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You are here: Home / Open Threads / (Fake) Jack Smith Can See the Future

(Fake) Jack Smith Can See the Future

by WaterGirl|  August 14, 20232:30 pm| 169 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, Trump Indictments

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Seriously, it’s impossible to argue with this, am I right?

He must be able to see the future!

Prediction: Lots of twitter vaccine experts will be switching their major to RICO indictments this week.

— Jack E. Smith ⚖️ (@7Veritas4) August 14, 2023

Did You Have Sunday or Monday As Your Choice in the Pool?

If so, you may be a winner!

I think we should have given the office pool blog pool another dimension – not just picking the day that Trump would resume witness tampering, but also the case.  Or perhaps we should at least have to pick WHO he would be attacking.

Otherwise, it’s just too easy!

So many choices!

Textbook witness tampering. pic.twitter.com/22G23jk9hv

— Jack E. Smith ⚖️ (@7Veritas4) August 14, 2023

When he’s being indicted by someone else, but still thinking about you…🥰 pic.twitter.com/kTJDmlx4u4

— Jack E. Smith ⚖️ (@7Veritas4) August 14, 2023

Holy shit.

This is bad strategy for Trump, and it is most assuredly giving heartburn to the attorneys who were either stupid, short-sighted, or both, when they took him on as a client, and if Judge Chutkan is true to her word, as I expect her to be, it surely will make the J6 Coup Trial happen sooner than it might have otherwise.

Win-win for us, I guess.

Oh, and I think someone sped up the clock, because apparently even the witnesses who were supposed to appear before the Grand Jury TOMORROW in GA are there today.

BREAKING: everyone’s going today. https://t.co/dMmDxCQWF5

— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) August 14, 2023

I was not prepared to bake anything before tomorrow!  Luckily, i have buttermilk in the house, so I can choose between both the chocolate fudge cake and the buttermilk cornmeal cherry galette.

Oh, and I heard 2 things on a podcast this morning that were new to me: 1) that apparently up to 18 people may be part of the indictment in GA (blows the dice… come on, Lindsay) and that every day of his life Donald Trump has woken up with the fear of going to prison.  Of all the things I worry about, going to prison has not yet been one of them!

Open thread.

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  1. 1.

    Ishiyama

    August 14, 2023 at 2:36 pm

    “The hope that springs eternal within the human breast”

  2. 2.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    August 14, 2023 at 2:37 pm

    Tick-tock, Donald!

  3. 3.

    Elizabelle

    August 14, 2023 at 2:39 pm

    Wow.  So many betting pools; so little time.

  4. 4.

    Alison Rose

    August 14, 2023 at 2:41 pm

    Here you go.

    I really want some dumbass reporter talking to Trump fans to ask them why they think he’s so manly when all he does is whine and cry like a little kid.

  5. 5.

    Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

    August 14, 2023 at 2:41 pm

    What, Trump says he’s READ reports? He can read, or do people tell him things in short sentences? He certainly can’t write.

  6. 6.

    Suzanne

    August 14, 2023 at 2:41 pm

    I made a pumpkin cake on Friday, but it’s almost gone! AAAAHHHHHH.

  7. 7.

    Bill K

    August 14, 2023 at 2:41 pm

    I disagree that Trump fears prison.  His entire life his money had sheltered him.  He has always blustered and bullshitted his way through everything.  Any attempt to punish or restrain him is always met with a blizzard of money and lawyers.  All these rants and threats are just who he is.  I suspect if we ever get to see The Apprentice tapes it will show him behaving the same way.

  8. 8.

    Alison Rose

    August 14, 2023 at 2:43 pm

    Also, today or tomorrow would be nice, because I could think of it as a gift to my Dad in the beyond. Today would have been my parents’ 50th anniversary (or as my mom put it: Today IS their 50th anniversary), and tomorrow will be 6 months since Dad passed away. Hard to believe, honestly.

  9. 9.

    Baud

    August 14, 2023 at 2:45 pm

    I bet Georgia prisons are not as nice as the federal pen.

  10. 10.

    MomSense

    August 14, 2023 at 2:45 pm

    This is wild.  I have a feeling we will all be shocked by what we learn in the GA indictments even though we have been paying attention and know what a scumbag trump is.

  11. 11.

    Old School

    August 14, 2023 at 2:45 pm

    Part of me thinks if the post isn’t in ALL CAPS, Trump didn’t actually write it.  But I’m not sure that’s provable as a legal defense.

  12. 12.

    Old Man Shadow

    August 14, 2023 at 2:46 pm

    I have to imagine that if I were an indicted man who kept posting on social media to my millions of followers slagging the DA and judge that I would find myself pretty quickly remanded to the persons of the Federal Prison system post-haste.

    Really tired of all of the special treatment and kid gloves this asshole is on the receiving end of. I understand strategically and politically why they’re doing it, but I’m really tired of seeing him get away with shit.

  13. 13.

    MomSense

    August 14, 2023 at 2:46 pm

    Does cheesecake count as indictment cake?

  14. 14.

    Scout211

    August 14, 2023 at 2:47 pm

    The mainstream media is all over this indictment being so much different than the other three. And so much worse for Trump! Because reasons. Mainly, because if he is elected president, he cannot pardon himself.

    Okay, I am seriously tired of reporters who boil this down to a political win-lose for the candidate Trump instead of serious reporting on a criminal indictment X3 or X4 for the alleged criminal Trump.

    Maybe they should assign their crime reporters to these stories instead of their political reporters.  Yeah, not holding my breath on that.

  15. 15.

    Burnspbesq

    August 14, 2023 at 2:48 pm

    In addition to the imperfect phone call and the fake electors, apparently there are texts and/or emails tying senior Trump administration and campaign officials to the attempt to hack voting machines in rural Bumfuck County, Georgia.

    Fani’s gonna have the biggest circus since Ringling Bros. went under.

