BillsFanNC Posted May 2 Author Share Posted May 2 There were those 20k lb. magnetic doors that someone opened from the inside at Columbia too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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B-Man Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Just Destroyed Bragg’s Case Against Trump MATT MARGOLIS Former President Donald Trump was back in New York City Thursday for his criminal trial, and it's been a pretty good day for him. During Thursday's proceedings, Keith Davidson, the lawyer representing adult film actress Stormy Daniels, gave revealing testimony that completely undermines Bragg's charges against Trump. {snip} Meanwhile, Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the case, may have made a critical error that could reverse the Trump verdict upon appeal by allowing prosecutors to make certain arguments. “I got to tell you, I think this judge may have already committed a reversible error,” GWU University law professor Jonathan Turley told Fox News. “He could try to amend it, he could try to change it in his instructions, but that jury has now been told repeatedly that there are federal election crimes here, strongly suggesting that the payment to Stormy Daniels did violate federal election laws. That’s just not true.” https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/05/02/stormy-daniels-lawyer-just-destroyed-braggs-case-against-trump-n4928720 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Frankish Reich Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 Hope Hicks on now. And any idea that she might not give the DA what he expected is out the window. News on cross-examination of Hicks: defense seems to be violating the old rule of "ask your one or two questions, then sit down!" The one question here would be: "Donald Trump never told you that he would pay off anyone to keep other embarrassing stories out of the news, right?" Answer (I assume): Correct. They seem to be making things worse by prolonging the agony ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 It's Hard to Imagine a Worse Day for Stormy and the NYC Prosecutors in the Hush Trump Case VICTORIA TAFT It's hard to imagine a worse day in court than having a reliable witness come in, throw his own client, Stormy Daniels, under the New York Subway train, and then completely disembowel the prosecution's case, at least the one they're selling to the jury. That's what happened Thursday in the Hush Trump case in Manhattan. The Get Trump prosecutors' big coup of a witness, Stormy Daniels' attorney Keith Davidson, basically pantsed D.A. Alvin Bragg, his assistant D.A., and lead prosecutor Matthew Colangelo in front of God and everybody. First, Davidson threw his client, the former adult movie copulator, under the B train by leaving her naked and exposed as the conniving extortionist she has always appeared to be in this shakedown of Trump. Davidson, who insisted on correcting attorneys nomenclature and another verbiage on the stand, pedantically yet thoroughly, discredited the prosecution's case that Trump frantically tried to silence the statuesque porno professional for a supposed long-ago tryst for the purpose of stealing the 2016 election. If you're new here, this is the prosecution's theory. There's more to it than that, but stop laughing and read more over here, here and here. Under questioning by Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass, Davidson went over the nondisclosure agreement he helped draw up for Daniels. Steinglass was gingerly trying to ask Davidson if Stormy's agreement was a lie when she signed it to collect $130,000 or now, in court. But it was what he said under cross-examination by Trump's attorney that appears to have left Stormy in even more legal jeopardy than she was before. https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2024/05/03/stormy-daniels-atty-says-she-basically-extorted-the-trump-heres-how-n4928731 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Frankish Reich Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 20 hours ago, BillsFanNC said: Whoa, look at the timeline here.* Someone's got a dummy account and is actually reading my posts!! *note that nobody quoted me before he posted this pointless emoji 1 hour ago, B-Man said: It's Hard to Imagine a Worse Day for Stormy and the NYC Prosecutors in the Hush Trump Case VICTORIA TAFT It's hard to imagine a worse day in court than having a reliable witness come in, throw his own client, Stormy Daniels, under the New York Subway train, and then completely disembowel the prosecution's case, at least the one they're selling to the jury. That's what happened Thursday in the Hush Trump case in Manhattan. The Get Trump prosecutors' big coup of a witness, Stormy Daniels' attorney Keith Davidson, basically pantsed D.A. Alvin Bragg, his assistant D.A., and lead prosecutor Matthew Colangelo in front of God and everybody. First, Davidson threw his client, the former adult movie copulator, under the B train by leaving her naked and exposed as the conniving extortionist she has always appeared to be in this shakedown of Trump. Davidson, who insisted on correcting attorneys nomenclature and another verbiage on the