Matt BlazeAs a nonexpert in NY criminal procedure, I was curious about why any of Trump's falsified-business-records-porn-star-hush-money charges wouldn't be outside NY's 5 year (for the felony) and 2 year (for the misdemeanor) statue of limitations. The offenses allegedly occurred in 2017. But NY stops the clock for periods where the defendant is continuously out of state. Had he moved back to NYC instead of FL after leaving the WH, he might have beaten the misdemeanor rap.
Note that paying hush money to a porn star does not, as far as I can tell, in and of itself violate NY law. But falsifying records to cover up the fact that you're paying hush money to a porn star does.
(I just like writing "paying hush money to a porn star" in relation to Trump. It makes me smile).
Try it yourself. Say "Donald Trump is likely to be indicted for falsifying records to cover up paying hush money to a porn star." You can't help but smile.
It feels like the crime Trump was born to commit.
Crispy Gnome Chomsky@mattblaze Yet it's somehow just about the most victimless and technical of the crimes of which he has been credibly accused, which include literal rape. Shit like that changes an individual's life, and he skates away.
Fran Leibowitz famously said of DJT "everything that can be wrong with a human being is wrong with that man." A corrollary: it's kind of hard to find any part of the criminal code that he hasn't smeared his feces on.
But I'm gonna work on smiling more this week. Thanks.
Charles Herold@rose Yes, but tax fraud was probably the least terrible thing Al Capone ever did. Sometimes the penny-ante stuff is what takes big criminals down.
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Kevin Leecaster@johnettesnuggs @cherold @rose
I'm glad that NY is apparently indicting the chump. I want to watch the long drawn out decay of that horrible person as each case drains more of his resources and isolates him further.
I'm especially looking forward to when some of his co-conspirators start having to start making cooperation agreements and testify against him to save themselves from some of the consequences they deserve.
@GreenFire @johnettesnuggs @cherold
No need to wait - Allen Weisselberg and Michael Cohen are both current examples of that.
As for draining his resources, it does seem like he is able to manipulate each crisis, including the current one, into a successful fund-raising opportunity.
@rose @johnettesnuggs @cherold
That chump might be close to having drained his base of their dough. He'll always be able to raise some, but I doubt he'll be able to keep it up high enough to cover the costs for all of the criminal and civil cases he's facing. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-revamps-fundraising-struggling-2024-presidential-campaign-rcna65779
That chump might be close to having drained his base of their dough. He'll always be able to raise some, but I doubt he'll be able to keep it up high enough to cover the costs for all of the criminal and civil cases he's facing. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-revamps-fundraising-struggling-2024-presidential-campaign-rcna65779
@GreenFire @rose @cherold my biggest questions are when is the arrest and can they live stream it???
@johnettesnuggs @rose @cherold
Yeah sounds good, but as always with him he's going to spin the media story in a way that helps himself and don't forget that he's the only one that is pushing the story about him getting arrested.
We shouldn't get so excited that we expect something to happen that might not work out the way we want it to.
@GreenFire @rose @cherold oh i know...when i heard he tweeted about it, i thought, "that's a dog whistle to his followers..."