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POL Law enforcement agencies are prepping for a possible Trump indictment as early as THIS week
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The Hammer
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This is not the time for friendly fire. Like Trump or not - believe Trump is the best nominee for 2024 or not - this banana republic move the left wants to pull is an attack on the entire conservative side.
There will be another time to hash out differences for the nomination race.
vector7
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Catturd2: Since I love President Trump and love DeSantis as my Governor - and I’ve never disrespected either team, I’ll tell you the part that bothers me. He said his main focus is fighting for we Floridians. With that being said, I spent a year working so hard 24/7 campaigning for DeSantis so he could represent us for 4 more years. I did this out of love and never took a penny. If he abandons that oath after only a few months, especially after all that work we did to give him a 20 point landslide - honestly, how do you expect me to trust him going forward? Talk about a gut punch.
Ginger Political:
The way I see it:
- DeSantis has lots of time on his side
- Trump doesn’t
View: https://twitter.com/GingerPolitical/status/1638004231914266628?t=E07qrMZIoHW2G7Bh30wifg&s=19
He could easily back Trump and pick up ‘28 and ‘32, and be more impactful by securing conservatism for 3 terms. Yup
Exactly - 12 years in a row for the both of them
Unless he chooses to be RINO controlled opposition.
View: https://twitter.com/Staama221/status/1638239510029824019?t=t7Pr9taro2hfYvrGNzcfNg&s=19
Ginger Political:
The way I see it:
- DeSantis has lots of time on his side
- Trump doesn’t
View: https://twitter.com/GingerPolitical/status/1638004231914266628?t=E07qrMZIoHW2G7Bh30wifg&s=19
He could easily back Trump and pick up ‘28 and ‘32, and be more impactful by securing conservatism for 3 terms. Yup
Exactly - 12 years in a row for the both of them
Unless he chooses to be RINO controlled opposition.
View: https://twitter.com/Staama221/status/1638239510029824019?t=t7Pr9taro2hfYvrGNzcfNg&s=19
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vector7
Dot Collector
stop tyranny
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Not trying to piss in anyone's cheerios but I would seriously like an honest answer. Knowing all the fraud of the 2020 presidential election followed by the fraudulent midterms what makes you think the 2024 election will be any different?
From the time Trump decided to run in 2020 and throughout his term and after an illegitimate president was appointed by the deep state to replace him, we have witnessed the weaponization of the highest branches of our tyrannical government with almost every mainstream media organization working as their propaganda arm.
We saw midterms candidates having as much popularity as a sexually transmitted disease just as with biden win elections against conservative candidates with major support.
We also saw plenty of documented, photographic, and video evidence of fraud in the midterms just as we saw in the 2020 election with almost no prosecutions or serious investigations.
If anything, the fraud and corruption are currently far more rampant now than when it started with Trump.
Not only that but they do not even try to hide the fraud and corruption anymore.
So, I ask again why do you think 2024 will be different?
Maybe we are at the point that anti-American communists/globalists have saturated our federal and in many instances state governments to the point where we no longer have free and fair elections or equal justice anymore.
Maybe we now have a government and governmental institutions that only serve those who increase their wealth and power while "we the people" are viewed as pheasants to be used to benefit their donors.
Maybe we have come full circle and the only solution to the problem we now face is a "revolutionary" one.
From the time Trump decided to run in 2020 and throughout his term and after an illegitimate president was appointed by the deep state to replace him, we have witnessed the weaponization of the highest branches of our tyrannical government with almost every mainstream media organization working as their propaganda arm.
We saw midterms candidates having as much popularity as a sexually transmitted disease just as with biden win elections against conservative candidates with major support.
We also saw plenty of documented, photographic, and video evidence of fraud in the midterms just as we saw in the 2020 election with almost no prosecutions or serious investigations.
If anything, the fraud and corruption are currently far more rampant now than when it started with Trump.
Not only that but they do not even try to hide the fraud and corruption anymore.
So, I ask again why do you think 2024 will be different?
Maybe we are at the point that anti-American communists/globalists have saturated our federal and in many instances state governments to the point where we no longer have free and fair elections or equal justice anymore.
Maybe we now have a government and governmental institutions that only serve those who increase their wealth and power while "we the people" are viewed as pheasants to be used to benefit their donors.
Maybe we have come full circle and the only solution to the problem we now face is a "revolutionary" one.
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RememberGoliad
Veteran Member
Stop T., you put into words the concept I was forming as I read through the last few hrs of updates. I've alluded to it in a few comments on this and/or other (can't remember, as they're all related) that all the spinning parts are coasting down, the only question is how long before we can navigate them and get on with living.....it's all broken and like the coyote, nobody is looking down yet so there's no freak-out....
