Trump Lawyer is now a hardship post, but has the potential for long term stability...
Trump indicted like an orange pussy meanie
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Hey, when did he become a fuzzy wheenie?
You're just going to make him more angry.
You're just going to make him more angry.
Judge sets a trial date for next May in Trump's classified documents case in Florida (msn.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Florida has scheduled a trial date for next May for former President Donald Trump in a case charging him with illegally retaining hundreds of classified documents.
The May 20, 2024, trial date, set Friday by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, is a compromise between a request from prosecutors to set the trial for this December and a bid by defense lawyers to put it off indefinitely until sometime after the 2024 presidential election.
If the date holds, it would follow close on the heels of a separate New York trial for Trump on dozens of state charges of falsifying business records in connection with an alleged hush money payment to a porn actor. It also means the trial will not start until deep into the presidential nominating calendar and probably well after the Republican nominee is clear — though before that person is officially nominated at the Republican National Convention.In pushing back the trial from the Dec. 11 start date that the Justice Department had asked for, Cannon wrote that “the Government’s proposed schedule is atypically accelerated and inconsistent with ensuring a fair trial.” She agreed with defense lawyers that the amount of evidence that would need to be sifted through before the trial, including classified information, was “voluminous.”“The Court finds that the interests of justice served by this continuance outweigh the best interest of the public and Defendants in a speedy trial,” Cannon wrote.
Trump could yet face additional trials in the coming year. He revealed this week that he had received a letter informing him that he was a target of a separate Justice Department investigation into efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election, an indication that charges could be coming soon. And prosecutors in Georgia plan to announce charging decisions within weeks in an investigation into attempts by Trump and his allies to subvert the vote in that state.
The trial before Cannon would take place in a federal courthouse in Fort Pierce.
It arises from a 38-count indictment last month, filed by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, that accused Trump of willfully hoarding classified documents, including top secret records, at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach and conspiring with his valet, Walt Nauta, to hide them from investigators who demanded them back.
Trump and Nauta have both pleaded not guilty.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Florida has scheduled a trial date for next May for former President Donald Trump in a case charging him with illegally retaining hundreds of classified documents.
The May 20, 2024, trial date, set Friday by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, is a compromise between a request from prosecutors to set the trial for this December and a bid by defense lawyers to put it off indefinitely until sometime after the 2024 presidential election.
If the date holds, it would follow close on the heels of a separate New York trial for Trump on dozens of state charges of falsifying business records in connection with an alleged hush money payment to a porn actor. It also means the trial will not start until deep into the presidential nominating calendar and probably well after the Republican nominee is clear — though before that person is officially nominated at the Republican National Convention.In pushing back the trial from the Dec. 11 start date that the Justice Department had asked for, Cannon wrote that “the Government’s proposed schedule is atypically accelerated and inconsistent with ensuring a fair trial.” She agreed with defense lawyers that the amount of evidence that would need to be sifted through before the trial, including classified information, was “voluminous.”“The Court finds that the interests of justice served by this continuance outweigh the best interest of the public and Defendants in a speedy trial,” Cannon wrote.
Trump could yet face additional trials in the coming year. He revealed this week that he had received a letter informing him that he was a target of a separate Justice Department investigation into efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election, an indication that charges could be coming soon. And prosecutors in Georgia plan to announce charging decisions within weeks in an investigation into attempts by Trump and his allies to subvert the vote in that state.
The trial before Cannon would take place in a federal courthouse in Fort Pierce.
It arises from a 38-count indictment last month, filed by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, that accused Trump of willfully hoarding classified documents, including top secret records, at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach and conspiring with his valet, Walt Nauta, to hide them from investigators who demanded them back.
Trump and Nauta have both pleaded not guilty.
Trump target letter hints at surprise approach from prosecutors (msn.com)
Reporting indicates that among the three statutes cited in the target letter are those for conspiracy to defraud the United States as well as obstruction of an official proceeding.
One would address the Trump campaign’s efforts to submit fake election certificates declaring Trump the victor while the other was used against several rioters, including members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
But a third statute referenced in the target letter deals with conspiring to deprive citizens the “free exercise” of constitutional rights like voting — a surprise to those looking to surmise potential charges.
The inclusion of the statute, Section 241 of the criminal code, provides an alternative to taking the riskier path of charging Trump under the Insurrection Act, another law drafted as a response to the Civil War.
