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Trump prosecutor Fani Willis dealt major blow after jury acquits 2 defendants in massive YSL trial
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More good news for Fati
District Attorney Fani Willis ordered to release all communications with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the January 6th Committee
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When the Hunter becomes the hunted
DOJ briefed House Committee on prosecutorial misconduct by Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team.
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If Trump and his co-conspirators had been remanded into custody upon arrest...LIKE EVERY OTHER PERSON CHARGED WITH SIMILAR CRIMES...none of this.
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NY AG's office REJECTS Trump request to dismiss the $454 million civil fraud case.
NY AG correctly says presidents have ZERO immunity from civil cases based on non-official conduct (in this case, business fraud).
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IG report found FBI had 26 undercover assets at Jan 6
INSURRECTION !
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January 6th Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson is now publicly saying he would accept a blanket, preemptive pardon from Joe Biden:
“It’s his prerogative. If he offers it to me – or other members of the committee – I think, I would accept it.”
LOL !
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ABC News and its top anchor George Stephanopoulos have reached a $15 million settlement deal with President-elect Donald Trump in an agreement to drop his defamation suit and avoid a costly trial.
The settlement was filed on Saturday, with the news network agreeing to pay the money as a charitable contribution to a "Presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for Plaintiff, as Presidents of the United States of America have established in the past." ABC News has also agreed to pay $1 million in attorney fees.
The lawsuit comes after Trump sued Stephanopoulos for comments he made in an interview with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), during which he claimed the president-elect had been found liable for rape.
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PATHETIC COWARDICE FROM ABC
ABC is trash. Shame on them. Let’s not mince words after what they just did in settling a civil lawsuit with Donald Trump for $15 million and issuing a written apology to Trump. In announcing this settlement to Trump, ABC has declared to us all that it is compromised. It is no longer legitimate. It works only for Trump now and billionaires. It takes its orders from Trump now. It obeys its master, Trump. I’m sure it did before. They are putting an exclamation point on that now and giving us all the middle finger.
To give you more context about what just occurred, ABC and George Stephanopoulos announced they have settled a defamation lawsuit filed against them by Trump. They issued a written apology and are “donating” $15 million to a future Trump presidential library. I put the word donate in quotes because it’s probably a way for ABC/Disney to take a tax deduction or write-off by structuring the settlement this way.
Trump previously sued ABC and Stephanopoulos for defamation because, on his weekend TV show, Stephanopoulos described what Trump did to E. Jean Carroll as “rape” and not “sexual assault.” E. Jean Carroll prevailed in her New York federal civil lawsuits against Trump for sexual assault and defamation. Trump had to post a bond close to $100 million after losing and is appealing the unanimous jury verdicts.
Trump’s defamation lawsuit against ABC and Stephanopoulos claimed Trump was injured because Stephanopoulos described the jury verdict against Trump as a rape instead of a sexual assault. Under the technical definitions of New York law, using a finger to forcibly penetrate a woman’s vagina without consent is classified as a sexual assault but not rape. Trump argued that Stephanopoulos injured Trump by not making this technical distinction about New York law.
To be clear, this is how the federal judge in the New York civil case filed by Carroll against Trump, Judge Lewis Kaplan, described the verdict by the jury in those cases:
“Instead, the proof convincingly established, and the jury implicitly found, that Mr. Trump deliberately and forcibly penetrated Ms. Carroll’s vagina with his fingers, causing immediate pain and long-lasting emotional and psychological harm. Mr. Trump’s argument therefore ignores the bulk of the evidence at trial, misinterprets the jury’s verdict, and mistakenly focuses on the New York Penal Law definition of ‘rape’ to the exclusion of the meaning of that word as it often is used in everyday life and of the evidence of what actually occurred between Ms. Carroll and Mr. Trump.”
In another order, Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled:
“As the Court explained in its recent decision denying Mr. Trump’s motion for a new trial on damages and other relief in Carroll II, based on all of the evidence at trial and the jury’s verdict as a whole, the jury’s finding that Mr. Trump ‘sexually abused’ Ms. Carroll implicitly determined that he forcibly penetrated her digitally—in other words, that Mr. Trump in fact did ‘rape’ Ms. Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood in contexts outside of the New York Penal Law.”
Trump’s entire lawsuit against ABC for defamation was nothing but an attempt to bully and intimidate them and other journalists. Trump saying he was injured because Stephanopoulos should have called it “a forcible digital penetration of the genitals” is utterly absurd and disgusting. The fact that ABC just settled this case and gave Trump $15 million and a public apology shocks the conscience.
The timing of this settlement was related to an order issued by the judge in Trump’s defamation case on Friday.
The judge ordered both Trump and Stephanopoulos to sit for four-hour depositions under oath next week.
