Convicted felon Donald Trump on Trial (Found guilty on 34 felony counts. 54 criminal count still in the air)

[LD0506]

[China]

Legal Analyst Flags Judge Cannon’s Latest ‘Bias’ Move in Trump Case

 

Legal analyst Joyce Vance has voiced concerns about a closed-door meeting between Judge Aileen Cannon and special counsel Jack Smith, which she describes as an “oddly scheduled ex-parte meeting.” This meeting, focused on the sharing of classified documents in the case against former President Donald Trump, has raised questions about the judge’s potential bias. Vance highlighted the unusual delay in the proceedings, expressing discontent with the extended timeline that deviates from the norm in cases involving classified information.

 

Vance criticized Judge Cannon for the substantial delay in reaching a decision on Section 4 motions related to the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA). The delay, according to Vance, is particularly troubling given the straightforward nature of the case. In her analysis on Substack, Vance pointed out that the anticipated CIPA ruling ahead of the holidays did not materialize, and the hearing is still weeks away at the end of January.

 

“One of the biggest objections to Judge Cannon’s handling of the case has been the exceptional amount of delay she has indulged Trump with in what should have been a fairly straightforward case,” Vance wrote. “I anticipated a CIPA (Classified Information Procedures Act) ruling ahead of the holidays. … But here we are at the end of January, with the hearing itself still weeks away.”

 

The significance of the Wednesday meeting lies in its role in Smith’s case against Trump in Florida, where the former president faces conspiracy charges related to top-secret documents found at his Mar-a-Lago social club. The Classified Information Procedures Act, designed to protect sensitive government information, allows Smith to seek Cannon’s approval to exclude or replace classified information with unclassified summaries.

 

Vance emphasized the importance of a swift resolution, noting that Smith can appeal to the 11th Circuit if Cannon denies his request. 

 

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[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

 

 

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

 

 

 

[China]

11 hours ago, Califan007 The Constipated said:

 

 

 

 

 

As I posted in the thread for that case (this thread is for his criminal cases, not his civil cases - hence the word "arrest" in the title), the ruling from Engoron is not expected until next Monday.

[Die Hard]

11 hours ago, Califan007 The Constipated said:

 

 

 

 

Oh no, if this keeps up… he might have to sell one of his Mar-a-logos!!!

[China]

As judges mull presidential immunity, Trump reaps the benefits of delay

 

Whether Donald Trump faces a potential prison sentence in 2024 is at the mercy of a federal appeals court that’s operating on its own schedule — at a time when every day matters.

 

More than 50 days have elapsed since Trump’s criminal proceedings in a Washington, D.C., trial court — on charges for attempting to subvert the 2020 election — were paused indefinitely. They won’t resume until the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and, most likely, the Supreme Court resolve the question hanging over the entire case: whether Trump, as a former president, is immune from criminal prosecution.

 

Even if those courts ultimately reject Trump’s immunity arguments — an outcome that most legal experts expect — the protracted delays help the former president, whose strategy across his various trials has been to drag them out for as long as possible. Lengthy delays in his federal criminal cases create the possibility that, if he wins the presidency this November, Trump could avoid the charges altogether by having the Justice Department end the prosecutions or perhaps even by pardoning himself.

 

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing Trump’s federal election case, has tried to keep it on an expeditious track, and the trial is officially slated to begin on March 4. Chutkan, though, has strongly suggested she’ll push back that start date to account for each day of delay caused by Trump’s immunity appeal.

 

Even if the appeal were resolved this week against Trump, that calculation would put his earliest trial date in late April. But if the D.C. Circuit and the Supreme Court take additional weeks or months to deliver a final ruling, the opening days of Trump’s trial could be pushed to the summer or fall.

 

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[Cooked Crack]

 

[Dan T.]

 

Walt Nauta Was Accused of Sexual Misconduct. Then Trump Hired Him. Then He Was Indicted in Mar-a-Lago Case. (thedailybeast.com)

[LadySkinsFan]

Those three defendants need to go to prison. 

[China]

He Was Accused of Sexual Misconduct. Then Trump Hired Him. Then He Was Indicted in Mar-a-Lago Case.

 

When Donald Trump invited his longtime White House valet, Walt Nauta, to join his post-presidential political operation in August 2021, he was hiring a body man with serious baggage.

 

Weeks before Nauta—a Navy enlistee stationed with the White House Presidential Support Detail since 2012—traded Washington, D.C., for Palm Beach, Navy officials had escorted him off White House grounds, reassigned him to a new post, and docked his White House security clearance in response to accusations of fraternization, adultery, harassment, and other inappropriate sexual conduct, including “revenge porn,” two people with direct knowledge of the matter told The Daily Beast.

 

The allegations came from three female servicemembers, these sources said. While Nauta’s behavior had been ongoing for years, according to these sources, the women first reported it to supervisors in spring 2021, shortly after Nauta was recalled from his first, temporary post-presidential assignment at Mar-a-Lago.

 

Specifically, the initial complaints stemmed from a woman’s responses to a “command climate survey,” submitted sometime around April 2021. The woman reported an “inappropriate relationship between a senior person and a junior person,” according to one of the sources with direct knowledge.

