Trump Trial
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Would somebody on Trump's team please go to the Sups for a writ of certiorari and get this resolved. As I heard yesterday, If Merchan grants the prosecution's request and defers until Trump is out of office, the NY appellate court can't hear the case until Trump is sentenced.
Article III Project Head Wants Accountability for ‘Criminal Conspiracy’ Against Trump
Article III Project founder and president Mike Davis emphasized that New York authorities’ postponing Donald Trump’s sentencing illustrates how political the whole case was from the start in exclusive comments to PJ Media.
Davis, a Republican legal expert, has repeatedly called out the judges, DOJ officials, and DAs involved in the many and various lawfare cases against Trump. Now, corrupt Judge Juan Merchan and Soros-backed Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg admitted that Trump’s sentencing in the case involving alleged “hush money” payouts and records falsification has been indefinitely delayed. Davis sees this as a vindication not only of Trump but of all those who consistently exposed the corrupt lawfare.
Davis stated, “The postponement of the sentencing in New York proves that this case was always about Democrat lawfare and election interference.” If the case were legitimate, why keep delaying the sentencing?
Davis added, “This is not new, but now the American public is seeing what we were proclaiming for years. Democrat operatives who brought cases like this one must face financial, legal, and political consequences for their criminal conspiracy against President Trump's rights.”
On Wednesday, Trump's legal team followed through, filing their letter with the court asserting that the case should be dismissed pursuant to the Constitution, the Presidential Transition Act of 1963, and the interests of justice and requesting leave to file a formal motion to dismiss to that effect.
In pertinent part, the letter reads:
Earlier this week, I suggested that Judge Merchan was trapped between a sentencing rock and a political hard place. He adroitly handled the political hot potato by tossing it to the future. CNN ran the story yesterday headlined, “Trump’s hush money sentencing is postponed indefinitely, judge says.” Dismayed Democrats immediately signaled distress.
The gist was that Judge Merchan has no intention of sentencing Trump before his Inauguration. So the earliest it could happen is after Trump leaves office, which means there won’t be any last-minute, ‘Hail Marx’ long-shot jail sentence to save the Democrats from the coming Trump Administration. It was surprising how many prominent Democrats came unglued, obviously hoping against hope and logic that Judge Merchan would somehow lock Trump up for years over a misdemeanor bookkeeping error.
For example, ranting Representative Adam Schiff (D-Ca.), called it “justice denied”:
MSNBC’s far-left legal commenter Joyce Alene (1 million followers) wailed that yesterday was a very sad day for her idea of the rule of law:
Trump’s team called it a “decisive win” for the President. At this point, all the judge plans to do is consider whether to dismiss Trump’s case entirely or put it on ice for four years. So that’s a wrap; absent some surprising development nobody saw coming, the Trump lawfare campaign has ground to an inglorious and ineffective halt.
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The gist was that Judge Merchan has no intention of sentencing Trump before his Inauguration. So the earliest it could happen is after Trump leaves office, which means there won’t be any last-minute, ‘Hail Marx’ long-shot jail sentence to save the Democrats from the coming Trump Administration. It was surprising how many prominent Democrats came unglued, obviously hoping against hope and logic that Judge Merchan would somehow lock Trump up for years over a misdemeanor bookkeeping error.
For example, ranting Representative Adam Schiff (D-Ca.), called it “justice denied”:
MSNBC’s far-left legal commenter Joyce Alene (1 million followers) wailed that yesterday was a very sad day for her idea of the rule of law:
Trump’s team called it a “decisive win” for the President. At this point, all the judge plans to do is consider whether to dismiss Trump’s case entirely or put it on ice for four years. So that’s a wrap; absent some surprising development nobody saw coming, the Trump lawfare campaign has ground to an inglorious and ineffective halt.
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Yesterday, the New York Times ran a story headlined, “Judge Upholds Trump’s Sentencing in Hush Money Case but Signals No Jail Time.” The short version is, Judge Juan Merchan entered an 18-page stinker of an order denying the Trump team’s latest motion to dismiss, but ended up almost apologetically advising that he doesn’t think he will sentence Trump to any jail time.
Judge Merchan oversaw the only criminal case against President Trump that got anywhere, the case fueling all the crazed “convicted felon” campaign rhetoric. Last year, in a legal first, a New York jury found President Trump guilty of the victimless crime of ‘falsifying’ his internal business records since his bookkeeper wrote “legal expenses” on checks made out to Trump’s lawyer.
But Judge Merchan has judiciously taken his time in sentencing the President-Elect. Until Trump is sentenced, he cannot truly be said to have been “convicted,” not really, which is driving Democrats batty. On the other hand, Trump’s appellate rights are limited until the Court issues what’s called a “final order,” defined as when the court has nothing further to do in a case.
Although Trump could have faced up to four years in prison, the judge realized the impracticality of imprisoning a President-Elect. So the court indulged in a little judicial baby-splitting. The order suggested that at a January 10th sentencing hearing, Judge Merchan would issue an “unconditional discharge,” meaning Trump would become a convicted felon but without any punishment, including incarceration, fines, or public service, so as to get everything wrapped before Trump is sworn in on January 20th.