stand, pedantically yet thoroughly, discredited the prosecution's case that Trump frantically tried to silence the statuesque porno professional for a supposed long-ago tryst for the purpose of stealing the 2016 election. If you're new here, this is the prosecution's theory. There's more to it than that, but stop laughing and read more over here, here and here. Under questioning by Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass, Davidson went over the nondisclosure agreement he helped draw up for Daniels. Steinglass was gingerly trying to ask Davidson if Stormy's agreement was a lie when she signed it to collect $130,000 or now, in court. But it was what he said under cross-examination by Trump's attorney that appears to have left Stormy in even more legal jeopardy than she was before. https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2024/05/03/stormy-daniels-atty-says-she-basically-extorted-the-trump-heres-how-n4928731 . Absolutely no one but these "give them what they want to hear" hacks thinks this is going well for Trump. And it got worse today when Hope Hicks provided enough for any juror to infer that Trump was fully in the loop. The prosecution could actually rest now, but I imagine there's more to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiGoose Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 2 hours ago, The Frankish Reich said: Whoa, look at the timeline here.* Someone's got a dummy account and is actually reading my posts!! *note that nobody quoted me before he posted this pointless emoji Absolutely no one but these "give them what they want to hear" hacks thinks this is going well for Trump. And it got worse today when Hope Hicks provided enough for any juror to infer that Trump was fully in the loop. The prosecution could actually rest now, but I imagine there's more to come. Out of curiosity, I actually clicked the link. Just about every headline on the home page for that site is framed to be pro-right wing. If literally everything on a "news" site is reinforcing your priors, it means you've self-selected your media because you don't want to actually know the news, you just want to be comforted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 FTA: Simply put: That which gets rewarded gets repeated. Humpty Dumpty and all that. The "Roman Revolution" and the erosion and eventual collapse of the Roman Republic’s mos maiorum. Having to sleep in the bed you made. Add in any cliché or historical reference you care to throw in, the point is the same. Unless firmly and quickly ended, this abuse of process by a partisan judge and a partisan prosecutor is going to continue —against candidates of both major parties, and perhaps against all future "former presidents." In short, this trial is the sowing of the wind. Other political judges and prosecutors will reap the whirlwind. Everyone will lose. It is, for those who profess to love the rule of law, a disaster. If a former president and current nominee of an out-of-power party can be put through such a circus within six months of an election, do you really think this is the last time that will happen? I don’t expect or, of course, condone violence in the aftermath of this trial or the fall’s election. Prophets of such doom are themselves likely to hold extreme views. But Juan Merchan and Alvin Bragg and their colleagues in this off-the-rails proceeding will have injected such deep bitterness into the country’s politics that it will take at least a few election cycles to purge the anger and perhaps as much as a generation or two to forget and recover from this abuse of process. We will not know this side of heaven what Merchan and Bragg thought they were doing. But what they have already done is enough to put them down in the column of those who put politics ahead of law, to the great and lasting detriment of the Republic. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/morning-glory-show-trial-donald-trump . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 *Warning: Common sense, educated article being quoted may not be from a site approved by our "liberal betters" here on PPP Please read with caution, you may discover viewpoints not meeting the "sanctioned" narrative. Still reading ? The most important thing you can read this week if you are an American concerned with the rule of law, is Fox News contributor Andrew McCarthy’s essay, "How Judge Merchan Is Orchestrating Trump’s Conviction." https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/04/how-judge-merchan-is-orchestrating-trumps-conviction/ . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Pokebball Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 On 5/3/2024 at 4:39 PM, B-Man said: FTA: Simply put: That which gets rewarded gets repeated. Humpty Dumpty and all that. The "Roman Revolution" and the erosion and eventual collapse of the Roman Republic’s mos maiorum. Having to sleep in the bed you made. Add in any cliché or historical reference you care to throw in, the point is the same. Unless firmly and quickly ended, this abuse of process by a partisan judge and a partisan prosecutor is going to continue —against candidates of both major parties, and perhaps against all future "former presidents." In short, this trial is the sowing of the wind. Other political judges and prosecutors will reap the whirlwind. Everyone will lose. It is, for those who profess to love the rule of law, a disaster. If a former president and current nominee of an out-of-power party can be put through such a circus within six months of an election, do you really think this is the last time that will happen? I don’t expect or, of course, condone violence in the aftermath of this trial or the fall’s election. Prophets of such doom are themselves likely to hold extreme views. But Juan Merchan and Alvin Bragg and their colleagues in this off-the-rails proceeding will have injected such deep bitterness into the country’s politics that it will take at least a few election cycles to purge the anger and perhaps as much as a generation or two to forget and recover from this abuse of process. We will not know this side of heaven what Merchan and Bragg thought they were doing. But what they have already done is enough to put them down in the column of those who put politics ahead of law, to the great and lasting detriment of the Republic. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/morning-glory-show-trial-donald-trump . Dems are playing the short game. They don't care about the long game 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiGoose Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 6 hours ago, Pokebball said: Dems are playing the short game. They don't care about the long game Oh no! People are following the rule of law! People who commit crimes are being prosecuted! How could the Dems do this?! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 4 minutes ago, ChiGoose said: Oh no! People are following the rule of law! People who commit crimes are being prosecuted! How could the Dems do this?! Lol. I can’t believe the irony of that response. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiGoose Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 1 minute ago, B-Man said: Lol. I can’t believe the irony of that response. If Trump didn’t want to get prosecuted in so many different places, he probably shouldn’t have committed crimes in so many places. If the precedent being set is that people who do crimes get punished, then that’s pretty cool by me. Weird that the conservatives suddenly hate enforcing the law though… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 17 hours ago, ChiGoose said: Democrats use the legal system to target the right — yet give the left a pass By Glenn H. Reynolds “For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” This philosophy, announced by Brazilian President Getulio Vargas in the 1940s, is no longer just the favored approach of Latin American strongmen. It has become the openly practiced strategy of today’s Democratic machine. Laws that hamper Democrats are ignored. Laws that might be used to hurt Republicans are enforced to — and often well past — the limits of the law. One need look no farther than the absurd circus-clown show trial (one pundit prefers the term “goat rodeo”) in which the state of New York has gone so far in trying to turn Donald Trump’s (alleged) personal peccadilloes into business crimes that Gov. Hochul had to go out of her way to reassure other businessmen that this was a one-off, and that only Trump would be prosecuted under this novel approach to the law. As law professor Jonathan Turley noted in these pages, the New York statute in question has never been used this way before: “Even The New York Times agreed that it could not find a single case in history where this statute was used against an individual or a company that did not commit a criminal offense, go bankrupt, or leave financial victims.” Nothing says “rule of law” like custom-made forms of liability designed for a single hated defendant. {snip} (multiple other examples given) Yet the Supreme Court has made clear that officials have to be evenhanded in their treatment of protests, and can’t discriminate based on whether or not they like the viewpoint, something California federal judge Cormac J. Carney recently noted regarding selective prosecution of right-wing protesters vs. Antifa. But for all the talk about “rule of law,” they’re doing just that in all sorts of cases, all over the country. That needs to stop. For the longer term, we need to do something about policing prosecutors’ discretion to prosecute, and not to. Over a decade ago, before the madness of the Trump years, I wrote about this in the Columbia Law Review, in a piece titled “Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything Is a Crime.” As New York Judge Sol Wachtler once said, any competent prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich, which appears to be what Trump prosecutor Alvin Bragg has done. We used to rely on the political process to discipline this sort of overreach, but with politics polarized as they are today, it’s not likely to work. https://nypost.com/2024/05/06/opinion/dems-use-the-legal-system-to-target-the-right-yet-give-the-left-a-pass/ *Please use your routine "belittle the author" childishness. Since you couldn't tie Prof. Reynolds shoes. . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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