Trump was a cornered rat by this order, and ABC bailed him out.
Trump would have had to sit in front of a video camera next week and answer questions about his sexual assault, his past behaviour toward women and girls, statements he has made in the past about grabbing women by their genitals without consent, potentially his connections to people like Jeffrey Epstein, and his finances. All of this would be relevant in a defence to a defamation case. It would have been highly embarrassing to Trump.
When Michael Cohen was sued by Trump for $500 million, Trump dismissed his lawsuit before he had to sit for a deposition. Trump did not want to sit for an under-oath deposition noticed by Cohen and withdrew his lawsuit against Cohen. Trump backed down after he was ordered to a deposition.
Here, it is very doubtful Trump would have sat for a deposition in this ABC case he filed. Also, if Trump did sit for a deposition, in my opinion, ABC would have been easily armed with more than enough evidence to win their lawsuit against Trump on summary judgment (a type of motion to dismiss) before there was ever a trial.
ABC’s lawyers clearly knew this. They were afraid that forcing Trump to do a deposition and beating Trump in court would embarrass Trump and he would retaliate against them and their parent company Disney when in office. As a result, ABC devised this settlement plan to issue a written apology to Trump and donate $15 million to a future Trump library, which it could also likely structure as a tax deduction or write-off. ABC and its parent company Disney clearly viewed this as a way to curry favour with Trump and to avoid retaliation.
In entering this settlement agreement, ABC has also entered its own fate in history as being a total and utter disgrace.
There are some good reporters at ABC. How they can continue to work for an organization that has completely capitulated in advance in such a humiliating and cowardly way?
In many ways, given the subject matter of the lawsuit filed by Trump against ABC, it is also a slap in the face to sexual assault victims. ABC’s settlement with Trump is perhaps one of the, if not the single most, pathetic acts of any journalistic entity in the history of America.
ABC is a subsidiary of Disney. It is funded and owned by billionaires. You probably didn’t know this, but Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, is also one of the largest shareholders of Disney, through the Murdoch Family Trust. Disney is owned and funded by other billionaire oligarchical interests as well. Their interest is money. Not democracy. They don’t give a crap about we the people.
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PATHETIC COWARDICE FROM ABC
ABC is trash. Shame on them. Let’s not mince words after what they just did in settling a civil lawsuit with Donald Trump for $15 million and issuing a written apology to Trump. In announcing this settlement to Trump, ABC has declared to us all that it is compromised. It is no longer legitimate. It works only for Trump now and billionaires. It takes its orders from Trump now. It obeys its master, Trump. I’m sure it did before. They are putting an exclamation point on that now and giving us all the middle finger.
To give you more context about what just occurred, ABC and George Stephanopoulos announced they have settled a defamation lawsuit filed against them by Trump. They issued a written apology and are “donating” $15 million to a future Trump presidential library. I put the word donate in quotes because it’s probably a way for ABC/Disney to take a tax deduction or write-off by structuring the settlement this way.
Trump previously sued ABC and Stephanopoulos for defamation because, on his weekend TV show, Stephanopoulos described what Trump did to E. Jean Carroll as “rape” and not “sexual assault.” E. Jean Carroll prevailed in her New York federal civil lawsuits against Trump for sexual assault and defamation. Trump had to post a bond close to $100 million after losing and is appealing the unanimous jury verdicts.
Trump’s defamation lawsuit against ABC and Stephanopoulos claimed Trump was injured because Stephanopoulos described the jury verdict against Trump as a rape instead of a sexual assault. Under the technical definitions of New York law, using a finger to forcibly penetrate a woman’s vagina without consent is classified as a sexual assault but not rape. Trump argued that Stephanopoulos injured Trump by not making this technical distinction about New York law.
To be clear, this is how the federal judge in the New York civil case filed by Carroll against Trump, Judge Lewis Kaplan, described the verdict by the jury in those cases:
“Instead, the proof convincingly established, and the jury implicitly found, that Mr. Trump deliberately and forcibly penetrated Ms. Carroll’s vagina with his fingers, causing immediate pain and long-lasting emotional and psychological harm. Mr. Trump’s argument therefore ignores the bulk of the evidence at trial, misinterprets the jury’s verdict, and mistakenly focuses on the New York Penal Law definition of ‘rape’ to the exclusion of the meaning of that word as it often is used in everyday life and of the evidence of what actually occurred between Ms. Carroll and Mr. Trump.”
In another order, Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled:
“As the Court explained in its recent decision denying Mr. Trump’s motion for a new trial on damages and other relief in Carroll II, based on all of the evidence at trial and the jury’s verdict as a whole, the jury’s finding that Mr. Trump ‘sexually abused’ Ms. Carroll implicitly determined that he forcibly penetrated her digitally—in other words, that Mr. Trump in fact did ‘rape’ Ms. Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood in contexts outside of the New York Penal Law.”
