The Donald Trump Score Card

I suspect that even if Trump is convicted of a felony and sentenced to jail time, his lawyers will be able to appeal while he remains out of jail until after 2024 and if we have a Republican president then, that Republican president will pardon Trump for all crimes without Trump ever having to spend a single day behind bars.

 

Scary

 

If Donald Duck is found guilty, republicans will demand he be given a pardon, but you can keep cheering for the good guys who, somehow, never do seem to throw him in jail. Oooops! Another one got away!

 

He did. . . .

 

Trump offered a pardon to Bundy of the Oregon Bird Sanctuary Occupation fame. Now two farmers who are somehow connected to Bundy have bought land and shut off water to an irrigation ditch. I don't know all the details but it sounds like another sage brush rebellion fiasco. Maybe they will offer Trump sanctuary in their new White Guys Only Nations.

 

Trump-tanic. Now that's funny...

Do they take orange, too?

 

Best news I've heard in several years. News reports by former Federal prosecutors say a grand jury isn't seated unless prosecutors in this case HAVE something solid to present to those grand jurors. AND ........ the former prosecutors said this isn't a civil matter - but a CRIMINAL matter.

 

Anyone thinking Russia with his buddy Putin?? Putin has something on Trump - maybe the rumored "pee-pee tapes". Why else would Trump say NOTHING about Russia's moving into Crimea, Ukraine, siding with Syria's dictator Bashir Al-Assad & supplying military troops / weapons to murder Syrian civilians, and interfering in U.S. elections??? NO former president of either party would remain silent like lying traitor Trump.

 

This is why the Presidential pardon law needs to be re-written so that NO PRESIDENT can pardon someone convicted of a federal crime - and especially a crime of a treasonous / seditious / insurrectionist nature.

If "No one is above the law" .................... how can a Presidential pardon exist that lets convicted federal felons go scot free?? It creates situations where ..........."some people ARE above the law." This should NEVER happen with any & all political parties.

 

Russia is an option. Maybe he'll spend summers there and winters in Saudi Arabia or Indonesia. There are a lot of choices when you have other people's money to spend.

 

This has got to make the Republicans cave in or look like shit!
Mother of deceased Capitol Police officer presses GOP senators to back Jan. 6 commission - POLITICO

 

They will prefer to look like shit...

 

The GOP is concerned about its midterm elections.


Mother of deceased Capitol Police officer presses GOP senators to back Jan. 6 commission

excerpt:

"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has warned his members behind closed doors that the release of the commission’s findings could drag into the height of the 2022 election cycle, when both the Senate and House majorities are up for grabs. Former President Donald Trump has also come out swinging against the commission and slammed the House Republicans who voted for it.

But Republicans are facing mounting political pressure, including from some in the law enforcement community, to get behind the proposed commission. D.C. Police officer Michael Fanone, who was severely injured on the job while responding to the Jan. 6 attack, has been seeking a meeting with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

Last week, an anonymous and unsigned statement was released on Capitol Police letterhead and said to be authored by multiple officers on the force, delivering a rare and scathing public rebuke of top Republicans for opposing the commission bill.

“On Jan 6th, where some officers served their last day in US Capitol Police uniform, and not by choice, we would hope that Members whom we took an oath to protect, would at the very minimum support an investigation to get to the bottom of EVERYONE responsible and hold them 100 percent accountable no matter the title of position they hold or held,” reads the letter, which was not written or issued formally by the department."

 

The GOP candidates can do their usual political grandstanding for the 2022 election by using a back drop of police officers standing on risers behind them, like Trump did at the White House, raving about how much they supposedly care about the police.

 

Trump's rioters can complain that police officer Fanone deliberately put his face in the way of their pepper spray, put his neck in the way of their taser, and that he rammed his body up against those American flagpoles of those peaceful rioters.

They can also say that three police officers put their heads in the way of the fire extinguisher that a retired firefighter threw at them from the deck above them. How dare those police officers get in the way of a peaceful flying fire extinguisher.

Rioter Copeland, who was arrested and is still in jail, said the equivalent. He contended that police were attacking the rioters with the bicycle stands on the Capitol breached by the rioters who feel that they had full right to go into the Capitol however they wanted.

 

Enemies of the nation, but only if Trump lost the election.

 

A blogger made a similar statement about Sicknick and two other police officers being struck by pepper spray by the rioters. He claimed a police officer nearby fired pepper spray and that the wind blew it into the faces of the officers.

The attorney for the rioter who sprayed Sicknick and other officers admitted that he sprayed the officers. The attorney made statements that implied that his client was acting in self-defense to actions by the police.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...umps-case-explained/?variant=116ae929826d1fd3

excerpt:

"Instead, a grand jury is convened as a tool for prosecutors to bring an indictment against a defendant — and in this case, it would seem Vance has evidence of a crime against Trump, someone close to him or his company. Prosecutors don’t usually move investigations to the grand jury stage unless they have compelling evidence of a crime.

It’s a process that generally favors prosecutors because jurors hear only what the prosecutor wants them to. There is no cross-examination by defense lawyers, no mitigating factors presented — and innocence or guilt is ultimately determined in trial court. And the secrecy of the process protects prosecutors, too, by taking the decision to charge someone out of their hands.

While Trump says the grand jury investigation is a political attack, the whole point of a grand jury is to take politics out of the process. The grand jury process makes indictments the decision of a jury of citizens, rather than prosecutors themselves. It’s also done behind closed doors; jurors are sworn to secrecy, witnesses can make statements to the jury without fear of retaliation from the party being investigated, and if no charges are brought, in theory, the reputation of the person being investigated is protected because the proceedings are never made public, and jurors have taken an oath not to talk about them."

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...umps-case-explained/?variant=116ae929826d1fd3

excerpt:

"In this case, though, the world is now aware of the grand jury. And this isn’t a regular grand jury; it’s a special grand jury. That means it will convene three days a week for six months — far longer than a normal grand jury in New York, which usually serves for a period ranging from two weeks to three months.

In New York, a grand jury comprises at least 23 citizens; at least 16 have to be present to consider charges, and it takes 12 jurors to formally charge someone with a crime.

It can be a long, boring and tiring process for jurors, who often spend long hours in the jury room and can’t talk about the proceedings anywhere else. In most cases, electronic devices aren’t allowed — so no surfing Twitter.

The jury is allowed to ask questions. Legal questions are directed at the presiding judge or the prosecutor. But the jury can also question witnesses, usually by submitting queries to the prosecutor, who makes sure they are “relevant and legally proper,” according to the New York grand juror’s handbook."