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Tick Tock, Motherfuckers!

by WaterGirl|  March 9, 20236:40 pm| 92 Comments

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BREAKING NYT:

The Manhattan DA's office recently signaled to Trump's lawyers that he could face criminal charges for his role in the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels — the strongest indication yet that prosecutors are nearing an indictment of Trump. https://t.co/tokdDHFw9U

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 9, 2023

Prosecutors Signal Criminal Charges for Trump Are Likely  (NYT)

The Manhattan district attorney’s office recently signaled to Donald J. Trump’s lawyers that he could face criminal charges for his role in the payment of hush money to a porn star, the strongest indication yet that prosecutors are nearing an indictment of the former president, according to four people with knowledge of the matter.

The prosecutors offered Mr. Trump the chance to testify next week before the grand jury that has been hearing evidence in the potential case, the people said. Such offers almost always indicate an indictment is close; it would be unusual for the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, to notify a potential defendant without ultimately seeking charges against him.

In New York, potential defendants have the right to answer questions in the grand jury before they are indicted, but they rarely testify, and Mr. Trump is likely to decline the offer. His lawyers could also meet privately with the prosecutors in hopes of fending off criminal charges.

Any case would mark the first indictment of a former American president, and could upend the 2024 presidential race. It would also elevate Mr. Bragg to the national stage, though not without risk.
Mr. Trump has faced an array of criminal investigations and special counsel inquiries over the years but has never been charged with a crime, underscoring the gravity of Mr. Bragg’s inquiry.

Mr. Bragg could become the first prosecutor to charge Mr. Trump, but he might not be the last.

In Georgia, the Fulton County District Attorney is investigating whether Mr. Trump interfered in the 2020 election, and at the federal level, a special counsel is scrutinizing Mr. Trump’s effort to overturn the election results, as well as his handling of classified documents.

The Manhattan inquiry, which has spanned nearly five years, centers on a $130,000 payment to the porn star, Stormy Daniels, in the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign. The payment was made by Michael Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former fixer, who was later reimbursed by Mr. Trump from the White House. Mr. Cohen is expected to testify in front of the grand jury, but has not yet done so.

Mr. Bragg’s prosecutors have not finished the grand jury presentation and he could still decide against seeking an indictment.

Mr. Trump has previously said that the prosecutors are engaged in a “witch hunt” against him that began before he became president, and has called Mr. Bragg, a Democrat who is Black, a politically motivated “racist.”

h/t Jim, Foolish Literalist

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    1. 1.

      steppy

      March 9, 2023 at 6:42 pm

      You make my mouth water

      I hope this is the first domino. “See, Ms. Willis, Mr. Smith, this isn’t so hard after all!”

      Reply
    2. 2.

      HumboldtBlue

      March 9, 2023 at 6:45 pm

      One can hope.

      Reply
    3. 3.

      Old Dan and Little Ann

      March 9, 2023 at 6:49 pm

      Wake me when he’s in handcuffs wearing an orange jumpsuit.

      Reply
    4. 4.

      Alison Rose

      March 9, 2023 at 6:51 pm

      I swear, if after all of this, they don’t indict him, I will fucking scream. DO IT, BRAGG! FOR GOD’S SAKE, JUST FUCKING DO IT.

      Reply
    5. 5.

      Old School

      March 9, 2023 at 6:52 pm

      Mr. Trump has previously said that the prosecutors are engaged in a “witch hunt” against him that began before he became president, and has called Mr. Bragg, a Democrat who is Black, a politically motivated “racist.”

      Well, it would be out of character for Trump to throw around accusations like that without solid proof, so it seems worth mentioning this in the article.

      Reply
    6. 6.

      WaterGirl

      March 9, 2023 at 6:52 pm

      @Old Dan and Little Ann: I think an indictment would be a big fucking deal.  Do you not think so?

      Reply
    7. 7.

      JPL

      March 9, 2023 at 6:52 pm

      Charges are imminent.   btw I live in GA and we still don’t know what that means.

      Reply
    8. 8.

      WaterGirl

      March 9, 2023 at 6:54 pm

      @Old School: I would bet good money that Trump has called Bragg worse than that, and Fani, too.  That will never be reported, however.

      Reply
    9. 9.

