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Jack Smith hands over 500 pages to Trump — and jabs Cannon for making him do it
Raw Story

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...1373445a&ei=65

Special counsel Jack Smith Thursday handed over nearly 500 pages of materials to Donald Trump after the former president's lawyers accused him "extraordinary" misconduct in the classified documents case, court records show.

In his letter to Florida federal court judge Aileen Cannon, Smith takes a stiff tone when he reports delivering 457 pages of discovery materials linked to Trump's accusations that the Justice department tampered with evidence.

"The Government’s position [is] that such production exceeds its current discovery obligations," Smith writes.

This measured remark stands in stark contrast to the letter from Trump's lead attorney Todd Blanche which spurred Thursday's massive document dump, court records show.

On May 4, Blanche accused Smith of "extraordinary breach of your constitutional and ethical obligations" regarding boxes of documents seized from Trump's social club Mar-a-Lago.

"We find your contentions to be self-serving and frivolous given your indefensible handling of the evidence at issue—you cannot seriously contend that your recent spoliation concession is irrelevant to President Trump’s pending pretrial motions," Blanche wrote.

In a further request for back-up from Cannon, dated May 6, Blanche sneered at Smith's "dismissive and condescending tone."

The subject of this tense legal battle is Smith's earlier admission that some documents were rearranged before they were scanned into the Justice department's system.

While Smith's team described the incident as an inconsistency, Blanche argued prosecutors were guilty of a "full-throated but now concededly false assertions of compliance with their discovery obligations."

This aligns with Trump's consistent messaging that the Justice Department is partaking in a political witch hunt to torpedo his 2024 presidential campaign.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

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Donald Trump Mocked with 'Psycho' Billboard in Own Backyard
Newsweek

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...373445a&ei=105

Former President Donald Trump is being derided as a "psycho" in a billboard that has recently been strategically placed near his Mar-a-Lago residence.

Conservative lawyer and Trump critic George Conway on Thursday touted the new billboard, which he paid for, in a series of posts to X, formerly Twitter. Conway said that the billboard had been placed on Interstate 95, which passes through Palm Beach, Florida, not far from Mar-a-Lago.

The blue billboard reads, in large white lettering, "Vote for Joe Not the Psycho." "Joe" clearly refers to President Joe Biden, who is expected to face off against Trump in a November rematch. The message "Paid for by George Conway" also appears on the billboard in smaller white lettering under the main message.

Trump 2024 campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung denounced Conway for erecting the billboard in an emailed response to Newsweek's request for comment on Thursday night, saying: "George Conway is a loser who clearly has some serious mental issues that he needs to address."

"So, just for kicks, I put up a billboard a few miles south of Palm Beach on I-95 South, perfect for anyone happening to travel from Mar-a-Lago to Doral to, say, play golf. Right around Exit 64, I believe," Conway wrote while sharing images of the billboard and a map in an X post on Thursday morning. "They're going to send me better photos later."

"Turn the sound up," he added while sharing a video of the billboard in a subsequent post. "I think the chirping birds add a nice touch, don't you?"

Conway, who was married to former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway for decades before the couple announced their divorce last year, explained during an interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Thursday that he decided to pay for the billboard after speaking with the leader of the "Mad Dog" political action committee, which has placed similarly provocative anti-Trump billboards across the country.

"I'd been making some hats that say that [slogan], kind of like the MAGA hats, except blue and white," Conway said. "This was the perfect location. And I hope he sees it. And, you know, I hope it amuses him as much as it amuses me."

Conway also said that the Republican Party had become "a cult" filled with members who had "lost it" under Trump's leadership, while discussing former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley's recent decision to announce that she will vote for Trump despite arguing that he was unfit for the presidency during her GOP presidential primary challenge.

"The person who has really lost it the most is Donald Trump, I mean he's the crazy one," Conway said. "As Nikki Haley pointed out when she was telling the truth for a couple of weeks in the spring ... he's mentally unstable and he's getting worse ... I mean this guy, he is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs."

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Welcome to New York (my home) we don't get easily fooled by Trump, and many of them were out of state cult members, and the tiny gathering started leaving long before he was done.



For context Bernie Sanders got around 28k in 2016 in Flatush, Brooklyn by turnstile count and lost handily to Clinton there.

Cyrus got a bigger crowd in 1979 in the Bronx for the Warriors movie, thanks to Trump enemy Ed Koch.

Can you dig it......Can you dig it....CAN YOU DIG IT.