Norm Eisen, who served as counsel during Trump’s first impeachment and worked alongside fellow former prosecutors in drafting a model prosecution memo for charges against Trump, said special counsel Jack Smith and his team may have thought the Insurrection Act “might be a bridge too far and presented a problem.”
“Smith has offered an elegant solution,” he said.
The law that Smith turns to was crafted in the Reconstruction era, when Black Americans were facing an explosion of violence targeting them as they sought to exercise the right to vote. The law carries up to 10 years in prison for those convicted.
But the law is not limited to any one group or set of rights. And unlike the rarely touched Insurrection Act, it has been used recently.
“It has been used, even in the 20th century, on several occasions or cases that were upheld at various appellate court levels, in cases that involved acts of what we might think of as voter fraud, or conspiracies to commit some kind of voter fraud. And the theory that the statute was used under in those cases is that every voter has a right to an honest count in elections,” said Josh Stanton, an attorney with Perry Law who worked on memos analyzing the Jan. 6 case.
Reporting indicates that among the three statutes cited in the target letter are those for conspiracy to defraud the United States as well as obstruction of an official proceeding.
One would address the Trump campaign’s efforts to submit fake election certificates declaring Trump the victor while the other was used against several rioters, including members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
But a third statute referenced in the target letter deals with conspiring to deprive citizens the “free exercise” of constitutional rights like voting — a surprise to those looking to surmise potential charges.
The inclusion of the statute, Section 241 of the criminal code, provides an alternative to taking the riskier path of charging Trump under the Insurrection Act, another law drafted as a response to the Civil War.
Norm Eisen, who served as counsel during Trump’s first impeachment and worked alongside fellow former prosecutors in drafting a model prosecution memo for charges against Trump, said special counsel Jack Smith and his team may have thought the Insurrection Act “might be a bridge too far and presented a problem.”
“Smith has offered an elegant solution,” he said.
The law that Smith turns to was crafted in the Reconstruction era, when Black Americans were facing an explosion of violence targeting them as they sought to exercise the right to vote. The law carries up to 10 years in prison for those convicted.
But the law is not limited to any one group or set of rights. And unlike the rarely touched Insurrection Act, it has been used recently.
“It has been used, even in the 20th century, on several occasions or cases that were upheld at various appellate court levels, in cases that involved acts of what we might think of as voter fraud, or conspiracies to commit some kind of voter fraud. And the theory that the statute was used under in those cases is that every voter has a right to an honest count in elections,” said Josh Stanton, an attorney with Perry Law who worked on memos analyzing the Jan. 6 case.
Racketeering!
Time to add in more charges to the list.
Time to add in more charges to the list.
Fulton county prosecutors prepare racketeering charges in Trump inquiry (msn.com)
The Fulton county district attorney investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia has developed sufficient evidence to charge a sprawling racketeering indictment next month, according to two people briefed on the matter.
The racketeering statute in Georgia requires prosecutors to show the existence of an “enterprise” – and a pattern of racketeering activity that is predicated on at least two “qualifying” crimes.
In the Trump investigation, the Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, has amassed enough evidence to pursue a racketeering indictment predicated on statutes related to influencing witnesses and computer trespass, the people said.
Willis had previously said she was weighing racketeering charges in her criminal investigation, but the new details about the direction and scope of the case come as prosecutors are expected to seek indictments starting in the first two weeks of August.
The racketeering statute in Georgia is more expansive than its federal counterpart, notably because any attempts to solicit or coerce the qualifying crimes can be included as predicate acts of racketeering activity, even when those crimes cannot be indicted separately.
The specific evidence was not clear, though the charge regarding influencing witnesses could include Trump’s conversations with Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, in which he asked Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes, the people said – and thereby implicate Trump.
For the computer trespass charge, where prosecutors would have to show that defendants used a computer or network without authority to interfere with a program or data, that would include the breach of voting machines in Coffee county, the two people said.
The breach of voting machines involved a group of Trump operatives – paid by the then Trump lawyer Sidney Powell – accessing the voting machines at the county’s election office and copying sensitive voting system data.
The copied data from the Dominion Voting System machines, which is used statewide in Georgia, was then uploaded to a password-protected site from where election deniers could download the materials as part of a misguided effort to prove the 2020 election had been rigged.
