Why I hope Trump's future trial is televised.

Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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cannabineer said:
when I Snopesed it, the diaper don tale was given the no.
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too bad, that would have been so supremely embarrassing for trump...if he's capable of feeling embarrassment.
if he can't prove it, the guy on meidas touch saying this shit is leaving himself and possibly meidas touch open for a massive trump retaliatory lawsuit....if trump has time, with all the other lawsuits he's either defending against, or pursuing himself.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
too bad, that would have been so supremely embarrassing for trump...if he's capable of feeling embarrassment.
if he can't prove it, the guy on meidas touch saying this shit is leaving himself and possibly meidas touch open for a massive trump retaliatory lawsuit....if trump has time, with all the other lawsuits he's either defending against, or pursuing himself.
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I think that man will quite soon be completely busy tapdancing like a cowboy on the wrong end of a sixgun.

Tish James and Fani Willis impress me of having their cases primed and ready for the word go. Even if that man had a pocket pardon for self, neither situation falls into the category.

And this is happening.

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January 6 committee announces October 13 public hearing

The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill insurrection announced Thursday that the panel's next public hearing will be October 13 at 1 p.m. ET.
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cannabineer

cannabineer

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compassionateExotic said:
LOCK HIM UP!
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I wanna see him bankrupted, and I mean f’reel bankrupted, not the tactical pirate kind that was his specialty … before getting nailed to the wall by Letitia James for billions that he is enjoined from raising.

After that, a leisurely feast on his criminal insurrectionist bones, and the bones of both Thomases and McCarthy and Graham and Moscow Mitch and and and all the other overthrowers
by Fani and Merrick and all the other angels of Nemesis.
 
hanimmal

hanimmal

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MIAMI — While voters all over Miami-Dade County were casting their ballots in the contentious presidential election on Nov. 3, 2020, police say one Donald Trump supporter was dangerously expressing his political opinions out on Biscayne Bay with threats and a handgun.

Triggered, police say, by a Joe Biden flag on a personal watercraft, Eduardo Acosta allegedly went ballistic and attacked two men, firing at them as they fled on the water and then chasing them down and threatening them at gunpoint — all while repeating a conspiracy that Biden supporters are child molesters.

Two years later, Acosta, 39, is fighting charges that include two counts of premeditated attempted murder with a weapon, two counts of aggravated assault with a weapon and robbery with a weapon. His trial began this week as attorneys attempted to select a jury.

He is facing up to life in prison, with a 20-year mandatory minimum for discharging the firearm.

Though the charges are in dispute, the altercation — some of which was caught on video — was a clear reflection of how tense the political environment in South Florida had become by Election Day 2020. Now, efforts to find an impartial jury to decide Acosta’s fate have provided a window into how politically divided Miami remains ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm election.

What’s typically the more tedious part of a trial, the jury selection process in Acosta’s trial — which has lasted two days and could spill into next week — has exposed raw feelings, with dozens of potential jurors forced to discuss their feelings about the country’s polarized politics.

On Tuesday, one potential juror said she could try to cope through the case’s allusions to violence, despite having a person close to her brutally murdered in recent years. But she couldn’t put aside the politics.

“It’s not that I think Biden is awesome, but Trump represents everything that I... have a disdain for,” said the woman. “I think he’s a vile human being.”

She was promptly dismissed.

One by one, other jurors followed with similarly intimate stories on how the last four years in politics had impacted their ability to be objective.

Several said they knew what it was like to almost lose friends, or to try to move past hurtful conversations with relatives divided over political ideologies.

“Things have been said that there’s no taking back,” one potential juror told attorneys.

Some potential jurors said they had attended pro-Trump rallies. One man said he rallied for Trump in Miami in the lead up to the 2020 election and claimed the event only got rowdy once anti-Trump protesters showed up to throw bottles and cans. Another said his wife had in fact worked in the campaigns of Florida’s past three Republican governors.

But by far the most heated and vociferous opinions on the first day of jury selection were from citizens who did not feel they could fairly judge someone who supported Trump.

Changing political identities
Once a stronghold for the Democratic Party in Florida, Miami-Dade County voters — and Hispanic voters in particular — have been steadily joining the Republican Party or not identifying with any party at all since 2018. And while Democrats still safely outnumber Republicans, Miami-Dade appears more like a divided battleground in recent years, in a state that Republicans insist is shifting more to the right.

In the past years, Miami-Dade has also been a venue for tense rallies and massive boat parades in support of Trump — it is commonplace for boaters to have flags in support of Trump, Biden or, more recently, flags carrying the name and campaign logo of Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Adding to the case’s peculiarity is that Acosta’s defense attorney, Eric Matheny, has himself tapped into local political commentary. He co-hosts a political podcast called “Bob and Eric Save America.” The podcast, which carries the name of Trump’s own political committee, features a wide range of topics appealing to conservative and right-wing listeners.

“In this country, we can still have verbal arguments about politics, we still have that right,” Matheny told the Herald on Tuesday. While Matheny said he could not yet comment on the allegation against Acosta, Matheny argued his client was “grossly overcharged” by the state, something he says will become clear once the trial begins.