  16. 16.

    dmsilev

    August 14, 2023 at 2:48 pm

    @Alison Rose: Almost the same wedding date as my parents (their anniversary is tomorrow; number 58 and still going).

  17. 17.

    Suzanne

    August 14, 2023 at 2:49 pm

    Maybe we can share cake recipes.

  18. 18.

    Baud

    August 14, 2023 at 2:49 pm

    that apparently up to 18 people may be part of the indictment in GA

    That’s enough for a chain gang.

  19. 19.

    Alison Rose

    August 14, 2023 at 2:50 pm

    @dmsilev: Mazel tov :)

  20. 20.

    WaterGirl

    August 14, 2023 at 2:52 pm

    @MomSense: YES!

  21. 21.

    Elizabelle

    August 14, 2023 at 2:52 pm

    @MomSense: Whiningcheesecake goes with RICO.  The perfect choice.

  22. 22.

    bbleh

    August 14, 2023 at 2:52 pm

    Jeez, and I haven’t even put the new ornaments on the Smithmas tree yet.

  23. 23.

    Frankensteinbeck

    August 14, 2023 at 2:53 pm

    @Bill K:

    I agree.  He’s mad because people are denigrating him in public and putting him through nuisances, and he sees those things only continuing to rise in the near future.  He has some sense he is being threatened.  But going to jail?  That is completely not real to him.

    It’s going to become real fucking real, Donald.  This is criminal, not civil court, and it’s you on trial, not a company you own where you don’t have to attend the trial.  You have never been here before, and it is a world designed to devour assholes like you.

  24. 24.

    Jeffro

    August 14, 2023 at 2:53 pm

    Local VA ABC store manager: oh, back again, Fro?

    Fro: yeah Gene, it’s looking like Indictment Tuesday tomorrow!

    Manager: aw crap…I knew I should’ve staffed up…this guy, I swear…

    Fro: hang tough, Gene!  You’re going to be making serious bank for the rest of the year, amirite?  Catch you next Indictment Day!

  25. 25.

    JWR

    August 14, 2023 at 2:53 pm

    There was some confusion in the last thread about TFG’s “FNCNN” Tweet/X, but just now reading it in context, it seems clear that he meant “Fox News CNN”. Yer welcome! ;)

    And I heard that GA law makes it easier for a trial to be televised. Can anyone confirm this?

  26. 26.

    Tony Jay

    August 14, 2023 at 2:54 pm

    @Scout211:

    Yeah. Got to ‘love’ the frankly ludicrous narrative that a re-elected President Trump pardoning himself after being found guilty of multiple federal crimes = Trump becomes innocent and, therefore, ‘wins’.

    That’s… one hell of an assumption. Someone should really bring that up and laugh – loudly – in the faces of a lot of very dim pundits.

  27. 27.

    cope

    August 14, 2023 at 2:54 pm

    @Suzanne: Only 3 apple cider donuts left from our Friday baking day. I’m trying to ration them but…

  28. 28.

    Alison Rose

    August 14, 2023 at 2:54 pm

    @Jeffro:

    ABC store

    Alcohol, brownies, and cereal?

  29. 29.

    Alison Rose

    August 14, 2023 at 2:55 pm

    @cope: Wanna strap one to a carrier pigeon and send it my way?

  30. 30.

    Almost Retired

    August 14, 2023 at 2:55 pm

    His insult game is off.  Loser?  Meh.  He’s regressing.  Soon he’ll be calling the special prosecutor “mister poopy-head.”  Or, more accurately MISTER RINO POOPY-HEAD LOSER!!!?!!!

  31. 31.

    Jeffro

    August 14, 2023 at 2:56 pm

    @Elizabelle: Whiningcheesecake goes with RICO.  The perfect choice.

    It’s the reverse…it’s RICO that goes with everything.  =)

    Right, Donnie?

  32. 32.

    dmsilev

    August 14, 2023 at 2:56 pm

    @Suzanne: Here’s one that my mom found in the newspaper many many years ago and it’s become a family stalwart. Really easy to make and very tasty:

    Pumpkin Fudge Cake
    —————
    Cocoa powder
    3 oz bittersweet or 5 oz semisweet chocolate
    1 cup butter
    1 3/4 cup flour
    1 teaspoon baking powder
    1/2 teaspoon baking soda
    1/8 teaspoon salt
    3 eggs
    2 cups sugar
    1 2/3 cup (1 small can) pumpkin
    1/3 cup coffee liqueur
    Powdered sugar

    10-12 cup cake mold. I used a mold called a kugelhopf, but a tube or bundt mold will work just fine.

    Preheat oven to 350
    Grease pan with some butter or shortening, dust pan w/ cocoa powder. Shake out excess powder
    Melt butter and chocolate over low flame or double boiler
    Sift together flour, baking powder&soda, salt
    Beat eggs & sugar until creamy
    Add chocolate mixture to eggs, beat until blended
    Mixing at low speed, gradually add the flour alternatively with the pumpkin. Mix well
    Add liqueur, mix until combined.
    Pour batter into cake mold, bake for 70-75 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean
    Cool on rack for 45 minutes, turn out of pan and cool completely
    Dust with powdered sugar

  33. 33.

    Jeffro

    August 14, 2023 at 2:56 pm

    @Alison Rose: alcoholic beverage control store = VA’s state-run liquor stores

    But I think your version would do better business!

    ETA: no wonder Virginia has a huge budget surplus these days…

  34. 34.

    Alison Rose

    August 14, 2023 at 2:58 pm

    @Jeffro: I mean, most people love alcohol, even though I don’t (more for you!). Almost everyone loves a brownie. And cereal, well…that’s universal.

  35. 35.

    Kayla Rudbek

    August 14, 2023 at 2:59 pm

    @Alison Rose: Virginia liquor store for the hard stuff (beer and wine can be found at the grocery stores). I don’t know why the state calls them ABC stores.

  36. 36.

