An Opinion Piece on the Trump Verdict. No Mercy.

[JoeB131]

 

[Kondor3]

Dems should enjoy this show victory while it lasts. Maybe this is the final straw on the camels back for Republicans to realize Dems will do anything to win, and we have to start playing by their rules.

No Mercy

Hor$e$hit... your Orange Baboon-God is being hammered because he is an amoral, ignorant, arrogant tyrant-in-the-making.

Hor$e$hit... your Orange Baboon-God is being hammered because he summoned, incited and aimed an Insurrectionist mob.

Hor$e$hit... your Orange Baboon-God is being hammered because he authored his Big Lie about the 2020 election.

Hor$e$hit... your Orange Baboon-God is being hammered because he thinks he is above the Constitution and The Law.

Hor$e$hit... your Orange Baboon-God is being hammered because he is an existential threat to American democracy.

Hor$e$hit... your Orange Baboon-God is being hammered because he thinks President-for-Life would be a good idea.

Hor$e$hit... your Orange Baboon-God is being hammered because he wants to be a Dictator on Day One of a new term.

Hor$e$hit... your Orange Baboon-God is being hammered because he is entirely unfit to hold high office in our Republic.

Hor$e$hit... your Orange Baboon-God is being hammered because he banged a porn star while his wife was pregnant.

Hor$e$hit... your Orange Baboon-God is being hammered because he hid his Hush-Money Payments illegally.

Your Boy stupidly gave Democrats the ammunition they needed to put him away - your Baboon is his own worst enemy.

Sane, honest, decent Americans know that you MAGAtts are lying your a$$e$ off and they will continue to call-out your lies.

 

[martybegan]

You are welcome to come and attempt to put me 6 feet under.

No action on my part needed. I rely on Karma.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

No action on my part needed. I rely on Karma.

Then I will live to be 150!

 

[Moonglow]

Dems should enjoy this show victory while it lasts. Maybe this is the final straw on the camels back for Republicans to realize Dems will do anything to win, and we have to start playing by their rules.

No Mercy

Loser criminal for a candidate that you defend is a loser

 

[martybegan]

No my tiny minded MAGAT, you can lie to you but you can't lie to me.



Your words sparkless.

A threat to their political power nimrod, not to the country.

 

[martybegan]

Scare a you. Not really. You & your MAGA rabble ain't going to do shit except open your wallets for the biggest criminal conman in history.

Trump.

That's some Romanov level thinking there.

 

[martybegan]

First it was lock up Hillary. Then it was impeach Biden. Both of which went nowhere and will go nowhere. The only person here being rightly convicted is Trump. Your mind just won't allow you to realize trump is a law breaker.

"rightly convicted"

LOL.

 

[martybegan]

fyi

Barr put pressure on SDNY, from proceeding with the federal cases against Trump.

what "pressure"?

 

[martybegan]

Hor$e$hit... your Orange Baboon-God is being hammered because he is an amoral, ignorant, arrogant tyrant-in-the-making.

Hor$e$hit... your Orange Baboon-God is being hammered because he summoned, incited and aimed an Insurrectionist mob.

Hor$e$hit... your Orange Baboon-God is being hammered because he authored his Big Lie about the 2020 election.

Hor$e$hit... your Orange Baboon-God is being hammered because he thinks he is above the Constitution and The Law.

Hor$e$hit... your Orange Baboon-God is being hammered because he is an existential threat to American democracy.

Hor$e$hit... your Orange Baboon-God is being hammered because he thinks President-for-Life would be a good idea.

Hor$e$hit... your Orange Baboon-God is being hammered because he wants to be a Dictator on Day One of a new term.

Hor$e$hit... your Orange Baboon-God is being hammered because he is entirely unfit to hold high office in our Republic.

Hor$e$hit... your Orange Baboon-God is being hammered because he banged a porn star while his wife was pregnant.

Hor$e$hit... your Orange Baboon-God is being hammered because he hid his Hush-Money Payments illegally.

