What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

no AFAIK they took care of tax, Cohen was paid way more than $130k, iirc it was 12 payments of $35k each. Some of that might have been the other payments to the Playboy model Karen Douglas but in the statement of facts the overpayment to Cohen is discussed as allowing him to net $130k for the Stormy Daniels pay off after he had paid his income taxes on a larger amount.

Maybe Cohen was ensuring a paper trail to snare Trump if any of this came to light. Because youd think Trump could have gotten $150k cash pretty quickly when running a hotel in NY. He could have sent a Trump Tower gofer down to Macys, buy Cohen a watch worth $150k as a bonus then Cohen converts his soon to be lost watch to $130k cash and pays Stormy. When they first discussed the scheme Trump wanted to pay her cash, it was Cohen who led Trump into the plan of setting up a shell company which ultimately got them caught. Without that paper trail Cohen was probably looking at almost 10 years in prison rather than the less than two he served. Trump would have thrown him right under the bus, maybe after years as working as Trumps fixer and shafting people on Trumps behalf he knew all too well that he was likely next.

Wasn't there a story of trump trying to pay someone with one of a pair of boxing gloves?

Cheap ******!

Tsk tsk!

Just because *you* never had the brilliant idea of nuking a hurricane!

/s

"No this is what Democrats are doing as they know Biden won't beat Ron DeSantis if he is the wins the nomination."

Democrats aren't bringing these cases.

On what basis do you presume to know that Biden would not beat DeSantis. Have you seen national polling to support that?

"They really want Trump to run and these doomed cases in New York will help him win the nomination."

What cases are doomed?

"It's a shame really as DeSantis would be a great Nominee and President."

DeSantis is not popular outside of Florida. What makes you think he would be a good president?

"Also If Trump hadn't gone down the childish route of slagging him off it could have been Trump/DeSantis ticket."

Ah here, are you expecting, after all these years, that Trump would be a team player and not have his ego rocked by someone else getting the limelight? Oh my sweet summer child...

BTW - I asked you months ago, what made you switch from Trump to DeSantis? What event in particular?

How do you figure that shows he is smarter than them? They successfully impeached him. Twice. He wasn't convicted either time, but the second impeachment more members of his own party voted to convict than any President or former President in history. And a large number of members of his own party were willing to admit that he was morally responsible for the 6 January insurrection, even though for purely partisan reasons they were unwilling to vote to convict. If today's GOP were in place when Nixon was President he would never have resigned. The only reason he did resign is because the Senate Republicans came to him and let him know that the House was going to impeach him, and that when it went to the Senate for trial they would vote to convict. So he resigned before he could be impeached. The only reason he wasn't convicted in either impeachment trial was the unwillingness of Republicans to vote to convict, regardless of the evidence. And even so on the second trial 7 of them did vote to convict.

As far as convictions go, the wheels of justice in the US turn slowly. Especially when the rich and/or powerful are involved. During his time as President he was basically immune to prosecution, so the investigations into his crimes had to wait until he left office. Mueller's report from his investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 election made it very clear that the only reason that charges weren't filed against Trump at the time was because the DoJ has a policy against indicting a sitting President. However Trump has been indicted on 34 felony counts so far. I expect that total will continue going up.

They did impeach him, twice.

Ben Shapiro, notable rightwing jewish political commentator, really does his best effort to defend Harlan Crow and Clarence Thomas over the fact the former keeps an entire display of collected Nazi memerobilia.

'to show to his kids' in a garden display apparently to prove 'how great judeo christian capitalism is'

I guess that's why you can't step into a Wall Street lobby without seeing nazi memorabilia, always loving how much we defeated the nazis you know.

The end is hilarious, Ben is cracking up at his own argument that he simply kept Nazi memorabilia because he hates it so much.

The E Jean Carroll trial starts on the 25th. Something we really will see in 2 weeks!

I guess they can't use the dna sample of trump that he had to give on his previous arraignment

Ah yeah, that political key jingling.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/15/nyregion/trump-carroll-rape-suit-dna.html

Gets asked etc. for DNA, refuses, objects, appeals, tries to offer a quid pro quo.... discovery period closes and trial is scheduled... offers DNA way past his opportunity to comply.

And while Trump's first impeachment was pretty much down party lines (2 Democrats voted against 1 article of impeachment and 3 voted against the other in the House, while in the Senate 1 Republican voted to convict on 1 of the articles), the second one was much less so. 10 Republicans voted in favour of the article of impeachment in the House, while 7 Republicans voted to convict in the Senate. Not enough to actually convict him but enough for it to be very meaningful.

DA Alvin Bragg sues to block Congress from obstructing the case