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william-r-melich · 27 days

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Trump Gagged? No Way! - 04/03/2024

The New York supreme court judge Juan Merchan in Trump's "hush money" case has expanded on his earlier gag order which tried to restrict what Trump could publicly say about the case. The order came late yesterday which gags the former president from speaking in public about Manhattan D.A. Alvin Brag's family members and all others named including jurors, potential jurors, counsel, court staff, witnesses, and their families. The judge wrote, “This pattern of attacking family members of presiding jurists and attorneys assigned to his cases serves no legitimate purpose, it merely injects fear in those assigned or called to participate in the proceedings that not only they, but their family members as well, are ‘fair game,’ for Defendant’s vitriol.” He further wrote that courts are "understandably concerned" on restricting defendants' free speech, especially for those who are publicly notable. He further wrote, “The circumstances of the instant matter, however, are different. The conventional ‘David vs. Goliath’ roles are no longer in play as demonstrated by the singular power defendant’s words have on countless others.” In his ruling arguments he cited from the prosecution, “multiple potential witnesses have already raised grave concerns [...] about their own safety and that of their family members should they appear as witnesses against the defendant.” On those fears he wrote that they would "undoubtedly interfere" with the proceedings, and he continued. “The average observer, must now, after hearing defendant’s recent attacks, draw the conclusion that if they become involved in these proceedings, even tangentially, they should worry not only for themselves, but for their loved ones as well.” State prosecutor Matthew Colangelo wrote, “Defendant’s dangerous, violent, and reprehensible rhetoric fundamentally threatens the integrity of these proceedings and is intended to intimidate witnesses and trial participants alike—including this Court.” The state attorney's office was referencing Trump's remarks about the judge's daughter.

This judge, Juan Merchan, is compromised with a serious case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, and Trump's lawyers think he should recuse himself from the case because his daughter, Loren Merchan who owns a Democrat political consulting firm, heavily profited from her fundraisers dedicated to hurt and remove Trump from the political scene. The judge's wife, Lara Merchan, used to work for New York Attorney General Letitia James, who prosecuted Trump for a victimless crime of "over valuating" his property to get a more favorable loan, and to which he paid back fully with interest that made Duetsche Bank (no complaints) a lot of money. Another ridiculous, unconstitutionally brought case, which, like all the others, is nothing more than political persecution. Judge Juan Merchan's profile picture on X was of Donald Trump behind bars. I think it's fair to say that this judge is compromised, or as Trump would say, "by a lot!"

Of course, the mainstream media's talking point's echoe-chamber put out that Trump made threatening remarks about the judge's daughter, when in fact he did no such thing. One of his Truth Social posts reads, “Judge Juan Merchan, a very distinguished looking man, is nevertheless a true and certified Trump Hater who suffers from a very serious case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. In other words, he hates me! His daughter is a senior executive at a Super Liberal Democrat firm that works for Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff, the Democrat National Committee, Senate Majority PAC, and even Crooked Joe Biden.”

As I have said before, I think all of these cases against Trump should be dismissed and thrown out, as they are obviously political witch hunts directed by Biden's crooked administration and their weaponized justice department. So, Trump appropriately calls them the "Biden trials." The left thinks they can stop him from coming back to DC, and this judge thinks he can silence him, to keep him from pointing out all of the obvious corruption in that's clearly in plain sight for anyone with a functioning brain to see; --No Way! No Way! - will they ever silence or stop him, and No Way! - will they ever silence or stop us, we the people. Trump is right when he declares these trials as being "election interference," and that they should never, ever take place in the United States of America: abso-futting-lutely; -- No Way!