      Layer8Problem

      March 9, 2023 at 6:55 pm

      I looked through the article and didn’t find the word “imminent,” as in “legally imminent”.  Maybe that means tomorrow!

      Reply
    10. 10.

      zhena gogolia

      March 9, 2023 at 6:55 pm

      @WaterGirl: Yes, it would. Unprecedented, no?

      Reply
    11. 11.

      zhena gogolia

      March 9, 2023 at 6:55 pm

      Okay, the ho-hum crowd is out in force!

      Reply
    12. 12.

      Baud

      March 9, 2023 at 6:56 pm

      @zhena gogolia:

      I’m not ho-hum, but media stories about what may happen don’t interest me.

      Reply
    13. 13.

      Layer8Problem

      March 9, 2023 at 6:59 pm

      Also this choice sentence: “In recent years, Mr. Trump has been wary of answering questions under oath, given the legal intrigue swirling around him.”

      I’d amend that to “. . ., given that he’s a lying bastard.” Perhaps that sentence was Ms. Haberman’s, seeing as she’s credited as helping out at the bottom of the article.

      Reply
    14. 14.

      WaterGirl

      March 9, 2023 at 6:59 pm

      @JPL: All the talking heads who lean Dem, or who are at least in the pro-democracy column, had guessed that imminent in the case of Fani meant 3-5 weeks.

      But now that there are 5 democratic District Attorneys in the 5 biggest counties, and some of them are black (!) and uppity (!!!) the Republican legislature in GA is trying to remove a lot of the powers of the DA and put decisions in the hands of a panel.

      Which, coincidentally would surely be less Democratic and a lot more white.

      I keep trying to get a post together on that.  Tomorrow for sure!

      Reply
    15. 15.

      Alison Rose

      March 9, 2023 at 7:01 pm

      @zhena gogolia: For me, it’s not necessarily ho-hum, it’s the fact that this asshole has always seemed to be made of Teflon and has never been held accountable, to any notable degree, by the legal system for anything he’s done. It’s just hard to get one’s hopes again yet again when it’s never panned out before.

      Reply
    16. 16.

      Bill Arnold

      March 9, 2023 at 7:03 pm

      @zhena gogolia:

      Okay, the ho-hum crowd is out in force!

      Indeed.
      My attitude, to be clear, is that the first priorities of justice for DJT involve keeping him separated from the levers of power, increasing his personal level of misery, and decreasing his level of sanity. With significant damage to the GOP an very desirable and expected side effect, and an actual trial a bonus, and an actual conviction a bigger bonus.

      Reply
    17. 17.

      WaterGirl

      March 9, 2023 at 7:03 pm

      @zhena gogolia: Yes!  Without an indictment from some entity, somewhere, that would cement precedent, I think, that presidents and former presidents are indeed above the law.

      If we think things are bad now, that would make them exponentially worse!

      So yeah, damn right I think it’s a big fucking deal.

      Reply
    18. 18.

      Old Dan and Little Ann

      March 9, 2023 at 7:06 pm

      @WaterGirl: Of course.  I am simply anxious for what comes next.  I want to see that bastard in prison.  Cheers.

      Reply
    19. 19.

      Layer8Problem

      March 9, 2023 at 7:06 pm

      @zhena gogolia:  No ho-humming here.  I really am optimistic.  There are always going to be people saying “Mark my words, he won’t do a DAY in jail . . . becuz I’m psychic or something.  And cynical.”

      Reply
    20. 20.

      Frankensteinbeck

      March 9, 2023 at 7:07 pm

      @JPL:

      No one knows what living in Georgia means.

      EDIT – Except ‘kudzu’.  We know it means kudzu.

      Reply
    21. 21.

      Almost Retired

      March 9, 2023 at 7:12 pm

      Imminent or not, the reporting alone should provoke the Orange Goon to angrily pitch an embossed Mar-a-Lago plate of biscuits and gravy at the wall.

      Interestingly, when typing this comment, “pitch” was initially changed to “putsch.”  Maybe Autocorrect knows something we don’t.

      Reply
    22. 22.

      different-church-lady

      March 9, 2023 at 7:13 pm

      OK, it’s really stunning to me that “doing hush money to a porn star the wrong way” is maybe going to just hinder his political career, when “doing hush money to porn star in and of itself” is not going to end it outright.

