the judge ruled today that trump lawyer corcoran must testify in document probe. he can not hide behind client privilege.
FBI Search and Seizure at Trump's Mar-A-Lago Residence, August 8, 2022, Case Dismissed July 15, 2024
I am so sorry to see Judge Beryl Howell go. She’s a judge’s judge and has my utmost respect and well wishes.
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There was also this recent development in the documents case:
To me, this indicates the end stages of this investigation, everything except Pence’ testimony, which should be sorted shortly.
I wish they’d wrapped this up a little quicker. Or that Georgia had moved with a touch more speed. To have the first volley of accountability against this lawless caricature of a despot be that he paid hush money to a porn star instead of all of his other many and varied crimes against the citizens of the United States and against democracy itself seems… underwhelming, I guess. Mind you, I’m in favor of him facing a jury on any number of egregious crimes, this one included. It just feels like a case of giving a bank robber his first day in court on charges that he parked in front of a hydrant while robbing the bank. Valid, but somehow almost beside the point.
Simpler cases come to trial quicker. That’s a general rule of criminal process.
It’s like getting Al Capone on tax charges, instead of all those murders.
Still, a conviction is a conviction. We’ll settle for what w can get.
The other indictments will start to come in. First a trickle, then a waterfall. Trump will be spending the next few years getting arraigned, in court, asking for bail, attending trials and (hopefully) incarcerated.
I think of the Manhattan case as the amuse-bouche.
The Georgia case (if it is able to come to fruition) is the salad course.
Documents is soup and fish, January 6th is the main.
Dessert will be… prison.
To be followed by the nuts - arguing that it’s all a conspiracy.
LOL, indeed!!
Don’t forget the NY civil case against Trump’s businesses as well as Trump himself and his adult children. Or the E. Jeanne Carroll case. Those look promising, though he’s trying very hard to play his usual delay game.
If you mean the John Eastman case then, yes. If you mean the riots, I wouldn’t put a lot of hope on criminal-level culpability.
We’ll work on the other stuff while he’s in prison.
I hope, at least, that he spends the rest of his miserable life in a courtroom chair.
And I don’t think that New Yorkers will put up with an insurrection mob. Good luck with that MAGA’ts
It’s myopic to view these as separate things.
Oh, dear. This is going to help Jack Smith. A lot.
From the article:
Prosecutors in the special counsel’s office have presented compelling preliminary evidence that former President Donald Trump knowingly and deliberately misled his own attorneys about his retention of classified materials after leaving office, a former top federal judge wrote Friday in a sealed filing, according to sources who described its contents to ABC News.
And:
Federal prosecutors have claimed that lawyers for Trump certified in June 2022 that a “diligent search” of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate turned up just 38 classified documents stored in a secured storage room. But two months later, when FBI agents raided the premises, they found more than 100 additional documents marked classified – some of which were located outside of the storage room, including in Trump’s office desk, prosecutors said.
Looks like a pretty cut-and-dried set of facts demonstrating obstruction of justice.
Trump appealed, naturally. The judge imposed a deadline of midnight tonight for Trump’s team to brief the matter re which documents should not be turned over to Smith’s team, and a deadline of 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning for Smith’s team to respond. Guess Trump isn’t going to enjoy the delay he was hoping for.
Wait, so Smith’s team has just six hours to formulate a response, from midnight to 6 am? Jeez.
Yes, but Trump’s team had less time than that to submit their objections to the ruling issued today.
You can take it to mean the judge is fed up with the delay tactics and intends to confirm the earlier ruling, barring some unforeseen miracle for the Trump folks.
Um … midnight on what night? It’s currently seven minutes to midnight where I am (Mountain time zone). So is the deadline in seven minutes, or is it more like 11:59 PM on Wednesday the 22nd?
No snark or criticism intended, but it is now five minutes to two o’clock on the east coast, and that’s got 22 hours to midnight. Can you help clear up my confusion?
LOL, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to be confusing, but I surely was in how I worded the statement!
The judge meant midnight just passed. IOW, by 3:00 a.m. here on the West Coast, Jack Smith will need to have submitted his (superfluous in my opinion) response to whatever the Trump folks have already submitted about, oh… 2 hours ago.
Lawyers who regularly practice before the DC Circuit Court said they’d never seen a lightning round briefing schedule such as this.
Is that in and of itself grounds for appeal?
@Aspenglow , thank you! So the midnight deadline has passed. Appreciate the clarification.
As an aside, I do get annoyed at CNN from time to time when they announce something like, “Stanley Tucci’s Searching for Italy, Sundays at Nine,” when they really mean seven o’clock in my time zone. But you did just fine with the clarification. Thanks again!