TRUMP CONVICTED

DIY-HP-LED

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I see George shares my opinion of Donald's mental state and gives a pretty good assessment.


'He’s a five year old’: George Conway pans Trump’s in court ‘tantrum’

Attorney George Conway joins The Weekend co-hosts and calls Donald Trump's April 2023 deposition in the New York civil fraud trial against him and his company a “tantrum.”
 
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CCGNZ

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I think it's a separate beds marriage,possibly separate bedrooms,Melania married the clown to get on the uppity cocktail party circuit and expedite getting her parents citizenship in the US expedited,of course she had to bare him a child as this is a pre requisite before the Orange will consider rings. I look at her attitude and it's like "I gave you a kid and my job is done", She gives off that vibe that she just wants to be left alone to bask in the country club life. The scowl on her face as 1st lady led me to believe that she had a "I didn't sign up for this attitude" and being a Presidents wife was not part of the deal. I sure don't see her out and about doing the 2.0 thing,and to do a rewind is prob a nightmare of epic proportions for her. This is speculation of course but I think she's intensely private and probably feels duped as none of this was in their "arrangement" and the look on her face tells the story IMO
 

CCGNZ

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I'm hoping against all hope that a anti -Trump posse made up of ex. presidents like Bush/Clinton/Obama,Hillary and Michelle can also be added can team w/ patriotic R's and Trump former staff including Liz Cheney,maybe her father too , Adam Kinsinger, G. Conway,Cassidy Hutchinson,Gens. Kelly,Mattos,McMaster,M. Romney,and whoever else and hit the media circuit to bombard the airways to drive home the ineptitude of,and the inevitable disaster of putting this guy back in power. Maybe the frontal assault applied by a strength in numbers bi-partisan effort made up of such names would have the shock value that is so seemingly persuasive in today's political venue, the political effect of a bipartisan effort would hopefully awaken all but all in Maganites to the danger/threat/chaos of a Trump 2.0.
 

CCGNZ

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I see George shares my opinion of Donald's mental state and gives a pretty good assessment.


'He’s a five year old’: George Conway pans Trump’s in court ‘tantrum’

Attorney George Conway joins The Weekend co-hosts and calls Donald Trump's April 2023 deposition in the New York civil fraud trial against him and his company a “tantrum.”
I'm liking G. Conway more and more,always wondered about the tension w/Kelley Anne(they are now seeking divorce after 3 kids and 20+ yrs. marriage),he also advised the lady to sue and hooked her up w/the lawyer who has won her civil court rape case and subsequent libel case,he's all over the airwaves w/anti Trump warnings and has now reg. as independent after being a lifelong R and pres. of the Federalist society. Country over party!!!
 

printer

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"My mind is perfect, touched by the hand of dog."

Trump pushes back on claims of mental missteps
Former President Trump, the current GOP frontrunner, pushed back on claims of mental missteps during his Saturday rally in New Hampshire, after his main rival in the state, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, raised concerns about his mental fitness.

Trump deflected the criticism that arose after he appeared to mix up Haley and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday while talking about Jan. 6, 2021, stating his reliance on sarcasm during speeches and emphasizing that he aced a cognitive test that he claimed he took “a few months ago.”

“A lot of times I’ll say that President Obama is doing a lousy job, meaning that Obama is running the show,” Trump said during his rally. “They’ll say, Donald Trump doesn’t know who our president is. No, no. A few months ago I took a cognitive test my doctor gave me, I said give me a cognitive test just we can, you know, and I aced it. I also took one when I was in the White House.”

The 45th president has often raised concerns over President Biden’s age, claiming he is “cognitively impaired” and “in no condition to lead” the country.

During his rally on Friday, Trump appeared to have mixed up Haley and Pelosi while talking about the insurrection on the Capitol, to which the former U.N. Ambassador responded by saying that she was concerned to have somebody whose “mental fitness” is questioned while serving in the Oval Office.

“The concern I have is, I’m not saying anything derogatory, but when you’re dealing with the pressures of a presidency, we can’t have someone else that we question whether they’re mentally fit to do this,” Haley said.

During the Saturday rally, Trump continued the defense of his mental acuity, stating that he will let people know when he “goes bad.”

“I’ll let you know when I go bad,” Trump said. “I really [don’t] think I will be able to tell you because someday we go bad.”

He also refuted Haley’s claims, saying he does not mind being his age, possibly referencing when the former South Carolina governor called for “mandatory competency” tests for politicians over 75.

“They always say, like Haley, she talks about, ‘yeah, we don’t need 80-year-old,” Trump said. “Well, I don’t mind being 80, but I am 77, that’s a big difference.”

