CNN: Upfront With Erin Burnett: ‘Legal Analyst Breaks Down Significance of Donald Trump Co-Defendant Ruling’

Posted on November 22, 2023 by FredSchneiderUS

CNN_ Legal Analyst Breaks Down Significance of Trump Co-Defendant RulingSource:CNN– the one & thank God only, Donald J. Trump.

Source:The New Democrat

“CNN’s team of reporters and experts break down the decision by a Georgia judge who opted not to jail a co-defendant in former President Donald Trump’s election interference trial.”

From CNN

As my colleague Kire Schneider said on The New Democrat last week:

“As far as Donald Trump co-defendant Harrison Floyd: not claiming I’m the first person to give him the Dirty Harry nickname, but he’s classic mob thug, that the boss (in case Donald Trump) uses to do his dirty work so the boss can stay out of trouble.

At least Dirty Harry in the movies (played by Clint Eastwood) got that nickname, for being a hard-ass cop, who took the toughest cases as a San Francisco police inspector. But in Dirty Harry Floyd’s case, he’s just a wannabe mob thug whose going to pay a helluva price in Dixie Georgia, for being a dirtbag. Or in his case, a Dirty Harry Bag.”

So this is who Harrison Floyd is, Donald Trump’s social medial enforcer and henchman.

As far as this ruling, as a Liberal, I’m as strong as a proponent for free speech in America and the First Amendment, as anyone you’ll ever meet, short of Anarchists and Libertarians. The First Amendment, as much as leftists hate this, even protect dirtbags (to be frank) like Dirty Harry Floyd, just as long as they’re not promoting violence against other people, or inciting violence against other people. And apparently Judge Scott McAfee believes the same thing. But perhaps would use different language.

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Ben Meiselas: Alina Habba: ‘FINANCIAL DISASTER Unearthed, MILLION DOLLAR Liens’

Posted on November 21, 2023 by kireschneider

Trump Lawyer FINANCIAL DISASTER Unearthed, MILLION DOLLAR LiensSource:Meidas Touch– Yes, this is Donald J. Trump’s civil lawyer Alina Habba.

Source:The New Democrat

“MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on an exclusive by InTouch on how Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba and her husband owe over $1 million in liens.”

From Meidas Touch

If you followed Donald Trump’s presidency, I have some therapy that I could recommend that could help you get through that experience. Actually, that’s just a joke, since no such therapy has been invented yet. But if you survived the experience of the Donald Trump presidency and so far his post-presidency, you are getting an excellent legal education of the differences between being President and Ex-President, when it comes to your own lawyers.

When you are the President of the United States, regardless of the POTUS, you have access to be the best of legal profession in this country. Any lawyer just about would be honored to either work in your White House, or work as your personal attorney to address any personal legal issues that you might have when you are President. At least access to the best lawyers in your own party.

But when you leave The White House, especially in disgrace, when you’ve just lost reelection and only managed 46% of the popular vote and 232 out of 574 electoral votes, in a two-way race, you’ve been impeached twice in just 4 years, you have all the legal issues that are now in front of you because of your illegal conduct as President of the United States, you are very unpopular, at least outside of your own party, you have mounting financial debt in front of you because of all the money that you lost when you were President, you have access to whatever is left.

Alina Habba is not really a trial lawyer. She can barely afford to do whatever she does as a lawyer right now. She’s more of a public relations lawyer, if anything at all, who makes her living trying her client’s cases on TV and on social media. But she’s officially Donald Trump’s civil lawyer right now because she’s about the best of what’s left to try to defend him, because of his own financial situation and all the evidence that’s against him right now, in multiple cases.

Perhaps one of the reasons right now that Alina Habba owes millions of dollars, is because her own client is not paying her. But she’s trying to work for him anyway, perhaps banking on the fact that defending a former President of the United States, would lead to clients who can and would pay her very well for her legal advice and actions in the future. But that career strategy is obviously not working out for her right now.

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CNN: Upfront With Erin Burnett: ‘Ty Cobb Predicts Donald Trump Would Defy Gag Order & Go To Jail’

Posted on November 21, 2023 by FredSchneiderUS

Ty Cobb predicts Trump would defy gag order and go to jailSource:CNN– former Donald J. Trump personal lawyer Ty Cobb.

Source:The New Democrat

“Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb tells CNN’s Erin Burnett he thinks former President Donald Trump will spend time in jail for violating a limited gag order if it is restored by a federal appeals court.”