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Originally Posted by loadmaster011

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Don't get mad - get even.

Present the facts that prove those men were murdered during the day of January 6h, EST, 2021. During that 24 hour period. I wrote that those men were not murdered on January 6th, 2011. That is what I wrote; it is a fact. Contrary to claims made by many, including President Biden multiple times in the past.

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Trump Pressures Republicans to Pass a Law to Keep Him Out of Jail Forever
Rolling Stone

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...96fc64f0&ei=18

Donald Trump likes to tell anyone who will listen that he's absolutely convinced he will win his 2024 rematch against President Joe Biden. And, according to people who've spoken to the ex-president about this, Trump also seems convinced that if he wins another four years in the White House, state prosecutors will still be waiting for him on the other side of his term - ready to put him on trial, or even in prison, just as they are now.

To avoid such risks, the former and perhaps future president of the United States wants Congress to create a very specific insurance policy that would help keep him out of prison forever, two sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone. Trump vaguely alluded to this idea last week outside his New York criminal hush money trial, when he said he has urged Republican lawmakers to pass "laws to stop things like this."

In recent months, the sources say, Trump has spoken to several GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill, attorneys, and other associates about the possibility of Republicans passing legislation in a second Trump term that would shield former presidents (i.e. Trump) from non-federal prosecutions. In recent conversations with closely-aligned lawmakers, Trump has pressured them to do so, describing it as imperative that he signs such a bill into law, if he again ascends to the Oval Office.

This, of course, would require that Republicans keep the House, take back the Senate, and have enough votes and agreement on the wisdom of these ideas to get it done.

"Even after a second term, he doesn't think any of this is going to end," says one of the sources. "He doesn't think Democrats are going to quit coming after him."

If Trump retakes the presidency this November, a new MAGAfied attorney general can shut down Special Counsel Jack Smith's federal criminal cases against Trump, therefore killing the two planned federal trials, neither of which is expected to happen during this election year. But in a scenario where Trump defeats Biden in November, he would in theory still have criminal charges and a trial waiting for him in Georgia, where he would not be able to pardon himself or have his Justice Department quash the case.

The twice-impeached, repeatedly-indicted ex-president and presumptive 2024 GOP nominee would like to resolve that problem, for obvious self-interested reasons.

Different ideas have been kicked around, including in private discussions with Trump, about how to go about this. But more recently, Trump appears fixated on the idea of passing a law to give former American presidents the option of moving state or local prosecutions into a federal court instead, the two sources add.

The former president himself has hinted at a legislative push to limit his exposure to such criminal charges. In an improvised press conference outside the Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday, Trump said he's been telling the Republican lawmakers who want to attend his trial and show solidarity to focus on legislation instead.

"We have a lot of 'em. They want to come. I say, ‘Just stay back and pass lots of laws to stop things like this,'" Trump told reporters.

Some Trump supporters in the House have already backed legislation that would help fulfill the former president's wishes to place himself above the law - and did so well before the Manhattan criminal trial was underway.

Last year, Rep. Russell Fry (R-S.C.) introduced the "No More Political Prosecutions Act of 2023." The bill, just a few lines long, would allow current and former presidents and vice presidents to remove any state or civil cases against them to federal court for any acts committed in the course of their official duties.

Given that Justice Department policy forbids the prosecution of a sitting president, the legislation would effectively freeze any pending state criminal or civil cases should Trump win a second term. Prosecutors in a Trump-appointed Justice Department could also effectively shut down the cases against him.

Among the bill's cosponsors is House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who recently told Politico, "I think it's common sense that you can't have the president sitting in the Oval Office worried about whether some lawyer or some local DA somewhere is going to go after him."

The legislation's sponsor replied on X: "I agree. It's time for a vote on H.R. 2553, the No More Political Prosecutions Act."

Trump's push for new legislation is just his latest idea for shielding himself from criminal accountability. As Rolling Stone previously reported, Trump and his allies also plan to have the Justice Department‘s Office of Legal Counsel issue a memo advising that the DOJ should prohibit the prosecution of presidents even after they leave office.

Such a memo would codify Trump's arguments in federal court, and now at the Supreme Court, that presidents have expansive presidential immunity, even after they leave office, and that impeachment is the only avenue available for holding a president accountable for crimes committed while in office.

His attorneys tried to use the pending Supreme Court case weighing those arguments as an excuse to delay the New York City hush money case, on the grounds that some of the evidence included in the trial dated to his time in office.

Judge Juan Merchan dismissed the attempt.