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Trump May Not Surrender In Georgia If They Insist On Releasing His Mugshot: Report

Despite being under court order to appear in Georgia for arraignment and booking on racketeering charges no later than Friday, Aug. 25, failed one-term, twice-impeached and multiply indicted former president Donald Trump now sounds like a man who may decide to become a fugitive from the law.

The sticking point holding up Trump’s surrender, according to Hugo Lowell of The Guardian, is the mugshot.

So what happens if the disgraced ex-president’s attorneys can’t reach an agreement with authorities in the Peach State? Technically, that would mean Trump was in violation of Georgia law and the following would likely happen:

  • A bench warrant for his arrest would be issued
  • Georgia authorities would contact law enforcement in whatever jurisdiction Trump was in at the time and request that he be handed over
  • A judge in Georgia could order Trump held without bail until trial if it’s determined that he remains a flight risk

Would any of that actually transpire? That’s the unknown, as we’ve never faced such a scenario with any other former president. Then again, we’ve never had a former president accused of as many crimes as the one facing the rest of his life behind bars in multiple locations.

The prospect of Trump insisting on being held to a different standard than any other accused criminal set off a firestorm of anger on social media.

 

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Trump Claims Jack Smith ‘Can’t Bring A Case’ Because Senate Acquitted Him During Impeachment

According to failed one-term, twice-impeached and multiply indicted former president Donald Trump, Special Counsel Jack Smith “can’t bring a case” against him in federal court because he was already acquitted by the U.S. Senate during his impeachment trials in 2019 and 2021.

Clearly expecting to be indicted yet again by Smith for his role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, disgraced ex-president went on his failing Truth Social site and made the following post:

“How can Deranged Jack Smith bring a case on January 6th., as ridiculous as it is anyway, when I have already won such a case, and been fully acquitted, in the U.S. Senate? In other words, I was Impeached on this, and WON!!! ELECTION INTERFERENCE & PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT, all rolled up as one. We are truly a Nation In Decline!”

Of course, anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of the U.S. Constitution knows that impeachment and criminal indictment are in no way connected.

Here are the basic differences between the two:

Indictment is a formal accusation that someone has committed a crime. It is typically issued by a grand jury and serves as the basis for a criminal trial. In other words, when someone is indicted, they are formally charged with a crime and must stand trial to prove their innocence.

Impeachment, on the other hand, is the process by which a government official is charged with misconduct or abuse of power. This can include charges of bribery, treason, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. Impeachment is a political process that is used to hold elected officials accountable for their actions while in office.

One is a legal process. The other is a political process.

It’s no surprise that Trump is confusing the two processes. After all, he’s easily the most ignorant person ever elected to the presidency.

 

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Nervous Trump Resorts To Desperate Move In Attempt To Keep Georgia DA From Indicting Him

Nervous that he’s about to be indicted yet again, this time in the state of Georgia for attempting to overturn 2020 election results in the Peach State, failed former president Donald Trump is having his attorneys try a legal maneuver that reeks of desperation.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, lawyers for the disgraced ex-president filed an emergency appeal with the Georgia Supreme Court in which they argue that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be barred from issuing any new indictments against their client.

The motion filed on Thursday asks Georgia’s highest court to put a halt to any ongoing proceedings “related to and flowing from the special purpose grand jury’s investigation until this matter can be resolved.” This would include any consideration of a possible indictment for alleged criminal meddling in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election by one of two regular Fulton grand juries that were seated on Tuesday.

Trump’s attorneys — Drew Findling, Marissa Goldberg and Jennifer Little — acknowledged that such a petition filed before Georgia’s highest court is typically a long shot. But they said “extraordinary circumstances” justify it now.

According to the motion, “Even in an extraordinarily novel case of national significance, one would expect matters to take their normal procedural course within a reasonable time. But nothing about these processes have been normal or reasonable. And the all-but-unavoidable conclusion is that the anomalies below are because petitioner is President Donald J. Trump.”

The filing also contends that Georgia’s statute for special grand juries is too vague, arguing, “(Trump) now sits on a precipice. A regular Fulton County grand jury could return an indictment any day that will have been based on a report and predicate investigative process that were wholly without authority.”

