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Trump Legal Investigations / Re: LIVE THREAD....Day 21: Closing Arguments And Verdict
« Last post by mountaineer on Today at 09:53:27 pm »
Lara Logan
@laralogan
Once again this smacks of provocation…does not mean they won’t do it, but it was leaked on purpose.

From Colin Rugg this a.m. posted on X:
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JUST IN: Secret Service has reportedly met with local jail officials in New York to make possible preparations for Donald Trump behind bars. 
 
Insane. 
 
According to CBS News, a New York corrections source made the revelation. 
 
As a former president, Donald Trump is entitled to Secret Service protection for his entire life even if he is sentenced to jail.

"Behind bars, corrections officers would in turn be responsible for protecting those agents assigned to Trump," CBS reported.

CBS predicts that Trump could serve time at Rikers Island Jail Complex.

https://x.com/collinrugg/status/1795499217101951456?s=46&t=Q9MmQCU2nhHI5rvwhnXQEg
4:49 PM · May 28, 2024
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Immigration/Border / Re: Chicago Migrant Arrested for 10th Time in 10 Months
« Last post by Fishrrman on Today at 09:52:23 pm »
Time for one of those "free helicopter rides" over Lake Michigan...
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Trump Legal Investigations / Re: LIVE THREAD....Day 21: Closing Arguments And Verdict
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 09:49:43 pm »
1 min(s) ago
Turley and Gowdy inside court: Defense denied chance to respond to 'sweeping claims' due to NY law

The problem is that, under New York law, the defense was forced to go first unlike most jurisdictions. That denied the defense the chance to respond to such sweeping claims. It is huge advantage to the prosecution.

-- Jonathan Turley, constitutional law attorney and FNC contributor

Most lawyers would trade children for last argument!

-- Trey Gowdy, “Sunday Night in America” host and former federal prosecutor
Posted by Brianna Herlihy
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World News / Re: BREAKING....Thread 9...Israel At War...OPERATION SWORDS OF IRON
« Last post by Elderberry on Today at 09:46:58 pm »
IDF tanks seen reaching central Rafah, as troops operate along key Philadelphi Route

The Times of Israel By Emanuel Fabian 5/28/2024

Military says it located tunnels, weapons, and killed terrorists overnight along Gaza-Egypt border; UNRWA says one million Palestinians have fled southern city

(Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli tanks reached the center of Rafah for the first time on Tuesday, witnesses said, as the military pressed its incursion into Gaza’s southernmost city despite mounting international opposition to the operation.

The tanks were spotted near Al-Awda mosque, a central Rafah landmark, the witnesses told Reuters. The Israeli military said its forces continued to operate in the Rafah area without commenting on reported advances into the city center.

Footage from Al Jazeera posted to social media purported to show the tanks advancing into Rafah.

There was no immediate comment from the IDF on the witness accounts, with the military saying it will issue a statement on the Rafah operation later in the day.

Amid mounting international pressure, Israel insists that the military operation in Rafah is crucial to its goal of eliminating Hamas and freeing the hostages seized during the terror group’s October 7 massacre.

International criticism escalated after Israeli airstrikes near Rafah on Sunday night, with Hamas health authorities reporting that 45 people were killed and dozens injured in the attack and in an ensuing blaze in a camp housing displaced civilians.

The Israel Defense Forces said it had targeted a Hamas compound and eliminated two commanders in the terror group’s ranks, and that it is investigating what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a “tragic mishap.”

More: https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-tanks-seen-reaching-central-rafah-as-troops-operate-along-key-philadelphi-route/

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Immigration/Border / Re: Trump: Give Police "Immunity" To Carry Out Mass Deportation Of Millions Of Illegal Immigrants
« Last post by Fishrrman on Today at 09:45:30 pm »
Trump proposed "immunity" for police officers in order to facilitate the deportation of "millions" of illegal immigrants.

Works for me.
Round 'em up.
Head 'em out.
Yeeehawww!
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Trump Legal Investigations / Re: LIVE THREAD....Day 21: Closing Arguments And Verdict
« Last post by DB on Today at 09:45:16 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on Today at 09:41:33 pm
2 minutes ago
Trump rages on Truth Social as closing arguments continue in 'hush money' trial: 'BORING!'

As closing arguments resumed in his "hush money" case on Tuesday, Trump remained active on social media.