“You don’t have the right to commit violence, you don’t have the right to physically assault anyone. But if you go out and you have a flag, I don’t care if it’s for Biden, or Trump... You invite people to comment on it,” he said.

The allegations
According to the arrest affidavit, Acosta was on his personal watercraft with a group of men on Nov. 3, 2020 when they allegedly approached two other men — Wilson Peralta and Alfredo Garcia — who were spending the day on the small island near the Miami Marine Stadium. One of them was flying a Biden flag on one of their watercrafts that said “Running with Biden.”

They began to argue and, according to the affidavit, Acosta said anyone who supported Biden was a “child molester.” The insult originates from the QAnon conspiracy theory that a “deep state” group of child sex traffickers are secretly working to defeat Trump.

According to a cellphone video recorded by one of the two men, Acosta at some point lunged at them but was held back by one of the people in his group.

The accounts given to police at the time show Acosta allegedly came back by himself, this time with a gun in his hand. Peralta and Garcia jumped on their jet skis and tried to flee. One of them says he heard a bullet whiz by. Both fell off of their jet skis trying to flee, they told police.

Acosta caught up to them in the water and insisted on making a stronger statement, the affidavit claims. Holding the two men at gunpoint, Acosta allegedly said, in Spanish: “Don’t come back to this island. I’m going to kill you.”

Before taking off, Garcia and Peralta said Acosta tied one of their watercrafts to his own and took off.

Jury selection
Jury selection is expected to continue on Monday. Matheny says he expects jurors’ political passions will continue to play a role in their selection.

“That’s not to say that all our jurors are going to be Democrat or Republican, it really doesn’t matter to us. We just want a fair and impartial jury, as to who’s going to rightly and fairly decide the facts in this case,” he said. “That’s the challenge because objectivity is kind of a thing of the past. We all reside in our political echo chambers.”

As Acosta’s attorneys and prosecutors vetted potential jurors Tuesday, one man answered questions about why he listened to the podcast hosted by Joe Rogan, a political commentator whose controversial views on society and politics have at times veered into insults against Black and LGBTQ people. A woman was asked to explain why she liked a tweet by Trump’s cousin, Mary Trump, calling the former president “a traitor” almost two years ago. Another confessed outright that political conversations gave her anxiety and she wouldn’t be able to sit through the trial.

The judge presiding over the case, Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Daryl Trawick, excused some people almost immediately. By the end of Tuesday, with several excused for other various reasons, the number of people in the pool of potential jurors was nearly halved.

Throughout the day, one of the prosecutors in the case, Rachel Morales-Gellis, walked in all directions inside the courtroom and peppered her audience of potential jurors with questions about their political biases.

“Remember that, Donald Trump and Joe Biden, they are not defendants in this case. And they’re not witnesses in this case,” said Morales-Gellis during her jury selection presentation on Tuesday. “No one’s going to judge you for your feelings or your thoughts. We just need to know what they are.”

As the trial’s first day wrapped up, Morales-Gellis poised a hypothetical scenario to a potential juror, after the woman indicated in her jury questionnaire she has had disagreements with family over politics.

“Let’s say ... there was a physical fight started by one side,” she said. “Would you assume that the person who started the fight is, ‘fill in the blank?’ Of which party?”

“Trump,” the woman replied, without hesitation.
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Roger A. Shrubber

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“You don’t have the right to commit violence, you don’t have the right to physically assault anyone. But if you go out and you have a flag, I don’t care if it’s for Biden, or Trump... You invite people to comment on it,” he said.

The allegations
According to the arrest affidavit, Acosta was on his personal watercraft with a group of men on Nov. 3, 2020 when they allegedly approached two other men — Wilson Peralta and Alfredo Garcia — who were spending the day on the small island near the Miami Marine Stadium. One of them was flying a Biden flag on one of their watercrafts that said “Running with Biden.”

They began to argue and, according to the affidavit, Acosta said anyone who supported Biden was a “child molester.” The insult originates from the QAnon conspiracy theory that a “deep state” group of child sex traffickers are secretly working to defeat Trump.

According to a cellphone video recorded by one of the two men, Acosta at some point lunged at them but was held back by one of the people in his group.

The accounts given to police at the time show Acosta allegedly came back by himself, this time with a gun in his hand. Peralta and Garcia jumped on their jet skis and tried to flee. One of them says he heard a bullet whiz by. Both fell off of their jet skis trying to flee, they told police.

Acosta caught up to them in the water and insisted on making a stronger statement, the affidavit claims. Holding the two men at gunpoint, Acosta allegedly said, in Spanish: “Don’t come back to this island. I’m going to kill you.”