      Reply
    23. 23.

      different-church-lady

      March 9, 2023 at 7:14 pm

      @Layer8Problem: If he does a day in jail, these same people will be saying, “Well, he won’t do another day in jail.”

      Reply
    24. 24.

      prostratedragon

      March 9, 2023 at 7:14 pm

      @Frankensteinbeck:
      Thanks for the edit. I thought you meant that only kudzu knows what it means to live in Georgia.

      Reply
    25. 25.

      Layer8Problem

      March 9, 2023 at 7:17 pm

      @different-church-lady:  Either it’s the pose of the jaded esthete or a professional demoralizer.  Right up there with “there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties.”

      Reply
    26. 26.

      Scout211

      March 9, 2023 at 7:17 pm

      Mr. Trump has previously said that the prosecutors are engaged in a “witch hunt” against him that began before he became president,

      Goodness gracious, so many prosecutors hunting for witches! I think I read somewhere that Trump said, “I am not a witch,” but I could be misremembering that.

      I hope all of those “witch hunters” charge him and force him to keep spending his millions to stay out of jail.  I hope he goes to jail but spending all of his money and not getting elected to public office ever again, I could live with.

      Reply
    27. 27.

      MazeDancer

      March 9, 2023 at 7:17 pm

      Breath not being held. But, still, some hope,

      Reply
    28. 28.

      WaterGirl

      March 9, 2023 at 7:18 pm

      @Almost Retired: Imagine being the person tasked with cleaning his crap off the walls.

      *Imagine being a person who would work for T**** in any capacity.

      Reply
    29. 29.

      evodevo

      March 9, 2023 at 7:18 pm

      @Alison Rose: ​
        Yep…not holding my breath…

      Reply
    30. 30.

      WaterGirl

      March 9, 2023 at 7:21 pm

      The Indictments Derby is heating up.

      Alvin making a late charge around the final bend.

      Fani still ahead by a length.

      Jack may have enough saved to pull away down the stretch.

      — Jack E. Smith ⚖️ (@7Veritas4) March 9, 2023

      Reply
    31. 31.

      Elizabelle

      March 9, 2023 at 7:21 pm

      I want indictments to start landing on Trump and his family like planes at O’Hare. Incoming!

      Reply
    32. 32.

      sanjeevs

      March 9, 2023 at 7:22 pm

      @zhena gogolia: It’s five years since Michael Cohen was convicted and Trump named as Individual 1.

      And not a single Republican has been indicted for Jan 6th after more than two years.

      Reply
    33. 33.

      WaterGirl

      March 9, 2023 at 7:22 pm

      @Scout211: From the other Jack Smith.

      Dear Caps Lock enthusiast,

      This isn’t news.

      The witch hunt will continue…until the witch is gone.

      Sincerely,

      DOJ pic.twitter.com/XAR2pVXAKM

      — Jack E. Smith ⚖️ (@7Veritas4) March 9, 2023

      Reply
    34. 34.

      JPL

      March 9, 2023 at 7:24 pm

      @WaterGirl: Supposedly the law is not about Fani, but about an Athens DA..   link

      Reply
    35. 35.

      Gvg

      March 9, 2023 at 7:25 pm

      @different-church-lady: And the “evangelicals” voted for him. Lately I have been feeling like religious doesn’t mean what it used to when I was young and …this is not an improvement. I know some people who I think are sincerely good religious and this is not how they live.

      The honorable title religious has been hijacked by tacky bigots who don’t even seem to be aware that they are not real. These aren’t the people that volunteer at homeless shelters or go spend 2 weeks in Mississippi with their church group shoveling mud out of peoples houses after a hurricane and come back and make it sound like fun that the mud was so full of toxins that they had to wear 2 layers of latex gloves to keep the skin on their hands. Those are my definition of religious Christians.

      Reply
    36. 36.

      WaterGirl

      March 9, 2023 at 7:28 pm

      @sanjeevs: Speaking of 5 years and Michael Cohen, I loved hearing that they brought Hope Hicks in to testify before the grand jury this week – apparently she was on some of the calls and in on some of the meetings related to the hush money, so they are calling her to corroborate Michael Cohen’s testimony about the hush money.

      Hope Hicks of “now we are all going to look like domestic terrorists” and “we’ll never be able to get jobs again” fame, saying that on Jan 6

      edit: Who knew there was a downside to being the Trump whisperer?