In a pair of all-caps, single-word posts, the former president took to Truth Social just after jurors took a short break at 5 pm.

"BORING!" Trump wrote in one of the posts.

"FILIBUSTER!" he wrote in a second Truth.

It is beyond me why Trump does things like that. It just adds more stench across the board.
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Biden Crime Family / Re: Ex-stripper and mother of Hunter Biden’s estranged child writes tell-all book
« Last post by bigheadfred on Today at 09:44:27 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on Today at 09:39:07 pm
Who among us has not lost her head over a guy in parrot undies?

Gah! I've been doing it wrong all these years.
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Trump Legal Investigations / Re: LIVE THREAD....Day 21: Closing Arguments And Verdict
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 09:44:05 pm »
46 seconds ago
Trey Gowdy: Prosecution continues 'laborious' closing argument

Laborious chronology continues with Allen Weisselberg as a central figure but just not a witness in the actual trial.Ordinarily the decision not to call a witness can lead to inferences being drawn against the prosecution but when a defense does put up a case - as it did here - is that presumption voided or is it burden shifting to ask why the defense didn't call him themselves?

-- Trey Gowdy, “Sunday Night in America” host and former federal prosecutor
Posted by Brianna Herlihy

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1 min(s) ago
Stormy Daniels lied for a long time after getting money from Cohen: Howard Kurtz

Fox News host Howard Kurtz took aim at the "selective" measures the prosecution took as it sought to convince the jury of its case against former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, insisting that former porn actress Stormy Daniels "lied for a long time" as it relates to her alleged encounter with Trump.

"When it comes to the prosecution, also highly selective," said Kurtz, who hosts Fox News Channel's "MediaBuzz" on Sundays. "Josh Steinglass, the prosecutor [said] they tried to shame Stormy ... he said she never changed her story. That's preposterous. She lied for a long time after getting the $130,000 from Michael Cohen."

Describing the case against Trump as "very thin," Kurtz also took aim at the defense's "selective" measures in trying to make their case to jurors.

"I think the defense absolutely scored some points, but ... Todd Blanche started out by saying Trump and Stormy have repeatedly denied that this took place. That was to please the client, I believe, but obviously Stormy now testifies that the alleged encounter in 2006 very much did happen," Kurtz said.

Kurtz's comments come as the prosecution team continues its closing arguments, which they said could last hours longer.
Posted by Kyle Morris
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Trump Legal Investigations / Re: LIVE THREAD....Day 21: Closing Arguments And Verdict
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 09:42:08 pm »
Former President Donald Trump summed up the prosecution team's lengthy closing arguments in one word.

"BORING!" Trump posted on Truth Social Tuesday.

The prosecution team began its closing arguments around 2 p.m., and said ahead of 4 p.m. they were only about one-third of the way through the remarks.

Experts weighed in that prosecutors are dragging out the arguments in a bid to make it appear they "proved their case."

"I think their strategy is: throw a lot at the jury, make the closing seem so long, that the jury will start to say, 'well, that closing was so long, they must have had a lot to say they must have proved their case,'" New York lawyer Rebecca Rose Woodland said on Fox News Tuesday.

Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Fox News Contributor Karl Rove added that the prosecutors' case "looks like a stretch" while Americans have rallied around Trump.

"This is supposedly a federal election law violation, the Federal Election Commission looked at it and passed, the Department of Justice took a pass on it," he said. "This is supposedly the federal election law is being violated in a way that somehow ties it into a New York law regarding business records. It looks like a stretch."

"It's been put into effect by a highly partisan DA and it's frankly caused people to rally to the former president's defense," Rove added. "He's raised a lot of money for his campaign off it to pay his legal bills and he's gone up in the polls since last August when all these indictments came down. Now some of them are more serious, the classified documents case, I think, is a serious issue. But none of those other issues are likely to be heard now until the end of the election."
Posted by Emma Colton
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Trump Legal Investigations / Re: LIVE THREAD....Day 21: Closing Arguments And Verdict
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 09:41:33 pm »
2 minutes ago
Trump rages on Truth Social as closing arguments continue in 'hush money' trial: 'BORING!'

As closing arguments resumed in his "hush money" case on Tuesday, Trump remained active on social media.

In a pair of all-caps, single-word posts, the former president took to Truth Social just after jurors took a short break at 5 pm.

"BORING!" Trump wrote in one of the posts.

"FILIBUSTER!" he wrote in a second Truth.
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