Donald Trump, US President #47, US President #45, convicted felon, twice impeached, four times indicted, liable of rape, convicted for financial fraud, guilty of hiding hush money payments to porn actress in attempt to influence 2016 elections

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#3091331 18-Jun-2023 09:53

The Washington Post - The dozens of attorneys who have defended Trump since 2016

16 June 2023

As Trump continues his 2024 campaign amid a series of federal and state legal woes, here is a list of many of the attorneys who’ve represented him in some of his biggest court fights in recent years:

Classified documents at Mar-a-Lago

Trump’s attorneys: Todd Blanche, Alina Habba, Christopher Kise, Boris Epshteyn, Evan Corcoran, Tim Parlatore, John Rowley, Jim Trusty and Lindsey Halligan

Hush money payments to Stormy Daniels

Trump’s attorneys: Blanche, Joe Tacopina, Susan Necheles and Chad Seigel

The E. Jean Carroll civil case

Trump’s attorneys: Habba, Tacopina and Seigel

Election interference in Georgia

Trump’s attorneys: Drew Findling, Jennifer Little, Marissa Goldberg and Dwight Thomas

The 2020 presidential election

Trump’s attorneys: Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell

The impeachment trials

Trump’s attorneys for the first impeachment: Pat Cipollone, Jay Sekulow, Alan Dershowitz, Pam Bondi and Kenneth Starr

Trump’s attorneys for the second impeachment: Michael van der Veen, Bruce Castor, David Schoen, Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier

Russia and the Mueller special counsel investigation

Trump’s attorneys: Giuliani, Sekulow, Emmet Flood, Martin and Jane Raskin, Ty Cobb, Andrew Ekonomou, John Dowd and Joanna Hendon

No honest man needs this many attorneys. 😏

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#3091427 18-Jun-2023 14:27

MIKE PENCE ENDORSED BY NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROWN-NOSERS

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Just weeks after announcing his candidacy for President, Mike Pence has picked up the coveted endorsement of the National Association of Brown-Nosers.

The N.A.B.N., a trade organization representing more than a hundred thousand of the nation’s leading toadies, minions, and lickspittles, heaped praise on the former Vice-President, calling him an “towering spire of unctuousness.”

“During his four years as Vice-President, Mike Pence brought flattery and obsequiousness to new heights,” the N.A.B.N. statement read. “We salute his magnificence.”

But the endorsement drew a sour response from Chris Christie, who had hoped to receive the organization's nod. “I sucked up to Donald Trump better 'n anyone,” Christie said, “but the last coupla years it's got harder for me to get up off my knees.”

Trump crowned? No faux King way!

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#3091773 18-Jun-2023 22:23

Speaking of Trump and his many, many lawyers...I thought this was rather fitting:

May be a meme of 3 people and text

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#3091966 19-Jun-2023 12:41

The Hill: How Trump ended up with [friendly and incompetent] Judge Cannon

There are 26 U.S. District Judges in the Southern District of Florida eligible to preside over the case of United States of America v. Donald J. Trump. From the standpoint of Special Counsel Jack Smith, the case drew the worst: the Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon.

Cannon, who has been on the bench less than three years, has thin experience in trying criminal cases. During her time in office, she has tried only four routine criminal cases, adding up to 14 trial days. Moreover, she was the judge in the litigation over the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, where she was twice rebuked by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for decisions displaying undue deference to Trump’s status as a former president.

Court observers may wonder why Smith went to Florida to try his case in the first place — the Sunshine State is Trump’s backyard. Besides the possibility of drawing the dreaded Cannon, Trump won Florida twice easily, and the jury pool might be riddled with Trumpers, election deniers, and MAGA fans.

Plus, Smith, like a football coach in the fourth quarter, has to manage his clock carefully. If Trump or another Republican wins the election, the case is effectively dead on Inauguration Day.

Under federal law, the crimes alleged in the devastating 38-count indictment could have been filed in Washington, where it began when Trump took the 197 classified documents from the White House; in Florida, where he stored the documents; or possibly in New Jersey, where he discussed one of the documents with unauthorized persons.

But while those other districts may have been more favorable from the point of view of judges and juries, Smith was certain to face a venue motion, arguing that the center of gravity of the alleged crime was Florida, where most of the documents were secreted. The government would probably win a venue motion, but the motion practice would eat up time.

Smith weighed the options, and, mindful of the play clock, did not want to waste precious time with venue motions and possible appeal
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#3091967 19-Jun-2023 12:44

The Guardian: Time’s up for Trump, Johnson and Berlusconi – but the damage they have caused lives on

What do Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and Silvio Berlusconi have in common? If this sounds like the beginning of an off-colour joke, in a way it is. But the joke’s on us.

Huge egos, certainly. Love of money, no doubt. Compulsive lying, untrustworthiness, predatory relationships with women, links to shady characters, media manipulation – in life and death, they shared all this and more.

