President Trump's Potential Arrest & Actual Indictment

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Democrats Respond to Trump's Indictment, Quickly Humiliate Themselves

By Bob Hoge | 12:00 AM on March 31, 2023




Democrat politicians were quick to weigh in on former President Donald Trump’s sham indictment by soft-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. California Democrat Representative Maxine Waters—she who in 2018 called for Americans to harass Trump administration officials who dared showed their faces in public—once again showed her true vindictive soul with a gleeful post on Twitter:

Many other prominent Democrats, however, seemed to have held a joint focus group, because the words “somber,” “sober” and the like appear in virtually all their statements about the indictment.



Their attempts to appear as if they are serious people fall flat considering most of them have been cheering on false Trump accusations for years, with the serpentine California Democrat Representative Adam Schiff begging for The Donald to be charged with something—anything—since the Russia Russia collusion days.



Here is the Shifty One trying to sound like a statesman, even after he’s been caught in so many lies:



The indictment of former President Donald J. Trump by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office over his alleged participation in a campaign fraud and hush money scheme that already sent his former attorney Michael Cohen to jail is a sobering and unprecedented development.



Translation: WE GOT HIM! Praise the skies above, we finally got him on something! No, I don’t care that we had to sell out our judicial system to nail him on some trivial matter—whatever it takes, at all costs!



Eric Swalwell, who is always good for a hot ridiculous take, decided he too would pretend it was a serious moment in a serious land:

“The indictment of a former president is a somber day for America,” he opined. “It’s also a time to put faith in our judicial system. Donald Trump deserves every protection provided to him by the Constitution. As that unfolds, let us neither celebrate nor destroy. Justice benefits us all.”



This is the guy who the Mercury News found attacked Trump in 23 percent of his tweets in 2020, far more than any other Democrat at the time. He also served as manager for Trump’s second impeachment trial and was a member of the overly-hyped Jan. 6 Committee, and called Jan. 6 “one of the darkest days in our nation’s history.”



I can think of a few others like 9/11, Pearl Harbor, Antietam, or the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, and John F. Kennedy… But let’s not split hairs.



You know he’s not taking his own advice—and he’s definitely celebrating. Who can forget his self-humiliation back in February 2019?

Former House Speaker and current California Representative Nancy Pelosi also tried to get in on the “I’m a very serious person” act, writing in a statement:



The Grand Jury has acted upon the facts and the law. No one is above the law, and everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence. Hopefully, the former President will peacefully respect the system, which grants him that right.



This is the woman who ripped up the State of the Union speech of the sitting president of the United States on the House floor, as disgusting an act as I have ever witnessed in American politics. Yet here she is lecturing us on the rule of law.



Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York seemed to hire the same publicist to issue his statement because it sounds identical to Pelosi’s:



Trump is subject to the same laws as every American. He will be able to avail himself of the legal system and a jury, not politics, to determine his fate according to the facts and the law. There should be no outside political influence, intimidation or interference in the case. I encourage both Mr. Trump’s critics and supporters to let the process proceed peacefully and according to the law.



Yet another California Democrat Representative, the intellectually-challenged Ted Lieu, felt the need to weigh in too, once again reminding us that the situation is somber. Or was it sober?



This is a somber moment for America. We should let the judicial system do its job without interference.



We should let the judicial system do its job without political vendettas irrevocably tarnishing its validity, Ted.



The truth is, this indictment is neither somber nor sober—it’s flat-out on fire. It seems clear to virtually every thinking person that this is a political action, not a search for “justice.” Those now claiming that folks should not celebrate are the very ones who have been shrilly calling for Trump to be taken down by any means necessary, and you know they’re all clinking their champagne flutes tonight.



They have no credibility and should be ashamed of themselves for allowing their personal distaste for someone to sell the soul of our judicial system—all for a little payback.

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[Midnight]

McCarthy Begins Taking Action Against Manhattan DA over Trump Indictment

by Kari Donovan

March 31, 2023

OPINION: This article contains commentary which may reflect the author’s opinion





House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has come to the defense of the rule of law calling the indictment of Donald J. Trump, a Presidential candidate for 2024, “election interference” and vowed to pursue the issue with the appropriate oversight committees.



McCarthy, who has not always been the most proactive Conservative in the GOP, was seated as House Speaker in January after an uphill climb with the party due to his previous actions that were seen as anti-Trump.



McCarthy commented on the same day he told reporters that the GOP was not happy with Biden over the looming credit increase that Biden needs to make his massive government run.



NPR reported with details about the looming debt and economic crisis and how McCarthy reacted with some real enthusiasm:



With negotiations over avoiding a default on the country’s credit limit stalled House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told reporters Thursday that the GOP-led House may move its bill.



“If the president doesn’t act, we will,” McCarthy said, indicating he’s nearing agreement among his members on a plan. He said the House could vote on legislation modeled on a letter he sent earlier in the week to Biden that proposed lowered spending levels and floated adding several policy proposals to a package to increase the debt ceiling.



“I don’t know what more I can do,” McCarthy said, again urging the president to agree to another meeting to discuss a deal. He then appeared to jab at the 80-year-old president’s age, saying, “I would bring the lunch to the White House, I would make it soft food if that’s what he wants.”



When McCarthy was elected speaker in January after 15 ballots of voting on the House floor, one demand he agreed to get support from a bloc of conservatives was not to allow any House vote to raise the debt ceiling without attaching spending cuts. Democrats railed on this approach, saying it amounted to “hostage taking” and threatens a historic default that would roil financial markets.



McCarthy appears to be sticking to his agreement to be proactive for the Republicans on the debt limit and on defending the rule of law:

The plan to ‘get Trump’ so they can prevent him from running is now deeply disturbing to the fabric of the rule of law and promises to destroy our once great Judicial system.



Marxist-funded DA Alvin Bragg, who is viewed as acting out in a brazen political fashion by pushing to arrest Trump, won his wish to have a grand jury find Trump worthy of being dragged through court.



Martin Walsh reported on the details for Conservative Brief:



The case involves Trump’s alleged role in hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election, allegedly to keep Daniels quiet about an affair the two of them had in 2006.



“Alvin Bragg has irreparably damaged our country in an attempt to interfere in our Presidential election,” McCarthy tweeted. “The American people will not tolerate this injustice, and the House of Representatives will hold Alvin Bragg and his unprecedented abuse of power to account.”



Many other Republicans issued strong statements in support of Trump.



“The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head. It is un-American. The Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney has consistently bent the law to downgrade felonies and to excuse criminal misconduct. Yet, now he is stretching the law to target a political opponent. Florida will not assist in an extradition request given the questionable circumstances at issue with this Soros-backed Manhattan prosecutor and his political agenda,” DeSantis said.



Extradition would only be required if Trump refused to leave his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to attend an arraignment hearing in New York.



House Majority Leader Steve Scalise tweeted: “The sham New York indictment of President Donald Trump is one of the clearest examples of extremist Democrats weaponizing government to attack their political opponents. Outrageous.”



Missouri GOP Sen. Josh Hawley said: “Tonight’s indictment of Donald Trump isn’t about the law. It’s about power. Raw power. It’s the Democrat Party telling the nation they will stop at nothing to control the outcome of the next presidential election. It is an assault on our democracy, pure and simple.”



Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz responded: “The Democrat Party’s hatred for Donald Trump knows no bounds. The ‘substance’ of this political persecution is utter garbage. This is completely unprecedented and is a catastrophic escalation in the weaponization of the justice system.”

Manhattan District Attorney Bragg responded last week to a potential indictment and arrest of former President Donald Trump. Bragg issued a vague statement that did not provide any information about what might happen next, Walsh reported, adding:



Bragg sent a letter to members of the House Judiciary Committee after they sent their own letter “demanding communications, documents, and testimony relating to Bragg’s unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority and the potential indictment of former President Donald Trump.”



In his letter, the Manhattan DA said his office will “publicly state the conclusion of our investigation—whether we conduct our work without bringing charges, or move forward with an indictment.”



Bragg also addressed the letter the House Judiciary Committee previously sent to his office and said, “Your letter dated March 20, 2023, (the ‘Letter’), in contrast, is an unprecedented inquiry into a pending local prosecution. The letter only came after Donald Trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested the next day and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene. Neither fact is a legitimate basis for a congressional inquiry.”

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DOJ is irritated by Manhattan DA’s “Weak” indictment of Donald Trump

by Kari Donovan

March 31, 2023

OPINION: This article contains commentary which may reflect the author’s opinion





The “Get Trump” conspiracy being played out by federal public officials may have hit a snag, as over-inflated egos, corrupt power grabs, and desperation to stop President Donald J. Trump from becoming president in 2024 plays out with competing personalities.



After announcing that Trump would be indicated, the Marxist left was thrilled to be celebrating the lawfare and power grabs decimating the United States of America, but not everyone on the left is happy.



The radical Biden DOJ is reportedly ‘irritated’ by Manhattan DA’s indictment of Trump because they believe hush money charges are weak and will humiliate them and could damage what they view as more serious Georgia electoral fraud and January 6 probes’.



Trump’s supporters turned out to support him:



“President Donald Trump always fought for us. He puts the American people above corrupt interests. For that reason alone, the powerful will never stop coming for him. A majority of Americans know Alvin Bragg’s witch hunt is a politically motivated”

From the millennial post article about how Bragg was not supposed to go first:



“On Wednesday, it was reported that the grand jury would not be hearing evidence for the rest of the week.



In a statement following the indictment, Cohen said, “For the first time in our Country’s history, a President (current or former) of the United States has been indicted. I take no pride in issuing this statement and wish to also remind everyone of the presumption of innocence; as provided by the due process clause. However, I do take solace in validating the adage that no one is above the law; not even a former President. Today’s indictment is not the end of this chapter; but rather, just the beginning. Now that the charges have been filed, it is better for the case to let the indictment speak for itself. The two things I wish to say at this time is that accountability matters and I stand by my testimony and the evidence I have provided to DANY.”



Gaetz isn’t alone.

“Alvin Bragg has irreparably damaged our country in an attempt to interfere in our Presidential election. As he routinely frees violent criminals to terrorize the public, he weaponized our sacred system of justice against President Donald Trump. The American people will not…”

Americans know that the charges are weak and politically motivated, but Biden’s DOJ is mad because Bragg going first as he decided to do, makes their other cases less likely to allow them all to “Get Trump”.



The Daily Mail reported on more details, adding:



“Alvin Bragg’s intention to criminally charge the former president for his payment of hush money to [adult entertainment] star Stormy Daniels was revealed on Thursday – sparking consternation and anger in Mar-a-Lago, and, according to The New York Times, in Washington DC. The paper reported that ‘senior officials’ at the Justice Department had concerns about the strength of Bragg’s case.



The case has not been made public yet but is believed to contain at least 30 counts related to the payment to Daniels shortly before the 2016 election.



DOJ officials reportedly consider Bragg’s case a weak one. They’re currently probing claims Trump tried to overturn Biden’s 2020 election win in Georgia, and whether he incited the January 6 2021 riots.



Federal attorneys are said to believe both cases are stronger than the hush money allegations and fear Bragg’s decision to proceed could undermine future prosecutions if the New York case against Trump does indeed collapse, or end in acquittal.



Furthermore, the Justice Department officials are concerned that Trump’s indictment by New York prosecutors could complicate the work of Special Counsel Jack Smith – appointed by the attorney general, Merrick Garland, to investigate both Mar-a-Lago classified documents and Trump’s actions in relation to the efforts to overturn the election.



Trump, in a taped phone call, suggested that Raffensperger ‘find’ the votes needed to give him a win in Georgia. ‘I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,’ Trump said. The Justice Department had no comment about the Trump indictment. The White House has also refused to comment. Trump blasted the indictment and said Democrats would regret persecuting an innocent man when his supporters dumped them out of office. In the meantime, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said it was in touch with Trump’s lawyers to arrange his surrender in New York.



The Outlet went on:



“A source told DailyMail.com that the head of Trump’s security detail recently traveled to Manhattan to review arrangements and that the former president would likely be formally arrested next week. That could be as soon as Tuesday, Susan Necheles, one of his lawyers, told the New York Times. Although the indictment is sealed for now, CNN reported that it contained more than 30 criminal charges. ‘The Democrats have lied, cheated and stolen in their obsession with trying to “Get Trump,” but now they’ve done the unthinkable – indicting a completely innocent person in an act of blatant election Interference,’ Trump said in an emailed statement. ‘Never before in our nation’s history has this been done.’



A source close to his Mar-a-Lago home said the Trump team was ready with statements and social media messaging as soon as the indictment dropped. ‘We had a plan in place and the plan was executed,’ the source said. ‘Getting surrogates out, getting content out.’ Within minutes his sons Don Jr and Eric were livecasting or tweeting; fundraising appeals followed; and an emailed statement arrived from Trump himself in inboxes soon after.



One of the excellent videos made by Trump’s team was posted by Donald Trump Jr.:

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Trump Senior Adviser Jason Miller on Indictment: ‘The More They Attack Him, the Stronger He Gets’


HANNAH BLEAU
1 Apr 2023

Former President Donald Trump is in “great spirits” following the news of the indictment by a New York grand jury, Trump adviser Jason Miller told Breitbart News Saturday, noting that the “more they attack him, the stronger he gets.”



“President Trump’s in great spirits,” Miller said when asked how the former president is doing following the news of the indictment, adding that the former president is currently going through upcoming campaign plans despite the current state of affairs.



“It’s how he powers through in the face of adversity and how he’s been doing this ever since he came down the golden escalator at Trump Tower is just amazing. No one else in history has been able to do this,” Miller said, adding, ” The more they attack him, the stronger he gets.”


Miller briefly walked through what will happen next as the world awaits Trump’s surrender and arraignment. He noted that Trump is currently in Palm Beach, Florida, and proceeding with his normal schedule through the weekend. However, he will head to New York on Monday and stay overnight in Trump Tower and head to the courthouse “very early Tuesday morning.”



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“There’s a bit of a delay period until you go in front of the judge. They do the arraignment. They do the, sort of, all the kind of the logistics type stuff, and then he’ll come on back to Florida,” Miller said, explaining that the public can expect to hear from the former president — whether that be through interviews or public events — mid- to late-next week.