Before taking off, Garcia and Peralta said Acosta tied one of their watercrafts to his own and took off. "


i seem to have a different definition of "commenting on it" than this trump magat lawyer does.
i'll start a pool right here, i say he gets 11/29 plus a big fine....
but he should get at least 20 years, discharging a firearm on a crowded beach, assault, attempted murder?...he SHOULD get locked up for at least 20
 
hanimmal

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NEW YORK (AP) — One of Donald Trump’s top moneymen admitted Thursday to breaking the law to help fellow Trump Organization executives avoid taxes on company-paid apartments and other perks, including by preparing misleading tax returns and failing to report the benefits to tax authorities.

Senior Vice President and Controller Jeffrey McConney testified at the company’s criminal tax fraud trial that he filed false tax returns on behalf of a father-son executive duo whose Manhattan apartment rents were paid by the Trump Organization.

McConney, who was granted immunity to testify as a prosecution witness, also testified that a few years before Trump became president, the company’s accountant raised concerns about the way it paid out holiday bonuses — a topic that has consumed hours of trial testimony.

According to McConney, the accountant warned that the Trump Organization’s dubious and since-discontinued practice of splitting bonus payments between an executive’s salary and one-time independent contractor payments from subsidiaries could jeopardize the law license of one such executive: its top lawyer.

The Trump Organization, the entity through which Trump owns hotels, golf courses and other assets, is accused of helping some top executives avoid income taxes on compensation they got in addition to their salaries.

The company, which could be fined more than $1 million if convicted, has denied wrongdoing. Its lawyers allege that another executive — longtime finance chief Allen Weisselberg — went rogue, concocted the scheme without Trump or the Trump family’s knowledge and lied to the company about what he’d done.

Trump Organization lawyer Susan Necheles kept the jury’s attention on Weisselberg as she questioned McConney on cross-examination Thursday afternoon, showing emails indicating that McConney needed to get permission from Weisselberg to complete even simple tasks, such as approving a $100 expenditure or writing a few sentences to describe the ice rinks the company managed in Central Park.

McConney said that Weisselberg, his boss for years, had wide latitude over the company’s operations and even quoted him as saying that Trump hired him to essentially run the company. Weisselberg has pleaded guilty to taking $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation and agreed to testify as a prosecution witness, possibly next week, in exchange for a five-month jail sentence.

The Trump Organization trial resumed Thursday after an eight-day delay while McConney and the judge, Juan Manuel Merchan recovered from COVID-19. The trial was abruptly interrupted on Nov. 1, just the second day of testimony, when McConney tested positive for the virus during a lunch break.

Merchan wore a blue surgical mask on the bench. About half the jurors also wore masks. McConney, who had been coughing off and on during his testimony last week, didn’t do so nearly as much on Thursday and testified that he was feeling “much better.”

McConney, who said he prepares taxes on the side for a handful of clients, told jurors that he checked “no” on state tax form questions asking if Chief Operating Officer Matthew Calamari Sr. maintained New York City living quarters despite knowing that he had, allowing them both to avoid paying city wage taxes

McConney said he did the same on Matthew Calamari Jr.’s tax forms and did not submit amended tax returns when he learned that he too was living in a company-paid Big Apple apartment.

“Did you intentionally try to help people evade their income taxes?” prosecutor Joshua Steinglass asked.

“Evade is a very strong word,” McConney responded. “I tried to help them any way I could, with some suggestions.”

The Trump Organization also paid for Weisselberg’s Manhattan apartment, Mercedes-Benz cars for him and his wife, furnishings and utilities. Trump personally paid his grandchildren’s school tuition.

McConney, in his third day on the witness stand, testified that he deducted the cost of some executives’ perks from their salaries, reducing their tax liability further. Trump signed off on the salary reductions. Prosecutors showed a 2012 memo noting one such arrangement for Calamari Sr. bearing the former president’s initial — a D resembling a treble clef — and the handwritten notation, “OK.”

A message seeking comment was left with a lawyer for the Calamaris.

McConney, picking up where he left off before the COVID interruption, testified that the Trump Organization altered some pay practices and financial arrangements after bringing in a Washington lawyer to audit its tax practices following Trump’s election in 2016.

Steinglass referred to the changes as a “cleanup.”

But McConney testified that the company was warned years earlier by its own accountant, Donald Bender, that its decades-old way of doling out holiday bonuses — saving money on taxes by paying full-time employees as freelance workers, and possibly writing the payoff as an expense — could imperil then-general counsel Jason Greenblatt’s ability to practice law.

“It had something to do with, he could lose his legal license,” McConney testified.

In 2015, after Bender spoke up, Greenblatt’s bonus was paid entirely as salary.

A message seeking comment was left with Greenblatt, who from 2017-2019 served as an assistant to the president and Trump’s special representative for Middle East negotiations.

McConney tried to justify the split-pay arrangement by saying the company would apportion its bonuses based on work that an executive did for that entity, such as Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. But later he acknowledged such work falls under the normal duties of a CFO like Weisselberg.

Asked why the company didn’t scrap the bonus-pay scheme entirely after Bender said it could cost Greenblatt his career, McConney said: “He’s telling me to stop on one and not stop on the other, it didn’t even enter my mind. ... If Donald Bender had reason to tell us to stop, we would’ve stopped.”
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