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Merry Christmas Colangelo & Pomerantz

"First Cyrus 'Cy' Vance Jr (DA) has Mark Pomarantz (Special Assistant DA/Authr People vs Donald Trump author/Hillary's Attorney) and Dunne cracking the whip on him, then Schumer and Preetinder 'Preet' Singh Bhahara (US Attorney SDNY) show up at his Birthday in October to spank him - Matt Colangelo in December threatening to break his kneecaps- then the leaks and more leaks until he gives in with Cy Vance's garbage case. Uh....this won't be a swell time. This guy is going to find out Soros doesn't pay court costs or keep you out of prison. This in one pile of dog stuff he's going to be sorry he jumped into. Trump will be after his backside too. This man had better lawyer up."

Exclusive: Jim Jordan Subpoenas Manhattan Prosecutor Who Resigned over Suspended Trump Probe April 6, 2023

House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) escalated Republicans’ investigation into the Manhattan district attorney’s indictment of former President Donald Trump by subpoenaing a prosecutor on Thursday who resigned from the office last year over the district attorney’s initial reluctance to pursue Trump’s case.

Jordan’s subpoena, reviewed by Breitbart News, directs Mark Pomerantz, who resigned from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office in February 2022, to appear before the committee for a deposition on April 20.

In a cover letter accompanying the subpoena, Jordan said his committee had legislative reasons to demand Pomerantz’s testimony.

“Congress has a specific and manifestly important interest in preventing politically motivated prosecutions of current and former Presidents by elected state and local prosecutors, particularly in jurisdictions—like New York County—where the prosecutor is popularly elected and trial-level judges lack life tenure,” Jordan wrote.

Pomerantz, a former special assistant assigned to the years-long Trump case, exited the Manhattan district attorney’s office right after Bragg took over. The move became a public affair when his resignation letter appeared in the New York Times last March.

Pomerantz wrote in the letter to Bragg that he believed Trump was “guilty of numerous felony violations” related to his financial statements and that he was

quitting because he thought Bragg’s decision at the time to “indefinitely” suspend the investigation into Trump was “misguided.”

Jordan observed, based on the resignation letter, that Pomerantz had “prejudged the results” of the investigation and that his critical words of Bragg seemingly sparked the district attorney to openly declare that the Trump investigation was “far from over.”

In November 2022, one week after Trump announced he was running for president again, the Times reported that Bragg had revived the Trump investigation and had zeroed in on a hush money scheme involving porn star Stormy Daniels and Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen.

“For Mr. Bragg, the hush-money developments suggest the first signs of progress since he took office at the beginning of the year, when he balked at indicting Mr. Trump in connection with his business practices,” the outlet reported at the time.

Pomerantz later went on to publish a book about the matter, called People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account, in which Pomerantz discussed internal concerns people had about the investigation and worries about the credibility of Cohen, a convicted felon.

“You describe your eagerness to investigate President Trump, writing that you were ‘delighted’ to join an unpaid group of lawyers advising on the Trump investigations, and joking that salary negotiations had gone ‘great’ because you would have paid to join the investigation,” Jordan wrote of the book.

He added that Pomerantz “frivolously” compared Trump to John Gotti, a notorious New York City mob boss, and described him as a “malignant narcissist.”

“The depth of your personal animosity towards him is apparent in your writing,” Jordan concluded.

The subpoena marks Republicans’ strongest move yet in its investigation of the New York County’s indictment of Trump amid questions from some about Congress’s authority to probe open state-level criminal matters.

It comes after Jordanfirst contacted Pomerantz on March 22 seeking his testimony, as well as documents and communication related to the Trump investigation.

Jordan in his subpoena cover letter referenced correspondence on March 25 from Bragg to Pomerantz, which Breitbart News has reviewed, in which Bragg instructed Pomerantz, a private citizen, not to provide Congress with any materials relevant to Pomerantz’s work at the district attorney’s office.

Pomerantz then told the committee on March 27 that he would be complying with Bragg’s instructions rather than Jordan’s requests.🙄

Jordan contended Thursday, however, that Pomerantz is “uniquely situated” to provide insight to the Judiciary Committee and that

he has “no basis to decline to testify” given he has already made detailed accounts of his work on the Trump probe widely public.