Merchan wrote that a rare unconditional discharge “appears to be the most viable solution to ensure finality and allow defendant to pursue his appellate options.”
The Times speculated that President Trump might just accept the verdict and move on, but based on the President’s posts, he is not planning to take it lying down (nor should he) and appeals are sure to follow.
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U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Jan. 7 had ordered the department not to release the report until the 11th Circuit reviewed a motion by Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, Trump’s co-defendants in a federal case.
While prosecutors dropped charges against Trump following his November 2024 election win, they are still pursuing Nauta, a former Trump aide, and De Oliveira, a manager at Trump’s resort in Florida.
Nauta and De Oliveira say Smith should be fired and that his report should not be released to the public, given he was found by Cannon to be unconstitutionally appointed.
DOJ lawyers said in the new filing that whether Smith was unconstitutionally appointed is irrelevant because the issue at hand is how Garland handles Smith’s report. They also argued that Nauta and De Oliveira have no interest in part one, and do not have standing to block the publication of that part.
“There is also no valid basis for this Court to pretermit the Attorney General’s discretion with respect to Volume One,” they wrote.
Officials said that while part two of the report will not be made available to the public, a redacted version will be available for certain lawmakers to view in camera as long as the lawmakers agree to not publicly release any of the report’s contents.
“This limited disclosure will further the public interest in keeping congressional leadership apprised of a significant matter within the Department while safeguarding defendants’ interests,” they wrote.
Cannon’s order prohibited, pending resolution of the emergency motion from Nauta and De Oliveira by the appeals court, Smith, Garland, the DOJ, and all persons acting together with the parties from releasing, sharing, or transmitting the report or drafts of the report with any person outside of the DOJ. It did not bar Smith from transmitting the report to Garland.
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While prosecutors dropped charges against Trump following his November 2024 election win, they are still pursuing Nauta, a former Trump aide, and De Oliveira, a manager at Trump’s resort in Florida.
Nauta and De Oliveira say Smith should be fired and that his report should not be released to the public, given he was found by Cannon to be unconstitutionally appointed.
DOJ lawyers said in the new filing that whether Smith was unconstitutionally appointed is irrelevant because the issue at hand is how Garland handles Smith’s report. They also argued that Nauta and De Oliveira have no interest in part one, and do not have standing to block the publication of that part.
“There is also no valid basis for this Court to pretermit the Attorney General’s discretion with respect to Volume One,” they wrote.
Officials said that while part two of the report will not be made available to the public, a redacted version will be available for certain lawmakers to view in camera as long as the lawmakers agree to not publicly release any of the report’s contents.
“This limited disclosure will further the public interest in keeping congressional leadership apprised of a significant matter within the Department while safeguarding defendants’ interests,” they wrote.
Cannon’s order prohibited, pending resolution of the emergency motion from Nauta and De Oliveira by the appeals court, Smith, Garland, the DOJ, and all persons acting together with the parties from releasing, sharing, or transmitting the report or drafts of the report with any person outside of the DOJ. It did not bar Smith from transmitting the report to Garland.
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New York's highest court won't stop Trump's sentencing as prosecutors urge Supreme Court to stay out of fight
New York prosecutors have told multiple judges this week that they don't believe sentencing should be delayed.
"Notwithstanding defendant's past and upcoming service as President, his history, character, and condition — and especially his open disregard for the justice system — do not support dismissal," Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's lawyers wrote in a New York filing Thursday.
Prosecutors also urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday against intervention in the case.
"Defendant makes the unprecedented claim that the temporary presidential immunity he will possess in the future fully immunizes him now, weeks before he even takes the oath of office, from all state-court criminal process," they wrote. "This extraordinary immunity claim is unsupported by any decision from any court. It is axiomatic that there is only one President at a time."
Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts for falsifying business records related to a so-called "hush money" payment to an adult film star just before the 2016 presidential election. That payment was wired before his first presidency, but a unanimous jury concluded that Trump, while president, authorized a scheme to falsify the related records. Trump's lawyers have argued it was unconstitutional for the jury to be shown evidence and testimony from the years when Trump was in office.
The Biggest Part of the Trump's Hush Money Sentencing Flew Right Over the Heads of Liberals
The central part of this sentencing theater was to provide the liberal media with what they’ve been craving to say for years: Trump is a convicted felon. They want to say that endlessly during the inauguration in a couple of weeks. Feel free to say it as much as you’d like—this is America. It still doesn’t negate the fact that Trump won. He’s president, and he bulldozed the Democrats, their allies, and all the institutions liberals weaponized to stop him.
That’s another point that flies over the heads of these idiots. Even with the deck stacked against Trump heavily—the man was facing around 100 felony charges—he defeated them all. Also, this will end poorly because there will be an appeal, and Judge Merchan’s biased antics and other judicial hooliganism will be exposed.
The 'Trump is Hitler/he’s a threat to democracy' line didn’t work. Why do left-wingers think ‘he’s a convicted felon’ would ring any different? No one cares, and please—stop the holier-than-thou act. Democrats have a twice-elected man who was credibly accused of rape. Last time I checked, he'd likely win if Bill Clinton were eligible for a third term. So, stow it, weridos.
So, it’s a temporary moral coping exercise for the Left. That’s fine. They can have it. We got Congress and the White House.