      Narrator:  nearly everyone!

      Reply
    37. 37.

      Alison Rose

      March 9, 2023 at 7:28 pm

      @different-church-lady: ain’t this country great

      -_-

      Reply
    38. 38.

      MisterForkbeard

      March 9, 2023 at 7:30 pm

      @different-church-lady: But he SAYS he didn’t do it, so therefore he’s innocent. You understand, right? Because he also says he doesn’t lie.

      Reply
    39. 39.

      WaterGirl

      March 9, 2023 at 7:32 pm

      @JPL: Great paper, but it never lets me see articles. :-(

      Reply
    40. 40.

      Delk

      March 9, 2023 at 7:35 pm

      I have said it many times: nothing will make me happier than seeing his name off of the building in Downtown Chicago. Everything else is gravy. Delicious gravy.

      Reply
    41. 41.

      raven

      March 9, 2023 at 7:36 pm

      @JPL:
      Republican Legislators Target Progressive Prosecutors Like Deborah Gonzalez
      No paywall.

      Reply
    42. 42.

      WaterGirl

      March 9, 2023 at 7:37 pm

      Isn’t today (Thursday) Amir’s big day at the cat shelter?  I suck at time zones, so I’m not sure what day it is here when it’s Thursday for Amir.

      Reply
    43. 43.

      Amir Khalid

      March 9, 2023 at 7:37 pm

      This whole Stormy Daniels thing could have easily been avoided. If TFG didn’t want it to come out that he had fucked a porn actress, he could have just, you know, not fucked a porn actress.

      Reply
    44. 44.

      WaterGirl

      March 9, 2023 at 7:37 pm

      @JPL: @raven:  Could one of you provide a short summary since I can’t read the article?

      Reply
    45. 45.

      WaterGirl

      March 9, 2023 at 7:38 pm

      @Amir Khalid: Hey Amir, isn’t this your big day to meet some kitties?

      Reply
    46. 46.

      WaterGirl

      March 9, 2023 at 7:39 pm

      @Amir Khalid:  I love the new call it like he sees it Amir. :-)

      Reply
    47. 47.

      steppy

      March 9, 2023 at 7:39 pm

      Let’s not forget, Mikey has a gigantic axe to grind in this case. His testimony in this case will be difficult to impeach due to his serving time for the very same offense.

      Reply
    48. 48.

      Spanky

      March 9, 2023 at 7:41 pm

      @JPL:

      Supposedly the law is not about Fani, but about an Athens DA..

      Take a load off Fani…

      Reply
    49. 49.

      raven

      March 9, 2023 at 7:41 pm

      @WaterGirl:

      To some, the impetus of the Republican-backed effort to rein in local prosecutors is Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her ongoing probe of Donald Trump’s attempt to meddle with the 2020 election.

      But to the measure’s sponsors, the motivation for the legislation is a lesser-known prosecutor: Athens-Clarke County District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez, who is accused by critics of being incompetent and ineffective.
      Gonzalez held a tense ”listening session” late Wednesday before a crowd of roughly 100 people where she defended her stint as prosecutor — and faced a mix of cheers and jeers from the audience.

      Reply
    50. 50.

      WaterGirl

      March 9, 2023 at 7:42 pm

      @JPL:    @raven: So what’s your take on Gonzalez?

      Is she doing a bad job?  Or is all of that bullshit cover because they don’t like her, her party, and her decisions?

      Reply
    51. 51.

      raven

      March 9, 2023 at 7:42 pm

      She’s an outspoken opponent of still-pending legislation that would create a state oversight board with powers to investigate, sanction and remove prosecutors for a range of violations, including “willful misconduct.”

      Two of its chief proponents are her constituents: Gov. Brian Kemp and state Rep. Houston Gaines, R-Athens. Both have cited her handling of high-profile cases when stressing the need to bring “accountability” to prosecutors.
      And Gaines has taken it a step further, criticizing his erstwhile adversary (they have competed head-to-head twice for a House seat) for a mass departure of staff attorneys on her watch and her decision not to prosecute certain low-level drug offenses.

      It has also galvanized the community. The session was packed with supporters who cheered the Democrat’s tenure and opponents who heckled her throughout, including one who yelled: “Judges have an oversight committee. Why not DAs?”
       