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), who has endorsed the former president and is rumored to be in circulation for a potential vice president pick, pushed back on Haley’s claims, stating that “the reality is Nikki Haley is relying on Democrats, just like Nancy Pelosi, to try to have a desperate showing.”

In November, Forbes noted that Trump mixed up Biden and Obama at least seven times in recent months.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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They might not to introduce more evidence because they can sue the fucker a third time and bait him publicly for more ammo in that third case when he responds to the baiting, like a fish on a line...


Let's talk about Trump probably paying more....
 

printer

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Anything to delay. And Trump wanted to testify today.
E. Jean Carroll trial paused over Trump lawyer’s COVID exposure
E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against former President Trump was postponed Monday after a juror and one of Trump’s lawyers reported feeling ill.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversees the trial, announced in the courtroom he would postpone the trial for at least one day.

“We will take the day off,” Kaplan said.

Kaplan said one of the jurors reported feeling ill on his way into court, and he was sent home and instructed to take a COVID-19 test.

Alina Habba, one of Trump’s attorneys, said she also was feeling ill Monday and recently was exposed to COVID-19 at a dinner with her parents.

The judge said Habba and fellow Trump attorney Michael Madaio took COVID-19 tests earlier in the morning and were negative.

Trump was briefly in the courtroom with Habba on Monday. Neither wore masks.

Carroll is seeking more than $10 million in defamation damages over Trump denying he sexually assaulted the longtime advice columnist in the 1990s. Trump has already been found liable and the jury will only decide damages.

Habba indicated that Trump was prepared to testify on Monday. But she noted to the judge that, if the trial does resume on Tuesday, Trump wants to be in New Hampshire for the state’s primary.

Habba suggested Trump testify after the primary on Wednesday. Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, who is not related to the judge, stressed a desire to move ahead.

“If juror #3 is sick tomorrow, we should proceed,” Kaplan said.

Kaplan expressed confidence in the court’s ability to handle the issue, noting they had held trials during pandemic lockdowns.

“We have gotten through all of that, we will get through all of this, too,” Kaplan said.

Just after the trial adjourned, Trump took to Truth Social in a spree of posts disparaging Carroll, while also dismissing the trial as a “Witch Hunt.”
 

cannabineer

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Anything to delay. And Trump wanted to testify today.
E. Jean Carroll trial paused over Trump lawyer’s COVID exposure
E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against former President Trump was postponed Monday after a juror and one of Trump’s lawyers reported feeling ill.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversees the trial, announced in the courtroom he would postpone the trial for at least one day.

“We will take the day off,” Kaplan said.

Kaplan said one of the jurors reported feeling ill on his way into court, and he was sent home and instructed to take a COVID-19 test.

Alina Habba, one of Trump’s attorneys, said she also was feeling ill Monday and recently was exposed to COVID-19 at a dinner with her parents.

The judge said Habba and fellow Trump attorney Michael Madaio took COVID-19 tests earlier in the morning and were negative.

Trump was briefly in the courtroom with Habba on Monday. Neither wore masks.

Carroll is seeking more than $10 million in defamation damages over Trump denying he sexually assaulted the longtime advice columnist in the 1990s. Trump has already been found liable and the jury will only decide damages.

Habba indicated that Trump was prepared to testify on Monday. But she noted to the judge that, if the trial does resume on Tuesday, Trump wants to be in New Hampshire for the state’s primary.

Habba suggested Trump testify after the primary on Wednesday. Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, who is not related to the judge, stressed a desire to move ahead.

“If juror #3 is sick tomorrow, we should proceed,” Kaplan said.

Kaplan expressed confidence in the court’s ability to handle the issue, noting they had held trials during pandemic lockdowns.

“We have gotten through all of that, we will get through all of this, too,” Kaplan said.

Just after the trial adjourned, Trump took to Truth Social in a spree of posts disparaging Carroll, while also dismissing the trial as a “Witch Hunt.”
Habba in the near future: “not today Your Honor; my dog ate my defense briefs”

something this half-assed requires the semicolon
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Anything to delay. And Trump wanted to testify today.
E. Jean Carroll trial paused over Trump lawyer’s COVID exposure
E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against former President Trump was postponed Monday after a juror and one of Trump’s lawyers reported feeling ill.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversees the trial, announced in the courtroom he would postpone the trial for at least one day.

“We will take the day off,” Kaplan said.

Kaplan said one of the jurors reported feeling ill on his way into court, and he was sent home and instructed to take a COVID-19 test.