All three relied on opportunistic, hard-right populist-nationalist politics, spiced with braggadocio and sickly charm, to dazzle, woo and bamboozle voters – which they often succeeded in doing.

The Three Stooges were top of the news again last week, but for different reasons: they hit the buffers, finally came unstuck, got what was coming, were called to account – pick whichever phrase best expresses your inner schadenfreude.
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#3091981 19-Jun-2023 13:12

The NY Times - Barr Says Documents Case Against Trump Is ‘Entirely of His Own Making’

18 June 2023

William P. Barr, who served as attorney general under President Donald J. Trump, excoriated his former boss on Sunday for “reckless conduct” that led to Mr. Trump’s indictment on charges of mishandling classified documents, saying that the case was “entirely of his own making.”

Mr. Barr, in an interview with CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” walked through the severity of the charges against Mr. Trump. He described the former president’s actions - laid out in a 49-page indictment - as harmful not only to the country, but also to the Republican Party and the conservative movement that Mr. Trump leads.

Mr. Barr also attacked Mr. Trump’s character in extraordinary language, describing him as “a consummate narcissist” and a “fundamentally flawed person” who would always put his own ego ahead of everything else. He added that he believed Mr. Trump had lied to the Justice Department about the classified documents in his possession.

“He’s like a defiant 9-year-old kid who is always pushing the glass towards the edge of the table, defying his parents from stopping him from doing it,” Mr. Barr said, adding that “our country can’t be a therapy session for a troubled man like this.”

Well said, but several years too late. 🙄

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#3092112 19-Jun-2023 17:06

Loved the last bit about the defiant 9 yr old.

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#3092165 19-Jun-2023 17:54

linw: Loved the last bit about the defiant 9 yr old.

I think that Barr was being generous - a defiant 2-year-old sounds more accurate.

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#3092196 19-Jun-2023 19:24

https://www.amazon.com.au/American-Psychosis-Investigation-Republican-Party/dp/1538723050

Reading this at the moment. Wow, the Republican party has embraced "kooks" for a long, long time - way back to the 1960s. I had no idea.

Trump must have seemed like a godsend to the far-right when he arrived on the scene.

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#3092395 20-Jun-2023 09:25

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/19/trump-indictment-2024-00102525 >> I have a feeling quite a few potential Republican candidates are going to find this out the hard way.

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#3092843 21-Jun-2023 08:14

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/20/politics/cnn-poll-trump-indictment-republicans-2024/index.html >> could the masses finally be waking up to the lying, grifting conman?

Mind you though, basically all the polls in the world said Trump would lose in 2016, so take this one with a grain of salt, I guess.

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#3092851 21-Jun-2023 08:49

The Washington Post - Judge Cannon sets Trump trial for August, but it’s not likely to stick

20 June 2023

The judge presiding over the Justice Department’s criminal case against former president Donald Trump said Tuesday that the trial could begin as early as Aug. 14 - a timetable that is likely to be pushed back as lawyers navigate the complexities of an unprecedented case ...

The speedy timetable suggests Cannon does not want Trump’s trial proceedings to drag on.

But legal experts say the case could face numerous delays because of the rules and procedures related to handling classified information at trial, and is likely to take longer than most to reach a jury. ...

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#3092873 21-Jun-2023 09:50

Oh, right around my birthday. What a nice present 😀

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#3092967 21-Jun-2023 12:01

The NY Times - Trump Real Estate Deal in Oman Underscores Ethics Concerns

20 June 2023 (condensed from a long article)

On a remote site at the edge of the Gulf of Oman, thousands of migrant laborers from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan are at work in 103-degree heat, toiling in shifts from dawn until nightfall to build a new city, a multibillion-dollar project backed by Oman’s oil-rich government that has an unusual partner: former President Donald J. Trump.

Mr. Trump’s name is plastered on signs at the entrance of the project and in the lobby of the InterContinental Hotel in Muscat, the nearby capital of Oman, where a team of sales agents is invoking Mr. Trump’s name to help sell luxury villas at prices of up to $13 million, mostly targeting superrich buyers from around the world, including from Russia, Iran and India. ...

The venture puts Mr. Trump in business with the government of Oman, an ally of the United States with which Mr. Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, cultivated ties while in office and which plays a vital diplomatic role in a volatile region.

Mr. Trump was brought into the deal by a Saudi real estate firm, Dar Al Arkan, which is closely intertwined with the Saudi government.

Mr. Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, has already brought in at least $5 million [profit] from the Oman deal.

The project could also draw scrutiny in the West for its treatment of its migrant workers ...

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#3093250 21-Jun-2023 20:56

Definitely not safe for work.

A very strange debate between Biden and Trump

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https://www.twitch.tv/trumporbiden2024

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