Trump Gets Triggered By Looming Criminal Charges & Melts Down

As if there are any actual consequences


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Prosecutors Say Trump Violated Gag Order Seven Times Since Monday

Prosecutors accused Donald Trump of repeatedly violating a gag order, as jurors raise concerns about harassment for their role in the trial.
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I found only one report suggesting Trump had singled out one specific juror, as if to imply a threat.
Trump may or may not be a very stable genius. But it's plausible Trump knows enough by now to know it only takes one juror to prevent a conviction.

It seems to me a major, obvious issue for the press to cover. So either Trump has been fairly well behaved about it, or the press is neglecting a significant detail.
Shiftless2 said:
"As if there are any actual consequences" S2 #441
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Not clear to me whether Trump has spooked the judicial system, or if they've spooked themselves.
But "consequences" indeed.
And while it may seem our judicial system is our last line of defense against this partisan marauder, there is another. The electorate.
Not much reassurance in context of the 2016 election.
 

Donald Trump Gets Bad Legal News From D.C. While in New York Court​

Story by Kaitlin Lewis

Afederal judge ruled on Thursday that lawsuits filed against Donald Trump over his actions tied to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol were allowed to advance despite the former president's push to pause litigation amid his related criminal case in Washington, D.C.

The order by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta was issued while Trump appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court for day three of jury selection in his criminal hush-money trial, in which Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection to a payment made to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election.

Trump's defense team argued in a court filing to Mehta last month that the lawsuits—which were brought against Trump by a handful of police officers and Democratic lawmakers who were at the Capitol during the attack—should be paused while his federal election subversion charges play out in D.C.

That case, brought by Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith, is set to appear before the U.S. Supreme Court next week as justices consider Trump's argument that presidential immunity protects him from facing criminal charges for actions he took while in office.

The former president has sought to use the presidential immunity defense to shield himself from ....

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Shiftless2 said:

"Jury tampering is a felony" #444​

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How does it compare to insurrection? ;)

btw:

Man Sets Himself on Fire Near Courthouse Where Trump Is on Trial​

By Nate Schweber and Matthew Haag / April 19, 2024
Onlookers screamed as fire engulfed the man, who had thrown pamphlets in the air before he set himself aflame. The authorities said he was in critical condition and unlikely to survive.
A 37-year-old man set himself on fire in a park outside of Manhattan Criminal Courthouse where Donald Trump is on trial.

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Man Sets Himself on Fire Near Courthouse Where Trump Is on Trial

Onlookers screamed as fire engulfed the man, who had thrown pamphlets in the air before he set himself aflame. A police officer tried to extinguish the flames before the man was taken away in an ambulance.
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I lost a bet.
I figured Melania would be the one to catch fire. I guess "Ladies First" is sooooo last Tuesday!
 
Speaking of "melting down" ...

Trump Privately Rages About His Sketch Artist, Courtroom Nap Reports​

The former president’s anger during the first week of his New York hush money trial was “maxed out, even for him,” a source tells Rolling Stone
BY RYAN BORT, ASAWIN SUEBSAENG, CATHERINA GIOINO

Donald Trump, if you take it from him, is cherishing the opportunity to stand trial on criminal charges related to a hush-money payment to a porn star. “I’m very proud to be here,” he told reporters before heading into court on Monday, calling the proceedings an “assault on America” that his presence, presumably, would serve to expose. “I’m very honored to be here,” the former president added.

Trump hasn’t been taking to martyrdom very well behind the scenes, though, three sources with knowledge of the matter tell Rolling Stone. He has privately raged over everything from reports that he can’t stop dozing off, to how the court sketch artist is rendering him, to late-night talk show hosts joking about his legal troubles. The former president is reaching levels of fury over the judicial process and all it entails that are “maxed out, even for him,” says one source who has had to personally endure Trump’s recent rantings about his trial.

The presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee has a lengthy track record of getting volcanically angry, and often allowing his rage to dictate political, legal, and policy decisions. But with the historic first criminal trial of an American president now underway, his public and private wrath has become particularly multi-faceted, and sustained to the point that longtime confidants have taken notice.

