All posts tagged "Prosecution"

Donald Trump late Friday evening complained about fellow Republicans purportedly responsible for the failure of a bill that would defund the various prosecutions of the former president.

Trump took to Truth Social, saying he got the heads up from Georgia's right wing Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) that the effort to suspend funding for Trump's criminal cases had failed due to Republicans. Trump faces numerous local and federal criminal cases, and has already been convicted of 34 felonies in the state of New York.

"Just heard from Great Congressman Andrew Clyde of Georgia that the Amendment to Defund the Prosecution of a Presidential Candidate prior to November’s Election did not pass, 26-25," Trump complained. "It lost by only one vote, because one Republican, Mike Simpson of Idaho, stupidly voted NO, and two 'Republicans,' David Valadao of California and Dan Newhouse of Washington, the only two remaining Impeachers in the House of President Donald J. Trump, didn’t show up to vote." ...

Donald Trump Sunday evening complained about his criminal defense in the hush money cover-up case in New York, as closing arguments loom and the trial nears its conclusion.

Trump has pleaded not guilty in the case, where he stands accused of falsifying business records in order to hide payments to an adult film star. The payments were allegedly made to quiet Stormy Daniels about a brief affair between the two as a means to impact the 2016 election.

As closing arguments get closer, Trump took to Truth Social to lash out at the prosecution and Judge Juan Merchan....

In a post to Truth Social this Friday, former President Donald Trump suggested that the alleged unfair treatment he's receiving from prosecutors is distracting from problems at home and abroad.

Trump, who has recently been using his social media posts to state his support for Israel following backlash against some of his comments aimed at the nation's leader, decided to ponder why he's being charged with crimes.

"Can anyone imagine that with all of the self inflicted and imposed problems that the United States is experiencing, both at home and abroad, that I am being forced to fight off politically hungry Prosecutors, Radical Left Democrats all, on the greatest political Witch Hunt of all time," he wrote....

Anyone looking to historical precedent for successful prosecutions of a Reconstruction era statute under which Donald Trump is reportedly being targeted shouldn’t have to look far.

That’s according to new reporting from Lawfare, which notes that federal prosecutors earlier this year secured a conviction under Section 241, a criminal statute that’s part of the Ku Klux Klan Act.

The report notes that Section 241 prohibits a conspiracy to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”...

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