January 6th Prosecution vs. Trump - Loving Updates

[RoryN]

CNN: They didn't mention an impending indictment during the meeting. But Jack Smith was there.

 

[butters]

 

[RoryN]

Keep dreaming!...Huge nothingburger!

Sure, sweetpea. Whatever you say.

Tick tock...

 

[coati]

Now that the brainwashed have mostly been prosecuted, it's time to prosecute the cult leader.

 

[butters]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...31&cvid=7a67e27a1254402aac91f3fcf0e24867&ei=6

Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas Judge Michael Erdos said Trump’s immunity covered a tweet he issued and comments he made remotely from the White House during a Pennsylvania state Senate committee hearing in November 2020. The statements, made without evidence, claimed fraud in Pennsylvania’s election tabulations.

“Other legal proceedings may examine the propriety of his statements and actions while he was the President and whether, as the plaintiffs in this and other cases contend, it was this conduct which served as the actual threat to our democracy,” Erdos ruled. “But this case is not the proper place to do so. Here, Trump is entitled to Presidential immunity.”

Erdos ruled Trump has immunity for the tweet and the remarks at the state Senate hearing because both statements were made while he was serving as president. But the lawsuit also contains claims over a letter Trump wrote to the House Jan. 6 committee last October, which Trump is not immune from as it was written after leaving office.

 

[butters]

trump has big baby meltdown, calling names and shouting big fat lies in all caps, of course

This comes as Trump is reportedly expecting another indictment from the Department of Justice over the events of January 6th, 2021 at 5 PM EST today.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...&cvid=8d39b077fb774f05b805b930bca2458c&ei=109

 

[RoryN]

The most loving update of all so far...

Indicted!

 

[butters]

arraignment 4pm thursday

 

[RoryN]

"You're too honest." - Trump to Pence, when Pence said he couldn't overturn election.

Wow.

 

[butters]

DC area judge Tanya Chutkan, Obama appointed judge to oversee the case

 

[butters]

Jack Smith's like the modern-day batman

 

[butters]

the only problem with Jack Smith asking the public to read the full 45-page indictments document is that a whole slew of those maga types will have all kinds of problems with that

 

[Lazaran]

Now that the brainwashed have mostly been prosecuted, it's time to prosecute the cult leader.

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Cult leaders. Plural.

We can’t forget about the SIX co-conspirators.

 

[RoryN]

Unreal...

 

[RoryN]

Critical consensus from lawyers: this indictment is a masterpiece.

 

[butters]

the new lawyers will be 'prove trump didn't believe what he said' and 'it's all the fault of his previous attorneys and advisors feeding him bad information'

of course, I believe mr. J.Smith has plenty of evidence that not only was trump told the truth PLENTY of times but that he also accepted the facts but was determined to lie, cheat & bully his way back into the Whitehouse.

 

[zipman]

‘Just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me’​

 

[RoryN]

the new lawyers will be 'prove trump didn't believe what he said' and 'it's all the fault of his previous attorneys and advisors feeding him bad information'

Thankfully, there are pieces in this indictment that seemingly undermine that defense. (Pence will play a part in showing that, based on his input.)

 

[butters]

it'd make my 2024 if this horrible bunch of immoral, rapacious, grifting greedy bastards all got sent down. of course the likes of hawley and cruz and mtg will still be sticking to the blanket, but this would be a great christmas present anyway, following (i hope) a fab win for democracy in the november election.

 

[zipman]

Thankfully, there are pieces in this indictment that seemingly undermine that defense. (Pence will play a part in showing that, based on his input.)

Pence is no longer on the fence.

 

[RoryN]

Trump's attorneys' defense choices:

1. He's a complete and utter moron who was misled.

2. He believed credible information that the election was stolen.

I just heard one of them speak; they are shooting for #2, undoubtedly at Trump's insistence. That ain't gonna work.

 

[butters]

Bennie Thomson... 'there's more to come.' Explains that it would have been 'nice' if pence and others had honoured their subpoenas, but this is a different venu and if the court calls them they have to attend and "hopefully tell the truth under oath."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...1&cvid=448e84db37334869fd9c63b54bc2af0e&ei=59

 

[butters]

Pence is no longer on the fence.

no doubt reveling in the free publicity bound to appeal to his evangelistic pals that he's "just too honest" from trump's mouths to the world's ears

(Reuters) - Two of former U.S. President Donald Trump's top rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination criticized the Justice Department on Tuesday for indicting him on charges of conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss.

But Mike Pence, Trump's former vice president, a potential witness in the case and a Republican presidential candidate, called the charges a reminder that "anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be President of the United States."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...1&cvid=448e84db37334869fd9c63b54bc2af0e&ei=70

on the other hand, de santis says he's not read the indictment sheets but stated this anyway:

DeSantis, in a written statement, conceded that he had not read the indictment but suggested that a jury in the nation's capital could not be fair to Trump.

 

[butters]

• One White House lawyer warned of mass riots if he remained in office after Inauguration Day.
• Trump-allied lawyer Jeffrey Clark suggested calling in the troops.

on Jan 3rd, a W.H lawyer warned of riots if trump refused to let go the presidency he'd lost

He said that, if Trump remained in office on inauguration day, "there would be riots in every major city in the United States."

But Jeffrey Clark, an alleged co-conspirator in the new indictment against Trump and a top Justice Department lawyer at the time, had a different answer: Call in the troops.

"That's why there's an Insurrection Act," Clark responded to the deputy White House counsel, according to the indictment against Trump unsealed by a federal grand jury in Washington, DC on Thursday.

The law, which has been invoked only a handful of times in the past century, authorizes the US president to order the military to quell unrest within the United States.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...334869fd9c63b54bc2af0e&ei=88#image=AA1eEWyx|3

 

[zipman]

The funniest thing I've read so far is "do 2 impeachments and 3 indictments make a full house?"