Trump's Present and Future possible indictments

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Legal experts and former DOJ prosecutors are saying charges against the grifter-in-chief are imminent for his role in the January 6th insurrection. That was enough to trigger Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who went on an on-camera tirade after Trump broke the news that he received a "target letter" from Special Counsel Jack Smith. In this video, MSNBC’s Brian Tyler Cohen fact-checks MTG’s response and explains why Trump is finally “facing accountability.”

 

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A spokesman for Ducey told CNN that the former governor has been "responsive" to special counsel Jack Smith's team and "will do the right thing."


The news follows a July 1 report from The Washington Post outlining allegations that Trump tried to pressure Ducey to find evidence of fraudulent votes in order to declare Trump the true winner. The Post report cited a GOP donor who alleged Ducey told him earlier this year that he was surprised Smith's team had not inquired about phone calls he had with Trump and then-Vice President Mike Pence in 2020 concerning the election.

Ducey needn’t wait by the phone any longer. He appears to be in the mix now, which could spell more legal danger for Trump. Although he was largely loyal to Trump during his time as governor and vigorously supported Trump’s 2020 re-election bid, Ducey fell out of favor with the MAGA leader and his supporters after certifying Joe Biden's election victory in the state.

Trump repeatedly bashed Ducey on social media for his reluctance to aid in his alleged election scheme.

And in this memorable video clip from late November 2020, Ducey refused to answer a call he received as he was certifying Biden’s election win. The ringtone was “Hail to the Chief,” the tune Ducey set to alert him when he received calls from the White House.




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Trump legal woes heat up with ex-Arizona governor revelation

Doug Ducey has been cooperating with Jack Smith's 2020 election probe. That's not good news for Trump.

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Trump publicly threatens Special Counsel Jack Smith in menacing video as Jan. 6 indictment looms

The disgraced former president shared a video on his social media platform Thursday with a warning for his political opponents: “If you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before." This ominous message is eerily reminiscent of past warnings like, "Proud Boys – stand back and stand by," and "if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore," both of which preceded violence. While his enablers are almost certainly lining up to minimize this latest call to arms, his history of stoking violence is clear, and this is just the latest dangerous example.

‘If You F*ck Around With Us’: Trump Shares Ominous Clip Of Him Threatening Revenge

Trump shared the clip without context, but on Tuesday Trump made similar comments regarding Special Counsel Jack Smith.

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Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon finally ordered a trial date for charges outlined in the Mar-a-Lago stolen documents indictment Special Counsel Jack Smith issued last month. Set for May 2024, the trial isn’t as soon as the DOJ wanted, but it’s well before the disgraced former president hoped for, and her ruling is a complete rebuke of his preposterous attempt to punt the trial date well beyond the 2024 elections. If he's really lost a MAGA hack as nakedly partisan as Cannon, he's in trouble. We're not complaining.

Judge sets a trial date for next May in Trump's classified documents case in Florida

A federal judge in Florida has set a trial date for next May for former President Donald Trump in a case charging him with illegally retaining hundreds of classified documents.

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Federal prosecutors have announced new charges against Donald Trump for his hiding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home, alleging the former president tried to keep security camera footage from being reviewed by investigators.

The indictment alleges the former President told an employee to "delete security camera footage at the Mar-a-Lago Club to prevent the footage from being provided to a federal grand jury.”

The superseding indictment also charges two Trump aides, Carlos De Oliveira and Walt Nauta, with two new obstruction counts stemming from allegations that they attempted to delete surveillance video footage last summer at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club.

Trump pleaded not guilty in June to 37 criminal counts related to his handling of classified materials, after prosecutors said he repeatedly refused to return hundreds of documents containing classified information ranging from U.S. nuclear secrets to the nation's defense capabilities.

This new indictment adds a total of four charges to the earlier case. All three defendants are now charged with altering, destroying, mutilating or concealing an object, as well as a similar crime of corruptly altering destroying, mutilating or concealing a document or object.

New Charges Brought Against Trump

Federal prosecutors have announced new charges against Donald Trump for his hiding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home, alleging the former president tried to keep security camera footage from being reviewed by investigators. The indictment alleges the former President told an...

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Donald J. Trump and his organizations have been under investigation
for some years now.

This thread means to put into prospective all of these cases and follow them to wherever they may lead.

Let us start with an over view of all of those cases, and then deal with the most recent information.

Feel free to discuss anything one reads, whether one agrees with it or not, but in a civil way.

Trump court cases: A list of all current and pending legal cases on the ex-president's docket

Donald Trump is on a bad run, with massive losses against the New York attorney general and E. Jean Carroll. His first criminal trial has just begun.

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Oh boy bring it on

 

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Federal prosecutors have announced new charges against Donald Trump for his hiding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home, alleging the former president tried to keep security camera footage from being reviewed by investigators.

The indictment alleges the former President told an employee to "delete security camera footage at the Mar-a-Lago Club to prevent the footage from being provided to a federal grand jury.”

The superseding indictment also charges two Trump aides, Carlos De Oliveira and Walt Nauta, with two new obstruction counts stemming from allegations that they attempted to delete surveillance video footage last summer at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club.

Trump pleaded not guilty in June to 37 criminal counts related to his handling of classified materials, after prosecutors said he repeatedly refused to return hundreds of documents containing classified information ranging from U.S. nuclear secrets to the nation's defense capabilities.

This new indictment adds a total of four charges to the earlier case. All three defendants are now charged with altering, destroying, mutilating or concealing an object, as well as a similar crime of corruptly altering destroying, mutilating or concealing a document or object.

New Charges Brought Against Trump

Federal prosecutors have announced new charges against Donald Trump for his hiding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home, alleging the former president tried to keep security camera footage from being reviewed by investigators. The indictment alleges the former President told an...

