Donald Trump in Hot Water

[kcmets]

attempted covidification of a political opponent

And that's one of his lesser four-dozen crimes!

[Willets Point]

It's a real stretch to dig up the corpse of Ted Kennedy to make some kind of attempt at false equivalency of Democrats doing something that equals what the cabal of insurrectionists literally working toward overthrowing democracy are doing.

[kcmets]

I've been dumbing things down here for twenty years, why stop now? lol...

(rich white entitlement is not a party thing in the good ol' US of A)

[Lefty Specialist]

The water is never hot around Donald Trump. Cy Vance and Tish James have had years to build a case against him and......crickets.

Merrick Garland is more concerned about the appearance of impartiality than in actually prosecuting sedition. And the Trump flunkies laugh at subpoenas.

The water ain't hot.

[MFS62]

This article says that water might be heating up -the White House staff participated in the letter outlining ways to overturn the election
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... n-1267012/

it appears that metadata contained in the file of the draft letter indicates that the White House Communications Agency played a role in its drafting. That suggests a previously unknown level of cooperation between DOJ and the White House attempting to keep Trump in power.

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[The Hot Corner]

For such a moronic idiot, it is amazing the power that Trump held over so many people. Scary t me the number of people that stil believe virtually anything he says.

[MFS62]

Two of the prosecutors in the Trump Criminal investigation at the the NY DA's office have resigned.

The resignations raised questions about the state of the DA’s probe, with some experts suggesting the proceedings have been put on ice. The Times, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that Alvin Bragg, the new Manhattan district attorney, has indicated he has doubts about continuing to build a case against Trump.

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[batmagadanleadoff]

Two of the prosecutors in the Trump Criminal investigation at the the NY DA's office have resigned.

The resignations raised questions about the state of the DA’s probe, with some experts suggesting the proceedings have been put on ice. The Times, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that Alvin Bragg, the new Manhattan district attorney, has indicated he has doubts about continuing to build a case against Trump.

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The walls are really closing in on the dirtbag.

Any day now.

[Edgy MD]

I like to think that, as part of their strategy, both prosecutors had fake dirt leaked about them, knowing the ex-president's team was surveilling them. When Trump's people used the dirt to threaten them, they got it all on tape.

I like to think that, but I don't really think that. I just don't know. The only thing I know is not to get excited until President Trump is in a cell, or perhaps fleeing extradition in Costa Rica.

[MFS62]

I'm guessing they resigned because they were unsuccessful in getting Trump's chief financial officer, Weisselberg, to flip and provide evidence or testimony they can use.
And if he doesn't cooperate with the DA's office, there is no case.

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[Edgy MD]

Sure there is, if we want it.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I'm guessing they resigned because they were unsuccessful in getting Trump's chief financial officer, Weisselberg, to flip and provide evidence or testimony they can use.
And if he doesn't cooperate with the DA's office, there is no case.

They resigned not because of their supposed lack of confidence in the case, but because of DA Bragg's lack of confidence in the case:

Dunne and Pomerantz, both of whom had high-profile legal careers in private practice prior to working on the Manhattan D.A.’s investigation, differed with Bragg and wanted to continue pressing the case, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation. They became frustrated, though, with what they regarded as Bragg’s lack of support for the probe. The source suggested that career prosecutors in the office’s Investigation Division had questioned the strength of the case as well.

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In the past, career prosecutors in the Manhattan D.A.’s office have stood in the way of other risky cases, including the first potential prosecution of Harvey Weinstein on sexual-assault charges. Vance’s office eventually convicted Weinstein, but it was years after a victim had filed a police report. An individual with ties to the D.A.’s office, who asked not to be named, said that Bragg’s decision raised questions about whether he will prove forceful enough to overcome the institutional inertia in the office. “These two guys who resigned today are pros,” the source said, referring to Dunne and Pomerantz. “I was told that they simply felt that Bragg was not going to engage, and they needed the D.A. to be engaged to be able to proceed toward taking action.” Bragg, the source added, had given the prosecutors the impression that he was distracted and disengaged, often checking his phone during meetings about the case. (A spokesperson for the D.A. said that both claims are untrue.) The Washington Post, meanwhile, reported that Bragg was slow to meet with Dunne and Pomerantz after taking office. When Bragg did meet the two prosecutors, he didn’t seem deeply interested in the probe.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-des ... l-but-over


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And this, just a week after Trump's long-time accountants, Mazar's, dumped him, adding that the last ten years of his financial statements cannot be relied upon.

[Fman99]

This should be bigger news, shouldn't it? It's being drown out in Ukraine stuff and idiotic GOP reps being naughty at the SOTU. Hopefully this gains some traction over the upcoming days and weeks.

Trump and right-wing lawyer were part of ‘criminal conspiracy’ to overturn 2020 election, January 6 committee alleges

[MFS62]

How the case unraveled (might be a paywall)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/05/nyre ... ket-newtab

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[Edgy MD]

Times going with a story that says the Congressional Republican leadership was in agreement that President Trump had to go, expressed support out loud for his impeachment, and then lost their courage. Leader McCarthy said he planned to call the president and recommend that he resign. “What he did is unacceptable. Nobody can defend that and nobody should defend it," he told his colleagues.

McCarthy denied all of this, calling the reporting “totally false and wrong,” following up with the turdy accusation that “corporate media is obsessed with doing everything it can to further a liberal agenda.”

But ... KAPOW!!! There's a tape. Because of course there is.

[MFS62]

Agent Orange held in civil contempt, fined $10,000 per day for not complying with subpoena of his records.
https://abc7ny.com/donald-trump-letitia ... /11789036/

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[kcmets]

He'll probably ask his supporters to send him money to foot the 'phony' bill.

[kcmets]

And they will!

And then he'll keep the money and not pay the court.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah.

Shit.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Even if he pays, this is hardly a punishment. $10K a day really is nothing to this scumbag. If that court has the power to jail him until he complies, and I think it does, that's what it should have done.

[Lefty Specialist]

His water will be cooling soon. Elon Musk has struck a deal to buy Twitter, and about 10 seconds after the deal closes Trump will be back on the platform, spewing disinformation and other garbage.

[seawolf17]

The longer this goes on without anyone receiving any consequences for any of this shit, the sadder I get for what's left of this country.

[MFS62]

Potential investors in his new company are being warned about his past legal problems with a lengthy list:(Yahoo version, the LA Times has a paywall)
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/colu ... 17110.html

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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Trump Junior delights in murdering wild animals and uses it to create a narrative that he's some kind of tough guy, but you'd never guess. His prize kills are fraudulently obtained too.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2022/05/21/ ... ide-faces/

[Edgy MD]

This was a big part of the Nicolae Ceaușescu myth also. Entire communities were conscripted to bait bears or fan bears toward him, so he could live (and spread) the illusion of being this larger-than-life game hunter that was a terror to the fiercest that nature could throw at him.

His kills, of course, were all served up to him on a silver platter while he sat there like a dope, congratulating himself on his awesomeness.