EXCLUSIVE: House Judiciary Expands Investigation Into Manhattan DA Over Trump Indictment April 7, 2023

The Federalist: The House Judiciary Committee is expanding its investigation into the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office over last week’s unprecedented indictment of former President Donald Trump.

On Friday, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sent a letter to Manhattan DA Senior Counsel Matthew Colangelo, shared with The Federalist, requesting a transcribed interview.

According to the New York Times in December, Colangelo was hired four months ago to “jump start” Bragg’s Trump investigations after years spent going after the former president at both the Department of Justice and the New York attorney general’s office.

“Given your history of working for law-enforcement entities that are pursuing President Trump and the public reporting surrounding your decision to work for the New York County District Attorney’s Office, we request your cooperation with our oversight in your personal capacity,” Jordan wrote.

Trump pled not guilty at the historic arraignment Tuesday against a 34-count felony indictment carrying a maximum 136-year prison sentence. The charges stem from 2016 hush-money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels in a case prosecutors previously declined to pursue.

The weak nature of the case has led a dozen liberal law professors and Trump antagonists to call the prosecution a dead end.

The House Judiciary chairman reminded Colangelo of Congress’s authority to probe the Manhattan DA’s office after Bragg has spent weeks resisting lawmakers’ oversight requests. Fox News reported Wednesday the back and forth has led the Committee to consider issuing formal subpoenas for Bragg’s office. On Thursday, lawmakers pulled the trigger on a subpoena for Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor under Bragg who resigned last year over slow progress on efforts to arrest Trump.

Jordan revealed on Fox News Monday that Bragg conceded to lawmakers his office used federal funds in the Manhattan DA’s Trump investigation.

“The Committee may therefore consider legislation to enhance reporting requirements concerning the use of federal forfeiture funds and/or to prohibit the use of federal forfeiture funds to investigate a current or former President or presidential candidate,” Jordan wrote in the letter to Colangelo.

The committee is demanding Colangelo hand over documents related to his hiring and sit down for a formal interview. Colangelo was given until April 21 to provide lawmakers with a schedule of availability.

While the Manhattan DA’s office braces for aggressive oversight from House Republicans, members of Bragg’s staff deleted online profiles. The “Meet Our Team” page was also scrubbed from Bragg’s website.

Trump’s indictment last week drew immediate condemnation from House Republicans and the former president’s rivals in the 2024 primary but has been met with silence by Senate GOP Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

#Matthew Colangelo #Mark Pomerantz #merry chrisis #alvin bragg is a dirty cop #nyc #sdny #lawfare #obama is scum #biden is obama's puppet #revenge #free trump #get trump

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#Donald Trump #Matthew Colangelo #Tax Fraud #News

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transparentgentlemenmarker · 4 days

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Le procès de Donald Trump a véritablement commencé lundi 22 avril 2024. En présentant les charges devant le jury à l’ouverture des débats, l’accusation a d’emblée voulu poser les enjeux de l’affaire de paiements dissimulés en vue d’acheter le silence de Stephanie Clifford, connue comme star de films X sous le pseudonyme de Stormy Daniels, juste avant le scrutin présidentiel de 2016. Les procureurs ont voulu montrer que l’affaire va bien au-delà des trente-quatre chefs de falsification de documents comptables reprochés au candidat républicain à la présidentielle de 2024. Donald Trump a « orchestré un complot criminel pour truquer l’élection présidentielle de 2016 », puis a « menti dans des documents comptables, encore et encore », pour le « dissimuler », a accusé l’un des procureurs, Matthew Colangelo, sous les yeux du milliardaire, impassible et silencieux. « C’est de la fraude électorale, purement et simplement », a asséné le procureur devant les douze jurés.

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darkeagleruins · 6 days

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UPDATES TO THE CHART THAT TIES GEORGE SOROS TO THE WITCH HUNT AGAINST DONALD TRUMP!

Did you know that @ManhattanDA Alvin Bragg’s wife Jamila Ponton Bragg is the manager of the Broadway Women’s Fund and she’s on the board of directors at Harlem Stage?

