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Trump Turns His Friday NRA Speech Into Early Festivus And Airs His Petty Grievances: Video

Indicted and failed one-term former president Donald Trump showed up at the 2023 NRA convention in Indianapolis on Friday, but he used most of his speech to air his own grievances as numerous criminal investigations continue to close in on him.

The one-term ex-POTUS began by attacking New York Attorney General Letitia James.

“What they are doing is destroying our great country. I want to congratulate you for fighting it so bravely, all of the things that have been happening to you, the racist and — ran for office on, I will get Trump. Didn’t know anything about me, running for office. I said, who is that maniac? A lot of people in the race, you get a few people to vote, very few people it takes to get in. She proclaimed I look forward to going into the office of attorney general every single day, suing him, and going home, very happy. I — I said, I hope she gets in.”

Did he move on? No, he continued with his rant aimed at AG James.

“What is fueling my soul right now, she announced, is getting Trump. She knows nothing about me. It’s not an investigation. It’s a persecution.”

Then he turned to others investigating him.

“Just like her attacks on the NRA and the witchhunts against us by the Manhattan D.A., the Marxist D.A. In Atlanta and the guy I have a watching — the guy from Washington, special prosecutor, special counsel, I call it a prosecutor, it’s better. Biden has a 1850 boxes that are unaccounted for. He had many boxes in Chinatown. Classified information, many boxes. They got them out of there, but they got caught. That’s called obstruction. They sent them up to Boston. Then it was revealed he got millions of dollars from the Chinese.”

Woe is me! And there was even more.

“But he has boxes in Chinatown, boxes all over the place. They don’t care about that, they only care about Trump. They are trying to arrest their political opposition. It’s very much like the old Soviet Union. With the elections and interference. They are interfering with the election. It’s going to be hard for them to get away with the kind of corruption they did when they had Covid because Covid made a lot of things bad for a lot of. They cheated and it will be hard.”

Boxes in Chinatown? What in the hell does that even mean? Oh, and be sure and notice that he returned to the bullshit about how he was cheated out of a second term.

If this is any indication of the speeches we can expect from Donnie in the future, he should just go ahead and concede the 2024 race right now, because he’s even more batshit crazy than he was the first time he ran.

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Crime Donald Trump

Legal Expert Explains ‘The Shortest Distance Between Trump And An Orange Jumpsuit’

Failed one-term, twice-impeached and recently indicted former president Donald Trump recently gave a deposition in the ongoing New York civil case brought by Empire State Attorney General Letitia James.

The civil case could result in the Trump Organization being shut down and its assets liquidated, which would be a major blow to the loser ex-president.

But the biggest threats to Trump remain on the criminal front, where he faces a trial on 34 counts of falsifying business records in Manhattan, future indictment on racketeering charges in the state of Georgia regarding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, and the ongoing investigation by a federal grand jury under the direction of Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith.

And it’s the Smith case, which involves hundreds of classified documents Trump had hidden at his Mar-a-Lago resort, that is most likely to see him doing serious prison time, according to one legal expert.

George Conway is a noted Washington, D.C. attorney who discussed the Trump legal minefield earlier today on MSNBC when asked by host Willie Geist, “George, before we let you go, the Mar-a-Lago documents case, just based on what we heard yesterday, it’s clear that the special counsel Jack Smith is able to do two things at once. Looking at January 6th and also looking at what happened down at Mar-a-Lago, how strong is your sense of the case building now against the former president there?”

Conway replied:

“Well, my sense of this case has been almost since the date of the search warrant execution at Mar-a-Lago, that this case is the shortest distance between Donald John Trump and an orange jumpsuit.”

“I still adhere to that view,” he continued. “It’s just very clear that he — I mean, if a quarter of what we’ve read is true, he obstructed justice, he was trying to avoid producing these documents. He lied to his lawyers about the status of the documents so they would, in turn, misinform the government, which is why Judge [Beryl] Howell in the District of Columbia held a crime-fraud exception, applied the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege.”

Conway then explained what it means that Trump’s own attorneys are now having to tell what they know because it’s suspected they also took part in a criminal conspiracy:

“Therefore, Trump’s lawyers are witnesses against him. If he was moving documents around himself, that he was trying to hide them so he could show them off to people, well, you know, that’s obstruction of justice, even apart from the illegal retention of the documents, which he essentially stole from the American people because he just claimed they belonged to him when they didn’t.”

Donald Trump is going to prison. The only questions are on what charges and for how long.

Watch the video from MSNBC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsJiHWaACrs
 

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Jack Smith Will Have No Choice But To Charge Trump With Espionage: Legal Expert

Based on recent reporting that failed former president Donald Trump may have shown classified documents people who visited him at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Special Counsel Jack Smith will be charging the ex-president with espionage as well as obstruction of justice, a state attorney said Wednesday.

On April 2, The Washington Post reported that Trump may have shared classified information with others.

