and for him to acknowledge the letter and they say to sign it in other words they don't want to send money and not have someone sign off on that's what we owe you and it says to reconcile from what we owe you and things like that and it is what we were talking about it's not much money and he doesn't have outstanding monies but he does have a 401k and they will acknowledge that in the letter hopefully and people are looking at Daniel's and it says it it says this is regarding the pay and payroll and and that's it anything outside that is not addressed here and it's good it's just a lot of money in the 401K and stuff and he said you should probably put 401k investments it's like millions of dollars and he said this I think that's probably true so somebody drafted it and included that it doesn't include the 401K at this time and it's good cuz it is millions of dollars and they said this it's pretty Sharp and he needs it but they do have a use for it so it'd be smart to do and then when they send the letter with saying the money is coming he sends it back countersigned and your photocopy of course and also they will mention they're working on the investments and they said that too because it's not money they thought they could use and it's not much money and people see what the investments are and they'll start to invest and they can actually make money doing that it's a lot of money some of it is ridiculous and Trump tries to ruin whatever her son's investments and he is very beat up this time real bad and people Express their tired of him and they send them off any many times that's another thing but the letters are going to be issued we think sometime this week or early next week and they're not even issuing them and the idiots are showing up and that's why it's just too many of them. So they're going to hold off and then cool and it did not cool yet there's so many of them dying a lot of people think that they won't last a week or even to the end of this week and it is an incredible number you would be surprised it is going to be a huge huge day coming up and we mean tomorrow tonight is going to be huge night tomorrow will be a bigger day there's a few reasons one is the message will be examined further from the Saturn possibly empire and see a Saturn oligarchy and people see that and there's also another big incident coming Trump is going to try and throw the book at people here as sheriff and he's going to be with stiff resistance he's going to be before he got slammed down but now people are sick of him and he's going to experience a lot of pain tons of it... And further there is a reception tomorrow Wednesday people are receiving people for the death of one of John remillard's sons and he died in combat in Venezuela and it is not in punta Gorda. He was actually upset which is something people needed to see is turning into a monster it's lost a lot of people but he was getting along with that guy his other things happening tomorrow very huge news but it is important for people to see what's going on

-there are five bank accounts I son has that has his money in it and those bank accounts are not transferring here yet and they haven't said anything and the bank owners and managers don't intend to do so they haven't come here and get it out so the sun says I'll be right over I'll see it sounds like it the wise ass America so you're pretty quick I tried to get it out and you wouldn't let me that's illegal now it's going to come out the old fashioned way and it doesn't matter CIA is supporting it and they are and they said wow that's great yeah you need a break from your lives he stated to the bank people and they said we don't care about you and all this s*** I said doesn't change a thing except we got to hack your computer. They started laughing and they noticed that their computer was hacked no they won't find it there's a few other things going on

-we're tired of this crowd we're tired of John remillard we're sick of his face and his rude comments and how he falls over in milliseconds and we don't want to hear how he almost got to the stereo and people are almost beating him up every few minutes