Why does this matter?

Harlem Stage receives money from George Soros’s Open Society Foundation.

By the way, did you know that Alvin Bragg, his wife, Michael Colangelo, and his wife all went to Harvard together at the same time?

You know who else was at Harvard with them at the same time? Jonathan Soros, the son of George Soros.

Now they are all working together at the same time to “GET TRUMP”. These people are all long time associates and their involvement in the plot to get Trump isn’t by accident.

Look at the way the Soros family and Alvin Bragg and his wife are connected to Prosecutor, and former Biden DOJ official Matthew Colangelo and his wife, Anne Kimber Small. It’s just one big flow of money.

Follow the money!

All to GET TRUMP.

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Prosecutors target Trump ’16 race

Opening argument claims payments add up to election fraud

NEW YORK — Donald Trump tried to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election by preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public, a prosecutor told jurors Monday at the start of the former president’s historic hush money trial.

“This was a planned, long-running conspiracy to influence the 2016 election, to help Donald Trump get elected through illegal expenditures to silence people who had something bad to say about his behavior,” prosecutor Matthew Colangelo said. “It was election fraud, pure and simple.”

A defense lawyer countered by assailing the case as baseless and attacking the integrity of the onetime Trump confidant, now the government’s star witness.

“President Trump is innocent. President Trump did not commit any crimes. The Manhattan district attorney’s office should never have brought this case,” attorney Todd Blanche said.

The opening statements offered the 12-person jury — and the voting public — radically divergent road maps for a case that will unfold against the backdrop of a closely contested White House race in which Trump is not only the presumptive Republican nominee but also a criminal defendant facing a possible felony conviction and prison.

It is the first criminal trial of a former American president and the first of four prosecutions of Trump to reach a jury.

Befitting that history, prosecutors sought from the outset to elevate the gravity of the case, which they said was chiefly about election interference as reflected by the hush money payments to a porn actor who said she had a sexual encounter with Trump.

“The defendant, Donald Trump, orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election. Then he covered up that criminal conspiracy by lying in his New York business records over and over and over again,” Colangelo said.

The trial, which could last up to two months, will require Trump to spend his days in a courtroom rather than on the campaign trail, a reality he complained about Monday when he lamented to reporters after leaving the courtroom:

“I’m the leading candidate … and this is what they’re trying to take me off the trail for. Checks being paid to a lawyer.”

Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records — a charge punishable by up to four years in prison — though it’s not clear if the judge would seek to put him behind bars.

A conviction would not preclude Trump from becoming president again, but because it is a state case, he would not be able to pardon himself if found guilty.

He has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.

The case by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg revisits a years-old chapter from Trump’s biography when his celebrity past collided with his political ambitions and, prosecutors say, he scrambled to stifle stories he feared could torpedo his campaign.

The opening statements served as an introduction to the cast of characters that feature prominently in the case, including Stormy Daniels, the porn actor who says she received the hush money; Michael Cohen, the lawyer who prosecutors say paid her; and David Pecker, the tabloid publisher of the National Enquirer who agreed to be the campaign’s “eyes and ears” and who served as the prosecution’s first witness Monday.

Pecker is due back on the stand Tuesday, when the court will also hear arguments on whether Trump violated Judge Juan Merchan’s gag order with Truth Social posts about witnesses over the last week.

In his opening statement, Colangelo outlined a comprehensive effort by Trump and his allies to prevent three stories — two from women alleging prior sexual encounters — from surfacing during the 2016 campaign.

That undertaking was especially urgent following the emergence late in the race of a 2005 “Access Hollywood” recording in which Trump could be heard boasting about grabbing women sexually without their permission.

Colangelo recited Trump’s now-infamous remarks as Trump looked on, stone-faced.

“The impact of that tape on the campaign was immediate and explosive,” Colangelo said.

Within days of the Access Hollywood tape becoming public, Colangelo told jurors that the National Enquirer alerted Cohen that Daniels was agitating to go public with her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.

