Trump attorney Evan Corcoran saved his recollections in a series of voice memos.
This kills me. Dude was asked nicely, warned, and given multiple chances to avoid falling foul of the law. Few people would get such treatment from our government. And even still, he managed to do nothing, get raided, and complain about how unfair this all is. Unbelievable.
Just for the documents, it’s 40. Was originally 37 then they added 3 more.
91 total if you count New York + Georgia + 1/6 + Documents.
Yup. Trump complains that he’s being treated differently. He’s right, but not in the way that he means. He thinks he’s being unfairly persecuted, but he’s being treated with kid gloves that few other people would get.
If you or I had 1% of the classified documents that Trump had, we wouldn’t be posting here. We’d be locked in a jail cell awaiting trial and facing decades in prison. And that’s if we were lucky.
I used to have security clearance for dealing with government files. (In Canada mind you.) If I had so much as talked about some of the things I handled I would have been facing up to 20 years in jail, never mind if I brought them home and wallpapered my guest bathroom with them.
We already have an example of someone imprisoned for doing what Trump did. Her name is Reality Winner.
What really kills me is how even people who don’t particularly like him are backing him. My husband’s uncle doesn’t like the man, but in a discussion with me replied to the number of charges with “if that’s not an abuse of power I don’t know what is”. It’s like he hadn’t even considered that Trump could well be guilty enough to warrant multiple indictments.
Seems he didn’t want to give up what he saw as his personal trophies and mementos. A physical cache proving that he was once president with access to top secret information, that he can brag about or leverage for self-gain. He’s used to always getting his way, or negotiating a favourable ‘deal’, burying those occasions which fail. A lot of his actions are difficult to rationalise as a normal person.
That’s what really gets me…. He FUCKING KNEW they were coming and he did nothing??? Only much later he attempted shit like trying to get the security footage deleted, like what??
he really thought he was forever untouchable after the impeachments bs, guess I can’t blame him at that point. Get fucked donny
He didn’t do nothing. He tried to get boxes moved out of Mar-A-Lago so that the Feds wouldn’t get them.
Yup, what he got busted with is probably just the ones he forgot he still had.
He is playing on the persecution, I think he even said it himself: each time he get arrested he’s going up in the polls.
He is using that to stay in the media, he is taking all the space so ask the news are talking about him. Even here on Lemmy, he is now present in the news than any other personality.
This seemed to be popular information when I posted it (ahem) “elsewhere”. Thought it might be welcome to have here.
If you’re trying to keep track of where we’re at in the Trump prosecutions:
Updated 9/6/2023
Georgia
13 state felonies
Election Interference
Investigation
Indictment
Arrest <- You Are Here
All 19 defendants have surrendered.
Trial - Fani Willis has now requested a trial date of October 23rd after originally asking for a trial date of 3/4/2024, one day before Super Tuesday..
Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee has ruled that the cases against Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell will both begin on October 23, 2023. It will be televised.
Trial dates for the other 17 defendants have not yet been established.
Conviction
Sentencing
Washington, D.C.
4 federal felonies
January 6th Election Interference
Investigation
Indictment
Arrest <- You Are Here
Trial - 3/4/2024, one day before Super Tuesday primaries.
Conviction
Sentencing
New York
34 state felonies
Stormy Daniels Payoff
Investigation
Indictment
Arrest <- You Are Here
Trial - March 25th, 2024
Conviction
Sentencing
Florida
40 federal felonies
Top Secret Documents charges
Investigation
Indictment
Original indictment was for 37 felonies.
3 new felonies were added on July 27, 2023.
Arrest <- You Are Here
Trial - May 20, 2024
Conviction
Sentencing
Other grand juries, such as for the documents at Bedminster, or the Arizona fake electors, have not been announced.
The E. Jean Carroll trial for sexual assault and defamation where Trump was found liable and ordered to pay $5 million before immediately defaming her again resulting in a demand for $10 million is not listed as it’s a civil case and not a crimimal one. That trial date is currently set for January 15th, the same day as the Iowa caucus. and has now been determined to be for damages only as Trump was already found liable.
I really wonder how jury selection for this will be. Like can anyone be objective in this anymore?
To be fair, he did try to hide the evidence. He just wasn’t very good at it, and the video of him trying also became evidence. As did the evidence of the failed attempt to destroy said video by “accidentally” draining the pool into the server room.
Also, there’s the list of stuff we know he had that the FBI never found…
Don’t take the right wing talking points. It wasn’t a raid, they executed a search warrant.
Hence why he was SEEN moving a crapton of boxes to his other locations in the US and probably also moved some abroad.
EDIT: read seen, not only as with eyes, but also on camera. The flight registered as a destination when they were recorded, with him directing what boxes had priority, government documents, were to Bedminster (New Jersey).
