It should. But we already have the FBI image of classified docs spread on donnie’s office floor like a murder victim in one hand holding a bloody bit of paper on which is written the guilty perp’s name in capital letters and the other hand holding the perp’s phone containing video of the act plus written confession of guilt. We know donnie committed felony obstruction, stole documents by the boxed dozen and broke the Espionage Act so by rights he should’ve been jailed months ago and never allowed to run or be elected.
And that is one of four criminal indictments. On another indictment he was convicted of 34 felony feaud counts. He also to me is a traitor for conspiring by violence to hold onto power even in the face of a lost election. He led a coup against his own government. He will always be a traitor in my mind even though it does not meet the exact rules of Article 3 section 3 of the Constitution. The intent was there like Benedict Arnold.
This man is GUILTY
GARLAND is the face of the old DEMOCRATS…some of whom firmly belive the ‘good’ will prevail…thats why we must promote the younger people, They have a much larger stake in the future.
My County Executive, Bruce Blakeman (R-Nassau County, NY) refused to lower the flag for Pres Carter, until he was forced to by public outrage. Don’t know what he’s angling for…
I may be wrong on this, but it would seem to me that Loose Cannon has no more authority over the case. She dismissed it and Jack Smith withdrew his appeal, effectively ending the case as a matter for her court. Therefore, it is no longer in front of her court or on her docket.
I guess the point I am trying to make is that a competent malignant judge could have fucked up the documents case in trump’s favor in so many more effective and less clownish ways. I’ve mentioned it before, but she could have let the case go to trial and done any and all of the following that, collectively, would have almost guaranteed acquittal or a mistrial. And all of them are decisions that, by well-established law, are vested within the near-absolute and unreviewable (if the defendant prevails) discretion of the trial court
Impose strict (and short) time limits on the presentation of evidence. The case should probably take four weeks, but let’s get it over in five trial days.
Stack the jury with MAGA jurors by denying the prosecutors’ challenges and granting the defense’s.
Limit the scope and specifics of the witness testimony and exhibits by granting the defense’s evidentiary objections during trial.
Direct the jury to enter a verdict of not guilty at the close of the prosecution’s case. Yes, judges can do that. And no, a not guilty verdict is not appealable.
If a directed verdict is too gauche, issue jury instructions that tell them it’s perfectly fine for an ex-president to retain national defense information materials while he sorts through his files to determine what’s personal and what needs to go to the archives. Instruct them that the government waives its claim over possession of the documents if it merely requests their voluntary return. That sort of thing.
If all else fails, grant a motion for new trial and start all over again.
Thanks!
Seems to me OlJudge Cannon’s powder got wet… to use an old expression she might miss. She should’ve found a far better excuse than to say Smith was not voted on by the Senate. Very weak, easily shown false. It smells of something trump offered for her to use as an excuse.
trump’s perpetual legal strategy is to throw as much stuff up against the wall as his lawyers can think of then appeal, appeal, and more appeals until the clock runs out. And thanks to the votes of 77 million dipshits, it worked.
As I’ve said it’s beyond my comprehension anyone would see anything worthwhile in TSF. Maybe I’m dense but it’s beyond any normality that the party of Lincoln … the party of law n order as Nixon said, would choose a criminal felon to lead them. I plain do not get it.
It’s very important to him that he be able to keep perpetuating the lie that it’s all politically-driven persecution of an innocent man (ALL of it). I don’t think he’d know an innocent man if one walked up and bit him, which might be amusing.
It’s great to have these laid out so specifically. Kind of breathtaking.
At the same time, I wonder if Trump’s intense desire to avoid having things ever get to trial might have obviated this whole path. She is not an evil genius, but an evil moron, but Trump is always looking in the mirror and worrying about what other people see him as. Going to trial at all might be such ego poison that he’d push to avoid it, even though the path you lay out would be so much more sophisticated and effective.
There is no need for a backdoor channel between trump and Cannon, much less anything resembling direct-ish contact. They both know what he wants, and she gets to issue orders previewing what she’s open to doing to serve both their ends.
All of that is true, and she’s still too stupid to do anything plausibly defensible. Give me a district court seat and $100 million in an untraceable Swiss bank account and I will ensure trump walks free in entirely unreviewable and way less laughable ways.