Thread: Legal Charges Against Trump

There are already how many cases against Trump in process, 50? More? How many more in the works?

You would have thought that at least ONE would have produced some fruit by now. This just seems endless.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

There are already how many cases against Trump in process, 50? More? How many more in the works?

You would have thought that at least ONE would have produced some fruit by now. This just seems endless.

Remember he has been stonewalling every one.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Remember he has been stonewalling every one.

Yeah - and each one seems to end up at the Supreme court for one thing or another.

That being said, with the sheer number of cases - one should have landed by now.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Yeah - and each one seems to end up at the Supreme court for one thing or another.

That being said, with the sheer number of cases - one should have landed by now.

One just did. But of course they will be taking as long as they legally can to supply the docuemtns and witnesses.

Trump Sued by Ukraine Whistleblower for Impeachment Retaliation

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the whistleblower who sparked the first impeachment of Donald Trump, filed suit in Washington, D.C., against the former president, his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, and two other Trump associates, alleging a “concerted campaign of unlawful intimidation.”

“Purposefully attacking witnesses for participating in an official proceeding and telling the truth cannot” be “tolerated in a nation built on the rule of law,” the lawsuit says. “This kind of unlawful conduct must not be accepted as ‘normal’ in any healthy democracy.”

The suit, filed Wednesday, stems from Vindman’s role in Trump’s impeachment in late 2019 for allegedly attempting to bully and cajole Ukraine’s president into digging up or making up dirt on Joe Biden’s son Hunter as part of a scheme to influence the 2020 presidential election.

Trump was acquitted by the Senate in early 2020. He was impeached and acquitted a second time a year later for his alleged role in inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection by a mob of his supporters, who stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to stop Congress from certifying Biden’s election victory.

The former president’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

According to Vindman’s complaint, he “immediately became the target of a dangerous campaign of witness intimidation” after being called to testify before Congress about a phone call with Ukraine’s president during which he believed Trump behaved illegally.

“The attacks on Lt. Col. Vindman did not simply happen by accident or coincidence, nor were they the result of normal politics,” according to the suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where it also targets Trump aide Julia Hahn and former White House adviser Dan Scavino.

“Rather, the coordinated campaign was the result of a common understanding” among Trump and his “close aides” to target Vindman “in a specific way for the specific purpose of intimidation and retaliation” by painting him as disloyal, as an insubordinate officer, or as a Ukrainian spy, the suit says.

He “was left with no choice but to retire from the military altogether” after the attacks made it impossible for him “to serve in any national security position or foreign affairs role,” according to the complaint.

The attacks engineered by Trump and the others allegedly “had the intended and foreseeable effect of” encouraging other Trump supporters “to attack Lt. Col. Vindman in even more dangerous and frightening ways,” including with threats of violence.

They “sent a message to other potential witnesses as well: cooperate and tell the truth at your own peril,” the suit says. “The message reverberates to this day,” as witnesses to the Capitol insurrection “continue to heed former President Trump’s instructions to defy” congressional subpoenas, it adds.

The complaint seeks an injunction and unspecified damages, including punitive damages, for violations of the Ku Klux Klan Act. It also requests legal fees.

Vindman is represented by the Protect Democracy Project and Altshuler Berzon LLP.

The case is Vindman v. Trump, D.D.C., No. 22-cv-257, complaint filed 2/2/22.

Trump Sued - https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law...nt-retaliation

discrepancies

• Donald Trump's accountants quit — in the midst of preparing his and Melania's taxes — after questioning 'discrepancies'

Donald Trump's longtime accountants have suddenly severed all ties with the former president and his business — quitting even though they are in the midst of preparing his and Melania's tax returns.

In a letter made public Monday by the New York Attorney General Letitia James, the accounting firm, Mazars USA, told The Trump Organization's top corporate lawyer it has stepped away from Trump and his business due to questions about the reliability of key company financial statements.

News of Mazar USA's stunning move surfaced in papers filed Monday by James, as part of New York prosecutors' ongoing probe into possible banking, insurance and tax fraud on the part of Trump and his business.

Since at least 2004, Mazars has prepared annual financial statements — so-called "Statements of Financial Condition" — containing detailed estimates of Trump's net worth.

• Prosecutors Probing Donald Trump Have 'Tons' of His Sharpie-Scrawled Documents

Follow the Sharpie: Prosecutors probing Donald Trump are sitting on 'tons' of documents bearing his handwriting, sources tell Insider

Nearly three years into their investigation into Donald Trump and his company, Manhattan prosecutors have assembled a trove of potentially incriminating financial documents bearing the former president's handwritten signature, initials or other writing, Insider has learned.

The documents — marked by the bold lines of Trump's ubiquitous black Sharpie, and some in prosecutors' possession for a year or more — are evidence in an ongoing investigation into possible tax, banking and insurance fraud, according to three people directly involved in the probe.

One described these hard copy documents as extensive.

"They have a ton already that have his signature on it, that have his initials, that have his handwriting on it," said the source, who like others who spoke to Insider this week asked to not be named due to their involvement in the ongoing probe.

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status...24254229766148

• Judge orders Trump, children to answer questions about their business practices under oath

A New York judge on Thursday ordered former President Donald Trump and two of his children to answer questions under oath about the Trump Organization's business practices in the state attorney general's civil probe of the company.

Lawyers for Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump had sought to quash the subpoenas from Attorney General Letitia James' office, arguing her investigation is politically motivated and designed to provide fuel for an ongoing criminal probe into the company by the Manhattan district attorney's office.

