China Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 Trump attorney to testify Friday in Mar-a-Lago classified documents investigation after losing appeal Former President Donald Trump’s defense attorney Evan Corcoran is scheduled to testify Friday before the grand jury investigating classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago after a new order from a federal appeals court, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals said that Corcoran must provide additional testimony and turn over documents about the former president as part of the criminal investigation into possible mishandling of classified documents. The source said Trump’s side is unlikely to appeal to the Supreme Court. In response to the decision, a Trump spokesperson said, in part, that “there is no factual or legal basis or substance to any case against President Trump” and that “prosecutors only attack lawyers when they have no case whatsoever.” Click on the link for the full article 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ball Security Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 2 minutes ago, The Evil Genius said: For context, this is the woman who walked out with Pelosi’s laptop. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 52 minutes ago, Ball Security said: For context, this is the woman who walked out with Pelosi’s laptop. She also fantasized about killing Pelosi, planned to return Jan 20th, and used professional grade software to wipe her computer and phone to try to cover her tracks. Quote You pretend you're highPretend you're boredPretend you're anythingJust to be adoredAnd what you needIs what you get Don't believe in fearDon't believe in faithDon't believe in anythingThat you can't break Stupid girlStupid girlAll you had you wastedAll you had you wasted 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 Proud Boys attorneys: Informant had contact with defense team, defendants Attorneys for five Proud Boys on trial on charges of seditious conspiracy said on Wednesday that the Justice Department had informed them that a witness one of them had been prepared to call as part of the defense this week has been a government informant since 2021. “During this period of time, the [informant] has been in contact via telephone, text messaging and other electronic means, with one or more of the counsel for the defense and at least one defendant,” said Carmen Hernandez, an attorney for one of the five Proud Boys, Zachary Rehl, in a motion seeking more details of prosecutors’ use of informants in the case. According to Hernandez, who filed the motion on behalf of all five defendants — including Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys’ former national chairman — the informant also attended “prayer meetings” with at least one of the defendants’ families and, at one point, discussed the composition of the defense team. It’s the latest wrench in a trial that has stretched into its fourth month, the most significant to emerge from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Prosecutors have charged Tarrio, Rehl and three others — Ethan Nordean, Joe Biggs and Dominic Pezzola — with igniting the attack, methodically working to breach multiple police lines and ultimately entering the building itself to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election as president. U.S. District Court Judge Tim Kelly has asked for the government to respond to the defense’s filing by 9 a.m. Thursday. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 Trump 'tricked' me: Michigan man tries, but fails, to avoid prison in Jan. 6 attack Anthony Puma admitted to breaking into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, through a broken window, videotaping the melee on his GoPro camera and posting it to Facebook — but says President Donald Trump "tricked" him into rebelling that day — and he therefore shouldn't go to prison for it. A judge disagreed. Puma, a 50-year-old husband and father who now says he regrets his actions and has "disavowed" his support for Trump, will be in a federal prison for nine months for participating in the violent attack that sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Puma had asked to be spared a prison sentence, but prosecutors argued he belonged behind bars for his actions. Click on the link for the full article 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 Donald Trump argues he deserves immunity from 3 lawsuits over Jan. 6 Capitol attack Former President Donald Trump argued in a federal appeals court filing Thursday he deserves immunity from three civil lawsuits that seek to blame him for the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump's lawyer, Jesse Binnall, told a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals there was no "incitement" in Trump's speech near the White House Jan. 6, 2021, before a mob of supporters stormed the Capitol. Binnall argued Trump's exhortation to "fight" was a reference to political pressure. "First, President Trump’s speech falls well within the broad scope of absolute immunity suggested by DOJ," Binnall wrote. "Absolute immunity aims to prevent the President from being subjected to the process of civil litigation." "No part of a President’s official responsibilities includes the incitement of imminent private violence," department lawyers said. "By definition, such conduct plainly falls outside the President’s constitutional and statutory duties." The lawmakers and police officers also filed an argument in the case Thursday, agreeing with the Justice Department but arguing against a sweeping view of presidential immunity other than for inciting violence. The litigants argued Trump was outside his official duties as a "clear and present danger" in urging supporters to block roads to Congress or forge Electoral College ballots. Click on the link for the full article 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 Meadows, other top Trump aides ordered to testify in Jan. 6 probe as judge rejects claims of executive privilege A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump's claims of executive privilege and has ordered Mark Meadows and other former top aides to testify before a federal grand jury investigating Trump's efforts to overturn the election leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. Meadows, Trump's former chief of staff, was subpoenaed along with the other former aides by Special counsel Jack Smith for testimony and documents related to the probe. Trump's legal team had challenged the subpoenas by asserting executive privilege, which is the right of a president to keep confidential the communications he has with advisers. In a sealed order last week, Judge Beryl Howell rejected Trump's claim of executive privilege for Meadows and a number of others, including Trump's former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, his former national security adviser Robert O'Brien, former top aide Stephen Miller, and former deputy chief of staff and social media director Dan Scavino, according to sources familiar with the matter. Former Trump aides Nick Luna and John McEntee, along with former top DHS official Ken Cuccinelli, were also included in the order, the sources said. Trump is likely to appeal the ruling, according to sources briefed on the matter. "The DOJ is continuously stepping far outside the standard norms in attempting to destroy the long accepted, long held, Constitutionally based standards of attorney-client privilege and executive privilege," a Trump spokesperson