“We will be hearing from him in pretty strong terms Wednesday and Thursday, but I would not expect to see him doing any rallies or public events until that,” Miller said, confirming that Trump will be with Secret Service the entire time.



Despite this latest witch hunt, Miller said Trump is “very confident,” in a “very good mood,” and particularly appreciative of everyone expressing their support of him.



“He’s also very appreciative, and this is important for the Breitbart audience, very appreciative for everybody reaching out and saying that they stand with him, and he realizes it. I think he feeds off of that energy,” Miller said, speculating about why the left is targeting Trump yet again after years of false and flimsy accusations. Miller said it boils down to this: Trump Derangement Syndrome.



The Trump adviser added that some of these Trump attackers likely have selfish political aspirations and hope it will expand their own opportunities within the Democrat party.



“You look at Alvin Bragg, for example. He definitely wants to run for attorney general, maybe even mayor of New York or governor of New York someday. This is all about politics. That’s the only thing that’s driving this,” Miller said.




“I do think that Democrats are worried that they have such a weak and feeble candidate in 2024. And Joe Biden, even Democrats don’t want Joe Biden to be at the top of the ticket that they’re all feeling like they have to take it upon themselves” to “beat him [Trump] up” in advance.



Miller noted that the great irony is these actions are essentially “assuring that President Trump will have the Republican nomination” as they fire up the base, as well as independents.


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“First Year Law Students Could Get This Dismissed” – Alan Dershowitz on Alvin Bragg’s Hotchpot Indictment Against President Trump

By Jim Hoft Apr. 1, 2023 2:00 pm


Esteemed Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz joined Steve Bannon on The War Room on Saturday to discuss Alvin Brigg’s indictment against President Trump. The Soros-funded New York City DA announced charges against Trump last week two days after bank statements were released showing the Biden Crime Family were being paid by China for selling their influence.



Alan Dershowitz: I think any first-year law student could get this dismissed in front of any objective judge. Start with the misdemeanor. There is no misdemeanor here.



Here you have Democrats running for prosecution offices promising to get Trump, the man who was about to run against the leader of their party, the President of the United States. You better have the strongest case in the world. You better have a videotape of Donald Trump killing somebody on Fifth Avenue rather than paying some money, which thousands of people do every year, to have either false or true charges leveled against them…



…I think that Trump’s lawyers will have additional evidence now to show that Michael Cohen is not the kind of guy who just lied to his lawyers, lied to the federal government, lied to the state government. And then suddenly God has come down and told him to tell the truth. And he’s telling the truth. He’s still lying about me. He’s mad at me because I called him a liar, and he’s mad at Trump. And that’s why he was lying about Trump.



Dershowitz is correct. The case should be tossed out and Alvin Bragg should be disbarred. Americans better wake up to what the Communist-left is doing to this country.

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Rod Blagojevich: Establishment Indicted Trump Because ‘He Won’t Do Things Their Way’


JORDAN DIXON-HAMILTON
1 Apr 2023

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) spoke with Breitbart News about former President Donald Trump’s indictment and said the establishment is targeting Trump because “he won’t play ball, he won’t do things their way.”



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Breitbart News Saturday host Matthew Boyle noted Blagojevich’s past political persecution and asked the former Illinois governor to speak about why the political establishment and Manhattan’s district attorney’s office are targeting Trump.



My heart goes out to President Trump and his family. The hardest part of being on the receiving end of the politics of persecution and personal destruction is not the pain it brings to you, but the pain it brings to your family. Still, you can’t give in. It’s not a time to do… pic.twitter.com/l5vq36J1HP



— Rod Blagojevich (@realblagojevich) April 1, 2023



Blagojevich explained that Trump is being indicted because “He’s challenging the establishment.”



“It’s very simple. It’s because he’s challenging the establishment. He won’t play ball, he won’t do things their way,” he said. “He’s approaching government and doing things differently. And as a result of that, he’s a threat not only to the Democrats, but he threatens the traditional Washington, DC, elite country club Republicans.”



He added, “This is what happens when you truly take on the establishment. This is what happens when you truly are out there. Keeping your promises to the people, shake things up. And I think the political cynics, which is most of the people in that business, were surprised that when Trump actually won, he actually was doing the things he said he was going to do when he was running. They just think when you say those things, this is just the stuff you say to get elected.”



Blagojevich then discussed how he spent eight years in prison “for non existent crimes for politics.”



“I was in prison for eight years for non existent crimes, for politics, for discussing a potential political deal that began because Obama sent an emissary to me to talk about that deal. Now, he didn’t do anything wrong, but neither did I,” Blagojevich said. “And then they kept me in prison.”



He explained that Americans should not have “our elected officials stolen from us for things that aren’t crimes.”



He said, “And so my argument to anybody who’s willing to listen is this is not a partisan issue. It shouldn’t be Republicans versus Democrats … should be, you know, an American issue, a we the people issue, not having our elected officials stolen from us for things that aren’t crimes, you get a corrupt politician who has taken cash or something that’s a different story, by all means, you know, put them in prison or they’re benefiting at some insider stock trading or something, whatever that might be. But that’s not was. That wasn’t the case with me. It’s not the case of Trump.”



Blagojevich believes the political establishment used his imprisonment as a “test case” before trying to jail a former president.



He said, “And so when I see what they’re doing to President Trump, Matt, I say this a lot, but it’s true, they were able, I believe, to use me as a test case. They did the Democratic governor at the AAA level, with successfully what they’ve been trying to do to a Republican president to major league level. And I think they believe that once they could do that to a governor, oh, we can take this to the next level now and do it to a president. And if Trump just played ball, they would have left him alone, but he won’t. And now he’s running again. And this is why they’re doing this to him again, because they know that he’s very competitive and could very well win again. And if he wins again, he’s learned a lot of hard lessons. And he’s going to know how to deal with that establishment deep state a lot more intelligently, a lot better. Because he’s learned a lot of hard lessons about how business is done there.



Boyle then asked Blagojevich to talk about what he sees happening next in Trump’s case and provide any insight for Trump as someone who has been politically persecuted.



Blagojevich praised Trump for being a “very strong man, a determined man,” and predicted he would not give in to the establishment’s wants.



He also expects those who are turned off by Trump’s personality to rally behind the former president due to the political persecution.



“How does it play out? I think those people who love President Trump and millions of people across America will love him even more. And I think they’re going to support him even more,” he said. “And I think those who are sort of feel like maybe its just parts of his personality, and maybe DeSantis would be the better candidate, because we definitely want to beat the Democrats in 2024, I think that group of people will rally behind Trump because they see this terrible injustice thats being done to him.”



Blagojevich expects the indictment to “catapult Trump to the Republican nomination.”



For advice on how to get through the persecution, Blagojevich recommends Trump simply be himself.



Blagojevich said, “Just be yourself. Be true to yourself, President Trump. I don’t have to give him this advice. He’s going to do it. This guy is different from people in politics. He’s going to do it. And, by being true to himself, you’ll get that result politically. But more importantly, they’ll be in a place where he can go after this deep state and bring the necessary changes in reforms. He’ll need help from the Republicans in Congress and other good men and women of goodwill. And, frankly, save our republic, because I’ll tell you something. This is really a frightening thing.



He also called on Democrats to “put their hatred of Trump behind their love of America and not stand for something like this.”