    Josie

    August 14, 2023 at 2:59 pm

    @Baud: ​
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBn5aIfZElE

  37. 37.

    Redshift

    August 14, 2023 at 3:00 pm

    I like Teri Kanefeld’s assessment that his strategy for the indictments is both legal and political, and where they conflict, the political strategy takes precedence, which is why he continually does things that would have any sane lawyer tearing their hair out.

    His only real strategy for avoiding legal consequences is to get elected. And I’m seeing said about Republican strategist chatter that even they see the witch hunt talk as being effective in the primaries, but bad for the general.

    More popcorn!

  38. 38.

    Suzanne

    August 14, 2023 at 3:00 pm

    @dmsilev: That looks great! Copied-and-saved to the Notes app!

    I like cake but am usually meh on frosting, so I like making Bundt cakes. On Friday, I made this pumpkin cake, which is a sheet cake. It looks slightly sad without frosting, but it tastes great.

    I am sooooooo ready for fall, y’all.

  39. 39.

    Redshift

    August 14, 2023 at 3:01 pm

    @Kayla Rudbek:

    I don’t know why the state calls them ABC stores.

    Because they’re run by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority. 🙂

  40. 40.

    cope

    August 14, 2023 at 3:01 pm

    @Alison Rose: Would gladly do so if I can find a suitable pigeon (opens calculator app to determine the maximum airspeed velocity of a carrier pigeon laden with a donut encased in a suitable container).

  41. 41.

    Old School

    August 14, 2023 at 3:02 pm

    @Kayla Rudbek:

    I don’t know why the state calls them ABC stores.

    Alcoholic Beverage Control.

  42. 42.

    Shalimar

    August 14, 2023 at 3:02 pm

    @Kayla Rudbek: ABC stands for Alcoholic Beverage Control in Alabama

    edit: everybody drink

  43. 43.

    Tony G

    August 14, 2023 at 3:02 pm

    Both of your baking options sound delicious!  (Is this your way of saying that you expect the prosecution of Trump to be a cakewalk?)

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    August 14, 2023 at 3:04 pm

    @Alison Rose: The 3 food groups!

  45. 45.

    Jeffro

    August 14, 2023 at 3:06 pm

    @Redshift: His only real strategy for avoiding legal consequences is to get elected.

    THIS.  Good luck getting him out of the race, GOP!

    More popcorn!

    ALSO THIS!

  46. 46.

    dmsilev

    August 14, 2023 at 3:07 pm

    From the Post’s liveblog,

    McBurney, who previously oversaw the special purpose grand jury that investigated the 2020 election case, is the presiding judge in Fulton County this week — meaning he would receive any paperwork listing charges and release them to the county clerk. Several reporters and camera crews have been camped in McBurney’s courtroom for much of the day in anticipation of possible charges, which must be presented in open court.

    At one point, McBurney explained to a defendant on an unrelated case the reason for all the cameras. It’s not you, McBurney said. “There’s another indictment that people have been very interested in.”

    Heh.

  47. 47.

    rikyrah

    August 14, 2023 at 3:09 pm

    This is bad strategy for Trump, and it is most assuredly giving heartburn to the attorneys who were either stupid, short-sighted, or both, when they took him on as a client, and if Judge Chutkan is true to her word, as I expect her to be, it surely will make the J6 Coup Trial happen sooner than it might have otherwise.

     

    Time for the Judge to move it up to November 1, 2023 :)

  48. 48.

    Redshift

    August 14, 2023 at 3:09 pm

    @Old Man Shadow:

    Really tired of all of the special treatment and kid gloves this asshole is on the receiving end of. I understand strategically and politically why they’re doing it, but I’m really tired of seeing him get away with shit.

    Hmm, I’m going to somewhat disagree in this particular case. It’s not just political and strategic, the First Amendment issues actually require a lot of care here. We really don’t want to be a country where political campaigns can be derailed by a candidate being charged (but not yet convicted) of a crime, and how to deal with one who abuses those protections is a genuinely hard problem.

  49. 49.

    Suzanne

    August 14, 2023 at 3:10 pm

    @dmsilev: One more question….. for the coffee liqueur, do you use Kahlua?

  50. 50.

    Jeffro

    August 14, 2023 at 3:10 pm

    trump ups the ante by going after judges and witnesses.  where’s the line?

    Good question, Aaron Blake!

    I bet we find out before Friday!!

    THROW.  HIS ASS.  IN JAIL.

    The question, as it often is with Trump, is whether he has gone too far — and where the line is for those charged with determining where it is.

    Experts say the situation could be coming to a head.

    Trump made his comments about Chutkan after he was explicitly told to abide by limits on what he can say about the federal Jan. 6 case.

    Trump signed a pretrial release form acknowledging that it would be a crime to “intimidate or attempt to intimidate a witness, victim, juror, informant, or officer of the court.” A judge is an officer of the court.

  51. 51.

    Tony G

    August 14, 2023 at 3:11 pm

    @Alison Rose: My theory is that the members of the cult of Trump worship him BECAUSE he is a soft, flabby crybaby with no brains, courage or decency.  He’s JUST LIKE THEM but with money (supposedly) and power.

  52. 52.

    Alison Rose

    August 14, 2023 at 3:11 pm

    @cope: Slightly less than an unladen swallow, I presume.

  53. 53.

    JWR

    August 14, 2023 at 3:11 pm

    @JWR: Just found the answer to my question about TV in the courtroom, from NBC:

    Unlike federal or Manhattan courts, where the former president appeared for his three previous arraignments, Georgia law requires that cameras be allowed into judicial proceedings with a judge’s approval.

    In 2018, the Georgia Supreme Court, in an order amending the law to include smartphones, underscored the importance of transparency: “Open courtrooms are an indispensable element of an effective and respected judicial system.

    Good thing the decision won’t be up to Loose Cannon.

  54. 54.

