Bragg Manhattan DA charges tfg? Hush money. tfg “INDICATED!”

[p0rtia]

https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/sta ... 777009093

Adam Klasfeld
@KlasfeldReports
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Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's prosecutors skewer Trump's latest effort to seek Justice Merchan's recusal, through a "daisy chain of innuendos" about the judge's daughter.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... l-argument

Trump's attorneys have argued that the judge has a conflict of interest because of his daughter's position at Authentic Campaigns, a digital marketing agency allegedly doing work for entities associated with his rivals.

The DA said that Team Trump didn't provide citations.

The no citations point is weak. The judge's rules restrict pre-motion letters to a single page; usually no room for citations.

What's more, they say, it's the same position the judge rejected last year with approval from the state's top judicial ethics body.

Further down in the filing, the DA mentions that Team Fuckhead did provide a citation for another issue. That strengthens the "no citations" for the conflict of interest via the daughter comment, I think.

[raison de arizona]

Pretty sure all that innuendo about the daughter came from Laura Loomer. FWIW. Cite her, please.

[Rolodex]

Trial is in 2 weeks and that train's not stopping. Desperation!

[raison de arizona]

Will Trump Be Punished for Attacking Judge's Daughter? He Doesn't Think So
The judge in Trump’s New York criminal trial just moved to stop the former president’s repeated attacks on his daughter

Some of Donald Trump's personal lawyers have been urging him to show a dose of restraint in the courtroom when his hush-money trial finally begins in New York City. But ahead of the historic criminal trial, scheduled to start in two weeks, the former president has relentlessly attacked the judge and his daughter.

Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing Trump's criminal trial, last week imposed a gag order barring Trump from making any public comments about the court's staff and their family members. Trump quickly tested out this order by publicly slamming Merchan and his daughter online. On Monday night, Merchan expanded the gag order to include his family, following a request by District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Merchan wrote that Trump's "pattern of attacking family members of presiding jurists and attorneys assigned to his cases serves no legitimate purpose." He continued, "The average observer, must now, after hearing [Trump's] recent attacks, draw the conclusion that if they become involved in these proceedings, even tangentially, they should worry not only for themselves, but for their loved ones as well. Such concerns will undoubtedly interfere with the fair administration of justice and constitute ... a direct attack on the Rule of Law itself."

According to two people who have recently spoken to Trump about the upcoming criminal trial, one of the reasons the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee has been convinced he can get away with attacking Merchan's daughter without punishment is because, as he's privately boasted, he has tested judges and prosecutors on gag orders before -- without any serious repercussions.

This included a time late last year when Judge Arthur Engoron threatened Trump with a possible night in jail for his behavior during his New York civil fraud trial. Every time, Trump has gotten away with it. So far, judges have not moved to rein in or punish Trump the way they would with virtually any other U.S. citizen, had they behaved in the same manner that the ex-president has.
So now, the former -- and perhaps future -- president seems emboldened to bring that aggressive, taunting approach to his history-making criminal trial.

"A criminal trial is different than a civil one, so this could turn out differently," one of the sources tells Rolling Stone. "But from talking to [Trump] about this ... you can tell he thinks these guys have tried to be tough guys, tried to rattle him, and then, it was all talk. He's said this time it's the same: He has to show he's not afraid of these people, simple as that."

Reached for comment on this story, Trump's spokesman Steven Cheung says, without elaborating: "These sources don't know what the fuck they're talking about." Trump's attorneys did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday.

https://apple.news/AUBCXFwV1QVauPeop7_OKBQ
Original Rolling Stone

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"These sources don't know what the fuck they're talking about."

He fits right in with the professionalism.

[MN-Skeptic]

A three-tweet thread -

Adam Klasfeld
@KlasfeldReports

Manhattan DA Bragg opposes Trump's bid to push back the April 15 trial because of "pretrial publicity," noting that there's "no end in sight" to media coverage of the case.

And that's Trump's objective, indefinite delay, he notes.

Interestingly, Trump's lawyers commissioned a survey to bolster their arguments of a tainted jury pool.

DA Bragg says the survey accomplished the opposite — confirming Manhattanites can set aside their opinions of Trump and give him a fair trial.

Prosecutors expressed "serious doubts" about Trump's defense survey, even as they argue that it didn't hlep him.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... ourn-filed

[MN-Skeptic]

Adam Klasfeld
@KlasfeldReports

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The Manhattan judge presiding over Trump's criminal trial DENIED his claims that he has presidential immunity certain evidence in his 2016 election case.

Trump raised this defense too late, despite "myriad opportunities" to do so earlier.

In a footnote, the judge makes an important observation.

Trump's defense here did NOT seem to imply he had immunity over the charges, only certain categories of evidence — distinguishing it from "the Federal Insurrection Matter."

https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/pre ... munity.pdf

[bob]

The defendant, on his social media site, is republishing Loomer's stochastic terrorism commentary about the judge's family. Apparently he's decided that republishing isn't a form of speech covered by the gag order.

FA;FO.

[raison de arizona]

The defendant, on his social media site, is republishing Loomer's stochastic terrorism commentary about the judge's family. Apparently he's decided that republishing isn't a form of speech covered by the gag order.

