Trump Trials

An anatomy of a political prosecution: the Manhattan District Attorney’s OFfice’s Vendetta Against President Donald J. Trump https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-04-25-Report-An-Anatomy-of-a-Political-Prosecution.pdf
Nicholas Biase, a senior official at the U.S. Justice Department’s Southern District of New York [SDNY], explained what he calls a “perversion of justice” led by Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, to hurt the current Republican nominee’s chance in the 2024 presidential election.  https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1831696327782052110

  • Nicholas Biase, Chief of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York: “He [Bragg] was stacking charges and, like, rearranging things just to make it fit a case. No, honestly, I think the case [against Trump] is nonsense...Every real estate person in New York does what he [Trump] did. Nobody's ever been charged with this. It's all him [Trump]...That's why, like, he’s [Trump] surging in the polls. You know, it's a perversion of justice.”

  • Biase: “Before he [Bragg] decided to prosecute Trump, did you know who he was? You do now...Alvin Bragg. Who I've known for 15 years. Who used to work in my office...Alvin is very ambitious.”

  • Biase: The point of prosecuting Trump was “to make him a convict...it affects his candidacy if he’s a convicted felon.”

  • Biase: The Fani Willis case in Fulton County, Georgia is “a travesty of justice. To put it mildly, it's a mockery of justice. She is a joke...The whole thing is disgusting. They’re just out to get him [Trump].”

  • Biase: “The state level is like the f*cking Wild West. They are like idiots. They don't care. They’re all political...They're obsessed with getting him [Trump].”

As of September 2024:
The case closest to its conclusion is the one out of Manhattan, in which Trump was found guilty in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records in a case brought forth by District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Trump is currently scheduled to be sentenced on September 18. The sentencing date was originally scheduled to take place in July but was moved at the request of Trump’s team after the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision. Trump’s team has requested that the September sentencing date be delayed until after the election.

The other case currently in play is the January 6 one brought forth by Biden administration special counsel Jack Smith, though it is unlikely to go to trial before the election. On Tuesday, Smith filed a superseding indictment against Trump, charging him with the same four counts present in the initial indictment, in an attempt to tailor the case to the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling. This filing, Politico reported, is likely to launch a host of proceedings from US District Judge Tanya Chutkan. A joint status conference will take place on September 5 in the case.

One case has been dismissed, the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, though Smith is attempting to revive it. On Monday, Smith filed an appeal with the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Additional briefs are due over the next few months and oral arguments are currently expected later in the year, but unlikely before the election. Judge Aileen Cannon had ruled in dismissing the case in July that Smith’s appointment in the case violated "the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution."

One case remains in limbo: the Georgia 2020 election case brought forth by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. That case has been put on hold pending a hearing in front of the Georgia Court of Appeals set for December 5 as to whether Willis should be removed from the case. Trump’s team sought to remove Willis from the case due to her personal relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled in March that one of them would need to leave the case, with Wade doing so. Trump's team appealed the ruling, saying that Willis should have been taken off the case. Trump faces 10 charges in Georgia related to his actions following the 2020 election, including violations of the state RICO act, filing false documents, and conspiracy charges.

  • AGs & judges campaigning & winning specifically to “get” Donald Trump (going after the person, THEN finding the crime)...and following through, while everyone watches…saying the quiet part out loud

  • Democrats May Regret Their Legal War on Trump The unprecedented targeting of the former president and his allies invites partisan retaliation.https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-may-regret-their-legal-war-on-trump-bragg-justice-new-york-eb2e54be

  • Democrats motivated by politics jailing the former president and leader of opposition party, while Joe Biden was let off the hook by his own DoJ with his son / gun charges, his own DoJ declining to prosecute him in the classical documents case because he’s too old and feeble (hurr report) ….insane! 235 years of unspoken rule to not to prosecute presidents and former presidents (imagine all the crimes former presidents would be charged for, war crimes, negligence, corruption, bribery, etc.). meanwhile just weeks before his son’s gun trial joe goes to visit his daughter in law (his deceased son’s widow, who Hunter had an affair with..) to talk to her even though she is a key witness in said trial , without consequence! witness tampering much? but rules for thee not for me and DJT is the threat to democracy

  • Dems’ lawfare war on Trump is its own threat to democracy https://nypost.com/2024/03/30/opinion/dems-lawfare-war-on-trump-is-its-own-threat-to-democracy/

  • Cuomo: “You know what’s scary about this from my point of view?” Cuomo said. “The trials in New York. There’s Florida, Georgia, and two in New York. The two trials in New York: New Yorkers said, 66% said, the justice system is politicized. And there’s nobody in New York who likes Trump. And still, 66% said the justice system is politicized. That’s why I think he’s not paying the same price for these verdicts because they believe it is political. And you wanna talk about a threat to democracy? When you have this country believing you’re playing politics with the justice system, and you’re trying to put people in jail or convict them for political reasons, then we have a big problem.” https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/06/22/andrew_cuomo_if_his_name_was_not_donald_trump_the_new_york_case_would_have_never_been_brought.html