No freak-out here, either. I've been saying for >10 years that '24 is the end of the line, republic wise. We're not early. Those spinning parts will take 6-12 months to slow down enough to wobble and toss people off. But it IS coming, there's no way to stuff this egg back in the chicken.
No freak-out here, either. I've been saying for >10 years that '24 is the end of the line, republic wise. We're not early. Those spinning parts will take 6-12 months to slow down enough to wobble and toss people off. But it IS coming, there's no way to stuff this egg back in the chicken.
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A late breaking report out of FOX news:
BREAKING: Soros-Funded DA Alvin Bragg CAUGHT HIDING Nearly 600 Pages of Exculpatory Evidence from NY Grand Jury in Trump Case (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
Attorney Robert Costello, the former legal adviser to Michael Cohen, spoke to Tucker Carlson on Monday night after he testified to the Manhattan Grand Jury investigating President Donald Trump.
www.thegatewaypundit.com
BREAKING: Soros-Funded DA Alvin Bragg CAUGHT HIDING Nearly 600 Pages of Exculpatory Evidence from NY Grand Jury in Trump Case (VIDEO)
BREAKING: Soros-Funded DA Alvin Bragg CAUGHT HIDING Nearly 600 Pages of Exculpatory Evidence from NY Grand Jury in Trump Case (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
Attorney Robert Costello, the former legal adviser to Michael Cohen, spoke to Tucker Carlson on Monday night after he testified to the Manhattan Grand Jury investigating President Donald Trump.
www.thegatewaypundit.com
By Jim Hoft Mar. 21, 2023 9:46 pm
Robert Costello, the former legal adviser to Michael Cohen, spoke to Tucker Carlson on Monday night after he testified to Manhattan Grand Jury investigating President Donald Trump.
Costello told the FOX News audience that he testified for two hours in front of Alvin Bragg’s Manhattan Grand Jury.
Robert Costello told Tucker Carlson, “I spoke to the jury for two hours… It was clear to me the Manhattan Grand Jury did not want to get to the truth.”
And it now is being reported that New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg was HIDING exculpatory evidence from the Grand Jury!
According to FOX News legal mind Gregg Jarrett, DA Alvin Bragg HID nearly 600 pages of exculpatory evidence to the New York Grand Jury.
Once again the REAL crooks reveal themselves. And Jarrett is right. If there was a real justice system in the country, they should be disbarred.
vector7
Dot Collector
Trump surges to 28 POINT lead over DeSantis as Florida Governor dips to LOWEST point of popularity
View: https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1638360647351037953?t=qmKD7Nac6DkdgcIPeYoEcg&s=19
View: https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1638360647351037953?t=qmKD7Nac6DkdgcIPeYoEcg&s=19
vector7
Dot Collector
Julie Kelly: More leaks out of Merrick Garland's special prosecutor's office. ABC News has details of sealed filing by Judge Beryl Howell who claimed the special prosecutor produced evidence of a "criminal scheme" to support her decision to pierce atty-client privilege
"Sources added that Howell also ordered Corcoran to hand over a number of records. Those records include handwritten notes, invoices, and transcriptions of personal audio recordings." Howell, Obama appointee, is a Dem Party operative in a black robe.
View: https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1638309055428022272?t=vvkg2bFd53XxpCctg5ofxg&s=19
"Sources added that Howell also ordered Corcoran to hand over a number of records. Those records include handwritten notes, invoices, and transcriptions of personal audio recordings." Howell, Obama appointee, is a Dem Party operative in a black robe.
View: https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1638309055428022272?t=vvkg2bFd53XxpCctg5ofxg&s=19
vector7
Dot Collector
They’re actually doing this. Stalinism arrives to America
JUST IN - Donald Trump will likely be indicted on Wednesday but won't appear before a judge in New York until next week, Daily Mail reports
Everything my parents & grandparents risked their lives escaping from has come to America. It's heartbreaking. No one ever thinks it will happen to them but in reality, no one is safe.
View: https://twitter.com/LisaS4680/status/1638283450288427036?t=vLwZnZ9RlE4BlC8cXYpcaQ&s=19
JUST IN - Donald Trump will likely be indicted on Wednesday but won't appear before a judge in New York until next week, Daily Mail reports
Everything my parents & grandparents risked their lives escaping from has come to America. It's heartbreaking. No one ever thinks it will happen to them but in reality, no one is safe.
View: https://twitter.com/LisaS4680/status/1638283450288427036?t=vLwZnZ9RlE4BlC8cXYpcaQ&s=19
I'm not sure what post you are referring to... was it on this thread?
Summerthyme
RememberGoliad
Veteran Member
Oops. Post immediately preceding that one is the one I was responding to. #445. Authored by Stop Tyranny. Shouldn't have abbreviated. I'll go fix it.