    Redshift

    August 14, 2023 at 3:12 pm

    @Alison Rose:

    Also, today or tomorrow would be nice, because I could think of it as a gift to my Dad in the beyond.

    The GA grand jury only meets on Mondays and Tuesdays, and it doesn’t seem like Willis is going to let it go another week, so you should get your wish!

  55. 55.

    Betty Cracker

    August 14, 2023 at 3:13 pm

    The largest liquor store chain in Florida is called ABC. It’s a private company, and they claim they started calling their stores “ABC” so it would appear in the phone book first. But I gotta think the fact that government-regulated ABC stores are a thing in other states was a factor.

  56. 56.

    Jay

    August 14, 2023 at 3:14 pm

    @cope:

    You need to have her send you one of her local pigeons from her neck of the woods.

    otherwise your pigeon won’t have a clue where it’s going and will just arrange with a crow to remove the container and open it for splitsies,……..

  57. 57.

    trollhattan

    August 14, 2023 at 3:14 pm

    This is like betting on a Superbowl with five teams competing.

  58. 58.

    trollhattan

    August 14, 2023 at 3:17 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Back when we had real phone books the competition among various vendors but especially bail bonds became hilarious, leading to businesses like “A-A-A-A-1-1-1-1 Best Bail Bonds.”

  59. 59.

    dmsilev

    August 14, 2023 at 3:17 pm

    @Suzanne: Yes. If you want it to be truly non-alcoholic, substitute cold coffee instead.

  60. 60.

    Betty Cracker

    August 14, 2023 at 3:23 pm

    @Jeffro: One of Trump’s recent rants on his shitty social media platform starts off with “Someone please tell the grand jurors” blah blah blah. How can that NOT be an invitation to jury tampering?

  61. 61.

    laura

    August 14, 2023 at 3:24 pm

    @Suzanne: This is hella good! I skipped the frosting and used a cup of walnuts instead of chocolate chips: https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/chocolate-zucchini-cake-recipe

  62. 62.

    Redshift

    August 14, 2023 at 3:26 pm

    @Scout211:

    The mainstream media is all over this indictment being so much different than the other three. And so much worse for Trump! Because reasons. Mainly, because if he is elected president, he cannot pardon himself.

    In addition to the horse race idiocy, it’s particularly galling because of the assumption that all these rules will apply if he gets elected again, because it has to be a normal election, right? He and his cronies have openly written and talked about how they’re going to clean house at the Justice Department and fill it with yes-men and hacks who will protect him and his friends and go after his enemies. Now, they may well not be competent enough to do that, or to get people to carry out those orders, or the whole government may collapse out of resistance to authoritarianism, but there’s no denying they want to.

    So the idea that “he can’t pardon himself” or “he can’t escape state charges” is something to rely on is as unserious as treating this as a normal election. The only sure thing would be keeping him from getting get back into power.

  63. 63.

    LAO

    August 14, 2023 at 3:28 pm

    @Redshift: Agree 100%.

    It’ll be interesting to see how the various courts (excluding Cannon for obvious reasons) deal with the defendant going forward.

  64. 64.

    JPL

    August 14, 2023 at 3:28 pm

    @JWR: If he is indicted, the trial will be televised.    We might have to stock up on popcorn now.   By the time the trial date comes, popcorn might not be available.

  65. 65.

    Ishiyama

    August 14, 2023 at 3:29 pm

    Sometimes one’s client is so far gone in their contact with reality that they can’t stay out of trouble when released on bond, repeatedly. It defeats the whole purpose of legal defense, and there is not much that one can do, as an advocate.

  66. 66.

    Shana

    August 14, 2023 at 3:30 pm

     

    @Alison Rose: Alcoholic Beverage Control

  67. 67.

    raven

    August 14, 2023 at 3:30 pm

    Former President Donald Trump could be facing a racketeering charge plus 12 other felony counts, according to Reuters, which took a screenshot of a charging document against Trump from the county clerk’s website.
    The document was apparently posted by mistake because the grand jury is still seated and hearing the case against Trump and his allies. That means these charges would be the ones the district attorney’s office is seeking but still must be approved by a majority vote of the 23-member grand jury. The document is no longer on the court’s site.

  68. 68.

    JPL

    August 14, 2023 at 3:30 pm

    @dmsilev:    🙂

  69. 69.

    Baud

    August 14, 2023 at 3:32 pm

    @raven:

    Haha. Just a little morsel.

  70. 70.

    VOR

    August 14, 2023 at 3:33 pm

    There is a chain of retail stores in Hawaii named ABC Stores. They are basically convenience stores which also sell a lot of tourist stuff.

  71. 71.

    LAO

    August 14, 2023 at 3:33 pm

    @Alison Rose: I find it hilarious (and depressing) how he’s held up as a paragon of rugged masculinity. TFG is a flabby, glass jawed, snowflake crybaby.

    Also, my condolences on your father, my dad died on February 18th and despite his years long debilitating decline , I still have difficulty believing he’s gone.

  72. 72.

    scav

    August 14, 2023 at 3:34 pm

    @Scout211: Another reason the MSM might be all fluttery over this. one is they get to mainline their video feed and float into that 24/7 nirvana.

  73. 73.

    FooDonFah

    August 14, 2023 at 3:35 pm

    So it seems pretty obvious to me that Trump is too stupid and illiterate to be writing his tweets.  If he crimes through social media and someone else is cleaning it up and posting it for him, would that make them an accomplice?  I know there’s a mens rea component, but there must be some threshold where what shit really is becomes so obvious that you lose the plausible deniability of just being an intervening set of thumbs.

  74. 74.

    Old School

    August 14, 2023 at 3:36 pm

    @raven: As a result, MAGA-heads are declaring it a mistrial on Twitter.

  75. 75.

    Chief Oshkosh

    August 14, 2023 at 3:37 pm

    @Baud: Depends on which pen. Georgia’s Milledgeville is somewhat on par with the old Atlanta fed pen, I’ve been told.

