🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ “During a marathon day of proceedings in the #Trump Mar-a-Lago classified #documents case, a morning hearing in front of Judge Aileen #Cannon devolved into a shouting match amongst the attorneys, and the afternoon series of arguments prompted the judge to wonder if the legal nuances of the case may be too difficult for jurors to understand” https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/politics/trump-documents-case-judge-cannon-hearing?cid=ios_app
trump
Was there ever a doubt?
#NikkiHaley is supporting #Trump’s 2024 White House bid, she said Wednesday in her first public remarks since exiting the Republican presidential primary more than two months ago.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/politics/nikki-haley-donald-trump?cid=ios_app
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Via Greg Sargent:
Plainly worse than "deplorables," but to my knowledge, not one major news organization has taken note of it: https://newrepublic.com/article/181973/trump-media-attacks-media-dangerous-turn
Via Patriot Takes:
#Trump Posts Unhinged Video Promising to “Get Rid of All You F*cking Liberals”
Trump amplifies a vulgar, verbal attack on Joe Scarborough
Btw, I am reading live posts of the #TrumpTrial but unable to post for you (sorry). Prosecution is killing it.
FYI: Via Kyle Griffin:
Judge Merchan tells the jury that Trump lawyer Todd Blanche's comment was "improper, and you must disregard it."
"If there is a verdict of guilty, it will be up to me to impose a sentence." He adds: A "prison sentence is not required in the event of a guilty verdict." #legal #Trump
#BREAKING 💥🔥
TO REPEAT, #TrumpTrial
#TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS!!!!!!!!
#TrumpTrial Thurs 30 May 2024 🧵#Deliberations continue
Justice #Merchan says he believes that the #jury wants him to repeat a significant portion of the #JuryInstructions.
He will read pages 6-35.
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.
😄🔪Via Klasfeld:
Steinglass with a zinger:
"Cohen spent more time being cross examined in this trial than he did doing legal work for Donald #Trump in 2017." #TrumpTrial #legal
Via Lawrence Tribe:
The Trumpers are now going for the jugular in attacking the great 1965 precedent on which nearly all federal rights of privacy and personal autonomy depend, Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, upholding the right to use #contraceptives when having sexual relations.
#Biden-Harris HQ:
Top #Trump supporter Marsha Blackburn says Griswold v. Connecticut is “constitutionally unsound”
(Griswold v. Connecticut is the 1965 Supreme Court ruling that legalized birth control)
Senate Democrats Open Inquiry Into #Trump’s $1 Billion Request of Oil Industry
Two committees are seeking information from oil executives about a dinner where, the lawmakers say, the former president proposed a quid pro quo.
A new report revealed #Trump’s disturbing penchant for #executing his #political enemies. His response is somehow even worse.
Fmr Trump comms dir #AlyssaFarahGriffin revealed that Trump called for the #execution of a staffer on several occasions during his time in the WH—& the disturbing news (& Trump’s even more troubling reaction) is already fading from headlines.
#law #democracy #VoteBlue #BidenHarris2024
https://newrepublic.com/post/182791/trump-execution-threats
📌Via Kyle Cheney:
MARK IT DOWN: Jury deliberations began at about 11:30am. We'll hear from them if they have a question ... or a verdict.
Via @atrupar:
#Trump fans haven't been rooting so hard for something to be hung this hard since Mike Pence #TrumpTrial #legal
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.
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🤦🏻♀️😳#Trump & #Musk have discussed a possible advisory role for the Tesla leader should TFG reclaim WH, the latest sign that the once-frosty relationship between the 2 has thawed.
The role hasn’t been fully hammered out and might not happen, but they discussed ways to give Musk formal input & influence over policies related to border security and the economy, both issues on which Musk has grown more vocal.
https://apple.news/A12U7FLPbQbm6Nfj7Y1_glQ
#ClarenceThomas wrote a concurring opinion on #Trump’s #immunity that delved into the separate & unasked question of whether AG #MerrickGarland violated the #Constitution when he appointed #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith in Nov 2022 to oversee the 2 federal prosecutions of Trump.
#law #SCOTUS #ExtremeCourt #TrumpCourt #PartisanCourt #DarkMoney #MAGA
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/07/01/clarence-thomas-jack-smith-special-counsel-immunity/
It never ends 1/…
“Attorneys for #Trump asked the judge overseeing the former president’s Manhattan criminal case to postpone his sentencing, now set for Sept. 18, until after pres election.
In a letter to the court dated Wednesday, Trump’s lawyers noted that sentencing for the Republican presidential nominee’s conviction on falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to a porn star is currently scheduled to take place after the start of early voting”
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/15/trump-seeks-delay-to-hush-money-sentencing-00174157
I’m sure Aileen will get right on it 🙄
Fed prosecutors asked judge overseeing #documents case against #Trump to bar TFG from public statements that “pose a significant, imminent, & foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents” participating in the prosecution.
The request to Judge Cannon follows false claim by Trump that FBI agents who searched his home in Aug 2022 were “authorized to shoot me” & “locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger” #legal
https://apnews.com/article/d52b7468d93712dd86cbb8fe304d4b64
#Trump probably wants there in the #US to police #civilians.
The US #military has authorized “the voluntary departure” of #troops’ dependents from locations across the #MiddleEast as tensions w/ #Iran have risen [which you’d think would be a reason to keep them there], 2 US ofcls said Wednesday.
One US defense ofcl said the order came from Secy of #Defense #PeteHegseth.
#NationalSecurity
https://apnews.com/article/state-department-embassy-baghdad-f892ebd6a50850ef5650f31819541bff
"If she [Hillary Clinton] were to win this election, it would create an unprecedented constitutional crisis. In that situation, we could very well have a sitting president under felony indictment and ultimately a criminal trial. It would grind government to a halt."
~ Donald J. Trump, 5 November 2016
#Trump #felon #ConvictedFelonDonaldTrump #guilty #ElectionInterference #LawandOrder #Republicans
Lots of attention lately on NYT OpEd by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld who just coined the brilliant phrase on #DeadlineWH: “#Trumpaganda”
Dr. Sonnenfeld is the president of the Yale Chief Exec Leadership Institute.
“Recent headlines suggest that our nation’s #business leaders are embracing … #Trump.
That is far from the truth.
#GiftArticle #BidenHarris2024 #economy
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/23/opinion/ceo-trump-republican-support.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2U0.AZ73.SrWLXL-CBEs8&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
#Trump supporters try to doxx jurors and post violent threats after his conviction
On social media and web forums, users called for jurors, judges and prosecutors to be killed after the former president was found guilty on 34 felony counts.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-supporters-try-doxx-jurors-violent-threats-conviction-rcna154882