No wonder I was confused! LOL...no worries. It's not all about me! I should have caught that..Oops. Post immediately preceding that one is the one I was responding to. #445. Authored by Stop Tyranny. Shouldn't have abbreviated. I'll go fix it.
Summerthyme
vector7
Dot Collector
vector7
Dot Collector
^^^Tucker just called out DC US Attorney Matthew Graves (Biden campaign advisor, Biden appointee) for plans to double number of Jan 6 defendants.
I reported this last fall:
View: https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1638332152210243585?t=hhxEmZC4SMUL85ixlraGmw&s=19
Graves is married to the head of a radical leftwing nonprofit in DC who called white women who voted for Trump “racists.”
And Michael Sherwin’s “shock and awe” crusade. My report from March 2021
View: https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1638334119645007872?t=ZnPIkUJIcBOeNHi8aOn_1Q&s=19
Funny story about Sherwin. He acted as an undercover agent on Jan 6—seen in plain clothes walking near ellipse and then Capitol grounds. He told J6 committee he was in constant contact with Steven D’Antuono (Whitmer fednapping architect) about what was happening.
But J6 committee never interviewed D’Antuono even tho his name was brought up repeatedly in witness testimony. And when Sherwin gave his interview to J6 committee, it only applied to his movements until 2pm
effort (alleged) btw multiple agencies to protect the city that day. He used the old “news reports” excuse as to why he initiated this inter-agency coordination.
Sherwin was the acting DC US Atty who was (oddly) undercover at the Ellipse and outside Capitol that day.
View: https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1638338737422626816?t=z8959-6liBKddkzoHpzZ2A&s=19
I reported this last fall:
View: https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1638332152210243585?t=hhxEmZC4SMUL85ixlraGmw&s=19
Graves is married to the head of a radical leftwing nonprofit in DC who called white women who voted for Trump “racists.”
And Michael Sherwin’s “shock and awe” crusade. My report from March 2021
View: https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1638334119645007872?t=ZnPIkUJIcBOeNHi8aOn_1Q&s=19
Funny story about Sherwin. He acted as an undercover agent on Jan 6—seen in plain clothes walking near ellipse and then Capitol grounds. He told J6 committee he was in constant contact with Steven D’Antuono (Whitmer fednapping architect) about what was happening.
But J6 committee never interviewed D’Antuono even tho his name was brought up repeatedly in witness testimony. And when Sherwin gave his interview to J6 committee, it only applied to his movements until 2pm
effort (alleged) btw multiple agencies to protect the city that day. He used the old “news reports” excuse as to why he initiated this inter-agency coordination.
Sherwin was the acting DC US Atty who was (oddly) undercover at the Ellipse and outside Capitol that day.
View: https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1638338737422626816?t=z8959-6liBKddkzoHpzZ2A&s=19
I dont trust Trump. Theres nothing wrong with Desantis wanting to run. I hope he does. Trump has been striking him very hard for months now.
Remember in 2016 when Trump was running in the primaries? He and Ted Cruz were getting along fine. Cruz praised Trump a lot.
Then Trump turned hard on him and "Lyin Ted" was born. When asked why he was now attacking Cruz Trump said "he was gaining in the polls".
So when push comes to shove they will all start hitting hard. Trump drew first blood on Desantis a good while back. Also if......Trump is in jail we will need Desantis to carry the ball.
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Melodi
Disaster Cat
Given the charges and the fact that the Feds decided not to prosecute, this is at least partly to try to keep Trump entangled and out of the Presidential race. I don't think it will work, but if they keep him involved in a legal mess (or worse, even a short prison sentence), there is a real chance of splitting the Republican Vote. I can see Biden (or his replacement) in the White House by splitting the vote this way or as Trump running as an independent.
The wild card is Robert Kennedy Jr., who might steal the nomination. Either he or Trump would do a reasonable job in the office. De Stantas might do OK, but he is so obviously the uni party candidate that it worries me a bit. It was evident then that Pence was promised a chance at that if he played ball on January 6th. But he is not charismatic enough and has other issues that make either Trump or De Santas look much more likely to be selected in the primaries.
Our system is set up to be adversarial during campaigns, so the governor of Florida must "go after" Trump if he's running against him. Even if he were to turn around later and accept him if he won the nomination, he possibly becomes the VP candidate who could work. A Trump, De Santas ticket would be challenging even for Robert Kennedy Jr. to beat. At least it would be a race between two hard-working and competent people for a change.
The wild card is Robert Kennedy Jr., who might steal the nomination. Either he or Trump would do a reasonable job in the office. De Stantas might do OK, but he is so obviously the uni party candidate that it worries me a bit. It was evident then that Pence was promised a chance at that if he played ball on January 6th. But he is not charismatic enough and has other issues that make either Trump or De Santas look much more likely to be selected in the primaries.