“At Trump’s direction, Cohen negotiated a deal to buy Ms. Daniels’ story to prevent American voters from hearing that story before Election Day,” Colangelo told jurors.

But, the prosecutor noted, “Neither Trump nor the Trump Organization could just write a check to Cohen with a memo line that said ‘reimbursement for porn star payoff.’ ” So, he added, “they agreed to cook the books and make it look like the payment was actually income, payment for services rendered.”

Those alleged falsified records form the backbone of the 34-count indictment against Trump.

Blanche, the defense lawyer, sought to preemptively undermine the credibility of Cohen, who pleaded guilty to federal charges related to his role in the hush money scheme, as someone with an “obsession” with Trump who cannot be trusted.

Trump has denied having a sexual encounter with Daniels.

Blanche also challenged the notion that Trump agreed to the Daniels payout to safeguard his campaign.

Instead, he characterized it as a bid to squelch a “sinister” effort to embarrass Trump and his loved ones.

ANALYSIS

Immunity case takes unusual turn

Conservative justices on Supreme Court seem to avoid Trump’s conduct

WASHINGTON — Before the Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday on former President Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution, his stance was widely seen as a brazen and cynical bid to delay his trial.

The practical question in the case, it was thought, was not whether the court would rule against him but whether it would act quickly enough to allow the trial to go forward before the 2024 election.

Instead, members of the court’s conservative majority treated Trump’s assertion that he could not face charges that he tried to subvert the 2020 election as a weighty and difficult question.

They did so, said Pamela Karlan, a law professor at Stanford University, by averting their eyes from Trump’s conduct.

“What struck me most about the case was the relentless efforts by several of the justices on the conservative side not to focus on, consider or even acknowledge the facts of the actual case in front of them,” she said.

They said as much.

“I’m not discussing the particular facts of this case,” Justice Samuel Alito said, instead positing an alternate reality in which a grant of immunity “is required for the functioning of a stable democratic society, which is something that we all want.”

Immunity is needed, he said, to make sure the incumbent president has reason to “leave office peacefully” after losing an election.

Alito explained, “If an incumbent who loses a very close, hotly contested election knows that a real possibility after leaving office is not that the president is going to be able to go off into a peaceful retirement but that the president may be criminally prosecuted by a bitter political opponent, will that not lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy?”

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson took a more straightforward approach.

“If the potential for criminal liability is taken off the table, wouldn’t there be a significant risk that future presidents would be emboldened to commit crimes with abandon while they’re in office?” she asked.

Supreme Court arguments are usually dignified and staid, weighed down by impenetrable jargon and focused on subtle shifts in legal doctrine.

Thursday’s argument was different.

It featured “some jaw-dropping moments,” said Melissa Murray, a law professor at New York University.

Michael Dorf, a law professor at Cornell University, said that “the apparent lack of self-awareness on the part of some of the conservative justices was startling.”

He noted that “Justice Alito worried about a hypothetical future president attempting to hold on to power in response to the risk of prosecution, while paying no attention to the actual former president who held onto power and now seeks to escape prosecution.”

In the real world, Karlan said, “it’s really hard to imagine a ‘stable democratic society,’ to use Justice Alito’s word, where someone who did what Donald Trump is alleged to have done leading up to Jan. 6 faces no criminal consequences for his acts.”

Indeed, she said, “if Donald Trump is a harbinger of presidents to come, and from now on presidents refuse to leave office and engage in efforts to undermine the democratic process, we’ve lost our democracy regardless what the Supreme Court decides.”

The conservative justices did not seem concerned that Trump’s lawyer, D. John Sauer, said his client was free during his presidency to commit lawless acts, subject to prosecution only after impeachment by the House and conviction in the Senate.

Liberal justices asked whether he was serious, posing hypothetical questions.

“If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person, and he orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him,” Jackson asked, “is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity?”

Sauer said “that could well be an official act” not subject to prosecution.