From CNN

Assuming that Judge Tanya Churkan’s gag order is reinstated (and I’m not a lawyer) Donald Trump will not only violate it, but then be fined and probably violate it multiple times and be fined multiple times and perhaps his lawyers will be fined as well for not being able to control their own client. And yes, if the fines don’t work, I believe Judge Chutkan will send Donald J. Trump to jail for contempt of court. Talk about real reality TV: who would miss seeing Donald J. Trump being sent to a real jail to serve time there?

Ty Cobb obviously knows Donald Trump better than me, as well as Erin Burnett and knows what it’s like to try to work for that man and he’s saying that his former client when DJT was President, will not only lose this appeal, but then violate the gag order.

I don’t get any pleasure in comparing a former President of the United States, even a failed and bad President, a President that only managed to get 46% of the vote in two, two-way-races in 2016 and 2020, to a mobster. But I think you have to look at Donald Trump with all the cases and all the evidence that’s against him, a man who views himself as unaccountable and above the law, in that way.

Donald Trump knows what happened as well, if not better on January 6th, 2021, better than everyone else. Or at least no one knows that day better than him. He knows about his own activity today, he knows what the people around him know about that day. He knows what he told them and what he told them to do. And now most if not all those people, including his own Vice President Mike Pence, his own Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, will be testifying against him.

When you are a mobster and you know your guilty, at least under law and you know what’s against you as far as the evidence and the witnesses against you, but you still don’t want to go to prison anyway, your only real play here is to try to make the case against the prosecutors, instead of the case against you and try to prove your innocence. As well as try to intimidate witnesses who will testify against you. Perhaps try to incite violence against the witnesses against you, since there’s no evidence that Donald Trump has ever personally directed someone to take out or beat up a witness against him.

That’s why this gag order will be imposed against him because that’s how DJT will try to win the case, by trying to poison the jury pool so the jury simply won’t believe their own ears and eyes in this case and ignore all the evidence and witnesses against the former President of the United States

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Forbes Magazine: RFK Jr: ‘Democratic & Republican Parties Are Going To Try To Prevent Me From Getting On The Ballot’

Posted on November 20, 2023 by kireschneider

RFK Jr_ 'Democratic & Republican Parties Are Going To Try To Prevent Me From Getting On The Ballot'Source:Forbes Magazine– for people who are just waking up from a coma: left to right: President Joe Biden, professional conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy JR, and the one and only (thank God only) Donald J. Trump.

Source:The New Democrat

“At a campaign rally last week, independent 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked for grassroots support to get on the ballot.”

From Forbes Magazine

I’m paraphrasing here, but RFK JR. said: “If you only listened to MSNBC, CNN, and The New York Times, if you only got your news from those news sources and not from Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, etc, I would have low approval rating of myself.”

This RFK JR. partial quote goes to my two points, about his campaign for President.

1. Robert F. Kennedy JR. is a bigger threat to Donald Trump, then Joe Biden.

2. Robert F. Kennedy’s main goal here is to see that Joe Biden isn’t reelected President. I think that’s why he originally ran for President as a Democrat (even though ideologically neither a Democrat or Republican) was to somehow, try to defeat Joe Biden. But when you run as a MAGA conspiracy theorist, most if not all of your interviews are done with MAGA news sources, Democratic voters can see that you really aren’t one of them and will just ignore you.

Just watching that 5 minute clip of RFK JR., suggests to me that he has no business talking about how old either Joe Biden or Donald Trump are, but he has no business even visiting The White House, let alone running for it, or getting elected.

RFK JR. struggles just to put words together, let alone sentences. Or to stay on one topic after making one point. He sounds like he’s been speaking on the Senate floor for a weeks’ straight, delivering a real filibuster, without even taking a water break. Perhaps he graduated from the Donald Trump School of Public Speaking (not saying one exists) and perhaps is running for President to get his damn money back.

Whatever the case, Bob Kennedy is not even close to being a serious politician. Which is a damn shame, because 5-10 years ago, he was one of the sharpest environmental lawyers around.

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Real Time With Bill Maher: Overtime: Donna Brazile & Adam Kinzinger

Posted on November 20, 2023 by FredSchneiderUS

Real Time With Bill Maher_ Overtime_ Donna Brazile & Adam KinzingerSource:Real Time With Bill Maher– left to right for people who are hard of seeing: Donna Brazile & Adam Kinzinger.

Source:The New Democrat

“Bill and his guests continue their conversation after the show.”

From Real Time With Bill Maher

There’s not much here to go with, but there are a few points that were made in this segment that might keep people awake long enough to read this, which is what I’ll talk about.

