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Legal noose tightens around Trump as special counsel, Georgia probes hurtle toward possible charges
The New York Daily News ^ | 02/26/2023 | David Goldiner

Posted on 02/27/2023 2:53:12 PM PST by thegagline

Former President Donald Trump has never been in more serious — and fast-approaching — legal jeopardy.

A Georgia grand jury has apparently already recommended Trump’s indictment in a 2020 election interference case. The Atlanta prosecutor handling that case told a judge that decisions on charging him and others are “imminent.”

Special counsel Jack Smith, meanwhile, is showing none of the kid-glove deference to Trump that marked Attorney General Merrick Garland’s handling of the explosive cases.

Moving at the legal equivalent of lightning speed, Smith is gathering evidence against the former president on two fronts: his taking a cache of classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago resort and Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

In the last two weeks alone, the hard-nosed one-time Brooklyn federal prosecutor has subpoenaed former Vice President Mike Pence, who knows firsthand how ugly Trump’s effort to overturn their loss was.

And last week he reportedly slapped first daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, former top advisers, with subpoenas for what they know about his scheme.

“Jack Smith is not messing around,” former federal prosecutor Harry Litman said Thursday. “This goes to the heart. ... It’s an endgame move.”

The first shoe to drop for Trump is likely to be the Georgia state probe into alleged election interference in the Peach State.

The probe started with Trump’s taped call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in the days before the Jan. 6 uprising, demanding that he “find” just enough votes to allow him to overtake Joe Biden.

From there, the panel delved into Trump’s entire sprawling plot to overturn his humiliating loss in Georgia, including bogus claims of widespread voter fraud and recruiting fake electors to cast doubt on Biden’s certified win.

The probe has been done and dusted for a few weeks now, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has told a judge she is nearly ready to announce who will be indicted and for what.

In a hint of what may be coming, the grand jury forewoman recently made little effort to hide the panel’s belief that Trump should face charges. Ivanka Trump may have once thought her blood ties to her father might protect her from the harshest scrutiny of the probes into alleged wrongdoing.

But Smith has pulled no punches, slapping her and her husband with subpoenas to tell the grand jury under oath what they know about Trump’s plot to overturn the election and his alleged incitement of the violence on Jan. 6.

Ivanka witnessed her father’s final phone call to Vice President Mike Pence on the morning of Jan. 6 in which he sought to bully him into blocking Congress from certifying Biden’s win.

She also joined a broad and frantic effort to get the former president to call on his supporters to end the violent insurrection.

Kushner, by happenstance, played more of a bit role on Jan. 6 because he was flying back from the Middle East and only arrived at the White House in the late afternoon.

The power couple both testified to the congressional committee investigating Jan. 6. But an appearance before Smith’s grand jury would carry much more weight.

Pence has spent more than two years trying to avoid telling anyone what he knows about the darkest side of his former boss.

Smith is on a mission to get him to talk despite Pence’s vow to fight Smith’s subpoena using the novel constitutional technicality that he was acting as a member of Congress on Jan. 6.

Pence could be asked to corroborate some aspects of Trump’s weekslong effort to harness the government to help him overturn their loss at the ballot box.

The ex-veep also has crucial information that no one else has — like what Trump told him face-to-face as he desperately sought to bully him into joining his unconstitutional Stop the Steal campaign.

Smith is also investigating Trump’s improper taking of hundreds of classified documents to his Florida home when he left the White House.

By all accounts that is a much simpler case than the one involving Jan. 6.

On the face of it, Trump certainly violated the letter of the laws regarding handling of classified documents. He also brazenly defied a subpoena for their return to the government and allegedly took steps to impede the probe, like having the documents moved.

In recent weeks, Smith has moved to put Trump attorney Evan Corcoran on the hot seat for drawing up a document falsely claiming to have made a “diligent search” for more classified documents.

That move suggests Smith already has a strong case against Trump, but is seeking to flip Corcoran against his former client using an exception to attorney-client privilege when their discussions involve committing a crime or fraud.

Stormy Daniels is back, too

Donald Trump thought he’d heard the last of Stormy Daniels. But he recently found out otherwise.

In a surprising move, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has reopened an aggressive grand jury probe into Trump’s alleged payment of hush money to keep the porn star quiet about a supposed tryst in the days before he won the 2016 presidential election.

It’s not known what sparked the newfound flurry of investigative activity, although the most obvious explanation would be new evidence or witnesses surfacing recently.

Michael Cohen, the one-time Trump fixer-turned-nemesis, has returned to answer more questions about the sordid affair that sent him, and so far only him, to federal prison.

