A EXCELLENT piece by James Romoser over at Politico….
He does a deep dive into how a Real Estate, Entertainer and ex-President has been given breaks that would have put any other person, poor or even Rich in Jail SEVERAL times….
Trump may whine and cry in public and get sympathy from MAGA types….
But the guy IS a expert in getting media attention and following his early teacher Roy Cohen’s advice?
He has learned that attacking ANYTHING that gets in his way often works in his favor….
That includes prosocutors, judges, cops, witnesses and women he’s had sexual contacts with….
Yes the ‘System’ is NOT fair….
But?
In his case?
So far?
He’s been ahead of it , even if it HAS taken piece out of his ass….
We’ll see how he makes out in the next 12 months or so…..
We already KNOW he’s in the hole for hundreds of millions of dollars….
Oh?
He BETTER WINin November….
Cuase if he doesn’t?
He’s IN DEEPER Shit then anyone can imagine….
Today, Trump routinely spouts invective far more inflammatory than anything Hill said. He denigrates prosecutors. He lies about his cases. He vilifies thejudges overseeing them — and then vilifies their wives and daughters, too. Yet Trump has never faced the swift repercussions that were imposed on Hill — and are routinely imposed on other defendants in America.
Instead, Trump gets special treatment.
“I can’t imagine any other defendant posting on social media about a judge’s family and not being very quickly incarcerated,” said Russell Gold, a law professor at the University of Alabama.
As Trump prepares to begin his first criminal trial on Monday in New York, the tolerance of his tirades is perhaps the most glaring sign of the judicial system’s Trump exceptionalism. But it’s far from the only example. Over the past year, in ways large and small, in criminal cases and civil ones, Trump has consistently been given more freedom and more privileges than virtually any other defendant in his shoes.
Some judges in Trump’s cases may have afforded him unique leeway in hopes of avoiding any appearance that they are meddling in the 2024 campaign. Indeed, Trump’s role as a presidential candidate — one who is always eager to play the martyr — complicates the task of prosecutors and judges eager to lower the temperature of the proceedings. Penalizing Trump before he’s ever convicted of anything could stir a backlash and trigger more heat, not less.
Trump supporters surely bristle at the notion that he’s getting any preferential treatment. After all, he is facing dozens of felony counts across four criminal cases, and a series of massive civil judgments has damaged his reputation and his wealth.
But the fact is that no other person in America — if charged with the diverse panoply of malfeasance that Trump has been accused of — would enjoy the same procedural and structural advantages that Trump has harnessed, to great effect, as his legal troubles reached a fever pitch over the past 12 months.
There may be good reasons for some of those advantages. A former president and current candidate is no ordinary criminal defendant. But special treatment carries a hefty price: It shatters the American lore that everyone is treated equally before the law.
The result, ironically, is a partial confirmation of one of Trump’s favorite grievances. He’s enmeshed in a “two-tiered system of justice,” he often says — and he’s right. There are two tiers. But Trump frequently has been the beneficiary, not the victim….
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Nearly 500,000 people in America are in jail while they await criminal trials. Trump, obviously, is not one of them.
In all four of his criminal cases, he was allowed to remain free with minimal conditions of release.
One of the few conditions — perhaps the central one — is that he must refrain from saying anything that would threaten or harass potential witnesses, co-defendants or jurors. His Georgia bond order, for instance, states: “The Defendant shall perform no act to intimidate any person known to him or her to be a co-defendant or witness in this case or to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice.” It goes on to say that the rule applies to both “direct” and “indirect” threats. Trump’s release conditions in his other cases contain similar admonitions.
Yet Trump has repeatedly used his public soapbox to hurl menacing language that — if uttered by any other defendant — would likely be deemed to have crossed the line….
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But merely by taking up the issue ( Blanket Immunity) at all — and by refusing to do so on the accelerated basis that special counsel Jack Smith originally requested — the justices have handed Trump a potentially huge victory. It’s no secret that he is seeking to run out the clock in all of his cases until Election Day. And the Supreme Court’s handling of the immunity issue has significantly increased the odds that voters will go to the polls in the next election before a jury weighs in on Trump’s attempts to overturn the last election….
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Trump enjoys yet another advantage that literally no other criminal defendant possesses: the fact that he personally appointed some of the key decision-makers in his cases.
Three of the nine Supreme Court justices are Trump appointees, and so is the judge presiding over the classified documents case, Aileen Cannon….
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As Trump’s most serious criminal cases stalled, the efforts to hold him accountable played out mostly in civil proceedings. Over the past year, the writer E. Jean Carroll won two major lawsuits against him, as juries ordered Trump to pay Carroll nearly $90 million for sexual abuse and defamation. And New York Attorney General Tish James won a $454 million civil judgmentagainst him for perpetrating years of corporate fraud.
But even in the civil fraud case — which by all accounts was a devastating loss for Trump and his businesses — there were nonetheless signs of special deference…
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The American legal system is currently undergoing a Trump-induced stress test, one that will only intensify when Trump’s Manhattan trial begins on Monday….
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Voters will be watching. So will the prosecutors in his other criminal cases — all of whom are trying, but so far failing, to bring him to trial before Election Day. Those prosecutors have left unsaid the reason why the timing matters so much, but everyone involved knows it: If Trump is elected president again, all pending criminal cases will stop in their tracks….
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The guy IS just gonna keep at this believeing that NO judge is gonna fine or incarcerate him to stop him….
Trump Takes Aim at Two Witnesses Despite Gag Order
“Donald Trump on Saturday took aim at two likely witnesses in his upcoming New York hush money trial, testing the boundaries of a gag order that prohibits such public statements,” CNBC reports.