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DIY-HP-LED

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can DeSantis stop his extradition to NY? wonder if that's why he relocated to FL?
The worm is back in the big apple now, but it's a good question, if he can block his extradition. If he can and doesn't, there will be a mob screaming "Hang DeSantis"! Looking for his ass.
 

rkymtnman

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The worm is back in the big apple now, but it's a good question, if he can block his extradition. If he can and doesn't, there will be a mob screaming "Hang DeSantis"! Looking for his ass.
There are only four grounds upon which the governor of the asylum state may deny another state's request for extradition:[5]
  1. the extradition documents facially are not in order;
  2. the person has not been charged with a crime in the demanding state;
  3. the person is not the person named in the extradition documents; or
  4. the person is not a fugitive.

hmmm. this could get interesting
 

DIY-HP-LED

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There are only four grounds upon which the governor of the asylum state may deny another state's request for extradition:[5]
  1. the extradition documents facially are not in order;
  2. the person has not been charged with a crime in the demanding state;
  3. the person is not the person named in the extradition documents; or
  4. the person is not a fugitive.

hmmm. this could get interesting
Since when did that stop Donald? Look what happened to Pence, just because something is against the law and constitution is no excuse! Donald made a living out of making people break the law and do all manner of shameful and disgusting things for him, it's an old habit.

He's doing such a good job destroying the republican party that I don't even mind seeing him run around lose for a spell, he's got a job to finish! :lol: He'll have them dancing on the courthouse steps during his trial before he's done using them.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Everybody in the GOP establishment knows Donald is fucked and are just waiting him out. Some are sucking his ass hoping to inherit his racist base and get the party POTUS nomination, others are waiting for him to go to prison and fade from the scene. Their problem is the base of the party are Trump deplorables and if Donald goes to prison he will make sure they get the blame for "betraying him". They are looking at 10% to 20% of the party walking away from either end of the spectrum, the pissed off Trumpers, or the disillusioned moderates. Anyway ya look at it they are between a rock and a hard place with Donald trying to steal their finances and perhaps some of their base, and the more conservative wing who want to restart the old culture wars con.

Donald might be a week away from indictment in NY at the most, or so say many legal experts. The cases are largely documents based, but I'm sure there will be witnesses too, by all accounts they will be easy cases to prove. They've hired a real gunslinger of a prosecutor who should scare the living shit out of anybody with a brain and appear to be closing in fast. Donald is impulsive, greedy, immoral, sloppy and lazy, he habitually discounts future consequences or is too stupid to see them and he regularly ignores expert advice, including legal.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Will Trump Become The First President Charged With A Criminal Offense?

Citizen Trump’s legal trouble is growing as the Manhattan D.A. ramps up his investigation into the former president’s finances. At the same time, Trump is also under investigation in Georgia for a variety of crimes including conspiracy and racketeering. Former SDNY prosecutor John Flannery joins MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber to discuss the probes and their legal significance.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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8 times for Michael Cohen now and they are squeezing the weasel hard! They've got his mouth piece cooperating and his bean counter by the balls, fat Donnie the Teflon Don is going down.
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Manhattan Prosecutors Zero In On Current, Former Trump Allies

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner joins Ali Velshi to discuss the latest on the Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation into Donald Trump, including an upcoming eighth interview with Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen. Prosecutors are also reportedly pressuring Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, to serve as a cooperating witness.
 
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DIY-HP-LED

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Can Cyrus Vance, Jr., Nail Trump? | The New Yorker

Can Cyrus Vance, Jr., Nail Trump?
Insiders say that the Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation has dramatically intensified since the former President left office. “It’s like night and day,” says one. According to another, “They mean business.”

On February 22nd, in an office in White Plains, two lawyers handed over a hard drive to a Manhattan Assistant District Attorney, who, along with two investigators, had driven up from New York City in a heavy snowstorm. Although the exchange didn’t look momentous, it set in motion the next phase of one of the most significant legal showdowns in American history. Hours earlier, the Supreme Court had ordered former President Donald Trump to comply with a subpoena for nearly a decade’s worth of private financial records, including his tax returns. The subpoena had been issued by Cyrus Vance, Jr., the Manhattan District Attorney, who is leading the first, and larger, of two known probes into potential criminal misconduct by Trump. The second was opened, last month, by a county prosecutor in Georgia, who is investigating Trump’s efforts to undermine that state’s election results.