Though Coffee county is outside the jurisdiction of the Fulton county district attorney’s office, folding a potential computer trespass charge into a wider racketeering case would allow prosecutors to also seek an indictment for what the Trump operatives did there, the people said.
A spokesperson for Willis did not respond to requests for comment.
The district attorney’s office has spent more than two years investigating whether Trump and his allies interfered in the 2020 election in Georgia, while prosecutors at the federal level are scrutinizing Trump’s efforts to reverse his defeat that culminated in the January 6 Capitol attack.
A special grand jury in Atlanta that heard evidence for roughly seven months recommended charges for more than a dozen people, including the former president himself, its forewoman strongly suggested in interviews, though Willis will have to seek indictments from a regular grand jury.
The grand jury that could decide whether to return an indictment against Trump was seated on 11 July. The selection process was attended by Willis and two prosecutors known to be on the Trump investigation: her deputy district attorney, Will Wooten, and special prosecutor Nathan Wade.
Charges stemming from the Trump investigation are expected to come between the final week of July and the first two weeks of August, the Guardian has previously reported, after Willis told her team to shift to remote work during that period because of security concerns.
The district attorney originally suggested charging decisions were “imminent” in January, but the timetable has been repeatedly delayed after a number of Republicans who acted as fake electors accepted immunity deals as the investigation neared its end.
The Fulton county district attorney investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia has developed sufficient evidence to charge a sprawling racketeering indictment next month, according to two people briefed on the matter.
The racketeering statute in Georgia requires prosecutors to show the existence of an “enterprise” – and a pattern of racketeering activity that is predicated on at least two “qualifying” crimes.
In the Trump investigation, the Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, has amassed enough evidence to pursue a racketeering indictment predicated on statutes related to influencing witnesses and computer trespass, the people said.
Willis had previously said she was weighing racketeering charges in her criminal investigation, but the new details about the direction and scope of the case come as prosecutors are expected to seek indictments starting in the first two weeks of August.
The racketeering statute in Georgia is more expansive than its federal counterpart, notably because any attempts to solicit or coerce the qualifying crimes can be included as predicate acts of racketeering activity, even when those crimes cannot be indicted separately.
The specific evidence was not clear, though the charge regarding influencing witnesses could include Trump’s conversations with Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, in which he asked Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes, the people said – and thereby implicate Trump.
For the computer trespass charge, where prosecutors would have to show that defendants used a computer or network without authority to interfere with a program or data, that would include the breach of voting machines in Coffee county, the two people said.
The breach of voting machines involved a group of Trump operatives – paid by the then Trump lawyer Sidney Powell – accessing the voting machines at the county’s election office and copying sensitive voting system data.
The copied data from the Dominion Voting System machines, which is used statewide in Georgia, was then uploaded to a password-protected site from where election deniers could download the materials as part of a misguided effort to prove the 2020 election had been rigged.
Though Coffee county is outside the jurisdiction of the Fulton county district attorney’s office, folding a potential computer trespass charge into a wider racketeering case would allow prosecutors to also seek an indictment for what the Trump operatives did there, the people said.
A spokesperson for Willis did not respond to requests for comment.
The district attorney’s office has spent more than two years investigating whether Trump and his allies interfered in the 2020 election in Georgia, while prosecutors at the federal level are scrutinizing Trump’s efforts to reverse his defeat that culminated in the January 6 Capitol attack.
A special grand jury in Atlanta that heard evidence for roughly seven months recommended charges for more than a dozen people, including the former president himself, its forewoman strongly suggested in interviews, though Willis will have to seek indictments from a regular grand jury.
The grand jury that could decide whether to return an indictment against Trump was seated on 11 July. The selection process was attended by Willis and two prosecutors known to be on the Trump investigation: her deputy district attorney, Will Wooten, and special prosecutor Nathan Wade.
Charges stemming from the Trump investigation are expected to come between the final week of July and the first two weeks of August, the Guardian has previously reported, after Willis told her team to shift to remote work during that period because of security concerns.
The district attorney originally suggested charging decisions were “imminent” in January, but the timetable has been repeatedly delayed after a number of Republicans who acted as fake electors accepted immunity deals as the investigation neared its end.