“This is such BS, what they’re doing to him in New York, and what they’re trying to do to him in these other places. Don’t stand for it, because they’re destroying our republic in our democracy and our freedom,” Blagojevich concluded. “It’s our right to choose our leaders in elections, not have these weaponized prosecutors criminalize things and turn us into, like we’ve been saying, third world Republic, third world countries or so the Soviet Union.”



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Former Attorney General Bill Barr: Trump Indictment Is ‘an Abomination,’ ‘Makes Us Look Like a Banana Republic’


KRISTINA WONG
1 Apr 2023

Former Attorney General Bill Barr called Democrat District Attorney of New York Alvin Bragg’s indictment of former President Donald Trump on Thursday an “abomination.”



“Based on the news reports if they’re accurate, this is an abomination,” Barr said Friday on Fox Business. “It’s the epitome of the abuse of prosecutorial power to bring a case that would not be brought against anyone else. They are going after the man, not a crime. And the legal theory, frankly, is pathetically weak.”



He added, “The case is held together [by] paper clips and rubber bands. It’s a lousy case, and it’s a shame. It’s a shameful episode in our history where this local prosecutor is trying to affect the political process by bringing this case.”



While the charges have not yet been made public, Bragg is expected to argue that Trump classifying a reimbursement in October 2016 to his then-lawyer Michael Cohen for “hush money” to porn actress Stormy Daniels as legal expenses was a state crime of falsifying business records, which would be at most a misdemeanor. Bragg is then expected to seek to upgrade that to a felony by arguing it was done specifically to hide another crime, which will likely argue is the federal campaign finance crime of not reporting the payment as a campaign expense.



Trump’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, recently argued on NBC News that the payment was not a campaign expense, and Trump is free to classify his business expenses however he wants. He also pointed out that the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) has not charged Trump with any violation, nor have federal prosecutors.



Barr also argued that the falsifying business records claim is not a valid one:



[T]he statute actually requires that it be done with the intent to defraud. So if you have false business records, you know, and you’re committing insurance fraud or some other kind of fraud where some value is taken from somebody else and you falsely get value in your own name, then the false records would be a misdemeanor. But I don’t understand the basis for a fraud claim here.



Barr also noted that there’s a problem with the misdemeanor charge, which has a statute of limitations of five years, and with trying to upgrade it to a felony. He said:



Then they take this misdemeanor, which also has a problem with the statute of limitations. And they tried to shoehorn it into a into a felony by claiming that the reason the the documents were falsified was to cover up another crime. In this case, they’re assuming that the payments were campaign finance violation because they were effectively a contribution to the Trump campaign. I can tell you that’s not the law. I don’t think that’s how the Justice Department would view it.



It wasn’t brought by the Justice Department during the Trump administration. But even after the Trump administration left there was no inhibition on the Department of Justice to bring this federal claim if they thought it was valid, and it was never brought. So aside from that, I think it’s quite clear under the law, that payment — I’m going to call it hush money — I don’t like that term, but payments of hush monies to keep, you know, affairs or other things like that secret are not inherently unlawful,” he said.



“The question under the statute is was it a campaign contribution? I think the law is quite clear. It is not,” he added.



Barr also called the indictment a “fateful step.”



“This is the epitome of the abuse of the prosecutorial power to preempt political decisions and sow discord in the political process. And I think it’s going you know, we’re going to rue the day we crossed this Rubicon. There’ll be more and more of this and you know, just doesn’t end well. It doesn’t end well,” he said.



“It makes us look like a banana republic. And it should,” said Barr, before noting, “Now this is New York State and New York State has been acting like a banana republic. They had that civil lawsuit against the Trump and his children. That civil lawsuit brought by the state attorney general that was a political hit job as well. This ratchets that up because it’s a criminal case. And, you know, these cases together to me, mean the breakdown of the rule of law in New York State.”

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New York City to Close Streets for Trump Arraignment

By Cristina Laila Apr. 1, 2023 9:36 pm


New York City will close certain streets in lower Manhattan for Trump’s arraignment on Tuesday.



According to reports, President Trump was charged with 34 counts and is facing at least one felony charge related to business fraud.



Radical Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg targeted Trump in an effort to derail the former president’s 2024 White House bid.



Bragg elevated the Trump-Stormy ‘hush payment’ case from a misdemeanor to a felony.


Trump will appear in court for his arraignment on Tuesday at 2:15 pm ET.



Bloomberg reported:



New York City officials plan to close key streets in lower Manhattan as a security measure when former President Donald Trump appears in court on Tuesday to be arraigned, said a person familiar with the situation.



Several streets surrounding the Manhattan courthouse, including Centre Street and Baxter Street, are expected to be closed to traffic, while other adjacent streets such as Worth Street and Canal Street, may also experience intermittent closures, the person said. Vehicles could also be prohibited from parking in the immediate area, according to the person who spoke on condition of anonymity because the matter isn’t public.



Preparations were already visible on Friday afternoon as court officials in the lower Manhattan courthouse readied for Trump’s arraignment.



A team of Secret Service agents accompanied by New York Police Department officials toured the courthouse and its entrances Friday, apparently mapping the former president’s transit through the building. The public was later barred from entering the floor where New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, the judge who will preside over Trump’s case, has his courtroom.



Just before sunset Friday, at the city park located across the street from the courthouse, a parks department employee shooed out visitors and locked the gates, announcing the venue was now closed. It typically closes at 10 p.m.


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Trump Will Make Move That Could Solidify Him as Front-Runner After Booking on Tuesday: Report



By Peter Partoll

April 1, 2023 at 5:00pm


At first glance, the first-ever indictment of a former president is not something that one would expect to work in his favor, especially given that he is running for president again.



However, this is Donald Trump we are talking about. If there is anything we have learned about him, it’s that he is perfectly capable of using anything to his advantage.



This indictment appears to be no different, and it looks like Trump has something special planned for when he turns himself in on Tuesday.



On Saturday, The Washington Times reported that a source close to Trump said he is planning to hold a news conference immediately following his arraignment in New York City.



Already, many on the left are afraid that the indictment will backfire horribly on the Democrats, as the charges being pushed against the former president are very flimsy and will likely not hold up in court.



However, Trump’s decision to turn the arraignment into a news conference — or, more accurately, a campaign rally — might be the thing that puts the nail in the coffin of the Democrats’ attempts to get rid of him.



The fact of the matter is, despite everything the Democrats have thrown at him over the last seven years, from “Russian collusion” to Jan. 6, Trump still remains popular among his voter base.



Part of this is simply because the Democrats, in their hatred of the former president, only give him free advertising.



Regardless of what you think of Trump, there is little doubt that he is one of the most media-savvy figures in the world. His whole modus operandi is that there is no such thing as bad publicity, and he can take any situation and turn it into an opportunity to get his message across.


The Democrats apparently have yet to figure that out, and it only serves to boost his campaign.



This is why, when Trump announced two weeks ago that he expected to be arrested, many people suspected it was simply an attempt by him to get into the spotlight.



Now that he has actually been indicted and will be arraigned, Trump will get the boost he so desired.



The Democrats better think long and hard about their next move. If they make the slightest misstep regarding this indictment, it could mean disaster for them in 2024.



Of course, if Trump has to battle this case while running for president, it is going to be harder for him to campaign.