Vance is a famously low-key prosecutor, but he has been waging a ferocious battle. His subpoena required Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars U.S.A., to turn over millions of pages of personal and corporate records, dating from 2011 to 2019, that Trump had withheld from prosecutors and the public. Before Trump was elected, in 2016, he promised to release his tax records, as every other modern President has done, and he repeated that promise after taking office. Instead, he went to extraordinary lengths to hide the documents. The subpoena will finally give legal authorities a clear look at the former President’s opaque business empire, helping them to determine whether he committed any financial crimes. After Vance’s victory at the Supreme Court, he released a typically buttoned-up statement: “The work continues.”

If the tax records contain major revelations, the public probably won’t learn about them anytime soon: the information will likely be kept secret unless criminal charges are filed. The hard drive—which includes potentially revealing notes showing how Trump and his accountants arrived at their tax numbers—is believed to be locked in a high-security annex in lower Manhattan. A spokesman for the Manhattan District Attorney’s office declined to confirm the drive’s whereabouts, but people familiar with the office presume that it has been secured in a radio-frequency-isolation chamber in the Louis J. Lefkowitz State Office Building, on Centre Street. The chamber is protected by a double set of metal doors—the kind used in bank vaults—and its walls are lined with what looks like glimmering copper foil, to block remote attempts to tamper with digital evidence. It’s a modern equivalent of Tutankhamun’s tomb.

Such extreme precautions are not surprising, given the nature of the case: no previous President has been charged with a criminal offense. If Trump, who remains the Republican Party’s most popular potential Presidential candidate and who recently signalled interest in another run, is charged and convicted, he could end up serving a prison term instead of a second White House term. Vance, the scion of a prominent Democratic family—the kind of insider whom the arriviste Trump has long resented—now has the power to rewrite Trump’s place in history. The journalist Jonathan Alter, a longtime friend of the D.A. and his family, said, “Vance represents everything that Trump, when he was in Queens with his nose pressed up against the glass in Manhattan, wanted to conquer and destroy.”

Vance’s investigation, which appears to be focussed largely on business practices that Trump engaged in before taking office, may seem picayune in comparison with the outrageous offenses to democratic norms that Trump committed as President. But the New York University historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, whose recent book “Strongmen” examines the characteristics of antidemocratic rulers, told me, “If you don’t prosecute Trump, it sends the message that all that he did was acceptable.” She pointed out that strongmen typically “inhabit a gray zone between illegal and legal for years”; corrupt acts of political power are just an extension of their shady business practices. “Trumpism isn’t just about him,” Ben-Ghiat went on. “It’s a whole way of being in the world. It’s about secrecy, domination, trickery, and fraud.” She said, of Vance’s probe, “It’s symbolic for the public, and very important to give the public a sense of accountability.”
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DIY-HP-LED

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Donald is definitely gonna have trouble adjusting to prison, where they will shove his food tray trough the grub hole in the cell door.
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Trump's Washington hotel echoes to silence of missing Maga crowd | Washington DC | The Guardian

Trump's Washington hotel echoes to silence of missing Maga crowd

Once the hub of Trump World in the US capital, with the former president gone it is in danger of becoming a white elephant

Clobbered first by the coronavirus pandemic, then by its owner’s election defeat, the Trump International Hotel in Washington is reeling from a huge loss of income and prestige. For critics of the former US president, it is welcome proof of how quickly the city is moving on without him.

“It used to be the hub of Trump World but I can’t imagine who goes there now,” said Sally Quinn, a local author and journalist. “We don’t even have tourists yet in Washington. I can’t imagine most people staying there when they come. I don’t know anybody who goes there or has gone there.”

The hotel opened amid protests in the historic Old Post Office building on Pennsylvania Avenue, between the White House and US Capitol building, in September 2016 as Trump campaigned for the presidency.

For four years its opulent lobby thronged with diplomats, lobbyists and Trump family members. It was one of the few places in the US capital where “Make America great again” hats were bountiful. But one recent afternoon it seemed more reminiscent of the haunted hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining.

Steel barriers surrounded the magnificent facade with its five US flags and statue of first postmaster general Benjamin Franklin. A black-coated porter explained that, due to coronavirus restrictions, only people invited by guests are allowed in. When the Guardian called the front desk, a man who identified himself as the manager said, “I’d rather not comment. Thank you for your call,” then hung up.