FA;FO.

Eh, we'll see. Imma not hold my breath though, he's skated every time he's pulled this.

Hope springs eternal!

I pulled his Truth social posts, the linked articles in his feed include both the daughter and wife's names in the preview posted to the feed.

[RTH10260]

I'd like to the the judge giving the defendant a short timeout in the courts holding cell for contempt of court. Defendant in the cell without his shoes nor tie. Secret Service protects by guarding the cell. AND do not let him have his iPhone to reveal how he feels...

[Dr. Ken]

He's going to slowly get more overt about it as we get into April 15th

[Suranis]

Defendant in the cell without his shoes nor tie nor corset.

And the Secret service does not have to be outside the cell to do their job. They could relinquish their duty to the Prison staff, or relax in the office with the rest of the Prison staff as he would be assumed to be safe in the cell.

[Rolodex]

Countdown: T minus 12 days! This rocket is going to launch.

[keith]

Defendant in the cell without his shoes nor tie nor corset.

And the Secret service does not have to be outside the cell to do their job. They could relinquish their duty to the Prison staff, or relax in the office with the rest of the Prison staff as he would be assumed to be safe in the cell.

Just like Epstein

[RVInit]

Watching the justice system fail to treat fuckhead accountable any god damn thing he does is the modern Zeno's Paradox.

Obviously not aimed at any of the good folks here, but there is an endless list of reasons why, however lose we inch, this quite obviously dangerous and criminal insurrectionist cannot be thrown in jail.

There's a parallel Zeno list of excuses as to why Merrick Garland is really doing exactly the right thing and will be vindicated in the end.

However much our eyes bug out as we observe, "You do realize that at this rate we're never gonna get where you keep assuring we're going," we get nowhere, and our observations that it doesn't have to be like this are pushed aside.

Life in the autocracy. Look around. The evidence is everywhere.

[raison de arizona]

Tribe thinks the judge will do something about tfg's blatant baiting. I think the judge will rattle his saber, tfg will give him the double barrel middle finger salute (as Bongino says) and the judge will back down. Because if yer name is Trump, you can grab them by the pussy. Sad. "STOP! Or I'll rattle my saber again!"

Hope I'm wrong though.
https://x.com/tribelaw/status/1775853574733308019?s=20

Trump has now dared Judge Merchan to enforce his recently expanded gag order.

I believe the judge has the courage to do just that.

But I repeat my suggestion that the gag order be incorporated as a binding condition of Trump’s pretrial release from jail.

NEW: Donald Trump just posted a series of articles targeting Justice Merchan's daughter and wife, despite a recent expansion of the gag order barring him from attacking family members of the judge.

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[raison de arizona]

Because there _is_ a two tiered justice system. Iffn' yer name is DONALD J TRUMP you can do what you want without repercussion. Grab 'em by the pussy. Shoot someone of 5th Avenue. No one cares.

Trump has posted multiple articles today that are all about the judge’s daughter. I don’t understand why this isn’t a clear violation of the gag order and why nobody is doing anything about it. I predicted this is how he would try to circumvent it but this is the same thing.

[raison de arizona]

JUST IN: Judge MERCHAN has denied Trump's effort to subpoena NBC for details of the new Stormy Daniels documents.

The judge said Trump has not met the "very heavy burden" to "rifle through the privileged documents of a news orgarization."

https://nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/p ... 4-5-24.pdf

[Rolodex]

I hope Bragg files something about the recent posts of the judge's daughter...after the latest gag order. Gah.

[raison de arizona]

Tick Tock MFer.

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Council

[tek]

He's going to use the Advice of Council defense, because he already said he wasn't going to use the Advice of Counsel defense.

[noblepa]

He's going to use the Advice of Council defense, because he already said he wasn't going to use the Advice of Counsel defense.

I get confused with all the cases Trump is juggling. Is this the one in which he recently said he was going to use a "presence of counsel" defense, rather than "advice of counsel". Somehow, he or his current lawyers feel that the mere presence of his then attorneys in the room when the crimes were discussed, absolves him of liability.

I believe that the judge ruled the obvious, that "presence of counsel" is not a recognized defense.

I think he wants to confuse the jury and make them think that he really did act on the advice of counsel, without having to jump through all the legal hoops necessary for that defense. These hoops include waiving attorney/client priviledge. This would allow the prosecution to call his former attorneys and compel them to testify about the communications that TFG claims were the advice he was given that his proposed actions were legal.

Even if he DID receive such advice, would any attorney willingly take the stand and admit to advising his/her client to commit a crime?

[raison de arizona]

In this episode, tfg grabs Judge Merchan by the...well, you know. I've seen enough, Merchan is full of hot air. It's been days he's let this go, so tfg just steps it up. tfg has got these judges by the, uh, kittycat. When you're a celebrity, they let you.

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[Greatgrey]

He's going to use the Advice of Council defense, because he already said he wasn't going to use the Advice of Counsel defense.

In this case that would be Michael Cohen.

Bonus: here’s a link to the recusal motion that Merchan has ordered a hearing on re the Judge’s daughter.

https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/5de1e0 ... 2345705474