      Reply
    52. 52.

      Amir Khalid

      March 9, 2023 at 7:42 pm

      @WaterGirl:

      I rescheduled it to Saturday. So it’s tomorrow morning, which is late Friday night over there.

      Reply
    53. 53.

      Layer8Problem

      March 9, 2023 at 7:43 pm

      @sanjeevs:  That’s the spirit!

      Reply
    54. 54.

      raven

      March 9, 2023 at 7:43 pm

      @WaterGirl: It’s a tough one, she’s doing what she was elected to do here in Athens but there are lot’s of people in her office that are leaving.

      Reply
    55. 55.

      raven

      March 9, 2023 at 7:44 pm

      Gonzalez has argued that the measures are an “overstep” that circumvent the will of the people. And she criticized the Senate version, which would allow GOP leaders to tap the members of the oversight panel.
      “There is no need to have another mechanism that is partisan in the way it has been comprised and the way it has been introduced,” she said.
      Near the end of the event, one attendee asked bluntly whether Gonzalez will just call it quits. Many in the audience cheered.
      “I will not resign because I’m doing the job that the people elected me to do,” to more applause from her supporters in the room. “And I think we’re going to end it on that note.”

      Reply
    56. 56.

      JPL

      March 9, 2023 at 7:46 pm

      @raven: Thank you for the other article.

      Reply
    57. 57.

      JPL

      March 9, 2023 at 7:49 pm

      @WaterGirl: If you do research you will find out, that Fulton County has a large backlog, but that was before Fani was elected.  I’m sure her enemies will use it.

      Reply
    58. 58.

      Steeplejack

      March 9, 2023 at 7:51 pm

      @WaterGirl:

      It got postponed to Saturday, I believe.

      He is currently 13 hours ahead of blog time, i.e., 8:51 a.m. Friday. Might change with Daylight Saving Time on Sunday.

      Reply
    59. 59.

      PaulWartenberg

      March 9, 2023 at 7:52 pm

      I was so eager for the Mueller Report to spell out all that trump had done wrong, but then AG Barr pulled the plug and redacted 60 percent of the report while lying to the public that the results exonerated trump (no, trump was on the hook for at least five charges of Obstruction).

      After that, I’ve developed a “wait and see” approach to whether actual, honest-to-God indictments are issued, and watching video of handcuffs getting snapped on trump’s wrists.

      I am, of course, itching for that to happen TOMORROW IF YOU CAN GET AROUND TO IT, GEORGIA DAs, PLEASE AND THANK YOU.

      Reply
    60. 60.

      bbleh

      March 9, 2023 at 7:55 pm

      So what I love about this particular case is, it’s so tawdry.  Like, it involves hush money paid by a presidential candidate to a porn actress, and the principal witness is a sleazy lawyer and confessed liar who served time.  I mean, the producers of the Jerry Springer show would have rejected this because it’s just not believable, not even by the kind of people who voted for Donald Trump watched Jerry Springer.

      And yet, here we are.  The media will go nuts, the bottom feeders the more so, and their audience are exactly the ones you want this story to reach.

      And I’m all outta popcorn …

      Reply
    61. 61.

      WaterGirl

      March 9, 2023 at 7:55 pm

      @Amir Khalid: Okay, thanks.  I thought it had been set to Tuesday and postponed to Thursday.  Must have been set for Thursday and postponed to Saturday.

      Reply
    62. 62.

      zhena gogolia

      March 9, 2023 at 7:57 pm

      @Bill Arnold: yes

      Reply
    63. 63.

      zhena gogolia

      March 9, 2023 at 7:59 pm

      @sanjeevs: huh?

      Reply
    64. 64.

      WaterGirl

      March 9, 2023 at 8:04 pm

      @zhena gogolia: I suspect sanjeevs means “republican office holder”.

      Reply
    65. 65.

      WaterGirl

      March 9, 2023 at 8:06 pm

      @zhena gogolia: @zhena gogolia:

      Did you have a long, hard, public day today?

      Because it appears that you are conserving words; just wondering if you have already used up too many words for comfort in a single day.

      Reply
    66. 66.

      Steve in the ATL

      March 9, 2023 at 8:08 pm

      @JPL: that can be fairly blamed on Paul Howard. He was not a good administrator.

