What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

Trump dealt with the problem the way he dealt with all his problems...

Bribe, threaten, cheat on his taxes.

At this stage?!?!?!

You think there was some point she married him or stayed with him because she liked him?

looks like prosecution think trump wants to go to jail for breaking political gag order

the question is why is new york state investigating federal election fraud when the matter has already been declined at federal level

they’re prosecuting state crimes. 36 counts of falsifying business records. Read the indictment

https://manhattanda.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Donald-J.-Trump-Indictment.pdf

on brand

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/is-there-any-greater-irony-kaitlan-collins-roasts-trump-complaining-hes-been-silenced-while-speaking-to-horde-of-cameras/

Send him to Epstein's cell for a couple of nights with plenty of spare linenware, might help to concentrate his mind.

Rep Bennie Thompson who chaired the Jan 6th committee is currently pushing a bill to see Secret Service protection for convicted felons removed. I particularly like his effort at backronym-ing the Act's name.

"Dubbed the “Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act,” the legislation from Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) would nix the lifelong protection given to former presidents if they are convicted and sentenced for a felony that carries a year or more in prison time.

“Unfortunately, current law doesn’t anticipate how Secret Service protection would impact the felony prison sentence of a protectee — even a former President,” Thompson said in a statement."

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4605774-former-jan-6-panel-chair-bill-secret-service-protection-felons/

I wasn't expecting Pecker's testimony to be quite so damning. Whilst this is on its surface a record-keeping case, the prosecution are laying the groundwork for the purported conspiracy that drove the record falsification. Which, would be great if there were a conspiracy charge in play for this trial.
Perhaps a little bit of foundation laying and distant cooperation with the Smith case by exposing a propensity for conspiratorial acts. If not refuted by Trump counsel's cross examination, could it perhaps have evidential value in the other criminal cases as "anything you say may be used in evidence!".

From Frasier, when Niles has to sleep on Frasier's sofa:

Frasier: and I've given you my cashmere throw in case it gets chilly during the night.

Niles: i appreciate that. You're a good brother.

Martin: I still say a spell in the army would have done you two the world of good.

Nah he's not your cousin vinnie in a backwater town.

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/wolf-blitzer-asks-former-judge-at-what-point-would-you-be-prepared-to-actually-jail-trump/

“I would expect him initially to impose fines. I don’t think he’s going to go right to incarceration. I don’t think any judge would do that. He’s going to impose fines, and he’s going to give him a stern warning saying, ‘Now, look, I have fined you and I can fine you again. But if you don’t stop this, I have the power to incarcerate you and that’s what’s going to happen if you violate my court orders.’ So I think he’s going to give him a stern talking to and I think he’s going to impose these fairly minimal fines of $1,000 per violation. That’s what I would expect.”

Blitzer then reported that CNN had learned that “the U.S. Secret Service, court officers, and even the New York City Department of Corrections have been quietly discussing what to do if Trump does end up being jailed for contempt of court.”

“If you are presiding over this case,” the anchor asked Scheindlin, “at what point would you be prepared to actually jail the former President of the United States?”

“I wouldn’t be anxious to do that,” she said. “I think it makes him appear to be a victim. It only helps his narrative of this being a witch hunt. I would try to do everything I could not to incarcerate him.”

Scheindlin added that the logistics of jailing a former president would be “difficult,” needing 24/7 Secret Service protection, and said she read somewhere he could be sent to Riker’s, “which would be a terrible environment, so I would hope that it never came to that, and I don’t expect it to.”