But the Democrats may have just handed Trump exactly what he needed to take back the White House next year.

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Eric Trump Reveals What Happened to Him After News of His Father's Indictment Broke



By Richard Moorhead

April 2, 2023 at 4:24pm


Eric Trump revealed that well-wishers expressed their sympathies to him personally after the criminal indictment of former President Donald Trump.



The ex-president’s oldest son explained that he learned of the development on-board a commercial flight, speaking in a Saturday Fox News segment.

“I was on a commercial flight when this whole indictment broke.”



Strangers expressed their sympathies when learning about the development on Eric Trump’s flight.



“People were coming up to me, giving me hugs.”



“The support is unbelievable out there because people understand that we’ve literally become a banana republic.”



“They’ve made a mockery out of our legal system in this country.”


Eric Trump brought up the influence peddling that Hunter Biden is responsible for — claiming that if he engaged in the same behavior as Hunter, he’d be behind bars.



“People are sick and tired of this two-tiered system of justice.”



“If I was Hunter Biden, I’d be in jail for the rest of my life.”



Even the room of Donald Trump’s youngest son Barron was raided by FBI agents during the government’s search of his Mar-a-Lago resort, according to Eric Trump.



The prosecution of the former president has been criticized as a partisan abuse of power.



A grand jury empaneled by Soros-funded Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg brought the charges, which remain under seal.

It’s thought that they are connected to alleged campaign finance violations — namely, payments made to pornographic performer Stormy Daniels in 2016.



A representative for Donald Trump revealed that he plans to appear at a New York courthouse for arraignment proceedings on Tuesday.



The Republican heavyweight will deliver remarks from Mar-a-Lago after his courthouse appearance.

The charges against the ex-president are unprecedented in American history. None of Trump’s predecessors have ever been charged with or convicted of a crime.

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Jim Jordan: ‘Everything’s on the Table’ Regarding Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg


JEFF POOR2 Apr 2023

During this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said that everything was “on the table” pertaining to Congress’ oversight role in the grand jury indictment of former President Donald Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.



“What are you — when are you expecting to speak with Alvin Bragg?” host Maria Bartiromo asked. “If he does not come to testify in front of the Judiciary Committee, will you subpoena him?”



“Everything’s on the table, Maria,” Jordan replied. “We’re going to talk with the other chairman and look at the response. We just got his letter back. We’re reviewing that. But we think that this is — here’s, I think, maybe the most important thing. We think this is bigger. This involves all of us. I don’t think it’s an accident that the same week we learn that the IRS knocked on Matt Taibbi’s door while he’s testifying in Congress, that same week is when we learn a district attorney is going to — a left-wing district attorney, a Soros-backed district attorney, is going to go after the former president of the United States.”



“I mean, that is the scary thing,” he continued. “They paid a foreigner. Think about this. They paid a foreigner to put together a fake dossier to spy on President Trump’s campaign. The FTC sends letters to Twitter demanding, who are the journalists you’re talking to? And then, of course, when Matt Taibbi is testifying, the IRS is knocking on his door. And now an indictment of a former president, the guy who happens to be leading in every single poll. This is about all of us. This is about going after anyone who opposes the left’s agenda, the establishment’s agenda. And that’s maybe the most scary thing of all.”

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Report: Manhattan Judge to Put ‘Gag Order’ on Donald Trump


PAUL BOIS
2 Apr 2023

The legal team representing former President Donald Trump reportedly expects that the Manhattan judge will put a gag order on him as the case awaits trial.



A source close to the legal team told the Daily Mail the judge will take an “unprecedented step” to silence the 2024 presidential candidate. The gag order could potentially undercut his ability to campaign on the issue of legal corruption during the primary.



“The Trump legal team now thinks that the Manhattan judge will take the unprecedented step of silencing the presidential frontrunner with an unconstitutional gag order tomorrow,” the source said. “The Trump legal team is considering adding a First Amendment lawyer to the effort to combat this and will fight it all the way.”



Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung, in response to the news about a possible gag order, told Breitbart News that the former president stands for the freedom of speech and that Americans should be highly concerned about any efforts like this to stifle free speech.



“President Trump stands for transparency and our American Constitution, and any attempt to prevent him, the leading candidate for President, from exercising his First Amendment right is a tyrannical, third-world country move which further proves that this is nothing more than a political witch-hunt utilizing a weaponized justice system,” Cheung said. “All Americans should be concerned about their rights being violated and any attempt to obstruct President Trump’s right to use his voice in order to speak truth to power should never be tolerated. The whole targeted crusade is a complete political farce by the Manhattan DA meant to manipulate and interfere with an election against President Trump and his supporters.”



Trump breaking the gag order could potentially see him slapped with a $1,000 fine and as many as 30 days in jail, per New York law. Despite the pending order, the former president still plans to make a speech at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday evening after peacefully submitting himself to the prosecution in New York. Per the Associated Press:



Trump will hold the event at his Mar-a-Lago club after returning from Manhattan, where he is expected to voluntarily turn himself in. He is expected to be joined in Florida by supporters as he tries to project an image of strength and defiance and turn the charges into a political asset to boost his 2024 presidential campaign.



Trump aides and lawyers had been going back and forth over the wisdom of his appearing before reporters after the arraignment as they grasped the news of an indictment that caught many of them by surprise. Trump has been catapulted back into the headlines by the criminal charges and he relishes media attention, and while some of his lawyers would have preferred he stay silent, his campaign believes the development has energized his supporters.



His legal team also plans to file a motion to have the case dismissed immediately.



“We will take the indictment. We will dissect it,” Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina told CNN on Sunday morning. “The team will look at every, every potential issue that we will be able to challenge, and we will challenge. And of course, I very much anticipate a motion to dismiss coming because there’s no law that fits this.”



After the indictment was handed down last week, legal experts floated the idea that Bragg would implement a gag order.



“I think it’s not only a possibility, but it’s extremely likely that there will be a gag order in the case,” Duncan Levin, a former federal prosecutor with the Department of Justice, told Insider. “Gag orders are very common in criminal cases, particularly in cases where there is an enormous amount of pretrial publicity like this one.”



As Breitbart News reported, the indictment has catapulted the former president in the 2024 primary polls, putting him well ahead of his closest potential opponent, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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Jared Kushner Strongly Defends Trump as He Breaks Silence on Indictment



By Jack Davis

April 2, 2023 at 12:29pm


Former President Donald Trump received a strong show of support from his son-in-law Jared Kushner on Friday.



Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, said the indictment against Trump “shows obviously the fear that the Democrats have of Trump and the political strength that he has.”



“As an American, it’s very troubling to me to see the leader of the opposition party be indicted,” Kushner said during a speech at the Future Investment Initiative summit in Florida.



“I think that that shows obviously the fear that the Democrats have of Trump and the political strength that he has,” he said.


Kushner said the tactic is nothing new.



“As a family member, obviously, Ivanka and I love him very much and it’s been hard to watch the opponents of him politically continue to break every norm over the last years to try to get him,” Kushner said.



“We’ve seen them accuse him of colluding with Russia. We saw them impeach him. We saw them raid his home. It’s a continuation of that,” he continued.



Kushner also noted that putting pressure on the former president does little to stop him.