Our system is set up to be adversarial during campaigns, so the governor of Florida must "go after" Trump if he's running against him. Even if he were to turn around later and accept him if he won the nomination, he possibly becomes the VP candidate who could work. A Trump, De Santas ticket would be challenging even for Robert Kennedy Jr. to beat. At least it would be a race between two hard-working and competent people for a change.
SmithJ
Veteran Member
He’s probably thinking “That asshole has been attacking me for a month and basically called me a pediphile and you think I’m going to help him? No way”
I happened to be listening to WABC out of NYC yesterday at ~4:30 pm and the radio guys were interviewing Costello. He got his licks in - directly to the Grand Jury members. Proof that the prosecution was very thinly cherry picking mountains of evidence.A late breaking report out of FOX news:
BREAKING: Soros-Funded DA Alvin Bragg CAUGHT HIDING Nearly 600 Pages of Exculpatory Evidence from NY Grand Jury in Trump Case (VIDEO)
BREAKING: Soros-Funded DA Alvin Bragg CAUGHT HIDING Nearly 600 Pages of Exculpatory Evidence from NY Grand Jury in Trump Case (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
Attorney Robert Costello, the former legal adviser to Michael Cohen, spoke to Tucker Carlson on Monday night after he testified to the Manhattan Grand Jury investigating President Donald Trump.
By Jim Hoft Mar. 21, 2023 9:46 pm
Robert Costello, the former legal adviser to Michael Cohen, spoke to Tucker Carlson on Monday night after he testified to Manhattan Grand Jury investigating President Donald Trump.
Costello told the FOX News audience that he testified for two hours in front of Alvin Bragg’s Manhattan Grand Jury.
Robert Costello told Tucker Carlson, “I spoke to the jury for two hours… It was clear to me the Manhattan Grand Jury did not want to get to the truth.”
And it now is being reported that New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg was HIDING exculpatory evidence from the Grand Jury!
According to FOX News legal mind Gregg Jarrett, DA Alvin Bragg HID nearly 600 pages of exculpatory evidence to the New York Grand Jury.
Once again the REAL crooks reveal themselves. And Jarrett is right. If there was a real justice system in the country, they should be disbarred.
BUBBAHOTEPT
Veteran Member
You covered it well. Your conclusion is what I am truly afraid of; subsequently, I’m more afraid of inaction resulting in the alternative reality….
I'll vote in 2024, but honestly I am extremely skeptical. In 2020, they promised to mutilate your children’s genitals, emptied the shelves of baby formula, left the southern border wide open, let actual violent criminals right back out into the streets and not prosecute them, make eggs unaffordable, let partisan judges and juries run wild, etc., and these same people were put right back into office??? If all that and much, much more didn’t get people's attention, then what will?
Southside
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I would have never believed yours was.
Clif High has a great piece on this. He believes that Trump is going to be indicted/arrested, and he has to be for the next part of hte plan to work.
Once Trump is indicted/arrested, it sets the precedent that no one, not even a US Pres, is above the law. While Trumps charges are bogus and he will get off, the precedent will stand, and the charges faced by........Biden, Obama, and Bush will not be.
Second point from Clif. Remember the kerfluffle about Trumps tax returns and other personal docs, and the fact that Congress and the Supreme Court both had to step in rule that he must provide them as no president is above the law? This set another precedent. Remember how Trump's turned out to be a nothing burger? Biden's, Obama's, and Bush's, will not.
Once Trump is indicted/arrested, it sets the precedent that no one, not even a US Pres, is above the law. While Trumps charges are bogus and he will get off, the precedent will stand, and the charges faced by........Biden, Obama, and Bush will not be.
Second point from Clif. Remember the kerfluffle about Trumps tax returns and other personal docs, and the fact that Congress and the Supreme Court both had to step in rule that he must provide them as no president is above the law? This set another precedent. Remember how Trump's turned out to be a nothing burger? Biden's, Obama's, and Bush's, will not.
DeShabbos is listening to the same influential tribe of individuals who (s)elect and control both Congress and the Presidency.
And for those that think Trump is any different.
vector7
Dot Collector
Catturd2: Looks like a funeral at Fox News reading how far up Trump is in the polls.
The morning clowns at Fox News seems a little butt hurt. President Trump is leading in the polls.
Doocy hates Trump, Ainsley is having a bad hair day and Brian is about to start the “what if’s” since he running out of court cases. Desperate.
You'll notice NY Post & Fox will lean anti-Trump because Murdoch owns them both
And the WSJ.
