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Peacetrain

(23,659 posts)
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 04:02 PM Friday

Trump Dealt Major Blow as Judge Cannon's Ruling Struck Down

https://newrepublic.com/post/190082/donald-trump-judge-aileen-cannons-jack-smith-report

An appeals court has denied an emergency motion from two of Donald Trump’s co-defendants to stop the release of a report on the president-elect’s felony classified documents case.

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team had asked the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision blocking the report’s release in favor of Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager of Mar-a-Lago, and Walt Nauta, a Trump aide who was photographed carrying large boxes around the estate. The court agreed with Smith’s side, ruling Thursday that the report could be released after three days.
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Trump Dealt Major Blow as Judge Cannon's Ruling Struck Down (Original Post) Peacetrain Friday OP
Get thee to the greatest page malaise Friday #1
K&r Ninga Friday #2
Hope we don't get another Mueller or Fitzgerald report. Silent Type Friday #3
We will. Evolve Dammit Friday #16
Totally DENVERPOPS Yesterday #54
That story needs to be told as well as the insurrection and who planned and paid for it. Wonder who all the actors were. Evolve Dammit Yesterday #57
I think that the entire document will come out somehow eventually. totodeinhere Yesterday #63
Has any judge ever gone more out of their way to HELP a high profile defendant than Cannon? Blue_Tires Friday #4
They don't care whether we take them seriously or not. Boomerproud Friday #6
Rarified? NoRethugFriends Friday #28
Both work for me. generalbetrayus Yesterday #35
She's completely sold herself to Don John: her price just isn't public knowledge yet struggle4progress Friday #13
Don't you mean endgenocide Friday #34
K&R, report due out in 3 days (Sunday) unless more appeals shennanigans UTUSN Friday #5
With all them millions going to his inaugural... Kid Berwyn Friday #7
Pardons OrangeJoe Friday #8
He does have some very good handlers, evidently in very high places and very deep pockets. LiberalArkie Friday #11
Don the Con has had many many years practice.... groundloop Friday #19
EXACTLY!!!! Misdirection. Callie1979 Friday #26
Yeah he ain't gonna buy any damn land Dem4life1234 Yesterday #44
The USSC is corrupted. EndlessWire Friday #22
He can be both a moron and clever at the same time. yellow dahlia Friday #29
How about DENVERPOPS Yesterday #59
Yes. To lie is to breathe. yellow dahlia Yesterday #60
Agree DENVERPOPS Yesterday #62
I just realized I spelled breathe wrong. yellow dahlia 23 hrs ago #64
He's a moron about government and helping the U.S. not fooled 5 hrs ago #65
I don't like using the word hate, but Butterflylady Friday #33
Unlike the great monsters of history Mao, Hitler, Stalin ... speak easy Yesterday #41
This! Dem4life1234 Yesterday #45
Sadism for sadism's sake. speak easy Yesterday #47
They sure do enjoy cruelty don't they? Dem4life1234 Yesterday #48
The more outrageous fact is that the media isn't Dark n Stormy Knight Yesterday #61
3 days is enough time for the Corrupt Supremes to intervene. mn9driver Friday #9
Aileen Cannon is totally corrupt. She must go. Yesterday is fine by me LilElf70 Friday #10
There is a judiciary review board... rasputin1952 Friday #14
They take care of their own. Like Doctors. Very limited accountability. Evolve Dammit Friday #17
Reprimanded? That wouldn't make a damn bit of difference. calimary Yesterday #40
I agree... rasputin1952 Yesterday #42
Agreed Blue_Tires Friday #25
If one was truly innocent wouldn't you want the report released MagickMuffin Friday #12
That's for those who do not commit crimes rasputin1952 Friday #15
Of course, but this is a very "deep state" issue MagickMuffin Friday #18
Trump looks awful. True Blue American Friday #21
He definitely lost weight Dem4life1234 Yesterday #46
Ozempic for weight loss. magicarpet Yesterday #51
Only 42%? Dem4life1234 Yesterday #55
Remember, even Donnie didn't at any point claim to be innocent Blue_Tires Friday #24
Wooooo hooooo! At last, we've seen a couple of wins. Tiny wins, sure. But wins. LaMouffette Friday #20
I'd be willing to let Nauta and the other defendant go EndlessWire Friday #23
they wer charged in order to encourage them to turn states evidence rampartd Friday #27
I second that emotion. yellow dahlia Friday #30
Pardoned OrangeJoe Yesterday #52
"Major Blow" to what? BlueTsunami2018 Friday #31
yeppers. msfiddlestix Yesterday #37
Bloviatedtea headlines click bait msfiddlestix Yesterday #39
LOL @ "Major Blow" maxsolomon Friday #32
now for an emergency appeal to Alito et al msfiddlestix Yesterday #36
K&R spanone Yesterday #38
Love hearing good news Dem4life1234 Yesterday #43
Quick! Release it before they appeal to some kangaroo court again. Liberal In Texas Yesterday #49
The only blow Trump gets is snorted up his nose. Emile Yesterday #50
no blows were struck. none of this matters. NoRethugFriends Yesterday #53
"Major Blow"? Yes, the current situation certainly blows, as will the next four years. hatrack Yesterday #56
Now release the damn thing before the Supreme Court can weigh in. AdamGG Yesterday #58
Maybe, have yet to see the report. republianmushroom 4 hrs ago #66