Alina Habba, one of Trump’s attorneys, said she also was feeling ill Monday and recently was exposed to COVID-19 at a dinner with her parents.

The judge said Habba and fellow Trump attorney Michael Madaio took COVID-19 tests earlier in the morning and were negative.

Trump was briefly in the courtroom with Habba on Monday. Neither wore masks.

Carroll is seeking more than $10 million in defamation damages over Trump denying he sexually assaulted the longtime advice columnist in the 1990s. Trump has already been found liable and the jury will only decide damages.

Habba indicated that Trump was prepared to testify on Monday. But she noted to the judge that, if the trial does resume on Tuesday, Trump wants to be in New Hampshire for the state’s primary.

Habba suggested Trump testify after the primary on Wednesday. Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, who is not related to the judge, stressed a desire to move ahead.

“If juror #3 is sick tomorrow, we should proceed,” Kaplan said.

Kaplan expressed confidence in the court’s ability to handle the issue, noting they had held trials during pandemic lockdowns.

“We have gotten through all of that, we will get through all of this, too,” Kaplan said.

Just after the trial adjourned, Trump took to Truth Social in a spree of posts disparaging Carroll, while also dismissing the trial as a “Witch Hunt.”
Judge says, covid testing before every court date for defendant and counsel, and the defendant and council are required to wear masks in court and in the building.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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George Conway: “Trump Deserves to Spend the Rest of His Life in Prison” | Amanpour and Company

Former President Trump continues to ricochet between the courthouse and the campaign trail. This morning, he was back to face a trial for his statements about former columnist E. Jean Carroll's sexual assault allegations in 2019. Meanwhile, just ahead of the New Hampshire primary he got a boost from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who decided to drop out of the race and back Trump. Conservative lawyer George Conway joins Michel Martin with incisive analysis of Trump's legal woes and how they are shaping his campaign.

Originally aired on January 22, 2024
 

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Appeals court declines further review of Trump Jan. 6 gag order
A federal appeals court declined an effort Tuesday by former President Trump to have his challenge to a gag order in his election interference case heard by the full court, teeing up a likely Supreme Court battle over restrictions to his speech.

A three-judge panel of the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals had largely upheld a lower court ruling restricting Trump’s speech in the case.

That decision largely affirmed a prior ruling from Judge Tanya Chutkan, who barred Trump from making statements that “target” foreseeable witnesses, court staff and prosecutors.

The appeals court refined that directive, barring Trump from any statements “made with the intent to materially interfere with, or to cause others to materially interfere with” the course of the case.

The D.C. Circuit’s refusal to rehear the case is likely to bring the issue to the Supreme Court next. Trump could petition the justices to review the gag order and also ask them to put it on hold in the meantime.

It is one of multiple battles in Trump’s many legal cases that have been barreling toward the justices. Already, the Supreme Court took up an appeal of a ruling kicking him off Colorado’s ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ban. Oral arguments are less than three weeks away.

Agreeing to review Trump’s gag order, however, would mark the justices’ first intervention in any of Trump’s four criminal cases since he was charged.

In D.C., special counsel Jack Smith charged Trump with four felonies, accusing him of conspiring to subvert the 2020 election results in an attempt to remain in power. Trump pleaded not guilty.

The Supreme Court may also soon confront another battle in the case: whether Trump has criminal immunity from official acts during his presidency.

The Supreme Court declined request to leapfrog the normal appeals process to immediately decide Trump’s immunity, which would’ve made it easier for Trump to go to trial earlier, instead allowing it to progress through the D.C. Circuit.

But the gag order battle has now completed that process, making the Supreme Court the next avenue for Trump to appeal. The Hill has reached out to Trump’s legal team for comment.

The circuit court panel took issue with Chutkan’s use of the word “target,” fearing it could restrict Trump from responding to those who may be both witnesses in the case, as well as campaign critics.

Their standard, the judges wrote, “allows the former President to continue to speak out about those same persons’ books, articles, editorials, interviews, or political campaigns as long as he does so in a manner that does not concern their roles as witnesses or the content of any expected testimony.”

They also removed Smith from the list of protected figures under Chutkan’s order, freeing Trump to make more pointed statements about the top prosecutor on the case.

But the bulk of the 68-page ruling backs Chutkan’s rationale behind imposing a gag order, backing her conclusions that Trump’s speech could disrupt the case, chill witness participation and inspire real threats and intimidation for those involved in the case, while also concluding his candidate status does not outweigh the need to protect the trial.

“Mr. Trump’s documented pattern of speech and its demonstrated real-time, real-world consequences pose a significant and imminent threat to the functioning of the criminal trial process in this case,” the court found.

