Racket
A federal judge Tuesday indefinitely postponed the criminal classified documents trial of former President Donald Trump, a court filing shows. The trial on charges that Trump willfully retained classified national security records after leaving the White House and then hid them from federal authorities was scheduled to start May 20.
But the new ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon vacates that date and sets a new slate of pretrial proceedings, the latest of which is a hearing set for July 22. The ruling casts more doubt on whether Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will face trial on the federal criminal charges prior to the Nov. 5 election.
Which is a grotesque, corrupt situation.
Whether any of Trump’s other cases will head to trial before Election Day is unclear — and after Cannon’s latest ruling, increasingly unlikely.
In addition to the documents case, Trump is charged in federal court in Washington, D.C., with conspiring to overturn his loss to Biden in the 2020 election. He also faces election-interference charges in Georgia state court.
Trump of course appointed Cannon, a choice that shocked practically everyone because of her lack of qualifications and merit. Crook appoints cypher who obligingly shields him from the law long enough to get elected again and tyrannize over us even more. What a great system.
This makes me white hot with rage. He’s arguably the most dangerous criminal the country has ever seen, he’s been out of the White House for four years, and no one can get a conviction on one single goddamned crime in that entire time? I have absolutely had it with people passing the hot potato on this. All it shows is that if someone is a big enough criminal, everybody clams up, so terrified of potentially crossing a line while trying to serve him justice, that NOBODY manages to serve him ANY justice at all.
I agree Arty, he’s the worst kind of wealthy entitletard. The election interference case in Georgia was set for August, and I think it’s the most damning and winnable case against him, so I guess all we can do is sit back and see how he weasels his way out of that one, the fucking weasel. But god damn if the D.A. didn’t have her own dirty laundry to contend with. Personal integrity is a thing of the past, it’s not even if anymore, it’s how corrupt.
Me too Arty, me too.
I’m amazed at the sheer nerve of his lawyers in his current ‘hush-money’ trial. Before it had even started they tried to prevent the prosecution from using the financial records relating to the payments on the grounds that they were incriminating. For some reason probably involving complex legal reasons that request was denied.
Then, after Stormy Daniels testified today they moved to have the trial declared a mistrial because Daniels’ evidence was extremely prejudicial. Again, motion denied.
I might be getting confused (so many trials and events within each), but I think the judge said something along the lines of ‘evidence is prejudicial/incriminating by its nature – denied.’ Apparently Daniels evidence was a lot more explicit than the judge had ruled it was supposed to be and he was pretty upset at that, but refused the mistrial request in part because the defence didn’t make any serious effort to object and have it reined in. I’ve seen quite a few commentators who hate Trump acknowledging that they’re still not clear why Daniels was asked to offer some of the testimony she did. There is the general ick factor of course “you remind me of my daughter” [puke].
My ‘complex reasons’ remark may have involved heavy duty sarcasm, Rob, but thanks for the clarification nonetheless.
As always the reality is indistinguishable from the sarkiest sarcasm every sarked.
Justice must not only be done, but should be seen to be done. It appears that Trump’s presidency is dividing America like nothing since the Vietnam War, which characteristically Trump avoided military service in (bonespurs don’tcha know) while supporting the whole enterprise 200%.
The causes which Trump has supported over the course of his career can IMHO be divided into three categories: two checkable, and one with problems. These are: 1. The wrong cause for the wrong reason (eg the attack on the Capitol) or the right cause for the wrong reason (eg draft dodging re Vietnam.) Historians and political theorists are in for a hard time finding examples of 3. right cause for the right reason. (NB: ‘right’ with a lower case ‘R’.)
For Trumpologists, that has to be the holy grail.
It’s probably not really all that hard, because in reality there’s always a lot of common ground, i.e. universally accepted norms; it’s just that we pay attention to the non-common ground because that’s where we argue, and we let the common ground take care of itself.
Mind you, Trump is “better” than pretty much anyone at rejecting even universally accepted norms, but even so, there are doubtless many he adheres to just as automatically as the rest of us.