Trump’s entire lawsuit against ABC for defamation was nothing but an attempt to bully and intimidate them and other journalists. Trump saying he was injured because Stephanopoulos should have called it “a forcible digital penetration of the genitals” is utterly absurd and disgusting. The fact that ABC just settled this case and gave Trump $15 million and a public apology shocks the conscience.
The timing of this settlement was related to an order issued by the judge in Trump’s defamation case on Friday.
The judge ordered both Trump and Stephanopoulos to sit for four-hour depositions under oath next week.
Trump was a cornered rat by this order, and ABC bailed him out.
Trump would have had to sit in front of a video camera next week and answer questions about his sexual assault, his past behaviour toward women and girls, statements he has made in the past about grabbing women by their genitals without consent, potentially his connections to people like Jeffrey Epstein, and his finances. All of this would be relevant in a defence to a defamation case. It would have been highly embarrassing to Trump.
When Michael Cohen was sued by Trump for $500 million, Trump dismissed his lawsuit before he had to sit for a deposition. Trump did not want to sit for an under-oath deposition noticed by Cohen and withdrew his lawsuit against Cohen. Trump backed down after he was ordered to a deposition.
Here, it is very doubtful Trump would have sat for a deposition in this ABC case he filed. Also, if Trump did sit for a deposition, in my opinion, ABC would have been easily armed with more than enough evidence to win their lawsuit against Trump on summary judgment (a type of motion to dismiss) before there was ever a trial.
ABC’s lawyers clearly knew this. They were afraid that forcing Trump to do a deposition and beating Trump in court would embarrass Trump and he would retaliate against them and their parent company Disney when in office. As a result, ABC devised this settlement plan to issue a written apology to Trump and donate $15 million to a future Trump library, which it could also likely structure as a tax deduction or write-off. ABC and its parent company Disney clearly viewed this as a way to curry favour with Trump and to avoid retaliation.
In entering this settlement agreement, ABC has also entered its own fate in history as being a total and utter disgrace.
There are some good reporters at ABC. How they can continue to work for an organization that has completely capitulated in advance in such a humiliating and cowardly way?
In many ways, given the subject matter of the lawsuit filed by Trump against ABC, it is also a slap in the face to sexual assault victims. ABC’s settlement with Trump is perhaps one of the, if not the single most, pathetic acts of any journalistic entity in the history of America.
ABC is a subsidiary of Disney. It is funded and owned by billionaires. You probably didn’t know this, but Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, is also one of the largest shareholders of Disney, through the Murdoch Family Trust. Disney is owned and funded by other billionaire oligarchical interests as well. Their interest is money. Not democracy. They don’t give a crap about we the people.
ABC TOOK AWAY HIS SOCIAL MEDIA PRIVILEGES
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She kills it here
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Megyn Kelly tearing George Stephanopoulos to shreds. Today it’s costing ABC 15 Million and he has to apologize. <br> <a href="https://t.co/UPCkogLC9I">pic.twitter.com/UPCkogLC9I</a></p>— Big Fish (@BigFish3000) <a href="https://twitter.com/BigFish3000/status/1868041345086185962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >December 14, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Comment -
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">READY TO ROCK AGAIN!!!������������ <a href="https://t.co/BE0P9fcKVE">pic.twitter.com/BE0P9fcKVE</a></p>— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) <a href="https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1868005428497686549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >December 14, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Comment -
Poor little Clinton bootlicker
She kills it here
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Megyn Kelly tearing George Stephanopoulos to shreds. Today it’s costing ABC 15 Million and he has to apologize. <br> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://t.co/UPCkogLC9I">pic.twitter.com/UPCkogLC9I</a></p>— Big Fish (@BigFish3000) <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/BigFish3000/status/1868041345086185962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >December 14, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Comment -
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Judge Juan Merchan has REJECTED Trump's bid to have his criminal conviction thrown out, thus ensuring that when he re-enters the Oval Office, he will be the first convicted felon to serve as President.
Trump's argument was leaning on the Supreme Court's ruling that grants Presidents immunity for "official" acts, but the acts he was convicted for were not "official" and occurred before he became President.
Normally, every loss for Trump is a win for America, but the reality of a convicted felon in our White House is a collective loss for America as a whole.
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Worst thing about the sycophantic ABC settlement is MAGA misinterpreting it as “proof that Trump was indeed not found liable for raping E. Jean Carroll” even though he WAS by both the judge and jury.
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For all you Jan 6 Sham Committee fans
Looks like Liz Cheney might want to accept a possible preemptive pardon like Bennie Thompson already has hinted he would .
Remember “star witness “ Cassidy Hutchinson’s bombshell testimony ?
Suckers !
