#hush money

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Release the names.

America: for almost 20 years, unbeknownst to us, the tax payers paid out approximately $1 million dollars per year to SETTLE "nuisance claims" for our elected officials in the House of Representatives & in the Senate. Was your Senator on the list? What about your Representatives? Do you care? Why weren't we told that our tax payer dollars were being used to make hush money payments?

$20+ million dollars paid out to random congressional staffers etc and we have no idea who was paid or for what purpose.

Release the names!

Actress takes photo with billionaire celebrity at a golf tournament. A decade goes by and business man runs for POTUS. Actress is recruited to say she had a 1 night stand w/candidate but she'll shut up and go away for x amount of money. Billionaire settles the nuisance claim and now that he's running for POTUS again, corrupt DA and corrupt judge are running another kangaroo court in Manhattan to shut down his campaign.

#trump 2024 #law and order #hush money #nuisance claims #stop the cap 🧢 #kangaroo court #lawfare #election interference

[tomorrowusa]

« Donald Trump is the first former US president to be tried for paying hush money to an adult film star who said his penis is shaped like a mushroom. » —Jimmy Kimmel

Jimmy Kimmel on Monday also had a few words about Trump falling asleep in court.

But the best part of this segment was his focus on Trump's rally in Pennsylvania last Saturday.

After watching that, I think that nobody this year should be granted a high school diploma without first transcribing 5 minutes of Trump speaking at a rally. New voters need to experience Trump's total incoherence in a concrete way.

BTW: While I miss the Midwest, one thing that makes me happy to be in New York right now is this...

That's the top of Page 1 of the 34 count indictment against Trump in the hush money case. It's a great feeling to be one of the "People of the State of New York" in whose name this prosecution was brought about. Eat your heart out, Colorado!

#jimmy kimmel #donald trump #dozy donny #trump falls asleep in court #hush money #toad #stormy daniels #trump's incoherence #battle of gettysburg #trump rally in shnecksville #election 2024 #vote blue no matter who #Youtube

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #news #twitter #tweet #republicans #conservatives #donald trump #gop #indictment #trump scandals #john fugelsang #@victorshi2020 #hush money #campaign finance law #stormy daniels #classified documents probe #capitol riot investigation #georgia election investigation #e. jean carroll #letitia james #alvin bragg #fani willis #2023

[batboyblog]

link

#Trump #grand jury #Supernatural meme #news #politics #New York #hush money #stormy daniels #Alvin Bragg #donald trump

[perseuspixl]

The man who rails against Biden as sleepy Joe ... #SleepyDon

#republicans #gop #usa #america #trump #donald trump #democrats #activism #us politics #president biden #joe biden #maga cult #stormy daniels #hush money #sleepy don #SleepyDon

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

😂

#republican assholes #traitor trump #crooked donald #hush money #traitor #maga morons #never trump #Michael cohen #stormy daniels

[onenakedfarmer]

Live from the courtroom.

Jesus Fucking Christ.

#Donnie D-Cups #Fuckstick von Clownface #hush money #MAGA #MAGAts #GOP #criminal trial #election interference #campaign fraud #lock him up #Trump's Christian Army

[sbrown82]

I woke up in such a good mood this morning…

Trump’s hush money criminal trial begins today!!!

#donald trump #criminal trial #nyc #hush money #stormy daniels

[tomorrowusa]

The Donald Trump hush money trial starts today in NYC.

Jury selection is the first order of business. In normal trials that may take a day or two. With Trump's legal foot-dragging, that could go into weeks.

There had been some doubts about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's approach to this case. There is some new ground here. But Slate's Mark Joseph Stern, an attorney who initially had some reservations about the prosecution, is now "fully onboard" with it.

Over the past year, though, I have realized that my initial doubts about Bragg’s indictment were misplaced. It now seems clear that Trump’s New York trial, slated to begin this week, will be the former president’s only criminal trial before the November election. The other three strong indictments against him in other jurisdictions have unfortunately been delayed by a corrupt judge, a foot-dragging Supreme Court, and a district attorney’s questionable conduct in an already complex case. This, combined with Bragg’s excellent pretrial briefing, has substantially strengthened the case for this prosecution. It is important to American democracy that Trump be forced to defend at least some of his alleged criminal conduct before a jury of his peers in advance of Election Day. [ ... ] Shortly before the 2020 election, Trump wanted to kill a story about his alleged affair with Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress. So he allegedly directed his longtime fixer Michael Cohen to pay off Daniels, through a shell company, for her silence. Afterward, Trump funneled $420,000 to Cohen in installments. But he allegedly concealed the payments by listing them as legal expenses for a retainer that did not exist. Last year, I was uncertain whether this scheme, while sordid, rose to the level of a felony offense. I am now convinced that, if proved that he took these actions, it surely does. The falsification of business records is, by itself, a misdemeanor under New York law, but it’s a felony when it’s done with the “intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.” In his indictment, Bragg claims that Trump lied about the payments with the intent to violate election law, which is what elevates the crime to a felony. Initially, I was suspicious of this theory; what election law, exactly, was the former president attempting to violate? The district attorney’s initial statement of facts was hazy on this crucial point, raising the possibility that he couldn’t tie the underlying fraud to a state or federal statute. Turns out he could. Bragg has argued, convincingly, that the former president intended to violate at least two election laws—one state, one federal. First, Bragg asserted that Trump and Cohen ran afoul of the Federal Election Campaign Act by making unlawful campaign contributions (in the form of a payoff) at the direction of a candidate (that is, Trump).

