https://www.yahoo.com/news/michael-cohen-describes-1-biggest-143128224.html Michael Cohen Describes 1 Of His 'Biggest Fears' About Trump Being Behind Bars Josephine Harvey Mon, February 19, 2024 at 3:31 PM GMT+1·2 min read Michael Cohen says Donald Trump’s character and growing debts make him dangerous whether he’s in the White House or behind bars. “We need to be very careful about him as a potential president, because he’s for sale. He needs to figure out where he’s going to raise 500 plus million dollars over a short period of time,” Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney, said on MSNBC Sunday. A judge ruled last week that Trump owes more than $350 million in damages over his yearslong fraudulent business dealings in New York. In a separate case, he was ordered to pay writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million after a New York jury found him liable for defaming her a second time. Trump also has to pay his various lawyers millions of dollars and still faces four criminal trials. Cohen suggested that a cash-strapped Trump could sell sensitive government information that he was privy to before and after his presidency. “One of the biggest fears I have about having Donald Trump behind bars is that he would sell this information for a bag of tuna or a book of stamps,” Cohen said. “He doesn’t care about America,” he continued. “And I say this not to be hyperbolic. I say this as fact, knowing him for as long as I’ve known him. He will sell that information to anyone, because he doesn’t care about anyone or anything other than himself. Plain and simple.” Cohen is far from the first to suggest Trump’s legal debts could have national security implications. Trump’s onetime national security advisor, John Bolton, for example, said Sunday that foreign autocrats could take advantage of Trump’s worsening financial situation, demonstrating “why Trump really is not fit for office.”
In Trump Criminal Case, Manhattan D.A. Asks for Gag Order Before Trial Lawyers for Alvin L. Bragg, the district attorney, are seeking to protect jurors and witnesses in the first criminal prosecution of a former president. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/nyregion/trump-gag-order-hush-money-trial.html Manhattan prosecutors on Monday asked the judge overseeing the criminal case against Donald J. Trump to prohibit the former president from attacking witnesses or exposing jurors’ identities. The requests, made in filings by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, noted Mr. Trump’s “longstanding history of attacking witnesses, investigators, prosecutors, judges, and others involved in legal proceedings against him.” In outlining a narrowly crafted gag order, the office hewed closely to the terms of a similar order upheld by a federal appeals court in Washington in another of Mr. Trump’s criminal cases. The gag order in the Manhattan case, if the judge approves it, would bar Mr. Trump from “making or directing others to make” statements about witnesses concerning their role in the case. The district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, also asked that Mr. Trump be barred from commenting on prosecutors on the case — other than Mr. Bragg himself — as well as court staff members. Mr. Bragg wants the judge, Juan M. Merchan, to protect jurors as well. His prosecutors asked that Mr. Trump be barred from publicly revealing their identities. And although Mr. Trump and his legal team are allowed to know the jurors’ names, Mr. Bragg asked that their addresses be kept secret from the former president. If Justice Merchan approves the restrictions, he would be just the latest judge to impose a gag order on the former president. There was an order in the Washington case, a federal case that involves accusations that Mr. Trump plotted to overturn the 2020 election. And the judge in Mr. Trump’s civil fraud trial that recently concluded ordered Mr. Trump not to comment on court staff members. The Manhattan criminal case was the first of Mr. Trump’s four indictments to be filed. Last year, the district attorney’s office accused Mr. Trump of 34 felonies, saying he had orchestrated a cover-up of a potential sex scandal with a porn star that could have hindered his 2016 presidential campaign. The trial is scheduled to begin on March 25. Mr. Trump’s lawyers will most likely oppose the gag order and could appeal it if Justice Merchan adopts it. The former president has reveled in public attacks on his former fixer, Michael D. Cohen, who is now one of Mr. Bragg’s key witnesses. Mr. Cohen paid $130,000 in hush money to the porn star to silence her story of an affair with Mr. Trump and was later reimbursed by Mr. Trump. In its own filing on Monday, Mr. Trump’s defense team asked that the judge prevent Mr. Cohen from testifying. “Michael Cohen is a liar,” the former president’s lawyers wrote, accusing Mr. Cohen of perjury in Mr. Trump’s civil fraud trial and saying that his public statements indicated that he planned to lie again. (The judge in the civil fraud case concluded that Mr. Cohen had been credible and had “told the truth.”) Mr. Cohen fired back on Monday, saying in a text message, “As the March 25th date draws closer and closer, Donald and his legal team of misfits will attempt to concoct new ways to delay this case.”