This new report from the @OversightAdmn Committee on the corruption of the January 6 Committee is truly stunning.
The timeline goes like this:
- Cassidy Hutchinson does 3 interviews with the J6 Committee
- Alyssa Farah connects Hutchinson with Liz Cheney and they start directly communicating, a blatant ethics violation.
- Liz Cheney convinces her to replace her lawyer with a liberal activist
- Hutchinson does her 4th interview in which she begins making all of her outlandish claims to the committee.
- Those claims turn out to be false.
- The J6 Committee deletes over one terabyte worth of data before the new GOP majority took over.
Basically, Liz Cheney committed criminal witness tampering in order to derail President Trump.Last edited by jt315; 12-18-24, 07:13 AM.Comment -
Trump winning again is frightening to the rats.For all you Jan 6 Sham Committee fans
Looks like Liz Cheney might want to accept a possible preemptive pardon like Bennie Thompson already has hinted he would .
Remember “star witness “ Cassidy Hutchinson’s bombshell testimony ?
Suckers !
This new report from the @OversightAdmn Committee on the corruption of the January 6 Committee is truly stunning.
The timeline goes like this:
- Cassidy Hutchinson does 3 interviews with the J6 Committee
- Alyssa Farah connects Hutchinson with Liz Cheney and they start directly communicating, a blatant ethics violation.
- Liz Cheney convinces her to replace her lawyer with a liberal activist
- Hutchinson does her 4th interview in which she begins making all of her outlandish claims to the committee.
- Those claims turn out to be false.
- The J6 Committee deletes over one terabyte worth of data before the new GOP majority took over.
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ABC News is considering parting ways with George Stephanopoulos after they were forced to pay Trump $16M, according to Variety.
The outlet reports that insiders say Stephanopoulos is fuming behind the scenes after ABC was forced to make an apology to Trump.
"Insiders at ABC aren’t sure if he will stay at the network given the recent turn of events," Variety reported.
"Sources say Stephanopoulos has been vocal about how unhappy he has been with the settlement and apology."
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ABC News is considering parting ways with George Stephanopoulos after they were forced to pay Trump $16M, according to Variety.
The outlet reports that insiders say Stephanopoulos is fuming behind the scenes after ABC was forced to make an apology to Trump.
"Insiders at ABC aren’t sure if he will stay at the network given the recent turn of events," Variety reported.
"Sources say Stephanopoulos has been vocal about how unhappy he has been with the settlement and apology."
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is how the Dems coerce others to tow the blue line.<br><br>“George Stephanopoulos is a Fake News favorite, but he has a reputation that is not so great.” <a href="https://t.co/n8cTysFCDZ">pic.twitter.com/n8cTysFCDZ</a></p>— SweetPeaBelle (@SweetPeaBell326) <a href="https://twitter.com/SweetPeaBell326/status/1721875738595397937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >November 7, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Comment -
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And take your whole office with you
The Georgia Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must be removed from the 2020 election case against President-elect Donald Trump, reversing a trial judge's decision that allowed her to remain on the case.
Trump and more than a dozen allies were charged last year by Fulton County prosecutors related to what they said was an alleged scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. The president-elect pleaded not guilty.
"After carefully considering the trial court's findings in its order, we conclude that it erred by failing to disqualify DA Willis and her office," the Georgia Court of Appeals said in its decision..Comment -
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get ready for the spin for the radical Lefties.And take your whole office with you
The Georgia Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must be removed from the 2020 election case against President-elect Donald Trump, reversing a trial judge's decision that allowed her to remain on the case.
Trump and more than a dozen allies were charged last year by Fulton County prosecutors related to what they said was an alleged scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. The president-elect pleaded not guilty.
"After carefully considering the trial court's findings in its order, we conclude that it erred by failing to disqualify DA Willis and her office," the Georgia Court of Appeals said in its decision..
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><a href="https://t.co/pGNRcWpFyK">pic.twitter.com/pGNRcWpFyK</a></p>— Fail Troop (@FailTroop) <a href="https://twitter.com/FailTroop/status/1869709435440075197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >December 19, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Last edited by DwightShrute; 12-19-24, 07:10 PM.Comment -
A Georgia judge has ruled that Fani Willis must testify under oath before the State Senate to address allegations of misconduct in the Trump RICO case.
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Rolling Stone this week confirmed reports that Jack Smith, his prosecutors, and even staffers are lawyering up and terrified about the prospect of a Trump DOJ investigation into the special counsel's office.
"Multiple people who worked with Smith and his core team have preemptively reviewed their private and professional communications, to make sure they hadn’t written anything that could be subpoenaed, publicly revealed, and used against them to paint a narrative of alleged misconduct or supposed anti-Trump bias."
Will the hunters become the hunted ?
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