Among the heavily recurring topics in Trump’s private sniping this past week — according to the source, another person familiar with the situation, and a different Trumpworld figure briefed on the matter — is the former president’s bitterness towards New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who reported in print, online, and on CNN that Trump was visibly nodding off while in court. “He appeared to be asleep,” she told the network. “He didn’t pay attention to a note his lawyer passed him. His jaw kept falling on his chest, and his mouth kept going slack.”

The observation immediately went viral, provoking an irate denial from Trump’s campaign and reigniting the former president’s antipathy towards Haberman, who has been reporting on him for years. The resentment lasted the entire week, the sources add. It did not help Trump’s denial that ....

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Shiftless2 said:
Speaking of "melting down" ...

"The presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee has a lengthy track record of getting volcanically angry, and often allowing his rage to dictate political, legal, and policy decisions." #446
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Not uncommon when recycling to "melt down" to start afresh.
Good idea in Trump's case.

This does not surprise me. I don't dismiss the "finger on the button" implications.
But I would like to review the frequency graph of this volatility, over the past few decades.
Is there an upward spike after his inauguration?
After Biden's?

If spiking, is it Trump's tantrum against being out of the limelight?
Or might simple aging be diminishing Trump's capacity to maintain civilized demeanor to the standards Trump maintained before he announced his candidacy in 2015?

One of Trump's deflection techniques is to counter-accuse. "No I'm not! You are!" Trump may not have invented it, but has burnished it brilliantly.
 

Team Trump Is Ready to Lose the Supreme Court Immunity Case. They’re Celebrating​

Trump’s lawyers don’t expect the Supreme Court to bless his absurd immunity claims. “We already pulled off the heist,” says a source close to Trump
ADAM RAWNSLEY, ASAWIN SUEBSAENG

Donald Trump‘s inner circle doesn’t expect the Supreme Court to go along with his extreme arguments about executive power in the immunity case before the justices. But what the high court does now is almost beside the point: Trump already won.

Three people with direct knowledge of the matter tell Rolling Stone that many of the former president’s lawyers and political advisers have already accepted that the justices will likely rule against him, and reject his claims to expansive presidential immunity in perpetuity. Bringing the case before the court — after a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., shut down their arguments on executive power — was a delaying tactic designed to push Trump’s criminal election subversion trial past Election Day this fall. The strategy paid off so much more than MAGAworld anticipated.

“We already pulled off the heist,” says a source close to Trump, noting it doesn’t matter to them what the Supreme Court decides now.

Trump’s lawyers and other confidants had widely expected — and had told the former president as much — that the court maneuver would delay the election subversion trial, but perhaps only to around the summer. For months, Trump attorneys were actively preparing themselves and their client to face a trial, over his efforts to ....

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Donald Trump has less familial support than Jeffrey Dahmer had during is trial. In other words, he's less popular than a sometime cannibal.​


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Or if you'd prefer the full presentation, Stormy Daniels has humiliated Donald Trump again​


 
- meanwhile, Arizona joins the list -
"The former president himself was not charged, but was named as an unindicted co-conspirator, the Post said."

Arizona indicts senior Trump aides over 2020 fake elector scheme​

AFP Wed, April 24, 2024 at 8:38 PM EDT

Arizona has charged 18 people over a scheme to subvert the 2020 election in favor of Donald Trump, the state's attorney general said Wednesday, with US media identifying the ex-president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani among those indicted.
The felony indictments, which allege a conspiracy to award Arizona's slate of electors to the defeated real estate magnate, are the latest effort by a state to hold accountable those who backed Trump's false claim that he won the presidential vote.
Arizona's Attorney General Kris Mayes said a grand jury had returned indictments on 11 local Republicans, including the party's former state chair, and seven others from out of state, whose names were redacted until all have been served with papers.
According to the Washington Post, the seven include former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Jenna Ellis, John Eastman and campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn, as well as Giuliani, who acted as Trump's personal lawyer.