RT 38secs
View: https://twitter.com/kjune65/status/1638531727210496002?t=F52zPL0v7E9tA6hKfphfIw&s=19
The morning clowns at Fox News seems a little butt hurt. President Trump is leading in the polls.
Doocy hates Trump, Ainsley is having a bad hair day and Brian is about to start the “what if’s” since he running out of court cases. Desperate.
You'll notice NY Post & Fox will lean anti-Trump because Murdoch owns them both
And the WSJ.
RT 38secs
View: https://twitter.com/kjune65/status/1638531727210496002?t=F52zPL0v7E9tA6hKfphfIw&s=19
vector7
Dot Collector
NEVER FORGET: In 2018, Stormy Daniels said she never had an affair with Trump. In fact, she said it was all made up to get money. Stormy lost her lawsuit against Trump and was ordered to pay him $300k for legal fees, and her creepy porn lawyer was sentenced to 14 years in…
View: https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1638285798599426048?t=JU6msKgaSN5i9h6lLJTn2w&s=19
View: https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1638285798599426048?t=JU6msKgaSN5i9h6lLJTn2w&s=19
Macgyver
Has No Life - Lives on TB
The sudden turn of events that could derail Trump's indictment
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has taken a page out of Stalin's playbook and targeted Donald Trump.
www.foxnews.com
The sudden turn of events that could derail Trump's indictment
"Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime," was the infamous boast of Joseph Stalin’s ruthless secret police chief, Lavrentiy Beria. His modus operandi was to target any man the Soviet dictator chose and then find or fabricate a crime against him.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has taken a page out of Stalin’s playbook and targeted Donald Trump. Driven by personal and political animus, the DA presumed the former president must be guilty of something. It was just a matter of devoting enough time and resources to hunt down the crime. Failing to find one, Bragg copied Beria’s paradigm and simply dreamed one up.
As I explained in my last column, the DA invented his case against Trump by taking an alleged misdemeanor business records violation and supercharging it into a felony by citing an imagined second crime arising out of a supposed campaign finance violation. The novelty of such a charge is exceeded only by its absurdity.
The indictment appears to hinge on the DA’s argument that a 2016 payment made to porn star, Stormy Daniels, was intended to help Trump’s presidential bid and should have been accounted for as a campaign contribution, not legal fees, when he reimbursed his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, who paid Daniels to keep her mouth shut about a purported 2006 affair that Trump vigorously denies. Confused yet? You should be.
The flaw in Bragg’s tortured logic is two-fold. First, non-disclosure agreements in exchange for money are perfectly legal. Second, Cohen long ago stated that the payment had nothing to do with the campaign but was made to protect Melania Trump from an embarrassing, albeit false, accusation. As such, it is not an illegal campaign donation under the law. Hence there is no crime.
It appears that Bragg’s star witness is none other than Cohen who has performed an astonishing pirouette by recanting his earlier statements. He now claims that the money was intended to help Trump’s campaign fend off a damaging story. Reliance on such a disreputable character as Cohen is a clear sign of the DA’s desperation. Cohen's hatred of Trump is well known. He has carved out a career of trashing his former boss.
Cohen has always had a warped relationship with the truth. He peddled so many lies that there is no way to know whether the disgraced and disbarred lawyer even understands the concept of honesty. Among the smorgasbord of crimes that sent him to prison was lying to congress.
In a sudden turn of events, Cohen’s former attorney Robert Costello —no longer bound by the attorney-client privilege that was waived by his ex-client— testified before the grand jury on Monday. According to Costello, in April of 2018 Cohen repeatedly stated that the Daniels payment was intended to protect the candidate’s wife, not the campaign. Moreover, Cohen insisted that he acted all on his own and not at the behest of Trump. While testifying for over two hours, Costello said he realized that Bragg had been hiding from the grand jury nearly all of the files he had previously turned over to the DA that corroborated Cohen’s original story.
Concealing exculpatory evidence from a grand jury is reprehensible conduct. But the overarching question is this: was Cohen lying at the outset of the investigation or is he lying now? I doubt even he knows. Inveterate liars tend to lose track of their lies.
Bragg’s determination to snooker a grand jury into indicting Trump is an egregious abuse of government authority. It constitutes the weaponization of the law for political gain. But it is also—and importantly—selective prosecution of the worst kind.
Consider the case of Hillary Clinton who secretly funded the anti-Trump dossier in 2016 by deploying campaign lawyers to pay ex-British spy Christopher Steele more than $1 million dollars to compose his phony document. Candidate Clinton listed it as a "legal expense," even though its sole purpose was to advance her campaign against Trump, her opponent. The Federal Election Commission fined Hillary for brazenly violating campaign finance laws.
