Today in Trump

[Kirkland Laing]

https://dnyuz.com/2023/06/14/judge-i...al-experience/

This is a great article about the judge. Basically zero trial experience and she shouldn't be anywhere near a trial of this magnitude. Only in the job because the GOP and Trump especially want the benches stuffed with ideologues.





They haven't even charged Trump with leaking or possessing those Iran war plans but they may get round to it:

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/legal...in-new-jersey/





And all about the bullshit Biden accusations. Long story short, they're just recycling a bunch of bullshit Giuliani came with with in 2020 and the FBI and Trump DOJ already looked at and found it was garbage:

Update: Two members of Congress who have seen the 1023 told the New York Post that the executive at issue was Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky. In 2020, former Giuliani aide Lev Parnas — then himself under indictment on federal charges — told Politico that Giuliani had met privately with Zlochevsky in mid-2019, in the middle of Trump’s effort to get Ukraine to announce an investigation into Biden.

“Asked to detail any contacts he had with Joe Biden from 2013-2019, and whether Hunter ever facilitated any meetings,” Politico’s Natasha Bertrand wrote, “Zlochevsky replied: ‘No one from Burisma ever had any contacts with VP Biden or people working for him during Hunter Biden’s engagement.’ "

Giuliani, Parnas said, was furious at that answer.



https://wapo.st/3qzAhV1

[TitoFan]

From the first article about the judge:

"By bringing the charges in Florida, where most of the alleged crimes took place, instead of Washington, where the grand jury that primarily investigated the matter sat, the special counsel, Mr. Smith, avoided a potential fight over whether the case was in the right venue but ran the risk that Judge Cannon could be assigned the case.

But the chances appeared low. Under the Southern District of Florida’s practices, a computer in the clerk’s office assigns new cases randomly among judges who sit in the division where the matter arose or a neighboring one — even if the matter relates to a previous case. Nevertheless, Judge Cannon got it."

A computer, huh? That was fraud. The computer was hacked by MAGA operatives. The selection was "stolen" from a REAL random candidate.

Hey. If Trump and his Legion of Minions can claim election fraud and a stolen election... the least we can do is return the favor.




This circus is a complete SHAM. I'll once again repeat my earlier quote, which I suspect will remain true for the foreseeable future:

"My faith in the American judicial system just keeps growing by leaps and bounds."

[palmerq]

Trump had a pretty amusing interview on Fox of all places, trump is pretty lucky he's not on Facebook or Twitter anymore, maybe the best thing to happen to him, only the hardcore crazies hear him these days and he's really starting to ramble non stop bollocks, amazing stuff, he'll be dodging any debates.

https://twitter.com/KateSullivanDC/s...152375297?s=20

[Kirkland Laing]

This is just perfect:

https://twitter.com/tomaskenn/status...96680645410824



Longtime GOP political consultant from Florida weighs in on the trial and the primaries:

https://resolutesquare.com/articles/...re-no-miracles





Whoever wins the GOP primary, if they get elected president it looks like America is going to have a banana republic justice system starting in 2025:

https://dnyuz.com/2023/06/15/the-rad...o-after-biden/





The Meatball seems quite swamp like:

https://twitter.com/alexnazaryan/sta...30451977572373

and

https://twitter.com/David_Boaz/statu...85429063196672





The party of law and order:

https://twitter.com/Timodc/status/1669476046956011520





How things were eight years ago:

https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/st...07454604922880





The Hunter Biden indictment:

https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/statu...18121959407631

and

https://twitter.com/petestrzok/statu...99386104213504

and

https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/...71193720786944





More banana republic stuff:

On Capitol Hill and in the courts, Republican lawmakers and activists are mounting a sweeping legal campaign against universities, think tanks and private companies that study the spread of disinformation, accusing them of colluding with the government to suppress conservative speech online.
The effort has encumbered its targets with expansive requests for information and, in some cases, subpoenas — demanding notes, emails and other information related to social media companies and the government dating back to 2015. Complying has consumed time and resources and already affected the groups’ ability to do research and raise money, according to several people involved.
They and others warned that the campaign undermined the fight against disinformation in American society when the problem is, by most accounts, on the rise — and when another presidential election is around the corner. Many of those behind the Republican effort had also joined former President Donald J. Trump in falsely challenging the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
“I think it’s quite obviously a cynical — and I would say wildly partisan — attempt to chill research,” said Jameel Jaffer, the executive director of Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute, an organization that works to safeguard freedom of speech and the press.
The House Judiciary Committee, which in January came under Republican majority control, has sent scores of letters and subpoenas to the researchers — only some of which have been made public. It has threatened legal action against those who have not responded quickly or fully enough............



https://dnyuz.com/2023/06/19/g-o-p-t...2024-election/

[Master]

The new Abortion Laws are a scandal and legacy of Trump's presidency. Just shows the politicisation of the legal system in the USA is rife and wrong.

[Kirkland Laing]

The new Abortion Laws are a scandal and legacy of Trump's presidency. Just shows the politicisation of the legal system in the USA is rife and wrong.

Three Supreme Court judges have recently been caught accepting gifts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from people who had cases coming up in their court. Now Benito Alito is the fourth:

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/bi...ises-eyebrows/

His excuses are amazing. The seat I took on the private jet would have been empty anyway so it had no value and so no need to dec;lare it. You can try asking for free flights next time you're booking tickets. Just tell them the seat would be empty anyway so give it to me for free.

Also:

https://twitter.com/eisingerj/status...66832463249409

He caught some nice big fish though. I've never fancied catching fish. They sell them in the shops without all the faffing about and timewasting. You can buy exactly the type of fish you want too. Weirdos.





That's four out of six conservative justices who have taken sums far in excess of what they earn in a year from people with billions of dollars of business coming in front of their court. And this is just the tip of the iceberg, just obvious up front corruption. In addition to the decades of (conservative) lockstep pro-corporate anti little guy rulings which defy any kind of logic or legal precedents you also have the various public corruption/bribery/etc cases where the conservatives have made rulings that make no sense. They make more sense now though.





More Hunter Biden:

https://twitter.com/EJDionne/status/1671276925690544129

https://twitter.com/JasonLeopold/sta...31246344134658

https://twitter.com/danielsgoldman/s...23731497074695



Trump uh conflict of interest here to put the most charitable framing on it. Amazing there's so much coverage of Sleepy Joe's literal nonexistent corruption when this fucker can run a business making millions from people he's supposed to represent America's interests against. Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm when he became prez to avoid even the hint of impropriety like maybe he was going to do political favours for Big Peanut. No president in the modern era has even controlled their own financial assets, everything has gone into blind trusts, any businesses they were part of or interests they have had been sold before they took office:

https://twitter.com/EricLiptonNYT/st...63118528135170

keep scrolling




Trump documents case:



The most famous photo from the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago last year shows an array of documents spread on the floral carpet of a room at the facility. Some of what’s shown includes cover sheets for classified material, indicating that the attached documents have been determined to be “secret” or “top secret.” Other documents, some obscured with white boxes by the Justice Department, have visible classification identifiers at the top of standard sheets of paper.




This is the photo that former president Donald Trump would subsequently suggest had been staged by the FBI to make it look like it had stumbled onto an orgy of classified material lazily thrown on the floor. The context of the photo makes obvious that’s not the case, though, with the inclusion of a photo scale and a small folded card labeled “2A.” The photo was meant not to impugn Trump directly but only indirectly, as evidence.

What’s important in the wake of a revealing interview of Trump on Monday by Fox News’s Bret Baier, though, is that folded card.

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The “2A” identifier corresponds to the government’s documentation of the evidence it collected at Mar-a-Lago during the search. In the manifest of what was seized, Item 2A is listed as “[v]arious classified/TS/SCI documents.” It is apparently a subset of Item 2, identified as a “[l]eather-bound box of documents.” That box and its contents were removed not from the storage room near the Mar-a-Lago pool but from Trump’s office, where he was in the habit of entertaining visitors.



