The Guardian recap: Donald Trump’s secret plot to bury negative press ahead of the 2016 election deprived Americans of their right to choose a candidate at the ballot box, said the prosecution in its summation on Tuesday at the former president’s New York hush-money trial. Joshua Steinglass’s closing statement reminded jurors of a summer 2015 meeting at Trump Tower where the real estate mogul sat with then consigliere Michael Cohen and tabloid honcho David Pecker. At this meeting, Pecker said, he agreed to apprise them of negative stories that could thwart the former president’s campaign, so they could work to bury them; this would come to include adult film star Stormy Daniels’ allegation of an extramarital liaison with Trump about 10 years prior. “Three rich and powerful men, high up in Trump Tower, tried to become even more powerful by controlling the information that reached voters,” the prosecutor said. “The value of… Read more »
being there in the trenches How We Survived the Trump Trial – POLITICO NEW YORK — A media spectacle was inevitable. How could it not be, for the first ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president? So journalists across the world have descended on a decidedly unglamorous state courthouse in lower Manhattan to cover Donald Trump’s hush money trial. Many non-journalists — curious members of the public along with pro-Trump politicians — have also found themselves drawn to the proceedings. But attending the Trump trial hasn’t been easy. We’ve had to maneuver through Secret Service agents policing the courthouse; dictatorial rules against coffee in the courtroom; and hallways filled with warnings about asbestos. As the Trump trial winds down, we’ve finally developed a series of hacks to make the process as painless as possible. Now we know the answer to questions like: Should I pack a tent to set up… Read more »
in re the thread title: We know Michael Cohen is a liar. But what about the liar who employed him? (coloradosun.com) […] In his closing, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche went all sports metaphor on us, calling Cohen the MVP of liars, the GOAT — the Greatest of All Time — of liars, and then bringing down the metaphorical hammer, calling him the GLOAT, or Greatest Liar of All Time. […] The GLOAT reference is not a bad line. But it is a bad joke. Blanche did all this while representing the real GLOAT, the former president who, during his four years in office, lied more than 30,000 times, according to the carefully documented running score conducted by The Washington Post. I don’t know if Cohen could begin to match that. Blanche did this while representing the person who continues to tell the “Big Lie” that the 2020 election was rigged —… Read more »
A good jury will hold off until after dinner today, a fed up with this mess jury will do lunch and then call the judge.
A bad jury, one with a magat, will go until next week and go for a hung jury.
Looking at all the possibilities, one to consider is that they hang on some counts, convict on others. With so many counts they could compromise with holdouts and not convict on the counts where he didn’t sign the checks, for example.
Place your bets. Oddsmaker Review Betting on Donald Trump Trials: Updated Conviction Odds The Donald Trump New York hush money trial is winding down as closing arguments are being given today. The defense spent much of its three and a half hours driving home the argument that Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen is an admitted liar and the human embodiment of reasonable doubt. The prosecutions closing arguments are next before the jury will begin their deliberations. Betting odds have bounced around throughout the trial and currently sit at -260 on Trump being found guilty on at least one felony charge; a 72.2% chance. The defense rested their case after calling only two witnesses and did not elect to have former Commander-in-Chief Trump take the witness stand. As the Donald Trump hush money wraps up in New York, sportsbooks have released political betting odds on the outcome of this trial and numerous… Read more »
Prosecutor Steinglass: “”The name of the game was concealment — and all roads lead inescapably to the man who needed it most, the defendant, former president Donald Trump”
“The Press” isn’t covering the orange derangement, but the political cartoonists certainly are. Look at how all their drawings of him make him look like a madman.
He’s lying about advice of counsel, his lawyers didn’t assert it…
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
KANGAROO COURT! A CORRUPT AND CONFLICTED JUDGE. RELIANCE ON COUNSEL (ADVISE OF COUNSEL) NOT ALLOWED BY MERCHAN, A FIRST. HIS RULINGS, ON A CASE THAT SHOULD, ACCORDING TO ALL LEGAL SCHOLARS AND EXPERTS, NEVER HAVE BEEN BROUGHT, HAVE MADE THIS A BIDEN PUSHED WITCH HUNT. THERE WAS NO CRIME, EXCEPT FOR THE BUM THAT GOT CAUGHT STEALING FROM ME! IN GOD WE TRUST!
Poobah, doesn’t take much imagination to answer that one.
And as to the rant, I can think of a couple or three legal experts who disagree that the case should never have been brought – Bragg, Colangelo, Hoffinger and Steinglass just to name 4. And I bet that Lisa Rubin and Chuck Rosenberg would agree. as would Laurence Tribe. Somewhere among them I believe yu can find someone who would be considered a legal scholar and expert.
