Trump indicted with 37 counts of hush money scheme

[Magical Realist]

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-...J13rDfx-1A

Sounds like the piper will finally be paid!

"The indictment centers on allegations that Trump falsified internal business records at his private company while trying to cover up an effort to illegally influence the 2016 election by arranging payments that silenced claims potentially harmful to his candidacy. It includes 34 counts of fudging records related to checks Trump sent to his personal lawyer and problem-solver to reimburse him for his role in paying off a porn actor who said she had an extramarital sexual encounter with Trump years earlier.

“The defendant, Donald J. Trump, falsified New York business records in order to conceal an illegal conspiracy to undermine the integrity of the 2016 presidential election and other violations of election laws,” said Assistant District Attorney Christopher Conroy."

[confused2]

Seems like he was being blackmailed. Extramarital sexual encounters aren't illegal - it isn't like he was selling cocaine to schoolchildren. He might not have wanted his wife to see a large payment made to Eccentrica Gallumbits . Is there any chance of Eccentrica going to prison for blackmail? - I think not - she's just a pawn in a game. Trumped up charges. Stormzy in a D cup. No case to answer. I can't say I like the guy but come on America - if that's the president the people want then they should (must) be given a chance to vote for him.

I doubt if Trump would support a country on a continent far, far away. As a purely European conflict I suspect the war would rapidly spread beyond Ukraine as armies assembled on the border get drawn into the conflict either by accident or design.

[Syne]

Remember, being indicted is just being charged. Long way from any possible conviction, and they're trying the case in super-red Florida.
Don't let the manic eagerness to celebrate lead to a depressive spell later on.

[Magical Realist]

Sorry. I posted a previous indictment of Trump from back in April. There's apparently so much shit with Trump it gets confusing. Here's the most recent indictments:

"Former President Donald Trump has been indicted on seven counts in the special counsel’s classified documents probe, a stunning development that marks the first time a former president has faced federal charges.

Trump is facing a charge under the Espionage Act, his attorney Jim Trusty said on CNN Thursday, as well as charges of obstruction of justice, destruction or falsification of records, conspiracy and false statements.

The special counsel has been investigating Trump’s handling of classified documents that were brought to his Mar-a-Lago Florida resort after he left the White House in 2021, as well as possible obstruction of the investigation and government efforts to retrieve the material.

The former president wrote on Truth Social that he had been informed by the Justice Department he was indicted and that he was “summoned to appear at the Federal Courthouse in Miami on Tuesday, at 3 PM.”

“The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I have been Indicted, seemingly over the Boxes Hoax,” Trump wrote.

Trusty told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that Trump’s attorneys received a summons via email from the Justice Department Thursday listing the charges, but haven’t seen the indictment yet.

He called the Espionage Act charge “ludicrous.”

In a sign of how tightly held the special counsel kept word of the indictment, the US Secret Service and US Marshals did not get advance notice and were surprised by Trump’s announcement on social media, law enforcement officials said Thursday.

Law enforcement is now scrambling to prepare for the expected court appearance next week in Miami, and the Justice Department is moving additional resources there, officials said.

The special counsel and the Justice Department did not make any public statements Thursday, and a spokesman declined comment.

The federal indictment is the second time that Trump has been charged criminally this year. In April, the Manhattan district attorney charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business.

But the indictment from the special counsel marks a new and more perilous legal phase for a former president, who is running for president again in 2024 while facing criminal charges in two jurisdictions – and with two additional investigations into his conduct still underway.

The charges against Trump come just seven months since Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith as a special counsel after Trump announced he was running for president, in order to keep the investigation independent from the Biden Justice Department.

Now Trump will face federal charges from the special counsel at the same time that he is trying to unseat President Joe Biden in next year’s presidential election.

The White House declined to comment Thursday evening."

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/08/politics/...index.html

[Magical Realist]

Trump officially indicted on 37 felony counts. Lying sack of shit denied all of them. But prosecuters have it all on cellphone audio. Could get as much as a 100 years of prison. Wouldn't break my heart any.

[Syne]

Again, an indictment is just charges. Unless there's a plead deal, no one in their right mind just admits guilt before a trial.
But...no one said these leftist wet dreamers are in their right mind.

[Syne]

More perspective:

Since, traditionally, the defense doesn’t get a say, it’s pretty easy to get a grand jury to indict someone in most cases.

In fact, it’s so easy in most cases that a former New York state chief judge, Sol Wachtler, famously remarked that a prosecutor could persuade a grand jury to “indict a ham sandwich.”
- https://www.mymetmedia.com/indict-ham-sandwich/

But we all know leftists are fascists, so they will celebrate indicting people before their defense has even had a chance. The fascist left believe in mob justice.
It's vile, hateful, and absolutely un-democratic and un-American.

[Zinjanthropos]

I would think cell phone audio is about as good as UFO video evidence.