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Whether Trump will get away with all this criminal stuff or not, things like this scare the <self-deleted> out of me: Trump leads Biden, RFK Jr.: poll BY CAROLINE VAKIL - 10/20/23 7:30 PM ET Former President Trump is leading President Biden and Democrat-turned-independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a three-way race, a new poll found. The Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey, shared with The Hill, showed Trump receiving 39 percent support, Biden receiving 33 percent support and Kennedy receiving 19 percent support in a three-way race. A separate 9 percent of voters said they did not know or were unsure. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4268075-trump-leads-biden-rfk-jr-survey/

Shortly before prosecutors filed their papers, the American Civil Liberties Union released a proposed friend-of-the-court brief on its website siding with Mr. Trump and urging Judge Chutkan to re-evaluate her order. In its brief, which has not yet been filed as part of the case, the A.C.L.U. said the gag order was both “impermissibly vague” and “impermissibly broad” and hindered Mr. Trump’s “ability to speak publicly about the substance of the prosecution.” The brief went on to note that Mr. Trump’s criminal case was “in many ways inextricable from the 2024 presidential campaign in which he is a declared candidate.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/us/politics/trump-gag-order.html Win, lose, or draw, I really do not care what is the outcome of the 4 current criminal cases as long as he is not again US President JAN 20, 2025.

As for my 65K+ plus per month monthly FTT deposit for retirement exension of stay, I will say to the above: ... and pay tax -- if any -- on what I remit.

This is the McCarthy article referenced by David French in his NY Times opinion piece: Sidney Powell’s Guilty Plea Points to a Faltering Case in Atlanta By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY October 19, 2023 1:15 PM While the media spin will be different, my first impression of Sidney Powell’s guilty plea in the Fulton County election-interference case is: It signals that District Attorney Fani Willis’s much-heralded RICO indictment — in which 19 are charged, including Powell’s famous co-defendant Donald Trump — is a dud. <skip> Willis’s case appears to be the opposite. She filed the grandiose allegations in an indictment that depicts Trump as if he were the boss of a Mafia family — with Powell as one of his lieutenants. Now she’s pleading people out to minor infractions. There’s good reason to believe that’s because minor infractions are all she’s got. https://archive.ph/hNWxv#selection-709.1-715.306

They run far more Trump isn't going to get away with all articles and opinion pieces. As per today's: What Guilty Pleas in Georgia Mean for the Federal Case Against Trump The guilty pleas present a host of challenges as state and federal prosecutors engage in parallel efforts to hold Donald J. Trump accountable, defense lawyers and former federal prosecutors say.

The New York Times is a sorry choice. Thanks. I'll remember that.

That was an opinion piece published by the NY Times.. If you think it doesn't matter, that is your prerogative.

Trump’s Lawyers Are Going Down. Is He? Oct. 25, 2023 OPINION from NY Times If you think it’s crystal clear that the guilty pleas are terrible news for Trump — or represent that elusive “we have him now” moment that many Trump opponents have looked for since his moral corruption became clear — then it’s important to know that there’s a contrary view. National Review’s Andrew McCarthy, a respected former federal prosecutor, argued that Powell’s guilty plea, for example, was evidence that Willis’s case was “faltering” and that her RICO indictment “is a dud.” “When prosecutors cut plea deals with cooperators early in the proceedings,” McCarthy writes, “they generally want the pleading defendants to admit guilt to the major charges in the indictment.” Powell pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges. Ellis and Chesebro each pleaded to a single felony charge, but they received punishment similar to Powell’s. McCarthy argues that Willis allowed Powell to plead guilty to a minor infraction “because minor infractions are all she’s got.” And in a piece published Tuesday afternoon, McCarthy argued that the Ellis guilty plea is more of a sign of the “absurdity” of Willis’s RICO charge than a sign that Willis is closing in on Trump, a notion he called “wishful thinking.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/opinion/trump-georgia-guilty-pleas.html

Mark Meadows Denies He’s Been Granted Immunity to Flip on Trump Updated Oct. 24, 2023 10:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 24, 2023 6:34PM EDT Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, denied claims made in an ABC News report Tuesday that he was granted immunity to testify before special counsel Jack Smith’s team. Despite ABC News claiming Meadows’ lawyer declined to comment, George Terwilliger, Meadows’ attorney, later said to CBS News: “I told ABC that their story was largely inaccurate. People will have to judge for themselves the decision to run it anyway.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/mark-meadows-flips-tells-jack-smith-about-2020-election-lies-report-says

Whatever Mr. Terwilliger might say or not say, as of this moment neither the NY Times nor the Washington Post have corroborated the ABC News story.

