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16 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

So I wonder what the major national announcement will be :dunno .......  I'm sure trump will have his twitter fingers ready and his lawyers including Barr ready to defend.


https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/new-york-attorney-general-to-deliver-major-national-announcement

 

 

 

They're going to do something stupid... why are people still acting like the law is going to work the same on Trump as it does other people.

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Rape accusation case will move forward as judge denies Trump's request for delay.

 

https://money.yahoo.com/judge-nixes-trump-bid-delay-230247652.html


 

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A New York judge knocked down President Donald Trump's bid to delay a lawsuit from a woman who accused him of rape, ruling in a decision released Thursday that the presidency doesn't shield him from the case.

Pointing to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the president isn't immune from a New York prosecutor's criminal investigation, Manhattan judge Verna Saunders said the same principle applies to E. Jean Carroll's defamation suit, in which Trump's lawyers have argued that the Constitution bars presidents from being dragged into lawsuits in state courts.

“No, it does not,” Saunders wrote.

The decision allows Carroll — who's seeking Trump's DNA as potential evidence — to keep pursuing her suit. She says he slurred her in denying her claim that he raped her in the 1990s.

"We are now eager to move forward with discovery so that we can prove that Donald Trump defamed E. Jean Carroll when he lied about her in connection with her brave decision to tell the truth about the fact that Donald Trump had sexually assaulted her,” said her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan.

 

 

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Cohen, formerly the fixer and now the rat, believes TRump won't leave the WH peacefully.  

 

https://news.yahoo.com/michael-cohen-book-claims-trump-232700208.html


 

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In an upcoming book, Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former attorney, alleges that Trump worked with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election.

Among many other accusations, Cohen alleges that Trump worked to get close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and “his coterie of corrupt billionaire oligarchs,” according to an excerpt released Thursday from the book, entitled “Disloyal, A Memoir."

Cohen claims that Trump lied when he told the American public he had no dealings in Russia, because Cohen personally oversaw Trump’s efforts to secure a major real estate deal in Moscow during the campaign.

“Trump had colluded with the Russians, but not in the sophisticated ways imagined by his detractors. I also knew that the Mueller investigation was not a witch-hunt,” Cohen wrote, although he did not provide specifics about the alleged collusion in the excerpt. “Trump had cheated in the election, with Russian connivance, as you will discover in these pages, because doing anything — and I mean anything — to ‘win’ has always been his business model and way of life.”

Trump has repeatedly and consistently denied any collusion with Russia in the 2016 election.

 


 

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In the excerpt released Thursday, Cohen claimed he knew Trump better than even his wife or children because he was tasked to cover up the president's infidelities and various misdeeds. Cohen wrote that he is convinced Trump "will never leave office peacefully."

"The types of scandals that have surfaced in recent months will only continue to emerge with greater and greater levels of treachery and deceit," the excerpt said. "If Trump wins another four years, these scandals will prove to only be the tip of the iceberg. I’m certain that Trump knows he will face prison time if he leaves office, the inevitable cold Karma to the notorious chants of 'Lock Her Up!'"

 

 

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Trump is having an unusually good day even for himself, first his friends get thrown in jail, now Judge throws out trump's challenge on the tax records   ....  Very Good Day Indeed.   ..   oh, and I bet he doesn't get invited to any past presidents social gatherings when he leaves office after Obama and Clinton destroyed him last night.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/20/judge-throws-out-trump-challenge-to-manhattan-da-subpoena-for-tax-records.html

 

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Judge throws out Trump challenge to Manhattan DA subpoena for tax records

  • President Trump’s effort to fight a subpoena for his tax records issued by the Manhattan district attorney was rejected on Thursday by a federal judge in New York.
  • The move is another loss to the president in a high-profile case that has already made its way to the Supreme Court. 
  • U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero said Trump failed to show that the subpoena would pose an unfair burden.
  • He sided in favor of Manhattan D.A. Cy Vance, who has said his office is pursuing an investigation of potential violations of state law. 

 

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  • 3 weeks later...

 

 

 

A brief recap as to why Trump & Barr are trying this:

 

 

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Our story thus far:

  • June 2019: E. Jean Carroll claims Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room in 1995 or 1996, as part of a longer #MeToo piece about the many men who have sexually assaulted her.

  • June 2019: the White House categorically denies it, saying “This is a completely false and unrealistic story surfacing 25 years after allegedly taking place and was created simply to make the President look bad.”

  • November 2019: she sued him for defamation in NY court, claiming that his denial that he had ever met her and subsequent attacks on her character damaged her professional reputation. It is important to note that this is a civil case, not a criminal one, and a state case, not a federal one. This means it is subject to a lower standard of proof, and is immune to the federal pardon power.

  • January 2020: her lawyers served Trump’s attorney with a subpoena for genetic material, to match to semen found on the coat she claims she wore the day of the sexual assault.

  • March 2020: In response, Trump’s lawyers immediately moved to delay the case, citing the then-genuine question of whether state courts could have jurisdiction over a sitting President on a matter not related to his Presidency or not (they would not if it was clearly a Presidential matter).

  • July 2020: the US Supreme Court answers the state jurisdiction question when it rules in Trump v. Vance that NY Attorney General Cyrus Vance could in fact subpoena his financial records.

  • August 2020: a NY Supreme Court judge rules that if the AG can subpoena his financial records, Ms. Carroll can subpoena his DNA.

At this point, Trump appeared to be out of options. There was a valid subpoena, he has no right to refuse, and SCOTUS has already blocked further appeals. Although if he just ignored it, I’m not sure what the court or the state could do about it. Maybe seize Trump properties? I mean, they’re certainly not going to be able jail him for contempt.

The basis for removing the case to federal jurisdiction was that Trump’s denial wasn’t defamation, it was a Presidential action. This is an obvious stretch that will surely be appealed, and will surely be shot down. But it buys him time until after the election at a minimum.

 

 


 

 

Courtesy of /u/whistleridge on the reddit.

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45 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

More on Trump's legal issues.    The long and short - there is reason to believe that Trump will do all he can to stay in office. As soon as the WH door kicks him in the a$$ he may be entering the court house door.

 

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-criminal-case.html

 

 

Again, I wish there was a way to delay this stuff and not talk about it until after January. If Trump is scared he will go to jail he will stop at nothing to become a dictator, and then none of the legal cases matter.

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