“But what I’ll say is I’ve been by him during a lot of these instances and it’s only made him stronger, and his resolve to take on big challenges, to fight for change, to fight for the American people has only gotten stronger,” he said.



Citing Trump’s Middle East policy, which led to the Abraham Accords Kushner helped put in place improving ties between Israel and Arab nations, Kushner said the ones who attack Trump now “ridiculed him every step of the way.”



“They attacked his choice of representative to lead the effort; they attacked us, everything we did, and President Trump was able to achieve historic results in that regard,” Kushner said.



On Saturday, Trump noted that he was grateful for the support he has received since the word emerged Thursday that he had been indicted.



“I want to thank everybody for the tremendous support you have given me against this assault on our Nation. Our once beautiful USA is now a Nation in Decline. Radical Left Thugs & Insurrectionists have taken over our Country, & are rapidly destroying it,” he posted on his Truth Social platform.



“They are using the levers of Law Enforcement, and have completely Weaponized the FBI & DOJ to Interfere with, Rigg, and Steal our once SACRED ELECTIONS. We are now living in a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY, but we will Come Back & MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” he posted.



Last week, Ivanka Trump posted a brief statement about her father’s indictment.



“I love my father, and I love my country,” she wrote. “Today, I am pained for both.



“I appreciate the voices across the political spectrum expressing support and concern,” she added.

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Bragg Was Looking to Charge Trump with a Felony, Could Land Himself in Prison for Years Instead



By Jack Davis

April 2, 2023 at 3:59am


As Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg tries to hang a felony charge on former President Donald Trump, leaks from the grand jury indictment against the former president could leave Bragg facing his own felony charge — if he was the source of the leak.



As noted by Newsweek, pieces of the indictment, but not the full document, have been leaked to the media, hence reports have been flying that there are 30 counts against Trump, at least one of which is a felony. Bragg is also dealing with calls from House Republicans to provide documents related to his investigation of Trump, NBC reported.



Leaking grand jury documents is a felony in New York. And that means Bragg could be in trouble, former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz wrote in a commentary piece published Friday by the New York Sun.



“It is likely that a serious felony has been committed right under District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s nose, and he is not investigating it. Under New York law, it is a felony to leak confidential grand jury information, such as whether the jurors voted to indict. The protection of secrecy is as applicable to President Trump as it is to anyone else,” Dershowitz wrote.



“The most likely, though uncertain, scenario is that a person in Mr. Bragg’s office or a grand juror unlawfully leaked the sealed information,” he wrote.



“It is possible of course that an investigation is underway, but it seems more likely that Mr. Bragg is too busy making up a crime against the man he promised in his campaign to get than investigating a real crime that took place on his watch,” Dershowitz wrote.



Dershowitz’s perspective was shared by Fox News host Tucker Carlson.



“s if all of that were not third-world enough, someone leaked the news of Donald Trump’s grand jury indictment to the media. Now, that in itself is a crime under the law in New York. In fact, a much bigger crime than those under which Donald Trump is being charged,” Carlson wrote on Fox News.



“Will Alvin Bragg prosecute the leaker? Please. It’s almost certainly someone in his own office,” Carlson wrote.


In an interview noted by Newsweek, Trump attorney James Trusty denounced “leaked indictments making their way out to the public.”



“Again, with Donald Trump, there’s just rule of law. This is just a small example of it that begins with Alvin Bragg’s persecution — his stated aim of indicting him,” he said.



Dershowitz had said earlier that Bragg’s reliance on former Trump attorney Michael Cohen as his key witness could be trouble for the district attorney, because Cohen has already pleaded guilty to lying to Congress. Grand jury testimony from Robert Costello, a former legal adviser to Cohen, also attacked Cohen’s credibility, according to The New York Times.



“If [Bragg] uses Cohen as a witness, he could actually lose his bar license,” Dershowitz told Fox Business Network’s “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo” in a March 26 interview, according to Mediaite.



That was four days before the news of the indictment exploded on the scene on Thursday.



Related: Eric Trump Reveals What Happened to Him After News of His Father's Indictment Broke

“It’s unethical to put a witness on the stand who you know is lying, and he has to know that Cohen will be lying,” Dershowitz said. “Or he tries the case without Cohen, which would be very difficult, or he does the right thing: He drops the case.”



In the Sun piece, Dershowitz wrote that based on existing leaks, the indictment is related to how payments were entered on the books of the Trump Organization.



“[T]he misdemeanor allegation involving false entries is unprecedented and represents selective prosecution. It is also almost certainly barred by the two-year statute of limitations. In order to elevate this bookkeeping case into a felony, Mr. Bragg must also prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the reason Trump made the false entry — if he himself did it — was solely as a campaign contribution to help him win his election,” he wrote.



“If Mr. Trump was motivated in part by his desire to protect his wife, children, and business interests from harmful disclosures, that would not constitute the crime of making an undisclosed campaign contribution. So this too is a stretch.”



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Former President Donald Trump Scheduled to Give Remarks After Arraignment on Tuesday


KRISTINA WONG
2 Apr 2023

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign has announced he will deliver remarks at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday evening, the day he is expected to be arraigned in New York.



The campaign notice said he will speak at 8:15 p.m. EDT. The event is open to media.



His arraignment is expected to take place earlier in the day, and will consist of him being charged, having a mugshot taken, and being fingerprinted, according to the DailyMail.



The indictment is expected to be made public for the first time on Tuesday, which will reveal the exact charges that District Attorney of New York Alvin Bragg has filed against Trump.



The remarks will be his first public speech since his indictment on Thursday.



The former president has issued written statements about the indictment, blasting it as political persecution and election interference. Trump said, as reported by Breitbart News:



From the time I came down the golden escalator at Trump Tower, and even before I was sworn in as your President of the United States, the Radical Left Democrats – the enemy of the hard-working men and women of this Country – have been engaged in a Witch-Hunt to destroy the Make America Great Again movement,” Trump said in a statement responding to the news he has been indicted. “You remember it just like I do: Russia, Russia, Russia; the Mueller Hoax; Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine; Impeachment Hoax 1; Impeachment Hoax 2; the illegal and unconstitutional Mar-a-Lago raid; and now this. The Democrats have lied, cheated and stolen in their obsession with trying to ‘Get Trump,’ but now they’ve done the unthinkable – indicting a completely innocent person in an act of blatant Election Interference. Never before in our Nation’s history has this been done. The Democrats have cheated countless times over the decades, including spying on my campaign, but weaponizing our justice system to punish a political opponent, who just so happens to be a President of the United States and by far the leading Republican candidate for President, has never happened before. Ever. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, who was hand-picked and funded by George Soros, is a disgrace. Rather than stopping the unprecedented crime wave taking over New York City, he’s doing Joe Biden’s dirty work, ignoring the murders and burglaries and assaults he should be focused on. This is how Bragg spends his time!



Trump added that he believes this will backfire on Democrat President Joe Biden, who he aims to defeat in next year’s general election.



New post-indictment polling data from Trump’s campaign shows that he holds a commanding lead in the GOP primary and a lead over Biden in a general election matchup, also previously reported by Breitbart News.

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Donald Trump Departs Mar-a-Lago for NYC with Cheering Supporters


WENDELL HUSEBØ
3 Apr 2023

Former President Donald Trump on Monday departed his residence at Mar-a-Lago for the Palm Beach Airport on his way to New York City to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon.