 

Nauta, this source said, was high enough in the White House detail’s leadership structure that he was actually among the group of Navy officials briefed on that first complaint. The survey responses hadn’t named Nauta, however, and he walked out of that meeting “cool as a cucumber, ready to find the culprit,” this source said.

 

But a follow-up inquiry identified Nauta, along with inappropriate romantic relationships with two additional women. Nauta, the same source said, admitted to the relationships in a White House interview, and a superior officer walked him off the property that day.

 

The U.S. military strictly forbids fraternization, which the Navy defines as an “unduly familiar” relationship between members “that does not respect the difference in rank or grade.” Those relationships can be personal, professional, or romantic, and the steepest penalties include dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of pay.

 

Nauta, both sources said, was accused of violating this prohibition in multiple overlapping and emotionally abusive romantic relationships while he was married and assigned to the White House. The “revenge porn” included supposedly compromising images of women that Nauta had allegedly retained and threatened to make public, according to the sources.

 

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[@DCGoldPants]

She done ****ed up. 

 

 

[Larry]

Sigh. 

 

Why can't we have nice things?  

[TheGreatBuzz]

It started after the case started. 

[Califan007 The Constipated]

1 hour ago, @DCGoldPants said:

She done ****ed up. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Fergasun]

Fani Willis Escalation Thread! 

 

Posted in the wrong thread but what the hell.  Do lawyers not have ethics?

 

 

Edited February 3 by Fergasun

[Sacks 'n' Stuff]

16 minutes ago, Fergasun said:

Do lawyers not have ethics?

Some do. Some don’t.

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

 

 

[EmirOfShmo]

Trump's Truth Social deal is being investigated by 'elite money-laundering team': report

 

A federal investigation into the financing behind Donald Trump's foray into social media has grown to involve the FBI, the SEC, a division of the Department of Homeland Security and what is being described as "one of the government’s most elite anti-money-laundering teams" according to a new federal filing

According to a deep dive by the Washington Post's Drew Harwell, there is no indication that the former president and his Trump Media have been accused of wrongdoing in the case involving the troubled Truth Social thus far, but there are questions over his involvement in "a business arrangement that federal agents now allege was undermined from its inception by financial fraud."

 

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-truth-social-financing/

[LadySkinsFan]

Such a great business fraudster.

[Fergasun]

1 hour ago, LadySkinsFan said:

Such a great business fraudster.

If you're rich and famous, they let you do it!

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

 

 

 

 

Definitely getting the feeling that this whole Fani Willis relationship "controversy" is gonna fizzle out, other than being yet another laughable talking point for MAGA loons (including the head loon).

 

From the video, the guy being charged is basically saying that a much better prosecutor should have been assigned to convict him lol...

 

Edited February 4 by Califan007 The Constipated

[China]

Special counsel mounts forceful — and unusual — defense of Trump classified documents case

 

Special counsel Jack Smith used a routine legal filing Friday to offer a forceful public rebuttal against Donald Trump’s claims that his criminal prosecution for allegedly hoarding classified documents has been infected by politics and legal impropriety.

 

The 68-page document began with what Smith’s team described as an effort to correct false assertions the former president had made about the nature of the case against him.

 

“It is necessary to set the record straight on the underlying facts that led to this prosecution,” the prosecutors argued. “The government will clear the air on those issues … because the defendants’ misstatements, if unanswered, leave a highly misleading impression.”

 

What followed was a lengthy recitation of the events that led prosecutors to suspect Trump had been squirreling reams of classified records at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Rather than the bloodthirsty partisan endeavor Trump describes, prosecutors say federal officials from the National Archives, intelligence community and White House counsel’s office took “measures” and “incremental” steps to retrieve the documents — often in coordination with some of Trump’s own designated advisers — before escalating the matter as the former president continued to resist.

 

The approach taken in the legal brief is somewhat unusual for the Justice Department. Though the filing was submitted to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, at times it sounded like an opening argument to a jury Trump could face in the future or the first chapter of a report meant to detail investigative findings to the public.

 

It’s unclear whether the “misimpressions” prosecutors say they’re trying to correct are ones they fear Cannon could fall prey to, whether the target audience for the brief is a larger one, and how the Fort Pierce, Fla.-based Trump appointee will respond to the tactic.

 

The substance of the prosecution brief is aimed at countering the demands by Trump and his two co-defendants — Walt Nauta and Carlos DeOliveira — for access to a broad range of documents from across the government that the defense attorneys contend could be useful in defending their clients. They’ve asked Cannon to consider massive executive branch agencies and the White House as appendages of Smith’s prosecution team — a decision that could open their files to defendants beyond the typical evidence-sharing that occurs for witnesses in criminal proceedings.

 

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[Cooked Crack]

 

 

[skinsfan4128]

19 minutes ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

This is great news. Of course, his royal anus will appeal to the Supreme Court. But this decision could lead to SCOTUS refusal to hear the argument. 

 

Need a new MAGA. Make Assclown Go Away.

 

HTTR!