Donald Trump has some competition for today’s most important legal news. First off, DOJ sued Apple, alleging that iPhone “monopoly power” violates antitrust statutes. DOJ is joined by 15 state attorneys general and district attorneys in the civil lawsuit, which accuses Apple of harming consumers by limiting competition.
As an alum of the Manhattan DA’s Office — under Mr. Morgenthau — I cannot tell you how proud I am that the Office is pursuing the pathological liar and sociopath that is Donald J. Trump. If the Office ends up convicting him, I hope that he receives a substantially longer sentence than as was imposed on Michael Cohen.
It’s amazing that every day is filled with Trump and to think there was a time that this was not the case. Perhaps I have nostalgia for a time that was not continual trauma but perhaps in our contemporary world trauma is created by those who want to control the narrative of our society and culture. Thanks Joyce, you are the clear water of a mountain stream.
What is similar in all of Trump’s cases is his defense that Trump has a right to decide that ordinary legal requirements don’t apply to him.
His positions:
I lied about the value of my properties but it doesn’t matter.
My financial records on paying hush money were lies but it didn’t matter.
I took government records but it didn’t matter because I have the magical power to make them personal papers.. I lied about sexual assault and when I insisted on lying after I got caught it was an outrage because I have the right to lie.
And I lied about losing the election and tried to overthrow a democratic election and that doesn’t matter either.
Thank you. Justice is served. Obey the law and you will be fine. Break it and you will be fined! no one shall be above the law. The law and the constitution is what makes our country great and keeps us a democracy. It’s that simple. Be compassionate, be strong, be kind, be vigilant. Vote blue.
Alvin Bragg to tRump: "You should've learned by now, having spent a bunch of time in Manhattan, that if you f**k around with the Manhattan DA, you will find out about a world of pain. Boy."
Isn't it ironic that the suppression of Trump's lechery and infidelity by the payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels through the Trump organization, and the doctoring of its books to cover it up right before the 2016 election, which he narrowly won in the Electoral College, is now being splayed out before the public right before the 2024 election?
Given the $91 million in judgments against him for the sexual molestation and defamation of Gene Carroll and his promiscuous fling with a renown porn star while married to poor Melania, not to mention the $450 million fine imposed on him for his pervasive business frauds, Donald Trump is probably the most morally dissolute candidate ever to run for President of the United States.
I certainly agree with the US attorneys, Enough is more than Enough. It's time to set the trumpster and his attorneys blustering efforts to stall, aside and get on with the trial./ No more excuses get it over and convicted and put his sorry fat orange body in a matching orange jumpsuit. Let him rally his troops through facetime.
Professor, good to hear Judge Barbara Jones has "enhanced monitorship" powers which she will surely be needed over the next 48 hours as Trump seeks cash, a Letter of credit or a mythical bond.
Senator Whitehouse pointed to MUST read written bt MOLLY REEDEN at Huff Post on 3/19/24.
Molly explains a new billionaire developed "tool" to provide Leonard Leo Judges with instant faux "historical references " to dress-up opinions with ahistorical sophistry.
Given Senator Whitehorse's recent success getting the Judicial Conference to investigate unethical jurisprudence, I think we can expect deeper investigation as to where & when & how funded this "new tool" has been used at posh "vacation" spots.
For fuller context see, Lawrence O'Donnell's interview of the Senator on Friday's MSNBC 10 PM Eastern show. 🎯
There has been a good deal of mis- and dis - information about the history of the business document falsification/election violation (aka "hush-money") case being brought by Manhattan DA Bragg --- with him originally taking a good deal of heat for pausing the broad white-collar investigation of Trump started by Cyrus Vance, his predecessor. It might do to provide the actual timeline.
* Former Manhattan DA Vance headed up a broad, multi-year, white-collar investigation of Trump, which started with the hush-money payment and was broadened to include bank and insurance fraud or a "net worth" element.
* When Bragg took office in Jan., 2022, the "net worth" aspect of the broad case had primacy. However, Bragg became concerned that there were gaps in the evidence and was also concerned, at that time, whether Michael Cohen had a sufficiently detailed knowledge of Trump's actual financial records to be an important witness. When Bragg became increasingly concerned about pursuing the business fraud element of the case, the two lead prosecutors quit with a great deal of gnashing of the public teeth.
* However, based on further research by a new Trump investigative team, Bragg warmed to the idea of focusing the case instead on the hush-money payment with which, unlike the net worth element, Cohen was directly involved. And the rest is history.
And just to make certain no one thinks she's simply huffing and puffing, NY AG James has registered the fraud judgment in Westchester Cty., NY where Trump has several properties. She did this in anticipation of ultimately seizing them should he not come up with the required appeal bond or combination of bond and cash to forestall enforcement of the judgment --- or the NY Appellate Division takes pity on the former billionaire and stays the judgment altogether. A decision by a single appellate judge on an emergency basis previously left the financial aspect of the judgment intact.
I'd assumed that there were a ton of duplicates in what the SDNY produced. Any good document software will figure that out quickly. I also heard that Trump didn't subpoena them until early this year, so the delay is largely on him.
Don't happen to like either guy? Well, it's really not about Biden or Trump. It's about whether you get to live your life as you see fit or as the likes of Miller and Bannon see fit. And if you ever hope to have a candidate you do like down the road --- either party --- there is only one choice come Nov. and it ain't the large "grab 'em by the democracy" guy. The rising tide of fascism sinks all ships. Not just the blue ones.