Democrat Joe Biden won Arizona, a critical election battleground, by just over 10,000 votes, but many Republican Party officials insisted -- without evidence -- that there had been fraud and that Trump had been the real winner.
Electors -- representatives of the winning candidate in each state -- sign official documents that are sent to Congress after presidential elections.
Despite Trump's loss in Arizona, his representatives nonetheless signed documents saying he had won.
The fake electors strategy was allegedly part of a plan to obstruct the certification of Biden's presidential victory by Congress on January 6, 2021.
Arizona is the fourth state to seek charges against people who tried to form an alternative slate of electors, after Michigan, Georgia and Nevada.
Meadows, Giuliani, Ellis and Eastman have all been charged in Georgia, alongside Trump in what is probably the most explosive of the four criminal trials he faces.
Wednesday's charges come as Trump is once again running for the White House, and still baselessly insisting that he won in 2020.
Opinion polls show he is in a close race with an unpopular Biden.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-world-rocked-arizona-fake-032723071.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall


- This is the guy we want for president. - Republicans
Seriously. Trump reportedly has already secured the GOP nomination.
 
USA TODAY

Who are the 11 Arizona fake electors facing criminal charges for claiming Donald Trump won in 2020?​

Stacey Barchenger, Arizona Republic
Wed, April 24, 2024 at 9:50 PM EDT
Eleven Republicans who signed documents falsely claiming that Donald Trump won the state in 2020 are facing criminal consequences in Arizona for the first time.
The indictment names the 11 Republican electors, and the names of seven other defendants are redacted. Those individuals have not yet been served, but details in the indictment make clear they include top Trump aides, including Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows.
These are the 11 Arizonans who signed documents claiming to be legitimate electors for Trump, though Democrat Joe Biden won Arizona's votes in the electoral college. Each is charged with the above counts.
Dig deeper: Learn more about Arizona's fake electors

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Who are the 11 Arizona fake electors facing criminal charges for claiming Donald Trump won in 2020?

Eleven prominent Arizona Republicans are facing charges in the state's fake electors probe. Who are they?
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24/04/25 8:46 AM/ET
Trump's morning comments not subject of court scrutiny / Lisa Rubin

This morning Trump met with construction workers in Midtown Manhattan. He directed one of his responses at David Pecker — who is taking the stand again today. And now, those remarks are being discussed in court.
The statement could not only be seen as a violation of the gag order but also as potential witness tampering, in that Trump flatly said he had a message for Pecker: “Be nice.”

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Trump hush money trial live updates: David Pecker returns to testify about 'catch-and-kill' payouts

Latest news and live updates on Day 7 of the Trump hush money trial as testimony against the former president continues.
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Failing to adequately restrain Trump, and to punish such transgression is a betrayal of the People.
 
"... without presidential immunity from criminal prosecution, there can be no presidency as we know it." Trial Attorney John Sauer to / @ SCOTUS 24/04/25
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Justice Alito: Denying presidents immunity will discourage peaceful exits​


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Unless this is a hypothetical and he simply wants to hear the arguments against this position he's doing a pretty good job of signaling his desires

As he considers immunity in a case centered on a president's refusal to accept his electoral defeat, Justice Samuel Alito suggested that not giving presidents immunity will actually discourage peaceful transfers of power.

Alito pressed Michael Dreeben, the attorney for the special counsel, on the idea that an outgoing president who looses a hotly-contested election will be disincentivized from leaving office peacefully because he will fear prosecution by the administration of his successor, a "bitter political opponent.

"Would that not "lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy?" Alito asked.

Much more on the trial here

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Supreme Court hears arguments on Trump immunity case

The Supreme Court heard nearly three hours of arguments Thursday in the blockbuster case over whether former President Donald Trump may claim immunity from prosecution in the federal election subversion case.
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Shiftless2 said:

#459​

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There are a few possible outcomes.
- Rule for Trump
- rule against Trump
- split the baby, send it back to lower court to draw the line.
If the latter the case may not be resolved until after the election.
 
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