On the 1st day of #testimony in #HunterBiden’s federal #gun trial, #jurors heard his audio of his memoir, where he recounted his #drug use in graphic detail. A federal prosecutor told jurors “no one is above the #law,” & defense said the he did not “knowingly” lie when filling out forms to purchase a weapon.
The #FBI agent said they were able to confirm that the laptop taken from the repair shop was #HunterBiden’s partly from his iCloud data, which contained an invoice from the shop [wait - an invoice for the repair was on the laptop before the work was done? Remember, he never picked it up]
Disgraced Republican convicted sex offender, Scott Ritter and former judge Andrew Napolitano, were forced off a plane heading to Russia!
Ritter said Customs and Border Patrol officers seized his passport by “orders of the State Department.”
The traitors were scheduled to address St. Petersburg International Forum (SPIEF) as guest speakers.
“I was boarding the flight. Three [police] officers pulled me aside. They took my passport. When asked why, they said ‘orders of the State Department’. They had no further information for me,” Ritter told RT Russia Today state propaganda outlet.
Ritter with Judge Napolitana, Larry Johnson and Jackson Hinkle are KGB, FSB Putin assets. Larry and Jackson left early and are already in Russia.
@skykiss Judge Nappy - would not have thought that. So far, that’s Tuckies and Nappy. Wonder how many other Fox/Newsmax/OAN “personalities” can be outed as Putinista’s
#Cannon was a republican plant after Donald lost the election. Moscow Mitch and felon Donald quickly installed her after he lost the election.
Cannon, who abused her discretion previously in favor of Trump, should recuse herself from the Trump case. If she doesn't, #DoJ should file a motion to recuse. This issue is too important to ignore and hope for the best.
Cannon has been slow walking the case for a year. Although most motions were filed months ago, the judge has yet to rule on them, raising an outcry from critics who assert that she is accommodating the defense in a bid to prevent a trial.
@skykiss@Savvyhomestead It’s bizarre there is no urgency in retrieving all the stolen documents and investigating what was sold. Why the F*CK is Cannon still presiding over this case? Shocking really.
9 #witnesses in the #criminal cases against #Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, & a grant of shares & cash from Trump’s media co.
The latest #doxxing attempt fits a pattern of #threats against people who speak out against Trump.
The addresses & phone numbers of fmr Trump lawyer Cohen's family members were posted to a doxxing website after Trump was #convicted of 34 #felony counts in connection w/a scheme to illegally #influence the #2016election.
#Trump supporters tried to #dox#jurors last week after his #conviction, & they also targeted #prosecutors & the #judge, Justice #Merchan, in the case w/ #threats. During the trial, the mother of a fmr police officer, #MichaelFanone, who was nearly killed on #Jan6, 2021, by rioters who believed Trump's lies about the #2020election was "#swatted" after her son called Trump "an authoritarian" w/ "a violence fetish."
"Our researchers are regularly scanning for potential #threats & instigations of #PoliticalViolence. …we identified personal details online — #doxxing— for #MichaelCohen, his wife, & his #children. The individual who shared the information online…, likely had an #intent to #harm Cohen—providing these personal details on the Cohen family in the context of calling Cohen a 'lying bastard' & identifying him as someone who 'betrayed #Trump’….” - Daniel J. Jones, ADI president, stmnt.
DC #ElectionWorkers have been fielding angry calls & emails for over a month from people who oppose allowing #noncitizen residents to #vote in local #elections, leaving the head of the DC Board of Elections concerned about #safety at the polls in Tues’s primary.
“I am definitely nervous,” said Monica Evans, BOE exec dir. “The environment around elections has felt more unsafe.”
In one vm…, a caller yells: “Where the hell do you get off letting illegals vote? This is the nation’s capital. You are traitors, traitors to our country.”
Evans said that employees have been encouraged to cover up any DC BOE paraphernalia they may be wearing or holding while outside the office in case someone who opposes #noncitizen voting directs their opinion toward a staffer. DC police spox said in a stmnt that officers would be near polling locations “ensuring #safety for voters” #democracy
Big show of family support on the 1st day of #HunterBiden’s trial.
In addition to #POTUS’ statement, Hunter’s wife, Melissa Cohen, his sister Ashley Biden, his friend Kevin Morris, Peter Neal, who is married to Hunter’s daughter Naomi, & #FLOTUS Dr. #JillBiden are in attendance.
President #Biden will be in Wilmington, DL, w/no appearances scheduled. But he has given no indication that he would be in the courthouse — a possibility that would require considerable security arrangements.
Inside the courtroom, #HunterBiden has been surrounded by family members. At each break he has walked over to give a hug & kiss to his mother, FLOTUS Dr #JillBiden & embraces his wife, Melissa Cohen.