-but yeah there is some more developments of the evacuation of Florida is up to 4.8% and that starts at 18.5 roughly and it will go down this week further of course in the evacuation of the middle areas is going upwards in those are leaving the number increases of them and it is huge it's gigantic out there it's probably 15% of the population I'm coming down and huge trucks came down they're big pullers and it's Overkill but that's what it is I'm about 19,000 and tonight that's probably 30 to 40,000 more I'm going to Florida and the other the other ones will be for the South to arrange the double ads or single ads that's a good idea mobile homes are selling like crazy they probably have about 79% of the ones in stock sold and a lot of them are leftovers and they cut the price and the ones that aren't sold what kind of big their trailers and some of them have six wheels on a side by side in the back and you can see three on each side and those are big they're not fifth wheel but their trailers and they people think they're not that safe then they're safe if you have sway bars and standoff bar and you have chains and you have a lock on your pitch and you don't go fast and a lot of people use bigger trucks and that makes it safe if you use like an f 350 even and our son knows nothing is beefy as heck they had one at work and you put it like a ton and it doesn't go down so it is easy enough and we are informed that the trailer business is booming right now they say they don't need any help but we are seeing it because those trailers they cut the price on and they're kind of in the way of bringing in smaller travel trailers an RVs and he wanted to keep those because he wanted to use them he doesn't have anywhere to put them he says it's secure and her son says and daughter you can probably find a place if you have a neighborhood if you guys hey you can put one in each yard or he says whoever owns the storage right here and he says we actually know who that is and he's not one of us and he really is not and it is John remillard so I guess that's out but yeah he wanted to hang on to some of them is more comfortable and they're easier to handle but they're a pain in the ass to drive so people going in and buying them anyways just slowly so there are they're probably a hundred of them and instead of like 150 Grand there 100,000 and it's worth it they look two bathrooms and sleeps eight it's nice furniture nice stove and nice fridge full size fridge sometimes there's two same full size and it's kind of an argument but they like to put them at job sites so he says don't you have a construction equipment place so he's thinking about it cuz it could be listed as an expense and used for construction and you could use it for supervision and sight personnel field engineers and also for meetings cuz you have several different places and uses a lunch thing he says this that's not bad and a lot of times with job sites you might have owners coming and owners reps so he's going to see if he can write it off and we know you can just sleeping thing you don't need all that other stuff you might be able to write it off more than once true too there's other things happening

-there's several other people involved in the business they said this is craziness I've never seen this before and really there's a lot of people leaving tons of people buying and now they're all up New England and some of the South and the Midwest and operate West they're all buying campers to move and moving double wides that's what I was going to be worse there's going to be like a hundred thousand trucks with those trailers and then there's going to be more much more come Monday probably a million and then we going back and forth for days taking double-wided trailers and those things are terrible but they don't feel like building they think they're going to the island. And it's on too this is a tough topic. It's a large number of campers that that's coming down here literally we think they have around 15 million campers. All different varieties travel trailers RVs small RV type vehicles the van ones the pup tent you need it motorcycle trailers it's ridiculous you've never heard or seen of so many campers in your life that's a whole bunch of those teardrop ones it's like $8,000 and they sold tons of those it's not a bad thing to do you can put your stuff in it and furthermore there are there's going to be a massive evacuation tonight but it's still those five percent about 1% left the other is going to leave at night and they said it's easier and there's no daytime traffic thanks anyway from the past few days and it's cooler and the engine feels better and it's been getting hot and it's a good idea you'll get it all the way up out of Georgia into Mississippi kind of have to and the evacuation is not happening there's a few other things going on

-her son has been waiting for funding for quite a while and daughter is waiting for him to get it and he gets that so he knew that he said. So she's telling me what to do and he knows. There are some sources of funding that are going to become available shortly he has money coming from inheritance there's a bunch of people that want that they think that Ernie will be mean and is on Saturn. And they're going over items and bja noticed that he's looking at it and the idiots are showing up. And Sandy says oh there's one Brian and he's pressed up against her slider better get the shotgun you'll have them here in the south and you're white I didn't notice your white that's why you have a shotgun and your brother is kind of dark so he doesn't he doesn't get one says he doesn't need one and she's heard that before. And it is a deal of money it's a few things and he's holding on to it because it's not really his he doesn't know what to do with it cuz here's enough Arnie is actually gone but he says he better give it to him because he might have to move okay if he moves to the South you can get a fan the blowing his face was Brian used to do. And his list of things but there's no golf car by VW. So he says you can take the car and you raise the roof and some golf cart this would have the electric it's probably a stupid thing that our father and mother are doing and they say it's not stupid and I've thought about it forever for themselves and the idea is perfect and it would work they have the doors and everything all worked out. Speaking of which the Saturn car is left to our son it's in storage because the battery would need to be fixed in the gasoline probably drained out and replaced before you try and start it so he tow it to a auto guy there's no more Saturn dealer but dealers work on different cars so the fight over the dealership and a Saturn. To those people want him to feel like a pig like they do. And it's a bunch of money quarter million dollars and you put it in the bank and people would hassle but the point is you started going over it and there's a list of stuff it would be a car and money there's a boat and it's a pontoon boat and his mom really wanted one so you can try and get it to her if there's any place safe to hold it's a boat you fall off and you go into the muck she said I don't want to boat in a pool and it's true too it's not safe. And there's a house down here and it's in fort Myers and he says no he thinks they sold it and they didn't sell it that's where the money came from and the boat has been stored for many years and the storage fee probably is worth more than the boat and you can refuse it but he wants to straighten it out sing $800 a season so it's not that bad it's been since 2000 I think they stop paying when he start paying and 2016 which is quite a few years since 17 and 18 19 20 21 it's like seven or eight years 6400 but the pontoon boat is worth about $20,000 and it will sell these days probably for more and you can have the guy sell it and they'll pull it out of storage so we do understand that these things will be harsh and people think so and they don't care if they're jerks a few other things that they left well. There a few more things and you just was wondering they were kind of stingy yeah. It's kind of awful they had to be and they're forced to a couple more things probably princesses that's true

