Originally published at: Trump Leverages SCOTUS Immunity Ruling To Attack His Hush-Money Conviction
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. The Other Shoe Just Dropped In a new filing Thursday, former President Donald Trump launched a wholesale attack not just on his conviction in the New York hush money case but on the underlying indictment,…
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Went to sleep satisfied, happy even, in the performance of a caring, smart, decent public servant. And this is what we wake up to, the performance of an egotistical, stupid (yet conniving) despicable self servant. (I don’t know if anyone else has applied this play on words to donny, but I really like it! )
Former President Donald Trump launched a wholesale attack not just on his conviction in the New York hush money case but on the underlying indictment, too – relying heavily on the Supreme Court’s unprecedented ruling in his favor on presidential immunity.
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Same ol’ Joe hosted NATO last night
His answers showed strength and insight
Though some Dems still complain
He seems fine to remain
Let’s unite, we have fascists to fight
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Sneaky CJ Roberts, helping us all by having trump’s conviction by a jury overturned just before the election not because he was innocent, but because he was President.
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Nice limerick!
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Sheer poetry!!
We be rhymin’ while Trump be crimin’
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Prosecutors get to use evidence before the grand jury even if it would be ruled inadmissible at trial. “Bobby told me the Defendant shot the deceased” is fine, even though it’s hearsay.
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Evidentiary objections are waived if they are not made before the evidence is admitted at trial. If the defendant doesn’t object, “Bobby told me the Defendant shot the deceased” comes in and is evidence that the jury can consider for whatever it’s worth despite it being obvious hearsay.
The indictment is fine, and trump waived any immunity objections to the trial evidence.
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To go for the King
You have only one attempt
The press corps has failed
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I’m soooo dispirited by this immunity tactic. It just takes the wind out of any sail. Our republic, media & court have been usurped by billionaires. Democracy in tatters all we have left are patriots. Ugh
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Big time. Along with the courts.
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I feel, for the most part ,Sleepy Joe has assuaged our reticence.
The media will still pick at the scab while ignoring the suppurating wound of donald dump.
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So if I’m reading this right, judge Merchan should have no trouble proceeding with sentencing, but this could still be overturned on appeal? That is, if it gets in front of the right judge.
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Should toss the SCOTUS in there too @inversion.
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When Trump finally reappeared on a soggy Florida night just a short hop away from his country club home, he went on yet another unhinged rant where he focused on the fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter, promised pardons for Jan. 6 insurrectionists and added a new fixation about bacon. CNN fact-checked one claim about vacation homes while The Guardian tackled several more odd topics. But the rambling speech this past Tuesday was largely ignored.
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Pres. Biden had a good press conference. However, I now think he probably should hand off the nomination to KH. Looking at current Pres. Biden, it is really hard to imagine him operating at full steam 4 years from now.
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Every time I open a news site – and I open too many of them – I hear Don McLean run through my head: “Bad news on the doorstep / I couldn’t take one more step.”
Orange guy is sizing up the White House for new (no doubt gold-fringed) drapes. I can only hope he collapses on live TV next week during the convention, or that someone in prime time says the quiet part even more loudly than the Heritage Foundation guy, and that it makes the rounds on TikTok even more than a Zach King magic trick (yeah, I had to look him up, too).
I really need to get out and volunteer.
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?!? If it’s in a good way, I may have to reconsider my party affiliation.
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In the ordinary course, it would have to go through appeals to the NY Appellate Division and the NY Court of Appeals before he could get it to SCOTUS. I have never heard of SCOTUS snatching a case out of the state courts via cert. before judgment, but I would bet good money that trump’s lawyers will try that here.
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Just how can Trump’s team make anything of that case “official”? Given that neither Daniels or Cohen are public employees and the matter at hand was in no way attached to any executive policy.
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My take on the press conference for what it’s worth. Biden is a foreign relations policy wonk, and on that front he did fine in the press conference. Especially on how the US is currently dealing with China. Kudos for that.
Where he lost points was on style and not substance, which has been the problem all along. He looked every bit of his 81 years, with low energy, occasionally slurred speech and meandering into detail on questions that could be answered more concisely. I cringed every time he said “And by the way,” and he did that a lot. I don’t think this changes anything. We’ll see.
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