DENVERPOPS

(10,301 posts)
54. Totally
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 10:53 AM
Yesterday

redacted like most of the Mueller Report. Someone needs to leak the document in it's entirety, "National Security" bull shit be damned. Trump and Jared have already sold all the top-top secret National Security Info long ago to our sworn enemies......

Evolve Dammit

(19,314 posts)
57. That story needs to be told as well as the insurrection and who planned and paid for it. Wonder who all the actors were.
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 12:26 PM
Yesterday

totodeinhere

(13,410 posts)
63. I think that the entire document will come out somehow eventually.
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 05:10 PM
Yesterday

It may not happen immediately but it will happen.

Blue_Tires

(57,208 posts)
4. Has any judge ever gone more out of their way to HELP a high profile defendant than Cannon?
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 04:19 PM
Friday

How is anybody supposed to take our criminal justice system seriously now?

Kid Berwyn

(18,587 posts)
7. With all them millions going to his inaugural...
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 04:35 PM
Friday

…he can afford the legal bills should he appeal to “Cadillac” Clarence Thomas or John “My Wife Takes Checks” Roberts.

OrangeJoe

(441 posts)
8. Pardons
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 05:36 PM
Friday

Donny is going to immediately pardon all the J6ers as well as his 2 minions who helped hide the documents. At the same time he’ll be directing ICE to conduct raids to deport a few hundred thousand illegals so the pardons will just get buried in a sea of outrage.

I absolutely hate the guy and he is a certified moron but he does have a low cunning and knows how to play the media and his cult members. He’ll continue to get away with everything especially with the mainstream media totally folding.

LiberalArkie

(16,742 posts)
11. He does have some very good handlers, evidently in very high places and very deep pockets.
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 06:04 PM
Friday

groundloop

(12,423 posts)
19. Don the Con has had many many years practice....
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 06:48 PM
Friday

He's a very talented con man and is a master at playing the media.

All of his crazy bullshit (Canada, Greenland, Gulf of America, Panama Canal, blah blah blah) is just a red herring to distract from the robbing of America.

Dem4life1234

(2,040 posts)
44. Yeah he ain't gonna buy any damn land
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 09:59 AM
Yesterday

It's all a distraction from his clown show of grifting.

So many people are idiots in this country to think he cares about them!

EndlessWire

(7,338 posts)
22. The USSC is corrupted.
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 06:55 PM
Friday

This is more than the media and his cult. He always runs up the ladder to the Appellates in order to reap what he has sown. It's a nightmare. We are at the beginning of a fascist, Nazi state.

yellow dahlia

(396 posts)
60. Yes. To lie is to breathe.
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 01:44 PM
Yesterday

Last edited Sat Jan 11, 2025, 05:18 PM - Edit history (1)

It's instinctual. I believe it is in his DNA. It is part of his programming, for sure.