  76. 76.

    LAO

    August 14, 2023 at 3:39 pm

    @Ishiyama: Honestly, I think it’s a deliberate strategy because the defendant’s chance of evading criminal liability is to try this case in the court of public opinion and win re-election. His major obstacle is Judge Chutkan because she’s unlikely to allow him to continue his conduct.
    I couldn’t represent a client under these conditions but that’s me.

  77. 77.

    NotMax

    August 14, 2023 at 3:39 pm

    @VOR

    Yuppers. Tourist kitsch. There’s one major intersection in Honolulu where multiple streets meet, standing in which one can turn 360 degrees and see five ABC stores.

  78. 78.

    Timill

    August 14, 2023 at 3:40 pm

    Oops.Trump’s Georgia Charges Were Accidentally Posted, Including RICO

  79. 79.

    H.E.Wolf

    August 14, 2023 at 3:41 pm

    @Baud:
    “that apparently up to 18 people may be part of the indictment in GA”

    That’s enough for a chain gang.
    ​

     Chain chain chaaiinn
    Chain of fools….

  80. 80.

    JPL

    August 14, 2023 at 3:42 pm

    @raven:  the usual right wingers are saying that tampering with the grand jury so the case needs to be tossed.

  81. 81.

    karl

    August 14, 2023 at 3:42 pm

    “Or perhaps we should at least have to pick WHO he would be attacking.”

    Let me be the first to respond properly to this: “WHOM”.

  82. 82.

    billtheXVIII

    August 14, 2023 at 3:43 pm

    @Old School: the accused doesn’t have to prove anything, the state has to disprove…

  83. 83.

    Baud

    August 14, 2023 at 3:44 pm

    @JPL:

    Trump can file his motion.  It’ll get denied.

  84. 84.

    Roger Moore

    August 14, 2023 at 3:45 pm

    @Old School:

    Part of me thinks if the post isn’t in ALL CAPS, Trump didn’t actually write it. But I’m not sure that’s provable as a legal defense.

    If somebody else wrote it for him, that would just make it a conspiracy to tamper with witnesses instead of regular witness tampering.

  85. 85.

    Chief Oshkosh

    August 14, 2023 at 3:46 pm

    @raven:

    from the county clerk’s website

    You had ONE job…

  86. 86.

    dmsilev

    August 14, 2023 at 3:46 pm

    @raven: You mean it’s RICO? Someone do a wellness check on Popehat….

  87. 87.

    LAO

    August 14, 2023 at 3:46 pm

    @LAO: has I read my comment before hitting the post button, I would have noticed that I left a few words out. 🤷🏻‍♀️

    especially, a not as in “I couldn’t represent a client…”.

    Oh well.

  88. 88.

    JPL

    August 14, 2023 at 3:47 pm

    @Baud: I do wonder how that happened though, because it was a perfect set up for the complaints.

  89. 89.

    Suzanne

    August 14, 2023 at 3:47 pm

    @trollhattan: I used a moving company called Aardvark a few times back in the day. First in the phone book. Had a cute aardvark lifting a box as their logo.

  90. 90.

    RaflW

    August 14, 2023 at 3:47 pm

    @Redshift: “effective in the primaries, but bad for the general” also sums up the deal with the devil that the GOP made by overturning Roe.

    I get that 2016 broke the brains of so many in the press. But Biden winning, the mid-terms holding the US senate, and whompings like the KS abortion vote point to a lot of structural challenges for Republicans. Layer on a logorrheal social media freakazoid as the top of the ticket, and 2024 may be veeeeery interesting.

  91. 91.

    Alison Rose

    August 14, 2023 at 3:48 pm

    @Redshift: Dad will be toking up in glee in Olam Ha-Ba* when it happens. One of the many reasons it was sad to lose him when we did is because it means he’ll never get to see TIFG go to prison. He loathed him so much.

    (*Dad wasn’t Jewish, but we always said that after being with my mom for so long, he was sort an honorary Jew.)

  92. 92.

    WereBear

    August 14, 2023 at 3:48 pm

    @MomSense: I Hope so because that’s what I’ve got.

  93. 93.

    LAO

    August 14, 2023 at 3:49 pm

    @JPL: LOL. I’m dying. Do republicans not know that the DA’s office hands the grand jury a list of charges they are seeking.

    I know that it’s all performance art but the level of stupidity republicans rely on is outrageous.

  94. 94.

    Alison Rose

    August 14, 2023 at 3:49 pm

    @LAO: Thank you, and likewise. Yeah, it’s still so hard to process. He was only 80 which I know isn’t “young” but it felt too young to go, you know?

  95. 95.

    Wapiti

    August 14, 2023 at 3:50 pm

    While I’ve never been worried about going to prison, during an Army course in Kansas, we had a short (3-hour?) tour of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth. It drove home that I never want to go to prison, not even a better-than-average one like Fort Leavenworth. Which was probably the point of the tour.

  96. 96.

    CliosFanBoy

    August 14, 2023 at 3:50 pm

    @JWR: I think it means “Fake News CNN”  shrug, I could be wrong.

  97. 97.

    Baud

    August 14, 2023 at 3:50 pm

    @Wapiti: Scared straight!

  98. 98.

    Chief Oshkosh

    August 14, 2023 at 3:51 pm

    @JPL: Yep. Hence my comment about “you had ONE job…”

    The howler monkeys will take this to 11. At best it will be an unwanted distraction.

    As to how it could happen and is there a motive here, I suspect it’s just good old-fashioned incompetency.

    ETA emphasis: still, just a distraction.

  99. 99.

    Baud

    August 14, 2023 at 3:53 pm

    @Chief Oshkosh: I think the media will be more interested in the charges though.  Hopefully, the indictment does come down tomorrow.

  100. 100.

    Alison Rose

    August 14, 2023 at 3:53 pm

    @dmsilev: Someone needs to do a Gerardo parody called “RICO Slobby”

  101. 101.