said in a statement. "There is no factual or legal basis or substance to any case against President Trump. The deranged Democrats and their comrades in the mainstream media are corrupting the legal process and weaponizing the justice system in order to manipulate public opinion, because they are clearly losing the political battle." Meadows did not respond to ABC's request for comment and neither did an attorney representing him. Ratcliffe, O'Brien, Miller, Luna, McEntee and Cuccinelli did not respond to ABC's request for comment. An attorney representing Scavino declined to comment. Some of the aides that have been ordered to testify have already appeared before the grand jury but did not answer some questions related to interactions with the former president, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News, and thus would now be required to return for additional testimony. The grand jury proceedings are being held under seal. Click on the link for the full article 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Trump attorney Evan Corcoran testifies before federal grand jury in documents probe An attorney for former President Donald Trump testified for over three hours before a federal grand jury convened by special counsel Jack Smith, who is investigating the potential mishandling of documents with classified markings, according to two people familiar with the matter. Evan Corcoran was spotted in the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Friday, ahead of his expected testimony, and made his way to the area of the building where grand juries hear testimony. These proceedings are sealed from public view under federal law. Prosecutors are interested in knowing more about Trump's communications with Corcoran — who appeared before a grand jury once before and claimed attorney-client privilege — and planned to question him about notes and voice memos he was compelled to turn over, one of the sources said. A federal judge ruled Corcoran's claims of attorney-client privilege over certain topics were invalid and compelled the lawyer to answer questions about aspects of his work with Trump and turn over evidence to investigators based on the "crime-fraud exception." Click on the link for the full article 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Captain Wiggles Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Is that Trump superimposed on the American flag? If so that's definitely a violation of the flag code. 🤪 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 1,000 people have been charged for the Capitol riot. Here's where their cases stand More than two years after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, prosecutors have now charged more than 1,000 people in relation to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. These hundreds of people encompass "the most wide-ranging investigation" in the history of the Justice Department. NPR has been tracking every case related to the attack as they move through the court system, from the initial arrest to sentencing. The investigation has been a massive undertaking, both in its scope and cost. Every U.S. Attorney's office has been involved, as well as every FBI field office. As part of the $1.7 trillion government spending package passed in December, $2.6 billion was allocated to the U.S. Attorneys, in part to support the Jan. 6 prosecutions. In order to bring charges, the Justice Department is sifting through mountains of evidence and chasing down tips. The FBI says it has been reviewing almost four million files, including 30,000 video files. Those include police body-worn camera footage from five different law enforcement agencies, surveillance footage from the building, as well as the many videos on seized cell phones and posted online. "For context, these files amount to over nine terabytes of information and would take at least 361 days to view continuously," the FBI reported when it marked the attack's second anniversary. Click on the link for the full article Now they have to get the suits of the insurrection...Eastman, Giuliani, Scavino, Meadows, Trump, etc. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califan007 The Constipated Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 On 3/25/2023 at 8:09 PM, Cooked Crack said: I just heard the song...jeebus. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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China Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 8 minutes ago, Captain Wiggles said: I'm so confused. I see Beavis head banging with a Metallica shirt, and I read Justice for All and I think... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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China Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Pence Must Testify to Jan. 6 Grand Jury, Judge Rules A federal judge has ordered former Vice President Mike Pence to appear in front of a grand jury investigating former President Donald J. Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, largely sweeping aside two separate legal efforts by Mr. Pence and Mr. Trump to limit his testimony, according to two people familiar with the matter. The twin rulings on Monday, by Judge James E. Boasberg in Federal District Court in Washington, were the latest setbacks to bids by Mr. Trump’s legal team to limit the scope of questions that prosecutors can ask witnesses close to him in separate investigations into his efforts to maintain his grip on power after his election defeat and into his handling of classified documents after he left office. In the weeks leading up to the Capitol attack by a pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6, 2021, the former president repeatedly pressed Mr. Pence to use his ceremonial role overseeing the congressional count of Electoral College votes to block or delay certification of his defeat. Prosecutors have been seeking to compel Mr. Pence to testify about Mr. Trump’s demands on him, which were thoroughly documented by aides to Mr. Pence in testimony last year to the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6 riot and what led up to it. This month, Mr. Trump’s lawyers asked Judge Boasberg’s predecessor as chief judge for the court, Beryl A. Howell, to limit Mr. Pence’s testimony by claiming that certain issues were off limits because of executive privilege, which protects certain communications between the president and some members of his administration. At the same time, lawyers for Mr. Pence asked to limit his testimony by arguing that his role as the president of the Senate meant he was protected from legal scrutiny by the executive branch — including the Justice Department — under the Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause. That provision is intended to protect the separation of powers. While Judge Boasberg issued a clear-cut ruling against Mr. Trump’s attempts to assert executive privilege, his ruling on the “speech or debate” clause was more nuanced, according to a person familiar with the matter. The judge affirmed the idea that Mr. Pence had some protection under “speech or debate” based on his role in overseeing the certification of the election inside the Capitol on Jan. 6. But Judge Boasberg also said that Mr. Pence would have to testify to the grand jury about any potentially illegal acts committed by Mr. Trump, the person familiar with the matter said. Click on the link for the full article 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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