  • REMINDER: They tried to take him off the ballot. A 9-0 Supreme Court ruled this is not ok https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2024/03/23-719_19m2.pdf 

  • “Americans see Democrats weaponizing the judicial system to keep Trump off the ballot, bankrupt him, and tie him up in court all year: All to subvert the democratic process by kneecapping his campaign. And that follows other outrageous anti-democratic stunts, like the fake Russiagate probe or muscling social-media companies to suppress The Post’s 2020 Hunter Biden laptop reporting.”  https://nypost.com/2024/03/30/opinion/dems-lawfare-war-on-trump-is-its-own-threat-to-democracy/

  • [Destroy his character. Bankrupt him. Imprison him. Assassinate him.]

FLORIDA: “classified docs” case (dismissed)

  • July: “the president cannot create offices at his pleasure” aka hire people to go after political rivals, unconstitutional, unlawfully appointed

  • RULING: “In this case, the Attorney General purported to appoint a private citizen as Special Counsel to prosecute a former President on behalf of the United States. But, I am not sure that any office for the Special Counsel has been “established by Law,” as the Constitution requires. Art. II, §2, cl. 2. By requiring that Congress create federal offices “by Law,” the Constitution imposes an important check against the President—he cannot create offices at his pleasure..If this unprecedented prosecution is to proceed, it must be conducted by someone duly authorized to do so by the American people. The lower courts should thus answer these essential questions concerning the Special Counsel’s appointment before proceeding.”

  • Judge Cannon Dismisses Trump Classified Docs Prosecution: ‘Unconstitutional’ https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-aileen-cannon-dismisses-trump-classified-docs-case-unconstitutional

NEW YORK: “hush money” trial / Stormy Daniels

  • Legal Errors in the New York Prosecution of President Trump Judge Merchan’s Bias https://media.aflegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/01171259/4-Merchan-Bias-and-Recusal.pdf?

  • Trump Verdict Makes NYC “Venezuela-on-the-Hudson”https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/trump-verdict-makes-nyc-venezuela-the-hudson 
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) said this week that he believes the criminal case and civil case against former President Donald Trump in New York should have never been brought because it was weaponizing the justice system for political reasons.

  • Bragg accuses The Don of falsifying business records to hide a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels to stay silent about an alleged affair, yet the DA’s charges depend on an application of the law that’s never been used before on anyone. The alleged wrongdoing took place eight years ago (raising statute-of-limitations issues), and the case just happens to come smack in the middle of Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. Bragg’s star witnesses? A convicted lawyer, Michael Cohen, and Daniels, the former porn star. https://nypost.com/2024/03/30/opinion/dems-lawfare-war-on-trump-is-its-own-threat-to-democracy/

  • 1st of all, paying hush money/NDA is NOT illegal… also, she signed an affidavit saying she did not sleep with him https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5332831/Stormy-Daniels-denies-having-affair-Trump.html  but is now saying she did, told Bill Mahr it wasn’t rape but then told the jury it was, but it’s not even about her and she has no relevance to this case and never should have been brought into the courtroom in the first place. Because It’s a BOOKKEEPING error in how he classified the hush money payment as a legal fee (even though Cohen WAS his lawyer), and the statute of limitations for this bookkeeping error, which is a misdemeanor in NY, had long expired, AND the federal govt investigated this as “election fraud” and decided there was no case and opted NOT to prosecute…until now, months before election. DA Alvin Bragg downgrades 52% of felonies to misdemeanors, but upgrades Trump’s misdemeanor (which, again, had expired) to a felony that doesn’t exist. He(Bragg) attended fundraisers to get Trump off the ballot. Also, states cannot prosecute federal crimes…just ask Texas when they tried to protect their borders. No, really, there is no crime. Witness Michael Cohen said under oath that Trump didn’t didn’t know about the “hush money” payment, then he admitted to STEALING money from Trump (!!!) because he thought he deserved it (!!!) Bags of cash are involved, as per his testimony. And HE isn’t being charged (2 tier system). The judge, blatantly biased and unfair, overruled objections, refused to change venue from a 95% democratic area (this is part of why presidents historically aren’t convicted, because everyone has an opinion and you cannot get a fair trial)….judge wouldn’t allow expert witness FEC commissioner to come on as witness to say no actually no federal laws were broken, his daughter campaigns for Biden, allows Stormy to talk about condoms but threatens contempt of court for “dirty looks”, he donated to “stop trump” organizations…so…conflict of interest, obviously!  judge to jury instruction: you have 3 options (none of which we are charging him with), and you can pick one. you don’t all have to agree on what it is and NO felony was actually written in the verdict. 34 charges all the same…another fun fact about the hush money trial is that it was revealed that Trump ended up OVERPAYING his taxes.