    Ruckus

    August 14, 2023 at 3:53 pm

    @Bill K:

    I disagree. I think he actually knows what he’s done. He didn’t give a crap what he said or did, only that he was being who he thinks he is. And of course he’s wrong about it, he always is. I don’t call him ShitForBrains for no reason. It’s who and what he is. In his tiny, shitty mind, he is perfect, just ask him. In the real world, he is exactly what most of us see him as. Far worse than useless, he was president, legally or not, and he thinks that puts him far above the law.

  102. 102.

    HeleninEire

    August 14, 2023 at 3:53 pm

    @LAO: Also if you look closely there are numbers missing in the count. So I think this may be the actual charges, and the missing numbers are the ones that the jury voted “no” on.

    In other words, it’s a done deal.

  103. 103.

    LAO

    August 14, 2023 at 3:56 pm

    @HeleninEire: i didn’t see the filing. But I wouldn’t be surprised.

  104. 104.

    Baud

    August 14, 2023 at 3:57 pm

    @LAO: From the link at # 78.

    https://twitter.com/jackqueen_/status/1691135829941407745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

    ETA: It’s probably another Donald John Trump.

  105. 105.

    NotMax

    August 14, 2023 at 4:00 pm

    News vans and media tents set up at Fulton County court house.

  106. 106.

    narya

    August 14, 2023 at 4:00 pm

    Two baking tips for you all: when there’re carrots in a cake, grate them and then roast them for awhile; this reduces the gloppiness of the cake and you can concentrate the carrot flavor. (I also (a) use butter, not oil and (b) sub some pumpkin for some of the butter.) When baking w/ zucchini, I salt/drain the grated zucchini, for the same reason.

    Oh, here’s a third one, for folks who missed this in an earlier thread: I like this for a very quick chocolate cake. I don’t usually make that frosting, and I have been known to add dried cherries, cooked-down strawberries, etc., but it’s great on its own, especially if you have some really dark cocoa to use for a bit of the cocoa.

  107. 107.

    Chief Oshkosh

    August 14, 2023 at 4:00 pm

    13 felonies, with the RICO one being a “serious felony.”

    I don’t know what expectations were, but this seems like a gracious plenty to me.

  108. 108.

    Jay

    August 14, 2023 at 4:01 pm

    @LAO:

    Mock Paper Scissor’s has screenshots

    https://mockpaperscissors.com/2023/08/14/breaking-oops-ga-indictment-sneak-peak/

  109. 109.

    Ruckus

    August 14, 2023 at 4:01 pm

    @Kayla Rudbek:

    Goes back to the after days of alcohol being outlawed and a not small number of citizens making their own and of course in a country that has private business, selling same outside of normal business channels.

  110. 110.

    Betty Cracker

    August 14, 2023 at 4:01 pm

    @LAO: Here’s a PDF link to it published by Reuters.

    @dmsilev: Has Popehat been saying a RICO charge is unlikely or ill-advised? I’m out of the loop since Twitter fell into enemy hands.

  111. 111.

    Gravenstone

    August 14, 2023 at 4:01 pm

    @JWR: And I heard that GA law makes it easier for a trial to be televised. Can anyone confirm this?

    Was just reading over at TPM that the expectation is an open and publicized trial, unless the judge decides otherwise. In this case, it was reaffirmed that cameras would be allowed.

  112. 112.

    catclub

    August 14, 2023 at 4:01 pm

    @Alison Rose: ​
      Alcohol, brownies and crack

  113. 113.

    Alison Rose

    August 14, 2023 at 4:02 pm

    There’s an op-ed up at NYT titled “Why Are So Many of Trump’s Alleged Co-Conspirators Lawyers?” I skimmed it and the author seems to be pointing to increasing partisanship in the field alongside decreasing ethics oversight, but it reminded me of one of my favorite jokes from Law & Order, between Briscoe the detective and Kincaid the ADA. Briscoe asks, “How come New York has the most lawyers, and New Jersey has the most toxic dumps?” And Kincaid, in a sardonic tone, says “Because New Jersey got first pick.”

  114. 114.

    Gravenstone

    August 14, 2023 at 4:03 pm

    @Jeffro: I was thinking ABC Electronics (if that chain still exists) and I was wondering if your buddy was expecting a run on TVs for whoever wants to watch the trial?

  115. 115.

    cain

    August 14, 2023 at 4:04 pm

    We need to bake brownies – the special kind – the one where you feel baked. :D

  116. 116.

    LAO

    August 14, 2023 at 4:04 pm

    @Baud: Thanks.

    Alternate explanation of the “missing counts” — this counts charge others (not DJT) so there not listed on his charge sheet.

  117. 117.

    Ruckus

    August 14, 2023 at 4:05 pm

    @Tony G:

    Bingo!

  118. 118.

    Baud

    August 14, 2023 at 4:05 pm

    @Betty Cracker: That does look like the grand jury has voted and the criminal case has been filed.  A judge has been assigned.

  119. 119.

    Alison Rose

    August 14, 2023 at 4:05 pm

    From NYT live blog:

    The presiding judge, Robert McBurney, just appeared briefly and told the deputies in his Fulton County courtroom that “we need to keep this courtroom and this courthouse open” beyond the usual closing time. It’s a sign that chances are growing that an indictment in the Trump investigation could come this evening.

  120. 120.

    narya

    August 14, 2023 at 4:06 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Popehat has basically been saying that he’s not an expert on GA RICO (or state RICO more generally), and that it does differ from federal RICO. He’s on Mastodon, btw.

  121. 121.

    cain

    August 14, 2023 at 4:06 pm

    @Scout211: of course, they need to now find a state that is going to do an indictment on Hunter Biden to both sides it!

  122. 122.

    dmsilev

    August 14, 2023 at 4:06 pm

    @Betty Cracker: “It’s never RICO” is pretty much his standard mantra, going back years and having nothing to do with Trump in particular.