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Nothing but harassment of the political opposition is going to happen. FYI when will senator Biden be indicted?

 

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Special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday brought additional charges against former President Donald Trump in the investigation into potential mishandling of classified documents after leaving the White House.

Smith also filed new charges against Trump aide Walt Nauta and added a new defendant, Mar-a-Lago maintenance employee Carlos De Oliveira, to the case.

Read the superseding indictment here:

Former President Donald Trump's second indictment, annotated

Read CNN's annotated analysis of the first-ever federal indictment of an ex-president. Trump is charged with a total of 40 counts, including 32 counts of willful retention of national defense information.

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Special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday brought additional charges against former President Donald Trump in the investigation into potential mishandling of classified documents after leaving the White House.

Smith also filed new charges against Trump aide Walt Nauta and added a new defendant, Mar-a-Lago maintenance employee Carlos De Oliveira, to the case.

Read the superseding indictment here:

Former President Donald Trump's second indictment, annotated

Read CNN's annotated analysis of the first-ever federal indictment of an ex-president. Trump is charged with a total of 40 counts, including 32 counts of willful retention of national defense information.

edition.cnn.com

I suspect smith will be filing charges against former senator Biden

 

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Part 1

After a long day of rumors something was coming, late in the day we got a superseding indictment in the Mar-a-Lago case. It includes both a new defendant and new charges. This, apparently, is what the grand jury continued to work on over the last few weeks.

Here’s what you need to know:

New Defendant: The new defendant is Carlos De Oliveira, 56, a resident of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. He, like co-defendant Walt Nauta, is a Trump employee. He was a valet at Mar-a-Lago until he became a property manager in January of 2022. It turns out that he lied to agents during an interview. Never a good idea.



His misplaced loyalty has landed him in the middle of the indictment, where he was added to the original conspiracy charge, along with Trump and Nauta. (Previously count 32, now count 33).

A Superseding Indictment

What you need to know

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Part 2

New Charges: Here is our cheat sheet from the original indictment. The superseding indictment adds four new charges. The first is a willful retention of documents charge brought against Donald Trump. There are two obstruction charges against all three defendants for trying to destroy video footage from security cameras after DOJ subpoenaed it. And there is a final count charging De Oliveira with lying to FBI agents during an interview.



Retention: The old indictment contained 31 counts alleging Trump illegally retained national defense information after leaving the presidency. The new indictment adds new count 32, which concerns the document Trump infamously waived around at his Bedminster golf course in New Jersey, in a meeting with a writer and a publisher for Mark Meadows’ forthcoming book. It is a top secret document that we’ve come to learn contained battle plans for Iran.

A sentence was added to paragraph 35 in the original complaint, to make clear that the incident being recounted in that section involves the document Trump is charged with in new count 32. The now-familiar tale actually begins in paragraph 33.

A Superseding Indictment

What you need to know

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Part 3

A Superseding Indictment

What you need to know

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Part 4

The final sentence is the new addition, “The document that TRUMP possessed and showed on July 21, 2021, is charged as Count 32 in this Superseding Indictment.” There was some confusion originally about whether this story involved a real document or whether it was more Trump braggadocio. Prosecutors subpoenaed the document from Trump, whose lawyers responded they were unable to find a document matching that description. But prosecutors have confirmed a real document was involved, and it seems likely given the date in new count 32, which alleges Trump possessed that document until January 17, 2022, around the date he returned 15 boxes of documents to the National Archives, that it was found there.

Why add this new charge? Some folks have speculated it might make it easier to get the audiotape of Trump’s conversation into evidence at trial. But I don’t think that’s the reason. Even if it’s not part of a charged count, under the rules of evidence, prosecutors can introduce evidence of other crimes or bad acts to prove intent, knowledge, absence of mistake, etc. The tape of Trump acknowledging he has classified material in his possession and couldn’t declassify it since he’s no longer president make this squarely admissible whether the document was charged or not.

The document was important to charge because it wasn’t “just” a document in a box in Trump’s ballroom or bathroom, it was a document he pulled out, waived around, identified, and put in view of multiple people who lacked a security clearance. Trump’s cavalier treatment of the Iran battle plan drives home how serious his crimes are, and it’s an important inclusion among the retention counts. It’s tough for a juror to look at this kind of evidence and refuse to vote to convict because it’s not a serious crime.

Moreover, Trump gave an interview after the first indictment was handed down, where he told Fox News Host Brett Baier it hadn’t really been a classified document. “There was no document,” he said. “That was a massive amount of papers,” and some additional nonsensical bluster. Now the government has him dead to rights, lying about it. Juries don’t like that kind of thing. All of this is designed to make the indictment strong, even in the face of a Trump-leaning juror.

Obstruction: The obstruction counts are the real eye-popper in the new version of the indictment. They are new counts 40 and 41, and they put Donald Trump squarely in the middle of efforts, laughably unsuccessful if the matter was any less serious, to destroy security video footage he wanted to keep out of the hands of the grand jury. The footage depicts movement of boxes with classified material and some of the acts of obstruction that are ultimately charged, so you can understand why Trump didn’t want DOJ to get its hands on it. Thanks to “Trump Employee 4,” a person with a moral compass and a backbone that few of the people Trump surrounds himself with ever seem to possess, Trump didn’t succeed. Employee 4 refused to destroy the video.

Next time someone suggests to you that Joe Biden did the same thing Donald Trump did and isn’t being prosecuted, remind them that Joe Biden not only voluntarily returned classified material in his possession, he never orchestrated a conspiracy with his employees to destroy security footage of his efforts to keep that material out of the government’s hands.

Employee 4 looks like a cooperating witness for the government—too much of the information contained in the indictment, especially the details of conversations, would need to come from him for that not to be the case.

A Superseding Indictment

What you need to know

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