We’d be at a point where the DOJ had one year less to gather evidence and flip witnesses, possibly leading to a jury acquitting Trump in the trial for lack of solid evidence of a conspiracy. That’s where we’d be.
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49th Parallel is a 1941 British and Canadian war drama film. It was the third film made by the British filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It was released in the United States as The Invaders .[4] The British Ministry of Information approached Michael Powell to make a propaganda film for them, suggesting he make “a film about mine-sweeping”. Instead, Powell decided to make a film to help sway opinion in the then-neutral United States. Said Powell, “I hoped it might scare the pants off the Americans” and thus bring them into the war.[5]
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The decision also noted that while the jury found that “Carroll failedto prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law,” that does not mean “that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’ “Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that,” the decision says.
h/t @aaron
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Former New York City police commissioner Bernie Kerik is in talks to be interviewed by special counsel Jack Smith’s team investigating efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election, Kerik’s attorney said Tuesday. Kerik worked with Rudy Giuliani after the election to find evidence of voter fraud and later provided documents about a plan to keep Donald Trump in power to the House Jan. 6 committee. Tim Parlatore, a lawyer who quit Trump’s legal team in May and who now represents Kerik, was asked by Kaitlan Collins on CNN if he expected the former commissioner to receive a letter like the one Trump received informing him that he was a target of Smith’s investigation. Parlatore said Kerik hasn’t received a target letter and does not expect him to at any point. But when asked if Parlatore is “in talks” about Kerik having an interview with the special counsel, the attorney said: “Yeah sure, absolutely. Mr. Kerik has nothing to hide. He’s happy to sit down and explain everything to them.”
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Really? You think Jack Smith would have been that sloppy? I guess you’re more informed than me. Anyway, we’ll never know. We’re stuck with the current situation, rapidly butting up against the 2024 election cycle with Trump judges inserted at every level of the judiciary. Fingers crossed.
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ThOSe arEn’t EasY to Write. TheN you hAve to WEave in aLL the Biden Crap with the DAN jailbreAk
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OT: you mentioned Yogi Berra. There is an excellent documentary on his life on Prime. You hafta pay to see it but it’s worth it, even if you’re not into baseball
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To be fair, Jack Smith was probably still deep in “Hague-ing” before he could return to take on other asshole world political criminals here in the US.
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As a few people have pointed out this was the same charge that the Nixon DOJ civil rights division charged the Trump organization for housing discrimination in 1973. It was of course Roy Cohn who got Fred and Donald to dig in and not admit guilt.
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Yep, it’s a combination of good prompt engineering and then creative editing of the output. However it was done, I enjoyed it!
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The big difference is that the Fat Guy was much more inexperienced and probably not as clever as those depravities that came before him.
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Nixon was bad, Pruneface was worse, Dumbya lied us into a war that killed my son, Trump is even worse and any Republican running in 2024 is sleazier than Trump.
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A tipping point is where collapse starts. It does not un-tip.
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Kerik has spent time inside. He doesn’t want to go back.
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That could be tested…do I hear a grant RFP?
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Maybe he should use DInesh D’Souza’s Lawyers. They do not seem to be constrained by the truth.
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I saw on Twitter a whole cascading scheme where it fell to Pompeo (the line of succession, as it were)
This is all I can find right now
https://twitter.com/DirkSchwenk/status/1352466095760928770
“On Jan 6, 2021, the presidential line of succession was VP Pence, N Pelosi (speaker of the house), Chuck Grassley (President pro Tempore Senate) … then Pompeo (State), Mnuchin (Treasury). The first three were in the Capitol when it was attacked. The rest are Trump/RU toadies.”
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It’s a civil rights-era statute, but there’s nothing obviously about racial discrimination in what Trump did for J6. So the more obvious reading of the statute is that he used his office to obstruct one or more public officials from doing their jobs.
Anyway, here is the statute. Prepare to battle dozens of subclauses.
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My guess is that Smith considers his current position to be far more important than his work at the Hague. That work is predicated upon the concept of the US being the beacon of justice around the world. If Trump, et al., are not held accountable, then the standing of the US in the Hague would be diminished. Further, if Trump gets into the White House and successfully executes the power grab that he is telegraphing, we might actually withdraw from the World Court.
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It will be a glorious experiment and we only need funding for a computational lab situated in Ibiza.
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