      Reply
    67. 67.

      Planetjanet

      March 9, 2023 at 8:09 pm

      @Elizabelle: Love this visual!

      Reply
    68. 68.

      Dorothy A. Winsor

      March 9, 2023 at 8:17 pm

      I don’t believe Trump will ever go to jail. Pay a fine for something, sure. But jail? I can’t see it happening.

      Reply
    69. 69.

      zhena gogolia

      March 9, 2023 at 8:18 pm

      @WaterGirl: I’m totally exhausted. Two more classes until spring break. But I’m already behind on all the work I have to do during spring break

      Reply
    70. 70.

      zhena gogolia

      March 9, 2023 at 8:20 pm

      @WaterGirl: and you’re very insightful. Yesterday I had to be interpreter for a Russian poet for a roomful of students.

      Reply
    71. 71.

      WaterGirl

      March 9, 2023 at 8:25 pm

      @zhena gogolia: No pressure there. //

      Reply
    72. 72.

      dww44

      March 9, 2023 at 8:26 pm

      @sanjeevs: I’m kinda with you here.  We’ve all been waiting for some sort of accountability to be paid by Trump and his enablers and it hasn’t happened.  We’ve been told to be patient; that these things take time .. that no one is above the law.  

      Well, here we are 2 years and 2 months past the insurrection and all that preceded it.  Here in Georgia if the DA doesn’t do something pronto she’s likely to find her ability to do so taken away.
      I am sorely disappointed with the apparent timidity of those whose jobs it is to deliver justice for our democracy. Justice delayed is also justice denied.

      Reply
    73. 73.

      WaterGirl

      March 9, 2023 at 8:27 pm

      @zhena gogolia:

      Thank you for the compliment!

      Reply
    74. 74.

      Sally

      March 9, 2023 at 8:33 pm

      @WaterGirl: Imminent!

      Reply
    75. 75.

      Jeffro

      March 9, 2023 at 8:35 pm

      @Alison Rose: same

      DO.

      IT!

      Reply
    76. 76.

      zhena gogolia

      March 9, 2023 at 8:49 pm

      @WaterGirl: You’re a mind reader!

      Reply
    77. 77.

      Jim, Foolish Literalist

      March 9, 2023 at 9:06 pm

      @sanjeevs: Yup. Conspiracy is a very hard thing to prove.

      Reply
    78. 78.

      Shalimar

      March 9, 2023 at 9:08 pm

      @Old Dan and Little Ann: It’s difficult to convict a cult leader when his cult members make up 30% of the jury pool.  I don’t blame them if they get a bad jury and fail.  I do blame them if they’re too cowardly to try.

      Reply
    79. 79.

      Frankensteinbeck

      March 9, 2023 at 9:10 pm

      I do not give even one shake of a dead dog’s tonker whether Trump slept with a porn star, paid her for it, or covered it up.  Sex work happened, I have no problem with that, and it’s his and her business, not mine.  I am not particularly up in arms about the campaign finance laws aspect, but I do think such laws should be enforced when possible, because cheating on those is already bad enough.

      Still, anything that makes Trump’s life harder is good for the country.  For all I think he’s a symptom and not the cause, so is a zit, and you want its pus cleaned up as fast as possible.

      @prostratedragon:

      Kudzu likes to be the only living thing in its biome.  It does not share.

      @sanjeevs:

      not a single Republican has been indicted for Jan 6th

      They’re not going to be.  It’s pretty god damn hard to prove anybody who wasn’t part of breaking in actually thought it would happen instead of just running their mouth.  I could see Trump getting nailed for refusing to send help, maybe.

      There are reasonable legal expectations and unreasonable.  Some of the ones facing Trump are very reasonable indeed.  I think he’s screwed on the documents, but it’s going to look like nothing’s happening until he’s suddenly in court and it’s obvious he’s done for.

      Reply
    80. 80.

      Jim, Foolish Literalist

      March 9, 2023 at 9:11 pm

      @Dorothy A. Winsor: I imagine it would not be very difficult to prove to a judge that the security risks of incarcerating a former president are too great, and some kind of home detention, at his expense, (here, a non-lawyer’s speculation becomes semi-snark) maybe in the least pleasant of the (as I understand it) three homes in Palm Beach. Essentially as a nation we would give the giant toddler a time out, with no golf.

