What do you make of the sudden SDNY reveal? Given the number of documents involved, my concern is more endless delays. I’m remembering the rumors from 2016 that the SDNY was full of Trump supporters. I have a feeling we haven’t heard the last from them, and that this case will also get pushed out past the election, like all the other criminal trials.
I don't think so. Most of the docs aren't relevant. Best bet is the trial will commence in late April but we'll know the trial date on Monday. We think!!
I completely agree that Trump is an odious man. I also completely agree that he is guilty of many legal transgressions. And that's an understatement. He's patently crooked and corrupt to the core
HOWEVER, I have doubts about the utility of legal maneuvors to erradicate the Orange Monster.
The more we sue him; the more he rises in the polls.
Also recall liberal litigators and their lawsuits, in the late 60's and 70s, to enforce school busssing to promote racial integration. Their legal efforts were a huge impetus to the right and sparked the narrative that elites were tryiing to steer the ship of state to reorder our society.
AND WHY ARE SO MANY MILLIONS UNDER TRUMP'S THUMB
I suggest that America may be suffering from the pathology that led France to collaborate with Nazi Germany. I refer you to my article:
He rose after indictments among Republicans. A conviction in this case will also help him with his base. But it will harm him with indies and overall. I think!
Having just had my narrative history White House Wild Child released I have a new way to think about how trump has tainted our culture. when TR Roosevelt as president made BookerT Washington his unofficial advisor he realized lynching was brutilizing a generation of Young Americans. When people raced to watch a lynching their minds were changed. TR said this made some unable to participate in a democracy. That is what Trump has done. He’s brutalized minds we are not the same thank goodness he will be eventually be taken out by biology’s term limits.
As long as he lives, Donald Trump threatens to destroy the union, thwart justice, disrupt domestic tranquility, demolish the common defense, impair the general welfare, and deny the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, the people of the United States of America.
(Rudely adapted from the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1787)
Jonathan, can you do artist’s sketches as well? Looking forward to the blow by blow. Yes, we all feel that he is the “Teflon Don“ but things are starting to stick. And once that happens, It may accelerate! Hoping and praying.
I think it's unfortunate that this is the first case against the Orange Blob that is going to trial. I understand the implications of his actions - that he was doing damage control on his image - but many voters won't make that connection. They'll see it as tawdry and politically motivated, unlike the J6 case. JMO.
This is the longest, slowest, nastiest and most destructive fall of one plague of a human being in all of human history in fact or legend, and him a mere shitbum outa Queens. And to think he may yet take us all down with him. What a time to be alive!
On Mon., Michael Cohen pointed out that Donald Trump told a trial judge, UNDER OATH, that he had $400 Million cash available for appeal bonds. Now maybe we get to see that money, OR we get to see Donald Trump indicted for LYING UNDER OATH!
Available. Do you understand what that word means. Look it up. Then look up the legal definition of perjury. Get some knowledge. Then post. It works much better that way.
You and your media pals can pretend all you want that this is a legitimate case, but that’s exactly why the media can no longer be trusted. Was Trump charged with perjury? Or did you just decide that he perjured himself, based on your shallow understanding of how real estate is valued? It fits your narrative, so trump committed perjury.
You just can’t help yourself when it comes to trump. There’s no objectivity, little truthfulness. Of course, you will argue that a court made the finding, and you will pretend that that makes it legit. But when SCOTUS tosses it, just as SCOTUS will certainly rule that the president has broad immunity related to ALL of his constitutional duties and powers, just as Trump will prevail on the bogus “classified documents” case, because the president IS the executive branch and the PRA has no criminal penalties, it will be long after anyone cares and you will never admit how absurdly wrong you were about everything.
You have zero credibility when it comes to Trump, but you have obviously gained a following of lunatics with TDS. Congrats on that, I guess
able to be used or obtained; at someone's disposal:
* * *
And, I ALREADY know the definition of "perjury" and I know what having to raise an APPEAL BOND signifies. Don't try to "pull rank" or match wits w/ me.
Your boy just MAY be goin' down! Hard! As I said, MAYBE!
I'm in no hurry. I want to watch him twist in the wind awhile. Centrifuge, even.
WHY would a reputedly clever, savvy "bidnessman" keep $400 Mill. lying around in CASH? Makes no sense to me.