Your Boy stupidly gave Democrats the ammunition they needed to put him away - your Baboon is his own worst enemy.

Sane, honest, decent Americans know that you MAGAtts are lying your a$$e$ off and they will continue to call-out your lies.

 

[rightwinger]

"rightly convicted"

LOL.

Trump has lost three jury trials in the last year and he has lost Bigly

His claims of being picked on, crooked judges and wrongful prosecution fall on deaf ears

Because juries look at evidence

 

[Care4all]

what "pressure"?

Were you not around? Y'all seem to always project on Democrats of what your side always does.....sad.... This is just one article on it....Google it! There are more instances.....

“Barr’s Guiding Principle Was to Protect Trump”: With Barr Out, New York Prosecutors Are Freer to Zero In On the President​

Now that Trump’s A.G. isn’t breathing down their necks, Southern District of New York prosecutors can gather evidence against, say, Rudy Giuliani without interference. “Everything depends on the facts and witnesses,” a former senior SDNY official says. “But certainly they are more likely to proceed without Barr in there.”

Barr will not be missed by most of the hundreds of nonpartisan career prosecutors inside the Department of Justice. Least of all, though, by the lawyers working for the Southern District of New York, whose jurisdiction covers most of Donald Trump’s hometown—and whose continuing probes of the president’s associates, including an investigation of Rudy Giuliani, are far less likely to be squashed. “Everything depends on the facts and witnesses in those cases,” a former senior SDNY official says. “But certainly they are more likely to proceed without Barr in there, who was just a disgrace. In every way.”

Barr—whose departure from the office of attorney general was announced on Monday after taking a Twitter battering from Trump—politicized nearly every corner of the Justice Department. His most prominent, and most effective, interference took place in Washington, whether he was preemptively and misleadingly spinning the findings of the Mueller report or intervening in the cases against Michael Flynn and Roger Stone. But his attempts to meddle in New York were unrelenting, an SDNY insider says—and the stakes were higher because the investigations threatened to come closer to the president.

Only a few of Barr’s moves to mess with SDNY cases have become public so far. The most glaring known episode was plenty bad. This past spring, after dodging impeachment, Trump purged a series of inspectors general. The SDNY had already sent the president’s previous personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to prison, and was now asking questions about his current one, Giuliani. One Friday in June, Barr abruptly summoned Geoffrey Berman, the head of the Southern District, to a meeting at the Pierre hotel. Barr suggested—wink, wink—that Berman accept a transfer or a new job, so that a New Jersey golfing buddy of Trump’s could be installed as U.S. attorney. When that nudge went nowhere, Barr told Berman that if he didn’t give up the job voluntarily, he would be fired. Berman stood firm. That night Barr issued a press release claiming Berman had quit. Not true, Berman said, and he wasn’t going anywhere. The next day Barr declared Trump had dismissed Berman and that Berman’s chief deputy, Audrey Strauss, would be taking over at SDNY.


Strauss has staunchly maintained the office’s independence. Yet Barr’s exit was eagerly anticipated at SDNY, even if he had waited until January 20 to leave, and even if Biden has yet to unveil his own nominee for attorney general. The conventional wisdom is that Biden’s A.G. will face fraught choices about whether to pursue Trump–connected cases. The solution should actually be fairly simple: leave it to the prosecutors in the field to handle. “For four years we’ve had an administration where politics was so injected into DOJ,” says Mimi Rocah, a Southern District alumnus and the district attorney-elect for Westchester County, just north of the city. “The only way out of that is to stop making decisions with political concerns in mind.”

“Look, whoever comes in as A.G., things are gonna change pretty damn quickly,” a former top New York federal prosecutor says. “A new leader will be half the battle in restoring the integrity of the department.”

Southern District veterans presume that the office has evaluated Trump–related cases on their merits all along—but they uniformly expect those merits to get a much fuller hearing soon. “I have no doubt that facts have driven the office’s investigations and its decisions the past four years,” says Glen Kopp, whose work as an assistant U.S. attorney at SDNY included a wide variety of fraud and money-laundering cases. “But if there are Trump cases, is it more likely they go forward? Yeah. And I think SDNY’s confidence in leadership at the top levels of Main Justice backing up whatever they do will change.”