      Reply
    81. 81.

      columbusqueen

      March 9, 2023 at 9:11 pm

      I always believed Trump paid Stormy off to keep her quiet about how unimpressive Little Donnie was. The more a man boasts, the less he’s really got to show.

      Reply
    82. 82.

      Jim, Foolish Literalist

      March 9, 2023 at 9:12 pm

      @Frankensteinbeck:

      I think he’s screwed on the documents, but it’s going to look like nothing’s happening until he’s suddenly in court and it’s obvious he’s done for.

      IANAL, but what if his defense attorney just says “They all do it. Look at Biden.” Again, they only need one, and I believe defense lawyers have pretty wide latitude as to the arguments and evidence they can present. Lawyers?

      Reply
    83. 83.

      Ruckus

      March 9, 2023 at 9:18 pm

      @Dorothy A. Winsor:

      I think he’s gone way too far and I’ve seen way to far before this. But instigating a Federal insurrection and attempting to fix an election for the president, seems just a tad to far. I’m not sure the country can remain standing if he isn’t tried. The right will go crazier and the left will be left trying to figure out how to have one country this divided over a complete bug fuck nutty deranged asshole.

      Reply
    84. 84.

      Frankensteinbeck

      March 9, 2023 at 9:19 pm

      @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

      what if his defense attorney just says “They all do it. Look at Biden.”

      The DoJ lays out the vast mountain of evidence they have that Trump did it deliberately, and indeed fought hard against every attempt to let him return the documents with no prejudice.  For us, it kinda blends into a hazy memory mush of malfeasance.  For the jury it’s going to be day after day of “And here is another way Trump broke the law.”  I’m not worried about the jury pool, either.  I was at first, but Trump has been facing court cases, and losing them.  I guess the jury pool picking system works in practice.

      Reply
    85. 85.

      Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

      March 9, 2023 at 9:23 pm

      March 17th is Ms. Daniels’s birthday. No idea of her age, and it would be ungentlemanly to inquire. Raise a toast to her for her adding another part to the sordid Drumph story.

      Reply
    86. 86.

      Omnes Omnibus

      March 9, 2023 at 9:30 pm

      @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Not a defense to the crime.

      Reply
    87. 87.

      cmorenc

      March 9, 2023 at 9:32 pm

      @Baud:

      Well, reliable sources at an almost top-10,000 blog say that Baud might run for President.

      Reply
    88. 88.

      UncleEbeneezer

      March 9, 2023 at 9:44 pm

      @Jim, Foolish Literalist: There is no evidence that Biden or Pence obstructed the investigations, moved the documents, had their people lie on sworn affidavits etc.  Prosecutors really on statutes that are quite specific.  They will be happy to show, in detail,  all the ways that Trump violated various criminal statutes but Biden and Pence did not.

      Reply
    89. 89.

      Frankensteinbeck

      March 9, 2023 at 9:54 pm

      @cmorenc:

      I rely on myself as a source at least twice a day, and I say Baud is already president!

      Reply
    90. 90.

      Omnes Omnibus

      March 9, 2023 at 9:55 pm

      @UncleEbeneezer: Yes, the crime is not in having classified documents; it is in intentionally keeping them after you discover that you have them.*

      *Extremely simplified.

      Reply
    91. 91.

      Ruckus

      March 9, 2023 at 9:56 pm

      @columbusqueen:

      SFB’s problem is that he’s the rich boy who is incapable of doing any thing whatsoever positive. Nothing, zero, hell has frozen over low, coal miners couldn’t find any thing positive in his life or on any trail he’s left because he’s about a million times worse than useless. He’s the bull in the china shop who’s convinced that he’s supposed to steal the toilet paper when he’s in the museum that houses the worlds largest diamond but he’s so bad he sets off the fire alarm trying to get toilet paper off the roll because he can’t figure out how to.

      Reply
    92. 92.

      Regine Touchon

      March 9, 2023 at 11:22 pm

      @WaterGirl:

      @WaterGirl: Yes this should be a bigger deal. Governor Kemp is slyer than DeSantis. He does the suppression of our democracy on the low down. Let’s look into this and see if we can help Georgia Dems in any way.

      Reply

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