Thoughts and prayers…
As long as it’s praying and not paying. I want him to be scrounging for money.
Yes, maybe we’re expected to rejoice at this point, but I’m just bracing myself for the next disappointment.
I get that 100%. Bastards slippery as an eel when it comes to avoiding accountability for his crimes, both against humanity and against language.
That said I’ve made a conscious decision not to allow myself to become depressed over the entire situation. I have to hold on to some kind of hope because the alternative, and with everything that I’m seeing both here and on the world stage, the alternative is too terrifying to consider. Even if that hope manifest itself in sarcasm and bad jokes.
Perhaps, but I must say, seeing that headline made me cackle with glee this morning. I’ll take any bit of schadenfreude about him I can get.
Ok, so it turns out that having a judgment against you for lying about how much your properties are worth makes banks wary of accepting your valuations of those properties as collateral to for a loan against that judgement. Who’d a thunk?
Also I think this puts lie to Trump’s claims that all these banks were happy to lend him money and didn’t really care about what valuations he put down.
Good luck with the appeal Donny Boy!
Peter Navarro had his emergency motion to keep him from reporting to prison tomorrow denied by Chief Justice John Roberts just a short time ago.
I’ll take what small victories we get these days.
Lock his ass up!
Fuck yeah, and restrain those hands he loves to gesticulate with.
Did he ever comply with documents and testimony? If not, the sentence should be until he complies. Instead he only got, “On September 7, 2023, he was convicted on both counts,[26] and on January 25, 2024, he was sentenced to four months in jail and fined $9,500.[27]” from wiki.
And why the hell does this lowlife get a listen to by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; it should have been by the night court traffic judge.
Each of the SCOTUS justices covers a different circuit. As Chief Justice, Roberts has DC. If it had been Louisiana (5th Circuit), Alito would have made the call.
Navarro had already had his motion denied at every level until now so this was his last shot at being allowed to stay out of prison while his appeal goes through the process. So, his appeal still goes on but the various courts have effectively said it’s unlikely he’ll prevail on those, so off to prison with him while that process plays out.
IANAL but I think Roberts had the option of having the full Court get involved but this would have been very unlikely.
Agreed 4 months is not at all what I would like but like I said, I’ll take what we can get at this point.
I did just see Letitia James on the national news tonight says she was prepared to seize some of his properties if necessary. So there’s that at least - she’s not playing.
Would it be OK if we all took a moment to savor this moment?
What we need is some fine cheese, some fine wine, and to play a remake of this song:
The 2024 Remake of this song by E. Jean Carroll, Letitia James, and Melania Trump.
“I hope that you enjoy it as much as I…”
Pro-Trump attorney arrested after court hearing about leaked Dominion emails
A pro-Trump lawyer who tried to overturn the 2020 election was arrested Monday after a court hearing about her recent leak of internal emails belonging to Dominion Voting Systems.
There was an existing arrest warrant for the attorney, Stefanie Lambert, stemming from her failure to appear at recent court hearings in her separate criminal case in Michigan, where she was charged with conspiring to seize voting machines after the 2020 election.
Lambert and a cadre of election deniers have disrupted one of Dominion’s many ongoing defamation lawsuits by publicly leaking thousands of the company’s internal emails in recent days, using the disclosures to resurrect false claims about voter fraud.
The controversy erupted when Lambert provided the confidential Dominion documents to Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf, who has embraced conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and has used his office to hunt for supposed voter fraud against Donald Trump. In the last 24 hours, Leaf has posted more than 2,000 internal Dominion documents on his social media account.
Lambert had access to the Dominion files because she represents former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, who is being sued for defamation by the voting company over his 2020 election lies. As part of the case, they have access to “discovery” from Dominion, whose lawyers said they have already turned over more than a million documents.
No, you liar; you did not “turn evidence over to law enforcement”. What you did was intentionally leak documents to a fellow conspiracy nut who then posted it to rile up more whacked-out nut-job conspiracy theories who then started making death threats. I’m really looking forward to two things: Leaf’s arrest and y’all going to prison for this stupidity.
And another one!