CONTINUED:

âBarrâs Guiding Principle Was to Protect Trumpâ: With Barr Out, New York Prosecutors Are Freer to Zero In On the President

Now that Trump’s A.G. isn’t breathing down their necks, Southern District of New York prosecutors can gather evidence against, say, Rudy Giuliani without interference. “Everything depends on the facts and witnesses,” a former senior SDNY official says. “But certainly they are more likely to...

www.vanityfair.com

 

[martybegan]

Were you not around? Y'all seem to always project on Democrats of what your side always does.....sad.... This is just one article on it....Google it! There are more instances.....

“Barr’s Guiding Principle Was to Protect Trump”: With Barr Out, New York Prosecutors Are Freer to Zero In On the President​

Now that Trump’s A.G. isn’t breathing down their necks, Southern District of New York prosecutors can gather evidence against, say, Rudy Giuliani without interference. “Everything depends on the facts and witnesses,” a former senior SDNY official says. “But certainly they are more likely to proceed without Barr in there.”

Barr will not be missed by most of the hundreds of nonpartisan career prosecutors inside the Department of Justice. Least of all, though, by the lawyers working for the Southern District of New York, whose jurisdiction covers most of Donald Trump’s hometown—and whose continuing probes of the president’s associates, including an investigation of Rudy Giuliani, are far less likely to be squashed. “Everything depends on the facts and witnesses in those cases,” a former senior SDNY official says. “But certainly they are more likely to proceed without Barr in there, who was just a disgrace. In every way.”

Barr—whose departure from the office of attorney general was announced on Monday after taking a Twitter battering from Trump—politicized nearly every corner of the Justice Department. His most prominent, and most effective, interference took place in Washington, whether he was preemptively and misleadingly spinning the findings of the Mueller report or intervening in the cases against Michael Flynn and Roger Stone. But his attempts to meddle in New York were unrelenting, an SDNY insider says—and the stakes were higher because the investigations threatened to come closer to the president.

Only a few of Barr’s moves to mess with SDNY cases have become public so far. The most glaring known episode was plenty bad. This past spring, after dodging impeachment, Trump purged a series of inspectors general. The SDNY had already sent the president’s previous personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to prison, and was now asking questions about his current one, Giuliani. One Friday in June, Barr abruptly summoned Geoffrey Berman, the head of the Southern District, to a meeting at the Pierre hotel. Barr suggested—wink, wink—that Berman accept a transfer or a new job, so that a New Jersey golfing buddy of Trump’s could be installed as U.S. attorney. When that nudge went nowhere, Barr told Berman that if he didn’t give up the job voluntarily, he would be fired. Berman stood firm. That night Barr issued a press release claiming Berman had quit. Not true, Berman said, and he wasn’t going anywhere. The next day Barr declared Trump had dismissed Berman and that Berman’s chief deputy, Audrey Strauss, would be taking over at SDNY.


Strauss has staunchly maintained the office’s independence. Yet Barr’s exit was eagerly anticipated at SDNY, even if he had waited until January 20 to leave, and even if Biden has yet to unveil his own nominee for attorney general. The conventional wisdom is that Biden’s A.G. will face fraught choices about whether to pursue Trump–connected cases. The solution should actually be fairly simple: leave it to the prosecutors in the field to handle. “For four years we’ve had an administration where politics was so injected into DOJ,” says Mimi Rocah, a Southern District alumnus and the district attorney-elect for Westchester County, just north of the city. “The only way out of that is to stop making decisions with political concerns in mind.”

“Look, whoever comes in as A.G., things are gonna change pretty damn quickly,” a former top New York federal prosecutor says. “A new leader will be half the battle in restoring the integrity of the department.”