Of course, such an argument could be made if and when Trump is convicted and appeals the process that led to him being charged in the first place. The fact that he’s doing so prematurely suggests he know that state charges such as those he may face in Georgia cannot be pardoned by a sympathetic president or dismissed by U.S. attorney general he might appoint if he happens to win another term in office. Only the governor of Georgia could issue a pardon, and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) has been critical of Trump, who has also attacked the governor on numerous occasions for failing to seize ballot boxes in the state and declare him the winner.

Willis is expected to announce any criminal charges against Trump as soon as August.

 

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Kimberly Guilfoyle Suggests She Knows More About Federal Law Than Jack Smith

Disgraced former Fox “News” host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is engaged to Donald Trump Jr., wants us all to know that Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith doesn’t understand federal law the way she does, and that means the criminal case against failed former president Donald Trump doesn’t have a chance of succeeding.

On her podcast, Guilfoyle went on for several minutes about the indictment of her future father-in-law, suggesting that presidential power always overrides the law, even after a president leaves the White House and returns to private life.

“You’ve heard a lot about the Espionage Act and all of the bluster from Special Counsel Jack Smith, but there’s another law called the Presidential Records Act that undercuts the entire argument. Any record the president or his staff creates or receives in their official duty or capacity is a presidential record,” Guilfoyle insisted.

“Translation: Donald Trump had the right under the law to maintain custody of his records whether they were classified or not,” she added.

“So what we’re really dealing with is just another example of Democrat prosecutors creating new legal theories to weaponize the law against Donald Trump,” Guilfoyle claimed.

Wow! Is that true? Nope. What Guilfoyle said is a complete crock of shit, as CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale explained in March.

The Presidential Records Act says that, the moment a president leaves office, NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) gets custody and control of all presidential records from his administration. Nothing in the act says there should be prolonged “talk” or a negotiated “agreement” between a former president and NARA over a former president’s return of presidential documents – much less that there should have been a months-long battle after NARA first contacted Trump’s team in 2021 to try to get some of the records that had not been handed over at the end of his presidency.

The Presidential Records Act could not possibly be clearer. It reads:

“Upon the conclusion of a President’s term of office, or if a President serves consecutive terms upon the conclusion of the last term, the Archivist of the United States shall assume responsibility for the custody, control, and preservation of, and access to, the Presidential records of that President.”

Reports are that Trump is looking for a good attorney to represent him in the upcoming documents case. Since Guilfoyle seems to be such an expert, why doesn’t he ask her to be his lawyer?

Probably because he knows she’s a clueless moron and he’d wind up getting a 500-year sentence.

 

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One Of Trump’s Favorite Legal Tactics Won’t Work With Jack Smith: Former US Attorney

With failed one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump now facing a second arraignment on Tuesday in Miami after being indicted on 37 criminal counts related to his mishandling of classified documents, he may be planning to delay and stall the trial as he has in the past.

But a former federal prosecutor is warning that if Trump thinks he can simply run out the clock, he’s about to face a “brush with reality.”

In a column she wrote for MSNBC, Joyce Vance, who served as U.S. Attorney for the for the Northern District of Alabama from 2009 to 2017 writes, “Increasingly, the judiciary seems to be on to Trump. That’s bad news for his lawyers as they prepare for his arraignment. Tuesday will be Trump’s introduction to the federal criminal justice system. He will be called upon to enter a plea in court. The issue of pretrial detention will be resolved, and while the former president is likely to be released, he will have to arrange for a bond if one is ordered and obey any conditions of release the judge sets.”

What happens next will be a rude awakening for the disgraced ex-president.

Trump may have already damaged his credibility with the judges who will now handle the first level of any appeals stemming from his case. That should mean Trump is unlikely to get away with the sort of borderline-frivolous moves that he has often attempted. He will have to make legitimate legal arguments. To the extent that he does not have them, he will be out of luck.

Where does that leave Donnie, even if he happens to get a sympathetic trial judge?

Any judge will be subject to review of the judges on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which has already ruled against Trump on a previous occasion.

There will be no more bending the rules that others have to play by in the legal system for Donald Trump. He will not be in control of this process. For the time being, former president or not, he is just another criminal defendant.

A criminal defendant with a determined prosecutor. That’s not good news for a man accused of as many crimes as Donald Trump.