Breaking NYT via Wallace

[malaise]

Former Manhattan DA prosecutor says he was investigating the Slobfather for racketeering.
Duh!

[Irish_Dem]

1. Duh is right.

I am responding to almost all posts today with "for god's sake."

[Scrivener7]

25. You're nicer than me.

[Irish_Dem]

27. That's me. Sweetness and light.

[Scrivener7]

29. I've always said so!

Totally!!!!

[Irish_Dem]

31. I think I might rotate my responses each day:

Monday: For God's Sake
Tuesday: For the Love of God
Wed: Jeebus H. Christ
Thurs: Good God in Heaven
Friday: Is Everyone a GD idiot?

On weekends I can just do basic random cussing as the mood hits me.

Basically covers the appropriate responses to all current political events?

[Scrivener7]

32. LOL! I find "Oh, FFS!" and "Sure, Binky" cover a lot of ground.

[Irish_Dem]

35. When you are raised Irish Catholic you have to bring God into your cussing.

My first generation Irish American father and my aunts and uncles weren't very religious.
But they did manage to bring God into every day conversation.

[SheilaAnn]

37. Favorite in our similar household, "Lord have mercy"....n/t

[Irish_Dem]

38. That's a good one too.

Lord have mercy.
God save me. (From all the GD idiots surrounding us.)

[Scrivener7]

39. My grandmother: "Oh, virgin!"

[Irish_Dem]

40. That's a good one. Never heard it before.

[Conjuay]

41. My fathers'

was either’ “Be the heart of Christ”, or “Beat the heart of Christ”. I really don’t know which.

That’s the thing about people with brogues, nobody knows what they are saying most of the time.

[Irish_Dem]

43. Didn't hear that one.

My grandparents were from the more isolated, remote western coast of Ireland.
So we didn't get some of the typical big city Irish sayings.

Right sometimes I wasn't sure what grandma and grandpa were saying.

But you could figure it out usually. One time she called a serial killer in the news "a bad egg."

I hoped she never had reason to call me a bad egg.

[pwb]

2. That may be what sticks?

It has in the past.

[Bev54]

3. I think this is a book I really want to read.

Racketeering is probably a good start. Does it say why Bragg was so afraid of this?

[onecaliberal]

4. The Pomerantz book is going to be good.

The fact that they prosecuted Cohen for the hush payment and then said there wasn’t enough evidence to try trump made him angry. I will buy and read this book.

[Scrivener7]

26. Kinda pissed me off too. Among so many hundreds of other things.

[Lovie777]

5. For pete's sake.................

shithole tried to over throw the USA.

[OMGWTF]

8. Trump is a traitor, murderer, thief, insurrectionist, racist, liar, cheat, thug, bigot, misogynist,

and an all-around assh0le.

[whathehell]

9. ..Murderer?

[Celerity]

10. COVID

[Pinback]

14. At least. (nt)

[housecat]

15. Not personally -- he's too stupid and clumsy. He likely hires people or hints with a wink

[Lunabell]

19. All the people who died from 1-6-21!

That was HIS fault!!

[FakeNoose]

18. Yeah, but New York can only indict on certain charges, treason isn't one of them

I think racketeering is a good start. They have lots of experience with that one.

[uponit7771]

22. right ?!

[spanone]

6. ...K&R...

[CanonRay]

7. Was? As in past tense?

All this shit and none sticks to the wall.

[FreeState]

16. Because he's the former Manhattan DA prosecutor

Being the former prosecutor means he is no longer a prosecutor and is now not working at all as a prosecutor. It does not mean Trump isn’t still being investigated.

[Scrivener7]

28. Bragg shut down the investigation as Pomerantz and Dunne said it was ready

to go to court. So Pomerantz and Dunne quit. And Bragg sent back all the evidence and exhibits to where they came from.

Then news came out that Pomerantz's book will drop soon, and suddenly Bragg is reopening the case.

Such a coincidence!

[Marcuse]

11. Nt

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[Justice matters.]

20. Pomerantz book claims Ivanka Trump was involved in insurance fraud (Zurich)

in the Trump Org's name.

A crime family... Check!

[malaise]

36. Thanks for this

Time to indict the Slobfather
That is all

[jaxexpat]

12. Imagine rich Republicans involved in criminality.

Now, try to imagine one who isn't.

Convict them all.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. TFG was recently referencing a great American: Al Capone. May he go the same way.

[malaise]

23. That would be perfect

😀

[Evolve Dammit]

30. His role models of Hitler and Capone tell us who he is, and what he will do. WTF America?

[housecat]

17. tfg is the don

[Liberty Belle]

21. Old news, they decided against this charge:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/nyregion/trump-mark-pomerantz-book.html

[Jarqui]

24. Sent a past Trump supporter an email response to this

He hates Trump now.
He's a retired prosecutor (mainly in fraud)
We've been debating whether they're going to convict Trump.

Since NY prosecutors Dunne and Mark F. Pomerantz resigned:
Add the additional evidence used for convictions of Trump's bookkeeper for tax evasion, fraud, etc
Add the additional evidence used for convictions of Trump companies for tax evasion, fraud, etc
Add the evidence AG James has come up with for her $250 mil minimum civil suit
Add the Trump tax returns
Add the additional assistance Michael Cohen has been providing them recently.
Maybe add the probable evidence they're going to get from Trump's CFO as it appears they've caught him in a lie
Add all the evidence that has come out for the fake electors (Fani Willis of GA was looking at racketeering for that, Michigan is also looking into it along with civil action in Michigan)
Add the incidental evidence recovered with the FBI search warrant of Mar-a-lago - some which exposed Trump's lies in AG James case - that he had financial info he claimed he did not.
And add all the evidence that has come out from the House investigation into Jan 6th ... along with evidence from folks they flip in exchange for shorter sentences .. for Jan 6th
There is probably a bunch we don't know on top of the above.

Add the extension to statute of limitations because Trump was in the Oval office, because Trump did not reside in NY State any longer and because of Covid ..


Manhattan DA Bragg has a lot more to put a racketeering or whatever case together than he did when those prosecutors resigned. So does Fani Willis of GA.

I think that is very important. Trump cites Capone. They knew for a long time what Capone was up to - just like they've suspected for a long time Trump was up to no good. But for years, they couldn't prove it against Capone in a court of law - until they finally got him on something else - tax evasion. Indicting Trump is meaningless if they can't convict. Beyond reasonable doubt is a high bar - particularly in a high profile OJ-like case. With the grand jury convened in NY, there's about a 90% generic chance that will result in an indictment.

No decent lawyer guarantees a result but the accumulation of evidence and developments are encouraging.

[malaise]

34. Great post

Wish I could rec 😀

[Silent3]

33. Consequences? Any decade now? n/t

[Hotler]

42. Thank goodness for book deals. nt