“The language in Smith’s new court filing is unlike anything I’ve seen (in federal court) in my 30 years of prosecuting criminal cases. I’ve never seen such a direct criticism and rebuke by prosecutor of a federal judge, coupled with the threat of an appeal (writ of mandamus). It’s both extraordinary and absolutely necessary, as Judge Cannon is an impediment to the due administration of justice.
I am assuming that she is either under the Federalist Society thumb since she is a member, or her hubby is ruling from home, or she is afraid of the consequences in her social circle (of Treacherous-treasonous-tantruming-traitor-Trump supporters), and the howling mobs that support him through violence which she does not want to be a victim of. I am assuming she hopes the 11th circuit steps in and kicks her off the case and saves her butt. But then again, it is probably because she is bought and paid for by someone. Of course, that will drag it out some more because any new judge will have to get up to speed.
No, that is exactly what it sounds like. I have the feeling that the judge is digging herself into a hole though. We'll see. Trump's motion is so absurd that you have to question her approach, which delays the trial.
Both Joyce Vance and Jay Kuo speak to it yesterday and today. They are not in agreement on how to proceed. Joyce Vance seems to think Jack Smith is on the right track. Jay Kuo thinks it is not so straightforward.
The upside is that, unlike Thomas and Kavanaugh, she DOES have people that she has to answer to, and they've shown that they are willing to jerk her leash. She's perilously close to losing her place on this trial, and perhaps her place in the judiciary.
How much more obvious can this be! Cannon is either incompetent ,or a “blatantly biased for Trump Judge” . An Appeal should be filed immediately !The ABA should be looking at her qualifications to be a member,never mind a sitting Judge!
They've got that Trump Derangement Syndrome backward. It is they who are guilty of Trump Derangement Syndrome. They've coupled his derangement with their own derangement.
Right, rationalization is a demanding overlord, and MAGAts who used to value knowledge and democratic process are digging deep into that rationalization tool box right now. Projection? check. Gas light? double check. The forces that they must summon to overcome this type of cognitive dissonance must be difficult to sustain.
I hope they become more and more difficult to sustain. And by the way, whatever the hell happened to fatigue. Remember how we were once upon a time able to count on presidential fatigue, anger fatigue, idiot fatigue, and there'd be just a general change that would quietly but suddenly and completely wave across the crowd and everybody was just done. Trump has been able to keep that rage thing going for far, far too long.
She actually was rated Qualified but there are three possible ratings…Unqualified, Qualified, and Well Qualified. She was only rated Qualified, most likely because she was barely qualified. She only participated in four criminal jury trials - two as lead counsel and two as associate counsel. One of those criminal trials was for a man who threw a chair at the federal prosecutor when he was found guilty. All of the other cases were resolved with plea deals. The same with the trials she has presided over as a judge. They were mostly for undocumented immigrants who had reentered the United States. The cases at most had a sentence of 1 1/2 years. She is in no way experienced enough or qualified to handle this case.
What a lovely qualification for an appointment unqualified as a qualification Is ,1984 reasoning is now the quality of qualification for qualified!🤪😵💫🥴
And it is certainly high time. All those hopes some expressed after she caught the case for real dashed over and over and deteriorating by the day. Two of her clerks with experience quit. Looks like she's winging things with amateurs to match her amateurishness now. Mandamus now, please. Let's do it. She needs to go and she needs to be off any bench anywhere except a park bench at Mar a Lago.
Absolutely, although so much of the Federal process is political it did use to be more understanding of actual law. My cousin ran the office while appointees were being held-up under Ed Meese. Another GOP tool from back in the day.
Republicans have always been master connivers and certainly behind the scenes while they're out there preaching all their bs personal responsibility. NO, it's not that. It's what can you do for me and are you one of us? Dems don't fight so they don't ever really believe this is being done to them. Well, guys, better wake up for good now. With this bunch you can't ever ever think these people ever mean well for you, especially if you're a Democrat. That thing of turning the other cheek is something they love, it means they get to slap the crap out of both cheeks.
You totally have their number. When Kerry gave in," for the good of the country" per his Presidential election that was IT for me. They never do anything "good" for the country. At least, not any more. Like you, those gentlemen politics-that shit is over.
But I do enjoy when they just up and quit. That is at least an honest move!
We have been taken to the cleaners-AGAIN!!!!! WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO TO PUT AN END TO THIS SHIT? HOW STUPID DOES TRUMPSHIT THINK WE ARE??? THIS HAPPENS OVER SND OVER. SINCE JANUARY 6!! I SMELL A LOT OF SHIT IN HIGH PLACES.