His uncle Jack Owens is there, as is his son-in-law, Peter Neal; Fran Person, a fmr aid to his father; his close friend Kevin Morris; Ricky “Mouse” Smith, a close family friend who has known #POTUS#Biden for decades.
Family members have been taking notes & listening closely.
In #HunterBiden’s trial, jury selection highlights #UnitedStates’ drug epidemic
The nation’s political divisions were also laid bare as 6 men & 6 women were chosen…. #JurySelection for the trial of #POTUS#Biden’s son Hunter turned into an impromptu but painful indictment of the nation’s drug epidemic, w/person after person telling the court of their loved ones’ battles w/ #addiction.
The Biden Administration has weaponized the DOJ so much that jury selection in Hunter Biden's trial starts today & Sen. Bob Menendez is currently on trial and Rep. Henry Cuellar has been indicted.
“Gödel's Loophole is an "inner contradiction" in the Constitution of the United States which Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and analytic philosopher Kurt Gödel postulated in 1947. The loophole would permit the American democracy to be legally turned into a dictatorship…“
@anemoi The simplest loophole is that everyone can decide to ignore the constitution as a collective. Yesterday proves that we're already halfway there.
Each page yesterday took him just a little more than a minute, so this will take >30 mins.
Between that & the testimony readbacks, also expected to take >30 mins, there will likely be >1 hour this morning w/the jury in the courtroom, not actively deliberating.
Holy hell, #TuckerCarlson just said that #Trump would still win the election “if he’s not killed first,” & said that “anyone who defends this verdict is a danger to you & your family.”
#FoxNews pundits denounced the #verdict. “It’s inconceivable in New York that anyone else other than Donald Trump would be indicted in this way,” said Andy McCarthy, a legal analyst. Jeanine Pirro called the case “riddled with errors” & declared, “We have gone over a cliff in America.”
@KrissyKat I think he'll get probation. I think he'll violate probation. I don't think he'll successfully be arrested. I think militias and chuds would perform a de-arrest due to excessive telegraphing of the arrest.
A Michigan judge was astonished when a man busted for driving with a suspended license appeared before him in a courtroom Zoom call — while driving a car.Cor...
Tues 29 May 2024 🧵
Good morning! It’s the last day of the #TrumpTrial before jury #deliberations.
Today Justice #Merchan will give #JuryInstructions. Then they will discuss the case among themselves for the first time; they have not been allowed to even discuss it w/each other as yet.
Closing arguments took place yesterday, & the lawyers will have no further opportunity to address the jurors before they determine whether #Trump is #guilty or not guilty of 34 felonies.
He cannot leave the courtHOUSE while the #jury is deliberating, Justice #Merchan informs him.
Outside the courtroom Trump spews a bunch of inciting lies attacking the justice system, democracy, the country, the judge… his basic “I’m a victim” BS.
"I don't even know what the charges are in this rigged case — I am entitled to specificity just like anyone else. There is no crime!"
Besides the fact that the #charges were all in the #indictment the grand jury approved over a year ago on 30 March 2023 & was delivered to him & his attys, but besides that, Judge #Merchan just read the damn charges in great detail while Trump was sitting there.
“The clash between the wife of a conservative #SCOTUS justice & a couple…in their 30s & liberal…played out over months….the…shouting match…at the height of tensions over the #2020election…might have happened in any mixed political community in America.”
Amid the controversy, Ms. Baden said she was surprised to find herself playing a central role in Justice #Alito’s account….“I never saw the upside-down flag, never heard about it,” she said.
To better understand the clash, NYT interviewed Baden, her mother & her husband, as well as other neighbors, & reviewed the texts that Baden & her husband sent to friends after the episodes. Alito, who did not respond to questions for this article, has in recent wks given his own explanation….
There are some differences: For instance, Justice #Alito told Fox News that his wife hoisted the flag in response to Ms. Baden’s vulgar insult. However, a text message & the police call — corroborated by Fairfax County authorities — indicate that the name-calling took place on Feb. 15, weeks AFTER the inverted #flag was taken down.
#Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection w/a #HushMoney payment made to a porn star to influence the 2016 election. The case could be in the jury’s hands as early as Wed.
#Steinglass says that soon it will be time to deliberate and that the jurors should return & find #Trump guilty on all 34 counts against him. He asks that, in the interest of #justice & the state of #NewYork, the jurors find Trump guilty. He thanks the jurors for their time & he’s done.
@bronakins@Nonilex
BTW, Aileen Cannon is a member of The Federalist Society, the same organization that was instrumental in the current composition of SCOTUS.
@Amoshias its a weird thing in #Florida (see below), but it was actually addressed by prosecution - the #SpecialCounsel's office said #Trump had created a situation w/ his public comments that couldn't wait the weekend to file.
Local Rule 88.9, says both parties must "meet & confer" before filing motions so the court & the parties' time is used efficiently.