The judges cited the “torrent of threats and intimidation” leveled at those Trump singles out by way of his supporters, writing some messages are designed to “generate alarm and dread.”

The decision also noted that Trump’s attorneys were not able to counter that his speech motivates attacks from his followers.

“Mr. Trump has not shown that factual finding to be clearly erroneous, and we hold that the record amply supports it,” they wrote.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Appeals court declines further review of Trump Jan. 6 gag order
A federal appeals court declined an effort Tuesday by former President Trump to have his challenge to a gag order in his election interference case heard by the full court, teeing up a likely Supreme Court battle over restrictions to his speech.

A three-judge panel of the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals had largely upheld a lower court ruling restricting Trump’s speech in the case.

That decision largely affirmed a prior ruling from Judge Tanya Chutkan, who barred Trump from making statements that “target” foreseeable witnesses, court staff and prosecutors.

The appeals court refined that directive, barring Trump from any statements “made with the intent to materially interfere with, or to cause others to materially interfere with” the course of the case.

The D.C. Circuit’s refusal to rehear the case is likely to bring the issue to the Supreme Court next. Trump could petition the justices to review the gag order and also ask them to put it on hold in the meantime.

It is one of multiple battles in Trump’s many legal cases that have been barreling toward the justices. Already, the Supreme Court took up an appeal of a ruling kicking him off Colorado’s ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ban. Oral arguments are less than three weeks away.

Agreeing to review Trump’s gag order, however, would mark the justices’ first intervention in any of Trump’s four criminal cases since he was charged.

In D.C., special counsel Jack Smith charged Trump with four felonies, accusing him of conspiring to subvert the 2020 election results in an attempt to remain in power. Trump pleaded not guilty.

The Supreme Court may also soon confront another battle in the case: whether Trump has criminal immunity from official acts during his presidency.

The Supreme Court declined request to leapfrog the normal appeals process to immediately decide Trump’s immunity, which would’ve made it easier for Trump to go to trial earlier, instead allowing it to progress through the D.C. Circuit.

But the gag order battle has now completed that process, making the Supreme Court the next avenue for Trump to appeal. The Hill has reached out to Trump’s legal team for comment.

The circuit court panel took issue with Chutkan’s use of the word “target,” fearing it could restrict Trump from responding to those who may be both witnesses in the case, as well as campaign critics.

Their standard, the judges wrote, “allows the former President to continue to speak out about those same persons’ books, articles, editorials, interviews, or political campaigns as long as he does so in a manner that does not concern their roles as witnesses or the content of any expected testimony.”

They also removed Smith from the list of protected figures under Chutkan’s order, freeing Trump to make more pointed statements about the top prosecutor on the case.

But the bulk of the 68-page ruling backs Chutkan’s rationale behind imposing a gag order, backing her conclusions that Trump’s speech could disrupt the case, chill witness participation and inspire real threats and intimidation for those involved in the case, while also concluding his candidate status does not outweigh the need to protect the trial.

“Mr. Trump’s documented pattern of speech and its demonstrated real-time, real-world consequences pose a significant and imminent threat to the functioning of the criminal trial process in this case,” the court found.

The judges cited the “torrent of threats and intimidation” leveled at those Trump singles out by way of his supporters, writing some messages are designed to “generate alarm and dread.”

The decision also noted that Trump’s attorneys were not able to counter that his speech motivates attacks from his followers.

“Mr. Trump has not shown that factual finding to be clearly erroneous, and we hold that the record amply supports it,” they wrote.
When they lift the stay in the immunity case Chutkan goes back to work, unless the SCOTUS takes the appeal on immunity, which they might not, there is not much to settle there. In any case he should be back to Chutkan after his immunity appeal, and I doubt the SCOTUS will grant a stay over it. The further we get into primary season on disqualification before a call, the harder it will be for the GOP to dump him if he is disqualified. If he is disqualified for insurrection, it has consequences for the republicans down ballot too, many aided and comforted the insurrection on video! It will open up a potential can of worms with republicans in court fighting to get on the ballot and perhaps even being refused a seat in the house if the democrats win, sue to get back in.
 

CCGNZ

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Certainly hypocrisy,but they know the opponent here,and IMO this is a dead to rights case,and for these 2 to to crack open the door for them to distract and prolong this case is maddening. At this point one or both should recluse themselves,this case has the most dead to rights evidence and these 2 idiots have just thrown a desperate dog a bone. The longer they are on the case the more time for MAGA allies to ramp up the conspiracy and misinfo. machine,you know it's coming. Shoulda known the southern fried justice system would FK. this up.
 
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