Lots needs to be changed for sure. But right now, getting out the vote in swing states and getting out a massive vote all over the country and vote for ALL the positions. House, Senate, local and state.
Only thing I'll disagree with you about, "he knew he". He doesn't know anything. He goes on his gut. He doesn't know how government works, he doesn't know much of anything except cheating, grifting, lying, stealing and meanness and cruelty. He's cruel because not too far deep down, he really knows he's nothing. So all the adulation is like a drug for him. He can bury all that fear about being nothing because somebody thinks he really is something. I do too but it's really bad what I think.
I'm with you, except...I don't think he has a gut. not sure what the hell he goes by, but it has seemed to work for him his entire pitiful life. END THIS NIGHTMARE Jack Smith.
This is my take on that. He has been doing this all his life. He had a monster of a father who was successful in expunging humanity from DJ but not one of his brothers, Mary Trump's father who died of alcoholism, gee, wonder why. I think that was her father. And Trump was taught that the worst thing in the world was being weak and being a loser. His father said all that. And he's probably always known he was a loser and all this adulation he requires, it's the only thing that gives him a shot at being Not A Loser because idiots like him. So this is like an addict. He's always out there looking for his fix and his base is his stash. He will never not go to his stash. No matter how repulsive, how disgusting and how reprehensible. He has been without empathy, sympathy and conscience all of his life and it's only gotten worse. He always gets rescued. He was done and washed up when The Apprentice came along. And it just kept this monster going. Otherwise, he'd be a tiny small psychotic, psychopathic, sociopathic blob sitting in his fake gold properties blowing smoke up his own ass because nobody else would take him seriously for 2 flash-by seconds. He represents the sickness endemic in the U.S. We really need to find a way to crush this.
Couldn't agree more. That's why I keep donating to the Democratic election campaign so we can get out the vote. This shit has to end. Once this election is over, hopefully I will NEVER hear that name again.
Brace yourself. Last time we said that the bastard got in office and they are setting up all sorts of challenges to the next election if you believe the back story and I'm afraid I do. Every time I've thought something would bring him down, it hasn't. The only real comfort right now is that I don't have to live his life. Can you imagine being trapped in being Donald Trump? We know what a nice life is. he only knows fear, revenge, cruelty, hate. Insecurity. He's a mass of horrors.
I disagree. Trump was schooled on the legal system from Roy Cohn, who also was a Federal attorney. He took that work experience to heart when his business was defending criminals. And Trump was a good student of his. But in the end, he "forgot" who Cohn was when he was no longer useful. He is not an intellectual but he is clever and devious. And he knows how to work the system.
Little story after it was clear Cohn was dying of AIDS, Trump dropped him and of course never one word of sympathy or anything human. And Cohn, we all agree I'm sure, a truly hideous monster himself, said of Donald, "He has ice water running through his veins." And that has been proven over and over.
Amen. Having a retired Federal Magistrate Judge in my family that prior to investiture, was a Federal Prosecutor, I can say for certain not all Federal Judges are created equal. And this buffoon needs to go back to waiting tables at the local IHOP or whatever other job she is also likely unqualified to do. Sheesh, one can see why Trump left NY where they still practice law to a sleazy swamp he is more comfortable wallowing in.
On Cannon? She is skating on thin ice playing around while the paper stacks up. Will she get removed? Will the 11th Circuit do more than show her "findinds" bs,? Who knows but she may think she is playing a winning hand only to get removed from the case. She should be removed from the bench but that happens very rarely.
The lack of immediate and natural consequences for the orange fuckface and all his cronies are staggering. Meanwhile, I walk around terrified that I might have made an error on my taxes. The list of assholes, like Cannon, is so long I can’t remember everyone who belongs on it…and who to put at the very top right under the wanna be demented dictator? I keep begging the friendly universe to turn this upside down world right side up again. Every single day that the former guy is alive is another day of massive bullshit and crap piling high. May the 11th circuit court make something stop! May the pro-choice people come out in droves and make it stop! May Alvin Bragg see his day prosecuting and winning against the fuckface! Give us something to hold onto.
And make it quicker already damn it. Wannabe Emperor Fucknuts and his legal team have worked the Justice system long enough with all of their usual endless stall tactics. A stroke of luck could lead to a conviction or two from the upcoming NY trial that starts this month. Sure, his assholiness will appeal until the last plate of catsup has hit the walls but those convictions would stand out in the minds of more voters and perhaps, put him closer to the deserving new residence that scares the living hell out of him.