Donald Trump's Unpopularity Hits Highest in One Poll's History (msn.com)
Former President Donald Trump's net favorability now stands at negative 27 points in one major poll as the Republican continues his campaign for re-election to the White House.
A Monmouth University poll published on Thursday found that 36 percent of U.S. adults had a favorable opinion of the former president and 63 percent held an unfavorable view.
It appears that Trump's unpopularity has hit its highest level in the history of Monmouth polling the question, based on previous figures also published on Thursday.
Those figures come as Trump remains the frontrunner for the Republican Party's 2024 presidential nomination and the possibility that Trump could be indicted for a third time on Friday.
Newsweek has reached out to former President Trump's office via email for comment.
The Monmouth poll found that 15 percent of respondents had a very favorable view of Trump and 21 percent had a somewhat favorable view. A further 13 percent had a somewhat unfavorable view, 50 percent had a very unfavorable view and 1 percent did not provide an opinion.
The Monmouth poll was conducted from July 12 to 17 among 910 adults age 18 and older. On the question of Trump's favorability, 840 respondents gave answers.
As Twitter account Interactive Polls pointed out on Thursday, that means Trump's net favorability in the poll is negative 27 points.
"Monmouth: Trump's' net-negative favorability rating (-27) is the lowest in poll's history," Interactive Polls tweeted.
Monmouth University's poll results also contained information from its previous polls asking the same question. In November 2020, Trump's favorability stood at 41 percent, while 49 percent had an unfavorable view and 10 percent offered no opinion.
The earliest favorability numbers for Trump that Monmouth published on Thursday were from September 2019. At that time, the then president had favorability of 43 percent, 56 percent had an unfavorable view of him and 3 percent had no opinion.
Before Trump took office in 2017, Monmouth found that just 34 percent of Americans viewed him favorably but 46 percent took an unfavorable view.
President Joe Biden's favorability stood at 43 percent in Monmouth's most recent poll—with 18 percent of respondents having a very favorable view and 25 percent a somewhat favorable view.
A total of 57 percent of respondents had an unfavorable view of the president, however, with 44 percent saying they had a very unfavorable view and 13 percent saying they held a somewhat unfavorable view.
When it comes to a 2024 match up between Biden and Trump, 36 percent of respondents said they would definitely vote for the president and 11 percent said they would probably vote for him.
However, 46 percent said they would definitely not vote for Biden and 6 percent said they probably wouldn't.
Just 26 percent of those polled said they would definitely vote for Trump, while 14 percent said they probably would, 50 percent said they definitely would not and 8 percent said they probably wouldn't.
On Tuesday, Trump announced that he had received a target letter informing him that he is under federal investigation over the attempts to overturn the last election results and the events that led up to the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, which may indicate the former president is facing another indictment.
Trump faced a deadline of midnight on Thursday to say whether he would appear before a grand jury being convened in Washington, D.C. as part of Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation into January 6.
Former President Donald Trump's net favorability now stands at negative 27 points in one major poll as the Republican continues his campaign for re-election to the White House.
A Monmouth University poll published on Thursday found that 36 percent of U.S. adults had a favorable opinion of the former president and 63 percent held an unfavorable view.
It appears that Trump's unpopularity has hit its highest level in the history of Monmouth polling the question, based on previous figures also published on Thursday.
Those figures come as Trump remains the frontrunner for the Republican Party's 2024 presidential nomination and the possibility that Trump could be indicted for a third time on Friday.
Newsweek has reached out to former President Trump's office via email for comment.
The Monmouth poll found that 15 percent of respondents had a very favorable view of Trump and 21 percent had a somewhat favorable view. A further 13 percent had a somewhat unfavorable view, 50 percent had a very unfavorable view and 1 percent did not provide an opinion.
The Monmouth poll was conducted from July 12 to 17 among 910 adults age 18 and older. On the question of Trump's favorability, 840 respondents gave answers.
As Twitter account Interactive Polls pointed out on Thursday, that means Trump's net favorability in the poll is negative 27 points.
"Monmouth: Trump's' net-negative favorability rating (-27) is the lowest in poll's history," Interactive Polls tweeted.
Monmouth University's poll results also contained information from its previous polls asking the same question. In November 2020, Trump's favorability stood at 41 percent, while 49 percent had an unfavorable view and 10 percent offered no opinion.
