Trump Gets Triggered By Looming Criminal Charges & Melts Down

I may have blown it S2.
My jape was priggish, intended as comedically so. That Trump didn't do much to advance the best interests of our Constitutional republic during the brief portion of 2021 where Trump presided.
I should have credited Travis Akers in the clarification. That aside,

not clear to me what the previous year's financial statements have to do with it. Your point I fear.
 
Seems to be a lot of this going around

Ex-Trump Org executive chokes up on stand at fraud trial​

Story by Graham Kates

Asked by his own lawyer Tuesday why he retired from the Trump Organization after nearly 40 years, the company's former controller, Jeffrey McConney, appeared to choke up.

He left the company he "loved" because of all the investigations that have zeroed in on it, McConney said on the stand at the ...

 
It's a viable theme for a cartoon K #304.

A picture of Trump standing behind part podium, part helm, his brittle hair and orange complexion focusing gaze forward to the promise of a utopia only Trump can imagine.
And behind him a swath of deceit and destruction nearly as broad as Trump's reputation.

Still doing well in the polls though, not quite as well in the courts.
 
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ML:
The pattern is already clear. The Bush v. Gore ruling was issued between election day and inauguration day, despite the fact that there was enough time within that time band for the Florida election officials to complete their process. BUT !!
Apparently the Republican dominated SCOTUS didn't want to risk a Governor Bush loss to VP (& presidential candidate (D) AlGore. SOOO, they terminated the legal process by inflicting their ruling.

And as a result, during the following 8 years of the GWB administration UBL killed ~3,000 innocent Americans. AND
during that same 8 years, GWB killed more innocent Americans than UBL, over a thousand more.

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Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump New Ammunition in Jack Smith Case​

Story by Katherine Fung

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear a major Capitol rioter case could present a new obstacle for Special Counsel Jack Smith's prosecution of former President Donald Trump in the federal election interference case.

The high court on Wednesday agreed to hear Fischer v. United States, Capitol rioter Joseph Fischer's appeal of the Justice Department's interpretation of "obstruction of an official proceeding"—the same felony charge that Trump is facing in his own criminal case. Trump is also facing one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and one count of conspiracy against rights. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Because Fischer could potentially upend hundreds of cases, including Trump's, legal experts said ...

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When the Supreme Court is bought and paid for what do you expect?
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"A prudent question is one half of wisdom." William James

Pulverizing the Democrats into a paste suitable as a [Republican] skin moisturizer is perfectly understandable.

But does a non-Constitutional dictatorship (remember the -day 1- thing?) need a judicial system? With a supreme court?

Seems to me they undermine their own existence. In my experience this is quite rare. Generally in my experience, what ever the calibre of the institution, it is at least biased toward its own perpetuation.

The most plausible?
The Republican SCOTUS majority might imagine themselves royalty in the United States of Trump. BUT isn't that what Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and numerous other former Trump associates think?
 

Inside the Trump Plot to Turn His Jan. 6 Trial Into a ‘MAGA Freak Show’​

The ex-president and his lawyers have outlandish plans for his election subversion trial — and it’s too much even for some former Trump attorneys
BY ASAWIN SUEBSAENG, ANDREW PEREZ

ATTEMPTS TO DRAG Nancy Pelosi into court to berate her on the stand and, hopefully, on live TV. Claims that the Jan. 6 Capitol attack was an FBI frame job, with an assist from Antifa. Conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was indeed “stolen,” supposedly backed up by still-classified documents. Unhinged assertions that President Joe Biden is now secretly, personally orchestrating an unprecedented act of political persecution. Calls to publicly unmask the federal officials and lawyers investigating the former (and perhaps future) president of the United States. Efforts to blame any illegality on some of the ex-president’s closest confidants and former legal allies. Insinuations of election meddling by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

These are just some of the items that former President Donald Trump and his lawyers have been discussing and planning to deploy when he goes on trial for his efforts to steal the 2020 election. The brewing defense strategy is outlandish and feral, even by Trumpland standards, to the point that it’s baffling some of the ex-president’s former lawyers and senior administration officials. One person with knowledge of these strategic and legal discussions bluntly describes the plans as a blueprint for ...

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There’s new evidence of foreign money going to a president: Trump​

Story by Philip Bump

The heart of the Republican effort to potentially (or probably: inevitably) impeach President Biden are business agreements involving his son, Hunter Biden. Even before Republicans took control of the House a year ago, party leaders, such as incoming House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), announced their intention to explore how money from foreign actors might have made its way through Hunter Biden to his father. When then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) opened an impeachment inquiry in September, he cited a need to figure out how money might have flowed to the president — though he did not claim, as others have, that this had already been demonstrated.


On Thursday, members of Oversight finally offered actual, concrete evidence of a president benefiting from an influx of foreign money. This isn’t particularly useful for the Republican impeachment effort, though: The president at issue was Donald Trump.

It’s worth pointing out that this has always been the problem with the Republican targeting of Biden. Their insistence on the nefariousness of layered corporations or money from overseas was always more applicable to Trump and his family than to ...

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Trump fraud trial live updates: Closing arguments underway in New York​

Republican accuses Justice Arthur Engoron and state attorney general Letitia James of trying to ‘screw’ him ahead of Iowa caucuses​

Oliver O'Connell,Alex Woodward,Joe Sommerlad,Gustaf Kilander

Judge Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over Donald Trump‘s civil fraud trial in New York, reportedly suffered a bomb threat at his home on Thursday morning.

That followed the defendant’s latest attack on the justice on Truth Social for not allowing him to deliver his own closing argument at today’s hearing.

Mr Trump alleged that Judge Engoron and state attorney general Letitia James are working together to “screw” him, accusing them of “election interference” for scheduling Thursday’s session so close to the Iowa caucuses on Monday and labelling the trial “rigged and unfair”.

The Republican front-runner appeared on a Fox News town hall broadcast from Des Moines last night rather than join GOP rivals Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis for a CNN debate and tried to backtrack on his earlier declaration that he would be a dictator for the ...

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Judge Engoron's 'Brilliant' Move in Trump Trial Praised by Ex-Prosecutor​

Story by Thomas Kika

udge Arthur Engoron's recent decision in Donald Trump's civil fraud trial has been hailed as a "brilliant" maneuver by former prosecutor Charles Coleman Jr. on Saturday.

New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued former President Trump, his adult sons, and the Trump Organization for $370 million, accusing them of frequently inflating Trump's own net worth and the value of his assets by billions of dollars from 2011 to 2021 to secure better deals and loans. James' lawsuit initially sought $250 million in damages. Trump and his family have dismissed the accusations and maintained their innocence, accusing prosecutors of being politically motivated and attempting to harm Trump's 2024 presidential campaign.

In September 2023, Engoron, who is overseeing the case, ruled that Trump and the other defendants were liable for committing fraud, with the case becoming focused on the severity of punishment that they will face. The judge is set to rule on how much will be owed in damages, and may permanently bar ...

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