NY: Convicted Felon Donald Trump!

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It was a week ago, now, that this gloriously became true.

Donald Trump is a convicted felon.

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It's been pretty discouraging how little discussion of this case there's been since the verdict.  Like, isn't the sentencing by far the most important part?

If Trump doesn't go to prison, it seems like this was all pretty pointless. But there are very compelling arguments that Trump should be immediately sentenced to prison that I don't see many people making.

Actually I've been hearing a lot of arguments recently that the prosecution is likely to request prison and the judge likely to give it. Not sure I'm there yet on the latter but I might be coming around.

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Your majesty? lol

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Trump probation interview set for Monday after hush money conviction
The former president was convicted last month on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the hush money case against him.

Former President Trump is scheduled to sit for a virtual interview on Monday with a New York City probation officer from his home at Mar-a-Lago with his attorney Todd Blanche at his side after he was found guilty on all counts in the hush money trial against him last month, three sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.

Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was convicted last month on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the historic case. The probation interview is required by the court as part of the former president’s pre-sentencing report.

Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the hush money case, permitted Blanche to be present for the probation interview after prosecutors did not object. The Trump defense team is scheduled to submit their sentencing recommendation on June 13.

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Some legal experts noted that holding a probation interview over a video conference call is unusual but having the former president in a New York probation would also be unprecedented.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-probation-interview-monday-hush-money-conviction-rcna156219

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Trump said there should be a mistrial because of that but nothing will happen. Anyway, the meeting with the probation department has concluded, it lasted about 30 minutes, per NBC.

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Trump completed pre-sentencing interview with New York probation office, source tells CNN

Former President Donald Trump completed his pre-sentencing interview with the New York City Department of Probation on Monday after his hush money trial conviction last month, a source familiar with the proceedings told CNN.

“Earlier today, President Trump completed a routine interview with [the] New York Probation Office. The interview was uneventful and lasted less than thirty minutes,” the source said, adding, “The President and his team will continue to fight the lawless Manhattan DA Witch Hunt.”

The interview took place around 3:30 p.m. Monday, a second source told CNN.

Trump answered all questions in the virtual interview and was described as polite, respectful and accommodating to the probation officers, according to a New York City official familiar with the interview.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/10/politics/trump-probation-office-interview-hush-money/index.html

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg agrees to testify before Congress following Trump verdict

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg agreed on Friday to testify before Congress as Republicans attempt to discredit former President Donald Trump’s conviction, but indicated that could happen only after Trump is sentenced next month.

Bragg’s office has resisted calls to testify before Congress citing the ongoing case against the former president, but in a letter Friday to GOP Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Bragg stated his willingness to testify at a future date.

The letter from Bragg’s general counsel said the Manhattan DA’s office is willing to engage with the committee to decide a date for the testimony as well as to “better understand the scope and the purpose of the proposed hearing.”

“This Office is committed to voluntary cooperation. That cooperation includes making the District Attorney available to provide testimony on behalf of the Office at an agreed-upon date, and evaluating the propriety of allowing an Assistant District Attorney to testify publicly about an active prosecution to which he is assigned,” the letter reads.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/08/politics/alvin-bragg-agrees-testify-congress/index.html

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I imagine this will be a spirited discussion in Judiciary lol.

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Trump’s private demand to Johnson: Help overturn my conviction
As the former president heads to Capitol Hill, he is privately seeking legislative revenge.

Donald Trump makes his first visit to Capitol Hill since leaving the presidency Thursday morning, meeting with Republican lawmakers in what is being billed as a resolutely forward-looking session focused on a potential 2025 legislative agenda.

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He has been obsessed in recent weeks with harnessing the powers of Congress to fight on his own behalf and go to war against the Democrats he accuses of “weaponizing” the justice system against him.

It’s a campaign he orchestrated in the days after his May 31 conviction on 34 felony counts in New York, starting with a phone call to the man he wanted to lead it: Speaker Mike Johnson.

Trump was still angry when he made the call, according to those who have heard accounts of it from Johnson, dropping frequent F-bombs as he spoke with the soft-spoken and pious GOP leader.

“We have to overturn this,” Trump insisted.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/13/donald-trump-conviction-mike-johnson-00163128

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In the Trump directory thread there's some more background. He wants Congress to pass a law to immunize former Presidents from any criminal charges including state charges.

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Trump's version I don't think is Constitutional. But the bill that's circulating in Congress would allow a former President to have a state case moved to Federal Court, which might (?) be. I don't think it's a bill of attainder because it's not imposing a punishment. You can have laws that only involve a single named person.

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New York’s top court declines to hear Trump’s appeal of the gag order in his hush money case

New York’s top court on Tuesday declined to hear Donald Trump’s gag order appeal in his hush money case, leaving the restrictions in place following his felony conviction last month. The Court of Appeals found that the order does not raise “substantial” constitutional issues that would warrant an immediate intervention.

The decision is the latest legal setback for the Republican former president, who has repeatedly railed against a gag order that prevents him from commenting on witnesses, jurors and others who were involved in the case. But it could be short lived. The trial judge, Juan M. Merchan, is expected to rule soon on a defense request to lift the gag order.

A Trump campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, said Tuesday the ex-president’s legal team would “continue to fight against the unconstitutional Gag Order imposed by Justice Merchan.”

Trump’s attorneys filed a notice of appeal with the state’s high court on May 15, during the former president’s landmark criminal trial. They argued that the gag order restricted Trump’s “core political speech on matters of central importance at the height of his Presidential campaign.”

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-hush-money-gag-order-juan-merchan-c6e8056bf7b82aaf0bbf094d703b5f31

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DA Alvin Bragg deluged with death threats, racist harassment since Trump’s hush money trial conviction

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been bombarded with death threats and harassing messages in the three weeks since his office secured Donald Trump’s conviction, the Daily News has learned.

More than 100 abusive messages obtained by The News targeted toward the DA via his campaign website denigrated him in vile and typo-laden terms, calling him the n-word and racist slurs like “Savage […] primate, F–king […] rapist” and “GORILLA.”

“Bragg in Trouble, Alvin a Bad Evil Man,” read one message sent through a signup form, which another sender used to transmit threats via an email address named “ThisMeansWar.”

The missives were provided to Bragg’s NYPD security detail and shared with The News by a source who wished to remain anonymous. They represent part of a significant increase in a deluge of abuse and death threats directed toward the DA at work and addresses associated with his campaign since Trump was first indicted, two sources told The News.

Among the threats the DA received during Trump’s seven-week trial shared with The News was a packet sent from a Portland, Oregon, address to Bragg’s campaign mailbox featuring a photo of a noose with a cutout of his head stuck beside it.

https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/06/20/da-alvin-bragg-deluged-with-death-threats-racist-harassment-since-trumps-hush-money-trial-conviction/

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NY prosecutors urge judge to keep gag order blocking Trump from criticizing jurors who convicted him

Prosecutors on Friday urged the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case to uphold provisions of a gag order that bar him from criticizing jurors and court staff, while agreeing to lift a restriction on his public statements about trial witnesses.

In court papers filed Friday, prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office argued that portions of the gag order remained necessary given the Republican former president’s “singular history of inflammatory and threatening public statements,” as well as efforts by his supporters to “identify jurors and threaten violence against him.”

“Since the verdict in this case, defendant has not exempted the jurors from his alarming rhetoric that he would have ‘every right’ to seek retribution as president against the participants in this trial as a consequence of his conviction because ’sometimes revenge can be justified,” the filing states.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-hush-money-new-york-gag-order-017ee70af7749c225975bb428113dfd1