jerrymahoney

my favorite during my years living on west 57th street midtown Manhattan https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/6011

Doesn't make any difference. I would say that the above statement was political far more than possibly legal. The vast majority of criminal cases end in plea bargains, a new report finds February 22, 2023 A new report finds that the vast majority of criminal cases end in a plea bargain. In any given year, 98% of criminal cases in the federal courts end with a plea bargain ... https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1158356619/plea-bargains-criminal-cases-justice So my interpretion is that, in those 98% of cases, if someone indicted says I don't have the money to contest this, the Feds say: Fine. Let's make a deal.

I don't know that there is any legal challenge to the amounts the prosecution is forcing the current defendant to spend on defense. But chumps have a vote and at least, barring some train wreck, Trump is well on his way to the nomination

From the same article linked: “I talk to Republican donors all day every day, and not one has called to express frustration that their money is being spent on legal bills,” said Caroline Wren, a Republican fund-raiser who works with candidates and groups aligned with Mr. Trump. “They are as disgusted with the political weaponization of the D.O.J. as millions of Americans and more than willing to stand and defend these folks with their dollars.”

From the linked article quoted above: "His advisers — both legal and political — insist the investigations are simply an effort to broadly drain his coffers." So that may be a political statement or may be a legal statement.

Spiraling Legal Bills Threaten Trump With a Cash Crunch By Shane Goldmacher and Maggie Haberman Aug. 11, 2023, 5:01 a.m. ET ... Mr. Cheung accused Mr. Biden and the Justice Department’s special counsel, Jack Smith, of using the government’s “unlimited resources” to try “to force the Trump campaign to spend, spend, spend to defend innocent Americans who have been targeted.” ... His advisers — both legal and political — insist the investigations are simply an effort to broadly drain his coffers. One of Mr. Trump’s many attorneys, John Lauro, said on Fox News within minutes of the third indictment being made public that the former president is “being forced to spend money on legal defense, which should be spent on the discussion of critical ideas and critical issues.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/us/politics/donald-trump-legal-bills-campaign.html https://archive.is/u2EAA

From NYTimes: The judge described Mr. Trump’s candidacy as “a day job,” like another defendant. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/us/politics/trump-judge-protective-order.html https://archive.is/yOhZN

From the available information, it would seem that, by the time a problem was recognized, it had already progressed to prostate cancer metastasis else a radical prostate removal would have been available.

I love the part in the Once Were Brothers doco when Robbie explains the beginnings of one of his 2 most famous songs. "The Weight" (the other being The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down). He said he was noodling around on his C.F. Martin acoustic guitar when he looked inside of it and saw that the Martin Company was based in Nazareth, PA. Thus come the opening line: I pulled into Nazareth, was feeling 'bout half-past dead. I also once read elsewhere that he saw the song like a Luis Buñuel movie

Robbie Robertson, songwriter and lead guitarist for legendary rock group The Band, is dead ... TMZ has confirmed. Sources close to Robbie tell us he died Wednesday in Los Angeles after battling prostate cancer for about a year. We're told he'd been doing ok, recently, but on Tuesday he told his wife he wasn't feeling well, and she took him to a hospital. We're told his wife got a call from the hospital in the early hours of Wednesday informing her Robbie had passed. https://www.tmz.com/2023/08/09/robbie-robertson-the-band-dead-dies/

On a separate note, the TMZ report is that RR died from prostate cancer. No one should have to die from prostate cancer.

I saw The Band 4 times: Fillmore East, Schaefer Harvard Stadium, Boston Symphony Hall and Watkins Glen. Janis Joplin gave one of her final performances here. I remember one Boston writer saying The Band came on more like the Budapest String Quartet than a rock band. Great stuff. I like their performance at 1971 Academy of Music more than the Last Waltz. His later years tiff with Levon Helm over song-writing credits was sad.

Then maybe he should just go into his local immigration office and ask how much it costs to get an extension without the requisite 800/400 K in the bank.

The allegations in the indictment are not violations of the charges until a jury says that they are. As I have said too often before I voted agains Trump twice. I am just a realist as to how the law works in complex trials.

The indicment lists a factual narrative regarding the 4 count indicment. As to whether the factual allegations contained in the 45-page indictment represents violations of the 4 charges is an opinion of the Special Counsel.

The NY Times thought his opinion was worth publishing. Nobody says you have to agree with it.

Absolutely. But then it makes it impossible to assess the viability of your statements as to what info you received.

Some think this is a slam-dunk case. Some don't. Either way, what is main concern to me is that Trump is not re-elected in 2024. All the rest to me including the extent and possible criminal cases is side show.

The link is posted above and to which you replied.

That's right. Opinion. As is just about everything else posted on here. And this is the opinion of a conservative Hoover Institution senior staffer. And in his opinion, given his credentials, the operative point here is that: The case involves novel applications of three criminal laws and raises tricky issues of Mr. Trump’s intent, his freedom of speech and the contours of presidential power.

The Prosecution of Trump May Have Terrible Consequences Aug. 8, 2023 (Opinion) It may be satisfying now to see the special counsel Jack Smith indict Donald Trump for his reprehensible and possibly criminal actions in connection with the 2020 presidential election. But the prosecution, which might be justified, reflects a tragic choice that will compound the harms to the nation from Mr. Trump’s many transgressions. Mr. Smith’s indictment outlines a factually compelling but far from legally airtight case against Mr. Trump. The case involves novel applications of three criminal laws and raises tricky issues of Mr. Trump’s intent, his freedom of speech and the contours of presidential power. If the prosecution fails (especially if the trial concludes after a general election that Mr. Trump loses), it will be a historic disaster. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/opinion/trump-indictment-cost-danger.html https://archive.is/nMJ04

The continued mystery of 'what home country?'

Sure but you can never tell when those in Immigration might check into a website like this to see what they should do if they had any brains.

Your conclusions are dead wrong. I voted against Trump twice. I would vote against him agian but my ability to register again for 2024 is in doubt. I lived in New York City in the mid-1970's when Trump first started to become famous for being famous. I will quote the very liberal Columnist for the NY Times: June 12, 2023 How seriously should we take Donald Trump’s candidacy? Frank Bruni: We should take it with maximal, bone-chilling, psyche-ravaging, hope-slaying seriousness. Even under federal indictment, he’s the likeliest Republican nominee. And the Republican nominee ipso facto has a decent shot at the presidency. Which means a second term of Trump, heaven help us, is entirely possible. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/12/opinion/donald-trump-2024.html To me, all these criminal trials are a side show in magnitude compared to the prospect, of whatever possibility, that Trump is again elected President.

You were the one who alluded to my 'hopes'.