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jerrymahoney

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  1. To me,all these cases civil or criminal are a side-show compared to prospect of Trump again being President in JAN 2025.
  2. Double agent behind the enemy lines.
  3. I don't know. That's why I said 'maybe'.
  4. I'll do the play-by-play. You can be the color(u)r commentator. Simply that you can come on here and say i'ts a Nothingburger and nobody says anything. If I came on here and said it's definitely NOT a Nothingburger, it would be tag team time.
  5. Trump demands a new judge just days before the start of his hush-money criminal trial By The Associated Press Published April 6, 2024 at 12:10 AM EDT NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump is demanding a new judge just days before his hush-money criminal trial is set to begin, rehashing longstanding grievances with the current judge in a long-shot, eleventh-hour bid to disrupt and delay the case. Trump's lawyers — echoing his recent social media complaints — urged Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan to step aside from the case, alleging bias and a conflict of interest because his daughter is a Democratic political consultant. The judge rejected a similar request last August. In court papers made public Friday, (NB see above post) Trump's lawyers said it is improper for Merchan "to preside over these proceedings while Ms. Merchan benefits, financially and reputationally, from the manner in which this case is interfering" with Trump's campaign as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. https://www.weku.org/npr-news/2024-04-06/trump-demands-a-new-judge-just-days-before-the-start-of-his-hush-money-criminal-trial
  6. From https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/trump-recusal-motion-merchan-hush-money.pdf
  7. The final call on whether the Knight bond sinks or swims will be up to New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, who has set April 22 for a hearing on the matter. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-175-million-appeal-bond-to-be-reviewed-ny-ag-2024-4 BTW Also from same source: Trump just got a huge 62% discount on his bond. That's extremely rare, legal experts say. Mar 26, 2024, 3:56 AM GMT+7 Neil Pedersen, the owner of the surety-bond agency Pedersen & Sons, told Business Insider that in his company's 30-year history, he and his employees had handled thousands of bonds. In that time, he's heard of only about a couple dozen instances when a New York appeals court reduced an appeal bond — and those involved far lower judgments. "It's extremely rare," Pedersen said. https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-bond-reduction-civil-fraud-case-rare-legal-experts-2024-3
  8. I've already said all I'm going to say on the indictment.
  9. I'm just going to say that there are 34 counts in the indictment all the same penal code charge and each count has its own guilty/not guilty verdict and potential penalty as you say.
  10. Sure, But I was responding to Kuhn D. saying he hasn't memorized all the charges when all 34 charges are the same.
  11. Not maybe. Is. https://manhattanda.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Donald-J.-Trump-Indictment.pdf
  12. That's easy. They are all the same: Charges: Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree, a class E felony, 34 counts https://manhattanda.org/district-attorney-bragg-announces-34-count-felony-indictment-of-former-president-donald-j-trump/#:~:text=Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L,and after the 2016 election.
  13. OK not grunge by my answer to the query Atlanta Rhythm Section (ARS) great bass line:
  14. When Trump needs cash, a California bank and one of its top shareholders have come to the rescue Updated 3:42 AM GMT+7, April 5, 2024 But as Trump again pursues the White House, ethics and legal experts question what the lenders may ask in return if there’s a future Trump presidency, considering even small regulatory changes can translate into millions of dollars in earnings. “There are multiple layers of questions about what is Hankey’s relationship to Trump and to others in Trump’s orbit,” said Norman Eisen, a former Obama “ethics czar” who is now senior fellow at the liberal-leaning Brookings Institution. “What are his interests? How might Trump favor his interests? How might others?” https://apnews.com/article/trump-axos-bank-don-hankey-loans-ethics-37846dca8056962bee4973105e51e045 -- So now Trump has to raise a $175 million bond against a near $ half billion judgment, but there is sentiment that he must only do so in the manner of the old saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion
  15. Jack Smith Laid a Trap for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Judge. Cannon Didn’t Take It. Judge Aileen Cannon rejected Donald Trump’s request to drop the Mar-a-Lago trial. But she also denied prosecutors a legal avenue that would let them try to kick her off the case. Updated Apr. 04, 2024 4:15PM EDT Published Apr. 04, 2024 3:46PM EDT https://www.thedailybeast.com/jack-smith-laid-a-trap-for-trumps-mar-a-lago-judge-cannon-didnt-take-it?ref=home?ref=home The MAGA-friendly judge overseeing Donald Trump’s trial for hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago has handed prosecutors a minor victory on Thursday. But she also refused to take the bait on a trap that could have very well led to her removal from the case. U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon on Thursday rejected the former president’s bid to dismiss the entire case on the faulty premise that the Department of Justice had no right to turn a bureaucratic spat over presidential records into a criminal case. But perhaps more importantly, Cannon refused to go down a legal path that DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith invited her to travel, with Cannon refusing to issue a separate court order on a related issue—a ruling that Smith could have formally appealed and potentially utilized to get Cannon knocked off the case.
  16. No. Criminal trial. Prosecution cannot appeal.
  17. Even as she ruled against Trump’s motion, Cannon’s three-page order also revealed her displeasure over Smith’s characterization of her order, suggesting this may not be the last such battle in the historic prosecution of a former president and the presumptive GOP presidential candidate. “What is surprising is just how quickly the judge herself has become the central focus of this case,” (Robert Mintz, a former federal prosecutor), said. “Turning the trial into a referendum on the judge may be effective from a public relations standpoint, but as a legal matter, it runs the risk of further politicizing the case and creating even more legal issues that could later backfire on the defense.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/04/cannon-trump-jack-smith-presidential-records-act/
  18. In my 20 years full-time in Thailand my observation: When you go to a dental clinic, they want to give you a lecture. Why are you doing this and not that? You are doing everything wrong. That was not my original work so how can I repair it? When you go to a hospital dental department ( 2 different hospitals now), they do the work you requested and that's it.
  19. Cannon shoots down Trump’s presidential records act claim The ruling may cool a looming standoff between special counsel Jack Smith and the judge April 4, 2024 at 3:04 p.m. EDT via Washington Post U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to have his charges of mishandling classified documents dismissed on the grounds that a federal records law protected him from prosecution. The judge also defended her handling of the issue, which had frustrated prosecutors. https://archive.is/S1Ex9#selection-673.0-673.304
  20. Is Trump's $175 million civil fraud bond valid in New York? Updated on: April 4, 2024 / 4:18 PM EDT / CBS News New York Attorney General Letitia James indicated in a filing Thursday, after the original publication of this story, that she, too, has concerns about the bond. Trump attorney Christopher Kise on Thursday alleged James' filing was "another witch hunt" and accused her office of "hiding out in silence" after an appellate court reduced the defendants' bond from more than $464 million to $175 million. "The Attorney General now seeks to stir up some equally baseless public quarrel in a desperate effort to regain relevance," Kise said. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-175-million-civil-fraud-bond-valid-new-york/ Letitia James questions insurance company that helped Trump cover $175 million bond PUBLISHED: 20:11 BST, 4 April 2024 | UPDATED: 22:02 BST, 4 April 2024 James gave Trump's lawyers an additional 10 days to 'justify' the bond, as she seeks assurances that the firm is able to fulfil its obligation to back it up or pay if Trump defaults if he were to lose his court appeal. Judge Arthur Engoron, who is overseeing the case, on Thursday afternoon set an April 24 hearing over the bond. Letitia James questions insurance company that helped Trump cover $175 million bond: New York AG gives ex-president's lawyers 10 days to prove firm is qualified to be involved in fraud case | Daily Mail Online
  21. No other newsgroup like NY Times or WashPo or CNN is running with that Newsweek story as in the OP so far.
  22. As I remember it, the gent said he thought they were the 2 Chinese tourists whom he had shooed away earlier.
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