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Arizona's top prosecutor investigating Trump's comments about Cheney as possible death threat

https://www.12news.com/article/news/pol ... be0df7c4c4

If I'm not interpreting this incorrectly, he could face six months to a year in prison

https://www.weingartfirm.com/crimes-cla ... n-arizona/

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Does he want everyone in jail then?

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More on that by Rolling Stone:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... 235151922/

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Some one said that if Trump got in the US would be super racist and super sexist.

Not sure if that is so because of the way the US is. And how one man can change so much.

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Trump’s election victory throws uncertainty into legal cases he faces

Wed 6 Nov 2024 17.19 GMT

Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris immediately spurred questions about the viability of the various criminal cases against him, including whether he will be sentenced as planned this month – and whether he could pardon himself.

Trump, who was found guilty of 34 felony counts this May and will become the first US president with a criminal record, also faces charges in other state and federal courts for his apparent efforts to disrupt the electoral process and hoard classified documents.

The president-elect also faces hundreds of millions of penalties in civil cases, for sexual abuse, defamation and fraud.

Trump’s delay-based legal strategy, which has proved highly successful for him, could mean he avoids punishment and jail in his New York City criminal hush-money case.

After the trial and guilty verdict, Trump was initially scheduled to be sentenced in July, then in September. Trump’s lawyers then asked the judge, Juan Merchan, for a postponement this summer so he could weigh the US supreme court decision that granted broad immunity on former presidents for official acts in office.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ses-status

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Justice Department Files Charges in Murder-for-hire Scheme Targeting Trump
by Rebecca Shabad and Michael Kosnar
November 8, 2024

Introduction:

(NBC) WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice on Friday charged an Iranian man in a murder-for-hire plot to assassinate then-candidate Donald Trump and two others in a plot to kill an American journalist critical of Tehran.

Iran’s government directed these actors to “target our citizens, including President-elect Trump, on U.S. soil and abroad,” Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a news release.

The department said the plot was part of Iran’s efforts to exact revenge for the death of Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani during the Trump administration.

The three who were charged are Farhad Shakeri of Iran; Carlisle Rivera of Brooklyn, New York; and Jonathan Loadholt, of Staten Island, New York.

According to the criminal complaint, an official with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a military and counterintelligence agency designated as a terrorist organization by the first Trump administration, told Shakeri in mid-to-late September to focus on surveilling and assassinating Trump.

Read more here: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justi ... na179342

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Trump Got Away With It — Blame Merrick Garland, Mitch McConnell and the Supreme Court.
by Ankush Khardori
November 7, 2024

Introduction:

(Politico) We have just witnessed the greatest failure of federal law enforcement in American history.

The reasons for Donald Trump’s reelection are numerous and will be hotly debated in the weeks ahead. But the story of his comeback cannot be told without seriously grappling with how he managed to outrun four criminal cases, including — most notably — the Justice Department’s prosecution over Trump’s alleged effort to overturn the 2020 election.

At the root of it all are the considerable and truly historic legal missteps by the Biden administration and Attorney General Merrick Garland, as well as a series of decisions by Republicans throughout the political and legal systems in recent years that effectively bailed Trump out when the risks for him were greatest.

The two federal criminal cases against him are now dead as a practical matter. Already there is reporting suggesting that special counsel Jack Smith will leave his post and dismiss the pending cases, which is not that surprising considering that Trump pledged to fire him once back in office anyway.
The Georgia case, an overhyped and misguided vehicle for post-2020 legal accountability, is going to remain on ice and perhaps get thrown out entirely in the coming years, at least as to Trump (if not his co-defendants). In Manhattan, where Trump was supposed to be sentenced in a matter of weeks after his conviction in the Stormy Daniels hush money case earlier this year, Trump is likely to ask the court to cancel the sentencing date; regardless of the mechanics, there is no reasonable scenario in which Trump serves some period of incarceration while also serving in the White House.

All of this will happen despite the majority of the public’s stated interest in concluding the criminal cases — the federal election subversion case in particular — as well as polling that suggested that Trump’s conviction early this year hurt his standing across the electorate and with independents in particular.

Read more here: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine ... -00187945

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Supreme Court rejects Mark Meadows' appeal in Georgia election interference case

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/suprem ... rcna178727

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