Your comment resonated with me! I made a mistake on my taxes years ago, they came after me right away with penalties and interest and threats of wage garnishment. This was all due to a math error that I made. Good grief! We would all be sitting in the slammer if we had committed one tiny error, but this dude walks around free as fuck!
Trump, his Bible and his God – A stand-up comics dream
“Donald Trump partnered with Lee Greenwood to sell a $60 special edition Bible that includes the Constitution, the lyrics to Greenwood’s ‘God Bless the USA’ and I assume God’s letter of resignation,”
“This Bible is mostly the same, but Trump’s version ends with Jesus’ disciples storming Jerusalem to overturn the results of the crucifixion.”
“Trump has “many Bibles” because each time he holds one up it burst into flame.” Hallelujah
The Lord said: “I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thine traitorous orange flesh and thou shalt be cut off from the earth. And it was good.”
“May the gates of hell open and swallow him, his entire family of grifters and every spineless republican who enabled him. Amen.”
Please add former Ohio senator rob portman to the list of those who could and should have voted to convict this monster, but would not do so. portman’s cowardice and avarice precluded him from performing his duty to America and his Ohio constituents. Cluck, cluck you shameful coward (with apology for the fowl epithet).
"The Deluxe Second Amendment Edition includes a special cut-out section from those pesky first four chapters of The New Testament that will perfectly store a Smith and Wesson .44 caliber handgun (not included with purchase)"
Wonder how old Lee feels about Beyonce's "country" album blowing through the roof. LOL. Country and Western is another cult and they do not like outsiders coming onto their terrain. I'm just chuckling away. Qualifier: I like an awful lot of country and western.
I found this with a quick search, so not sure if he will give Beyonce space or not.? "To get into the patriotic spirit, check out Beyoncé’s passionate performance of Lee Greenwood’s smash country hit, “God Bless the USA” at the Macy’s 4th of July celebration from 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnCNHFg9y1Q
The evil one wants to federalize state and local police. Think about that, every policeman in this country reporting to trump. Just another threat or could he employ his own SS? This quote encapsulates that possibility.
“First, they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist, then they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.” German pastor Martin Niemöller, who openly spoke about his own early complicity in Nazism and his eventual change of heart. His powerful words about guilt and responsibility still resonate today.
The defense arguments here are maddening. A claim that the specific content of each document stolen is important for jurors to consider is like the defense attorney for a bank robber questioning the real value of paper currency.
The theoretical and abstract arguments are pure distraction to give the rubes of Trump's base, right-wing media, and the "in-the-bag" Judge Cannon a fig-leaf to shield the tiny mushroom from due scrutiny.
The fact is that these documents were legally classified, Trump took them without the authority to do so, and when asked to give them back he undertook a clear pattern of obstruction. All of these are obvious and clear-cut crimes that need to be punished.
I do not care if Trump took a coaster from the White House, he broke the law. The whole classified discussion is a convenient distraction. Ooooh. Let's spend cycles arguing about super duper classified. Hmmm. It's only classified if I say it is! I can declassify something by hand-waving or thinking it...For the love of God, the argument should be: "You took stuff that is not, was not and never will be yours and lied repeatedly about it. Then you forced other people to destroy the evidence of your lies. And the fact that you knew what you were doing was wrong is on tape and has witnesses."
Indict Aileen as a co-conspirator. Her "ignorance" isn't real. Her obstruction of justice is. Somewhere, Aileen has been sloppy and left a bread crumb as to her motives. Find it the way Trump's team scoured Fani Willis' Aruba bar bill. Unlike the criminals in the SCOTUS eating bon bons from their triclinium on Palatine Hill, there are standards and limits for Federal judges.
"Jack Smith has no more fucks to give and I am so fucking here for it." You have to admit he is a very patient man. That is the justice system in a word, patient. But there finally has to be a reckoning. NOW.
I've been a prosecutor for almost 30 years. As a general practice, prosecutors go to great lengths to avoid making the judge hate us because a judge who hates you is not a good thing for your case and makes your life miserable. A writ of mandamus really is the nuclear option for when the judge has gone completely over Dumbshittery Cliff and you have no fucks left to give whether your judge hates you or not.
“and late last night filed a writ of shit or get off the pot”. OK this one has to go in the book Jeff. Signed, the self-appointed Tiedrich draft book editor.
Cannon needs to be thrown off the bench. It is unfuckingbelievable that Don the Con continues to get away with this shit. Justice delayed is justice denied and it's way past time for TRump to be held accountable for ALL of his many crimes.🤬
Good news from the Bulwark! Marmalade Mara-Lardo NOT getting love in the primaries!
