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Via Klasfeld:
Manhattan DA #Bragg fires shot across bow, telling judge the "properly read" gag order prohibits #Trump from attacking judge's daughter.
He wants judge to "warn" Trump to stop, under threat of contempt sanctions
Doc: https://documentcloud.org/documents/24524651-20240328-people-peoples-pre-motion-letter-filed
Eric Columbus did 🧵 on this:
Ok now I think I get this motion. DA wants to make crystal-clear Trump cannot attack his family. Gag order, read fairly, encompasses DA’s fam, but not 100% clear. Judge’s daughter discussed just for optics. 1/
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.
#law #lies
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/03/29/family-of-brian-sicknick-d-c-officer-who-died-after-jan-6-riot-slam-trump-attending-wake-for-nypd-cop-jonathan-diller/
New York Judge Merchan imposed a gag order on Tuesday that prohibits #Trump from attacking witnesses, prosecutors and jurors, the latest effort to rein in the former president’s wrathful rhetoric about his legal opponents.
The judge imposed the order at the request of the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which brought the case against Trump.
💪🏼“2 weeks after Fulton County DA #FaniWillis survived a bid by defense lawyers to have her disqualified from #Georgia election interference case, she has all but taken over the case personally, focusing intensely on legal strategy and getting her team in fighting form for trial.
In signif move along these lines..Willis has decided to play a leading courtroom role herself in the sprawling conspiracy case against #Trump & 14 co-defendants” #legal
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fulton-county-da-fani-willis-trump-case-georgia/
🎯 Via #Biden-Harris HQ:
A feeble and confused #Trump posts a typo-riddled all-caps rant misspelling “Biden,” “disinforms,” “misinforms,” and other basic words
A Truth Social post from Trump:
I'm not running to terminate the ACA, AS CROOKED JOE BUDEN
DISINFORMATES AND MISINFORMATES ALL THE TIME, I'm running to CLOSE
12:12 PM · Mar 26, 2024
#Trump’s Truth Social is now a public company. Experts warn its multibillion-dollar valuation defies logic
“Despite the late-day slide, Wall Street is still assigning Trump Media an eye-popping valuation of nearly $11 billion — a price tag that experts warn is untethered to reality.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/26/markets/trump-media-stock-truth-social?cid=ios_app
JHC!
“#Trump disseminated image of Pres #Biden with his hands and feet tied... The image can be seen about halfway through a 20-second video that Trump posted on Truth Social .. In vid, 2 trucks decorated w giant Trump flags & altered American flags are driving on a highway. On tailgate door of 1 truck is image of Biden bound & lying horizontally”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/29/donald-trump-joe-biden-bound-and-gagged/
I'm Laffy and I approve this message.
Via Meidas Touch:
Rep. Connolly issues a scathing response to the House GOP proposal to rename Dulles Airport after #Trump: "Donald Trump is facing 91 felony charges. If Republicans want to name something after him, I'd suggest they find a federal prison."
“Their joint statement, filed to Judge Arthur Engoron Monday, said KSIC's $175 million bond was collateralized by the $175,304,075.95 #Trump had placed in a Charles Schwab bank account and which was specifically pledged to KSIC.”
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-letitia-james-arthur-engoron-manhattan-fraud-case-bond-knight-1890739
Donald Trump has, for years, used Christian imagery as a powerful rhetorical tool.
@axios built this collection of stories on Trump's $59.99 bibles, why evangelicals support him and more.
#Trump #Religion #Evangelical #USPolitics #Politics #ChristianNationalism
Via Lisa Rubin: 🧵 1/…
According to reporting & judging from #Trump’s social media, his camp is considering another motion to recuse Judge Juan Merchan on the basis of his daughter’s leadership of an online strategy firm that has, among other clients, worked for Biden & other Dem candidates.
Trump moved to recuse Merchan last May—and his daughter was the principal reason why.
