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• Star witness for Trump defendants in Georgia fails to give damning testimony

Lawyers for Donald Trump’s co-defendants charged in Georgia over efforts to overturn the 2020 election were unable on Tuesday to get their star witness to repeat in court what he had previously alleged about the Fulton county district attorney’s affair, as they seek to have her thrown off the case.

“I was speculating and I never witnessed anything. It was speculation,” Terrence Bradley said about text messages he sent to one of the defense lawyers in January that alleged the district attorney Fani Willis and her deputy Nathan Wade were romantically involved earlier than they had claimed.

Bradley’s inability to confirm anything about the affair meant there was no new evidence introduced at the hearing in Fulton county superior court as the presiding judge, Scott McAfee, weighs whether there was a conflict of interest requiring Willis’s disqualification.

Trump and more than a dozen allies were charged last year with violating the Georgia state racketeering statute when they took steps to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia, including by advancing fake slates of electors and pressuring state officials to reverse Trump’s defeat.

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Just for fun.

Michigan primary- 99% reporting

Fat loser trump 68.2%, Committed to hating the fat loser trump 31.8%

US Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Trump immunity Claim
CNN —
The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether Donald Trump may claim immunity (Trump asks Supreme Court to block ruling he lacks immunity in January 6 criminal case | CNN Politics) in special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion case, adding another explosive appeal from the former president to its docket and further delaying his fede
ral trial.
The court agreed to expedite the case and hear arguments the week of April 22.

• Supreme Court agrees to consider if Trump is immune from prosecution
  

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected Trump’s immunity defense but was forced to delay the former president’s trial while this appeal proceeded. The D.C. Circuit affirmed, finding Trump was a citizen and could no longer reap the benefits of the executive office.

Smith urged the justices to decline Trump’s delay attempt, arguing there was a national interest in seeing the charges brought to trial.

“The stay equities do not favor applicant,” Smith wrote. “His personal interest in postponing trial proceedings must be weighed against two powerful countervailing considerations: the government’s interest in fully presenting its case without undue delay; and the public’s compelling interest in a prompt disposition of the case.”

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you’re such an asshole

• Judge denies Trump’s bid to stave off enforcement of $450M civil fraud judgment

An appeals court judge on Wednesday denied Donald Trump’s request to pause the enforcement of a $450 million judgment for widespread business fraud, dealing a blow to the former president’s efforts to delay payment.

In a court filing asking for the pause earlier in the day, Trump had signaled that he doesn’t have the cash to prevent the enforcement of the judgment. He asked an appeals court to put a hold on the monetary penalty as well as a series of other penalties ordered earlier this month by Justice Arthur Engoron, who found that Trump had inflated the value of his real estate holdings and his own net worth.

Following Wednesday’s interim ruling by Associate Justice Anil Singh, a full panel of the New York appeals court — known as the First Department of the Appellate Division — is expected to consider whether to halt the judgment while Trump pursues his appeal.

Though he didn’t grant Trump’s primary request, Singh did order a pause of one penalty imposed by Engoron: a three-year ban on Trump obtaining a loan from a New York bank.

That means Trump can seek to obtain an appeal bond for the full amount of the penalty, which would prevent collection efforts while the appeals process proceeds.

In his request to the appeals court, Trump’s lawyers had said that the former president would be unable to secure the full amount for an appeal bond, in part due to the loan restriction imposed by Engoron and due to the costs and fees associated with a bond. They said the full cost would come to more than $550 million.

If Trump fails to obtain a full bond or post the cash himself, New York Attorney General Letitia “Tish” James, who brought the civil fraud lawsuit against the former president, can begin trying to collect the judgment, perhaps by going after Trump’s bank accounts or properties.

The amount that Trump owes on the two massive verdicts climbs by tens of thousands of dollars each day, as interest on them accrues.

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• Appeals court declines to rehear Mark Meadows’ bid to move Georgia case

A federal appeals court declined on Tuesday to reconsider former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’s request to transfer his 2020 election interference case in Georgia to federal court, closing off his last-ditch attempt to move the potential trial to a more favorable venue.

The decision from the US court of appeals for the 11th circuit means Meadows will face the racketeering charges brought by the Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis in state court in Atlanta unless he makes a final challenge to the US supreme court and it agrees to hear the case.

But the denial for Meadows was emphatic. “The petition for rehearing en banc is denied, no judge in regular active service on the court having requested that the court be polled en rehearing en banc,” the unsigned, one-page order said.

The next move for Meadows was unclear. Local counsel for Meadows could not immediately be reached for comment.

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• Jeff Clark loses bid to block key Trump officials from testifying in disciplinary trial

A committee set to consider professional misconduct charges against former Justice Department official Jeff Clark — stemming from his role in Donald Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election — will allow top former White House and DOJ officials to testify in the proceeding, rejecting Clark’s bid to block them altogether.