As to advise(?) [advice] of counsel, not only did they not assert it, when they started questioning Cohen about communications between him and Dumbass they waived it. Cohen is no longer under jeopardy from the NY State Bar, but his lawyers who questioned Cohen are.
FOX host John Roberts: “Trump seems to be preparing for a ‘guilty’ verdict – in the courthouse just now saying “Mother Theresa could not beat these charges, but we’ll see. We’ll see how we do.”
Jury’s done for the day. They want to hear parts of the jury charge, parts of Pecker’s and Cohen’s testimony about an August 2015 meeting at Trump Tower, Pecker’s testimony about a phone call between Trump and Pecker and Pecker’s testimony about his decision not to pay Daniels to catch and kill her testimony. Sounds like Blanche’ smoke screen didn’t obscure the evidence critical to the charges against dumbass.
This better be moved forward. I’m sick of Thomas and Alito’s shit.
“…most important, Justice Kennedy found for the court that the failure of an objectively biased judge to recuse him- or herself is not “harmless error” just because the biased judge’s vote is not apparently determinative in the vote of a panel of judges. A biased judge contaminates the proceeding not just by the casting and tabulation of his or her own vote but by participating in the body’s collective deliberations and affecting, even subtly, other judges’ perceptions of the case.”
Glad to hear Jesus was wealthy. Always thought just the opposite. Screw Shane Vaughn.
Oh, and screw Alito and Roberts. Dumbass will be kissing Alito’s pussy and grabbing Roberts.
As a kid, when i would see religious hucksters on TV, such as your Swaggarts and Tammy Fayes, i remember thinking that such scams would have a limited viability as people would, of course, as time progressed, and exposure increased, one would think, become more sophisticated
Sure. Some of it may have inadvertently slipped sideways like yes some little bit of it may have wound up in his pocket. Later they would call that the vigorish.
The Guardian recap: Donald Trump’s secret plot to bury negative press ahead of the 2016 election deprived Americans of their right to choose a candidate at the ballot box, said the prosecution in its summation on Tuesday at the former president’s New York hush-money trial. Joshua Steinglass’s closing statement reminded jurors of a summer 2015 meeting at Trump Tower where the real estate mogul sat with then consigliere Michael Cohen and tabloid honcho David Pecker. At this meeting, Pecker said, he agreed to apprise them of negative stories that could thwart the former president’s campaign, so they could work to bury them; this would come to include adult film star Stormy Daniels’ allegation of an extramarital liaison with Trump about 10 years prior. “Three rich and powerful men, high up in Trump Tower, tried to become even more powerful by controlling the information that reached voters,” the prosecutor said. “The value of… Read more »
being there in the trenches How We Survived the Trump Trial – POLITICO NEW YORK — A media spectacle was inevitable. How could it not be, for the first ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president? So journalists across the world have descended on a decidedly unglamorous state courthouse in lower Manhattan to cover Donald Trump’s hush money trial. Many non-journalists — curious members of the public along with pro-Trump politicians — have also found themselves drawn to the proceedings. But attending the Trump trial hasn’t been easy. We’ve had to maneuver through Secret Service agents policing the courthouse; dictatorial rules against coffee in the courtroom; and hallways filled with warnings about asbestos. As the Trump trial winds down, we’ve finally developed a series of hacks to make the process as painless as possible. Now we know the answer to questions like: Should I pack a tent to set up… Read more »
in re the thread title: We know Michael Cohen is a liar. But what about the liar who employed him? (coloradosun.com) […] In his closing, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche went all sports metaphor on us, calling Cohen the MVP of liars, the GOAT — the Greatest of All Time — of liars, and then bringing down the metaphorical hammer, calling him the GLOAT, or Greatest Liar of All Time. […] The GLOAT reference is not a bad line. But it is a bad joke. Blanche did all this while representing the real GLOAT, the former president who, during his four years in office, lied more than 30,000 times, according to the carefully documented running score conducted by The Washington Post. I don’t know if Cohen could begin to match that. Blanche did this while representing the person who continues to tell the “Big Lie” that the 2020 election was rigged —… Read more »
A good jury will hold off until after dinner today, a fed up with this mess jury will do lunch and then call the judge.
A bad jury, one with a magat, will go until next week and go for a hung jury.
Looking at all the possibilities, one to consider is that they hang on some counts, convict on others. With so many counts they could compromise with holdouts and not convict on the counts where he didn’t sign the checks, for example.
