Breaking NYT - Prosecutor Bragg signals Criminal Charges for the Slobfather are likely

[malaise]

om Nicolle Wallace

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!

[panader0]

1. Guy on MSNBC called it the breaking of the dam!

[malaise]

2. I'd like to hear breaking like the Niagara falls

[spooky3]

15. LOL! Nt

[malaise]

16. Hehehehhe

[Lovie777]

3. Really?...............

[malaise]

5. Ari says four sources

over campaign hush money for Stormy

[brush]

18. That's all? The Stormy stuff, after everything he's done?

If it happens, at least it's something.

[jcgoldie]

22. Cohen was the bag man

Trump fucked the guy that knew too much.

[tinrobot]

37. Cohen when to jail over it.

Seems like jail for his ex-boss would be something good.

[triron]

45. Better than nothing but a big disappointment as well.

[Beachnutt]

4. Hand signal ?

smoke signal ?

[malaise]

8. Slobby has been given the opportunity to appear before a grand jury

He won't of course but get the popcorn - butter please

[SheltieLover]

13. ...

Plenty for all!

[Takket]

6. let me know when ANY of these people actually indict him

[Rebl2]

11. I'm with you

[Deuxcents]

12. Me, too. Wake me up when it happens. I'm actually hopeful but ..the waiting is getting to me

[MyOwnPeace]

24. Agree - and of all of the 'crimes' this A$$ has committed......

Really - COME ON, GARLAND/SMITH, NAIL HIM!!!!!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

33. Yep. How many hundreds, nay thousands, of times have we

seen something like this here?

[honest.abe]

7. God I hope so.

We have been waiting about 5 years for this.

[malaise]

32. Word is that he is attacking the race of three prosecutors

This criminal wants a race war - me or destruction

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Prosecutors signal criminal charges for Donald Trump are likely.

Link to tweet

[malaise]

10. You sure find the links

Thanks

[SheltieLover]

14. Thx!

[Cha]

19. TY LMPV!

[Cha]

17. Bragg sure has

Come a long way! TY

[jaxexpat]

20. First off, get the microphones out of his stupid fsce.

[bdamomma]

21. God I hope so

I want to see that POS behind bars.

[Quixote1818]

23. Please!!!! nt

[sanatanadharma]

25. OM tathastu

OM so be it

Science says there exists a grand order, systems of regularity that can be studied and measured.
The theory of a unified field is not laughed out of the scientists' lounge.

But that such orderliness exists also in morality is too little appreciated beyond our short measures.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

34. Tathastu?

What in the world does that mean?

[Celerity]

40. So be it

They posted the translation in the original post

[Kingofalldems]

26. Silence so far from the 'Trump is invincible' crew.

Kick and rec.

[BannonsLiver]

27. Yeah. It's Stormy Daniels. Calm down.

[gab13by13]

28. Bragg will have no problem proving a misdemeanor,

Cohen took out a 130k loan to pay Stormy Daniels and Trump paid Cohen back in 35k payments and illegally claimed as payment to Cohen for services rendered. The problem will be to prove the campaign finance violation to New York (the felony). This would have been much easier to prove in federal court because the federal law is written differently.

Will Trump succeed in moving the trial out of Manhattan?

Pomerantz and Dunne were going to charge more financial fraud crimes, will Bragg leave them off?

Lots of questions to still be answered. Just prosecuting Trump for a misdemeanor will be a mistake.

[Warpy]

29. "SIGNALING" aint good enough for me

Yes, inviting (but not compelling) a target of an investigation to come in and explain himself is usually the final step before he gets the bad news, but this is a former president. An indictment can be handed down but put under seal, meaning nothing happens with it, no warrant, no perp walk, no trial, no jury, and certainly no conviction.

I don't know which prosecutor will finally hand down an unsealed indictment, but I strongly suspect it will be one who intends to retire.

I also think that once the first indictment drops, others will soon follow.

I hope I'm wrong about the sealed indictment, but Bragg doesn't strike me as courageous enough to take that final step and I know he's not planning to retire soon.

[mcar]

30. Who will indict first? Willis or Bragg?

[malthaussen]

31. Signals, shmignals.

Shit or get off the pot, Bragg. I'm sick of this bullshit.

-- Mal

[Artcatt]

38. It's been "any minute now" for years.

Shit or get off the pot, indeed.

[malaise]

39. Yes time for the

Just Do It moment.

[allegorical oracle]

35. A tad disappointing. Plus, it is complicated. A venue has to be chosen, and djt will ask for a

change. Then a GJury has to be selected. And if the charge isn't a federal election-related crime (which it doesn't look like on its face), it's only a misdemeanor regarding wrong use of funds. Hope I'm wrong, but unless Bragg's suddenly found some legal gold buried under a rock, this case may end up being a dog's breakfast.

[Scrivener7]

41. I hope you're wrong too. But I also have to shake my damn head at the fact that

this "wrong use of funds" would be a misdemeanor. If you think of it, it boils down to embezzling. He stole funds people gave his campaign and paid off his porn star with them.

If you or I embezzled $130K, we'd be facing a lot more than a misdemeanor. I don't know the law, but if it is a law making wrong use of election funds a misdemeanor, and that law was passed by elected officials, that's rich.

[spanone]

36. ...K&R...

[JHB]

42. Just remember, all: Until it happens, it hasn't happened

That's the brutal truth, regardless of accusations of "killjoy" or whatever.

[malaise]

43. Seriously this is taking way too long

and I am among the patient
That is all

[Mad_Machine76]

44. Wake me up

when something actually happens. "Signals" and "Imminent Charges" aren't NOW.

[dwayneb]

46. Arguments for and against

Of course the argument for bringing charges is that justice will be served. We'd all love to see this lying scum serving time behind bars.

But the reality is that if charges are brought, he will never serve a day in prison. His lawyers will appeal and obfuscate until he is taking the dirt nap. This is what billions will buy you in a nation that has as it's symbol the Statue of Bigotry.

While he is waiting to die he will love every minute by playing the "persecuted patriot" on the campaign trail.