The earliest favorability numbers for Trump that Monmouth published on Thursday were from September 2019. At that time, the then president had favorability of 43 percent, 56 percent had an unfavorable view of him and 3 percent had no opinion.
Before Trump took office in 2017, Monmouth found that just 34 percent of Americans viewed him favorably but 46 percent took an unfavorable view.
President Joe Biden's favorability stood at 43 percent in Monmouth's most recent poll—with 18 percent of respondents having a very favorable view and 25 percent a somewhat favorable view.
A total of 57 percent of respondents had an unfavorable view of the president, however, with 44 percent saying they had a very unfavorable view and 13 percent saying they held a somewhat unfavorable view.
When it comes to a 2024 match up between Biden and Trump, 36 percent of respondents said they would definitely vote for the president and 11 percent said they would probably vote for him.
However, 46 percent said they would definitely not vote for Biden and 6 percent said they probably wouldn't.
Just 26 percent of those polled said they would definitely vote for Trump, while 14 percent said they probably would, 50 percent said they definitely would not and 8 percent said they probably wouldn't.
On Tuesday, Trump announced that he had received a target letter informing him that he is under federal investigation over the attempts to overturn the last election results and the events that led up to the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, which may indicate the former president is facing another indictment.
Trump faced a deadline of midnight on Thursday to say whether he would appear before a grand jury being convened in Washington, D.C. as part of Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation into January 6.
I really do hope the GOP sticks with him for 2024.Donald Trump's Unpopularity Hits Highest in One Poll's History (msn.com)
Former President Donald Trump's net favorability now stands at negative 27 points in one major poll as the Republican continues his campaign for re-election to the White House.
A Monmouth University poll published on Thursday found that 36 percent of U.S. adults had a favorable opinion of the former president and 63 percent held an unfavorable view.
It appears that Trump's unpopularity has hit its highest level in the history of Monmouth polling the question, based on previous figures also published on Thursday.
Those figures come as Trump remains the frontrunner for the Republican Party's 2024 presidential nomination and the possibility that Trump could be indicted for a third time on Friday.
Newsweek has reached out to former President Trump's office via email for comment.
The Monmouth poll found that 15 percent of respondents had a very favorable view of Trump and 21 percent had a somewhat favorable view. A further 13 percent had a somewhat unfavorable view, 50 percent had a very unfavorable view and 1 percent did not provide an opinion.
The Monmouth poll was conducted from July 12 to 17 among 910 adults age 18 and older. On the question of Trump's favorability, 840 respondents gave answers.
As Twitter account Interactive Polls pointed out on Thursday, that means Trump's net favorability in the poll is negative 27 points.
"Monmouth: Trump's' net-negative favorability rating (-27) is the lowest in poll's history," Interactive Polls tweeted.
Monmouth University's poll results also contained information from its previous polls asking the same question. In November 2020, Trump's favorability stood at 41 percent, while 49 percent had an unfavorable view and 10 percent offered no opinion.
The earliest favorability numbers for Trump that Monmouth published on Thursday were from September 2019. At that time, the then president had favorability of 43 percent, 56 percent had an unfavorable view of him and 3 percent had no opinion.
Before Trump took office in 2017, Monmouth found that just 34 percent of Americans viewed him favorably but 46 percent took an unfavorable view.
President Joe Biden's favorability stood at 43 percent in Monmouth's most recent poll—with 18 percent of respondents having a very favorable view and 25 percent a somewhat favorable view.
A total of 57 percent of respondents had an unfavorable view of the president, however, with 44 percent saying they had a very unfavorable view and 13 percent saying they held a somewhat unfavorable view.
When it comes to a 2024 match up between Biden and Trump, 36 percent of respondents said they would definitely vote for the president and 11 percent said they would probably vote for him.
However, 46 percent said they would definitely not vote for Biden and 6 percent said they probably wouldn't.
Just 26 percent of those polled said they would definitely vote for Trump, while 14 percent said they probably would, 50 percent said they definitely would not and 8 percent said they probably wouldn't.
On Tuesday, Trump announced that he had received a target letter informing him that he is under federal investigation over the attempts to overturn the last election results and the events that led up to the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, which may indicate the former president is facing another indictment.
Trump faced a deadline of midnight on Thursday to say whether he would appear before a grand jury being convened in Washington, D.C. as part of Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation into January 6.
