Trump's legal woes

The cynical analysis, of course, is that the Court will hand down its decision in Trump's favor when the majority figures a way around that.
From reading commentary, it would seem that SCOTUS were uninspired by arguments from either side, and therefore finding a way to let Trump go free will be difficult.
However, I do think they'll rule in a manner that benefits Trump, in a way that will serve to delay his various trials at least until after the election. I think they will rule that the President has immunity for official acts as President but not for acts outside the scope of that office. I think they will then rule that it should be for the court system to determine whether or not an act is within or outside such immunity.
This will then add layers of additional decisions to be made by the courts, and thus delay any trial - if the courts/judge determine there is no immunity for the act in question - beyond November.

It shouldn't affect the ongoing hush-miney trial as at no point was he President while this transpired, although he has argued that since some of the evidence is from his time as President that this evidence should be excluded due to said immunity.

I see there's also another "scandal" uncovered - beyond Trump being incontinent and stinking any room he's in - in that he offered jobs at the White House in exchange for people not testifying against him... or something like that.
So expect even more prosecution should he lose the election.
 
Next Level

Michael Cohen ought to win some sort of award, come year-end. Within the last couple weeks, the convicted felon and notorious former Trump operative trolled the Donald at least twice on X before one or another lawyer told him to stop; Cohen apologized in a subequent post and promised to keep his mouth shut.

Anyway, Trump's lawyers took the time to make a complaint about it, and nobody ought say they shouldn't, but the sum effect is some next-level trolling, because today attorney Todd Blanche, with his client sitting right beside him, entered into the record the derogatory moniker, Baron von Shitzenpants.

(Background: This comes after a brutal voir dire in which Trump had to sit by and hear someone read out all manner of insults, such as when Judge Marchan asked a pool juror about a post that said, "fuck that treasonous orange shitgibbon and the dead ferret on his head", and the juror responded, "The tweet speaks for itself, Your Honor." As he attends the stations of his criminal trial, defendant Donald Trump finds himself repeatedly insulted on the record. Sometimes jurors read their statements; in at least the one case, Judge Marchand read the insulting statement; today it was Trump's attorney's turn.)
 
This comes after a brutal voir dire in which Trump had to sit by and hear someone read out all manner of insults, such as when Judge Marchan asked a pool juror about a post that said, "fuck that treasonous orange shitgibbon and the dead ferret on his head", and the juror responded, "The tweet speaks for itself, Your Honor."

This was fact checked as false.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/potential-juror-tweet-read-aloud-trump-trial/

The earliest post we found on X using this language went up on April 16, 2024, and no reporting from before or on that date corroborates that such a reading took place in front of Trump in court. We were unable to find any verified reporting from news organizations that stated such a tweet had been read aloud during court proceedings. Were such a tweet indeed on the record, it would have been in the news. We thus rate this claim as "False."

(none of this is to imply that I find that vivid description inaccurate, though I remain uncertain what precisely a shitgibbon is - in cladistic terms, does the shit prefix pinpoint a common ancestor which achieved a certain tier of shittiness which then led to a lineage of gibbons that constitute a distinct subspecies? Or is there a broader clade of shit-apes that somehow branched off from the main ape line and favors failed symbiotic relationships with ferrets?)
 
This was fact checked as false.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/potential-juror-tweet-read-aloud-trump-trial/

The earliest post we found on X using this language went up on April 16, 2024, and no reporting from before or on that date corroborates that such a reading took place in front of Trump in court. We were unable to find any verified reporting from news organizations that stated such a tweet had been read aloud during court proceedings. Were such a tweet indeed on the record, it would have been in the news. We thus rate this claim as "False."

(none of this is to imply that I find that vivid description inaccurate, though I remain uncertain what precisely a shitgibbon is - in cladistic terms, does the shit prefix pinpoint a common ancestor which achieved a certain tier of shittiness which then led to a lineage of gibbons that constitute a distinct subspecies? Or is there a broader clade of shit-apes that somehow branched off from the main ape line and favors failed symbiotic relationships with ferrets?)

Whatever,it would be a calumny against any gibbon I have cognisance of.
Ferrets can be vicious, though as can minks.

As for the most up to date description regarding the noble lineage of incontinent Germans can we rely on Mr Cohen for accuracy?
 
How unfortunate.


I was prepared to believe that Stormy spanked Trump with a rolled up issue of Forbes, with pics of his children and himself on the cover, but sadly that was also shot down by timeline analysis, so will have to be content with a rolled up issue of Trump magazine. More narcissism, less depravity, it matters not to Trumpistas how those dials are adjusted.
 
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