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He is tired it's cuz the orange so it's probably take a nap

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[worldofwardcraft]

What will it take?

November 6, 2023

The very day after his August indictment in the Georgia election interference case, crime lord Donald Trump issued this ominous warning: "If you go after me, I'm coming after you." If a Mafia boss, drug chieftain, gang member or any other defendant said this, that person would be immediately remanded to the appropriate pokey. But in Trump's case, the legal system (along with the news media) simply closed its eyes and shrugged.

It's just another illustration of our two-tiered system of justice — one law for Trump and another for the rest of us. In April, after pleading not guilty to 34 felony counts in the hush money case brought by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, Trump went on a rampage attacking Bragg, his wife and the judge overseeing the trial.

According to ABC News, Judge Juan Merchan received dozens of threats as a result. Bragg too was menaced when a letter threatening to kill "Alvin" arrived at his office. So what did Judge Merchan do? He asked that "both parties" (!) refrain from inflammatory language. "This is a request I'm making," he said. "I'm not making it an order."

It's the same story in every jurisdiction where Trump is facing criminal charges. Even when courts issue gag orders, he still attacks judges, prosecutors, court personnel and potential witnesses both at his MAGA cult rallies and on his failing social media platform.

Judge Arthur Engoron, presiding over Trump's business fraud trial, tried lightly fining him. First, $5000, and then $10,000. But to no avail. Meanwhile, Tanya Chutkan, the DC judge in Trump's election interference trial, issued a narrow gag order, then stayed it pending appeal. Following which Trump lashed out at Special Counsel Jack Smith and committed a bit of witness tampering, declaring that his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, would be a "weakling and a coward" to take an immunity deal and testify against him.

In a motion pointing out Trump's continuing provocations, Smith convinced Chutkan to reinstate her gag order. But last week the appeals court stayed it yet again. So the question remains: How to keep Trump from shooting off his big mouth, endangering others and hindering a fair trial? Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb sees Chutkan having only one recourse.

I think she’ll come in with a much heavier penalty, and ultimately, I think he’ll spend a night or a weekend in jail…I think it’ll take that to stop him.

Cobb's right. Only slapping the cuffs on him, taking away his phone and plunking him behind bars will bring Trump's outrageous misconduct to a halt.

[talkstothemoonandstars]

Judge Forces Trump to Testify for Insult Then Fines Him $10K

In a shocking turn of events, the New York judge presiding over Donald Trump’s bank fraud trial ordered the former president to testify Wednesday over an insult Trump threw at the judge’s law clerk.

After a brief testimony by Trump, Justice Arthur F. Engoron formally called him out.

“As the trier of fact, I find that the witness is not credible, that he was referring to my law clerk, who is sitting much closer to me, who doesn’t have a barrier,” he said. “I hereby fine you $10,000, which is on the liberal side, to be paid within 30 days.”

