Countdown Clock, Trump Going to Jail
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What could happen to Trump if he doesn’t show up for his trial? This could happen:
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s one-time chief of staff Roy McGrath has died after a nationwide manhunt for him ended Monday in a confrontation with the FBI in Knoxville, Tennessee.
McGrath, who served as the top aide to Hogan, a Republican, for a few months during the summer of 2020, faced charges related to an alleged scheme to bilk Maryland out of more than $276,000.
McGrath was indicted by a federal grand jury in October 2021 on charges that he defrauded the Maryland Environmental Service of a $233,647.23 severance payment. He also defrauded Maryland to pay for a tuition expense of more than $14,000 and falsified time sheets during two vacations.
An arrest warrant had been issued for him in March after he failed to appear for his scheduled trial in Baltimore.
Trump will be there... Smiling.
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The FBI killed this Republican over $276,000 that he might, or might not, owe Maryland.
Is Trump next? He owes a lot more than $276,000. Should Trump pay? Personally, I'd prefer that Trump buys either an AK-47 or AR-15, takes hostages, and threatens to kill them rather than pay. It is Trump's 2nd Amendment right, you know.
No. That is not his 2nd Amendment Right.
Read a fucking book.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Inside Trump’s demands for a high-profile surrender: ‘It’s kind of a Jesus Christ thing’
Donald Trump insisted on turning his Tuesday arraignment into a spectacle, and he’s going to get his wish.
A law enforcement official tells Rolling Stone that the former president was offered a chance to surrender quietly and be arraigned over Zoom. Instead, Trump opted for a midday, high-profile booking at the Manhattan courthouse, the official says.
“He wanted a perp walk, he wanted daylight hours,” says the law enforcement official, who’s involved in aspects of the security planning. “He wants to get out of the vehicle and walk up the stairs. This is a nightmare for Secret Service, but they can only strongly suggest — not order — that Trump enter through the secure tunnels,” the official says. “Trump wants to greet the crowd. This should be a surprise to no one — especially not his detail.”
Secret Service had argued in favor of holding the proceedings outside of court business hours, at night with minimal cameras and less risk. But Trump, a source close to his legal team says, wants to create the type of scene that he believes will galvanize his supporters.
“It’s kind of a Jesus Christ thing. He is saying ‘I’m absorbing all this pain from all around from everywhere so you don’t have to,’ ” says the source. Describing the message Trump hopes to send his supporters, the source says: “ ‘If they can do this to me they can do this to you,’ and that’s a powerful message.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-i
ndictment-surrender-alvin-bragg-1234708673/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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He's not getting what he wanted. They're taking the mugshots away from him.
That was going to be great for memes and campaign merch.
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Yup.
Trump will be fine. 
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Trump will be fine.
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Don't underestimate the strengths of Alvin Bragg's case against Donald Trump
Opinion by Harry Litman
Manhattan Dist. Atty. Alvin Bragg’s indictment of former President Trump takes an open-ended approach to the charges that some critics of the unprecedented prosecution see as a weakness. What the detractors have overlooked are the substantial and unanticipated legal and factual strengths in the case Bragg outlined.
A key question in advance of Tuesday’s unsealing of the indictment concerned how Bragg would augment the easily proven misdemeanor charges of falsifying business records. Under New York law, those offenses become felonies only if they're in furtherance of another crime. Many theories were circulating as to what second crime Bragg would allege, and most of the possibilities had noteworthy shortcomings.
Bragg’s answer was essentially “I’ll tell you later.” He took advantage of the wording of the state law, which requires only that the misdemeanor be done in service of “a crime,” to buy himself maximum time and flexibility.
Bragg may have to pick his crime down the line, perhaps in answer to an expected defense motion for a “bill of particulars” — that is, a fleshing out of the Delphic indictment to enable Trump’s team to prepare an appropriate defense.
On the other hand, the prosecutor may not have to specify a second crime. The jury instructions on falsification of business records say it’s a felony if the defendant acted “with intent to defraud that included an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.” It's therefore not clear that they require the jury even to agree on what the augmenting crime is.
But Bragg this week also added a potent possible second crime beyond what many observers expected. It emerges from the fact that in making his lawyer Michael Cohen “whole” for the hush money he paid to Stormy Daniels, Trump included enough to compensate Cohen for the taxes he would have to pay on the “income” — that is, on the phony legal retainer that camouflaged the hush money.
It’s not clear whether Cohen in fact declared and paid taxes on the reimbursement or whether the Trump Organization declared it as a business expense. The Bragg team’s insight is that it doesn’t matter: The language that elevates business record falsification to a felony only requires “an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.”
That purposely encompasses what lawyers call “inchoate” crimes. The law would plainly be satisfied by the inclusion of money intended to commit or conceal another crime — namely, a false tax filing — whether or not that crime occurred.
Importantly, this theory could be a way around the legal questions inherent in alleging that the second crime was a state or federal campaign finance violation.
Alleging a campaign finance violation would also raise a factual dispute over whether the hush money was really paid to buoy Trump’s electoral prospects. Team Trump continues to suggest that the actual purpose of the payout was “to prevent something coming out [that was] false but embarrassing to himself, his family, his young son," as Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina put it.
That is a far-fetched theory to be sure: The idea that Trump may not be a loyal spouse wouldn't come as a shock to most people, let alone those who know him best. But in a setting in which the prosecution must prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt, the claim that he was trying to protect his family’s feelings can’t be totally disregarded.
Here is where it’s important that Bragg alleged an entire course of conduct — not just the Daniels payout but also a broader “scheme to boost [Trump’s] election prospects” by squelching other potentially damaging stories. Bragg pointedly emphasized that much in his spare public statements this week, suggesting that David Pecker, the former chief executive of the National Enquirer’s parent company, will be a critical witness.
Bragg’s “statement of facts” supplied a nugget of new inf
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Laughing again. And yep, I'm going to say it. I told you so.
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For the second time in two weeks, Defendant Donald Trump traveled under court order to New York. This time he was deposed by New York Attorney General Leticia James in a $250 million civil case alleging business fraud.
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