Southern District veterans presume that the office has evaluated Trump–related cases on their merits all along—but they uniformly expect those merits to get a much fuller hearing soon. “I have no doubt that facts have driven the office’s investigations and its decisions the past four years,” says Glen Kopp, whose work as an assistant U.S. attorney at SDNY included a wide variety of fraud and money-laundering cases. “But if there are Trump cases, is it more likely they go forward? Yeah. And I think SDNY’s confidence in leadership at the top levels of Main Justice backing up whatever they do will change.”

CONTINUED:

âBarrâs Guiding Principle Was to Protect Trumpâ: With Barr Out, New York Prosecutors Are Freer to Zero In On the President

Now that Trump’s A.G. isn’t breathing down their necks, Southern District of New York prosecutors can gather evidence against, say, Rudy Giuliani without interference. “Everything depends on the facts and witnesses,” a former senior SDNY official says. “But certainly they are more likely to...

www.vanityfair.com

As usual opinion parading as fact.


Vanity Fair?

 

[hadit]

The only thing that destroyed her life was Ken Starr's panty-sniffing investigation where he threatened her family and outed her to the country.

Lewinsky was hardly innocent, she had a history of going for older, married men, probably because she had daddy issues.

When she went to Washington, she told friends she was "earning her presidential kneepads".

Oh, that's right, "She wanted it" is only a bad thing to say when "she" is going after a democrat.

 

[Care4all]

what "pressure"?

More


The federal prosecutor overseeing the Southern District of New York at the time was Geoffrey Berman — a lifelong Republican, who worked on the Trump campaign and the Trump transition team, and who was chosen by Trump for the office. It was Berman who later wrote a book about his experiences, shedding light on what transpired in the Cohen case.

In fact, according to Berman, after his office secured Cohen’s guilty plea, officials from the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., started intervening in matters in New York City, effectively trying to make the Trump/Cohen mess go away.

Berman went so far as to claim that once Bill Barr became Trump’s attorney general, Barr “not only tried to kill the ongoing investigations, but — incredibly — suggested that Cohen’s conviction on campaign finance charges should be reversed.”
Berman’s office was told to “cease all investigative work” on the allegations until Barr and his team were satisfied that there was a legal basis to the campaign finance charges to which Cohen had already pleaded guilty. The prosecutor wondered at the time about whether the then-attorney general was trying to shield Trump from possible legal liabilities after he was out of office.
All of which is to say, Barr and his team directly intervened in an ongoing federal criminal investigation that implicated the then-president, who’d appointed Barr. As part of this intervention, Berman’s office was also directed to remove damaging references to Trump in court filings.
In case that weren’t enough, Trump’s Justice Department also directed Berman to investigate Democrats who’d committed no crimes. When the prosecutor resisted, Barr told the public that Berman had resigned. He hadn’t. Soon after, Trump fired him.

But while the then-attorney general and his team interfered in a case that implicated their boss, it had the effect of delaying local prosecutors' investigation because they deferred to their federal counterparts.
Eventually, Trump’s Justice Department quietly let it be known that it was no longer examining allegations in the Cohen case, and two weeks later, prosecutors in New York started issuing subpoenas.

Why is the former president’s case only coming to trial now? In part because the Trump administration politicized the legal process and perverted a federal investigation without cause.
The former president has the entire scandal backwards. He believes the real controversy is that the case wasn’t prosecuted sooner, when it reality, it would’ve been prosecuted sooner had partisans on his team not corrupted the process on his behalf.

MORE AT:

Why didn’t Trump’s trial start years earlier? Blame Bill Barr

Why are Donald Trump's alleged crimes from 2016 being prosecuted now? In part because of former Attorney General Bill Barr's actions.

www.msnbc.com

 

[Godboy]

An eye for an eye just makes the whole world blind.

The entire worlds history of justice is based on "an eye for an eye".

 

[Care4all]

what "pressure"?

