‘Trump isn’t funding any of us’: Co-defendants in Georgia case are struggling with mounting legal bills
Trump promised to release a report exonerating him in Georgia. We predicted that report doesn’t exist, just like his healthcare plan he kept promising “in two tweeks”
Trump cancels press conference on election fraud claims, citing attorneys’ advice
“MIAMI – Former President Donald Trump now says he won’t be holding a press conference next week to unveil what he claims is new evidence of fraud in the 2020 election in Georgia, citing the advice of lawyers.
No compelling evidence of the wide-scale fraud Trump alleges has emerged in the two-and-a-half years since the election. Republican officials in the state — where three recounts confirmed Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden — have long said he lost legitimately.
“Rather than releasing the Report on the Rigged & Stolen Georgia 2020 Presidential Election on Monday, my lawyers would prefer putting this, I believe, Irrefutable & Overwhelming evidence of Election Fraud & Irregularities in formal Legal Filings as we fight to dismiss this disgraceful Indictment,” he wrote on his social media site Thursday evening. He added, “Therefore, the News Conference is no longer necessary!”
Trump had announced that he would be holding the event hours after a grand jury voted to charge him and others in a sweeping alleged conspiracy to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election and stop the peaceful transition of power.
He had said he would use the “major News Conference” at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club Monday morning to release what he claimed was an “almost complete” report, adding, “Based on the results of this CONCLUSIVE Report, all charges should be dropped against me & others – There will be a complete EXONERATION!””
Two Sad Stories:
Why do this if he is innocent?
Indictment Number 4
You can read the indictment:
READ: Trump indicted in Georgia
The Craziest Details From the Trump Georgia Indictment
Indictment Number 3
Donald Trump is about to go through some things – this is …. AWESOME!
Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment has been unsealed. Read the 4 charges brought by the DOJ.
Read the full indictment against Trump for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election
“Former President Donald Trump has been indicted on four felony counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and witness tampering, for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.”
Indictment Number 2
These are the charges Trump was indicted on and what they mean
“The indictment lays out 37 federal charges against Trump, including obstruction and unlawful retention of defense information for storing dozens of classified documents at his Florida resort and refusing to return them to the FBI and the National Archives.”
Jack Smith
Donald Trump should have his bail revoked
Judge issues protective order against Trump, cautioning him against ‘inflammatory statements’
“The judge overseeing special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 case against Donald Trump issued a protective order against the former president following a hearing Friday in which she cautioned Trump against making “inflammatory statements” about the case and said that his First Amendment rights are “not absolute.””
Indictment Number 1
Trump indicted by Manhattan grand jury
“The historic indictment, which comes in a case related to hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, marks the first time a former U.S. president has faced criminal charges.”
New York attorney general’s Trump lawsuit “ready for trial,” her office says
“New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office says it is ready to proceed with a trial stemming from its $250 million lawsuit claiming former President Donald Trump, two of his children and his company engaged in widespread fraud.”
Meet Letitia James
Indictment Number 5?
Georgia grand jury handling potential indictments in Trump 2020 probe is sworn in
“The Georgia grand jury that is expected to consider charges against former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies for trying to overturn the 2020 election was sworn in Tuesday after a three-hour selection process in Atlanta.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, an elected Democrat, launched the investigation in early 2021 after Trump tried to overturn his defeat in the Peach State with a public and private pressure campaign targeting Georgia election officials, the governor, lawmakers and prosecutors.”
Trump gives an order to the judge he appointed to dismiss his case:
Unlike Grassley, Comer and others who lied about having tapes of Biden and Bribery, we have tapes on Trump,
Tom Fitton?
Everyone needs to read the indictment,
Trump’s 2nd indictment: Read the full document text
“The former president is facing 31 counts of “willful retention” of classified records, as well as several counts related to his alleged effort to obstruct the investigation.”
I realize FoxNews viewers and MAGA Republicans hate to read for some reason, so here you go:
The Full Indictment Read by Ali Velshi
“EPISODE SUMMARY
MSNBC host Ali Velshi reads the entire 37-count federal indictment against Donald Trump.
EPISODE NOTES
What exactly is inside that historic 37-count federal indictment against Donald Trump? MSNBC host Ali Velshi reads every word of the DOJ’s allegations against the former president, including a transcript of a conversation Trump allegedly had about a classified military document and texts between his employees.
If you have questions, you can leave us a voicemail at 917-342-2934 and maybe we’ll play it on the pod! You can also email us at ProsecutingTrumpQuestions@nbcuni.com.”
The Case:
“The documents, according to the indictment, included details about U.S. nuclear weapons, spy satellites and the U.S. military. They were produced by the Pentagon and arms of the U.S. intelligence community, including the CIA, the National Security Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office and other agencies.
“The unauthorized disclosure of these classified documents could put at risk the national security of the United States, foreign relations, the safety of the United States military, and human sources and the continued viability of sensitive collection methods,” the indictment said.”
https://www.reuters.com/legal/how-secret-were-documents-found-mar-a-lago-2023-06-09/
Some great legal takes,
And a great historical take,
For the Records
“The diehard defenders of former President Trump have been insisting this week that the Presidential Records Act means that he had the right to keep whatever materials he wanted from his presidency.
The National Archives has shot this stupidity down, pointing to the clear language of the law and speaking with the slow tones of an exasperated parent.
One would imagine that NARA’s close reading of the letter of the law would satisfy those who fancy themselves faithful adherents of textualism, but if they’d like, we could also explore the original intent of those who passed the law?”
His advisers tried to tell him,
Sadly, some terribly wrong legal takes,
Trump allies and critics battle over impact of case, political narratives
“No one is saying the former president didn’t retain some classified documents.”
Clinton ‘Sock Drawer’ Decision: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
“According to Reuters, the theory that the Clinton case exonerates Trump “is vigorously disputed by national security experts, including former National Archives litigation director Jason Baron, who is now a professor at the University of Maryland, and Bradley Moss of the Mark S. Zaid law firm.”
Both told Reuters there were “clear distinctions between the audiotapes in the Clinton case and records in the Trump indictment.
The Clinton tapes, Baron told Reuters, “were in the nature of a diary or journal in recorded form,” which meets “the definition of a personal record in the Presidential Records Act,” per Reuters. “But the documents with classified markings that were seized from Mar-a-Lago, ‘were official government records that should never have been transferred out of the government’s hands,’” Baron told Reuters.
In addition, Moss told Reuters that the Espionage Act charges against Trump don’t revolve around the question of personal vs. presidential records.
“Whether as a presidential record or a personal record, the records at issue in this indictment still have classification markings and contain information relating to the national defense,” he told Reuters.
The indictment says Trump, as president, “had lawful access to the most sensitive classified documents and national defense information gathered and owned by the United States government.”
According to the indictment, Trump “gathered newspapers, press clippings, letters, notes, cards, photographs, official documents, and other materials in cardboard boxes that he kept in the White House. Among the materials Trump stored in his boxes were hundreds of classified documents.”
“The classified documents Trump stored in his boxes included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries; United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack,” the indictment against Trump reads/
The unauthorized disclosure of these classified documents “could put at risk the national security of the United States, foreign relations, the safety of the United States military, and human sources, and the continued viability of sensitive intelligence collection methods,” the indictment says.”
Facts…
FoxNews has someone setting the record straight!
And MSNBC,
Dear GOP,
I tried to tell everyone,
The GOP attacking the DOJ and FBI is sad,
