Beau lays out why Boebert might be in trouble. She's already in Congress so she cannot run for outgoing rep Ken Buck's seat - in the district she's running for in the general, because of the new redistricting. So, someone else new will be the winner of the special election for his seat coming up around the corner, and then she has to try and convince voters to vote for her again instead of the new incumbent, in November.
Well it was said in 2018 so not sure how the Bloodbath thing has pushed it under the Radar.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/trump-twitter-surprise-interview/
George Conway's take...
"The theory of Trump’s complaint here is that, since the jury in Carroll II, the case tried last year, unanimously found that Trump forcibly and without consent penetrated Carroll’s vagina with his fingers and not his penis, and since this constituted sexual assault and not rape as defined by the New York Penal Code, Stephanopoulos libeled him by saying he had been held liable for “rape,” even though the judge in the Carroll case has held multiple times since the verdict that in common parlance (and the law of most other jurisdictions) forcible digital penetration is rape.
In other words, Trump is suing Stephanopoulos and ABC because Stephanopoulos repeated what a federal district judge has said repeatedly in written opinions.
By bringing this lawsuit, Trump will only bring more public attention to what he did to Carroll. And he and his lawyers may very well be—in fact, ought to be—sanctioned.
Another brilliant stable-genius move.
Trump is not only a rapist, he’s a nut job, and a very, very dumb one at that."
Speaking of stable genius moves, pissing away Jewish American support by alleging they "hate their religion" if they vote Democrat
The attorney who leaked Dominion emails to a MAGA sheriff (who then proceeded to publicize them) thereby trying to spoil the Dominion case has been arrested
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Yes. Clearly not a talented guy.
As another incredibly bizarre effort to roadblock the trial, Aileen Cannon requires that the Jury be able to see all the classified, top secret, code word evidence
In addition to usual voire dire that means a jury will have to pass an exhaustive background check if this even gets that far, a lengthy and painstaking process. In some scenarios it may even upend the rest of Juror's lives, having knowledge of codeword information and needing to secure that knowledge for life.
Doesn't seem to make any logical sense, the trial need only determine the documents are in fact top secret etc., their actual contents and being privy to them are not determinative of whether the jury would find he is guilty or not of the criminal statute against retaining them. It appears the court agrees already that the documents are in fact classified and top secret and codeword sensitive.
I wonder how Chubb feel now putting up the $100m bond in the E Jean Carroll case when they see no other Bond company is prepared to trust Trump in the New York case and they are a pretty much calling him a defaulter whose property isn’t even enough to cover the bond if sold.
I am also a bit surprised an oil money Country hasn’t found away to loan him the money via property loan or buying one golf courses for a billion for the Liv Golf tour
Regards,
P.
It's all about the delay.
Smith could take this to the appeals court (11th circuit?) and they will bounce it immediately as the idea that a jury of regular people should be able to read highly classified documents to "decide for themselves" if they were Trump personal notes or not is utterly ridiculous.
But - That would cost them a few months by the time they get on that docket and get back to Cannons court room with the victory.
Or as you said , they could seek full National security clearance for the entire potential jury panel to allow them to view the documents , also taking months to complete.
All delaying the trial until after November...
Either way DOJ should continue on apolitically without trying to get this done by election - nevermind that Cannon seems dead set on ensuring that it won't happen before then but I think it's reasonable to conclude Biden is re-elected, and the attempts at delay become fairly moot. They could as easily agree to Cannon's ultimatum, or appeal it to 11th circuit and in doing so create a gap in the schedule for one of the state criminal cases to proceed unabated this summer.
That bond was secured the contents of a bank account.
Navarro showed up for prison. Fox News cut away when he tried to say his criminal conviction was merely ‘alleged’
He also crowed that it was an “assault on the separation of powers” - despite pleading his case all the way up to the Supreme Court - and was prosecuted by the same branch he claimed privilege from - under criminal statues passed by the Congress... 😭
Jared Kushner would move the Palestinians into the Negev desert!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/trump-lawyers-us-supreme-court-immunity
"The filing contended that all of Trump’s attempts to reverse his 2020 election defeat, from pressuring his vice-president, Mike Pence, to stop the 6 January 2021 certification to organizing fake slates of electors, were protected activity".
Trump needs this immunity or he is going down, helps to keep postponing the case though.
If he postpones the case long enough and wins the election, he's not going down. It is unlikely that Trump's team would get the trial postponed until past the election date even with the current stalling, but if they get to August or September, then they will try to say that the trial cannot be held that close to the election as it would 'unduly' influence it.
A bit like how the "Hillary Emails" thing unduly influenced the 2016 election? I don't see an issue.
Does anyone know where A Storm Foretold can be watched? The documentary in Rogaer Stone's activities in the lead up to the certification of electors that I believe footage was used in the Jan 6th investigations.
My limited knowledge of getting National Security clearances, is that 'months' is optimistic bar some very senior help. @Manic Moran probably has way more insight into this.
And yeah, it's about the delay.
Trump's campaign is pushing the following question as a slogan..
"Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"
Putting aside the fact the fact the US was being ravaged by COVID thanks to Trump's policies, here's a nice rebuttal..
Trump suing George Stephanopoulos and ABC for defamation over Stephanopoulos saying that Trump was found liable for rape, rather than found liable for sexual assault, during his interview with Nancy Mace.
Seems most likely that Trump will lose because Trump already tried suing E. Jean Carroll for saying the exact same thing and the judge found (as has been explained here numerous times before) that Trump's actions can be considered rape in accordance with most and modern laws and common usgae of the word and term and therefore saying he was found liable for rape is substantially true and therefore not defamation.
It's probably never a good sign in court when the opposition can cite a previous case and judgement that has your name on it from the past few years and that you lost that one.
He really is Streisanding the hell out of that.
Hopefully the case will happen right in the middle of the run in to the Election so that Biden can call him "RAPIST" to his face during the debates (if they happen)
The case isn't about winning or losing, or even going to court. Trump is attempting to bully the press to drop talking about it. The hope is that the media company don't want the fight and will simply ensure that it isn't broadcast again. That would cover the entire station.
That would then lead to other organisations being reticent to even discuss the matter.
That and fundraising too.
I'd expect a motion to dismiss from the defendant pretty sharpish.
I think they will fight though.
Trump hasn't a leg to stand on here and everybody knows it.
He has litigated this EXACT issue before and lost and the ruling from the Judge clearly and categorically states that the use of the term "RAPE" is absolutely reasonable given the circumstances.
They will get a summary motion to dismiss most likely and will continue calling him what he is - A Rapist.
That reminds me of Blackadder when Baldrick accidentally burns the dictionary.
Blackadder: I can't give you the dictionary because I want Baldrick to read it first, which requires teaching him to read.
As you say, all it needs is for the jury to see the header of each document that says "Top Secret". Not the actual secrets.
Could Biden grant temporary code-word clearance, bypass the usual process which takes months, and just, ta-da! The 12 jurists now have the correct level, off you go? I think I know the answer to this already.
Robert Reich on the 5 steps to a Dictatorship. This is Trump and his enablers’ plan. This is worth 5 minutes of everyone’s time.
To the supporters of Dictators (and the euphemistic Strong Men Leaders), one day they will go after the thing that you care about and you will be powerless to do anything about it.
Biden wouldn’t do something so reckless with those secrets.
Seems to be impossible to find outside Denmark. Seems to be available on Vimeo €12
Yeah, free to air in Denmark but the Danish commentary isn't available with English subs or dubbing. Amazon prime says they have it but can't work out what region it's available in as it isn't streamible here