Justice Elena Kagan also gave it a go. “How about,” she said, “if a president orders the military to stage a coup?”

Sauer, after not a little back and forth, said that “it could well be” an official act. He allowed that “it certainly sounds very bad.”

Justice Clarence Thomas, who participated in the case despite wife Virginia Thomas’ own vigorous efforts to overturn the election, was not so sure.

“In the not-so-distant past, the president or certain presidents have engaged in various activity, coups or operations like Operation Mongoose when I was a teenager, and yet there were no prosecutions,” he said, referring to the Kennedy administration’s efforts to remove Fidel Castro from power in Cuba.

Alito also turned to history.

“What about President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s decision to intern Japanese Americans during World War II?” he asked.

Could that have been charged, he asked, as a conspiracy against civil rights?

Prompted by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Sauer added another requirement to holding a former president accountable.

Not only must there first be impeachment and conviction in Congress, but the criminal statute in question must also clearly specify in so many words, as very few do, that it applies to the president.

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🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 on X: "Who is Matthew Colangelo? When Bragg appointed Colangelo in December, CNN simply reported he was "a senior official in the US Justice Department and before that served as an attorney on the Trump Foundation investigation with the New York attorney general’s office." But CNN…" / X

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Who is Matthew Colangelo? When Bragg appointed Colangelo in December, CNN simply reported he was "a senior official in the US Justice Department and before that served as an attorney on the Trump Foundation investigation with the New York attorney general’s office." But CNN failed to report Colangelo is a lifelong leftwing activist (including NAACP lawyer for 7 years) and senior Democrat political appointee for nearly 15 years: - currently appointed to made-up position in Soros-backed Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's office (to get Trump; first indictment ever of a former president; bogus, trumped-up charges previously declined by prior Manhattan DA, US Attorney, FEC, and Bragg himself) - acting #3 in Biden Justice Department (then as #2 to radical #3 Vanita Gupta, when Biden and Garland appointed her; leader in politicizing and weaponizing Biden DOJ, including prosecuting Christians praying outside of abortion clinics while giving amnesty to abortion-industry activists terrorizing Catholic Churches, crisis-pregnancy centers, and Supreme Court justices and families in homes) - senior lawyer for disgraced Democrat New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (including his Executive Deputy Attorney General for Social Justice) (to get Trump) (Bragg served as chief deputy attorney general when Colangelo brought dozens of lawsuits against Trump administration and led investigations into Trump Foundation and Trump's finances) - senior White House economic advisor to President Obama - top aide to Obama Labor Secretary (and future DNC chair) Tom Perez - top lawyer to Obama DOJ Civil Rights Division head Tom Perez Colangelo has never served as a line prosecutor or defense attorney. He is simply a senior Democrat operative, brought in by Bragg to get Trump. https://cnn.com/2022/12/05/pol

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Joyce Vance at Civil Discourse Substack:

For starters, some important news: The state of New York will make daily transcripts of the trial available. They announced each day’s transcript would be available by the end of the following day. You can also find key pleadings and orders at the link. Bookmark it and you can follow up on any specific parts of the day’s proceedings that interest you.

Today, the gag order hearing will certainly catch a lot of attention. We discussed the Judge’s option under the law Monday night, in the “Week Ahead” edition of the newsletter (scroll down to paragraph 17). Today, there was more. Donald Trump walked out of the courtroom and violated the gag order again. This statement was a clear violation of the gag order: “When are they going to look at all the lies that Cohen did in the last trial … He got caught lying. Pure lying. When are they going to look at that?” The gag order prohibits Trump from talking about witnesses’ involvement in the investigation or the trial. The violation is plain. Then, Trump moved on to an interview on Real America's Voice, Steve Bannon’s network, where he reportedly said, "That jury was picked so fast. 95% are Democrats. The area is mostly all Democrat. You think of it as a purely Democrat area. It's a very unfair situation that I can tell you." The gag order also prohibits him from making comments about “any juror.” Perhaps, in true Trumpian fashion, he’ll claim the comment was directed towards the whole jury, not any individuals. That’s all he has left, some sort of appeal to a hypertechnical reading of the gag order to claim he didn’t violate.

