PBP: P01135809 Trump Espionage, Coup, Conspiracy, Racketeering, Fraud & Obstruction Trial Thread

If I remember correctly though his troubles with his casinos occured in the 90's when there was much less competition. His problem was that he overpaid for them so I assume his debt service was too high.

 

I might need an answer to my Cristal question sooner than I realized. I do have a Macallan 18 that I’ve been hiding on the back shelf that may have to do some work tonight

Lots of whispers — and not just whispers— that announcement from Supreme Court is imminent. Stay tuned.

— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) February 28, 2024

 

I hate you

 

This is simply not good news....More delays at best....This is utter ********ery from the current USSC. I know the current SC majority is hot garbage but this is truly shocking. At this rate, the J6 trial may not happen before elections.

Supreme Court Will Take Up Case on Trump’s Immunity
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would decide whether Donald Trump is entitled to broad immunity from federal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts that occurred while he was in office, CBS News reports.

Oral arguments are set for April 22, an expedited timeline.

“It’s unclear how much of an impact the court’s decision to take up the case will have on the timeline for Trump’s trial, since the justices could rule swiftly after hearing arguments.”

 

Well that sucks

 

Clarification question: was the casino actually unprofitable as an entity, or was it a case where he dramatically overspent and then the profits didn’t cover the debt service? I thought it was more the latter. IOW it’s less that he couldn’t competently run it (or hire someone to do it for him). His ******** up was a manic, wildly over optimistic bid when he purchased the damn thing.

A talented guy like Junior will thrive once out from under his dad’s shadow.

 

Another theory…the market was or became over saturated after he bought it.

 

Page turn adds another voice!

 

I suspect the answer is she wanted to live to fight another day. Keep in mind, her efforts here have been to delay the trial as long as possible in the hope that Trump wins the election and can pardon himself. If she had made this ruling, Smith would have appealed and won with a chance the appeals court would have removed her from the case.

 

Yes but someone said he could be tried in the summer which will make the election even more interesting. No idea how long an insurrection trial will take but have to assume months

 

This is it for me. I think you, Charlie, Pizza and Khan have said the same thing. Like why in the name of all that is holy would you engage in this thing. Yoss and Yosh can be legally right and they are but for optics on an uneven playing field, this was poor judgement.

 

I’m guessing she has the upper hand in the relationship?

 

It won't. Because the charges were brought so late there wasn't much clock for Trump's lawyers to run out.

 

On the bright side: no one can tell me I’m wrong about these assholes ever again…

— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) February 29, 2024

So if a president has bigly immunity, Biden can suspend the Constitution and arrest the Trumpy justices for treason until he figures out WTF is going on.

 

Great work, Merrick. The kind of lame-o who would see his house catching on fire and call the insurance co. before the fire dept

Merrick Garland and DOJ helped create this mess.

Their skittishness to greenlight an investigation into the LEADERS of January 6 -- for over a year -- left ZERO margin for error, in order to get a conviction before the election.

Now we see the result of their inexcusable delay.

— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) February 28, 2024

 

Yeah, but that’s the thing: Repubfascists *know* with absolute certainty that Biden will not do anything unconstitutional/criminal because that’s just not in his nature. So if SCOTUS rules that a President can commit any/all crime while in office, that wouldn’t mean much as it relates to Joe Biden since he doesn’t have a criminal/unconstitutional nature anyway.

 

You're probably right. But if he has immunity the least he could do is sit on the board of Burisma with Hunter just to make some $$

 

Under half a million takes 6-8 weeks depending on collateral. The problem is his financial records which are used as basis for loans are proven false so he would need to put up collateral worth the half million to make it worthwhile and he is afraid of defaulting and losing the building or he doesn't have ownership of any building worth as much. By ownership I mean a percentage large enough to let him make this decision.

 

Mohegan Sun in CT and all the Racinos have made AC not really worth it.

 

Thanks, Merrick!!

 

Laurence Tribe (speaking on Lawrence O’Donnell tonight) agrees with you, SC has no interest in expedition, he said, their question is too broad, now we have a several month delay “for no reason” no trial is likely to be done by Election Day, “this is a formula for indefinite delay.” SC made things much more complicated. “No reason for SC to have opened that Pandora’s Box except a desire to delay on behalf of Donald Trump and that is obviously not a legitimate reason to proceed the way the court did.”

And if he gets re-elected before there’s a verdict, the whole case goes away.

 

Tribe also agrees, “Merrick Garland waited too long to appoint a special counsel” he said.