But the 89 percent of the Democratic vote Biden took in Wisconsin was better than Trump did anywhere last night: 79 percent in Connecticut, 82 percent in New York, 84 percent in Rhode Island, 79 percent in Wisconsin. And there’s zero ongoing organized Republican effort to use the primaries to send Trump a message. A fifth or so of GOP voters are still just showing up to pull the lever for somebody else instead.
Lardo, for short, and i hear that short is the key word, anyhow, lardo is melting before our eyes, he is too old and decrepit to handle the shit that will be tossed his way every day for the next 215 days.
Isn't Cannon's husband connected to a Cuban mafia? How was she put in her position? Oh right, Federalist Society and trump. Two names we can trust! The infiltration of corruption in our justice system is all due to those two. Now, it's time to clean house so vote Dems so we can get started.
Donald…. When Dylan was writing Idiot Wind he must have had Donald in mind… Idiot Wind, every time you open your mouth it’s a wonder how you can breath… Idiot Wind from the Grand Coulee Dam to Saginaw, every time you move your jaw….. Idiot Wind every single fucking day from this guy, his attorneys, his coked up adult children, MAGAS… I endured this wind from golfing with these idiots yesterday, I did beat them and boy they were pissed………Best to you Jeff and all fellow travelers.
All these crazy writs you hear about started during the reign of King Henry II of England around 1150. That's why they're full of archaic Latin and French.
Wouldn't it be nicer if Jeff was the one in charge?
Writ of shit or get off the pot!
Writ of shut your fucking mouth!
And soon—
Writ of "Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go, BUT STILL PAY half a billion dollars!"
I wanna be the first one to have a Jeff Teidrich Correspondence Law School diploma!
From Glenn Kirschner,
“The language in Smith’s new court filing is unlike anything I’ve seen (in federal court) in my 30 years of prosecuting criminal cases. I’ve never seen such a direct criticism and rebuke by prosecutor of a federal judge, coupled with the threat of an appeal (writ of mandamus). It’s both extraordinary and absolutely necessary, as Judge Cannon is an impediment to the due administration of justice.
This is a positive development.”
Susan she is Bought and Paid for!
Like Thomas and Cavanaugh
Yep.
Her face. So blank ,she even LOOKS clueless.
I waved my hand in front of her vacant gaze. Nothing there.
YES!!!!!
But she is not clueless, she is following orders, following the plan
Like I said CLUELESS.
I am assuming that she is either under the Federalist Society thumb since she is a member, or her hubby is ruling from home, or she is afraid of the consequences in her social circle (of Treacherous-treasonous-tantruming-traitor-Trump supporters), and the howling mobs that support him through violence which she does not want to be a victim of. I am assuming she hopes the 11th circuit steps in and kicks her off the case and saves her butt. But then again, it is probably because she is bought and paid for by someone. Of course, that will drag it out some more because any new judge will have to get up to speed.
Linda i will do my best Hercule Poirot for you.
Non non non Hastings Madame Cannon excepted all expense paid trip to Montana to a school with deep conservative ties.
Yes Hastings! By none other than Leonard Leo! To the Scalia based law school.
Et Voila mademoiselle Linda, you have the correlation
Well done Hercule Poirot!
My hunch is that she’s expecting a Supreme Court nomination as payback if Trump is elected and a seat opens up.
Kaching Kaching
This is such an open-and-shut case, it shouldn't take too long for a new judge to get up to speed, no?
One would hope so, but according to this morning's news it sounds like she is trying to avoid Jack Smith being able to get rid of her in today's Washington Post. Or, do you read it differently? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/04/cannon-trump-jack-smith-presidential-records-act/
No, that is exactly what it sounds like. I have the feeling that the judge is digging herself into a hole though. We'll see. Trump's motion is so absurd that you have to question her approach, which delays the trial.
Both Joyce Vance and Jay Kuo speak to it yesterday and today. They are not in agreement on how to proceed. Joyce Vance seems to think Jack Smith is on the right track. Jay Kuo thinks it is not so straightforward.
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/judge-cannon-gets-the-response-she
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/a-legal-lightning-round-040524
The upside is that, unlike Thomas and Kavanaugh, she DOES have people that she has to answer to, and they've shown that they are willing to jerk her leash. She's perilously close to losing her place on this trial, and perhaps her place in the judiciary.
can't happen soon enough...
How much more obvious can this be! Cannon is either incompetent ,or a “blatantly biased for Trump Judge” . An Appeal should be filed immediately !The ABA should be looking at her qualifications to be a member,never mind a sitting Judge!
