Trump's Troubles

I was a bit shocked by this headline as well.

 

Man, imagine if you got a matching dollar, for every dollar invoiced to Trump by his attorneys? Be walking tall as they say!

I wonder when his "funders" are going to tire, paying off all his legal bills?

Maybe they should charge him the same rates per hour the Trump Org would charge Gov't employees to stay at his Hotels?

 

Or maybe they are taking the 'it's not a crime for a star to sexually assault women' strategy. Jurors at rape trial hear Trump defend lewd 'Grab 'em' remarks in new video

 

BREAKING: Special Counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed Trump associates Matthew Calamari Sr. and his son Matthew Calamari Jr. and both men will appear
before a grand jury tomorrow in the classified documents case.

Surveillance footage at Mar-a-Lago reportedly captured Trump’s close aide Walt Nauta and another Mar-a-Lago employee moving boxes containing documents out of a storage closet.

Investigators will focus on how documents have been handled in response to the subpoena for them and if they could have been tampered with.

Questioning will also hone in on a text message between Nauta and Calamari Sr. and subsequent conversations about the surveillance footage, according to two of the sources.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/13/walt-nauta-maralago-trump-documents/

Walt Nauta is the witness in question, according to these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. The 39-year-old worked as a valet for Trump in the Oval Office suite, according to former White House staffers, and served as a personal aide at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s residence and private club in Florida.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that an unnamed Trump employee had provided critical evidence to investigators — telling them that he moved boxes at the former president’s request at a time when the government was seeking the return of classified material, including some highly sensitive items, from Mar-a-Lago.

The witness account was corroborated by security-camera footage, the people familiar with the case said, giving investigators key evidence of Trump’s behavior as they probe potential crimes including obstruction, destruction of government records or mishandling classified information.

 

At least 8 fake electors have been granted immunity in the Georgia Trump investigation | CNN Politics

 

Reports are that 8 of the 16 Georgia fake electors have now accepted immunity deals in return for their cooperation and testimony.

Eight fake Trump electors accept immunity deal in Georgia criminal investigation: report

 

It’s all closing in.

 

Once the indictments are handed up Trump will create new defense funds and the dollars will come pouring in. I also expect his lead over Meatball Ron to increase in the polls for the 2024 Republican nomination. To his supporters additional indictments will be all further evidence that the Deep State is out to get poor Donald.
After the Mar-a-Lago raid.
New poll shows Mar-a-Lago search bolstered Trump in 2024 Republican primary
After the Bragg indictment.
The data's clear: The indictment makes Republicans like Trump more

 

Yeah but as time has passed, it has made independents like him even less.

 

O…M….G….

 

It isn't the crime that gets most folks, it is the cover up!

 

And hopefully it will make him even less electable in the general election than he was in 2020 although I would never count him out having learned a lesson from 2016. On the other hand a lot of voters especially those in the far left wing of the Democratic party also learned a lesson from 2016 i.e. a Trump presidency is a far worse alternative than the presidency of a Democrat that they considered flawed. They stayed home or voted third party in 2016. They didn't make the same mistake in 2020.

 

Georgia GOP chairman says he was just following orders from Trump lawyers | CNN Politics

I don't know what to think of this. An obviously experienced politician who willingly became a fake elector in Georgia, claiming he shouldn't be prosecuted because he was just following orders from Trump's lawyers. It is almost as though normally intelligent people get sucked into the idea that Trump is above the law, and therefore by virtue of doing his bidding, they also are above the law.

 

I don't see how Trump escapes on this without a criminal indictment.

 

Well, that didn’t take long.
Trump liable for defamation and battery. Ordered to pay $5m.
Donald Trump Found Liable in E. Jean Carroll Civil Case, Ordered to Pay $5 Million for Sexual Abuse and Defamation — The Wall Street Journal

A federal jury found Donald Trump liable to E. Jean Carroll for battery and defamation and ordered him to pay $5 million in damages, after a civil trial in which the columnist alleged the former president raped her in a Manhattan department store nearly 30 years ago.