Historic news - NYTimes reporting Grand Jury voted to FELONY indict trump!

[Roland99]

Link to tweet

A dark day for America. But a shining light of justice

[Silent3]

1. FINA-FUCKING-LLY!!! n/t

[WiVoter]

18. I Concur!

[LiberalLovinLug]

34. +1,000,000

[gopiscrap]

41. agreed

[Ocelot II]

2. MSNBC is reporting that they are voting on an indictment,

but not that they've voted to indict (yet).

Whooops, they just reported the indictment. Woohoo!

[wryter2000]

4. It's sure

announced a few minutes ago

[wryter2000]

3. Felony! n/t

N/T

[Roland99]

5. NYTimes article .....

The unprecedented case against Trump will have wide-ranging implications.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/03/30/nyregion/trump-indictment-news/the-unprecedented-case-against-trump-will-have-wide-ranging-implications

…

The felony indictment, filed under seal by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, will likely be announced in the coming days. By then, prosecutors working for the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, will have asked Mr. Trump to surrender and to face arraignment on charges that remain unknown for now.

…

Here’s what else you need to know:

Mr. Bragg and his lawyers will likely attempt to negotiate Mr. Trump’s surrender. If he agrees, it will raise the prospect of a former president, with the Secret Service in tow, being photographed and fingerprinted in the bowels of a New York State courthouse.

The prosecution’s star witness is Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former fixer who paid the $130,000 to keep Ms. Daniels quiet. Mr. Cohen has said that Mr. Trump directed him to buy Ms. Daniels’s silence, and that Mr. Trump and his family business, the Trump Organization, helped cover the whole thing up. The company’s internal records falsely identified the reimbursements as legal expenses, which helped conceal the purpose of the payments.

Although the specific charges remain unknown, Mr. Bragg’s prosecutors have zeroed in on that hush money payment and the false records created by Mr. Trump’s company. A conviction is not a sure thing: An attempt to combine a charge relating to the false records with an election violation relating to the payment to Ms. Daniels would be based on a legal theory that has yet to be evaluated by judges, raising the possibility that a court could throw out or limit the charges.

The vote to indict, the product of a nearly five-year investigation, kicks off a new and volatile phase in Mr. Trump’s post-presidential life as he makes a third run for the White House. And it could throw the race for the Republican nomination — which he leads in most polls — into uncharted territory.

[C_U_L8R]

6. tick tick BOOM

First of many indictments.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh! Halafuckinglujah

[lindysalsagal]

8. Sheetcaking!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. Oh yah!!!!!

[honest.abe]

9. Yes!!!

[Goodheart]

10. That can't be right

A certain orange piece of shit said they dropped the case.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. He did??? Lol

[jmowreader]

30. The same orange POS also said he was going to be hauled in 2 weeks ago

Trump is one of those guys that if he walks into your office dripping wet and claims it’s raining, you go outside and look up. At this point in time I wouldn’t trust him if he said he was Donald Trump.

[blogslug]

11. May it be only the first of many indictments

and then jail for donald for a thousand years

[iemanja]

12. Now the DA decides whether he will indict

[dalton99a]

13. Kick

[BannonsLiver]

14. Is this the one with Stormy?

[Roland99]

17. Yes. I'm betting conspiracy comes into play

[inthewind21]

15. Wait.....

Whaaaaaat? Can't be, the statute of limitations ran out! It will never happen! Should have been done 7 years ago!

Or, the slow wheels of justice did indeed turn!

[Silent3]

20. I'm elated it finally happened...

…but that doesn’t change my mind that it took too damned long.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

16. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[spinbaby]

19. Now it gets interesting

Does he turn himself in?
Does he barricade himself in his tacky golf club?
Please, I want to see a low-speed white golf-cart chase.

[ecstatic]

21. So are we just waiting for Bragg to formally announce it?

Or does he have to decide if he agrees with the jury or not?

[Takket]

22. this is the next step in a long journey.......

the trial will drag on probably for multiple years. by trial i mean all the motions leading up to the trial, and the trial, and the sentencing phases.

I hope the judge runs a tight ship and doesn't turn this into another OJ trial. we can't afford a lance Ito letting the defense run roughshod all over the justice system.

Thank you Mr. Bragg, next up Willis and Smith

[Talitha]

23. Duck for cover - - incoming ketchup bottles!

[edbermac]

26. I'm seriously tempted to watch Tucker tonight.

He’ll literally be frothing at the mouth.

[Cha]

27. I think it's BRIGHT DAY for the USA.. LOCK HIM UP

Link to tweet

[LiberalArkie]

28. Trump can run for president while in jail. No rules against it and no rules against a convicted

person being elected of even serving while in prison.

[Traildogbob]

32. But

Does he stay in prison while commanding HIS generals?

[LiberalArkie]

33. He could.. Being a state charge, he could not do anything, maybe.. Uncharted territory

[yaesu]

35. True, nothing in the constitution prohibits a convicted criminal from running

Being elected through some state won't let you vote. He may be probibited from leaving the state at some point which would be interesting politically speaking.

[LiberalArkie]

37. And there is this

https://recordinglaw.com/can-a-convicted-felon-run-for-president/


There has been no American President convicted or who has been incarcerated or served a sentence prior to their Presidential term. Felony charges or a criminal record often act as leverage for the Opposition. Stigmatization of felons complicates the process of establishing trust amongst people and also harms the public record.

A felony record is more of a political burden than a legal one – the only major negative effect of having a record is that it may be used by your opposition. Alternatively, if your charges were bogus, it may end up galvanizing your base.
Historically there have been several people who have run for President with no legal issues:

1920– Socialist Party Leader Eugene V. Debs ran while in an Atlanta federal penitentiary for charges he gained advocating dodging the draft. He received 913,664 votes (3.4%)
1992– Lyndon LaRouche, a perennial presidential candidate became the second person to run for office from a prison cell. He garnered 22,863 votes (less than 0.1%) in his third of nine presidential runs.
2012 – Keith Judd, another perennial presidential candidate, received 41% of the primary vote in West Virginia vs. an incumbent Barack Obama.
It should be noted that none of these candidates ever received any electoral votes.

[spike jones]

29. I want everybody to go to their open window and shout, "LOCK HIM UP, LOCK HIM UP, LOCK HIM UP,... "

[UTUSN]

31. wooHOO!!!!!!!!!!

[mvd]

36. A dark day maybe but one that had to happen

This surprised me in a great way after reading the GJ was going on a break. Now let this just be the beginning!

[orleans]

38. 34 counts (per cnn) nt

[Upthevibe]

39. Kick. N/T

[thinkingagain]

40. Felony

That means he can no longer vote or own guns right!

[orangecrush]

42. HAVE FUN YOU TRAITOROUS PIECE OF SHIT

KETCHUP TSUNAMI!!!!

[tiredtoo]

43. Join us in song.

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