All Things Trump: the story continues...

[pErvinalia]

What a loser.

[rasetsu]

Rudy declares bankruptcy.

And Hunter Biden is a potential creditor. Squeeeeeeee!

[Joe]

Poor bastard. Giuliani will never pay him.

[Tero]

This might get interesting. Perhaps Trump can become president after he is denied the right to vote.

Elsewhere:
A said: I have watched Donald Trump avoid accountability for the last seven years. Is there any actual doubt even among Republicans that Donald Trump organized and attempted an insurrection? Trump shouldn't be able to run for office. Hell, he shouldn't even be able to vote in the State of Florida if we go by that State's laws.

B said: This is a good point. If/when Trump gets convicted of a felony, he won't be able to vote in most (all, some?) states. What do state laws say about convicted felons holding office? Should be interesting.

[Tero]

Two months to prepare the paper for jurors. Not jurors. Just the paper.

NEW: Judge Aileen Cannon just entered an order on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Motion for a written juror questionnaire.
Cannon ordering both sides to “meaningfully confer” and file a joint jury questionnaire for the Court to consider by February 28, 2024.

[Tero]

No matter how this goes, it keeps Trump in the news right up to the primaries.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-ba ... us-ruling/

Special counsel Jack Smith skipped over the appeals court and brought the issue directly before the Supreme Court in an effort to keep the trial on a schedule.

The justices agreed to expedite the decision, but ultimately sided with the former president, who argued the case should be considered first by the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals in a Jan. 9 hearing.

Conway said the D.C. court has “acted really, really, really fast” and said he would not be surprised “if we saw a decision from them in a matter of days.”

“I think if I were on that panel and I were the presiding judge, I’d be writing the opinion now because I just don’t think…there’s anything there to the claims that Trump has been making,” Conway said. Conway predicted that the D.C. court will lift the stay by the third week of January and teams can start preparing for trial as soon as March. If it were to return to the Supreme Court, Conway said a decision could come by June.

[rasetsu]

Circuit should just summarily dismiss the appeal with little comment. Force SCOTUS' hand.

[Tero]

Maybe.

[Joe]

Doubtful. Whatever they decide, this is a big case and they're not likely to pass up the chance to influence the Supreme Court's thinking.

[Tero]

Best meme of the year and Cunt is no longer here!
https://www.threads.net/@robertellingsw ... IwNjQ2YQ==

[rasetsu]

Doubtful. Whatever they decide, this is a big case and they're not likely to pass up the chance to influence the Supreme Court's thinking.

Like the gang of five gives a shit what some District Court says.

[Tero]

“I’m genuinely surprised how people close to Trump haven’t talked about the odor,” Mr Kinzinger wrote earlier this week.

“It’s truly something to behold. Wear a mask if you can,” he added.
Mr Kinzinger did not describe what the former president smelled like. But critics of Mr Trump have mentioned the former president has a “distinct smell”.

In an interview with Mary Trump, the niece of Mr Trump, earlier this year, comedian Kathy Griffin recalled that the former president smelled “like body odor with kind of like scented makeup products.”

“Donald has a distinct smell that doesn’t get enough press,” Ms Griffin said on The Mary Trump Show.

Ms Griffin spent a brief time with Mr Trump while appearing as a guest on The Apprentice.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 68213.html

And when Trump goes to jail, he will need to get a private cell. No cell mate will stand him.

[pErvinalia]

[Tero]

Trump team says Congress needs to impeach.

“Before any single prosecutor can ask a court to sit in judgment of the President’s conduct, Congress must have approved of it by impeaching and convicting the President,” they wrote. “That did not happen here, and so President Trump has absolute immunity.”

Trump’s team asked the appeals court earlier this month to examine the immunity ruling issued by Chutkan. Chutkan rejected Trump’s immunity claims, writing in an opinion that his “four-year service as Commander in Chief did not bestow on him the divine right of kings to evade the criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens.”

Trump’s lawyers said Saturday that Chutkan “missed what the Founders recognized: That punishment of the President is irreducibly political and so belongs primarily to the branch most politically accountable—Congress and, ultimately, the Senate.”

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/23/politics ... index.html

[Sean Hayden]

You’d think they’d argue instead that any perceived criminal activity served US interests. It shouldn’t be too difficult then to show how bending/breaking laws is a norm…

Maybe that is what they’re doing by asking congress to handle it: hey jokers, who ya foolin!?