The route to the airport was lined with supporters holding pro-Trump flags and cheering for the president. Trump entered the airport with an 11 car motorcade.



Most networks carried the historic departure. Trump is the first president in history to be indicted.

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BREAKING: Trump's team says no cameras in courtroom during arraignment, says Bragg wants a 'spectacle', 'we don't'

"We don't normally allow cameras in courtrooms why make an exception now? To make a spectacle. They want that. We don’t."



BREAKING: Trump's team says no cameras in courtroom during arraignment, says Bragg wants a 'spectacle', 'we don't'


Apr 3, 2023


On Monday, lawyer representing former President Donald Trump, Joe Tacopina, confirmed to the New York Post that he has asked Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan to ban cameras in the courtroom during Trump's appearance Tuesday to plead in an indictment coming out of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office.



Tacopina said, "We don't normally allow cameras in courtrooms why make an exception now? To make a spectacle. They want that. We don’t."


According to CNN, "Trump’s team argues request for cameras in the courtroom should be denied 'because it will create a circus-like atmosphere at the arraignment, raise unique security concerns, and is inconsistent with President Trump’s presumption of innocence,' per letter to Judge Juan Merchan."


Several media organizations requested that the judge allow cameras when news hit Thursday that Trump was going to be indicted. The judge gave both the DA's office and Trump's team until 1 pm Monday to raise any objections to the request for cameras in the courtroom.



The New York Post reports that Trump himself made the choice to have his team ask for the cameras to be removed.



It was rumored on Monday that a gag order would be imposed on the case. The charges against Trump have not yet been revealed by the DA's office.



This story is breaking and will be updated.

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BREAKING LEAK: Trump Charged with 34 FELONY COUNTS – No Handcuffs, No Mug Shot, No Jail Cell

By Cristina Laila Apr. 3, 2023 8:20 pm


Another day, another leak.



President Trump was hit with 34 FELONY COUNTS for falsification of business records, according to a leak to the Deep State’s favorite actor Michael Isikoff.



President Trump will not be handcuffed and there will be no mug shot, according to Yahoo’s Isikoff.



Yahoo reported:



Read: Demand For Physical Precious Metals Skyrockets As Central Banks Buy Everything In Sight



Donald Trump will be placed under arrest on Tuesday and informed that he has been charged with 34 felony counts for falsification of business records, according to a source who has been briefed on the procedures for the arraignment of the former president.



A New York City Police arrest report summarizing the charges against Trump will then be prepared and entered into the court system before he is led into a courtroom to be formally arraigned on the charges, none of which are misdemeanors.



But, the source said, Trump will not be put in handcuffs, placed in a jail cell or subjected to a mug shot — typical procedures even for white-collar defendants until a judge has weighed in on pretrial conditions. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, which has been consulting with the Secret Service and New York City court officials, concluded that there was no reason to subject the former president to handcuffs or a mug shot.



The stated reason for handcuffing defendants is on the grounds that the suspect might be a flight risk or a threat to the district attorney or court personnel, neither of which were judged to be relevant to the handling of a former president protected at all times by a phalanx of Secret Service agents.



President Trump landed at New York’s LaGuardia Airport in Queens on Monday afternoon.



President Trump will spend the night at Trump Tower New York and will show up to court for his arraignment on Tuesday at 2:15 pm ET.



Trump’s lawyers will immediately file a motion to dismiss after they have the opportunity to review the indictment.



Recall Michael Isikoff was involved in the Deep State’s attempt to oust Trump from office.


No one in the media is more accommodating to the deep state than ‘old faithful’ – Yahoo’s Michael Isikoff.



In 2017, it was reported that Isikoff’s Yahoo report was used to obtain FISA warrants to spy on President Trump while at the same time Isikoff was working with the DNC.

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Trump Attorney to Don Lemon: Let’s Remember That the Real Crime That We Have is That Da Bragg Did Leak That There Were 34 Counts… That In Itself Is a Felony (VIDEO)

By Cristina Laila Apr. 3, 2023 8:07 pm


Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba on Monday blasted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg during an appearance on CNN.



Alina Habba brought the fire and said Alvin Bragg is the one who committed a felony by leaking Trump’s indictment to CNN.



A Manhattan Grand Jury voted to indict President Trump last week.



The indictment is currently under seal, however, according to a leak to CNN, President Trump was hit with 34 counts related to business fraud.


“Former President Donald Trump faces more than 30 counts related to business fraud in an indictment from a Manhattan grand jury, according to two sources familiar with the case.” CNN reported.



Trump’s lawyers still haven’t seen the charging documents.



A New York Judge recently authorized Bragg’s office to make Trump’s indictment public.



The charging documents will be unsealed on Tuesday at Trump’s arraignment.



Trump’s lawyer said Alvin Bragg is the one who committed a crime.



“Let’s remember that the real crime here that we have is that DA Bragg did leak that there were 30-34 counts… we already know that. That in itself is a felony,” Alina Habba said to Don Lemon.



Don Lemon tried to pushback but Alina Habba held her ground.



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BREAKING: Attorney Matt Colangelo Is the Link Between Soros Backed DA Bragg’s Office and the Obama White House and the Biden DOJ

By Joe Hoft Apr. 3, 2023 1:35 pm

We knew Soros-backed Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg wasn’t smart enough to put the bogus Trump indictment together himself, but he was dumb enough and corrupt enough to follow through with it.



The real culprit behind the “get Trump” radicals in New York is the corrupt, newly hired, former Obama-Biden DOJ attorney named Matt Colangelo.



Attorney Mike Davis unloaded Colangelo’s name along with Steve Bannon on the War Room today.



In their interview, Davis noted that Matt Colangelo is the link between the Biden DOJ and DA Bragg in their corrupt acts in targeting and putting together a BS indictment against President Trump. This guy was in the Obama White House and the Biden DOJ and appears to have been brought in to indict President Trump on whatever he could come up with.


This is a great example of how Obama destroyed the US DOJ and made it anti-American, biased, and corrupt.



Davis and Bannon dissected the corrupt actor pushing anti-American full woke actions in the corrupt DOJ now working with Bragg, Colangelo.



Colangelo was one of the first corrupt actors brought into Biden’s DOJ in a top position. This is the guy who acted with others to indict the likes of Americans who were praying outside of abortion clinics.







Only a few months ago, the former Obama DOJ radical was hired by DA Bragg in New York.



This radical is who’s behind indicting President Trump and he’s totally connected to Obama and Biden.


It’s all just a political hit job by the American Trump haters in the Obama-Biden Administrations. These people hate America. Obama called for change but his change was the total destruction of America, economically, internationally, and morally.



Mike Davis shared more on how Bragg’s phony legal theory exposes The Clear Political Hit-Job On President Trump.

Obama wanted to change America by destroying all that was good in this country. Indicting Trump has been his dream ever since citizen Trump challenged Obama’s birth certificate.



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Trump Insists Manhattan DA Has 'No Case' Against Him

By Fran Beyer | Monday, 03 April 2023 07:46 AM EDT



Former President Donald Trump, facing arraignment in New York City on Tuesday, railed at an indictment from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, asserting there's "no case" and an "impossible" prospect of a fair trial in the matter.