But New York prosecutors never even thought about bringing criminal charges because it involved, well… Hillary. She has consistently been the beneficiary of a dual system of justice that grants her a permanent "get out of jail free" card for whatever crooked scheme she concocts. She was never prosecuted for obvious crimes under the Espionage Act by storing classified records in her home on a personal server. She also destroyed more than 30-thousand documents under congressional subpoena, but no obstruction of justice indictment was ever rendered.
Juxtapose the treatment of Donald Trump. The Manhattan district attorney’s office has devoted unlimited resources over many years scouring every aspect of the former president’s personal life and business affairs in a purely partisan quest to find a crime —any crime. They did it because they could, with no compunction over the code of ethics that binds lawyers. Despite the objections of senior experienced prosecutors, the district attorney conjured up a convoluted legal theory to slay his political hobgoblin. It has all the earmarks of a Stalin-like fabrication.
Much of the current witch hunt was driven and directed by former assistant DA Mark Pomerantz, an outsider who was hired for the sole purpose of "getting Trump." When Bragg initially balked at bringing charges, Pomerantz quit in a fit of pique but not before blasting his former boss in a resignation screed conveniently made public.
He then ratcheted up the pressure on Bragg by penning a disgraceful tell-all book. In it, Pomerantz arrogantly laid bare his contempt of Trump because "he posed a real danger to the country and to the ideals that mattered to me." That confessional exposed the underlying rationale for charging Trump. The district attorney soon caved and fully embraced the loony legal theory promoted by Pomerantz.
Disagreeing with someone’s political views or harboring personal animosity is not a basis for criminal prosecution. Indeed, it is a serious breach of legal ethics. It is the duty of a prosecutor to see that justice is done, not to target an individual and contort the law to bring a feckless case against him. Pomerantz should face disbarment for his unconscionable conduct.
The district attorney’s prejudicial pursuit of Trump undermines the vital concept that the administration of justice will be fair and equitable. He has forsaken the presumption of innocence embodied in the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments to our Constitution. When it comes to Trump, the DA only operates on the presumption of guilt.
Alvin Bragg has chosen to criminalize politics with the zeal of the notorious Lavrentiy Beria. In the process, he has badly damaged the public’s trust and sullied the sacred principle of equal justice under the law.
Cowgirl4christ
Senior Member
Except the Clintons
WildDaisy
God has a plan, Trust it!
Anyone else see the allegory to Christ going on here....an innocent man so hated by those in political forums that they are going to do anything to "get him". Not that Trump is any Christ, but the situation is quite similar. Wonder who Trump's Judas is going to be?
Macgyver
Has No Life - Lives on TB
BREAKING: Soros-Funded DA Alvin Bragg CAUGHT HIDING Nearly 600 Pages of Exculpatory Evidence from NY Grand Jury in Trump Case (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
Attorney Robert Costello, the former legal adviser to Michael Cohen, spoke to Tucker Carlson on Monday night after he testified to the Manhattan Grand Jury investigating President Donald Trump.
www.thegatewaypundit.com
BREAKING: Soros-Funded DA Alvin Bragg CAUGHT HIDING Nearly 600 Pages of Exculpatory Evidence from NY Grand Jury in Trump Case (VIDEO)
Attorney Robert Costello, the former legal adviser to Michael Cohen, spoke to Tucker Carlson on Monday night after he testified to the Manhattan Grand Jury investigating President Donald Trump.
Costello told the FOX News audience that he testified for two hours in front of Alvin Bragg’s Manhattan Grand Jury.
Robert Costello told Tucker Carlson, “I spoke to the jury for two hours… It was clear to me the Manhattan Grand Jury did not want to get to the truth.”
And it now is being reported that New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg was HIDING exculpatory evidence from the Grand Jury!
According to FOX News legal mind Gregg Jarrett, Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg HID nearly 600 pages of exculpatory evidence to the New York Grand Jury investigating President Trump.
Once again the REAL crooks reveal themselves.
And Jarrett is right. If there was a real justice system in the country, they should be disbarred.
The Hammer
Has No Life - Lives on TB
What's telling is, they're using their big chance with a flimsy case that might not even work. I would have expected a grand charge of trying to overthrow denocraceh or something, but this is all they can come up with.
I guess any way they can get "Trump Indicted!" onto the front page.
I guess any way they can get "Trump Indicted!" onto the front page.
Dobbin
Faithful Steed
vector7
Dot Collector
The “Arrest Trump” news cycle is a psy op brought to you by the people truly responsible for wrecking the country.
Look at what we’re NOT talking about this week:
— Collapsing Banks
— Collapsing petrodollar
— Biden/China payments
— China/Russia new world order
— Ukraine losing
View: https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1638528350216937473?t=9v_9Ns7TIvUy7hexo5T4XA&s=19
I’m not saying we shouldn’t be furious about the prospect of a Trump indictment. We should. It would atomize what’s left of our republic and prove the system is rigged. I’m saying the DA is walking back now. This distraction benefits the true criminals
This entire week would have been a news cycle about the China-Russia new Axis of Evil and Joe Biden getting RICH from it.