Supreme Court turns away ‘Cowboys for Trump’ co-founder ousted over Jan. 6
WASHINGTON — The legal argument that worked for President Donald Trump failed to deliver for one of his supporters Monday as the Supreme Court turned away a New Mexico man who was kicked out of local office over his role in the events of Jan. 6.
Couy Griffin, a founder of “Cowboys for Trump,” was criminally convicted over his role in Jan. 6 and lost his job as a county commissioner as a result.
The lawsuit brought against him by New Mexico residents cited the same constitutional provision that Trump successfully argued in a separate case could not be used to throw him off the ballot in Colorado.
Both cases concerned Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which says that those who previously took an oath to the Constitution while holding a government position but later “engaged in insurrection” cannot hold office.
Ah, sweet, sweet justice!
This part about the Dominion case irritates me: “Dominion’s lawyers also said in filings that company employees are already receiving new death threats in the wake of the disclosures. The messages posted online by Leaf contain names, email addresses, cell phone numbers and office addresses of Dominion employees.”
Unsurprising, but disgusting. All of those people should sue her as well.
Sounds like Mr. Griffin had one too many falls off his horse.
Couy Griffin, the county commissioner from Otero County, N.M., and founder of Cowboys for Trump, embarked on a bold experiment in election nullification at the local level.
In June, Griffin was sentenced on misdemeanor charges relating to his appearance at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. He had not gone inside the building himself and most likely would not have been charged but for his own numerous public statements, including telling federal agents in an interview that while he hoped the country’s leadership could be changed “without a single shot being fired,” there was “no option that’s off the table for the sake of freedom.”
Because he refused a coronavirus test after his arrest, Griffin spent weeks in solitary confinement, a tribulation of which he has spoken often since. It seemed to deepen his sense of purpose. In January, insisting that Otero County’s 2020 results had been fatally compromised by hacked voting machines, he and the other two commissioners enlisted a subcontractor from the Arizona audit to review their own county’s election. The project included a door-to-door canvass of the county’s voters, led by familiar figures from the Stop the Steal circuit. The subcontractor conceded in a letter to the county that this work had turned up no conclusive evidence of voter fraud. Undaunted, all three commissioners refused to certify the county’s 2022 results on the grounds that the 2020 issues remained unaddressed.
Maggie Toulouse Oliver, New Mexico’s Democratic secretary of state, sued the county commissioners, and the State Supreme Court ordered the commission to certify that election. Griffin’s two co-commissioners relented, voting to certify the election, but Griffin himself remained unmoved. “It’s not based on any facts,” he told his colleagues. “It’s only based on my gut feeling and my own intuition, and that’s all I need.”
Oh, and that “subcontractor from Arizona”? This nut, who is running for president as an independent, despite being an ineligible foreign-born citizen.
I might have been covered in other threads but I want to include it here for the purposes of schadenfreude. …Based on his own court filings, Trump can’t come up with the $464 million needed to post a bond preventing the AG from seizing his properties next week pending Trump’s appeal. This warms my heart on multiple levels. Foremost, though, is that it is the most public admission to date that Trump is not the billionaire he has claimed to be. At least a few people will see this as an emperor has no clothes moment. The dude was…lying all along about his wealth.
Trump can’t post $464M bond in New York civil case, lawyers say (msn.com)
I wish. I think it’s more likely that the same people (millions and millions of 'em out there, alas) who are impressed by his supposed wealth, would also be impressed by his chutzpah in lying about that wealth.
For them I have little hope they will ever see the light, but as hard as it is for me to imagine, there are allegedly people in this country who are somehow on the fence about Trump - don’t ask me how, but we’ve been told repeatedly this is a real live voting block that they’ve been able to track voting behaviors for since 2016 and evidently are somehow able to change their minds about him even at this late hour…
I think Putin and Trump should bond over their mastery of judo. After all, Trump is an expert at throwing people under the bus. Poor Alina Habba is in trouble after all her hard work defending the Orange Ogre. To sum up the article, a settlement was reached in a lawsuit between Bedminster and an employee, but it excluded Habba, who was smack in the middle of the incident that sparked the suit.