Federal prosecutors have started to produce tens of thousands of documents in response to a subpoena from Donald Trump in the New York state hush money case, threatening to delay the start of that trial by weeks.
Cause the documents will prove… what? that he didn’t do the thing we all know he did? Just further delays.
So this delay is caused by the US DOJ? What the fuck Garland?
The worst part of his endless success with delay is that we have to have this horrifying excrescence polluting our brains that much longer. The only upside I can see is that if he ever gets to actually having to defend himself for these crimes, he’s likely to put on an even worse dementia/rage performance.
All of that should’ve beem available from the start. Seems like a huge screwup by DOJ
This one won’t cost him money or get him sent to jail, so meh, whatever. Won’t move the needle. It’s kinda esoteric too - everyone knows he paid Stormy to keep quiet, it’s just he called it legal fees in his business records.
The only upside is if it stress him out so much he has a brain aneurism - but could we even tell at this point?
Still looking forward to the ketchupdown when he can’t come up with a bond for the Engoron case in a couple of weeks, it’s gonna be awesome!
Sounds like Trump didn’t ask until January.
I have read that SDNY was pro-insurrection territory, but this is ridiculous
It got Michael Cohen sent to prison
Nah, it didn’t. He went to jail for eight counts including campaign-finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud, not falsifying business records.
It was, but you have to ask for it. He didn’t ask until the end of January and SDNY has been producing tens of thousands of pages since then.
Talk me back from the ledge here. Is this guy going to continue to get away with his mammoth trail of criming throughout his life?
What in the world could be in the 31K pages that no one already doesn’t know?
How does one hide or lose or otherwise subvert 31K pages of material?
None of this makes any sense, but then there’ve been more delays in these cases than Carter has little liver pills.
Is there a specialty taught in law schools called “Delay Law?” Or Run Out the Clock Law? Seems like there will be soon, given the success so far of this, the most guilty crook in modern history, in attempting to run out the clock.
No one should be counting on any of Trump’s trials beginning before the election. And that’s ok. Defeating Trump at the polls does not and should not rest solely upon getting him tried and convicted before the election.
What people do have control over is how they vote. Vote for Biden, ensure he wins, and then we can all grab the popcorn and watch how the trials unfold, at our leisure. No need to get antsy now.
While I do understand the argument that voters ‘deserve to know what they’re voting for’ - such as whether he turns out to be a convicted felon, or even just to see and hear at least some of the evidence presented against him ahead of election day - that’s not how a justice system works. Courts of justice operate on their own, independent timetable, following the rules.
Any appearance of trials being rushed for any reason - particularly for the sake of getting them underway before an arbitrary deadline like an election date - will only bring the justice system into disrepute. Not to mention play into the hands of Trump and his collaborators, who’d certainly use it to argue there was a ‘rush to judgment’. And you can bet the present Supreme Court would be sure to listen to such arguments.
These cases need to be beyond reproach in every way.
Patience, people.
I’ve no longer any hope that anything is going to bring any case to a close before Labor Day. There’re just too many moving parts and stupid decisions by prosecutors (like this one) leading to even more self-owned delays.
Wake me up when there’s something serious to report. Yet another delay is no surprise, is not news and is not unexpected.
But by G-d if I should ever be arrested for a white-collar crime, I want the same handling that TIFBG is getting. Equal justice under the law, my left eyeball. This nonsense is doing more to erode democracy and the Republic than anything else TIFBG could do. There just is no justice to be served in any of these scenarios.
Attorneys General are not directly involved with every federal case, much less non-federal cases.
But it sure as blazes would help! And why should anyone think our democracy and Republic is strong when we get DAILY stories of his delays granted and appeals entertained?
Here’s a good start - DON’T WAIT FOR MEULLER:
The reason why the moderate press hasn’t been telling the story of Trump’s role in the insurrection, of his ties to militia members and his direct inspiration for the most brutal assaults on cops on January 6 is because all their TV lawyers have been whinging instead about their own misunderstanding of the January 6 investigation. They haven’t been telling the story of what we know.
They have been complaining that Merrick Garland hasn’t compromised the investigation to tell them them more, turning Garland into their villain, not Trump.
More good reasons for a realistic optimism here:
