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i thought he WAS the chicken nugget in the microwave
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January 6th trial date set for March 4. 2024. That is going to clash with the NY finances trial.
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Trumps lawyers had counted with a trial date of April 2026. LOL.
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Mark Meadows must really feel he has a shot at winning this move to the Federal Court. He took the stand for three hours this morning, and was going back for more this afternoon. He admitted to basically the whole case under oath, but is saying he should be immune from prosecution since he was doing it under orders directly from the President. He is shooting any real defense in the foot if he doesn't get it moved and then have the charges dismissed.
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The judge in the Mark Meadows removal to Federal Court has asked for an additional briefing on one question "If only one charged overt acts were found under the cover of Meadow's office, would that justify federal removal?". The general consensus is that means the judge is leaning toward removal, and then could possibly lead the way for all the qualified defendants to get removed as well. The only caveat being the DA could just drop the one charge hanging the fight for removal up if given the opportunity.
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Good article from an Atlanta attorney. He feels the Fulton DA probably overcharged.
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Giuliani gets a turbo-default judgement against him for defamation of the two election workers (for failing to preserve and turn over required documentation)
The default judgement means all a jury will decide is not whether he's guilty, but how much he should pay for being guilty. The turbo part means the judge is going to basically tell the jury "This guy is likely hiding assets to depress his net worth to appear poor to lower the judgement against him" as part of the deliberations (unless he gives a full and accurate picture of his assets. Rudy Giuliani is liable for defaming Georgia election workers, judge rules - POLITICO |
Because it was a default judgment, they can spin it as out of control anti-Trump judges.
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In the "broken clock is right twice a day" category, Governor Kemp is making it clear he is not going to allow Fani Willis to be removed by the state legislature. This is after the state Senate leader has also made clear he is not willing to go along with attempts to remove her.
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I wonder if daytime soaps are worried. Probably going to be like C-Span other than for a couple key days.
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Most of Fulton County Court is streamed on YouTube already. If you ever have some time to kill, watch Judge Alex Manning. It is worth it.
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Dola: She has been in the military, a firefighter, and a police officer. She is like a book character.
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There hearing on the severing of Cheseboro and Powell from the other 17 defendants in te Fulton County case happened this afternoon. It sounds lke the judge is leaning toward severing since it sounds very unlikely all 19 defendants would be ready for trial by October. The Fulton DA said they expect the trial to last 4 months (!) not including jury selection.
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Dola: I will add I am beginning to think it is possible the RICO statute in Georgia might get thrown out either before or after these trials. The state DA is using the same law to charge 61 people for RICO in the "Stop Cop City" case. Some of the charges that he used to wrap people up in this case are as minor as trespassing. At least one of those was not even a protester but an observer from the Southern Poverty Law group. It almost feels this over-charging is not just part of the complete bonkers overreaction from police over these protest, but also a backdoor way to discredit the Trump case. The rumor is he used the same grand jury that the Fulton DA did in the Trump case to get theses indictments. I didn't even know you can use the same grand jury for different cases in differing jurisdictions.
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Looks like the IT guy who helped destroy evidence for Trump got rid of his Trump lawyer and has now turned on him with his new lawyer and will be a witness for Special Council Smith.
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I don't really know who Fani is but on this alone, I'd vote her for Governor.
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Apparently, the special grand jury recommended that Lindsey Graham be charged as well. Fani declined.
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Jim Jordan needs to go back to something with which he has experience - covering up the sexual abuse of minors.
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So yeah hold everybody's nose to the fire who could have been indicted but wasn't:
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Michael Flynn was 20 to 1 to indict so he better be cooperating or the DA needs to have a good reason why he wasn't
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Yeah, I think Graham is safe. It's one thing to indict a former President, it's another to indict a sitting Senator from another state from the other political party regardless of how much evidence there is. Even someone like Graham who is loathed by everyone is off limits unless it's the Feds or his own state.
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Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue I sort of get why not to charge, but Lin Wood and Mike Flynn? They are as culpable as Sydney Powell, and the same level of dangerously crazy.
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Meadows was denied removal to Federal Court. That pretty much shoots down any of the removals. Meadows had the best argument for his actions being a part of his job, but even they were not great.
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I don't see any good reason to not indict someone like Graham just because they are from another state. If they broke the law, charge them.
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FWIW that's a much better reason; a soft indictment just to indict even if you don't think you can get a conviction isn't a good thing IMO either.
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So Trump was "campaigning" today about an hour south of me in Summerville, SC at the Palmetto Armory. His spokesman showed a picture of Trump looking at a Glock and the spokesman said he bought it. Now he's deleted the tweet and denied that Trump bought it. Why you ask? Because it would be a violation of federal law to buy or have one sold to him a firearm while under indictment.
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Judge in NY Trump Org case rules against them and orders Trump Org NY business Certificates cancelled and the dissolution of the Trump Organization!
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It is still wild that if you steal a candy bar from a store, they'll cuff you and bring you to jail. If you defraud people out of hundreds of millions, they just dissolve your LLC.
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It is because the NY DA decided not to pursue criminal charges. That still makes no sense and the attorneys building that case were majorly piseed about it.
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Yet he will somehow gain three more points in the polls next week.