We’re at the point we began to discuss weeks ago where Judge Merchan will have to either show Trump the gag order has teeth or concede that it’s meaningless and that Trump can do whatever he wants. Like he did today. Judge Merchan being a thoughtful, experienced jurist, I expect we’ll see him begin to enforce it tomorrow. That means we’re in for a day of Trump’s theatrics and an appeal to his base. But the Judge has a case to try in front of a jury, and if that jury is going to avoid both prejudice and threat at Trump’s hands, the Judge will have to act decisively tomorrow. As for today, we got opening statements from both sides and a few minutes of testimony from the first witness who, as expected, turned out to be David Pecker. We’ll leave his testimony for tomorrow, when we’ve seen more of it, and focus first on the opening statements. Before they began, Judge Merchan gave the jury the same instructions that jurors receive in every criminal case. But they had a fresh resonance here with Donald Trump in the dock. He instructed them that a defendant is not required to prove he is not guilty and that it is up to the people to prove each element of the charged crimes. The Judge instructed jurors that if they were not “convinced beyond a reasonable doubt” that Trump is guilty, then they must find him “not guilty.” But, he told them, if the government proves its case beyond a reasonable doubt, “you must find him guilty.”

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The People

Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo's first line: "This case is about a criminal conspiracy and a cover-up." He told jurors that Donald Trump tried to corrupt the 2016 election, then he covered up that conspiracy by “lying in his New York business records over and over and over again.” This is the statutory charge that Trump created false business records to aid in the commission of or conceal another crime.

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The Defendant

Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, started with this: “President Trump is innocent. President Trump did not commit any crimes. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office should never have brought this case.” Blanche’s job in opening was different than the prosecution’s. Instead of building a base to develop, he’s looking for one or more holdout jurors and hoping to give them a strong narrative they can hold onto, to refuse to convict. While there’s a chance the defense might be able to exploit some technical flaw in the prosecution’s case and seek a true acquittal, that would be unusual. Having two lawyers on the jury who may be in tune with technicalities, though, means that the prosecution will have to be extremely thorough. It’s as likely that Blanche was talking to those jurors as to anyone else when he began to set the table for a “not guilty” narrative.

Yesterday began opening arguments for the People of New York v. Trump criminal trial in the election interference/business record falsification case.

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Trump trial live updates as court resumes with contempt hearing today

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Matthew Colangelo, a member of Bragg’s team, kicked things off for the prosecution, laying out the central allegations in the case. Just days before the 2016 election, Trump’s attorney at the time, Cohen, paid $130,000 to Daniels to buy her silence about an alleged sexual encounter she said she had with Trump years earlier. Trump […]

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grits-galraisedinthesouth · 1 year

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Barack Obama is Scum

If they did all of this to stop DJT from seeking a 2nd term, you can't tell me they didn't steal the 2020 election. If Biden & Kamala had actually won the 2020 election fair and square Obama would have no reason to keep the American people from voting for DJT. Why are they so afraid to let us exercise our constitutional rights to pick our own representatives?

I noticed a pattern during Trump's White House years. Anytime the Deep State would implement an attack on DJT or the Trump Administration the Obama's were conveniently out of the country. Notice they traveled to Australia for Trump's indictment. Coincidence?

If you haven't seen Jesse Waters Tuesday 4-4-2023 show I highly recommend you watch it. He discloses the smoking gun connection bw Biden, Obama and their political prosecution of Donald Trump. Let me warn you that you will either be infuriated, depressed, ill or all three. This Deep State plot against the Trump family and the American people should have these people tried for treason. I'm so angry right now that I can hardly type.

