Donald Trump keeps trying to put on a show of bravado and force with regard to his indictment, because he knows that right wingers like a strongman. But now that he’s just 36 hours from having to surrender himself for arrest, he’s taking a more sullen tone. Trump just posted this on his failed social…
When it was announced that former Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance would be appearing on an MSNBC Sunday morning show, it raised questions about just what he could have to say about current Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s criminal case against Donald Trump. We haven’t heard much from Vance since he left office, so where would he…
Donald Trump is set to surrender himself for arrest and arraignment on Tuesday. Trump is already threatening to give a speech immediately after his arraignment, which suggests he doesn’t really understand the gravity of his situation. Now Trump is making social media posts which suggest he may be slipping away from reality, and even coherence,…
As a first time defendant in the criminal justice system, Donald Trump appears to believe he can bully, threaten, and intimidate his way into making it all go away. If he had more experience as a criminal defendant, he’d know that nothing works this way, and that such antics will merely result in the judge…
Donald Trump has been criminally indicted on thirty-four counts in Manhattan. He’s also expected to be separately indicted in Fulton County and by the DOJ. He’ll stand trial three times, and if he’s convicted in any of them, he’ll end up in prison. Perhaps they can teach him how to read and write once he’s…
Even as Donald Trump now finds himself a criminal defendant for the first time in his life, he’s managed to surround himself with some of his most inept attorneys yet. Some of them are on TV screwing up his potential trial defenses. Some of them have ended up being forced to testify against him to…
Donald Trump’s team is bragging that he raised $4 million dollars in “campaign” contributions in the 24 hours after his criminal indictment in Manhattan. That’s a number that sounds like a lot, but when you put it in context, it really isn’t. For instance, Puck News has reported that Trump raised $40 million dollars in…
Since being criminally indicted in Manhattan on Thursday, Donald Trump has repeatedly attacked the prosecutor. Now that a judge has been assigned to the case, Trump has begun attacking the judge, by name, in viciously personal fashion on social media. The thing is, criminal defendants don’t get to do that – and the judge can…
As of Thursday, all we knew about Donald Trump’s criminal indictment was that it included 34 counts according to CNN, and that at least one of them was a felony charge according to the Wall Street Journal. It’s not clear how these news outlets got this information. But aside from these details, Manhattan DA Alvin…
Donald Trump is already having a bad enough week, having been indicted in Manhattan on 34 criminal charges, and being forced to surrender himself for arrest on Tuesday. Now Trump is finding new ways to embarrass himself, as he desperately tries to spin his indictment as somehow being a good thing for him. Trump just…
Bill Barr, who as Attorney General corruptly blocked the DOJ from indicting “Individual 1” Donald Trump on hush money charges in the first place, is now accusing the Manhattan DA of prosecutorial “abuse.” That’s cute, but it really just gives something away here. Barr rarely speaks in public these days. The fact that he’s piping…
Judges are assigned to criminal trials at random, but there aren’t a ton of judges in each circuit, so it’s not surprising that the Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal case has been assigned to the same judge — Juan Marchan – who also presided over the Trump Organization criminal trial and the Allen Weisselberg criminal trial….