Posted on 04/15/2024 3:44:25 PM PDT by Reno89519
The New York judge overseeing former President Trump’s hush money trial said Monday that Trump cannot attend arguments on presidential immunity at the Supreme Court next week.
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The decision to not allow Trump to be in Washington, D.C., on April 25, when the Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on a presidential immunity claim Trump is making in his federal criminal case, came just before the New York trial adjourned Monday.
“Arguing before the Supreme Court is a big deal, and I can certainly appreciate why your client would want to be there, but a trial in New York Supreme Court … is also a big deal,” Judge Juan Merchan said to Trump lawyer Todd Blanche, rejecting his request to let the former president play hooky.
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The pattern is hiding it from his family, if the affairs are true. You're the one in the other thread who brought up the Marla Maples story -- what was the election Trump was hiding it over back then?
Even with John Edwards in North Carolina, the argument was hiding it from his wife, not hiding it from voters. Cash is fungible, and Edwards said it was personal money that was used for the NDA, not campaign money.
Trump is saying he didn't do it, but if he did do it he used personal money. Bragg is alleging that Trump used campaign money.
"Hiding it" is not a crime, it's which pocket of money was used? The FEC or DoJ didn't charge Trump, Cyrus Vance didn't try Trump, only Bragg is trying Trump, but he needed a felony to revive a dead misdemeanor, and that's where the campaign funding violation came from. And that's the charge that the Edwards jury rejected in North Carolina.
So it's not about a pattern of hiding affairs at all. There is no crime in that.
-PJ
He admitted NeverTrump in his post #92.
I'm just getting it on the record in detail, from all aspects.
-PJ
You're the best! :)
But, no, it doesn't.
-PJ
The pattern is a history of philandering and the desire to keep it quiet for the purposes of winning an election,
But the charges are about falsifying business records. Was there anything on the tape that provides evidence of falsifying business records? It has been quite a while since I watched it, but I don't recall any discussion of business records in any context. It was more like two junior enlisted guys engaged in barracks talk. Jocks talking in the locker room. Proof that he said one can grab some women by the privates does not seem to provide proof that he falsified business records.
I can't see why they can quote what was said, but not produce the actual tape. The best evidence of what was said would be the actual words as spoken, with the context of the occasion, showing two guys b.s.'ing. A transcript removes the context of whether the statements were made in a jocular manner.
Slick Willie would probably be serving three life sentences if philandering were evidence of falsifying business records.
Perhaps Fuzz just likes gargling Rapin' Bill's ballz....
The pattern is hiding it from his family, if the affairs are true.
In that regard, note that the conversation on the Access Hollywood tape, between Trump and Billy Bush, occurred in 2005. The alleged encounter with Stormy Daniels was in 2006.
I don’t admire Merchant. You’re delusional.
But this isn’t Columbia.
That’s correct. He would have ss protection. So why the worries of an Epstein? And supposedly he has the admiration of the Brothers.
I don’t admire Merchant.
You probably mean Merchan, the judge in NY. Not much to admire.
Ashleigh Merchant was the lawyer in Georgia who posterized Fani Willis & Co. Plenty to admire there.
Yes. Correct. Merchan.
Regardless of what evidence, what arguments presented in DJT’s defense, this judge has already convicted him and likely will give him the maximum penalty.
So the rest of the year, after the trial ends and the judge announces his pre-determined sentence, DJT will be behind bars, until the case is over tuned sometime in late 2025-2026.
I wonder where he lives
no matter if djt is Epstein-ed, his case will be overturned on appeal and the judge reprimanded. the case will be hailed as an american jurisprudence success.
Ol’ Kiry can never decide. Either I’m well known or stealth. And if I’m a Democratic operative, my 1040 had no income from them or any of their affiliates. And like their minions, they love talking behind the backs of those they target. I can’t for the life of me understand why they are so afraid of my thoughts, comments and observations. Like I could change someone’s mind.
I notice you use the phrase normal freeper instead of normal people. A subset of a subset.
You used to be stealth, until this 2024 campaign season, when we made you start shooting your mouth off about how you voted for yourself in 2016 and 2020, instead of voting for President Trump, the Cleanest Guy in Washington, DC.
We're just waiting for you to say that you're going to vote for yourself again in 2024.
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