They rated her 'unqualified' when she was nominated...
They certainly did and she is proving them right.
Wow! And they still appointed her. That is sad news for all of Trumps appointees.
They've got that Trump Derangement Syndrome backward. It is they who are guilty of Trump Derangement Syndrome. They've coupled his derangement with their own derangement.
It's simpler to call it Trump's Derangement Syndrome.
Right, rationalization is a demanding overlord, and MAGAts who used to value knowledge and democratic process are digging deep into that rationalization tool box right now. Projection? check. Gas light? double check. The forces that they must summon to overcome this type of cognitive dissonance must be difficult to sustain.
I hope they become more and more difficult to sustain. And by the way, whatever the hell happened to fatigue. Remember how we were once upon a time able to count on presidential fatigue, anger fatigue, idiot fatigue, and there'd be just a general change that would quietly but suddenly and completely wave across the crowd and everybody was just done. Trump has been able to keep that rage thing going for far, far too long.
sounds a lot like the 2016 election...Hillary tried to tell us.
She actually was rated Qualified but there are three possible ratings…Unqualified, Qualified, and Well Qualified. She was only rated Qualified, most likely because she was barely qualified. She only participated in four criminal jury trials - two as lead counsel and two as associate counsel. One of those criminal trials was for a man who threw a chair at the federal prosecutor when he was found guilty. All of the other cases were resolved with plea deals. The same with the trials she has presided over as a judge. They were mostly for undocumented immigrants who had reentered the United States. The cases at most had a sentence of 1 1/2 years. She is in no way experienced enough or qualified to handle this case.
Then I have bad information on that. Lots of bad information to be had out there no matter how careful you try to be. Thanks for the correction.
What a lovely qualification for an appointment unqualified as a qualification Is ,1984 reasoning is now the quality of qualification for qualified!🤪😵💫🥴
Yes, they did so then she is knowledgeable enough to just keep stirring the pot. But being a tool for the GOP, she highly qualified for that.
I like those either/ors. It gives me a chance to say "both."
I said the same thing- both
Probably both.
And it is certainly high time. All those hopes some expressed after she caught the case for real dashed over and over and deteriorating by the day. Two of her clerks with experience quit. Looks like she's winging things with amateurs to match her amateurishness now. Mandamus now, please. Let's do it. She needs to go and she needs to be off any bench anywhere except a park bench at Mar a Lago.
Most clerks wouldn't quit so more of statement on the Judge.
That was my sense of it. Everybody wants these jobs
Absolutely, although so much of the Federal process is political it did use to be more understanding of actual law. My cousin ran the office while appointees were being held-up under Ed Meese. Another GOP tool from back in the day.
Republicans have always been master connivers and certainly behind the scenes while they're out there preaching all their bs personal responsibility. NO, it's not that. It's what can you do for me and are you one of us? Dems don't fight so they don't ever really believe this is being done to them. Well, guys, better wake up for good now. With this bunch you can't ever ever think these people ever mean well for you, especially if you're a Democrat. That thing of turning the other cheek is something they love, it means they get to slap the crap out of both cheeks.
You totally have their number. When Kerry gave in," for the good of the country" per his Presidential election that was IT for me. They never do anything "good" for the country. At least, not any more. Like you, those gentlemen politics-that shit is over.
But I do enjoy when they just up and quit. That is at least an honest move!
along with drumpf
Good one Mary Virginia.
Michael Popock also has a good take on Aileen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb7aHVU-gm0&list=PL36GQAccexbz4-p9WBKv4tzSrajRZNCtz&index=6&t=292s
That whole MeidasTouch Legal AF team is great.
I listened to it. Very informative. Thanks
This was great. Always looking for serious sources.
Popock is my go to for breaking down our legal system and whatever topic he is commenting on, very knowledgeable.
I love his podcast along with Ben Meiselas
great team!
I agree. Also, Jay Kuo is very good at whittling down the legalese to be understandable.
Great new source for me …thanx Hoyt
We have been taken to the cleaners-AGAIN!!!!! WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO TO PUT AN END TO THIS SHIT? HOW STUPID DOES TRUMPSHIT THINK WE ARE??? THIS HAPPENS OVER SND OVER. SINCE JANUARY 6!! I SMELL A LOT OF SHIT IN HIGH PLACES.
A effing Men!!!
Mostly effing white men.
Lots needs to be changed for sure. But right now, getting out the vote in swing states and getting out a massive vote all over the country and vote for ALL the positions. House, Senate, local and state.
I love Glenn Kirschner! If Glenn says it, I believe it 100%.