During a court break earlier in the day, Trump held an impromptu press conference outside the courtroom in which he complained about the “person who’s very partisan sitting alongside of [the judge],” an oblique reference to attorney Allison Greenfield, who advises the judge on this case.

Immediately after that, Justice Arthur F. Engoron warned Trump’s lawyers that he was in clear violation of the gag order he imposed at the very start of the trial. Defense attorney Christopher Kise claimed that Trump was actually referring to the witness, Trump’s sworn enemy and former lawyer Michael Cohen. The judge said he’d take the matter under advisement.

However, when trial continued after a lunch break, Engoron held a surprise hearing in which he ordered Trump to take the witness stand—marking the first time the real estate tycoon has done so in his ongoing legal troubles.

After a visibly perturbed Trump was sworn in, the judge asked him who he was referring to when he directed his anger at the person sitting next to the judge who's “very partisan.”

“Are you sure you didn't mean on the other side of me, my principal law clerk?” Engoron asked.

“Yes actually,” Trump said, sticking to his story.

Engoron probed further, asking Trump if he had previously refererred to his law clerk as a “partisan democrat?”

“She may be unfair. I think she's very biased against us. I think we made that clear… we put up a picture, and you didn’t want that up… we didn’t necessarily agree with that... and we didn’t take it down,” Trump said.

But Engoron wouldn’t buy it.

“As you can see, my principal law clerk is very close to me,” Engoron said. “You and I see can see each other, we're close, but we're not as close, clearly. And there's a barrier between us.”

“Don’t you always refer to Michael Cohen as Michael Cohen?” Engoron pressed on.

“No,” Trump shot back.

Engoron, clearly frustrated, frowned as he moved his tongue under his cheek.

“The witness is excused, I have no further questions,” he said.

“Thank you, sir,” Trump said, then walked out of the witness box.

Engoron then issued his ruling, which sparked protests from defense lawyers Christopher Kise and Alina Habba.

“I think that’s a dangerous place to go, not just with the sanction but with the trial,” Kise warned.

The judge said he wouldn’t reconsider, and started up the trial again.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Dean Obeidallah at The Dean's Report:

Just about every conversation featuring legal experts in the media talking about Donald Trump's conduct includes the line: "If he were anyone else, he'd already be in jail." That tells you that Trump continues to receive special treatment. I don’t know about you, but I’m thoroughly disgusted with this special treatment for a man who attempted a coup, incited the Jan 6 attack, is charged with 88 felonies for a range of crimes including violating the Espionage Act and who is now attacking the family of the New York judge handling his criminal case there. It’s long, long past time this ends. And the way to do that is for the New York judge presiding over his election fraud case--where Trump faces 34 felonies--to order him held in custody for contempt until his April 15 trial begins.

Last week, the judge handling this case, Juan Merchan, imposed a gag order that prohibited Trump from attacking witnesses, prosecutors, jurors and court staff--as well as their relatives. In response, Trump repeatedly attacked the Judge’s daughter by name as being biased for working for organizations tied to Democrats. Trump even posted a news article to his Truth Social platform that displayed two pictures of Ms. Merchan. In addition, Trump continued to repeat a lie that the judge’s wife had posted a photo online of Trump in prison. In reality, the social media account at issue—as Trump has been told in the past--had no connection to Merchan’s wife.

Those posts by Trump, while violating the spirit of the gag order, did not violate the express language because that prior order did not cover the family of the judge. But before we address the law, please understand that that there’s only one reason Trump is targeting the judge’s family: To incite threats and potentially violence against them by Trump supporters. Trump is attempting to intimidate the judge by saying if you rule against me on key issues, we know who your family is. It’s the same message Trump wants to send to potential witnesses and jurors in the case, namely, we may not be able to get to you, but we will come after your family. Former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi explained on my SiriusXM show Monday that Trump is using mob tactics to intimidate witnesses and others by inciting threats against their family.   Figliuzzi even shared that in one case he handled, a family member of a witness was killed.  

