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Murgos posted:Eh, as long as I don't have to read about his lovely all caps gaslighting anymore I'm willing to let his utter humiliation be after he's gone. Sooner the better IMO. I will admit I'm partially driven by spite and malice, but I do at least claim my motivation is partially based on wanting to see the cult of personality shatter to hopefully open a lot of people up to the possibility of deprogramming them. Before he dies I want to see Trump very, very obviously impaired. Like massive stroke with half-body total paralysis, unable to stop drooling out of the corner of a flaccid mouth, cannot walk on his own and no longer able to vomit out his hate speech coherently. My hope is that the cult leader being very obviously a normal person finally breaks this fever over the country and people can start coming around to their sense and get back to fixing poo poo instead of finding a new minority to persecute. That's what passes for the optimism I hold for the future.
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dr_rat posted:His whiny poo poo being mostly confined to the near void that is truth social has been a very good thing. Ego and money. If he starts tweeting again Truth Social stocks will go down the toilet faster than they are now. In fact, I bet he switches over to Twitter soonish after the stock does crater.
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The Bible posted:you apparently can't have a presidential candidate in court for whatever reason. I think that is pretty awesome. If SCOTUS rules on immunity and lets say we get that decision late June (totally reasonable to expect) then 88 days later (the amount of time Trump's lawyers had left before the case was stayed) the trial could begin. That puts jury selection right around my birthday in late September. If the DC case could start up then I would be very, very pleased.
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Dr. Faustus posted:Merrick Garland spoke on this. I understand DOJ should not announce any new investigations or indictments so many days before the elections, but Garland announced that the courts are free to go on. He basically said once the issue is in the hands of the Judicial branch/system, there is no policy to stop them. I love it, especially in the late late summer.
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Agents are GO! posted:So have the forums, it was kinda mind blowing. Can only hope this saga ends the same way. Maybe someone in Trump's orbit can convince him to try eating a bunch of sausages.
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Trump is suing Judge Juan Merchan: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/nyregion/trump-hush-money-trial-delay.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share Trump to sue judge in effort to avert hush-money trial Donald Trump will sue the judge overseeing his hush money trial, which is over allegations that Trump forged financial records in an attempt to cover up a sex scandal, the New York Times first reported. The latest lawsuit from Trump is a last-minute attempt to delay the trial, which is set to begin 15 April in New York City. According to the Times, Trump’s legal team has now filed an action against Judge Juan Merchan, though the lawsuit itself is not public. Two sources with knowledge on the suit told the Times on Monday that Trump’s attorneys are asking an appeals court to delay the trial and also attacking a gag order that Merchan placed on Trump. Merchan previously denied Trump’s request to delay the trial until the US supreme court reviews his claims around presidential immunity involving a separate criminal case.
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Rust Martialis posted:Trump is suing Judge Juan Merchan: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/nyregion/trump-hush-money-trial-delay.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share And yet another lawyer willingly signing up to get sanctioned. How does he do it? To contextualise: you literally can’t sue a judge for anything they did in their role as a judge. They are absolutely immune. Not qualifiedly immune, like cops, but literally absolutely immune, even if you can prove malfeasance
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$DJT continues to tumble, down another 10% today to $37ish, which is around 36% down from its IPO price, and over 50% down from its $80 highs. I don't believe there's been any news on it, so it looks like it's just general sentiment. As mentioned before, any number over $0 is nominally a windfall for Donald, but the markets in general are still fairly robust and generally trending up, so it's nice to see the stock dropping in spite of a generally favorable environment. It also makes it less likely that he can use this as a collateral for his mounting legal issues. dpkg chopra fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Apr 8, 2024 |
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Jean-Paul Shartre posted:And yet another lawyer willingly signing up to get sanctioned. How does he do it? To paraphrase George Carlin, there is statistically a Worst Lawyer in America, and someone is their client right now.
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Jean-Paul Shartre posted:And yet another lawyer willingly signing up to get sanctioned. How does he do it? You can in New York. It's called an Article 78 action, but it is rarely used against judges and definitely not in this kind of situation. It's traditionally used as a way to appeal rulings from administrative agencies or boards.
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https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1777310705420575116 So apparently the bond isn't actually a bond, it's just the insurance company saying "Yeah, if Trump loses he's gonna pay up. He pinky promised us he would pay up so you totally don't need to take his stuff."
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dr_rat posted:US courts can't take any riches you brought to the afterlife? What you have to understand is that 🎵in the afterlife, you may be headed for the serious strife! Now, you make the scene all day, but in the future there'll be Hell to pay!🎵
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dpkg chopra posted:over 100% down 
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I mean I get it, but this is the world where things can trend positively towards the negative. We're all on Mr. Bones' wild ride now.
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I’m gonna call it wishful thinking on my part
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That's not a bond. Someone (not Trump) is going to get their rear end handed to them about this.
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It is pretty humorous the president knowingly submitted a fraudulent bond and got a month extension.
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I continue to be mesmorized at how often people line up to get kicked in the groin on Trump's behalf for no visible benefit.
