All posts tagged "Criminal"

Donald Trump on Saturday said you can't "teach a criminal not to be a criminal," leading to widespread mockery online.

Trump at his rally over the weekend used the line about criminals in connection with his stated plans for a "mass deportation" if he were to win the presidency again.

"You're not going to teach a criminal not to be a criminal, not going to happen. You don't have the time and you don't have the energy because you have to do other things," Trump said at the Michigan rally. "That is why, as soon as I take the oath of office, we will begin the largest deportation operation in the history of our country." ...

Donald Trump on Friday railed against the classified documents criminal case he faces in Florida, accusing Special Counsel Jack Smith of evidence tampering and demanding the entire case be dropped.

Trump, who has largely spoken positively of the Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon who is overseeing the documents case, took to Truth Social to rant about the prosecution's latest actions in the case accusing the former president of illegally stashing away government secrets.

"It has always been clear that the 'Documents Case' is nothing but an Election Interference Scam concocted by Crooked Joe Biden, Deranged Jack Smith, and their Hacks and Thugs," he said. Then, the ex-president alleged misconduct on behalf of the prosecutors....

Former President Donald Trump's attacks on the jury are the most destructive thing he is doing in the Manhattan criminal hush money case, said former prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin on a CNN panel Thursday evening — and Judge Merchan should be worried about it.

The former president has mostly gone after potential witnesses, like his former attorney Michael Cohen, which also violates his gag order and has resulted in a contempt fine from Judge Juan Merchan. But he has also frequently claimed the jurors are liberal Trump haters who cannot be trusted to judge his case fairly.

"The judge is not supposed to be concerned about the give and take in the public arena, he's trying to sort of hermetically seal his courtroom," said former federal judge Nancy Gertner, also on the panel. "There's no sort of invited response. Michael Cohen can say whatever he wants, although I suspect the prosecutors are probably calling up his lawyer now and saying, would you please shut up, like now, but that shouldn't matter. The judge is only concerned about the people in front of him over whom he has authority and to make sure that they're not responding." ...

Former President Donald Trump emerged from the latest day of his criminal hush money trial in Manhattan to tell reporters that he probably wouldn't be testifying — because he wasn't allowed to. "I'm not allowed to testify because of the unconstitutional gag order, we're appealing the gag order and let's see what happens," he said.

But that is completely wrong, said CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale.

"He kept saying he's not allowed to testify," said anchor Jake Tapper....

"MAGA" Mike Johnson secretly thinks Donald Trump is a "hardened criminal," according to a body language analyst who broke down the Republicans' recent press conference.

Dr. Jack Brown, who previously analyzed the GOP debaters and found them presenting "insincerity and chronic deception," noted that Johnson had "traveled to Florida," where the "Speaker of the House met with Donald Trump today at Mar-a-Lago."

"It was, in large measure, Johnson's effort to prevent ongoing threats to his speakership, primarily from Marjorie Taylor Greene, from gaining momentum," he said on Friday. "The two men also made statements to the press, during which among other things, Johnson blamed border security on President Biden."
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Days before his hush money criminal case is set to start, defendant Donald Trump's reportedly in panic mode.

Former federal prosecutor Norm Eisen sees former President Donald Trump's last-ditch efforts to stall the case as acting out in "extraordinary desperation."

Three days in a row, Trump's tried to sway a New York appeals court to put the brakes on his criminal trial, which has already been delayed before. And so far, the attempts haven't worked, setting the stage for the trial to get underway on Monday. ...