#legal
"This is not subjective. We all saw it. Plenty of leaders today try to convince the masses we did not see what we saw, but our eyes don’t deceive. (If leaders began a yearslong campaign today to convince us that the Baltimore bridge did not collapse Tuesday morning, would you ever believe them?) Trust your eyes. Trump on Jan. 6 launched the most serious threat to our system of government since the Civil War. You know that. You saw it." #Trump #Biden https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03/our-trump-reporting-upsets-some-readers-but-there-arent-two-sides-to-facts-letter-from-the-editor.html
Via journalist Ahmed Baba:
#Trump’s authoritarian dehumanization of migrants isn’t just being used as a campaign tactic. Trump is trying to lay the groundwork for the absolute depravity he plans to unleash on migrants if he wins re-election.
Dehumanizing rhetoric always preludes dehumanizing policy:
"They're not humans. They're animals ... I'll use the word 'animal,' because that's what they are" -- Trump
Via Kyle Griffin:
The sister of murder victim Ruby Garcia said she and her family were watching live, in disbelief, as #Trump told Grand Rapids crowd that he had spoken with her family.
"He did not speak with any of us, so it was kind of shocking seeing that he had said that he had spoke with us, and misinforming people on live TV."
https://www.woodtv.com/news/target-8/family-of-woman-found-dead-on-highway-angered-by-trumps-speech/
Hope Hicks Expected to Tell a Jury Everything She Knows About #Trump’s Hush Money Deal: Report - Vanity Fair
“Hicks will now appear in the courtroom as a witness for the DA’s office..Hicks could provide crucial testimony, given that she was serving as Trump’s 2016 campaign press secretary at the time of the $130,000 payment to Daniels, a transaction the government alleges the then candidate covered up by falsifying business records”
https://apple.news/AlpKyJQa0S1KIr-pTdh7v-Q
Via Klasfeld:
New: DA Alvin Bragg's prosecutors skewer #Trump's latest effort to seek Justice Merchan's recusal, through a "daisy chain of innuendos" about the judge's daughter
NY's judicial ethics board denied Trump's claims of a conflict last year
Trump's att'ys also claim Justice Merchan made inapprop "extrajudicial" statements by agreeing to this brief interview w AP.
Notably, Merchan declined to talk about the Trump case & affirmed he had "no agenda."
#legal
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24529464-040224-peoples-opp-recusal-argument
Via Anna Bower: 1/…
New: Justice Merchan denies #Trump’s bid to stave off criminal trial in New York based on presidential immunity.
#legal
ADDED: Merchan says that Trump’s motion is denied as untimely.
“The court finds that the defendant has myriad opportunities to raise the claim of presidential immunity well before March 7, 2024”—the date when Trump filed his immunity motion.
https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/pdfs/Decision-Defendants-Motion-re-Presidential-Immunity.pdf
Via Lisa Rubin: 1/...
..don't say I didn't warn ya. W 2 wks til jury selection is slated to begin, #Trump has a pending motion to adjourn trial due to pretrial publicity--& now wants to revisit whether Merchan should be recused as well
Frank Runyeon:
Trump fires back by suggesting attacks on Justice Merchan's daughter are actually justified complaints about judge's perceived bias & ethical failures
Trump will file (a renewed) recusal motion seeking to get judge off the case #legal
Via emptywheel:
This is fairly obvious, but it needs to be said. On top of stochastic terror and ginning up the rubes, one reason #Trump attacks family members is to prepare the groundwork for otherwise frivolous legal motions.
Thus far they have only worked in the Aileen Cannon and Hunter Biden cases.
BUT when they fail, as precedents dictate, it helps to feed the myth that poor Donny's getting a raw deal.
🤐MSNBC- Judge Merchan expands the gag order in Donald #Trump's hush money case to include family members of the court and of the DA's office #legal
ADDED via Kyle Griffin:
This is a big win for Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.
(Paywall) Via Bloomberg:
Donald #Trump followed through on his vow to pay a $175 million bond that will put a massive civil fraud verdict on hold while he appeals, assuring New York state won’t start seizing the former president’s assets, at least for now.
Trump Posts Bond to Freeze $454 Million Fraud Fine During Appeal #legal https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-02/donald-trump-posts-bond-to-freeze-454m-civil-fraud-fine
“#Trump has spent more than $100 million — none of it his own money — since leaving office on legal costs related to fending off investigations, indictments and his coming criminal trials, federal records show”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/27/us/politics/trump-cases-legal-fund.html