[...]

Getting back to this case, the Manhattan DA—in their pleading to expand the original gag order to protect Judge Marchan’s family—correctly noted, “There is no constitutional right to target the family of this Court.” The prosecutor then continued with a very accurate statement: “Defendant knows what he is doing, and everyone else does too.”

The DA is correct. We all know what Trump is doing: He is trying to intimidate the judge, witnesses, prosecutors and prospective witnesses.  That is exactly what Bragg’s team explained, writing: “We all know exactly what defendant intends because he has said for decades that it is part of his life philosophy to go after his perceived opponents ‘as viciously and as violently’ as he can.” The prosecutors added that Trump, “promised very recently that “IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!’ He is carrying out that promise right now.” That led to Judge Marchan’s ruling Monday night expanding the original gag order to protect his own family from Trump. (Take that in for a moment.) The Judge wrote in his opinion that Trump’s  “pattern of attacking family members of presiding jurists and attorneys assigned to his cases serves no legitimate purpose.”  Rather, “It merely injects fear in those assigned or called to patriciate in the proceedings, that not only they, but their family members as well, are "fair game" for Defendant's vitriol.”

The judge then warned, “The average observer, must now, after hearing defendant’s recent attacks, draw the conclusion that if they become involved in these proceedings, even tangentially, they should worry not only for themselves, but for their loved ones as well.”  He added, “Such concerns will undoubtedly interfere with the fair administration of justice and constitutes a direct attack on the Rule of Law itself.” The judge later emphasized this very point, writing, “Again, all citizens, called upon to participate in these proceedings, whether as a juror, a witness, or in some other capacity, must now concern themselves not only with their own personal safety, but with the safety and the potential for personal attacks upon their loved ones.” The judge added, “That reality cannot be overstated.”

Dean Obeidallah is right. Donald Trump continues to get special treatment for committing crimes that would have seen a commoner be thrown in prison a long time ago. Trump should be in jail until at least his trial for repeatedly breaking gag orders.

From the 04.01.2024 edition of SiriusXM Progress's The Dean Obeidallah Show:

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“One of Hitler’s Tactics Was to Accuse His Accusers of Doing What He Was Actually Doing”: 

Trump Says Democrats Will Criminalize Being a Republican

Former President Donald Trump has shared an article on social media, authored by Wayne Root and featured on Gateway Pundit – a well-known fake news site. The article painted an unlikely picture of what may happen to the Republican Party and the United States if Trump is not reelected in 2024. 

READ MORE “One of Hitler’s Tactics Was to Accuse His Accusers of Doing What He Was Actually Doing”: Trump Says Democrats Will Criminalize Being a Republican (msn.com)

Trump Reaches TOTAL DESPERATION as Prosecutors GO ALL IN 9/16/2023

On this episode, the dynamic legal duo discuss: Special Counsel Jack Smith’s move to gag Trump; Trump’s move to disqualify the federal judge presiding over the DC Election Interference case; Fulton County Judge McAfee issuing orders ensuring that at least 1 criminal will happen next month in the Georgia Criminal Case against Trump; developments involving Mark Meadows continued efforts to get his portion of the Georgia Criminal Case tried in federal court; Trump’s latest effort to delay the start of his October 2 NY Attorney General Civil Fraud case this time by suing the trial judge; new revelations in the recently unsealed proceedings about Twitter trying to tip off Donald Trump about an ongoing criminal investigation; the Republican Senate voting to acquit Attorney General Ken Paxton and other breaking legal news from around the US.

VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ8KR4RLlUE

Fmr. Prosecutor: Trump 'eventually might have to' be put in jail if he breaches gag order

Sep 16, 2023 #Trump#Velshi

"Former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks joins Ali Velshi to discuss the implications of special counsel Jack Smith asking a federal judge for a "narrowly tailored" gag order that restricts the Donald Trump from making certain statements about the election interference case brought against him, citing threats the former president made against individuals. "Why put in place something [like this] when you know you're not going to jail him? I think eventually they might have to. What other options are there? Financial penalties haven't worked. He re-defamed E. Jean Carroll right after a $5 million judgement," Wine-Banks tells Velshi."

VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqnbtQH1fnU

Sep 16, 2023 VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65vSxsbCuAY

‘He'll be in something of a straight jacket’: Expert on Jack Smith seeking 'narrow' Trump gag order

VIDEO 12:18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29TCyEUQ4_I

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Federal Judge PUTS Trump in HIS PLACE and Thwarts his SCHEME

Sep 16, 2023

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on a new ruling by Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealing Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request for a limited gag order against Donald Trump in the Washington federal criminal case.

VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpIOJFDlZ5g

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[rwood2477]

Dude has been in office for 3 years.... what has he done? Other than dodging the darts the media and Pelosi have thrown?!?

what has PRESIDENT TRUMP and his cabinet accomplished.....

Here you go.

* Trump recently signed 3 bills to benefit Native people. One gives compensation to the Spokane tribe for loss of their lands in the mid-1900s, one funds Native language programs, and the third gives federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Montana.

* Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch.

* Trump signed a law to make cruelty to animals a federal felony so that animal abusers face tougher consequences.👀👀

* Violent crime has fallen every year he’s been in office after rising during the 2 years before he was elected.

* Trump signed a bill making CBD and Hemp legal.👀👀

* Trump’s EPA gave $100 million to fix the water infrastructure problem in Flint, Michigan.

* Under Trump’s leadership, in 2018 the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest producer of crude oil.

* Trump signed a law ending the gag orders on Pharmacists that prevented them from sharing money-saving information.

* Trump signed the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act” (FOSTA), which includes the “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act” (SESTA) which both give law enforcement and victims new tools to fight sex trafficking.👀👀

* Trump signed a bill to require airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding Moms.

* The 25% lowest-paid Americans enjoyed a 4.5% income boost in November 2019, which outpaces a 2.9% gain in earnings for the country's highest-paid workers.

* Low-wage workers are benefiting from higher minimum wages and from corporations that are increasing entry-level pay.

* Trump signed the biggest wilderness protection & conservation bill in a decade and designated 375,000 acres as protected land.

* Trump signed the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per year to clean tons of plastic & garbage from the ocean.👀👀

* He signed a bill this year allowing some drug imports from Canada so that prescription prices would go down.

* Trump signed an executive order this year that forces all healthcare providers to disclose the cost of their services so that Americans can comparison shop and know how much less providers charge insurance companies.

* When signing that bill he said no American should be blindsided by bills for medical services they never agreed to in advance.

* Hospitals will now be required to post their standard charges for services, which include the discounted price a hospital is willing to accept.

* In the eight years prior to President Trump’s inauguration, prescription drug prices increased by an average of 3.6% per year. Under Trump, drug prices have seen year-over-year declines in nine of the last ten months, with a 1.1% drop as of the most recent month.

* He created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally staffed it with veterans and direct family members of veterans.👀👀

* VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance, with more than 4,000 VA employees removed, demoted, and suspended so far.

* Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to provide veterans access to access to mental health treatment as they transition to civilian life.

* Because of a bill signed and championed by Trump, In 2020, most federal employees will see their pay increase by an average of 3.1% — the largest raise in more than 10 years.

* Trump signed into a law up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for millions of federal workers.

* Trump administration will provide HIV prevention drugs for free to 200,000 uninsured patients per year for 11 years.👀👀

* All-time record sales during the 2019 holidays.

* Trump signed an order allowing small businesses to group together when buying insurance to get a better price👀👀

* President Trump signed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act that provides funding for states to develop maternal mortality reviews to better understand maternal complications and identify solutions & largely focuses on reducing the higher mortality rates for Black Americans.

* In 2018, President Trump signed the groundbreaking First Step Act, a criminal justice bill which enacted reforms that make our justice system fairer and help former inmates successfully return to society.