As an alum of the Manhattan DA’s Office — under Mr. Morgenthau — I cannot tell you how proud I am that the Office is pursuing the pathological liar and sociopath that is Donald J. Trump. If the Office ends up convicting him, I hope that he receives a substantially longer sentence than as was imposed on Michael Cohen.
It’s amazing that every day is filled with Trump and to think there was a time that this was not the case. Perhaps I have nostalgia for a time that was not continual trauma but perhaps in our contemporary world trauma is created by those who want to control the narrative of our society and culture. Thanks Joyce, you are the clear water of a mountain stream.
What is similar in all of Trump’s cases is his defense that Trump has a right to decide that ordinary legal requirements don’t apply to him.
His positions:
I lied about the value of my properties but it doesn’t matter.
My financial records on paying hush money were lies but it didn’t matter.
I took government records but it didn’t matter because I have the magical power to make them personal papers.. I lied about sexual assault and when I insisted on lying after I got caught it was an outrage because I have the right to lie.
And I lied about losing the election and tried to overthrow a democratic election and that doesn’t matter either.
Thank you. Justice is served. Obey the law and you will be fine. Break it and you will be fined! no one shall be above the law. The law and the constitution is what makes our country great and keeps us a democracy. It’s that simple. Be compassionate, be strong, be kind, be vigilant. Vote blue.
Alvin Bragg to tRump: "You should've learned by now, having spent a bunch of time in Manhattan, that if you f**k around with the Manhattan DA, you will find out about a world of pain. Boy."
Don't think you'll get a fair trial in NY? Don't commit fraud, sexual assault and defamation there. Simple.
Isn't it ironic that the suppression of Trump's lechery and infidelity by the payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels through the Trump organization, and the doctoring of its books to cover it up right before the 2016 election, which he narrowly won in the Electoral College, is now being splayed out before the public right before the 2024 election?
Given the $91 million in judgments against him for the sexual molestation and defamation of Gene Carroll and his promiscuous fling with a renown porn star while married to poor Melania, not to mention the $450 million fine imposed on him for his pervasive business frauds, Donald Trump is probably the most morally dissolute candidate ever to run for President of the United States.
I certainly agree with the US attorneys, Enough is more than Enough. It's time to set the trumpster and his attorneys blustering efforts to stall, aside and get on with the trial./ No more excuses get it over and convicted and put his sorry fat orange body in a matching orange jumpsuit. Let him rally his troops through facetime.
Professor, good to hear Judge Barbara Jones has "enhanced monitorship" powers which she will surely be needed over the next 48 hours as Trump seeks cash, a Letter of credit or a mythical bond.
Senator Whitehouse pointed to MUST read written bt MOLLY REEDEN at Huff Post on 3/19/24.
Molly explains a new billionaire developed "tool" to provide Leonard Leo Judges with instant faux "historical references " to dress-up opinions with ahistorical sophistry.
Given Senator Whitehorse's recent success getting the Judicial Conference to investigate unethical jurisprudence, I think we can expect deeper investigation as to where & when & how funded this "new tool" has been used at posh "vacation" spots.
For fuller context see, Lawrence O'Donnell's interview of the Senator on Friday's MSNBC 10 PM Eastern show. 🎯
I’ve seen donald referred to as a “BINO: Billionaire in Name Only.” Karma.
There has been a good deal of mis- and dis - information about the history of the business document falsification/election violation (aka "hush-money") case being brought by Manhattan DA Bragg --- with him originally taking a good deal of heat for pausing the broad white-collar investigation of Trump started by Cyrus Vance, his predecessor. It might do to provide the actual timeline.
* Former Manhattan DA Vance headed up a broad, multi-year, white-collar investigation of Trump, which started with the hush-money payment and was broadened to include bank and insurance fraud or a "net worth" element.
* When Bragg took office in Jan., 2022, the "net worth" aspect of the broad case had primacy. However, Bragg became concerned that there were gaps in the evidence and was also concerned, at that time, whether Michael Cohen had a sufficiently detailed knowledge of Trump's actual financial records to be an important witness. When Bragg became increasingly concerned about pursuing the business fraud element of the case, the two lead prosecutors quit with a great deal of gnashing of the public teeth.
* However, based on further research by a new Trump investigative team, Bragg warmed to the idea of focusing the case instead on the hush-money payment with which, unlike the net worth element, Cohen was directly involved. And the rest is history.
And just to make certain no one thinks she's simply huffing and puffing, NY AG James has registered the fraud judgment in Westchester Cty., NY where Trump has several properties. She did this in anticipation of ultimately seizing them should he not come up with the required appeal bond or combination of bond and cash to forestall enforcement of the judgment --- or the NY Appellate Division takes pity on the former billionaire and stays the judgment altogether. A decision by a single appellate judge on an emergency basis previously left the financial aspect of the judgment intact.
I'd assumed that there were a ton of duplicates in what the SDNY produced. Any good document software will figure that out quickly. I also heard that Trump didn't subpoena them until early this year, so the delay is largely on him.
Don't happen to like either guy? Well, it's really not about Biden or Trump. It's about whether you get to live your life as you see fit or as the likes of Miller and Bannon see fit. And if you ever hope to have a candidate you do like down the road --- either party --- there is only one choice come Nov. and it ain't the large "grab 'em by the democracy" guy. The rising tide of fascism sinks all ships. Not just the blue ones.
Fred Trump to his young son Donald, “Donny, do everything the right way. Lie, cheat, steal. But never admit it. Ok, Sonny boy?”
Thanks for the update Joyce⚖️⚖️⚖️