  123. 123.

    Baud

    August 14, 2023 at 4:07 pm

    @Alison Rose: I wonder if the mistaken disclosure caused them to move things up.

    ETA: maybe they just want to do it when people aren’t using the courthouse for other purposes.

  124. 124.

    Gravenstone

    August 14, 2023 at 4:07 pm

    @Betty Cracker: How can that NOT be an invitation to jury tampering?

    Well, that grand jury had already been seated so he couldn’t be influencing who might be on it. As for his imploring them, well he’ll have a front row seat for his forthcoming trial and can attempt to rebut the charges. That’s how it’s supposed to go, after all.

  125. 125.

    dmsilev

    August 14, 2023 at 4:08 pm

    @Alison Rose: Oh, good. I have a busy day tomorrow and I’d hate to miss the festivities.

  126. 126.

    Baud

    August 14, 2023 at 4:08 pm

    I can’t believe they’re going to infringe on Trump’s First Amendment right to persuade officials to violate their oaths.

  127. 127.

    catclub

    August 14, 2023 at 4:09 pm

    @JPL: If he is indicted, the trial will be televised. We might have to stock up on popcorn now.

     

    It would be amusing to have OJ Simpson as TV commentator on a trial.

  128. 128.

    LAO

    August 14, 2023 at 4:09 pm

    @Betty Cracker: I’m no popehat but as a former OC defense attorney, I’m going throw in my 2 cents:

    RICO makes a prosecution more complicated and potentially confusing to jurors. It may very well be warranted but it’s a real pain in the ass.

  129. 129.

    WaterGirl

    August 14, 2023 at 4:10 pm

    @LAO: All better now. :-)

  130. 130.

    hitchhiker

    August 14, 2023 at 4:12 pm

    Lol, just saw a clip of a reporter asking DeSantis if he was likable, and heard Hillary Clinton snickering all the way from New York.

  131. 131.

    WaterGirl

    August 14, 2023 at 4:12 pm

    @HeleninEire: Interesting!

  132. 132.

    Suzanne

    August 14, 2023 at 4:13 pm

    For anyone else who likes cakes without frosting:

    SuzMom had apparently found a recipe back in middle school called “New Orleans Crumb Cake”, and that title is not accurate at all. It is none of those things. What it was, though, was a way to dress up a boxed chocolate cake mix so that you didn’t need frosting. I do not use boxed mix, but I tried it with Joy of Cooking’s Texas Sheet Cake recipe, and it was great. Super-simple…. basically makes it halfway between a cake and a brownie. I’m sure you could use any sheet cake recipe.

    All you do is mix 3 tbsp of melted butter with a cup of graham cracker crumbs, then a cup of chocolate chips, then a cup of chopped walnuts or pecans….. mix all of that into the cake batter right before you pour it into the cake pan. BAM! Easy, simple, yummy in that midcentury “simpler times” kind of way.

  133. 133.

    WaterGirl

    August 14, 2023 at 4:14 pm

    @Betty Cracker: I think it’s just that Popehat always says “it’s never RICO”.  Every chance he gets, about everything.

  134. 134.

    NotMax

    August 14, 2023 at 4:17 pm

    @Suzanne

    What, no mayo ‘n’ kraut?
    :)

  135. 135.

    bbleh

    August 14, 2023 at 4:17 pm

    @Alison Rose: [brass and drums]: DUN-dun-DUNNNNN!!

  136. 136.

    WaterGirl

    August 14, 2023 at 4:18 pm

    @LAO: Apparently the GA RICO gets charged not infrequently in GA.

  137. 137.

    RaflW

    August 14, 2023 at 4:18 pm

    @Alison Rose: “Seems like a surprising number of explosives experts were involved in that overnight bank vault heist.”

  138. 138.

    WaterGirl

    August 14, 2023 at 4:18 pm

    @hitchhiker: He’s not even likable enough!

  139. 139.

    WaterGirl

    August 14, 2023 at 4:19 pm

    @Suzanne: I never make frosting, unless it’s chocolate ganache!

    And I don’t miss it a bit.

  140. 140.

    Jay

    August 14, 2023 at 4:19 pm

    @Suzanne:

    Alberta Cake,

    https://www.familycookbookproject.com/recipe/2692103/alberta-rhubarb-cake.html

    One of my favorite cakes ever.

    No icing.

  141. 141.

    Baud

    August 14, 2023 at 4:19 pm

    @hitchhiker:

    @WaterGirl:

     

    I’ll join the one and only @maddow at 9pm tonight. Tune in! pic.twitter.com/1fmQ77nYUh
    — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 14, 2023

    I actually might watch.

  142. 142.

    Anonymous At Work

    August 14, 2023 at 4:20 pm

    Every day of his adult life, TFG has woken up expecting his dead father to take back the inheritance and give it to Fred Jr’s side of the family.

  143. 143.

    Ruckus

    August 14, 2023 at 4:21 pm

    @Wapiti:

    I was on temp duty in the shore patrol for a while and had the opportunity to see a cell as a part of my job. It wasn’t all that great an experience, even on the outside looking in.

  144. 144.

    Ruckus

    August 14, 2023 at 4:22 pm

    @Wapiti:

    1. I was on temp duty in the shore patrol for a while and had the opportunity to see a cell as a part of my job. It wasn’t all that great an experience, even on the outside looking in.
  145. 145.

    rikyrah

    August 14, 2023 at 4:24 pm

    @Suzanne:

     

    Hmmmmmmmmmm

  146. 146.

    Tenar Arha

    August 14, 2023 at 4:26 pm

    It’s weird. I’ve known for a while TFG was mentored by Roy Cohn. I recently realized that every time that carbuncle says “perfect phone call” I’ve started imagining the ghost of Roy Cohn saying “yes Donald, that was perfect” in response.

  147. 147.