Some follow-up on Chesebro... Key figure in fake electors plot concealed damning posts on secret Twitter account from investigators https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/26/politics/kenneth-chesebro-secret-twitter-account-kfile/index.html Kenneth Chesebro, the right-wing attorney who helped devise the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot in 2020, concealed a secret Twitter account from Michigan prosecutors, hiding dozens of damning posts that undercut his statements to investigators about his role in the election subversion scheme, a CNN KFile investigation has found. Chesebro denied using Twitter, now known as the platform X, or having any “alternate IDs” when directly asked by Michigan investigators last year during his cooperation session, according to recordings of his interview obtained by CNN. But CNN linked Chesebro to the secret account based on numerous matching details — including biographical information regarding his work, family, travels and investments. The anonymous account, BadgerPundit, also showed a keen interest in the Electoral College process and lined up with Chesebro’s private activities at the time. The Twitter posts reveal that even before the 2020 election, and then just two days after polls closed, Chesebro promoted a far more aggressive election subversion strategy than he later let on in his Michigan interview. (Much more at above url)
Once again , let's outline that Trump is not being prosecuted for having the classified documents. Trump is being prosecuted for obstruction in refusing to hand back over the documents. Biden immediately handed over the classified documents that were found in a search by his legal team -- a search which Biden put into motion. Very different situations. Let's have Jack Smith outline it for you... Jack Smith says Trump’s handling of classified docs was far worse than Biden’s In a new filing in Trump’s Florida case, Smith cited Robert Hur’s report on Joe Biden’s retention of classified material. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/26/jack-smith-says-trump-classified-docs-00143346
wrap it up: Some legal experts had predicted that at least the required four justices would want to weigh in on whether presidential acts can be criminally prosecuted — a question Trump has also raised in his separate Florida and Georgia trials. But simply by taking up the matter now, the high court has effectively helped Trump achieve his goal of pushing back at least the D.C. trial, which originally was scheduled to start next week. The former president has repeatedly pressed to postpone all his trials until after the November election, raising the possibility that if he is elected he could try to have the federal cases dismissed. Wednesday’s announcement means there are now three cases before the Supreme Court that could directly impact Trump’s legal and political future: The justices are also considering whether he can be barred from the ballot because of his conduct around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, and they will hear a challenge in Aprilto the use of an obstruction charge against participants in that riot — the outcome of which could affect the charges Trump faces in D.C. as well. Mr. Trump’s emergency application asking the Supreme Court to intervene had been fully briefed since Feb. 15, and the court’s delay in addressing it suggested that the justices differed about how to proceed. It takes four votes to add a case to the court’s docket but five to grant a stay, and that math may have played a role in the court’s calculations.
Experts confirm the sound we heard was indeed the GOP's case against Fani Willis falling apart. "I have no answer": Experts say TrumpWorld's "star witness" sank their case against Fani Willis Attorney Terrence Bradley appeared to walk back several claims he made about Willis' relationship with Nathan Wade https://www.salon.com/2024/02/28/i-...-witness-sank-their-case-against-fani-willis/
This is the DOJ messing up They didn't allow any time for court maneuvering or delays......They were to greedy and wanted the trial all to happen in 2024...These cases should have been brought in 2022 or 2023 They waited until 2024 because the purpose was not to litigate the case but to tie up Trump from campaigning.and break his bank. They didn't realize that a busy Trump keeps him off of social media where he pisses everyone off.....He is to busy to tweet at 3am....and it might be the reason he wins....They forced Trump into a basement strategy
yes and no. It take a long time to build a case but it's definitely on the DOJ for crabwalking this shit and not appointing a competent prosecutor (Smith) until Biden's favorability numbers started plummeting. I said it before the inauguration....the longer this drags on, the worse the optics look and the less effort you gotta use to disingenuously convince people it's politically motivated.