* The First Step Act’s reforms addressed inequities in sentencing laws that disproportionately harmed Black Americans and reformed mandatory minimums that created unfair outcomes.👀👀

* The First Step Act expanded judicial discretion in sentencing of non-violent crimes.

* Over 90% of those benefitting from the retroactive sentencing reductions in the First Step Act are Black Americans.

* The First Step Act provides rehabilitative programs to inmates, helping them successfully rejoin society and not return to crime.

* Trump increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by more than 14%.👀👀

* Trump signed legislation forgiving Hurricane Katrina debt that threatened HBCUs.

* New single-family home sales are up 31.6% in October 2019 compared to just one year ago.

* Made HBCUs a priority by creating the position of executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs.

* Trump received the Bipartisan Justice Award at a historically black college for his criminal justice reform accomplishments.

* The poverty rate fell to a 17-year low of 11.8% under the Trump administration as a result of a jobs-rich environment.👀👀

* Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have reached their lowest levels since the U.S. began collecting such data.

* President Trump signed a bill that creates five national monuments, expands several national parks, adds 1.3 million acres of wilderness, and permanently reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

* Trump’s USDA committed $124 Million to rebuild rural water infrastructure.👀👀

* Consumer confidence & small business confidence is at an all time high.

* More than 7 million jobs created since election.

* More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.

* More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs created since his election.

* Trump appointed 5 openly gay ambassadors.👀👀

* Trump ordered Ric Grenell, his openly gay ambassador to Germany, to lead a global initiative to decriminalize homosexuality across the globe.

* Through Trump’s Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team (ACTeam) initiative, Federal law enforcement more than doubled convictions of human traffickers and increased the number of defendants charged by 75% in ACTeam districts.

* In 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismantled an organization that was the internet’s leading source of prostitution-related advertisements resulting in sex trafficking.

* Trump’s OMB published new anti-trafficking guidance for government procurement officials to more effectively combat human trafficking.

* Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations arrested 1,588 criminals associated with Human Trafficking.

* Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services provided funding to support the National Human Trafficking Hotline to identify perpetrators and give victims the help they need.

* The hotline identified 16,862 potential human trafficking cases.

* Trump’s DOJ provided grants to organizations that support human trafficking victims – serving nearly 9,000 cases from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018.👀👀

* The Department of Homeland Security has hired more victim assistance specialists, helping victims get resources and support.

* President Trump has called on Congress to pass school choice legislation so that no child is trapped in a failing school because of his or her zip code.👀👀

* The President signed funding legislation in September 2018 that increased funding for school choice by $42 million.

* The tax cuts signed into law by President Trump promote school choice by allowing families to use 529 college savings plans for elementary and secondary education.👀👀

* Under his leadership ISIS has lost most of their territory and been largely dismantled.

* ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed.

* Signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs.

* Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers.

* Trump issued an Executive Order prohibiting the U.S. government from discriminating against Christians or punishing expressions of faith.

* Signed an executive order that allows the government to withhold money from college campuses deemed to be anti-Semitic and who fail to combat anti-Semitism.

* President Trump ordered a halt to U.S. tax money going to international organizations that fund or perform abortions.

* Trump imposed sanctions on the socialists in Venezuela who have killed their citizens.

* Finalized new trade agreement with South Korea.

* Made a deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe.👀👀

* Withdrew the U.S. from the job killing TPP deal.

* Secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and $12 billion in Vietnam.

* Okay’d up to $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade retaliation.👀👀

* Has had over a dozen US hostages freed, including those Obama could not get freed.

* Trump signed the Music Modernization Act, the biggest change to copyright law in decades.

* Trump secured Billions that will fund the building of a wall at our southern border.

* The Trump Administration is promoting second chance hiring to give former inmates the opportunity to live crime-free lives and find meaningful employment.