    NotMax

    August 14, 2023 at 4:26 pm

    @bbleh

    No drums, heh nonetheless.
    ;)

  148. 148.

    hitchhiker

    August 14, 2023 at 4:27 pm

    @Baud:

    I definitely will, especially if this turns out to be GA Indictment Day. HRC talking with Maddow in primetime during Peak Indictment Summer was once an unimaginable event; as Noonan would say, i plan to savor it.

  149. 149.

    LAO

    August 14, 2023 at 4:27 pm

    @WaterGirl: hmm. Interesting. It’s a pretty draconian measure (at least in the feds and NYS) not surprised it’s may be overused.

  150. 150.

    zhena gogolia

    August 14, 2023 at 4:28 pm

    @WaterGirl: My husband always says that one to me. “You’re likable enough, Hillary.” When I say, “Everybody hates me!”

  151. 151.

    LAO

    August 14, 2023 at 4:30 pm

    @zhena gogolia: i actually snorted when reading that. Good on your husband.

  152. 152.

    MCA1

    August 14, 2023 at 4:32 pm

    @narya: He’s joined Threads now, too.

    I think the initial reference was re: the running joke on his old Twitter account about every commenter thinking any criminal activity involving more than one person was grounds for a RICO charge, and him sadly shaking his head 35x/day when it happened over and over.

  153. 153.

    Betty Cracker

    August 14, 2023 at 4:34 pm

    @Gravenstone: Okay, but if a potential defendant is telling members of the public to contact grand jury members to ask them to consider points outside of what they’re hearing in the courtroom, isn’t that a form of tampering with a seated jury? I’m not a lawyer and have no idea how this stuff works, but it seems like that should be a no-no!

    @LAO: Got it — thanks for that perspective.

  154. 154.

    Roger Moore

    August 14, 2023 at 4:35 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    Has Popehat been saying a RICO charge is unlikely or ill-advised?

    One of his mantras is that it’s never RICO.  He says this about just about everything, since people always want to bring up RICO.

  155. 155.

    Kayla Rudbek

    August 14, 2023 at 4:36 pm

    @Ruckus: yeah, I grew up in Minnesota so the state left the liquor stores to the cities and towns. So Minneapolis allowed liquor sales at private stores, some of the suburbs had city liquor stores. And we had much looser laws concerning happy hours than these uptight Baptists here in Virginia, due to everyone being either Lutheran or Catholic :)

  156. 156.

    JaySinWA

    August 14, 2023 at 4:36 pm

    @Jay: For the Alberta cake, does the topping go on before the baking?

  157. 157.

    JaySinWA

    August 14, 2023 at 4:39 pm

    @Roger Moore: Popehat’s talking about Federal RICO charges. GA state charges seem to be a different animal.

  158. 158.

    LAO

    August 14, 2023 at 4:40 pm

    Clerk’s office sent out a letter claiming the charge sheet is bogus

     

     https://x.com/brendankeefe/status/1691182497210499073?s=46&t=X9PV5VKSwOZNT_u34CCUFQ

  159. 159.

    Baud

    August 14, 2023 at 4:43 pm

    @LAO: Damn. Punk’d

    ETA: Unless that announcement is bogus? 🤔

  160. 160.

    Jay

    August 14, 2023 at 4:47 pm

    @JaySinWA:

    Yup, the topping is baked in. like a crumble,  it’s a simple cake, and a great cake.

  161. 161.

    kindness

    August 14, 2023 at 4:48 pm

    So…when Trump goes to prison….which extremist group will he use for bodyguards?

    Just asking for a friend.

  162. 162.

    LAO

    August 14, 2023 at 4:50 pm

    @Baud: 11th dimensional chess

  163. 163.

    Kathleen

    August 14, 2023 at 5:13 pm

    @dmsilev: My parents would have been married 75 years on August 16th.

  164. 164.

    Regnad Kcin

    August 14, 2023 at 5:26 pm

    @MCA1: what’s the popehat Threads handle; cannot find him

  165. 165.

    sab

    August 14, 2023 at 5:39 pm

    @Ruckus: My wealthy grandparents who retired to a dry county in North Carolina (Moore County?)  They had a bootlegger who delivered. They also had an alchoholic chaffeur. When the county finally went wet they kept on with the bootlegger because he delivered to the house.

  166. 166.

    Steeplejack

    August 14, 2023 at 5:53 pm

    @Regnad Kcin:

    Not sure Popehat is on Threads. His collected links are here. One of them might have a link to Threads.

  167. 167.

    Ken

    August 14, 2023 at 6:10 pm

    @Baud: Or the judge and DA got fed up with the reporters camped outside, and decided to give them an extra fifteen hours of empty podium footage, while everyone in the courthouse sneaked home by the back door.

  168. 168.

    karen marie

    August 14, 2023 at 7:41 pm

    @WaterGirl:  I want a chocolate fudge cake too.  Can we have the recipe you’re using?

    I made a blueberry cake today.  Sadly, it was only sort of okay.  It is flat tasting.  I’m guessing it’s because salt isn’t an ingredient.  I thought it was an odd thing to omit but I forged ahead.  It looks really nice but it’s not rewarding to actually eat.

    Does anyone else have a hard time throwing out something they’ve made that didn’t work out?   I had a long-ago boyfriend tell me I could just eat the icing on a cake I’d made that I didn’t like.  That was revelatory to me.  I  still struggle with feeling guilty about throwing away food I don’t like.

    I kind of hate thinking about that cake because the icing was a recipe of my grandmother’s for a pudding-like chocolate icing that I absolutely loved but have since lost.  A number of times, when I was a kid and my parents had gone out, my brother and I made a batch of that icing just to eat out of the pot.

  169. 169.

    WaterGirl

    August 14, 2023 at 7:49 pm

    @karen marie: It’s a really decadent recipe.  Tons of butter and chocolate.

    A special occasion cake for sure.

    King Arthur’s Favorite Fudge Cake 

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