Adam Kinziner, whose one of the last of the true Conservative Republicans, (which is why I guess he’s no longer in the U.S. House of Representatives) made an excellent point about Governor Ron DeSantis and predicting that Governor DeSanitis would be the next Republican to drop out of the Republican presidential race.

Kinzinger’s argument is that Ron DeSantis’s play was that Donald Trump would fall because of all the legal baggage and that even some MAGA Republicans (who aren’t really Republicans, but that’s a different story) would think that Trump can’t win the general election, because of all the legal cases, the baggage, and evidence against DJT and that DeSantis would inherit those voters from Trump.

But as Kinzinger said (and they served in the House together in the 2010s) Ron DeSanitis is like the most boring person that you could possibly ever dream of meeting. No personality, not likable, etc. You can’t win in Iowa, New Hampshire, probably South Carolina as well, which isn’t as rural as the other states, but you can’t win in those states if you are boring and unlikable.

The main problem that Ron DeSantis seems to have is that his message is basically: “I’m as interesting as a phonebook, I’m also an asshole, but I would make a good President.” Which seems to be Ron DeSantis’s message to the early Republican voters right now. Along with since Donald Trump has taken over the Republican Party, they’ve been losing, which is why they need a change. He’s right about that, but he hasn’t made the case for why he should be the next leader of that party.

Bill Maher’s point about Joe Biden being that he’s not too old to be President. He’s just too old to get reelected President and its perception that voters care about and not reality. As I said on The New Democrat  back in October:

“It’s one thing to say that Joe Biden shouldn’t run for reelection. But I didn’t hear Bill Maher mention anyone who should run for President as the Democrat in the President’s place. You can quote James Carville all you want, but Carville doesn’t have a Democratic alternative to Trump either.”

The only thing that I have to add to what I said back in October about Joe Biden’s reelection possibilities is, to beat somebody, you have to have somebody or be somebody yourself.

If the Democratic Party really believed that Joe Biden is either too old to get reelected or too old to beat Donald Trump again, (even though he’s still the only person whose ever beaten Donald Trump in any election) you would see a boatload of mainstream Democrats running against the the President right now.

What we have instead are just these boring, middle of the road Democrats, who don’t really believe in anything, who are probably just trying to get more attention for themselves, raise more money for a future campaign, or just perhaps just secretly trying to sabotage the President because they don’t like him. Or, professional conspiracy theorists, who aren’t really Democrats or Republicans ideologically and don’t know what else to do with their time right now.

I think people like David Axelrod, who really does believe that Joe Biden is a in political trouble right now, with concerns about his age and how low approval rating, really believe that Joe Biden could definitely lose right now and perhaps is even the underdog going in 2024.

But who beats the President a year from now? Some might say Nikki Haley, but she has to defeat Donald Trump 1st and get his voters behind her. Some might say Donald Trump, but he’ll be a convicted a felon a year from now and probably bankrupt as well.

Are American voters (and I’m talking about Democrats, Independents, and center-right Republicans) who truly believe that Donald Trump, who a year from now will be a bankrupt, convicted felon, who is a real threat to American democracy, freedom, and the republic, really want for President again, especially over someone who believes in those values that Donald Trump would try to destroy, if given the chance? I seriously doubt that because there’s no evidence of that.

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C-SPAN: Author Discussion On ‘The Crisis of Masculinity’

Posted on November 17, 2023 by kireschneider

C-SPAN_ Author Discussion On The Crisis of MasculinitySource:C-SPAN Nancy Pearcey talking about her book.

Source:The New Democrat

“Authors Nancy Pearcey (“The Toxic War on Masculinity”) and Christina Hoff Sommers (“The War Against Boys”) argue that males are falling behind in American society and discuss why this is happening.”

From C-SPAN

If only Phyllis Schlafy was alive and well to hear Nancy Pearcey talk about her book: “The Toxic War On Masculinity” she would probably walk up to author Pearcey and give her the hug of her lifetime and author to buy 100,000 copies of her book.

Having said all of that, I think Nancy Pearcey has one good point. If militant feminists had their way, there wouldn’t be any more straight, masculine men. The ideal man of the militant feminist, (if there is such a thing) is essentially a queen. A man who only seems like a man as far as physical appearance, meaning their body, not so much how they dress.

But, if the Nancy Pearcey’s/Phyllis Schlafly’s of the world had their way, America would probably lose the last 60 plus years of its history. Time would just stop and it would be 1954 or 55 everyday in America, every year.

