There’s lots of news on Trump’s legal issues today and I’ve been watching the Georgia hearing since it’s live from the courtroom. Trump we are told had planned to attend but chose instead to go to New York where a pre-trial hearing on the Stormy Daniels Hush money criminal prosecution has been pending. Trump of course wanted a dismissal. DENIED. Then of course he wants a delay because he’s running for President again. And, once again DENIED. Judge Merchan effectively told Trump to have his fat orange butt in court on March 25 because his trial was ON.
I did a quick read of this article by Alternet (the Georgia hearing in on lunch break) and between it and a bit of commentary it seems the flaming orange human shaped rectum we know as Donald Trump is an unhappy camper. So it seems were his legal team during the proceedings. The bottom line however is that there is in fact going to be at least one criminal trial of Trump before the election and it’s going to start on March 25. In fact Merchan opened the hearing by saying just that and from there things were shall we say rather “heated”:
There was commotion in the courtroom, as Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche objected to Justice Merchan’s decisions.
“Blanche is furiously opposing the judge’s adherence to the trial date, saying the court is putting his client in an ‘impossible situation,’” Just Security’s Adam Klasfeld reports.
“You don’t have a trial date in Georgia. You don’t have a trial date in Florida,” Merchan told Blanche, before rebuffing Trump’s attorney.
But here’s the part I really liked:
“After Blanche tries to get a word in, Merchan snaps that he shouldn’t interrupt,” Klasfeld noted.
If Trump’s choice to be in NYC was a belief that his “mighty awesomeness” would be so overwhelming, so intimidating that the judge would shrivel he was badly mistaken. The funny thing is, from the linked article I think Trump’s legal team believe that too. Outside the courthouse prior to the hearing Trump admitted the goal was to delay, and delay. See for yourself (the bottom video clip):
Trump says the quiet part loud about his criminal cases: "We want delays" pic.twitter.com/21mPwizA6I
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 15, 2024
It’s not in the linked article but I gather Trump had himself quite the meltdown outside afterwards. Later on when he watches coverage of goings on in Fulton County he’ll probably wish he’d decided to go there instead. The whole things is to use Nathan Wade’s (apparently messy) divorce to attack both his and Fani Willis credibility to force their removal from the case. I’m not convinced the evidence those attacking Willis and Wade means what the claim, and I sure as hell wasn’t impressed by the first witness who provided the bombshell that got all this launched. But the day’s not over. The point is that it probably doesn’t matter if there’s any evidence of wrongdoing. Which means Trump is having (probably) a better day in court in Georgia than where he went instead.
It should be quite the run of posts on Truth Social as the afternoon progresses and we get into the evening. But what matters is that Trump can’t run and hide from at least one criminal trial. It is on!
HA, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, HA. It’s about time he starts to face actual justice for his CRIMES. Defamation, etc. are all well and good but they won’t result in prison time. Not sure this one rises to that level but who knows?
This ought to elicit quite the whine fest from dingleberry.
If there’s one thing we know about FrankenTrump, it’s that HE CAN’T KEEP HIS BIG MOUTH SHUT. So “we want delays,” huh? Okay, Big Boy, we’ve got your delays right here! Once we forget MAGA like a bad dream come November, re-elect Dark Brandon, capture both houses of Congress with a filibuster-proof 67 seats in the Senate, lock Le Grand Orange away and lose the key, it will be time to impeach and convict Kegger Kavanaugh for perjury and put Judge Merchan where he belongs — on the Supreme Court of the United States. Aw, hell, a guy can still dream, can’t he?
I do admire you, David. If you’re gonna dream, dream big and a “filibuster-proof 67 seats in the Senate” dream is about as big a dream as you can have.
It CANNOT happen this year for reasons of simple math. The GOP only have to defend 11 seats. *IF* the Dems maintain every single one of our current 20 seats and the Dem-caucusing independents hold their 3 seats AND the Dems (somehow) manage to pick up all 11 GOP seats (even in deep-red states like Wyoming, North Dakota and Utah), that “filibuster-proof” majority is impossible. That 11-seat pick-up will only provide the Dem-plus-caucus with 62 seats.
For what it’s worth, 61 is all that’s needed to be “filibuster-proof”; that 67 is what’s needed for the Senate to convict and remove someone facing impeachment.
The 11 seats the GOP are defending come from 10 states (Nebraska’s having a regular election as well as a special election to replace Ben Sasse who retired mid-term) and their history with Democrats isn’t all that pretty:
Florida: 2019
Indiana: 2019
Mississippi: 1989
Missouri: 2019
Nebraska: 2013
North Dakota: 2019
Tennessee: 1995
Texas: 1993
Utah: 1977
Wyoming: 1977
The fairly depressing part of this stat is that 4 of those seats went to the GOP during that election that was supposed to be viewed as a “referendum on Trump” and, aside from the Florida race, none of the others was even close. The Dems were all trounced by at least 5 percentage points.
The other really bad part is that one of the Dems’ current holds (West Virginia) is going to go to the GOP–even if Manchin runs again, he’s going to be trounced.
The ketchup will.be hitting the fan tonight.