Place your bets. Oddsmaker Review Betting on Donald Trump Trials: Updated Conviction Odds The Donald Trump New York hush money trial is winding down as closing arguments are being given today. The defense spent much of its three and a half hours driving home the argument that Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen is an admitted liar and the human embodiment of reasonable doubt. The prosecutions closing arguments are next before the jury will begin their deliberations. Betting odds have bounced around throughout the trial and currently sit at -260 on Trump being found guilty on at least one felony charge; a 72.2% chance. The defense rested their case after calling only two witnesses and did not elect to have former Commander-in-Chief Trump take the witness stand. As the Donald Trump hush money wraps up in New York, sportsbooks have released political betting odds on the outcome of this trial and numerous… Read more »
Prosecutor Steinglass: “”The name of the game was concealment — and all roads lead inescapably to the man who needed it most, the defendant, former president Donald Trump”
More Steinglass to jury: “The defendant didn’t actually pay a lawyer – he paid a porn star, by funneling money through a lawyer.”
“The Press” isn’t covering the orange derangement, but the political cartoonists certainly are. Look at how all their drawings of him make him look like a madman.
He’s lying about advice of counsel, his lawyers didn’t assert it…
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
KANGAROO COURT! A CORRUPT AND CONFLICTED JUDGE. RELIANCE ON COUNSEL (ADVISE OF COUNSEL) NOT ALLOWED BY MERCHAN, A FIRST. HIS RULINGS, ON A CASE THAT SHOULD, ACCORDING TO ALL LEGAL SCHOLARS AND EXPERTS, NEVER HAVE BEEN BROUGHT, HAVE MADE THIS A BIDEN PUSHED WITCH HUNT. THERE WAS NO CRIME, EXCEPT FOR THE BUM THAT GOT CAUGHT STEALING FROM ME! IN GOD WE TRUST!
May 29, 2024, 8:46 AM
Shudder to think what this means (flag outside courtroom today)
Poobah, doesn’t take much imagination to answer that one.
And as to the rant, I can think of a couple or three legal experts who disagree that the case should never have been brought – Bragg, Colangelo, Hoffinger and Steinglass just to name 4. And I bet that Lisa Rubin and Chuck Rosenberg would agree. as would Laurence Tribe. Somewhere among them I believe yu can find someone who would be considered a legal scholar and expert.
As to advise(?) [advice] of counsel, not only did they not assert it, when they started questioning Cohen about communications between him and Dumbass they waived it. Cohen is no longer under jeopardy from the NY State Bar, but his lawyers who questioned Cohen are.
FOX host John Roberts: “Trump seems to be preparing for a ‘guilty’ verdict – in the courthouse just now saying “Mother Theresa could not beat these charges, but we’ll see. We’ll see how we do.”
Mother Theresa falsified payments to a lawyer as legal expenses to disguise a campaign expenditure to a porn star to keep her mouth shut? Who knew?
Mother Theresa may be a saint but she wasn’t an angel to deal with. I heard that from some nuns.
today’s meme…
The Jury Instructions
Read the jury instructions from Judge Juan Merchan in the Trump hush money trial (msn.com)
Jury’s done for the day. They want to hear parts of the jury charge, parts of Pecker’s and Cohen’s testimony about an August 2015 meeting at Trump Tower, Pecker’s testimony about a phone call between Trump and Pecker and Pecker’s testimony about his decision not to pay Daniels to catch and kill her testimony. Sounds like Blanche’ smoke screen didn’t obscure the evidence critical to the charges against dumbass.
This better be moved forward. I’m sick of Thomas and Alito’s shit.
Cannon’s crap too. Nothing worse than bad-apple judges.
Pastor Shane Vaughn brings the good news that Jesus was a millionaire and that’s why Pastors get to drive Cadillacs.
Lock him up. I know the judge has some descretion here but
I think he should be locked up.
Glad to hear Jesus was wealthy. Always thought just the opposite. Screw Shane Vaughn.
Oh, and screw Alito and Roberts. Dumbass will be kissing Alito’s pussy and grabbing Roberts.
Gives a whole new vibe to that old story about overturning the tables.
As a kid, when i would see religious hucksters on TV, such as your Swaggarts and Tammy Fayes, i remember thinking that such scams would have a limited viability as people would, of course, as time progressed, and exposure increased, one would think, become more sophisticated
Nope, a bigger business than ever! 🇺🇸
So, he’s saying Jesus picked up all the money from the floor of the temple after he overturned the tables?
Sure. Some of it may have inadvertently slipped sideways like yes some little bit of it may have wound up in his pocket. Later they would call that the vigorish.
It begins to look like The Dumb will always be with us.
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