Gee, you figured out you needed to look it up, after all. Available doesn’t mean he’s going to use it. Doesn’t mean there are not other options. He didn’t say he had it lying around in cash. And you think I should be worried about worried about matching wits with you…
Nothing professional about it. It’s what we see every day from the media clowns pretending to be journalists. One day, maybe one or two of them will find some integrity. I guess this isn’t the day.
My comment had nothing to do with Trump or his integrity. It was about the integrity of the media. You might want to check the definition of “cognitive dissonance” to see if you are applying it to the right person
Interesting. I certainly understand the push back against the noted, admittedly biased concluding sentences, I.e. “the glee”. Yet doesn’t the rest of the piece just report what the judge ruled on a variety of motions by the State and Defense? Reading facts, stubborn, uncomfortable facts about one’s preferred candidate can be unsettling. But calling the messengers “media clowns” doesn’t make them go away.
You don’t understand what the issue is? A one sided, shallow interpretation of some of the findings, as if there were no other motions and Trump lost all? But you don’t understand the problem when the author is pretending (not very well) to be an objective journalist? Thanks for making my point for me. SCOTUS is going to hear the presidential immunity argument— not the childish Jack Smith nonsense about “can the.president commit murder?”— but the serious issue of where POTUS can be prosecuted after his term because some hack DA has a different political opinion and decides his is correct. That’s going to be the end of Smith’s case. Watch and learn.
Will do.
Obviously, I have stumbled into the “Mental Midgets With TDS” thread. Sorry to interrupt. I will show myself out. Carry on.
Your brain is so huge that I can see it from my front porch!
I'll bet Sarah Palin could see it from Alaska!
Keep on keepin’ on
What do you make of the sudden SDNY reveal? Given the number of documents involved, my concern is more endless delays. I’m remembering the rumors from 2016 that the SDNY was full of Trump supporters. I have a feeling we haven’t heard the last from them, and that this case will also get pushed out past the election, like all the other criminal trials.
I don't think so. Most of the docs aren't relevant. Best bet is the trial will commence in late April but we'll know the trial date on Monday. We think!!
I completely agree that Trump is an odious man. I also completely agree that he is guilty of many legal transgressions. And that's an understatement. He's patently crooked and corrupt to the core
HOWEVER, I have doubts about the utility of legal maneuvors to erradicate the Orange Monster.
The more we sue him; the more he rises in the polls.
Also recall liberal litigators and their lawsuits, in the late 60's and 70s, to enforce school busssing to promote racial integration. Their legal efforts were a huge impetus to the right and sparked the narrative that elites were tryiing to steer the ship of state to reorder our society.
AND WHY ARE SO MANY MILLIONS UNDER TRUMP'S THUMB
I suggest that America may be suffering from the pathology that led France to collaborate with Nazi Germany. I refer you to my article:
https://davidgottfried.substack.com/p/our-national-political-nervous-breakdown
He rose after indictments among Republicans. A conviction in this case will also help him with his base. But it will harm him with indies and overall. I think!
Having just had my narrative history White House Wild Child released I have a new way to think about how trump has tainted our culture. when TR Roosevelt as president made BookerT Washington his unofficial advisor he realized lynching was brutilizing a generation of Young Americans. When people raced to watch a lynching their minds were changed. TR said this made some unable to participate in a democracy. That is what Trump has done. He’s brutalized minds we are not the same thank goodness he will be eventually be taken out by biology’s term limits.
He's 78, Shelly. So that could take a while.
Thank goodness Jonathan will be there to guide us through all this. His reporting will be the next best thing to bring there.
Thanks!
Following is my all-purpose anti-Trump manifesto:
As long as he lives, Donald Trump threatens to destroy the union, thwart justice, disrupt domestic tranquility, demolish the common defense, impair the general welfare, and deny the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, the people of the United States of America.
(Rudely adapted from the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1787)
Nice, JoAnne! I've gotta use that!
I grant free and full license to any and all interested parties to copy, publish, adapt, and/or reprint the preceding anti-Trump manifesto.
Jonathan, can you do artist’s sketches as well? Looking forward to the blow by blow. Yes, we all feel that he is the “Teflon Don“ but things are starting to stick. And once that happens, It may accelerate! Hoping and praying.
Hope so, Tom! I wish I could sketch because I will be in the courtroom much of the time.....
I think it's unfortunate that this is the first case against the Orange Blob that is going to trial. I understand the implications of his actions - that he was doing damage control on his image - but many voters won't make that connection. They'll see it as tawdry and politically motivated, unlike the J6 case. JMO.