As a criminal defendant, Trump has to be in court for the trial. And except for holidays, court will be in session four days a week.

So Trump will be in Lower Manhattan quite a bit for the next couple of months. The New York County (Manhattan) Courthouse is at 100 Centre Street. And he owns a major property at 40 Wall Street (modestly called The Trump Building) where he might occasionally be seen. Google Maps puts the walking distance between the two locations at 0.8 miles (1.28 km). So if you're tempted to exercise your First Amendment right to express your opinions to Trump...

#new york #donald trump #hush money #trump's legal problems #alvin bragg #stormy daniels #michael cohen #falsification of business records #cover-up #federal election campaign act #lower manhattan #mark joseph stern #lock him up #election 2024 #vote blue no matter who

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #news #republicans #conservatives #gop #donald trump #gov. ron desantis #indictment #Florida #new york #hush money #alvin bragg #elie mystal #twitter #tweet #ron filipkowski #2023

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

One of the funniest subplots in the Donald Trump Indictment Show—which centers on the hush money payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016—involves the multiple reports that, after predicting to his followers that he would be arrested on March 21, the ex-president and his allies came to believe he was in the clear.

Trump, The Washington Post reported late Thursday, “had grown cautiously optimistic” in recent days, after “advisers had counseled him that a possible indictment by a Manhattan grand jury…would not come for some time—if at all.” The former president, the outlet noted, was apparently so unconcerned about the prospect of being charged that he’d “even begun joking about ‘golden handcuffs,’” which is probably not something one does if one thinks there’s a legitimate possibility they might be indicted, convicted, and sentenced to time in prison. “It was a surprise to everybody,” David Urban, a longtime Trump adviser, told the Post, which noted that “some of his lawyers had been preparing to take a few days off.” Following the indictment, The New York Times similarly reported that “Trump and his aides were caught off guard by the timing, believing that any action by the grand jury was still weeks away and might not occur at all.” The paper of record noted that Trump had recently been “telling nearly anyone that he was in a good mood and that he believed the case against him by Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, had fallen apart.”

Of course, the biggest indication that Trump indeed believed he’d outrun Bragg? His taking to Truth Social on Wednesday to write: “I HAVE GAINED SUCH RESPECT FOR THIS GRAND JURY, & PERHAPS EVEN THE GRAND JURY SYSTEM AS A WHOLE…. THE GRAND JURY IS SAYING, HOLD ON, WE ARE NOT A RUBBER STAMP, WHICH MOST GRAND JURIES ARE BRANDED AS BEING, WE ARE NOT GOING TO VOTE AGAINST A PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE OR AGAINST LARGE NUMBERS OF LEGAL SCHOLARS ALL SAYING THERE IS NO CASE HERE.” Sure, that could have been an unabashed attempt to sway the jurors through flattery—but, in retrospect, those very much sound like the words of a man who was extremely confident he was not going to be indicted. “Such respect”! “The grand jury system as a whole”! “The grand jury is saying, hold on”! Do you think he still stands by these statements? If there were ever a time for the internet-ism “ROTFLMAO,” it would be now.

In related news, according to the Times, Trump was less focused on “the legal consequences” of the indictment Thursday than “the political implications.” Trump previously said he would not drop out of the 2024 presidential race if charged, boldly claiming that being indicted might actually help his chances of making it back to the White House. One adviser told the Post that the ex-president and current presidential candidate is planning to “milk [the indictment] for all it’s worth politically.” And while Trump has reportedly raised millions since he first claimed he’d be arrested earlier this month, it does not appear that people are reacting exactly as he had hoped.

Per the Post:

"The causeway that leads to Mar-a-Lago has long been a rally spot for Trump supporters, especially during his presidency, when they would regularly gather to cheer on his motorcade. But as the sun set along the causeway Thursday, more people were fishing for sand perch and croaker than had shown up to support the former president. Shortly before 8 p.m., only a half dozen Trump supporters had amassed in their usual spot."

Meanwhile, according to the Times, on Thursday, “a large group of former Trump Organization employees was quietly cheering the latest developments via text messages.”

#us politics #news #donald trump #republicans #conservatives #gop #2023 #vanity fair #indictments #hush money #stormy daniels #alvin bragg #mar a largo #truth social #the washington post #the new york times #David Urban #manhattan grand jury

[memenewsdotcom]

#DonaldTrump surrenders to NY authorities

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#America #business #Donald Trump #fraud #government #hush money #meme #memes #new york #news #politics #stormy daniels #trump #united states

[aunti-christ-ine]

#tRUmp #hush money #trump trial #gag order #contempt #stormy daniels #michael cohen #tRUmp (the RU stands for RUssia) #lock him up!

[trump666traitor]

#stormy #hush money #barron trump #lock him up

[onenakedfarmer]

Donald Trump: "The Democrats say, 'Please don't call them animals. They're humans.' I said, 'No, they're not humans, they're not humans, they're animals." (Green Bay, Wisconsin, April 2, 2024)

The Bible: "But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God." (Leviticus 19:34, KJV)

#Fuckstick von Clownface #MAGAts #hush money #GOP #Trump's Christian Army #Donnie D-Cups #MAGA #Leviticus #Leviticus 19:34 #immigrants #election fraud #christians #christian beliefs #Bible verses Christians reject