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Hopefully the trial will cause major stress and he'll have a stroke and die
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IMO, the GOP has a better chance of winning the Presidency with him dead than with him either on the ticket or off the ticket and calling the GOP nominee a RINO. And I am sure that Russia gets that, too. If I were his Secret Service detail, I'd be very very alert. |
If I were his Secret Service detail, I'd be surprisingly lax.
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every time he opens his mouth his blood vessel grow larger. His head should have exploded years ago |
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If you are listening, I do not approve or condone this recent series of posts. (... and yes, I lost a couple of my AR's in a boating trip, sunk to the bottom) |
Trump has decided not yo try to move his Georgia case to Federal Court. It is believed he feels the Federal judge in the case might actually be worse to him than the Georgia judge.
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It's a cult.
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1 down and 17+1 to go.
He seems like a very low person on the totem pole. Wonder what the reason was to not offer him a plea deal or him not accepting it. Scott Hall: Bail bondsman is first defendant to plead guilty in Georgia election subversion case | CNN Politics Quote:
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Probation and community service.
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Apparently we were *this close* to a world in which Trump was bought off to not run for President by the FTX guy and then FTX collapses around, say, November 10, 2024.
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No jail time and the convictions will be stricken from the record if he serves the probation without incident. He is also required to testify against his co-defendants.
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So Trump actually showed up for one of his trials today-in NY Trump Org Fraud trial...and wouldn't it be great if he fell asleep during the trial...
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Apparently he isn't getting a jury trial because his lawyer forgot to ask for one.
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Ah. Social media made it seem like an unforced error.
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So Trump and his lawyers claim that the judge agreed that the statute of limitations had passed on about 80% of what he was found guilty of and that would be reflected in his verdict. Not true of course.
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Judge finally tells him to shut up.
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Nothing to see here...
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Putin must still think back to those one-on-one meetings he had with Trump and smile.
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A judge threw out a motion to dismissed that was filed by Cheseboro. In the final statement the judge used a Monty Python reference.
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Judge Cannon hands Trump a win with a stay to delay part of the Mar Lar Go docs case. She is making it look like she will push the whole thing out past the Nov 2024 election.
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On Nov 9th, 2022, U.S. Navy nuclear engineer Jonathan Toebbe and his wife, Dianna, were sentenced to 18 and 21 years in prison—respectively—for merely *attempting* to *sell* classified information about nuclear submarines to a foreign country. Trump blurted it out for free. |
Kevin McCarty is rumored to be stepping down from his seat. Majes sense. Most people that are removed or forced to resign from leadership don't stay. You are damaged goods at that point.
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No doubt Republicans will call it "the most successful Speakership ever"
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You don't recover from being owned by a serial sexual predator like Matt Gaetz. |
Apparently McCarthy is now saying he is not stepping down. Gaetz probably spread the lie.
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Judge Chutkan issues gag order on Trump for DC Trial:
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Sidney Powell pleads guilty in GA. You hate to see it.
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She managed to release the Kraken. She was the Kraken, and releasing it means probation.
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Yeah she seemed the type to go to the very end. Sadly she's pleading guilty to 6 misdemeanors and has to fully cooperate with the DA on all othera charged/suspects.
i hope she gets permanently disbarred now, and has dirt on others involved that we don't know about yet. |
As a defense lawyer, I don't like it when co-defendants plead guilty and get probation.
That means they have some SHIT they are going to dump on my client. |
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In a normal case (I acknowledge that this is anything but normal), there is often what is called the "race to the courthouse to plead." EVERYONE wants to get in and flip and get the good deal before there is no one left to flip against. |
"Don't snitch" is more aspirational than real in my experience. People are rational self-interested actors.
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In addition to the probation & apology letter, shouldn't there be some financial penalty? I mean she wasted some of my GA tax money going after her.
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That is shocking. I would never have guessed she wouldn't fight to the end. As bad a lawyer as she is, she must have seen the writing on the wall. I wonder how useful she will be as a witness? She was in the White House when most of these plans were made, and arguably the chief architect of much of it. At the very least she would seem to be a perfect witness to support the RICO elements.
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I'm curious how her testimony is going to play out. Trump is obviously going to play the "I was just following legal advice" card so it's likely she can't just say "I gave knowingly wrong legal advice" but also has to add, "and I told Trump/Rudy it was wrong and we all knew we were pushing a big lie to try to keep him in office illegally." Otherwise, to the extent the legal advice defense has any merit, she plays into Trump's defense. So there must be more to it.
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Or, as I read in a National Review article that the case was weak, in trouble and so something was better than nothing.
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Powell doing that is kind of huge....
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One of the Michigan fake electors pled out today too
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So they can still charge her with a felony if she lies? I thought that once she's charged with the misdemeanors for the case, they can't charge her anymore. |
Typically plea deals include a stipulation that the person cooperate and testify truthfully as requested, or the plea deal is nullified.
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Could be some drama tomorrow in Trump Org's Fraud Trial. Judge had ordered Trump to take down his social media attack on his law clerk who for some reason Trump is fixated on. They took down some of it, but until tonight it was still up on his personal website until someone found it was still there...and now the judge knows about it, and wants both sides there tomorrow.
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