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

[China]

Here's Glenn Kirschner, former DOJ prosecutor, breaking down the steps for recusal or having Judge Cannon removed:

 

 

[LadySkinsFan]

Judge Cannon continues to issue suspect decisions, this one weakens our trademark law. She's unfit to preside over the Trump documents case and needs to recuse herself or another method of reassigning/removing her must be made.

 

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-judge-aileen-cannons-decision-090908999.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

 

 

 

Edited July 13, 2023 by LadySkinsFan

[China]

Prosecutors Ask Witnesses Whether Trump Acknowledged He Lost 2020 Race

 

Federal prosecutors investigating former President Donald J. Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election have questioned multiple witnesses in recent weeks — including Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner — about whether Mr. Trump had privately acknowledged in the days after the 2020 election that he had lost, according to four people briefed on the matter.

 

The line of questioning suggests prosecutors are trying to establish whether Mr. Trump was acting with corrupt intent as he sought to remain in power — essentially that his efforts were knowingly based on a lie — evidence that could substantially bolster any case they might decide to bring against him.

 

Mr. Kushner testified before a grand jury at the federal courthouse in Washington last month, where he is said to have maintained that it was his impression that Mr. Trump truly believed the election was stolen, according to a person briefed on the matter.

 

But others in Mr. Trump’s orbit who interacted with him in the weeks after the 2020 election, who have potentially more damaging accounts of Mr. Trump’s behavior, have been questioned by the special counsel’s office recently.

 

Among them is Alyssa Farah Griffin, the White House communications director in the days after the 2020 election. Repeating an account she provided last year to the House select committee on Jan. 6, she told prosecutors this spring that Mr. Trump had said to her in the days after the election: Can you believe I lost to Joe Biden?

 

“In that moment I think he knew he lost,” Ms. Griffin told the House committee.

 

Ms. Griffin’s lawyer, Charles J. Cooper, declined to comment.

 

Still other witnesses have been asked whether aides told Mr. Trump that he had lost, according to people familiar with some of the testimony, another topic explored by the House committee.

 

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[Sacks 'n' Stuff]

He knew that he lost. He knew he was going to lose before it even happened. His plan of going out there the night of the election and declaring himself the winner was leaked like a week in advance and that’s exactly what happened.

[PokerPacker]

8 minutes ago, Sacks 'n' Stuff said:

He knew that he lost. He knew he was going to lose before it even happened. His plan of going out there the night of the election and declaring himself the winner was leaked like a week in advance and that’s exactly what happened.

Not exactly.  He was making moves to attempt to steal the election months in advance.  All of that propaganda against mail-in voting to convince his supporters to not vote by mail and then getting his lackey DeJoy to slow down the mail in an attempt to stop mail-in ballots from arriving in time to be counted, along with efforts to have mail-in ballots tossed.  It was his plan to steal the election and then his backup plan was to overthrow the election.

[LadySkinsFan]

Which means that he knew post election when it was called for Biden that he lost. That's called a coup attempt.

[EmirOfShmo]

 

[mistertim]

1 hour ago, EmirOfShmo said:

 

 

Over/under that Cannon will grant the motion?

[LadySkinsFan]

I don't think she'll grant the Defendant's motion. If she does, it's certain that Smith's next move is to get her removed. 

[China]

Target letter to Trump Organization staffer signals new push in classified docs probe: Sources

 

The special counsel investigating former President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents has taken new steps to examine possible efforts to obstruct the probe, threatening potential charges against a Trump Organization employee who is suspected of lying to investigators, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

 

Special counsel Jack Smith in recent weeks transmitted a target letter to the staffer indicating that he might have perjured himself during a May appearance before the federal grand jury hearing evidence in the classified documents probe, the sources told ABC News.

 

The target letter to the employee, which was described to ABC News by sources familiar with it but not obtained or reviewed by ABC News, signals Smith's growing interest in the Trump Organization's handling of the surveillance footage and potential efforts to avoid sharing it with investigators.

 

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[China]

Special counsel rips apart Trump’s plea to delay Mar-a-Lago classified documents trial

 

Special counsel Jack Smith told a federal judge Thursday that there was no reason to postpone scheduling a trial date in the classified documents case against Donald Trump, in a court filing that aggressively rejected the reasons the former president and his co-defendant gave for why the trial should be delayed.

 

The Smith team, which is seeking a mid-December trial date, accused the defendants of giving a “misleading” picture of the amount of evidence that has been handed over by prosecutors to the defendants in the case. Trump and his co-defendant Walt Nauta cited the need for more time to go through the evidence as a reason for pushing back setting a trial date.

