Moderating:
I’ve been watching this thread veering further and further off topic to discuss Trump’s potential incarceration. That’s a fair topic, but not for this thread. It’s getting way ahead of the discussion at hand. Please cease hijacking the thread, and if you wish to discuss potential incarceration options for Trump or anyone else, start a new thread.
nm. Saw the modnote.
Just build a fence around Mar a Lago. He can charge us a big monthly bill. Ankle monitor for 9 to 5 outings in a 5 mile range.
Never mind. Saw mod note.
Moderating:
Please pay attention to the mod notes in any thread to which you are contributing a post. It’s your responsibility to ensure you are taking those onboard. I realize that idly speculating about incarcerating Trump is a pleasant pastime for some, but not in this thread.
The delays just keep coming.
Now he’s throwing presidential immunity at Georgia to see if it sticks. If I’m remembering rightly Meadows tried something in the same vein, saying he should be removed to Federal court since his actions were under the umbrella of his job duties and he lost bigly.
I marvel that trump has never denied he did all of this shit, just argued that he was allowed to and he can’t get in trouble over it.
It’s because he thinks and wants his followers to think that what he did was good. He doesn’t want to deny that he acted as a hero to fight for democracy and justice and blah blah covfefe.
He’s like Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men but imagine that he started with the “you can’t handle the truth” rant and just ran with it the whole time.
This could be a big deal.
Ashleigh Merchant, the lawyer representing Mike Roman in the Georgia case, is a smart, hard working, lawyer based on what I’ve read about her today. If it is ruled that that Willis has a conflict of interest, her entire office gets booted off the case with her per Georgia rules. If that happens, the case gets turned over to the GA Attorney General, Chris Carr.
The same Chris Carr who testified before the Fulton County grand jury about the time Trump called him to warn him not to oppose Texas v. Pennsylvania.
This whole thing is a mess. In general I try not to take things from the Trump side at face value, but this looks like it could be a real problem.
I forgot to include a link to the filing: DocumentCloud
From your link
The bombshell public filing alleged that special prosecutor Nathan Wade, a private attorney, paid for lavish vacations he took with Willis using the Fulton County funds his law firm received.
That’s kind of worrying - you’d think a claim that two people took “lavish vacations” together would be easy to prove or disprove. Would they make such an allegation with no evidence?
But by the same token, WIllis is not an idiot and would surely know that she is about to come under intense scrutiny and such a thing would be easy to uncover.
Very hard to speculate whether this is real or not, but I think my money is on bullshit.
Yikes. Those are some serious allegations with some serious repercussions if true. Not just ethical violations, but actual crimes are being alleged.
The motion said the checks sent to Wade from Fulton County and his subsequent purchase of vacations for Willis could amount to honest services fraud, a federal crime in which a vendor gives kickbacks to an employer. It is also possible this could be prosecuted under the federal racketeering statute, the motion said
Also from the article:
Roman’s lawyer, Ashleigh Merchant, said she reviewed the case file in Wade’s ongoing divorce proceedings at the Superior Court Clerk’s Office and made copies of certain documents. But the case file was later improperly sealed because no court hearing was held as required by law, the motion said.
Because the case remains under seal, Merchant said she is not sharing the information she obtained from the divorce file until the seal is lifted. She also said she is asking a judge to unseal the case file.
I’m pretty convinced they have something. They might be overstating, but there’s definitely going to be something real at the bottom of this.
Trump lawyers? When don’t they?
If they turn out to have actual evidence for this, it might be a first.
If Fani Willis is deemed to have a conflct of interest in this case, it will be turned over to someone who knows and has worked with Trump in the past.
Does anyone else see the problem with this?
He’d have to recuse himself. Not saying he would, but I guess he should.
“Yes, but … what if I don’t?”
“Well, Justice Thomas…”
Yeah, me. Two sentences later.
Could somebody please explain to me what the possible ramifactions are?
How much does it weaken the whole case against Trump?
I haven’t been following this lawsuit, (or the two thousand posts in this thread 
) because I expect it to have to no effect on Trump’s election results…
All the delays and complexities just confuse voters, and in any case will be irrelevant because the trial will be delayed till after the election.
I hope I’m totally wrong.
But in any case,-- how will this new gossip about romantic lawyers affect the Georgia case?
Even if we do take this at face value, removing the case from Willis because of her conflict of interest means giving it to Carr, who has his own conflict of interest. I don’t know who prosecutes the case if Carr can’t.