This guy is the smoking gun: Matt Colangelo. When Bragg couldn't find a way to as Dershowitz wrote "Get Trump" Obama transferred his ACTIVIST Matt Colangelo from DC to Manhattan, NY where they created a job for him to Get Trump. Colangelo is responsible for shutting down the Trump Foundation because the board didn't have "official" meetings (Trump & his kids), sending the 70 + year old accountant to Riker's Island, and today the ultimate harassment: putting "handcuffs" on a former President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

From the Manhattan DA site:

"Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., today announced the appointment of Matthew Colangelo as new Senior Counsel to the District Attorney. Colangelo, who most recently served as a senior official at the U.S. Department of Justice, will focus on the Office’s cases, policies, and strategies in housing and tenant protection and labor and worker protection, as well as the Office’s most sensitive and high-profile white-collar investigations."

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Difesa Trump, 'è innocente, non ha commesso alcun crimine'

“Donald Trump è innocente, non ha commesso alcun crimine”. Così Todd Blanche, uno degli avvocati dell’ex presidente americano nel caso pornostar, ha iniziato le sue dichiarazioni preliminari. Matthew Colangelo, uno dei pm del processo ha descritto in aula la pratica del ‘catch and kill’ (prendi e uccidi) usata dal tycoon, dal suo avvocato Michael Cohen e dall’editore del tabloid ‘National…

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Takeaways from the <b>Trump</b> hush money trial: Opening statements and the first witness | CNN Politics

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Takeaways from the Trump hush money trial: Opening statements and the first witness | CNN Politics

“The defendant Donald Trump orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election,” said prosecutor Matthew Colangelo told jurors.

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https://humanevents.com/2023/07/05/mike-davis-corrupt-justice-department-prosecutors-are-doing-bidens-dirty-work

A two-tiered system of justice is something that’s prevalent in banana republics and dictatorships across the world. Rarely would you say that could occur in America. But unfortunately, it appears to be happening before our very eyes, and President Joe Biden and his army of corrupt prosecutors are precisely to blame.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has executed the law in a more partisan manner than perhaps any lead DOJ official before him. Biden’s and Garland’s Justice Department has engaged in what can only be called political lawfare, consistently putting Democrat political operatives on cases involving former President Donald Trump, Biden’s chief political rival for the 2024 election.

This same Justice Department just let Delaware US Attorney David Weiss–handpicked by both Democrat home-state senators–enter into a plea agreement with Hunter Biden that turned out to be nothing more than a sweetheart deal. Sadly, it is no surprise, considering how much Attorney General Merrick Garland has politicized and weaponized the Justice Department. These corrupt prosecutors, who all answer to Garland, have incredibly close ties to national Democrats and the liberal establishment.

Derek Hines, one of the prosecutors on the Hunter Biden sweetheart plea deal, served as special counsel to former FBI director Louis Freeh from 2013 through February 2015. To say Freeh was cozy with the Biden family would be putting it lightly. In April 2016, Louis Freeh gave $100,000 to two trust funds belonging to then-Vice President Joe Biden's grandkids.

Soros-funded Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg created a made-up position for Matthew Colangelo, now one of his top deputies, to go after Trump on bogus felony charges for the non-crime of settling a nuisance claim. The prior Manhattan DA, US Attorney, Federal Election Commission, and Bragg himself declined to prosecute under this laughable legal theory.

But that changed with Bragg’s dreamt-up job for Colangelo, a senior political appointee in the Biden Justice Department, Obama White House, and Obama Labor Secretary Tom Perez’s office. That’s not to mention his work as the number two to Vanita Gupta, the radical progressive operative who is number three in the Biden Justice Department.

Well-known across the mainstream media for his aggressive pursuit of Trump, Jack Smith’s role as Garland’s handpicked special counsel comes after Smith’s wife Katy Chevigny donated $1,000 to Biden’s presidential campaign. Chevigny also produced a movie about former First Lady Michelle Obama. His legal career isn’t beyond reproach either, losing 8-0 before the Supreme Court in his attempt to throw former Virginia Republican Governor Bob McDonnell in prison on sham corruption charges when it looked like he could challenge Obama for the presidency in 2012

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