All the news reports on the Meadows immunity link to the above ABC News 'scoop'. George Terwilliger , told CBS News: NEW: “I told ABC that their story was largely inaccurate. People will have to judge for themselves the decision to run it anyway.” George Terwilliger, Mark Meadows lawyer, to CBS News, responding to new reporting “Ex-Chief of Staff granted immunity, tells special counsel he warned Trump about 2020 claims: Sources” And as of 8:51 AM Thailand time, neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post have yet to rum=n the story.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/chief-staff-mark-meadows-granted-immunity-tells-special/story?id=104231281

Yes -- file a motion. Tag team over for now.

From the post above: The number one strategy for the Trump defense in all criminal cases is: DELAY. The next order -- from the dragging their feet comment -- is to get under the Prosecution's skin. Maybe third or lower is: deal with the evidence. tag team over for now.

It would seem a good rule for the Prosecution not t=have the jury laughing at your witnesses. And from the NYTimes: The request for the stay by John F. Lauro, a lawyer for Mr. Trump, was a double-barreled effort to both free the former president from restrictions on his public remarks about the case and to push back the proceedings for as long as possible. Delay has been a strategy pursued by Mr. Trump in both the election interference prosecution and the other federal case he is confronting And prosecutors in Mr. Smith’s office have repeatedly accused him and his lawyers of dragging their feet and seeking to push both the election interference and classified documents cases back until after the 2024 election. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/us/politics/trump-gag-order-freeze-election.html So now it's like the Special Prosecutor's is saying: Teacher that mean Donnie Trump isn't playing fair!

They are a flipping like flap jacks!it’s a good day for democracy! Trump Lawyer Admits to Falsehoods in 2020 Fraud Claims Jenna Ellis acknowledged that she knowingly misrepresented the facts about election fraud in a disciplinary procedure by Colorado state bar officials. March 9, 2023 When she joined Mr. Trump’s legal team, Ms. Ellis liked to describe herself as a “constitutional law attorney,” although a review of her professional history by The New York Times, as well as interviews with more than a half-dozen lawyers who worked with her, showed that she was not the seasoned constitutional law expert she claimed. On Nov. 20, 2020, for example, Ms. Ellis appeared on Maria Bartiromo’s show on Fox Business describing the evidence that Mr. Trump’s legal team had collected to support their claims of fraud — a position that she now acknowledges was untrue. “We have affidavits from witnesses, we have voter intimidation,” she falsely claimed on Ms. Bartiromo’s show, “we have the ballots that were manipulated, we have all kinds of statistics that show that this was a coordinated effort in all of these states to transfer votes either from Trump to Biden, to manipulate the ballots, to count them in secret.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/us/politics/jenna-ellis-trump-2020-election.html https://archive.li/ovF1L

65K is cash remittance to Thailand.

https://www.mazars.co.th/Home/Insights/Doing-Business-in-Thailand/Tax/Thailand-Tax-Foreign-Income-Taxable-from-2024

My simple calculations: 70k x 12= 840k -190k = 650k (age 65+) - 100k = 550k (standard deduction) 150k 0% bracket = 400k remaining 150k @ 5% = 7500 250k @10% = 25,000 = 33000 / year

well gee I guess he never thought of that.

I am USofA citizen and the DTA should be very much in my favor. However, given the currently available deductions including the one for age 65+, I figure based upon my 65K+ baht monthly remittances to Thailand, my worst case case tax bill would be USD 100+ per month. Not enough for me as the above to consider moving.

Mr. Trump, in private conversations with his aides, has made no secret of the fact that he sees winning the election as the best solution to his array of legal problems. And prosecutors in Mr. Smith’s office have repeatedly accused him and his lawyers of dragging their feet and seeking to push both the election interference and classified documents cases back until after the 2024 election. If that were to happen, and Mr. Trump were to win the race, he could have his attorney general simply dismiss the charges. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/us/politics/trump-gag-order-freeze-election.html

Yes just a little fun. Mr. Jack Smith will maybe press Ms. Powell on her eccentricities. And so likely will the cross-examiners if it ever gets to that point.

So what is it now -- Hack be nimble?

How Sidney Powell inaccurately cited Venezuela’s elections as evidence of U.S. fraud. Published Nov. 19, 2020Updated Nov. 23, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/technology/sidney-powell-venezuela.html On Monday, Ms. Powell posted some of her so-called evidence on Twitter. It consisted of three screenshots of an affidavit that she said was signed by a former military official from Venezuela about elections there. The screenshots were incomplete and did not include a name or signature, and Ms. Powell did not respond to requests to view the full document. But according to her and excerpts from the affidavit, the elections software company Smartmatic helped the Venezuelan government rig its elections by switching votes and leaving no trail. The military official said in the excerpts that the U.S. election was “eerily reminiscent” of what happened in Venezuela’s 2013 presidential election, though no evidence was provided that votes had been switched in the United States. “This person saw, by his own experience, exactly what was happening there was happening here,” Ms. Powell explained to Fox News on Monday.