Stanford Criminal Law Experts on Firing of Geoffrey Berman, U.S. Attorney for Southern District of New York | Stanford Law School

Late on Friday, June 19, reports that Attorney General William Barr had accepted the resignation of Geoffrey S. Berman, JD ’84, United States Attorn

law.stanford.edu

Trump and Barr’s Corruption of the Justice Department Was Worse Than We Knew

Trump demanded his enemies be charged, and they were.

nymag.com

Inside Barr’s Effort to Undermine Prosecutors in N.Y. (Published 2020)

The firing of the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan was foreshadowed by a disagreement over a case linked to President Trump.

www.nytimes.com

William Barr Turns DOJ Into Donald Trump’s Law Firm

By firing the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Barr’s effort to protect Trump further bulldozes the norms of the Department of Justice.

theintercept.com

 

[martybegan]

More


The federal prosecutor overseeing the Southern District of New York at the time was Geoffrey Berman — a lifelong Republican, who worked on the Trump campaign and the Trump transition team, and who was chosen by Trump for the office. It was Berman who later wrote a book about his experiences, shedding light on what transpired in the Cohen case.

In fact, according to Berman, after his office secured Cohen’s guilty plea, officials from the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., started intervening in matters in New York City, effectively trying to make the Trump/Cohen mess go away.

Berman went so far as to claim that once Bill Barr became Trump’s attorney general, Barr “not only tried to kill the ongoing investigations, but — incredibly — suggested that Cohen’s conviction on campaign finance charges should be reversed.”
Berman’s office was told to “cease all investigative work” on the allegations until Barr and his team were satisfied that there was a legal basis to the campaign finance charges to which Cohen had already pleaded guilty. The prosecutor wondered at the time about whether the then-attorney general was trying to shield Trump from possible legal liabilities after he was out of office.
All of which is to say, Barr and his team directly intervened in an ongoing federal criminal investigation that implicated the then-president, who’d appointed Barr. As part of this intervention, Berman’s office was also directed to remove damaging references to Trump in court filings.
In case that weren’t enough, Trump’s Justice Department also directed Berman to investigate Democrats who’d committed no crimes. When the prosecutor resisted, Barr told the public that Berman had resigned. He hadn’t. Soon after, Trump fired him.

But while the then-attorney general and his team interfered in a case that implicated their boss, it had the effect of delaying local prosecutors' investigation because they deferred to their federal counterparts.
Eventually, Trump’s Justice Department quietly let it be known that it was no longer examining allegations in the Cohen case, and two weeks later, prosecutors in New York started issuing subpoenas.

Why is the former president’s case only coming to trial now? In part because the Trump administration politicized the legal process and perverted a federal investigation without cause.
The former president has the entire scandal backwards. He believes the real controversy is that the case wasn’t prosecuted sooner, when it reality, it would’ve been prosecuted sooner had partisans on his team not corrupted the process on his behalf.

MORE AT:

Why didn’t Trump’s trial start years earlier? Blame Bill Barr

Why are Donald Trump's alleged crimes from 2016 being prosecuted now? In part because of former Attorney General Bill Barr's actions.

www.msnbc.com

More opinion.

 

[martybegan]

Stanford Criminal Law Experts on Firing of Geoffrey Berman, U.S. Attorney for Southern District of New York | Stanford Law School

Late on Friday, June 19, reports that Attorney General William Barr had accepted the resignation of Geoffrey S. Berman, JD ’84, United States Attorn

law.stanford.edu

Trump and Barr’s Corruption of the Justice Department Was Worse Than We Knew

Trump demanded his enemies be charged, and they were.

nymag.com

Inside Barr’s Effort to Undermine Prosecutors in N.Y. (Published 2020)

The firing of the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan was foreshadowed by a disagreement over a case linked to President Trump.

www.nytimes.com

William Barr Turns DOJ Into Donald Trump’s Law Firm

By firing the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Barr’s effort to protect Trump further bulldozes the norms of the Department of Justice.

theintercept.com

I heard you like opinions, so I've opinioned your opinion so now you can go opinion when you are opinioning.

 

[Toro]

Oh noes! No mercy from MAGA! What are we going to do?