That is far an away the biggest news story on earth.
But every ounce of media oxygen has been consumed by the “Trump Arrest” narrative giving Joe a fat pass
View: https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1638530350371463168?t=XpFbL1OojlWCuYq85mTv9Q&s=19
Look at what we’re NOT talking about this week:
— Collapsing Banks
— Collapsing petrodollar
— Biden/China payments
— China/Russia new world order
— Ukraine losing
View: https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1638528350216937473?t=9v_9Ns7TIvUy7hexo5T4XA&s=19
I’m not saying we shouldn’t be furious about the prospect of a Trump indictment. We should. It would atomize what’s left of our republic and prove the system is rigged. I’m saying the DA is walking back now. This distraction benefits the true criminals
This entire week would have been a news cycle about the China-Russia new Axis of Evil and Joe Biden getting RICH from it.
That is far an away the biggest news story on earth.
But every ounce of media oxygen has been consumed by the “Trump Arrest” narrative giving Joe a fat pass
View: https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1638530350371463168?t=XpFbL1OojlWCuYq85mTv9Q&s=19
Ayup
The True Believers read headlines and base their whole world view on that.
Never any research or critical thinking.
If they hear countering information, it is immediately dismissed... because it ain't in the headlines.
A self generated, mental circle-jerk.
Dobbin
Faithful Steed
Yesterday Bannon's War Room gave the Trump Indictment about 7 minutes. "I don't want to dignify a non-consequence - the case is EXTREMELY WEAK." (paraphrase)
Dobbin
thompson
Certa Bonum Certamen
Trump hush-money grand jury proceedings 'canceled' for Wednesday, sources say
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office has "canceled" the grand jury meeting Wednesday as part of the investigation into former President Trump, two sources said.
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Trump hush-money grand jury proceedings 'canceled' for Wednesday, sources say
Published March 22, 2023 12:41pm EDT
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office has "canceled" the grand jury meeting that was scheduled to take place Wednesday as part of the investigation into former President Trump, amid speculation of a possible indictment, two sources familiar told Fox News.
The grand jury was slated to meet Wednesday and was expected to hear from at least one additional witness, but Fox News has learned that Bragg's office "canceled" the proceedings.
The grand jury was notified Wednesday morning, and was placed "on standby" for Thursday, a source told Fox News.
"We can’t confirm or comment on Grand Jury matters," Bragg's office told Fox News.
Two sources familiar told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that the grand jury was canceled amid "major dissension" within the district attorney's office. One source claimed the district attorney is having trouble convincing the grand jury on potential charges due to the "weakness" of the case.
Despite rumors of a potential imminent indictment, sources familiar told Fox News Digital that Trump has not been formally notified about whether Bragg actually plans to bring charges against him.
Sources told Fox News, though, that there remains a real chance that Bragg does not choose to indict the former president.
Bragg, when he took over as district attorney in January 2022, stopped pursuing charges against Trump and suspended the investigation "indefinitely," according to one of the top prosecutors who resigned from the office in protest.
Prosecutors Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne, who had been leading the investigation under former DA Cyrus Vance, submitted their resignations after Bragg began raising doubts about pursuing a case against Trump.
The possible charges stem from the $130,000 hush-money payment that then-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen made to adult film star Stormy Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, in the weeks leading up to the 2016 presidential election in exchange for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.
Federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York opted out of charging Trump related to the Stormy Daniels payment in 2019, even as Cohen implicated him as part of his plea deal. The Federal Election Commission also tossed its investigation into the matter in 2021.
Cohen has said Trump directed the payments. Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 through his own company and was later reimbursed by Trump's company, which logged the payments as "legal expenses." Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who allegedly had a relationship with Trump, received a $150,000 payment through the publisher of the supermarket tabloid National Enquirer.
The Trump Organization "grossed up" Cohen’s reimbursement for Daniels' payment for "tax purposes," according to federal prosecutors who filed the 2018 criminal charges against Cohen for the payments.
Trump has repeatedly denied wrongdoing with regard to the payments made to Daniels, and he has repeatedly said the payments were "not a campaign violation" but rather a "simple private transaction."
Robert Costello, a former legal adviser to Cohen, appeared before the grand jury Monday and testified that Cohen is a "serial liar."
Costello testified before the grand jury for more than two hours Monday. Costello said he testified that Trump did not know about the payments made by Cohen to Stormy Daniels.