 

The prosecutors also railed against the suggestion by Trump’s and Nauta’s lawyers that it would not be possible to seat a fair jury before the 2024 election, as Trump is running to return to the White House.

 

“Our jury system relies on the Court’s authority to craft a thorough and effective jury selection process, and on prospective jurors’ ability and willingness to decide cases based on the evidence presented to them, guided by legal instructions from the Court,” the special counsel’s filing said.

 

“To be sure, the Government readily acknowledges that jury selection here may merit additional protocols (such as a questionnaire) and may be more time-consuming than in other cases, but those are reasons to start the process sooner rather than later.”

 

Prosecutors said that only two of the lawyers who have appeared on behalf of the defendants in the case have submitted the forms required for obtaining security clearance thus far, which the attorneys will need given the classified materials involved in the case.

 

“There is no basis in law or fact for proceeding in such an indeterminate and open-ended fashion, and the Defendants provide none,” the new Smith filing said.

 

Smith’s team also stressed that, while 800,000 pages of discovery were handed over to the defense, one-third of those pages were “non-content email header and footer information” and the prosecutors said only 4,500 pages made up the subset of “key” documents in the case.

 

Also “misleading,” the prosecutors said, were claims from Trump and Nauta that nine months of CCTV footage was turned over in discovery for the defense teams to sift through.

 

“The Government obtained footage only from selected cameras (many of which do not continuously record) from selected dates throughout the period for which it obtained footage,” the filing said.

 

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[China]

New Mexico secretary of state interviewed by prosecutors in special counsel's 2020 election probe

 

Federal prosecutors interviewed New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver in "recent months" as part of the special counsel's ongoing probe into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, a spokesperson for Oliver's office told ABC News on Friday.

 

Oliver, a Democrat, has pushed back against accusations that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.

 

Her spokesperson said the meeting was "to discuss matters" related to the investigation.

 

Beyond that, they didn't provide any specifics, including whether or not Special Counsel Jack Smith was present at the meeting.

 

ABC News previously reported that Smith subpoenaed Oliver's office last fall for communications with or involving Trump, his 2020 campaign aides, and Trump allies involved in his efforts to overturn the election results.

 

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[Dan T.]

Trump stealing from Israel...

 

 

[China]

Trump Says He’s a Target in Special Counsel’s Investigation Into Jan. 6

 

Former President Donald J. Trump said on Tuesday that he recently received a so-called target letter from the special counsel Jack Smith in connection with the criminal investigation into his efforts to hold onto power after he lost the 2020 election, a sign that he is likely to be indicted in the case.

 

It would be the second time Mr. Smith has notified Mr. Trump that he is a target in a federal investigation. The first, in June, was in connection to the investigation into Mr. Trump’s handling of national defense material after he left office and his alleged obstruction of efforts to retrieve it.

 

“Deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden’s DOJ, sent a letter (again, it was Sunday night!) stating that I am a TARGET of the January 6th Grand Jury investigation, and giving me a very short 4 days to report to the Grand Jury, which almost always means an Arrest and Indictment,” Mr. Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social, after a news inquiry into whether he had been told he is a target.

 

A person close to Mr. Trump confirmed he had received the letter.

 

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[LadySkinsFan]

DC grand jury, DC trial, DC jury!

[@DCGoldPants]

 

Did this guy flip?

[CobraCommander]

2 hours ago, Dan T. said:

Trump stealing from Israel...

 

 

Maybe he sent them an IOU. 

 

 

[Cooked Crack]

 

[EmirOfShmo]

The Independent article is a good summation of some of the DOJ behind the scenes activity. Also says both Rudy & Meadows have struck deals that will reduce charges they're facing for cooperation with DOJ. I guess we'll see in a couple of days...

 

 

[LadySkinsFan]

These former Trump "do gooders" aren't going to take a fall for him. They're older and long prison sentences aren't good for them even in Camp Fed. 

[FootballZombie]

Staring down jailtime can have that effect on people.

 

[China]

🎶And the grift goes on...🎶

 

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/07/18/us/trump-jan-6-letter#trump-jan-6-letter

 

Shortly after disclosing that he'd received a target letter from the Justice Department, Donald Trump was using it to solicit campaign donations. “Please make a contribution to show that you will NEVER SURRENDER our country to tyranny as the Deep State things try to JAIL me for life,” he said in an email to supporters. Similar appeals have been successful: His joint fund-raising committee said it raised $4 million in the 24 hours after he was indicted in late March by New York prosecutors, and $6.6 million in the days after his indictment in June by the special counsel.