In his ruling, state Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron gave the green light for the three to be deposed within the next three weeks. He also ordered the former president to turn over documents and information that had been subpoenaed within two weeks, and portrayed the Trumps' claims of being selectively targeted as overblown.

"In the final analysis, a state attorney general commences investigating a business entity, uncovers copious evidence of possible financial fraud, and wants to question, under oath, several of the entities' principals, including its namesake. She has the clear right to do so," the judge wrote in his eight-page decision.

• NY AG James - Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Ivanka Trump must all comply with this court order and testify before my office within 21 days.

No one is above the law. https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/s...08994424770560

Oh please tell me it's in front of the cameras.

Originally Posted by S Landreth

in the state attorney general's civil probe

From what I was hearing today, is that as this is a civil case, while one can plead the 5th, it can be inferred negatively (unlike a criminal case where it cannot).

Going to be fun.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

From what I was hearing today, is that as this is a civil case, while one can plead the 5th, it can be inferred negatively (unlike a criminal case where it cannot).

Going to be fun.

In all fairness, can you imagine an arrogant fucking prick like baldy orange cunto keeping his answers to pleading the 5th?

He can't keep his fat gob shut at the best of times.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

He can't keep his fat gob shut at the best of times.

Dunno. My guess is he is going to start having memory problems..... "I don't recall......."

I wonder why the case where he was co-conspirator 1 that sent Cohen to jail hasn't reared it's ugly head.

Judge rejects Trump effort to toss lawsuits accusing him of Jan. 6 conspiracy

A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump’s effort to dismiss multiple lawsuits accusing him of bearing legal responsibility for the violent Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

In a 112-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said the evidence suggests Trump assembled the crowd and then instructed the rally goers to march on the Capitol, despite knowing that the crowd likely included violent and destructive elements.

And Trump’s Twitter attack amid the violence on then-Vice President Mike Pence, who was presiding over the counting of electoral votes that would finalize President Joe Biden’s victory, suggests a “tacit agreement” with those who stormed the Capitol and sent Pence and lawmakers fleeing for safety, Mehta wrote.

“It is reasonable to infer that the President would have understood the impact of his tweet, since he had told rally-goers earlier that, in effect, the Vice President was the last line of defense against a stolen election outcome,” ruled Mehta, an appointee of President Barack Obama.

The ruling leaves Trump’s inner circle — and possibly the former president himself — vulnerable to another flurry of deposition subpoenas and document demands. The ruling also declares Trump potentially liable for conduct while he was the sitting president, a rare and momentous legal decision.

“To deny a President immunity from civil damages is no small step,” Mehta wrote. “The court well understands the gravity of its decision. But the alleged facts of this case are without precedent, and the court believes that its decision is consistent with the purposes behind such immunity.”

https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...536.66.0_6.pdf

Originally Posted by Topper

I wonder why the case where he was co-conspirator 1 that sent Cohen to jail hasn't reared it's ugly head.

Presidential immunity?

When you consider how much these republitard wankers fucking whined endlessly about Hillary's emails, the current silence is deafening.

The US National Archives said in a letter addressed to Congress on Friday that it had informed the Department of Justice that there was classified information among the 15 boxes of documents it had recovered from former US President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
In a letter to the oversight committee chair, Representative Carolyn Maloney, US archivist David Ferriero wrote that the archives had "identified items marked as classified national security information within the boxes."
Ferriero noted many Trump White House aides would conduct official business over private email without copying in their official White House accounts.
What state secrets Trump took with him when he left office are unknown.

Lawyer for Trump accuser seeking DNA sample

A lawyer for a woman who accused former President Trump of rape is seeking a DNA sample instead of a deposition in order to move on with the case more quickly, she told The Associated Press in an article published Wednesday.

In a 2019 book, E. Jean Carroll accuses Trump of raping her in a New York department store in the 1990s. She has filed a defamation lawsuit against the former president.

Carroll told reporters Tuesday that she is going to trial for all the women “who have been grabbed and groped, assaulted and raped by men in power and are silenced.”

“We are looking to bring justice, at least in this one case, against a powerful man,” Carroll said.

Carroll added that she would “never settle, ever” in this case.

“This is about principle,” Carroll said. “It's about a powerful man assaulting and raping a woman and then getting away with it. That's not right.”

Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, first announced the choice to seek a DNA sample rather than a deposition in a Manhattan court Tuesday during a pretrial hearing.

“We want the case to go forward,” Kaplan said, emphasizing that a deposition would “inevitably result in an inordinate amount of delay.”

Originally Posted by S Landreth

In a 2019 book, E. Jean Carroll accuses Trump of raping her in a New York department store in the 1990s

Not at all sure what DNA sample is being asked for. There would be no DNA traces from Trump for something that happened in the 1990s.

Originally Posted by Norton

There would be no DNA traces from Trump for something that happened in the 1990s.

Don't know about Trumps case, but police have used rape kits since 1978. Just depends how long they keep them as evidence. When DNA testing became available a lot of cold cases were solved as they had held onto the evidence.

Originally Posted by pickel

Don't know about Trumps case, but police have used rape kits since 1978. Just depends how long they keep them as evidence. When DNA testing became available a lot of cold cases were solved as they had held onto the evidence.

Yes but unless DNA samples were taken at the time of the rape, too late now.

Originally Posted by Norton

Yes but unless DNA samples were taken at the time of the rape, too late now.

Try googling "rape kit".

Originally Posted by Norton

Yes but unless DNA samples were taken at the time of the rape, too late now.

The samples they took back then would have the DNA in them Norton. They can still extract it. That is, if they used a rape kit on her and still have the sample.