This is a legit concern, Jim. But one criminal conviction is better than none, and a lot of people defer to the judgment of juries....
This is the longest, slowest, nastiest and most destructive fall of one plague of a human being in all of human history in fact or legend, and him a mere shitbum outa Queens. And to think he may yet take us all down with him. What a time to be alive!
My sentiments exactly...
On Mon., Michael Cohen pointed out that Donald Trump told a trial judge, UNDER OATH, that he had $400 Million cash available for appeal bonds. Now maybe we get to see that money, OR we get to see Donald Trump indicted for LYING UNDER OATH!
That won't happen, but his property in Westchester may be seized next week....
I know, but it's nice to savor the POSSIBILITY!
Available. Do you understand what that word means. Look it up. Then look up the legal definition of perjury. Get some knowledge. Then post. It works much better that way.
Not sure of your point. Trump did falsify business records ("perjury") and that's an "available" (legally valid) charge...
You and your media pals can pretend all you want that this is a legitimate case, but that’s exactly why the media can no longer be trusted. Was Trump charged with perjury? Or did you just decide that he perjured himself, based on your shallow understanding of how real estate is valued? It fits your narrative, so trump committed perjury.
You just can’t help yourself when it comes to trump. There’s no objectivity, little truthfulness. Of course, you will argue that a court made the finding, and you will pretend that that makes it legit. But when SCOTUS tosses it, just as SCOTUS will certainly rule that the president has broad immunity related to ALL of his constitutional duties and powers, just as Trump will prevail on the bogus “classified documents” case, because the president IS the executive branch and the PRA has no criminal penalties, it will be long after anyone cares and you will never admit how absurdly wrong you were about everything.
You have zero credibility when it comes to Trump, but you have obviously gained a following of lunatics with TDS. Congrats on that, I guess
BTW: You posed a question about my understanding of "available." Questions ALWAYS take a question mark (?)--not a period!
DUH!
From my Apple Dictionary:
a·vail·a·ble | əˈvāləb(ə)l |
adjective
able to be used or obtained; at someone's disposal:
* * *
And, I ALREADY know the definition of "perjury" and I know what having to raise an APPEAL BOND signifies. Don't try to "pull rank" or match wits w/ me.
Your boy just MAY be goin' down! Hard! As I said, MAYBE!
I'm in no hurry. I want to watch him twist in the wind awhile. Centrifuge, even.
WHY would a reputedly clever, savvy "bidnessman" keep $400 Mill. lying around in CASH? Makes no sense to me.
Gee, you figured out you needed to look it up, after all. Available doesn’t mean he’s going to use it. Doesn’t mean there are not other options. He didn’t say he had it lying around in cash. And you think I should be worried about worried about matching wits with you…
Match wits with you? Lol. You are unarmed.
schadenfreude.
@Solange Kellermann - my favorite word.😊
Finally - maybe, just maybe - something will stick to the teflon man.
A thorough, professional update with just the right amount of glee.
Nothing professional about it. It’s what we see every day from the media clowns pretending to be journalists. One day, maybe one or two of them will find some integrity. I guess this isn’t the day.
To talk about "integrity" in the same sentence as Trump is a form of cognitive dissonance, Terry...
My comment had nothing to do with Trump or his integrity. It was about the integrity of the media. You might want to check the definition of “cognitive dissonance” to see if you are applying it to the right person
Interesting. I certainly understand the push back against the noted, admittedly biased concluding sentences, I.e. “the glee”. Yet doesn’t the rest of the piece just report what the judge ruled on a variety of motions by the State and Defense? Reading facts, stubborn, uncomfortable facts about one’s preferred candidate can be unsettling. But calling the messengers “media clowns” doesn’t make them go away.
You don’t understand what the issue is? A one sided, shallow interpretation of some of the findings, as if there were no other motions and Trump lost all? But you don’t understand the problem when the author is pretending (not very well) to be an objective journalist? Thanks for making my point for me. SCOTUS is going to hear the presidential immunity argument— not the childish Jack Smith nonsense about “can the.president commit murder?”— but the serious issue of where POTUS can be prosecuted after his term because some hack DA has a different political opinion and decides his is correct. That’s going to be the end of Smith’s case. Watch and learn.
Thanks, Scotty...
Poor Trump! However, I just can’t conjure up any sympathy for a narcissistic, psychopathic authoritarian who wants to undermine our democracy! 😁