#Trump has a huge posse today, including #KashPatel; #GerryKassar, a #conservative party leader in NY; #BernieKerik, fmr NYPD commissioner who was imprisoned for tax fraud & false statements; #AlanDershowitz, lawyer who defended Trump during his first impeachment, & #BorisEpshteyn, legal adviser who was #indicted in AZ for attempts to keep Trump in power after the 2020 election.
He recently testified before the #House#Judiciary Cmte, where he assailed Cohen’s credibility.
Costello also testified before the #GrandJury last year, in a last-ditch plea to the panel to not accept Cohen’s word. Which obviously didn’t work since the grand jury #indicted#Trump.
Trump stands to gain billions… from the merger between TrumpMedia & Tech & the blank-check co [#SPAC] #DWAC, which took the parent company of #TruthSocial public.
…#ESFamilyTrust was established on 18 May 2021, creation papers show. Postolnikov’s “user” access to the acct was “verified” on 30 Nov 2021 by a #PaxumBank mgr in Dominica.
The family of #BrianSicknick, the #PoliceOfficer who died during the #Jan6 attack, blasted Trump’s appearance at a wake Thurs for slain #NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller.
Charles & Kenneth Sicknick on Fri expressed condolences to Diller’s family, but said #Trump’s appearance, especially the #PressConference outside a funeral home, was nothing but an #inappropriate#PoliticalStunt.
#Trump was #indicted last year by a #federal#GrandJury for his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, & has been blamed for #inciting the mob that stormed the Capitol on #Jan6.
He is currently under #indictment in #Manhattan for falsifying business records to hide #HushMoney payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. He is also facing #racketeering charges in #Georgia for an alleged effort to subvert that state’s election laws following his loss to Biden in the 2020 election.
The #DOJ advises Judge #AileenCannon that the "60-day rule" does NOT apply in #Trump's case as he has already been #indicted & the case is already being litigated.
So, no reason to delay taking him to #trial, even w/ #election in Nov.
Important note: the 60-day rule is NOT a #law it is just internal DOJ guidance. The policy is regarding making new allegations shortly before an election when a person can’t have a trial to argue them.
The clips, which included unaired, #antisemitic remarks by #KanyeWest, were published by Vice & MediaMatters
Tim Burke, a freelance journalist & #media consultant, has been charged w/ 14 federal #crimes, including #conspiracy. Burke was #arrested this morning….
This isn’t even the 1st time we’ve learned that a person has been #indicted after the #GOP cited his claims. Nor…the 1st time a person has been accused of ties to #RussianIntelligence after the GOP leaned on their version of events.
The…characters #Republicans have sought out to substantiate Pres #Biden’s purported corruption…has come to include half a dozen #convicted & accused #criminals, + mult people the #UnitedStates govt has linked to #Russia, #corruption & subverting American #democracy.
In one tough moment for #Trump, who was present but did not speak, Judge Karen Henderson, the sole #Republican appointee on the panel, pushed back on an argument made by his #lawyer, D. John Sauer, that for >200 yrs, American courts had never sat in judgment over ofcl actions a president had taken while in office.
#Trump continued his attacks against #James hours before he returned to court for the 2nd day of arguments in the #civil#fraud#trial that the #NewYork AG brought against him & his company.
In 2 posts on his social platform this morning, Trump used derogatory terms to #attack James while denying any wrongdoing against allegations that he #inflated his #assets.
Since he first became a political candidate in the 2016 presidential race, #Trump has #glorified#violence, suggesting he wanted to #hit a #protester & offering to pay the legal fees if his supporters struck protesters at his rallies. But as Trump has been #indicted 4 times in 4 #jurisdictions in the last 5 months, & now faces a #civil#fraud#trial in #NY, his #violent speech has escalated.
In April, before fed #prosecutors#indicted#Trump, 1 survey showed that 4.5% of #American adults agreed w/the idea that the use of #force was “#justified to restore Donald Trump to the presidency.” Just 2 months later, after the 1st federal #indictment of Trump, that figure surged to 7%.
The indictments of Trump “are the most important current drivers of #PoliticalViolence we now have,” said the author of the study, Robert Pape, a political scientist who studies political violence at the UofC.
President Biden’s son Hunter was indicted Thurs for allegedly making false statements & illegal gun possession — setting the stage for a possible #criminal#trial for the younger #Biden in 2024 while his father campaigns for re-election.
These multiple charges smack of govt #retaliation. The three charges are IDENTICAL; hard to see the proper exercise of #ProsecutorialDiscretion here; & this is after the prosecution really messed up the #plea first time around. And the tax charges still will be brought.
I wonder if they'll be concerned when they're #indicted next. #Trump's #lawyers have a habit of finding themselves #unpaid, #disbarred, and criminally indicted.
@crooksandliars What a whiny bitch. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. #Rudy should ask himself how he would respond if one of the criminals he prosecuted bitched and moaned the way he is. I guarantee he wouldn't give a flying fuck about their grievances. Look in the mirror you goddamned drunkard.
#Trump is morally culpable for creating a culture of violence and intimidation among his supporters. #FaniWillis and all the #FultonCounty#grandJurors who #indicted Trump have been bravely serving justice. They should not be subjected to smears and threats. Reporting from Washington Post, gift link: https://wapo.st/3sfzrOi
Misty Hampton, former Coffee County, GA, elections supervisor, was among those #indicted last night in the #Trump#election interference case.
Hampton (who also has used the last names of Martin and Hayes) played a role in blocking a local activist from helping people to vote, part of a long history of #voter suppression.
Among the charges against FIVE TIMES #INDICTED#criminal#defendant donald trump, attempting to overthow America and the 2020 election: 13 NEW felony charges.
Donald Trump the head of a criminal enterprise.
#RICO conspiracy to commit forgery, false statements and writings, filing false documents, Solicitation of Violation of Oath by Public Officer, 13 new felony crimes.