The hotel in Washington made just $15.1m in revenue last year, a drop of more than 60% from the year before. Then came Trump’s election loss and impeachment for inciting a deadly insurrection a short distance away at the US Capitol on 6 January, inflicting huge reputational damage.

On 20 January, Trump boarded the Marine One helicopter to start a new post-presidential life at his luxury Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, depriving the hotel of one of its biggest draws. A week later, the New York Times reported that the lobby was largely vacant and the waiters and staff members outnumbered the customers.

There was little mourning in Washington itself, where Joe Biden secured 92% of the vote compared with Trump’s 5%. Beyond official duties, the 45th president was rarely seen around the city, hardly ever visiting museums or theatres and only ever dining out at the Trump hotel itself.

Last month the Washingtonian reported that table 72 in a round booth at the hotel’s steakhouse was perpetually reserved for the president in case he decided to visit on the spur of the moment. The magazine also said it obtained a “Standard Operating Procedure” document for staff to follow whenever Trump arrived.

“As soon as Trump was seated, the server had to ‘discreetly present’ a mini bottle of Purell hand sanitizer. (This applied long before Covid, mind you.),” it reported. “Next, cue dialogue: ‘Good (time of day) Mr President. Would you like your Diet Coke with or without ice?’ the server was instructed to recite.

“A polished tray with chilled bottles and highball glasses was already prepared for either response. Directions for pouring the soda were detailed in a process no fewer than seven steps long – and illustrated with four photo exhibits. The beverage had to be opened in front of the germophobe commander in chief, ‘never beforehand’.

Last month the Washingtonian reported that table 72 in a round booth at the hotel’s steakhouse was perpetually reserved for the president in case he decided to visit on the spur of the moment. The magazine also said it obtained a “Standard Operating Procedure” document for staff to follow whenever Trump arrived.

“As soon as Trump was seated, the server had to ‘discreetly present’ a mini bottle of Purell hand sanitizer. (This applied long before Covid, mind you.),” it reported. “Next, cue dialogue: ‘Good (time of day) Mr President. Would you like your Diet Coke with or without ice?’ the server was instructed to recite.

“A polished tray with chilled bottles and highball glasses was already prepared for either response. Directions for pouring the soda were detailed in a process no fewer than seven steps long – and illustrated with four photo exhibits. The beverage had to be opened in front of the germophobe commander in chief, ‘never beforehand’.
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DIY-HP-LED

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Looks like Mikey wants Donald to feel the fear, I'm sure Trump is glued to his every public utterance, since he might be a witness against him.
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Michael Cohen tweets story warning that his meetings with DA are ‘not good news’ for Trump | The Independent

Michael Cohen tweets story warning that his meetings with DA are ‘not good news’ for Trump
Manhattan DA investigating whether ex-president or his company committed tax fraud, insurance fraud or falsification of business records

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen appeared to imply on Saturday that bad news is headed for his former boss.
Quoting a legal expert on MSNBC, Cohen retweeted a story on Twitter that his many meetings with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance were “not good news for #Trump.”

Mr Vance has been investigating the Trump Organization for possible financial crimes since 2018. Recently, Cohen has had seven meetings with the Manhattan DA, and has reportedly been invited to an eighth – a sign that Donald Trump may be indicted soon, analysts have suggested.

“The fact that he’s been there seven times and is rumored to be going back for an eighth time is not good news for Trump,” said Joyce Vance, the legal expert Cohen quoted.

Ms Vance was the US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 2009 to 2017, and specialised in fraud cases. (She is not related to Cyrus Vance.)
“Michael Cohen can explain a lot of the evidence the Manhattan DA has in hand," Ms Vance told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi. "He may have been around a lot of the transactions, he may be able to look at the underlying taxes and tell them who was in the room. He can help guide them to the best evidence and help them understand transactions that may have been criminal conduct."
The Manhattan DA is investigating whether Mr Trump or his company committed tax fraud, insurance fraud or falsification of business records.

Other experts have said they expect indictments soon as well. John Dean, the former White House counsel who testified against President Nixon, said he knew “from personal experience” that the DA would not hold so many meetings with Mr Cohen unless it was planning to bring charges.
“It is only a matter of how many days until DA Vance indicts Donald & Co,” Mr Dean tweeted on Wednesday.

Earlier this month, Mr Vance’s office won a huge victory when the US Supreme Court allowed it to obtain millions of pages of Mr Trump’s tax returns, business records, and documents from his accountants.
Mr Cohen called the ruling a “holy grail.”
 
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