Its so clear he installed her in Florida because he knew he needed her there. Probably why he took all the stolen docs to Florida.and not NJ.
Only thing I'll disagree with you about, "he knew he". He doesn't know anything. He goes on his gut. He doesn't know how government works, he doesn't know much of anything except cheating, grifting, lying, stealing and meanness and cruelty. He's cruel because not too far deep down, he really knows he's nothing. So all the adulation is like a drug for him. He can bury all that fear about being nothing because somebody thinks he really is something. I do too but it's really bad what I think.
I'm with you, except...I don't think he has a gut. not sure what the hell he goes by, but it has seemed to work for him his entire pitiful life. END THIS NIGHTMARE Jack Smith.
This is my take on that. He has been doing this all his life. He had a monster of a father who was successful in expunging humanity from DJ but not one of his brothers, Mary Trump's father who died of alcoholism, gee, wonder why. I think that was her father. And Trump was taught that the worst thing in the world was being weak and being a loser. His father said all that. And he's probably always known he was a loser and all this adulation he requires, it's the only thing that gives him a shot at being Not A Loser because idiots like him. So this is like an addict. He's always out there looking for his fix and his base is his stash. He will never not go to his stash. No matter how repulsive, how disgusting and how reprehensible. He has been without empathy, sympathy and conscience all of his life and it's only gotten worse. He always gets rescued. He was done and washed up when The Apprentice came along. And it just kept this monster going. Otherwise, he'd be a tiny small psychotic, psychopathic, sociopathic blob sitting in his fake gold properties blowing smoke up his own ass because nobody else would take him seriously for 2 flash-by seconds. He represents the sickness endemic in the U.S. We really need to find a way to crush this.
Couldn't agree more. That's why I keep donating to the Democratic election campaign so we can get out the vote. This shit has to end. Once this election is over, hopefully I will NEVER hear that name again.
Brace yourself. Last time we said that the bastard got in office and they are setting up all sorts of challenges to the next election if you believe the back story and I'm afraid I do. Every time I've thought something would bring him down, it hasn't. The only real comfort right now is that I don't have to live his life. Can you imagine being trapped in being Donald Trump? We know what a nice life is. he only knows fear, revenge, cruelty, hate. Insecurity. He's a mass of horrors.
I disagree. Trump was schooled on the legal system from Roy Cohn, who also was a Federal attorney. He took that work experience to heart when his business was defending criminals. And Trump was a good student of his. But in the end, he "forgot" who Cohn was when he was no longer useful. He is not an intellectual but he is clever and devious. And he knows how to work the system.
Little story after it was clear Cohn was dying of AIDS, Trump dropped him and of course never one word of sympathy or anything human. And Cohn, we all agree I'm sure, a truly hideous monster himself, said of Donald, "He has ice water running through his veins." And that has been proven over and over.
And the diamond cufflinks were paste!
So very Trump. And Cohen, FAF OUT
But will the write be forthcoming. A threat with cannon isn't enough.
Amen. Having a retired Federal Magistrate Judge in my family that prior to investiture, was a Federal Prosecutor, I can say for certain not all Federal Judges are created equal. And this buffoon needs to go back to waiting tables at the local IHOP or whatever other job she is also likely unqualified to do. Sheesh, one can see why Trump left NY where they still practice law to a sleazy swamp he is more comfortable wallowing in.
What do you foresee the result to be?
On Cannon? She is skating on thin ice playing around while the paper stacks up. Will she get removed? Will the 11th Circuit do more than show her "findinds" bs,? Who knows but she may think she is playing a winning hand only to get removed from the case. She should be removed from the bench but that happens very rarely.
The lack of immediate and natural consequences for the orange fuckface and all his cronies are staggering. Meanwhile, I walk around terrified that I might have made an error on my taxes. The list of assholes, like Cannon, is so long I can’t remember everyone who belongs on it…and who to put at the very top right under the wanna be demented dictator? I keep begging the friendly universe to turn this upside down world right side up again. Every single day that the former guy is alive is another day of massive bullshit and crap piling high. May the 11th circuit court make something stop! May the pro-choice people come out in droves and make it stop! May Alvin Bragg see his day prosecuting and winning against the fuckface! Give us something to hold onto.
And make it quicker already damn it. Wannabe Emperor Fucknuts and his legal team have worked the Justice system long enough with all of their usual endless stall tactics. A stroke of luck could lead to a conviction or two from the upcoming NY trial that starts this month. Sure, his assholiness will appeal until the last plate of catsup has hit the walls but those convictions would stand out in the minds of more voters and perhaps, put him closer to the deserving new residence that scares the living hell out of him.
