I’m not saying its going to get him leniency. If he sticks with Trump I have no doubt that he will be destroyed by the merdis touch. I’m just saying what I think happened, and how I personally see him.
FBI Search and Seizure at Trump's Mar-A-Lago Residence, August 8, 2022, Case Dismissed July 15, 2024
Maybe if he was a dog instead of an adult human being. But he is a free thinking human being, so I don’t buy it.
Like someone who got tripped up with the mafia: “But their shoes! Their shoes were really nice! What’s a regular joe with regular shoes supposed to do?”
I was in the navy and I think if I was assigned to someone like Trump I’d shoot myself in the foot to get out of the assignment. Yes, the US military, like all of them, has an emphasis on obedience to authority but it also stressed, lawful orders. Moving classified documents hither and yon is not a lawful order.
I think the White House Navy Mess, like all subordinate units of the White House Military Office, is volunteer only. But I suppose you could wind up serving a president you hold personally repugnant after an election.
But for all of that, it looks like Nauta is a true believer and is probably going down with the ship.
Lets of people have the potential to be one of those. But then they fall into that SovCit nonsense, or a cult, or start liking a plum job, and then what?
The default. Grown ass free thinking human. With that comes responsibility and accountability.
If he chooses not to spill his guts during questioning, I won’t think he’s a victim any longer. But he was groomed. Like many of Orangeboy’s associates. (His hippie doctor comes to mind…)
" Former President Donald Trump is asking a judge to delay setting a trial date in his classified documents case, citing the extraordinary nature of a prosecution that could happen during the 2024 presidential race and what his lawyers cast as complex legal issues.
In a court filing late Monday, Trump attorneys cite “the sheer volume” of materials they must review in the case, which charges Trump and his valet with conspiring to obstruct a federal probe by hiding highly classified materials Trump had stored in a bathroom and a ballroom at his Florida resort. Those papers included secrets about defense and weapons capabilities of the U.S. government and its allies, according to the indictment."
That’s exactly why we need to not delay it, so it can happen before the race.
I continue to fail to understand why the law should respect anyone’s status with regard to political aspirations. No one has a special right to run for office, and no prosecuting agency should have to stand down while you do so.
Want to run for president without fighting prosecution? Maybe don’t commit felonies.
“There’s too much evidence of the crimes I committed to review quickly” is a fun argument.
I fully agree but having said that, I think this is a feature rather than a bug for Trump. For any other defendant on planet Earth, the judge would simply say “I don’t care if you’re running for office, be in my courtroom at this date and time or get thrown in jail”. But with Trump, anyone saying that is obviously an operative of the Deep State. The only consolation is that since more indictments are coming, he’s bound to run into a judge who will have none of it and who will actually treat him like a common criminal.
Are you saying that federal judges will delay proceedings just so they’re not accused of being agents of the Deep State? I sincerely hope none of them give a shit.
From WaPo
Running for president, Trump’s lawyers wrote, “requires a tremendous amount of time and energy, and that effort will continue until the election on November 5, 2024. Mr. Nauta’s job requires him to accompany President Trump during most campaign trips around the country. This schedule makes trial preparation with both of the Defendants challenging. Such preparation requires significant planning and time, making the current schedule untenable.”
Doesn’t be have a few lawsuits he started himself flapping around out there? Suing E. Jeanne Carroll for defamation, suing Michael Cohen for something I can’t remember right now. He’s not too busy for those legal matters…
I don’t think “too busy” is a valid accepted legal defense to delaying accountability. Are we supposed to łet all the criminals delay trials until they can carve out some free time in their schedules? “Sorry, your honor, I’ve used up all my vacation and PTO already this year, and the Sack 'n Suds is just a madhouse in the summer. Then there’s the holidays, those are chock full, maybe i can squeeze in a short trial the third week of March…”
We all knew he’d attempt to delay. It’ll be enlightening to see how Cannon rules on this. If she let’s this defendant claim he’s just “too busy” to face justice then we’ll know she’s the partisan hack we’ve been fearing.
I think it’s worse than that. If she accepts this argument and it actually happens, then this goes beyond Trump. You’ve now handed a viable defensive strategy to future criminals. Just run for office. Now that there’s precedent showing that justice needs to take a back seat to the democratic process, that swings the door wide open for everyone.
It’s one thing for the DOJ to take a kid gloves approach to a candidate; they’re part of the administration and don’t want to appear partisan. But the courts have nothing to do with that. I have trouble seeing any justification for this that doesn’t look like blatant favoritism.
I don’t know if Cannon is going to take this much of a risk, given what happened last time, and also given the larger implications of allowing this.
As far as the “My God, there’s a shit-ton of stuff we need to review, we need time” part of the filing, aren’t there just certain specific documents in play, like 31 of them?
Also, if I’m not mistaken, IANAL but I thought the general legal principle was our legal system does not want to delay things unnecessarily.
I understand in this case Trump wants to delay indefinitely but resolving legal issues as expeditiously as possible is presumed to be to the benefit of everybody and especially any defendants, right?
If I squint enough, I can see this argument making sense for Trump. By its nature, being a candidate for office is a job only the candidate can do.
But Nauta? What is he doing that can’t be done by someone else? Is having him, personally, shining Trump’s shoes really of critical importance to the campaign?
It is if Trump is afraid to let him out of his site.