The ruling by Merril Hirsh, the chair of the three-member committee of D.C. Bar, clears the way for the testimony of high-level Trump administration figures, including former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, his deputy Richard Donoghue and former White House deputy counsel Patrick Philbin.

Clark had sought to block the testimony of the three men, as well as his own former aide Ken Klukowski, by claiming their testimony was barred by executive privilege — which permits the sitting president to shield confidential communications — as well as several privileges held by the Justice Department.

But Hirsh rejected each of those claims, noting that Trump had permitted all of the former officials to testify to congressional investigators probing the effort to overturn the 2020 results, waiving any claim of confidentiality that might have existed. In addition, the Justice Department has waived any current claims of privilege that it might be permitted to assert over the four witness’ testimony.

The ruling by Hirsh keeps on track a March trial that could result in the suspension or revocation of Clark’s license to practice law in Washington, D.C., where he once ran the Justice Department’s Civil Division and Environmental and Natural Resources Division.

Well sleepy joe can't tell the difference between Gaza and Ukraine and baldy orange cunto can't tell the difference between Biden and Obama.

I really feel sorry for American voters.



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The U.S. Supreme Court opposes the state of Colorado and rules that Trump can run in the primaries


This happens the day before the primary election takes place in Colorado.







Several states have tried to strip Trump of the ballots ahead of the primaries. © ( Associated Press)

Katrine Bang Ramsbæk


The U.S. Supreme Court has just announced that former President Donald Trump will be allowed to remain on the ballot in the state of Colorado.

This is stated in a ruling that has just been published on the Supreme Court's website.

Back in December, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled in a sweeping ruling that Trump could not run in the state primary, where Democrats and Republicans must find their presidential candidates, respectively.

READ ALSO:State disqualifies Trump from 2024 primaries
It was with a very special law in hand – Amendment 14 of the Constitution – that the top court in Colorado threw Trump off the ballot.

Among other things, it states that officials who have taken an oath in support of the constitution cannot be in the role of public servant if he or she has engaged in rebellion against that very constitution or expressed support for opponents of it.

The Colorado Supreme Court found that Trump had because of his role in the storming of Congress on January 6, 2021. Here, several thousand Trump supporters stormed Congress and the riots led to several deaths.

And the Supreme Court's decision comes just at the last minute for Trump.

Tomorrow is Super Tuesday, which is one of the wildest days of the American election year.

Primaries have already been held in a number of states, but tomorrow they will take place in 15 states and one territory - Samoa - on the same day. One of those states is Colorado, so it's just before closing time that Trump secures his spot on the ballot in Colorado.

Also in the state of Maine, it was decided that Trump should not be allowed to run in the state primaries. That ruling came shortly after Colorado's and on the same grounds.

READ ALSO:Maine's Secretary of the Interior excludes Donald Trump from appearing on the ballot
Subsequently, the state chose to suspend the decision until the Supreme Court had heard the decision from Colorado.

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Party in the White House! Donald Trump’s White House Was ‘Awash in Speed’ — and Xanax

I wonder if the orange one will continue those court house entry and exit speeches for the remainder of his trial. Will be interesting to see how many times the disgraced former president says "scam" and "witch hunt" during all those echo-ridden rants. I got my clicker ready.

A poll should be started for the fines he'll have to pay for contempt of court.

Originally Posted by thailazer

I wonder if the orange one will continue those court house entry and exit speeches for the remainder of his trial.

Publicity that you can't buy

Will any conviction in ny state court bar him from returning as
potus , any of our legal eagles know?

Originally Posted by david44

Will any conviction in ny state court bar him from returning as
potus , any of our legal eagles know?

No....

The espionage charges against him with the documents case carry a clause where he will be unable to hold office.

Originally Posted by Topper

The espionage charges against him with the documents case carry a clause where he will be unable to hold office.

ok thanks

Donald Trump: Civil War historian

For his ultra-fragile ego, This Gotta Hurt!

Originally Posted by thailazer

For his ultra-fragile ego, This Gotta Hurt!

Probably

Trump is able to understand it

I applaud Kimmel for going after and ...dissect Trump(there's more than enough material) as he should all of the elite.


Is he critical of the other side ?

Have stopped watching him, but my guess would be................no

A divided country

Originally Posted by helge

Probably

Trump is able to understand it

I applaud Kimmel for going after and ...dissect Trump(there's more than enough material) as he should all of the elite.


Is he critical of the other side ?

Have stopped watching him, but my guess would be................no

A divided country

He does make fun of Biden when the opportunity presents itself, but the orange one and his supporters is a breeder reactor of material.