And with Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg behind bars at Rikers Island on a separate fraud conviction, it may be a good time to persuade him to be more forthcoming about his role in authorizing the illicit payments themselves or reimbursements to Cohen.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2016humiliatingloss; bogusinvestigations; fakeimpeachment23; haha; hurtlingtowardsbias; injusticeintheworks; law; legalhoaxtightens; morefakecharges; nevertrumpers; orpossiblynot; predeterminedresults; swampnikcoup; thefactsbedammmed; thewallsareclosingin; trump; trumpisaliar
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To: thegagline

This is the first time that a follower of witchcraft spilled the beans about maybe somebody gonna be in trouble with the name that is well known, but unnamed - I guess this means Trump.


21 posted on 02/27/2023 3:05:37 PM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: thegagline

They finally got him now! bed peeing, Russian collusion Jan6 2 impeachments, etc. etc. finally the Georgia the cleanest state in the union is going to get the trumpster!


22 posted on 02/27/2023 3:05:37 PM PST by 2nd Amendment
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To: JennysCool
It’s not only the noose tightening! There’s apparently hurtling involved!

It's like a freight train overloaded with two hundred cars packed with dynamite, hurtling down the mountain with it's brakes burned out, right toward the sleeping town!

23 posted on 02/27/2023 3:05:56 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: thegagline
And here we have the foreperson of that Georgia grand jury (not kidding).
She’s not just merely nuts. She is most sincerely nuts.


24 posted on 02/27/2023 3:07:29 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Soul of the South

—> This will open the door for the RNC to express “concern” and issue a rule than no one under indictment can participate in the Republican presidential primaries, effectively denying voters the opportunity to make Trump the nominee.

If so millions of us will vote him third party or write him in


25 posted on 02/27/2023 3:07:32 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: thegagline

Should make Ron DeSantis happy. He is all for a conviction.


26 posted on 02/27/2023 3:08:45 PM PST by libh8er
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To: nesnah

The reporter also writes for The Forward which is now published in English as well as the traditional Yiddish.


27 posted on 02/27/2023 3:08:46 PM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater 2024)
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To: thegagline

The lunatic forewoman of the jury, destroyed any possibility of a Trump indictment. The minute they indict Trump, his lawyers will file for a change of venue and get it because her interview will be exhibit one for that change of venue.


28 posted on 02/27/2023 3:09:51 PM PST by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: libh8er

And what has DeSantis done to validate that statement? Trump Derangement Syndrome has turned into DeSantis Derangement Syndrome for some of you.


29 posted on 02/27/2023 3:11:11 PM PST by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: libh8er

Don’t even need a conviction. They just want to tie Trump until after the next election.


30 posted on 02/27/2023 3:12:00 PM PST by Newbomb Turk
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To: thegagline
Just another dead tree rag like the Enquirer, Globe, Sun, etc.
31 posted on 02/27/2023 3:12:14 PM PST by KeyLargo
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To: thegagline

What a silly headline.


32 posted on 02/27/2023 3:15:33 PM PST by montag813
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To: thegagline

Aieeeeee!! The walls are closing in!!! They’ve got Trump up against the ropes!!! His days are numbered!!! The sky is falling!!!


33 posted on 02/27/2023 3:17:18 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Leaning Right

Nice, apt, Wizard of Oz reference there!

She is indeed a wicked witch!


34 posted on 02/27/2023 3:21:47 PM PST by TheConservator (Beware the tyranny of the woke mob. There has never been a greater threat to liberty.)
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To: thegagline

Although both are scary....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2ncJ6ciGyM


35 posted on 02/27/2023 3:30:09 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Soul of the South

And you know this how?

And, what happens when all the supporters of Pres Trump write his name in, as I will?


36 posted on 02/27/2023 3:34:41 PM PST by qaz123
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Amen!! I can fill my ballot out TODAY!!!


37 posted on 02/27/2023 3:37:33 PM PST by southernerwithanattitude (New and Improved Redneck!)
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To: Billthedrill
in a room where the walls are closing in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIFi7x6Jno8

38 posted on 02/27/2023 3:40:06 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Allegra

A terrible leftist tabloid rag. At least the NY Post has a few decent columnists but the Daily Snooze is an absolute joke.


39 posted on 02/27/2023 3:42:51 PM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: DarrellZero

That’s racist!
Indictment? Meet Ham Sandwich.


40 posted on 02/27/2023 3:44:35 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness ; Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat)
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