As investigators piece together what happened in May and June of last year, they have been asking witnesses if Trump showed classified documents, including maps, to political donors, people familiar with those conversations said.

That, according to Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg, would constitute a direct violation of the Espionage Statute found in federal law.

During an appearance on “Deadline: White House” Wednesday, Aronberg noted:

“I think the reason that they asked about the map is another statute, 18 USC 719 (e), ‘The Espionage Statute,’ says that someone who is unauthorized to have possession of a map and then shows it to someone who can’t see it violates that statute,” Aronberg explained. “So, they’re not just going after him for obstruction, but also espionage, which is punishable by up to ten years in prison. That’s why there’s a lot of trouble ahead. That’s why Bill Barr is saying, hey, this is the tough one. It’s not New York that will do in the former president in. I think it’s the Mar-a-Lago documents because there’s a direct tie between the former president and the alleged criminality there.”

Keep in mind that’s ten years for each count of violating the Espionage Statute. And Trump could be charged for every single time he took the documents out and showed them to others who didn’t have a valid security clearance. Two people would be 20 years. If he showed them to 10 people, he’d be facing a century in federal prison.

Things are about to get much worse for Donald Trump. The only question that remains is when Smith will hand down the indictments against the former president and exactly what crimes the former president will be charged with.

 

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Source: Trump’s Claims Of Court Employees Crying About His Arraignment Are ‘Absolute BS’

During an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson Tuesday evening, indicted, twice-impeached, one-term former president Donald Trump said that employees at the Manhattan court where he was arraigned on April 4 were crying and telling him how sorry they were.

“When I went to the courthouse, which is also a prison in a sense, they signed me in, and I’ll tell you, people were crying,” Trump told Carlson. “People that work there, professionally work there, that have no problems putting in murderers, and they see everybody. It’s a tough, tough place, and they were crying. They were actually crying. They said, ‘I’m sorry.’ They said, ‘2024, sir. 2024.’ And tears were pouring down their eyes.”

But a law enforcement source who was at the courthouse that day is calling bullshit on Trump’s claim, according to Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News.

(Trump’s claim) that New York court employees were “crying” and apologizing for his arraignment on felony charges is “absolute BS” and doesn’t remotely resemble what took place, a law enforcement source familiar with the details of what transpired that day told Yahoo News.

“Zero,” said the source when asked how much truth there was to Trump’s colorful account. “There were zero people crying. There were zero people saying ‘I’m sorry.’”

The source went on to add that Trump had virtually no interaction with the vast majority of courthouse employees:

In fact, the source said, aside from his lawyers and Secret Service agents, Trump interacted only with a handful of district attorney employees at the courthouse and had extremely limited exposure with others during his arraignment last Tuesday in lower Manhattan.

During the Tuesday evening interview, Carlson was his usual fawning self, a far cry from comments he made about Trump to others at the network.

“I hate him passionately,” Carlson said about Trump in a text to one colleague on Jan. 4, 2021 He added in another text, “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights.”

If and when Trump is found guilty on any of the numerous charges he faces in New York, Georgia, and Special Counsel Jack Smith, there will tears of joy across the United States. Donald may think people love him, but the vast majority of the country despise him and would be happy to never see his face again.

 

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Jim Jordan Hit With Lawsuit That’s Bad News For Him And Donald Trump

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg made it clear Tuesday that he’s sick and tired of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) attempting to interfere with his prosecution of failed, one-term former president Donald Trump.

Bragg has filed a lawsuit against Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and is requesting that a court block Jordan’s congressional investigation until the Trump case is completed.

NBC News reports:

Calling it an “unprecedently brazen and unconstitutional attack” of an ongoing investigation, Bragg in the suit filed Tuesday said allowing Jordan’s demands, including subpoenaing former assistant DA employee Mark Pomerantz, would cause “imminent irreparable harm if the secret and privileged material is compelled to be disclosed.”

Bragg’s suit asks the court to block a subpoena issued by Jordan to Pomerantz. Jordan, R-Ohio, wants Pomerantz to sit for a deposition as part of the Judiciary panel’s investigation into the indictment of Trump. The former president pleaded not guilty last week to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to his alleged role in hush money payments toward the end of his 2016 presidential campaign.

Bragg released a statement shortly after the suit was filed.

“Chairman Jordan’s subpoena is an unconstitutional attempt to undermine an ongoing New York felony criminal prosecution and investigation. As our complaint details, this is an unprecedented, illegitimate interference by Congress that lacks any legal merit and defies basic principles of federalism.”

On Monday, Jordan announced that the Judiciary Committee would be holding a “field hearing” in New York next week to discuss the issue of crime in Manhattan. However, that hearing may be placed on hold if a judge blocks the Ohio Republican from interfering in an ongoing criminal matter.

Since Trump was indicted in March, Congressional Republicans have repeatedly tried to interfere in Bragg’s case against the disgraced ex-president. Some have even suggested that all federal funding to New York should be cut off if the Manhattan DA doesn’t drop the charges against Trump.