  • “Today’s verdict represents the culmination of a legal process that has been bent to the political will of the actors involved: a leftist prosecutor, a partisan judge and a jury reflective of one of the most liberal enclaves in America—all in an effort to “get” Donald Trump. That this case—involving alleged misdemeanor business records violations from nearly a decade ago—was even brought is a testament to the political debasement of the justice system in places like New York City. This is especially true considering this same district attorney routinely excuses criminal conduct in a way that has endangered law-abiding citizens in his jurisdiction. It is often said that no one is above the law, but it is also true that no one is below the law. If the defendant were not Donald Trump, this case would never have been brought, the judge would have never issued similar rulings, and the jury would have never returned a guilty verdict. In America, the rule of law should be applied in a dispassionate, even-handed manner, not become captive to the political agenda of some kangaroo court.” https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/gov-ron-desantis-reacts-to-donald-trump-guilty-verdict-by-kangaroo-court-in-statement/77-7c931eb6-ffa7-4bb8-8df5-f7d4572043e0

  • Prosecutor: Matthew Colangilo. Who is he? The DNC paid him $12k in jan 2018 for political consulting, donates to Obama, was the 3rd ranking official in Biden’s Justice department, then joined Manhattan DA (demotion) office in 2022, a few months later Trump was investigated. When the same state has PASSED on charging trump years ago when the misfiling actually occurred. Direct from Biden DOJ to charging Trump.  https://nypost.com/2024/05/06/us-news/trump-hush-money-prosecutor-matthew-colenagelo-was-political-consultant-for-dnc-ex-obama-donor/

  • Judge: donated to Biden campaign and stop trump effort; daughter is dem activist who has made millions raising money for Biden https://nypost.com/2024/03/30/us-news/dem-clients-of-daughter-of-judge-in-trump-trial-raised-90m-off-case/ and allowed their friends front seats in the courtroom during the trial

  • Andrew Cuomo extended statue of limitations before he left office

NEW YORK: “real estate / business fraud” trial

  • Accused: Trump and his business inflated the worth of their assets to secure loans with favorable interest rates.

  • If the loans were paid back, who has been victimized? Kevin O’Leary: what Trump has been accused of doing is so common in real estate that every developer in the country would also need to be sued. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80RZs9Fhz3Y “You’re always trying to show your assets in the brightest light with the sunshine you can possibly determine for them,” he said. "You want them to be worth the very most. "By the way," he said. "Forget about Trump -- every single real estate developer everywhere on Earth does this. They always talk about their asset being worth a lot, and the bank says no. That's just the way it is."

  • Even CNN Legal Analyst Sees Through New York AG's 'Political' Case Against Trump https://www.westernjournal.com/even-cnn-legal-analyst-sees-new-york-ags-political-case-trump/ 

  • He paid back the bank, on time, with interest…bank reps were put on the stand under oath saying we want to do more business with him! But no he inflated valuation, nobody hurt, everyone does it, and banks agreed to it.  and he paid all loans back. and they said on the stand no we like doing business with him. also VERY dangerous precedent for property rights (ask Kevin O Leary  /“the American brand”) for the entire country + unrealistic bond (half billion in 30 days), no trial (governor: “as long as your last name isn’t Trump, you’re fine”) but  US is now a politically weaponized system, capital not safe

  • “The penalty itself, nearly half a billion bucks, was beyond absurd. And patently biased. No one — not a single person — was harmed by Trump’s supposed wrongdoings in this case; even the judge admits that. Banks that Trump supposedly defrauded themselves don’t think he did; not one lost a penny. Yes, the court found he exaggerated the value of his properties. But that’s standard practice in the big-time real-estate banking world, which is why lenders don’t rely borrowers’ estimates. Yet not only did Justice Arthur Engoron find Trump guilty, he hit him with $355 million in penalties, plus interest.” https://nypost.com/2024/03/18/opinion/democrats-mustnt-be-allowed-to-bankrupt-trump-before-he-even-gets-to-appeal-454m-judgment/

  • “In state Attorney General Letitia James’ civil fraud case, Trump did nothing others in his industry don’t do every day; even the judge admits no one was harmed — yet somehow Trump drew a $454 million penalty, which he was required to pay even before he could appeal. How is that a just, impartial application of the law? Indeed, Trump’s motions have already won him victories in that case: He and his two sons are no longer barred from leading their company, and he now has to post “only” $175 million before appealing.” https://nypost.com/2024/03/30/opinion/dems-lawfare-war-on-trump-is-its-own-threat-to-democracy/

 GEORGIA “election interference” trial (delayed) https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2023/08/CRIMINAL-INDICTMENT-Trump-Fulton-County-GA.pdf

NEW YORK: “rape” trial