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He lets them touch the orb. Afterward, nothing in this life matters to them.
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Cimber posted:So apparently the bond isn't actually a bond, it's just the insurance company saying "Yeah, if Trump loses he's gonna pay up. He pinky promised us he would pay up so you totally don't need to take his stuff." The linked article is worth a read. This is an amazingly shady deal. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-dollar175-million-bond-is-even-shadier-than-it-looks
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Raenir Salazar posted:I continue to be mesmorized at how often people line up to get kicked in the groin on Trump's behalf for no visible benefit. It gives me anxiety, the mans left a very public trail of broken careers and lives in his wake and the acolytes continue to launch themselves onto his sacrificial alter.
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Nonsense posted:It is pretty humorous the president knowingly submitted a fraudulent bond and got a month extension. One weird trick financial regulators don't want you to know. I'm fairly doomer pilled on trump ever seeing justice, but this sort of thing feels like it has to result in some sort of punishment for someone. They submitted a bond that: 1. Didn't contain relevant documents like financial statements as required by law. Most likely to conceal the below. 2. Was written by a company that wasn't registered to submit the bond. 3. Was written by a company does not have the assets to cover the bond without going bankrupt, let alone the 10x figure required by law. 4. Isn't actually a bond. This is just surreal and the most trump thing I can imagine, complete with him gaining a month extension in his fraud trial punishment by dint of more fraud.
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Caros posted:One weird trick financial regulators don't want you to know. Don't worry, that cute lil' lawyer of his is happy to go to prison on his behalf.
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If he continues to commit fraud at each level of his fraud trial, the number of frauds between frauds will trend upwards and eventually diverge to infinity, creating a Zeno's paradox of fraud trials that can never actually be completed in a finite time
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Cimber posted:Don't worry, that cute lil' lawyer of his is happy to go to prison on his behalf. Draining the swamp, one accountant and lawyer at a time.
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mdemone posted:If he continues to commit fraud at each level of his fraud trial, the number of frauds between frauds will trend upwards and eventually diverge to infinity, creating a Zeno's paradox of fraud trials that can never actually be completed in a finite time Ah, the Sam Bankman Fried defense.
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Caros posted:One weird trick financial regulators don't want you to know. The likely thing is that it just gets rejected and if he doesn't have a bond ready then the judgement commences. So that 'one month extension' will be more like a six month loss of time, since having the bond is extremely important for him.
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Kchama posted:The likely thing is that it just gets rejected and if he doesn't have a bond ready then the judgement commences. So that 'one month extension' will be more like a six month loss of time, since having the bond is extremely important for him. No worries, I've got another bond right here. 
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Caros posted:No worries, I've got another bond right here. I didn't know Ted Cruz was a bondsman
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Rust Martialis posted:Trump is suing Judge Juan Merchan: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/nyregion/trump-hush-money-trial-delay.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share One weird trick to avoid ever going to trial, chain sue the judges in charge of your case, then the judge in charge of hearing your suit on the case against the judge, then the judge in charge of the case hearing the suit against the judge in the second case, then...
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Nitrousoxide posted:One weird trick to avoid ever going to trial, chain sue the judges in charge of your case, then the judge in charge of hearing your suit on the case against the judge, then the judge in charge of the case hearing the suit against the judge in the second case, then... Just sue every judge so all the cases have to be ruled by Judge Cannon and she can dismiss them. Bing bong problem solved.
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He just needs to have the 5th circuit claim jurisdiction, like they are doing with every right wing pet project at the moment.
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Kith posted:I didn't know Ted Cruz was a bondsman A bondsman, a travel agent, and so much more.
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Asproigerosis posted:He just needs to have the 5th circuit claim jurisdiction, like they are doing with every right wing pet project at the moment. By what legal justification?
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Caros posted:One weird trick financial regulators don't want you to know. Sounds like poor old man Donny was tricked by that dastardly Knight. The man was just trying to post a bond, how was he to know his bondsman was lying to the court. Hell, he never even met the guy outside the one time he brought Donny some coffee.
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Raenir Salazar posted:By what legal justification? *Throws a dart at the wall* Looks like Provisional Estoppel. Edit: Jokes aside part of the problem they have as of late is that they have used really flimsy excuses to take up cases where they should not have jurisdiction so they can make crazy rulings. Caros fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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Habba out https://www.rawstory.com/alina-habba-2667719905/ I am sure she thought she was the special one who would melt trumps nonexistent heart and would rise to the Pinnacle of financial and political power. Literally no one could have possibly predicted this. cr0y fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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cr0y posted:Habba out Specifically from defending Weisselberg.
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cr0y posted:Habba out So how's the whole "convinced someone to fire their existing lawyer and take a bad offer after pretending to be their friend" thing working out for her? Still about to be disbarred for that as well? Man, it may be easier to list the lawyers that HAVEN'T been disbarred or about to be disbarred while doing poo poo for him.
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Caros posted:No worries, I've got another bond right here. Whoa, didn't know Ted Cruz was gonna guarantee Trump's bond now :O What are the bond terms for us non-serial-killers?
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