In angry messages on Truth Social late Sunday, Trump blasted Bragg and New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan — demanding a change in venue and presiding jurist.



"The Corrupt D.A. has no case," Trump wrote. "What he does have is a venue where it is IMPOSSIBLE for me to get a Fair Trial (it must be changed!), and a Trump Hating Judge, hand selected by the Soros backed D.A. (he must be changed!)."



Last year, Merchan presided over the criminal tax fraud case against the Trump Organization, with two companies within the organization found guilty of felonies related to tax fraud and falsifying business records.



Billionaire George Soros, a prominent Democratic Party donor, has insisted he does not know the Manhattan district attorney who charged Trump.



In his Truth Social comments, Trump also went off on the Department of Justice "working in the D.A.'s Office - Unprecedented!"



The charges against Trump will be unsealed at Tuesday's arraignment, and are reportedly speculated to relate to Trump's alleged hush money scandal involving $130,000 given to porn star Stormy Daniels and $150,000 to former Playboy model Karen McDougal as improper payments from the Trump campaign in 2016.



Trump is expected to deliver a speech after he returns to his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, at 8:15 p.m. ET Tuesday, which will air live and in its entirety on Newsmax.



Trump also revealed his travels would start at noon Monday, when he'll leave Mar-a-Lago and planned to be "heading to Trump Tower in New York."



"On Tuesday morning I will be going to, believe it or not, the Courthouse. America was not supposed to be this way!" he wrote, declaring in a third message: "ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!"



Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, told CNN on Sunday he expects to make a motion to dismiss any charges revealed in the indictment unsealed Tuesday.



"Whether you send the right or the left or you're a supporter or detractor of Donald Trump, this should really bother you," Tacopina said. "This should really shake the core of what we believe our justice system should be about. It should not be weaponized to go after political opponents.

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Trump Vows to Ramp up Rhetoric Against Bragg

By Jack Gournell | Sunday, 02 April 2023 10:17 PM EDT



Donald Trump is once again gearing up for a fight with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg after being indicted over hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.



Trump's recent vow to ramp up attacks against Bragg, whom he accuses of being a "psychopath," according to The Guardian, has put his political resolve on full display.

Trump's advisers are working on a legal and political strategy, while Trump has asked if his potential mug shot could be printed on T-shirts.



Trump's poll numbers have improved since the indictment, and his advisers believe this places his rivals for the Republican nomination in a tricky position.

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Trump’s Lawyer Schools Don Lemon, Sinks Alvin Bragg: “We don’t have the information, so it came from their office”

David Hawkins
April 3, 2023 - 4:21 pm


Trump attorney Alina Habba shut down Don Lemon after the CNN host defended Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg during an interview on CNN This Morning. Trump will be arraigned tomorrow on 30-34 counts.



Habba turned the tables on Lemon reminding him that someone in the DA’s office leaked the number of counts in Trump’s indictment to the media. This is a major violation of legal and professional ethics.



It may be a crime, Habba thinks it could be a felony, but as the number of counts would be released to the public with the indictment, leaking them is most likely not a felony offense.



But Bragg does have some exposure here.



If the leak violated the defendant’s right to a fair trial, it could lead to legal action against the Manhattan District Attorney’s office or the individual leaker.



Bragg’s legal exposure will depend on the circumstances of the case and the laws of the jurisdiction.



The circumstances are a problem for Bragg. Here is the timeline.



The indictment leaked. No one cares about Stormy Daniels or if Trump paid her.


Trump looked like a sympathetic figure, Bragg looked like a bully.



The number of counts leaked. (Prosecutors can charge the same thing 30 different ways if they want but people don’t know that.)



Trump looked like a guilty villain.



Bragg looked like the good guy who had to make this unprecedented move because ‘you can’t turn a blind eye on 30 counts.’



Did the leak smear Trump or hurt his ability to get a fair trial?



Habba said: “Let’s remember that the real crime here that we have is that DA Bragg did leak that there were 30 to 34 counts.



“We already know that that in itself is a felony. You are not to let that go. So at this point, I like everybody in this country to be treated the same no matter what we do.”



“We don’t know if the DA leaked that information,” Lemon responded. “That is speculation.”



“Well, it’s not speculation,” Habba said. “We don’t have the information, so it came from their office.”

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[Midnight]

President Trump Comments on DA Bragg Illegally Leaking Bogus Trump Indictment to the Press

By Joe Hoft Apr. 3, 2023 8:35 pm




President Trump shared on Truth Social the additional crimes committed by the crooks running the New York DA’s office.



We know Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is backed by George Soros and promised to indict President Trump when he was running for office. He is as crooked as the day is long and he’s not too bright either.



We also know that Bragg’s office recently hired Obama White House Attorney and Biden DOJ attorney Matt Colangelo a woke and clearly crooked prosecutor.


Tonight we learned that Bragg’s Chief of Staff is a Trump hater as well. These people have no regard for the law and use America’s legal system as a tool to take down good Americans like President Trump.


It’s no surprise these people committed a felony by leaking the indictment against President Trump to the press. These people are evil and sick Obama and Biden puppets.



President Trump commented on their actions moments ago on Trump Social.



Wow! District Attorney Bragg just illegally LEAKED the various points, and complete information, on the pathetic Indictment against me. I know the reporter and so, unfortunately, does he. This means that he MUST BE IMMEDIATELY INDICTED. Now, if he wants to really clean up his reputation, he will do the honorable thing and, as District Attorney, INDICT HIMSELF. He will go down in Judicial history, and his Trump Hating wife will be, I am sure, very proud of him!


President Trump also shared the following:



D.A. BRAGG JUST ILLEGALLY LEAKED THE 33 points of Indictment. There are no changes or surprises from those he leaked days ago directly out of the Grand Jury. No Crime by Trump. What a MESS. Bragg should resign, NOW!


These people aren’t Americans and they aren’t men of integrity, they are more like the goons that helped the Nazis or the communists take over countries. They have no regard for the rule of law. They should never hold a position in our law enforcement ever again. These are the people Obama and Biden groomed in the cesspool called the DOJ. They all are the real criminals.

truthsocial.com/@realdonaldtrump/posts/110137759054111274

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Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to 34 Counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree


WENDELL HUSEBØ
4 Apr 2023

Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree Tuesday afternoon during his historic arraignment.



Trump was arrested around 1:35 p.m. and appeared before the judge, who charged him with 34 counts of falsifying business records, at 2:45 p.m.



Trump pleaded not guilty to indictment No. 71543-23.



Per the judge’s orders, the media was not allowed to live stream the court proceedings. Photographers, however, were allowed to enter the courtroom to take photos before the proceedings began. The photographers captured images for a few minutes before they were seen leaving the courtroom.



CBS News’s Scott MacFarlane described the courtroom “as stuffy, warm, and feeling like an old middle school, not like ornate federal courtrooms.”



The former president entered police custody around 1:30 p.m. in the Manhattan courthouse where he surrendered to authorities before the arraignment.



Before ducking into a vehicle on his way to the courthouse, he turned, waved, and gave his supporters a fist bump.

Upon arriving at the courthouse, Trump posted on Truth Social, “Seems so SURREAL — WOW, they are going to ARREST ME. Can’t believe this is happening in America. MAGA!”

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