I love hearing about all these potential trump indictments and NY AG now saying trump MAY face criminal charges.... I have never heard more "potential' and "may" with respect to criminal charges now going on 3 years. I understand investigations take time but why do we constantly hear about potential and may yet not one charge actually being filed.. this is more of an embarrassment for the AGs and lawyers who keep chirping about potential charges and "may have violated" than for trump himself.... You can accuse him all you want of things and have CNN who ran almost an hour of repeated headlines that trump MAY face charges but if the goal is to discredit trump and prevent him from being able to run it looks to me like a complete failure...
And the saddest part is that indicting Trump may simply serve to help his campaign as he fires up his followers. Watch: Adam Kinzinger predicts how the GOP will react if Trump gets hit with a criminal indictment https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...ts-hit-with-a-criminal-indictment/ar-AA18r43t Former GOP congressman Adam Kinzinger predicted Thursday that Donald Trump will "absolutely" continue his campaign for the presidency even if he's indicted in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's investigation — and will "probably" be even more "popular." Kinzinger spoke on CNN after The New York Times reported that an indictment appeared to be near for the former president regarding hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. He'll still run if he's indicted and will "play the victim card," Kinzinger told Wolf Blitzer. "Sadly," it could help him in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, he added. "Look what happened when he evaded impeachment the first time around," the Illinois Republican noted. "His popularity increased." Kinzinger called news about what appears to be a likely indictment against Trump a major story, but admitted it's not the "big enchilada" many have been hoping for. The Times reported Thursday that prosecutors offered Trump the opportunity to testify next week before the grand jury hearing evidence in a potential case against Trump. Such an offer would likely not be made unless indictments loomed, the newspaper reported. The Manhattan probe centers on a $130,000 payment to Daniels to keep her quiet about her alleged relationship with Trump. The payment was made by Michael Cohen, Trump’s former fixer, who has testified that he was later reimbursed by his boss. Any case against Trump, even if proven, would likely be a "low-level felony" involving campaign finance laws. Watch video at this link.
Trump needs to request a trial by Judge no Jury He only received 5% of the vote in Manhattan Or he asks for a change of venue
Trump does not plan to participate in the Grand Jury hearings. Trump has 'no plans' to participate in Manhattan grand jury probe, attorney says https://www.yahoo.com/gma/trump-no-plans-participate-manhattan-123500889.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/us/politics/house-trump-finances-investigation.html WASHINGTON — House Republicans have quietly halted a congressional investigation into whether Donald J. Trump profited improperly from the presidency, declining to enforce a court-supervised settlement agreement that demanded that Mazars USA, his former accounting firm, produce his financial records to Congress. Representative James R. Comer, Republican of Kentucky and the chairman of the Oversight and Accountability Committee, made clear he had abandoned any investigation into the former president’s financial dealings — professing ignorance about the inquiry Democrats opened when they controlled the House — and was instead focusing on whether President Biden and members of his family were involved in an influence-peddling scheme. “I honestly didn’t even know who or what Mazars was,” said Mr. Comer, who was the senior Republican on the oversight panel during the last Congress, while Democrats waged a lengthy legal fight over obtaining documents from the firm. “What exactly are they looking for?” Mr. Comer added in a brief statement to The New York Times on Monday. “They’ve been ‘investigating’ Trump for six years. I know exactly what I’m investigating: money the Bidens received from China.” He confirmed the end to the inquiry into Mr. Trump after Democrats wrote to Mr. Comer raising concerns about the fact that Mazars, the former president’s longtime accounting firm that cut ties with him last year, had stopped turning over documents related to his financial dealings. The top Democrat on the panel suggested that Mr. Comer had worked with Mr. Trump’s lawyers to effectively kill the investigation, an accusation the chairman denied. “It has come to my attention that you may have acted in league with attorneys for former President Donald Trump to block the committee from receiving documents subpoenaed in its investigation of unauthorized, unreported and unlawful payments by foreign governments and others to then-President Trump,” Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the panel, wrote on Sunday evening to Mr. Comer. Mr. Comer on Monday denied knowledge of any attempt to coordinate with Mr. Trump’s lawyers to block the investigation, but he made it clear he did not plan to keep it going. His committee has issued no subpoenas concerning Mr. Trump’s finances. Democrats fought in court for years to get financial documents from Mr. Trump’s former accounting firm, and only last year — after entering into a court-ordered settlement — began receiving the documents and gaining new insights into how foreign governments sought influence using the Trump International Hotel. The company has been delivering the documents to the committee in batches. Even so, Mazars informed Democratic staff members that, as a result of Mr. Strawbridge’s assertions, it would cease production after the delivery of a small tranche of documents that it had already identified as responsive to the subpoena, the letter states. Enforcement of a court-supervised settlement agreement made with one Congress during a subsequent Congress under new leadership remains a legally murky gray area. Subpoenas in cases involving the House expire at the end of each Congress, but Mazars had continued to produce documents even after the House changed hands into Republican control. Still, a judge would be unlikely to enforce the settlement if the parties involved were no longer interested in enforcement, according to lawyers in both parties. The documents from Mazars have thus far provided new evidence about how foreign governments sought to influence the Trump administration. In November, for instance, documents the committee received from Mazars detailed how officials from six nations spent more than $750,000 at Mr. Trump’s hotel in Washington when they were seeking to influence his administration, renting rooms for more than $10,000 per night. “In the face of mounting evidence that foreign governments sought to influence the Trump administration by playing to President Trump’s financial interests, you and President Trump’s representatives appear to have acted in coordination to bury evidence of such misconduct,” Mr. Raskin wrote to Mr. Comer. At the same time that Mazars has stopped producing documents about Mr. Trump’s finances, Mr. Comer has ramped up his investigation into Mr. Biden and his relatives. He has focused in particular on John R. Walker, an associate of Hunter Biden, the president’s son, whose business dealings are under investigation by the Justice Department. Mr. Walker was involved in a joint venture with CEFC China executives, a now-bankrupt Chinese energy conglomerate. Mr. Raskin accused Mr. Comer of using a “wildly overbroad subpoena” to conduct “a dragnet of political opposition research on behalf of former President Trump.” Mr. Comer responded that Mr. Raskin was trying to distract “from the real issue here, and that is the Biden family money trail from China.” “I now possess documents to prove it; Raskin knows it, and Raskin has had a meltdown,” Mr. Comer added. When Congress was in Democratic hands, the House Oversight Committee waged a yearslong battle to obtain Mr. Trump’s financial records from Mazars in one of the major legal sagas of the Trump presidency. Mazars cut ties with the Trump Organization in 2022, saying it could no longer stand by a decade of financial statements it had prepared.
At this point are there any crimes that Trump hasn't committed? Federal investigators examined Trump Media for possible money laundering, sources say Exclusive: New York prosecutors expanded criminal inquiry of company last year and examined acceptance of $8m with suspected Russian ties https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/15/trump-media-investigated-possible-money-laundering
While Melania was in hospital giving birth to their son Barron , his father was busy getting spanked by an escort with a magazine. They're going to relive the disgrace all over again. Imagine asking her to perform First Lady duties again? Stormy Daniels meets with Manhattan DA Porn star Stormy Daniels reportedly met with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office on Wednesday as part of an investigation into hush money payments from former President Donald Trump. U.S. court correspondent Marta Dhanis first reported that Daniels met with people in the District Attorney's Office. "Stormy Daniels met today with the Manhattan DA and his prosecutors as part of their probe into Trump's role in the hush money payment to the porn star," Dhanis tweeted. "This was their first meeting and she may now testify before the grand jury." Daniel's confirmed to the Associated Press that she met with the D.A.'s office.