Your comment resonated with me! I made a mistake on my taxes years ago, they came after me right away with penalties and interest and threats of wage garnishment. This was all due to a math error that I made. Good grief! We would all be sitting in the slammer if we had committed one tiny error, but this dude walks around free as fuck!
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
This is (on the positive side) one more step toward forcing her recusal. Smith is being deliberate and aiming for removing the 'judge'.
Also laughed at "the orange fuckface", That is perfection in itself.
The orange fuckface with pig eyes and the anus mouth? Oh yeah, that guy!
Trump, his Bible and his God – A stand-up comics dream
“Donald Trump partnered with Lee Greenwood to sell a $60 special edition Bible that includes the Constitution, the lyrics to Greenwood’s ‘God Bless the USA’ and I assume God’s letter of resignation,”
“This Bible is mostly the same, but Trump’s version ends with Jesus’ disciples storming Jerusalem to overturn the results of the crucifixion.”
“Trump has “many Bibles” because each time he holds one up it burst into flame.” Hallelujah
The Lord said: “I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thine traitorous orange flesh and thou shalt be cut off from the earth. And it was good.”
“May the gates of hell open and swallow him, his entire family of grifters and every spineless republican who enabled him. Amen.”
These are ok, but I bet you can do better!
Please add former Ohio senator rob portman to the list of those who could and should have voted to convict this monster, but would not do so. portman’s cowardice and avarice precluded him from performing his duty to America and his Ohio constituents. Cluck, cluck you shameful coward (with apology for the fowl epithet).
"The Deluxe Second Amendment Edition includes a special cut-out section from those pesky first four chapters of The New Testament that will perfectly store a Smith and Wesson .44 caliber handgun (not included with purchase)"
May I add sir, BULLSEYE!
Wouldn’t that be antithetical? Well, maybe not given the new thinking - what with the orange one suggesting he is the second coming.
Wonder how old Lee feels about Beyonce's "country" album blowing through the roof. LOL. Country and Western is another cult and they do not like outsiders coming onto their terrain. I'm just chuckling away. Qualifier: I like an awful lot of country and western.
I found this with a quick search, so not sure if he will give Beyonce space or not.? "To get into the patriotic spirit, check out Beyoncé’s passionate performance of Lee Greenwood’s smash country hit, “God Bless the USA” at the Macy’s 4th of July celebration from 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnCNHFg9y1Q
Good enough prayer for me!
Those were perfect! 🤣🤣🤣
I laughed out loud.
Keith Olbermann’s top story this morning outlines the threat of a police state if t* is elected. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFfu3VtihXw
The evil one wants to federalize state and local police. Think about that, every policeman in this country reporting to trump. Just another threat or could he employ his own SS? This quote encapsulates that possibility.
“First, they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist, then they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.” German pastor Martin Niemöller, who openly spoke about his own early complicity in Nazism and his eventual change of heart. His powerful words about guilt and responsibility still resonate today.
We must all hang Together or surely we shall hang Separately!
Keith & Jeff keep me from going looney tunes with all this violation of law & order & attacks on a sense of reality…
Let’s not forget Joyce Vance and Heather Cox Richardson…they too help keep me sane!
They each have their specific role to help keep us sane.
It still resonates today
The defense arguments here are maddening. A claim that the specific content of each document stolen is important for jurors to consider is like the defense attorney for a bank robber questioning the real value of paper currency.
The theoretical and abstract arguments are pure distraction to give the rubes of Trump's base, right-wing media, and the "in-the-bag" Judge Cannon a fig-leaf to shield the tiny mushroom from due scrutiny.
The fact is that these documents were legally classified, Trump took them without the authority to do so, and when asked to give them back he undertook a clear pattern of obstruction. All of these are obvious and clear-cut crimes that need to be punished.
I do not care if Trump took a coaster from the White House, he broke the law. The whole classified discussion is a convenient distraction. Ooooh. Let's spend cycles arguing about super duper classified. Hmmm. It's only classified if I say it is! I can declassify something by hand-waving or thinking it...For the love of God, the argument should be: "You took stuff that is not, was not and never will be yours and lied repeatedly about it. Then you forced other people to destroy the evidence of your lies. And the fact that you knew what you were doing was wrong is on tape and has witnesses."
Indict Aileen as a co-conspirator. Her "ignorance" isn't real. Her obstruction of justice is. Somewhere, Aileen has been sloppy and left a bread crumb as to her motives. Find it the way Trump's team scoured Fani Willis' Aruba bar bill. Unlike the criminals in the SCOTUS eating bon bons from their triclinium on Palatine Hill, there are standards and limits for Federal judges.