So now we jump to what Trump told Baier.

The Fox News host walked through the indictment made public this month. He asked Trump directly: Why, given that the Justice Department had eventually obtained a subpoena for any material marked as classified, hadn’t Trump simply handed that material over?

“Because I had boxes,” Trump replied. “I want to go through the boxes and get all my personal things out. I don’t want to hand that over to [the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)] yet. And I was very busy, as you’ve sort of seen.”

“But according to the indictment,” Baier pressed, “you then tell this aide to move [material] to other locations after telling your lawyers to say you’ve fully complied with the subpoena when you hadn’t.”


“But before I send boxes over, I have to take all of my things out,” Trump said. “These boxes were interspersed with all sorts of things, golf shirts, clothing, pants, shoes. There were many things.”


This, too, is indexed in the list of material provided by the government: boxes that included both classified material and news articles, or items of clothing, or gifts. What the FBI removed from the storage room was a mix of all sorts of stuff — itself potentially damning when considering how material identified as classified was handled.

But none of this applies to Item 2, that box. It isn’t identified as “a box with some shirts and a few documents.” It’s just a box — a leather-bound one — sitting in Trump’s office, with documents. In that, it seems, were the documents that appear in that famous photo. Of the 15 documents originally identified by the FBI as bearing “top secret” classification, six were found in the Item 2A batch. Four were “TS/SCI,” which means they were classified as “top secret” and included “sensitive compartmented information,” a more restricted level of control.


They were in that box, in Trump’s office.


So how does this comport with Trump’s claim that he didn’t have time to rifle through those boxes and pick out his personal material? His criminal defense team will have to figure out a way to explain the gap, but the simple answer is that it doesn’t.

The defense is ludicrous, in general, of course. .........


https://wapo.st/3ppoEQh





Finally Adam Schiff has had a day. Here is is with John Durham discovering Durham either was so brain poisoned by Fox News that he genuinely had no idea about basic Trump Russia details:


https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1671562659525689347



or maybe Durham is lying under oath. In the first clip he mentions reading and watching the news a lot. In this clip he apparently never reads or watches the news:


https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1671561024846327808



a good job by Schiff considering Durham is a federal prosecutor. Although if you can do that to a federal prosecutor it shows the prosecutor and his report were a bunch of bullshit from the start. All it takes is a few questions for any kind of coherent narrative to collapse.



And then the GOP reward Schiff with a censure vote and he does this to them. Nice one:

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1671589917535739947





Finally the Meatball looks to be running out of gravy:

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/former-g...to-being-over/





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[Spicoli]

Karie Lake for VP

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Trump 2024

[Master]

Trump 2024

In jail, yes.

[TitoFan]

Trump 2024

In jail, yes.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

If he is prosecuted he can simply pardon himself after he wins the election in the landslide that it will be

[TitoFan]

:lolatyou:

[Kirkland Laing]

Trump already bullshitted the Florida judge in his documents trial:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/h...n-the-mal-case



GOP still investigating the 2020 election on behalf of Trump and finding it wasn't stolen:

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1671867849067962368



RFK Junior latest:

https://twitter.com/Timodc/status/1671926927907602457

In addition to this idiot there look to be another two candidates being run by various funders including Putin and some right wing billionaires including Clarence Thomas's sugar daddy. Here's one of them:

https://twitter.com/gregorykorte/sta...98081010577409

Stein ran in 2016 funded by Putin. Here she is with him and look who else:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/g...-putin-n742696



Some corporations going to the Supreme Court to stop already passed legislation from cutting into their profits:

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...52233846128641

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...52428646391810

It'll be interesting to see how the sugar justices vote on this.



FBI tyranny latest. Remember if you steal top secret US national security documents, show them to various people and hide them from investigators who are looking for them then the FBI might arrest you too:

https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/...47695981760512

[Kirkland Laing]

Karie Lake for VP

Nimrata.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Deep state wants newsome vs desantis in 24