Originally published at: Bragg Pushes to Keep Trump Hush Money Case Alive, Whatever It Takes - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Prosecutors with the Manhattan DA’s office made clear in a Tuesday letter: they want to see Donald Trump sentenced over the hush money scheme, no matter when. But in the letter to Judge Juan Merchan, prosecutors with Alvin Bragg’s office admitted that through they will oppose Trump’s requests to dismiss the case on grounds of…
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I simply want God to come get his creature & take him home.
We all are in the zoo, with him, until God does.
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All of those jurists, all of that time, the death threats, the fear…
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Let the chips fall where they may.
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I don’t think it’s God coming for him.
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Oh, God’s coming for him. We’ve just made some terrible mistakes about what God thinks is funny.
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Bragg was my last hope. The system failed us, so let’s agitate. If it’s good for the repubs, then our side needs its turn, to desecrate any ceremony that confers presidential privilege to repubs of any rank or stripe.
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It seems insane that anyone would expect this process to just freeze (let alone end) because of the election. Even the bogus immunity ruling only addressed sitting presidents, not ex-prezzes, not prezzes-elect. He was charged when no longer prez, and convicted long before becoming prez-elect. It’s like someone running around going, “Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme!” and seeing how high he can make everyone jump. I’m not surprised Bragg wants to continue, there’s nothing else he could do that would be proper. And good for him.
As I said elsewhere, the more people push back and say no now, the less rampaging he’ll be able to do later. The more worried they are about him, the more they need to stand up now.
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One hopes that this case hangs around Trump’s neck like a dead albatross. He may sit in the White House for four years, but can’t be too comfortable knowing that this awaits him when he finishes his term. And, if he thinks he can con the Congress into giving him an additional 4 years, well, good luck with that Donald.
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Via cnn
Trump picks Lutnick as secretary of Commerce
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As to the FOUR YEAR DELAY…
Are prosecutors “in the bag” for trump?
I think so
Bought & paid for…
Sickening
JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED
I need anger management
I have seen cowardice in my life but never anything this blatant. Tattoo “coward” on their foreheads.
Remember that trump was convicted of 34 felonies months ago. Plenty of time to sentence him.
Why not just a stern fatherly lecture from the bench by Mechan and call it square? This is sickening.
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The man is trying to stretch his unconstitutional Presidential immunity-by-fiat into something that covers his personal, not official acts, some of them done even before he was first elected. Lotsa luck with that.
On a separate topic, I see that Wormtongue Cheung has been “nominated” as his communications director. Appropriate, is all I can say.
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trump’s gonna deport Judge Merchan.
ETA: And his daughter.
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This was personal conduct, done for the most part before an election (and in an attempt to win that election, so it corrupted the election process). The fact that Trump signed some checks in the White House doesn’t change the base of the case, that it was individual conduct of a personal nature, not official presidential activity. The fact that Trump will be president (again) doesn’t clear him of any wrongdoing before that moment. He broke the law, a jury convicted him, and he should be sentenced.
The difficulty is that we can’t have the president lead the nation from behind bars…obviously the right option was not to elect him, but America chose (poorly( otherwise. From my perspective, the correct action is to sentence him to jail (and then the appeals process can start), but suspend the sentence until such time as presidential duties aren’t an issue. He can spend four years knowing he’ll go to jail once he’s out of office, unless the appeals process overturns the verdict. (Yes, the SC just might rescue him by declaring anything Trump has ever done is legal and always will be, but that’s a separate issue).
Bragg is basically saying this, he’s just saying the sentencing can wait until Trump is out of office. Hopefully Merchan takes this, or even does sentence Trump and then pauses it.
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Oh, for fuck’s sake. Have the sentencing now, and put him in a cell until the morning of Inauguration Day. It would be something, at least.
Actually, no. Keep him in his cell a little longer, and get John Roberts to have him swear the oath of office inside the prison before his release. No crowds, no cameras, no glory.
(Think of the money and manpower saved by skipping a big gala inauguration! Surely all frugal Republicans would approve.)
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Every last business record that he was charged with enfraudulating was created after he took office.
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I’d like to think trump’s home is the ninth circle.
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Yes, and just do it! It’s not up to our side to apologize for trump, which is what we do when we do not properly sentence him. Let his defense counsel bear the burden of getting his ass outa jail.
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And it is a state case, over which the Supine Court should have no jurisdiction, actually. And he was convicted. He’ll still be guilty in four years, if he finishes his term in office.
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Congress can start the process, but Congress can’t ratify the repeal of the XXII Amendment requires 34 state legislatures to agree to its adoption. Republicants only control 28 or 29 state legislatures (depending on how you count Nebraska). I think the idea of repeal is a non-starter.
The amendment itself is very clear:
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
DonOLD Drumpf has been elected to the office twice now. The gotchas don’t apply to DonOLD: Drumpf was not President in 1950 when the amendment was proposed, and he wasn’t President in 1951 when the amendment was approved by the 36th state legislature.
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Question to the lawyers in the hive:
what happens if he strokes out before the electoral college meets to certify the election?
[One can hope…]
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