Chauncey she is Complicit
It's long past time for he-who-convicts-war-criminals to get the grown-up judges to boot her
"Jack Smith has no more fucks to give and I am so fucking here for it." You have to admit he is a very patient man. That is the justice system in a word, patient. But there finally has to be a reckoning. NOW.
Seems to me he has been way too patient. Get rid of her now!
When the 11th circuit kicks her off the case, it will be the third time they’ve spanked her.
Three strikes and you are OUT!
Amen sister! She is a big part of my twilight zone experience.
I'm with you. Who can end this nightmare? the 11th circuit court? Is there anyone that can do anything??
At this point it appears to be in Jack's capable hands, we will have to wait and see if there is an assist from any part of the judiciary.
🙏🙏🙏🤞🤞🤞
None of his actions are the actions of an innocent person. All of his miserable life.
Trump plays the courts like he played "President" and is playing us. America is not a game for the most ruthless to win.
I look forward to the day when Trump is over and forgotten.
Can't happen soon enough.
Me too, not soon enough for me.
I've been a prosecutor for almost 30 years. As a general practice, prosecutors go to great lengths to avoid making the judge hate us because a judge who hates you is not a good thing for your case and makes your life miserable. A writ of mandamus really is the nuclear option for when the judge has gone completely over Dumbshittery Cliff and you have no fucks left to give whether your judge hates you or not.
Fuck yes, Jack Smith!
“and late last night filed a writ of shit or get off the pot”. OK this one has to go in the book Jeff. Signed, the self-appointed Tiedrich draft book editor.
She should have been fired from the very beginning of this stupid odyssey of obvious bias towards her dreamboat defendant.
Dear God, she was given a lifetime on the throne by him and they allowed her to be his judge. Frightening. And also What the Hell?
But ironically trump has asked that Merchan be recused because of his daughter working with Democrats!
irony died for the pugs long ago, they don't understand no' ironicality", not a typo, their spelling😊
If they got irony, they wouldn't be themselves.
Ridiculously obvious hypocrisy with zero shame may be their greatest superpower.
Fantastic summation Funny eye Guy, well said!
The American Bar Association should be ashamed to have admitted Cannon as a member!
Much easier said than done.
Cannon needs to be thrown off the bench. It is unfuckingbelievable that Don the Con continues to get away with this shit. Justice delayed is justice denied and it's way past time for TRump to be held accountable for ALL of his many crimes.🤬
Good news from the Bulwark! Marmalade Mara-Lardo NOT getting love in the primaries!
But the 89 percent of the Democratic vote Biden took in Wisconsin was better than Trump did anywhere last night: 79 percent in Connecticut, 82 percent in New York, 84 percent in Rhode Island, 79 percent in Wisconsin. And there’s zero ongoing organized Republican effort to use the primaries to send Trump a message. A fifth or so of GOP voters are still just showing up to pull the lever for somebody else instead.
Lardo, for short, and i hear that short is the key word, anyhow, lardo is melting before our eyes, he is too old and decrepit to handle the shit that will be tossed his way every day for the next 215 days.
Wisconsin 🎉🎉
Isn't Cannon's husband connected to a Cuban mafia? How was she put in her position? Oh right, Federalist Society and trump. Two names we can trust! The infiltration of corruption in our justice system is all due to those two. Now, it's time to clean house so vote Dems so we can get started.
Donald…. When Dylan was writing Idiot Wind he must have had Donald in mind… Idiot Wind, every time you open your mouth it’s a wonder how you can breath… Idiot Wind from the Grand Coulee Dam to Saginaw, every time you move your jaw….. Idiot Wind every single fucking day from this guy, his attorneys, his coked up adult children, MAGAS… I endured this wind from golfing with these idiots yesterday, I did beat them and boy they were pissed………Best to you Jeff and all fellow travelers.
Folks, historical background here.
All these crazy writs you hear about started during the reign of King Henry II of England around 1150. That's why they're full of archaic Latin and French.
Wouldn't it be nicer if Jeff was the one in charge?
Writ of shit or get off the pot!
Writ of shut your fucking mouth!
And soon—
Writ of "Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go, BUT STILL PAY half a billion dollars!"
I wanna be the first one to have a Jeff Teidrich Correspondence Law School diploma!
(BTW, Cousin Vinny is the Dean of Students.)
This is a huge fucking lesson in how not to do a job and holy shit our institutions have Swiss cheese security.