Reed MidekeReading the indictment, I'd say this aged pretty well https://twitter.com/reedmideke/status/1446275266515406884
Anyway, since it's going to trial, this will be the continuation of the long-running "Donnie tries a coup" thread, which started with another reasonably well aged tweet https://twitter.com/reedmideke/status/1324521933262581760
Reuters reports polling showing, if convicted of felonies "45% [of GOP] said they would not vote for him, more than the 35% who said they would. The rest said they didn't know"
On the one hand, the 35% is pretty depressing and could be expected to grow significantly assuming right wing media and electeds keep calling it a witch hunt. OTOH, even 10% ditching him would be catastrophic for his reelection chances
About half of US Republicans could spurn Trump if he is convicted, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows
About half of Republicans would not vote for Donald Trump if he were convicted of a felony, a sign of the severe risks his legal problems pose for his 2024 U.S. presidential bid, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Thursday.
They also find "Asked if they would vote for Trump if he were "currently serving time in prison," 52% of Republicans said they would not, compared to 28% who said they would." so, yeah… lock him up
In any case, makes it pretty clear why he wants to delay trials
If you're seeing sensational takes about the #ProtectiveOrder and the "COMING AFTER YOU" post, here's a thread that's not that
Not gonna screenshot the whole thread of screenshots of filing, but (IANAL) tl;dr seems to be this was a pretty normal filing in a pretty normal protective order process that would happen anyway, and they threw the post in there as an example of his habit of posting (and probably a cheeky way to get it on the record)
Kind of minor in the grand scheme of things, but this has been bugging me since the 1/6 #TrumpIndictment came out "no election challenges remained in New Mexico on Dec. 14, 2020, but the campaign filed a new lawsuit at 11:54 a.m., six minutes before the noon deadline for the electors to vote, presumably to give the Trump electors a rationale for meeting" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/07/fake-electors-trump-indictment/
Filing a frivolous lawsuit just so you can say you had active litigation at the time seems like something courts and state bars should frown on. Lawsuit appears to be https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18740703/donald-j-trump-for-president-inc-v-toulouse-oliver/
Apparently, there were bar complaints (unfortunately, links to actual complaint are broken) https://abq.news/stories/nm-attorneys-file-ethics-complaint-against-two-trump-lawyers-who-sought-to-dismiss-2020-election,8023
NM Attorneys File Ethics Complaint Against Two Trump Lawyers Who Sought to Dismiss 2020 Election Certification
A group of New Mexico attorneys has re-filed an ethics complaint with the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of New Mexico asking it to investigate and discipline attorneys Mark J. Caruso and …
Add Craig D. Robertson to the list of people who got themselves killed directly due to believing Trump's bullshit https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/09/politics/fbi-utah-man-joe-biden/index.html
I wondered how the Freeman thing was tied to rest of the conspiracy, since Floyd and Kutti didn't seem like core Trump world people, but Act 127 connects them with Robert Cheeley (Trump lawyer) and Scott Hall (involved in coffee county voting machines)
@Pwnallthethings write up has a very helpful who's who
https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/the-georgia-indictment
Also just want to note that in addition to facing various sanctions and bar discipline in multiple jurisdictions, the entire "Elite Strike Force" has now been indicted
Look Donny, I know some of your killjoy lawyers are probably trying to talk you out of it, but "the election was stolen, actually" is an *amazing* defense and you should definitely run with that… https://mastodon.social/@w7voa@journa.host/110894023788245858
Hunter Walker has some deep reporting on TPM about the Freeman episode. Turns out Kutti and Floyd were both pretty directly hooked into Trump world as well. Plus a cameos by Mike Lindell and a Trumpy Canadian weed startup
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trevian-kutti-harrison-floyd-steve-lee-fani-willis
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trevian-kutti-harrison-floyd-steve-lee-fani-willis
"Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online"
Who could have predicted ? (me, for one https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/110891481232943798)
Also going to hang over trial jurors that they'll be targets for life if they convict
As predicted, killjoy lawyers are at work trying to dissuade Donald from his "election was stolen, actually" media defense 🍿 (unlike Donald, they probably recognize that Fani Willis will be perfectly happy to have even more obvious lies on the record) https://abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-legal-advisers-urge-cancel-press-conference-refute/story
One reason I suspect prosecutors and judges are going to be fairly laid back about Trump's trash talk: A bunch of his followers will be threats no matter what he says, so him ranting generally about how terrible he thinks a judge is doesn't change the security situation much https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/woman-arrested-allegedly-threatening-federal-judge-trump-election-case-rcna100320
Same for high profile, public figure witnesses like Pence. Trump's fans already rioted to chants of "hang Mike Pence" so additional ranting about Pence probably isn't gonna move the needle that much for the fans or Pence himself
Doesn't mean he won't eventually cross a line, suspect attacks on jurors or witnesses who aren't high profile political figures will get a swift reaction. But unless it's really blatant, IMO there will be escalating warnings, and if/when he finally does go too far, they'll have a mile of receipts on the record
To be clear, this is all minimally-informed speculation / prediction on my part, put up to age for later evaluation
Boo, killjoy lawyers have won this round, though apparently at the expense of promising to put his "irrefutable" election fraud proof in court filings
(spoiler alert: it ain't and they won't)
https://twitter.com/GarrettHaake/status/1692328029840617515
(spoiler alert: it ain't and they won't)
https://twitter.com/GarrettHaake/status/1692328029840617515
Garrett Haake on Twitter
“Trump says, on the advice of his lawyers, his “irrefutable” Georgia election fraud report will be put with a future legal filing, so he’s canceling the news conference he had planned at Bedminster on Monday to unveil it. Allies & attorneys had been uneasy about this event”
Hugo Lowell reports "per ppl familiar, both lawyers and advisers balked — lawyers bc it would cause problems in court, aides bc it was an idea solo pitched to him by a comms person"
Wonder what the "proof" is, some Mike Lindell hallucination?
Hugo Lowell on Twitter
“New: Trump says Bedminster event to show supposed election fraud in GA is cancelled bc it will be in legal filings. But per ppl familiar, both lawyers and advisers balked — lawyers bc it would cause problems in court, aides bc it was an idea solo pitched to him by a comms person.”
Georgia-indicted Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro "followed Alex Jones around Capitol grounds on January 6th" https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/18/politics/kfile-kenneth-chesebro-followed-alex-jones-capitol-riot-jan-6/index.html