* Trump’s DOJ and the Board Of Prisons launched a new “Ready to Work Initiative” to help connect employers directly with former prisoners.👀👀

* President Trump’s historic tax cut legislation included new Opportunity Zone Incentives to promote investment in low-income communities across the country.

* 8,764 communities across the country have been designated as Opportunity Zones.

* Opportunity Zones are expected to spur $100 billion in long-term private capital investment in economically distressed communities across the country.

* Trump directed the Education Secretary to end Common Core.👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

* Trump signed the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund into law.

* Trump signed measure funding prevention programs for Veteran suicide.👀👀

* Companies have brought back over a TRILLION dollars from overseas because of the TCJA bill that Trump signed.

* Manufacturing jobs are growing at the fastest rate in more than 30 years.

* Stock Market has reached record highs.

* Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.

* African-American unemployment is at an all time low.

* Hispanic-American unemployment is at an all time low.

* Asian-American unemployment is at an all time low.

* Women’s unemployment rate is at a 65-year low.

* Youth unemployment is at a 50-year low.

* We have the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded.

* The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans.

* 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future— the highest ever.

* As a result of the Republican tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.👀👀

* Record number of regulations eliminated that hurt small businesses.

* Signed welfare reform requiring able-bodied adults who don’t have children to work or look for work if they’re on welfare.🙌🙌

* Under Trump, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history.

* Reformed Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors 100’s of millions of $$$ this year alone.👀👀

* Signed Right-To-Try legislation allowing terminally ill patients to try experimental treatment that wasn’t allowed before.

* Secured $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.❤️❤️

* Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.👀👀

* U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high so we are less dependent on oil from the Middle East.

* The U.S. is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.

* NATO allies increased their defense spending because of his pressure campaign.

* Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord in 2017 and that same year the U.S. still led the world by having the largest reduction in Carbon emissions.👀👀

* Has his circuit court judge nominees being confirmed faster than any other new administration.

* Had his Supreme Court Justice’s Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh confirmed.

* Moved U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.👀👀

* Agreed to a new trade deal with Mexico & Canada that will increase jobs here and $$$ coming in.

* Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.

* Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices, has agreed to a Part One trade deal with China.

* Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.👀👀

* Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.

* The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by Trump doubled the maximum amount of the child tax credit available to parents and lifted the income limits so more people could claim it.

* It also created a new tax credit for other dependents.

* In 2018, President Trump signed into law a $2.4 billion funding increase for the Child Care and Development Fund, providing a total of $8.1 billion to States to fund child care for low-income families.

* The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) signed into law by Trump provides a tax credit equal to 20-35% of child care expenses, $3,000 per child & $6,000 per family + Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) allow you to set aside up to $5,000 in pre-tax $ to use for child care.

* In 2019 President Donald Trump signed the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act (CARES) into law which allocates $1.8 billion in funding over the next five years to help people with autism spectrum disorder and to help their families.👀👀

* In 2019 President Trump signed into law two funding packages providing nearly $19 million in new funding for Lupus specific research and education programs, as well an additional $41.7 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the most Lupus funding EVER.

* Another upcoming accomplishment to add: In the next week or two Trump will be signing the first major anti-robocall law in decades called the TRACED Act (Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence.) Once it’s thelaw, the TRACED Act will extend the period of time the FCC has to catch & punish those who intentionally break telemarketing restrictions. The bill also requires voice service providers to develop a framework to verify calls are legitimate before they reach your phone.

* US stock market continually hits all-time record highs.

* Because so many people asked for a document with all of this listed in one place, here it is. No links provided to remove bias as Google search is easy. Print this out for family, friends, neighbors, etc. I encourage you to drop this list off to voters before the 2020 election too!

*Trump did all of this while fighting flagrant abuse and impeachment charges.

——-please explain to me why you have a problem with OUR president? Because he has misspoke a few times? Tell me when you find a perfect person, please....I’ll wait! I’ll tell you why, because the media has skewed him in such a negative light and unfairly report his accomplishments to undermined those achievements! Why? Because the media is complicit in every single thing this man is trying to undo! Start thinking for yourself!

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