If Nancy Pearcey and Phyllis Schlafly had their way:

women would just be servants of men

gays would be locked in the closet, (but only after the mental institutions, jails, and prisons, are all filled up)

every American would be forced to go to an Anglo-Saxon-Protestant church, every Sunday, by law

the only music that would be available to listen to in America, would either be easy listening, country, or classic

we would have 1000 different Hallmark Channels.

America would be the West’s version of Saudi Arabia or Iran. But again, only if the Nancy Pearcey’s and Phyllis Schlafly’s had their way.

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Michael Smerconish: Representative George Santos Gets Hit Hard With House Ethics Report

Posted on November 17, 2023 by FredSchneiderUS

George Santos gets hit hard with an ethics report, won't seek re-election #politicalnews #politicsSource:Michael Smerconish talking about soon to be former U.S. Representative George Santos (Republican, New York)

Source:The New Democrat

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From Michael Smerconish

“Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain’t going to do any good; you’re just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here… like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There’s a nice campaign slogan for somebody: ‘The Public Sucks. F*ck Hope.”
― George Carlin”

From Good Reads

George Carlin really makes my whole point about Representative George Santos and I could rest my case here, but I’ll explain anyway how the Carlin point about politicians, makes my point about George Santos.

We get the government that we deserve, we get the politicians that we deserve, democracy has consequences, etc. But what does that mean? What we’re now learning about George Santos in 2023, was available more than a year ago. His own people were resigning from his campaign and trying to get him to drop out of his U.S. House race because they saw him as a fraud.

George Santos makes the whole case about the importance not just of opposition research, but political self-examination, doing an intelligence report about yourself and seeing how the other side and media are going to try to hit you. Then seeing if there is anything in your background that can hurt you. As well as is there too much that can hurt you and is it even worth running for office at all.

The opposition research is your own campaign doing an intelligence report on your opponent and seeing if there are any real ethical problems with your opponent and not just the partisan attacks that campaigns throw back at each other, but real ethical problems with your opponent that could make that person really unfit for elected office.

Robert Zimmernan who was George Santos opponent in that 2022 New York House race, was on CNN last night pretty much blaming everyone else for why we didn’t know about George Santos before he was elected to the House last year. He said it was the job if the Democratic Campaign Committee and the media to get and report all the information about Santos that he was a fraud, and conman, crook, and even criminal.

Robert Zimmernan also said that his campaign did do some opposition research on Santos and got a lot of it right. Well, if that’s the case, how come the Zimmerman Campaign didn’t bother to report any of that information? Maybe they actually didn’t want to win, or something, I don’t know. Just because someone runs for office, doesn’t prove that they actually want to win.

Everything that we know about George Santos today, was available 13 months ago. But the media and and the Zimmernan Campaign didn’t bother to report it. Or, the voters in that House district simply didn’t care. Maybe their attitude was, George Santos can’t be any more crooked than the average politician. Maybe they decided they don’t like Robert Zimmerman. Maybe their attitude was: “George Santos is a lying sleazebag and conman. But at least he’s not Robert Zimmerman.”

Or, to go by the George Carlin rule, they decided that they get the politicians that they deserve and decided that they deserve a man who lives off the backs of others, including people who work hard for a living and struggle just to get by, even in an era of high inflation and interest rates. Why not vote for someone who lives off of them not just for the luxuries in life, but to pay for their own rent, food, the basic necessities in life.

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Michael Popok: ‘Prosecutors FINALLY DROP THE HAMMER On Donald Trump Co-Defendant’

Posted on November 16, 2023 by kireschneider

Meidas Touch_ Prosecutors FINALLY DROP THE HAMMER on Trump Co-DefendantSource:Meidas Touch– left to right: Raven Symone, I mean Fulton Country, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, Dirty Harry Floyd, and Biggest Loser Donald Trump.

Source:The New Democrat

“Harrison Floyd a Trump conspiracy co defendant in Georgia is about to go back to jail for violating the conditions of his release by mercilessly attacking likely witnesses in the case on social media, including a person he already got criminally charged for victimizing in the indictment. Michael Popok of Legal AF, analyzes the likelihood of Mr. Floyd being sent to jail, and how the judge will use this decision as a template on how to handle Donald Trump in the future.”

From the Meidas Touch

Just on a personal note first and at risk of being called a sexist and perhaps racist by a bus load of far-leftists: I’m finally glad I have a good image on The New Democrat of Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis. I mean what a pussy cat. She’s classic example of how looks, especially baby face looks and little girly voices, can be deceiving. She’s one of the toughest prosecutors in the country and perhaps one of the best and smartest as well.

