Trump Legal Troubles

Dr. Strangelove said:
The primary difference being that Biden co-operated with the government to give those documents back. 

And Trump actively orchestrated a campaign to conceal the documents, repeatedly refused to give them back - leading to obstruction of Justice charges. I hope that helps clear the air.
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Kinda why I said “obstruction”.    Hope that clears up your confusion.   

 
ZRod said:
Literally every move she's made has been to delay and obfuscate until it was too late for the election.
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Not surprising.  Appointed by Trump.  Look at the recent SCOTUS decision on immunity.  3 judges appointed by Trump + 2 more (Thomas and Alito) who are hard right, drove that decision that firmly supported Trump's actions and protects him.  

 
every mob boss has bought judges.    they used to buy politicians then found out that the russian mafia did it right in russia when they became the government

 
BigRedBuster said:
I've read where this decision can be appealed.  So, is this actually a good thing and this is the process this case can take to get it out of her hands?
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It's a mixed bag. Yes, it can (and will) be appealed. But it's almost certainly going to be delayed past the election, and probably past inauguration, meaning the immune president can shut it down and his pets on the Supreme Court won't object. 

 
knapplc said:
It's a mixed bag. Yes, it can (and will) be appealed. But it's almost certainly going to be delayed past the election, and probably past inauguration, meaning the immune president can shut it down and his pets on the Supreme Court won't object. 
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The reality is if Trump is elected he will most likely be dead (of natural causes) before he would step foot in a court room again for this case.

 
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commando said:
every mob boss has bought judges.    they used to buy politicians then found out that the russian mafia did it right in russia when they became the government
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While true, the primary difference is that in America voters can punish this behavior at the ballot box.

Now, Republicans feel like they're in an existential culture war battle against the Left. Weaponizing the Judiciary is just another front to wage this war. As such, this brazen corruption will go unpunished by these people. They're voting for corruption because they want it; no different than how they're voting to erode Democracy because they want it. 

 
Good luck trying to collect Mr Felon. 

Trump Sues the USA

Former President Trump is seeking $100 million in damages from the Justice Department following the search of his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Fla., the latest in a string of challenges to the retrieval of classified records from his home.

The administrative claim, filed last week and first reported Monday, was made a day before the two-year window for seeking damages expired.

The filing echoes numerous other court filings and campaign speeches Trump has made condemning the search of his home, accusing the Justice Department of political bias in its prosecution.

Trump’s home was searched after he was asked numerous times to return the records in his home, including defying a subpoena for the documents. Investigators ultimately found more than 300 records with classified markings during the search, as well as other records from Trump’s time as president. 

Trump has already made several failed challenges to the search warrant on his home, which was approved by a Florida-based federal judge in 2022.
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Fox Legal analyst believes that The Felon will be sentenced to prison by Judge Merchan.  He then goes on to say that it is all political.  Par for the course for a Fox analyst. 

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-sentenced-prison-september-fox-news-1939639

Donald Trump will be ordered to serve time in prison when he is sentenced for falsifying business records in September, a Fox News columnist has said.

Andrew McCarthy, senior fellow at the National Review Institute and former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said Trump will not actually be incarcerated even if he is handed a custodial sentence on September 18, as the former president will likely get bail pending appeal.

Instead, McCarthy said that Judge Juan Merchan, who oversaw the hush money trial and will hand down Trump's sentence next month, will be helping Vice President Kamala Harris and the "media-Democratic complex" to label Trump a convicted felon sentenced to prison just weeks before Election Day in November.

Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime after a New York jury found him guilty of 34 felony falsifying business records counts in May. He had denied all charges and said he was the victim of political persecution. He is likely to appeal.
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Writing for Fox News, McCarthy suggested "if we may read the tea leaves" that Merchan will likely deny the immunity appeal from Trump's legal team.

"He said he plans to rule on Trump's immunity claim by Aug. 16," added McCarthy.

The former president's lawyers argued that evidence presented during the hush money trial, such as tweets and other communications, could be examples of official acts which the Supreme Court said Trump cannot be prosecuted over or be used as evidence.  

"Merchan has already decided that he will deny Trump's immunity motion. There is, moreover, a high likelihood that he will impose a prison sentence against Trump right after that," McCarthy said.

"The New York prosecution of Trump was politics, not justice. That's why we call it 'lawfare.' The prosecutors and judge are not concerned about whether convictions ultimately get thrown out on appeal.  "And it's not like Merchan is actually going to put Trump in prison; it is virtually certain that Trump will get bail pending appeal, so Merchan can appear to impose a stiff incarceration sentence without any real incarceration—at least for now, and probably ever," he added.   

McCarthy said that the "objective" from Merchan is to help Harris, Trump's 2024 Democratic rival, refer to the Republican as "a convicted felon sentenced to prison" from September 18, a time when "Americans will already have started voting in many states, not least the potentially decisive Pennsylvania battleground."

"Prepare for Merchan to deny Trump's immunity claim ... and strap in for sentencing on Sept. 18," McCarthy wrote.
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