The Manhattan DA’s investigation into Trump began in 2019 by then-District Attorney Cyrus Vance. The probe was focused on possible bank, insurance and tax fraud. The case initially involved financial dealings of Trump’s Manhattan properties, including his flagship Fifth Avenue building, Trump Tower, and the valuation of his 213-acre estate Seven Springs in Westchester.
The investigation last year led to tax fraud charges against the Trump Organization and its finance chief, Allen Weisselberg.
Grand jury deliberations and votes are secret proceedings, and an indictment typically remains under seal until an arraignment.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
thompson
Certa Bonum Certamen
BREAKING: Manhattan DA Accused Of Concealing Exculpatory Evidence From Grand Jury
Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on "Hannity" on Tuesday night revealed that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg hid hundreds of pages of exculpatory
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BREAKING: Manhattan DA Accused Of Concealing Exculpatory Evidence From Grand Jury
By Kyle Becker March 22, 2023Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on “Hannity” on Tuesday night revealed that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg hid hundreds of pages of exculpatory evidence from the New York grand jury.
Jarrett furthermore called for the disbarment of the prosecuting attorneys involved in the travesty of justice.
“I mentioned it yesterday, I think, when Bob Costello got into that Grand Jury room and told them, ‘Wait a minute. You don’t have the hundreds of pages I handed over to Alvin Bragg over here? You only have six cherry-picked documents?’ You know, hiding from grand juries exculpatory information is reprehensible and unconscionable,” Jarrett said. “And the conduct of Alvin Bragg and his henchman Mark Pomerantz, who specifically says in his book, ‘We’re targeting zombies because we don’t like his beliefs,’ those guys should face disbarment proceedings.”
Jarrett also added this in a new Fox News column:
Harvard Law Professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz added his perspective on the charges being brought by the Manhattan D.A.
“You know, in my new book, “Get Trump,” I go through all of those four allegations and I say, there’s plenty of smoke, but there’s no fire,” Dershowitz argued. “And if there were a fire, it would be set by arsonists.”
“There is no crime committed in any of the four allegations, and I prove that categorically in my book “Get Trump,” he added. “Where did I get the name? Get Trump. I got that from Letitia James’ campaign slogan. Her campaign promise was, ‘I promise you I will get Trump’.”
“And I want to add something new that hasn’t been said before,” he continued. “I think that Bob Costello has changed this case dramatically. I think that Bragg note now only has two possible results from that. Number one, he can say, alright, ‘I’m going to try to make the case without Cohen.’ He cannot use Cohen as a witness anymore.”
“That would be unethical because of the testimony that Costello gave,” he went on. “Or he could say, ‘Look, I have to drop the case.’ He may not be able to make it without Cohen. But if he can’t make it without Cohen, he can’t make it, because no ethical prosecutor is allowed to put on as a witness, somebody who has told the lies and has contradicted himself so much.”
“So I think that Bob Costello — it’s a game changer,” he added. “I think maybe that’s a reason for the delay here. I think ethical experts are now telling Bragg, wait a minute, you cannot use Cohen. So if you can make it through Pecker, if you can make it through some of the other people, okay, go ahead. But if you can’t make it without Cohen, you cannot bring this charge.”
“That’s a powerful statement,” Sean Hannity remarked.
On Tuesday, a former legal adviser to Michael Cohen, attorney Robert Costello, was called as a key witness in the New York grand jury investigation into former President Donald Trump’s alleged payment to adult actress Stormy Daniels. Costello claimed that testimony from the former Trump attorney is “far from solid evidence.”
Costello told reporters following his testimony that Cohen is “totally unreliable” in the probe against Trump. He added that the disgraced lawyer is “a convicted perjurer.”
“I’m the one who decided to do this. A lot of people cautioned me against it because I have nothing to gain. The only thing I’m doing is trying to tell the truth to the grand jurors because I read all these lies in the media that are being promoted by one side,” said Costello. “If you see the full picture … If they want to go after Donald Trump and they have solid evidence, so be it.”
“But Michael Cohen is far from solid evidence,” added Costello. “This guy, by any prosectors’ standard—and I used to be deputy chief of the criminal division in the Southern District of New York—I wouldn’t have touched a guy like Michael Cohen, especially if he’s a convicted perjurer.”
As noted by the Epoch Times, Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to “charges of tax evasion, making false statements to a federally insured bank, and campaign finance violations in connection with an alleged $130,000 payment to a lawyer representing adult actress Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.”
“Cohen claims that Trump, during his 2016 presidential campaign, directed him to arrange the payment to Daniels as ‘hush money’ in order to buy her silence after she claimed to have had an affair with Trump,” the report added. “The money was allegedly paid using campaign funds, a violation of campaign finance law.”
Donald Trump is expected to face a potential indictment from the grand jury on Wednesday. The former president will reportedly turn himself in to authorities to face trial.