The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday kept up in the air the critical question of when Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 trial will resume.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1477542
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1477542
“What kind of world are we living in…"
Funny, I keep asking myself that same question.
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Great summary, thank you!
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The Appeals Court will probably rule against Trump within a week which will kick the case up to SCOTUS. I’d wager that SCOTUS will also rule quickly against Trump and this issue will be over in less than a month. We’ll see.
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From the Beeb.
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Trump again says it’s a persecution - which is central to his election strategy
Gary O’Donoghue
Washington correspondent
What we listened to there from Trump just now is a political speech, accusing Joe Biden of being behind the prosecution, and trying to get into Joe Biden‘s record.
You can see this is all tied into an election strategy - it kind of goes into the narrative that Trump is the persecuted one, and that is central to his argument.
This is a political persecution, not a prosecution, he is saying.
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Shouldn’t the case be remanded to the district court to resolve which parts of the indictment are “official acts?
The answer would be “none of them” because Trump was not indicted for any official act. So let’s move on.
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Many people are saying…
Trump: ‘Most people agree that we’re entitled … to immunity’
In remarks to reporters in Washington DC after appeals court judges expressed skepticism at his claims of immunity , Donald Trump doubled down on his argument he should not face charges for trying to overturn the 2020 election.
“What a sad situation it is. I want to thank you, everybody, for the fairness. We’ve been covered very fairly. Most people agree that we’re entitled, as a president, to immunity,” Trump said.
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Trump is furiously trying to delay his criminal cases until after the November election.
I understand that the opinion of the DoJ’s Office of Legal Counsel is that it is unconstitutional to prosecute a sitting president. Does it have an opinion about prosecuting a president-elect?
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“What kind of world are we living in if, as I understood my friend on other side to say here, a president orders his SEAL team to assassinate a political rival and resigns, for example, before an impeachment — not a criminal act,” he said. “The president sells a pardon, resigns, or is not impeached — not a crime. I think that is an extraordinarily frightening future.”
Crap. TFG just sitting there getting ideas from the judge’s hypotheticals.
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It is Trump, his minions, the MAGAts, and all of their ilk who play both sides in the law, politics, ethics, and patriotism. Depending on when it is in their ultimate interest, they play either the victimizer or abuser or tyrant, and then when they are called on that corruption, they claim they are being victimized, abused or the subjects of tyranny. At its core, it is fascist.
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From your lips to God’s ear…
Hopefully!
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Most people? I hate this motherf*cker.
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“Could a president order SEAL team six to assassinate a political rival?” she asked.
Well, maybe not Seal Team 6. I’d be more concerned about him invoking Meal Team 6.
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How dare these people question Honest Don’s integrity!
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The Royal Weewee.
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If that’s our standard, does he realize most people agree you shouldn’t adulterously bang porn stars and pay them off?
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“. . . it kind of goes into the narrative that Trump is the persecuted one, and that is central to his argument.”
The victim argument has been a core Trump stance for his entire political career, so far as I can see. From the outset, Trump has posed as the heroic outsider fighting against a corrupt system (or, as we now understand, the system wasn’t sufficiently corrupt for his taste.)
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The television lawyers have suggested that the panel can set a short deadline before the mandate will be returned to the district court, giving trump a de facto deadline for obtaining a stay from the en banc court (not gonna happen) or SCOTUS (might happen, but I’m guessing no).
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Trump wants immunity from prosecution.
I want immunity from Trump.
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