As far as Donald Trump co-defendant Harrison Floyd: not claiming I’m the first person to give him the Dirty Harry nickname, but he’s classic mob thug, that the boss (in case Donald Trump) uses to do his dirty work so the boss can stay out of trouble.

At least Dirty Harry in the movies (played by Clint Eastwood) got that nickname, for being a hard-ass cop, who took the toughest cases as a San Francisco police inspector. But in Dirty Harry Floyd’s case, he’s just a wannabe mob thug whose going to pay a helluva price in Dixie Georgia, for being a dirtbag. Or in his case, a Dirty Harry Bag.

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Harry Litman: ‘Fulton County DA’s STRATEGIC MOVE Reveals LIKELY FATE For Top Donald Trump Allies’

Posted on November 16, 2023 by FredSchneiderUS

Harry Litman_ Fulton County DA's STRATEGIC MOVE Reveals LIKELY FATE For Top Donald Trump AlliesSource:Harry Litman– left to right: former Donald Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows & and his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Dumb & Dumber might be too harsh (key word being might) but these are perhaps the two main architects of Donald Trump’s scheme to throw out the 2020 presidential election and just automatically declare Biggest Loser Don the winner of the presidential election.

Source:The New Democrat

“Several co-defendants in the Fulton County case such as Donald Trump, John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, and Mark Meadows have not been offered plea deals. The news has led some prosecutors in the group to reconsider their legal strategy going forward.”

From Harry Litman

I don’t have much to add here. (Which might be relief to some people) I guess this is just a slow news day. But I can’t see Mark Meadows making it through a trial. He’ll be 65 next year, he’s guilty of clear Georgia state felonies, as well as Federal felonies.

The Meadows book deal where he wrote a book that he now admits is bullshit (to call it like it is) is probably the only thing that he has to finance his defense here. So he really needs to be thinking about whether he wants to go to prison and be in there well into his 70s. Even if somehow Donald Trump wins the presidential election next year, (and stranger things have happened in America) Mark Meadows would still have to go to trial in Atlanta in 2025, if not before that. With no one waiting around to pardon him. If he went to trial, he would get convicted, especially with all the evidence that’s now against him, plus more that will come out against him before the trial, and of course during the trial.

As far as Rudy Giuliani: even if he does have something that District Attorney Fani Willis doesn’t have against Donald Trump and his co-defendants, as Harry Litman and other had said, he’s a horrible witness because he’s a compulsive liar. Which can happen to you when you spend a lot of time with Donald Trump, Trump infects you with his bullshit. So Rudy might be in a situation where he would have to just plead guilty and allocute to his crimes and hope for a lighter prison sentence in exchange.

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Ben Meiselas & Michael Popok: ‘SHOCKING Moment Lawyer CONFESSES in Donald Trump RICO Case to LEAKING Videos’

Posted on November 15, 2023 by kireschneider

Meidas Touch_ SHOCKING Moment Lawyer CONFESSES in Donald Trump RICO Case to LEAKING VideosSource:Meidas Touch– left to right: Fulton County, Georgia Judge Scott McAfee & Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis.

Source:The New Democrat

“Legal AF hosts Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok cover the surprising moment during the protective order hearing where a lawyer for Donald Trump’s co-defendant confessed to providing the proffer session video confessions of Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis to the media.”

From the Meidas Touch

Both Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok could explain this better to you since they’re both lawyers: under the 6th Amendment, we all have a right to a trial in America. Anyone whose inducted for anything, regardless of the evidence against them, has a constitutional right to be tried in a public court. Instead of just pleading guilty, or immediately being sent to prison upon being indicted.

There is a big but here: we don’t have a constitutional right to try our cases in public. We don’t have a constitutional right to leak to the media protected and classified evidence against or for us. Whatever evidence that the prosecution has against us, or could be used to help us, if we’re a defendant in a felony case, has to be presented in court and then approved by the judge, whether or not it’s allowed to be presented in the case at all.

If Donald Trump and his lawyers, as well as his co-defendants lawyers don’t want to be convicted of a felony and end up in prison themselves, along with their clients, and worry about having to share a cell with a serial murder, or being poisoned in the chow hall, when they’re trying to eat their meals, (if you want to call prison food meals) or getting stabbed in the chow hall, they need to play by the rules of the court. Anytime they believe that the judge is being unfair to them and their clients and rules against them unfairly, they can always appeal the judge’s decisions against them.

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