Just as being a grifter is innate. He is so "good" at all of it.

not fooled

(6,133 posts)
65. He's a moron about government and helping the U.S.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:57 AM
5 hrs ago

but a genius at self-preservation and enrichment.

What a toxic combo. Too bad millions of 'Muricans dragged the rest of us back into this nightmare.

Butterflylady

(4,035 posts)
33. I don't like using the word hate, but
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 09:28 PM
Friday

When I think of all he's done to people and the pain he's caused I think the word hate is appropriate.

speak easy

(10,844 posts)
41. Unlike the great monsters of history Mao, Hitler, Stalin ...
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 09:42 AM
Yesterday

Trump does not believe in anything - anything but himself. This makes it all the harder to forgive anything he has done.

Dem4life1234

(2,040 posts)
45. This!
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 10:06 AM
Yesterday

Those dictators you named were indeed monsters. However, as you said, they still had a strong ideology, hell even at least installed social programs, critical infrastructure, and tried to make their country...in their warped eyes...better. if Hitler hadn't done the Holocaust, been a murderous creep, he would have been a great chancellor.

This clown is unlike anything we have seen, perhaps he is like Caligula? He is definitely not Nero. He is an oversexed, mentally deranged, narcissistic clown with no principles.

speak easy

(10,844 posts)
47. Sadism for sadism's sake.
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 10:12 AM
Yesterday

Many of his supporters want the cruelty, as long as the leopard eats someone else.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,063 posts)
61. The more outrageous fact is that the media isn't
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 02:50 PM
Yesterday

smart enough to not get played him! I mean, look at the dire consequences of their failures.

mn9driver

(4,618 posts)
9. 3 days is enough time for the Corrupt Supremes to intervene.
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 05:39 PM
Friday

I’ll believe the release when I see it.

LilElf70

(605 posts)
10. Aileen Cannon is totally corrupt. She must go. Yesterday is fine by me
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 05:45 PM
Friday

Judges are not paid to protect people from their own stupidity and ignorance of the law. They are there to make judgements based on legality of the law. Special favors should NEVER be allowed. If they are, they should have their license revoked and never practice law again.

It's actually quite simple, right? This wench has done this over and over again and should be reprimanded immediately. Overriding her many corrupt judgements by an appeals court is unacceptable.

rasputin1952

(83,348 posts)
14. There is a judiciary review board...
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 06:21 PM
Friday

I'm not sure how it works, but she, and a few others have been reprimanded.
There is a process to relieve them of their judicial standing, other than impeachment.

calimary

(84,796 posts)
40. Reprimanded? That wouldn't make a damn bit of difference.
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 08:48 AM
Yesterday

I doubt she’d care. And it wouldn’t change her mind about the donald.

rasputin1952

(83,348 posts)
42. I agree...
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 09:45 AM
Yesterday

She has been held to account in the past on a few issues, not much, if anything, has changed, at least as to T****.

MagickMuffin

(17,247 posts)
12. If one was truly innocent wouldn't you want the report released
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 06:06 PM
Friday


To prove your innocence. When these traitors disguise themselves as politicians and refuse to release investigative reports just proves they have something to hide.

Otherwise they’d be all for the release to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were innocent. However, burying the report makes them look extremely guilty in my book!



rasputin1952

(83,348 posts)
15. That's for those who do not commit crimes
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 06:23 PM
Friday

As sick as he is, he knows he's guilty of at least some of the charges.

MagickMuffin

(17,247 posts)
18. Of course, but this is a very "deep state" issue
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 06:42 PM
Friday


The evil has lurked within the republican establishment has existed for a long time. I became aware with Nixon. I saw through his viciousness with his extreme contempt for the youth in this country.

Ever since Nixon got impeached the republicans have waged a war on democrats, liberals, progressives, they started the culture wars still ongoing.

A few of the scandals I remember from my awareness as a teen growing up.

Watergate buried investigation
Iran Contra buried investigation
Illegal sale of weapons buried investigation
Saving and Loans, buried investigation
WTC, I don’t remember any real investigations
WMDs buried investigation
And then well there are so many investigations that we know they have been buried



True Blue American

(18,248 posts)
21. Trump looks awful.
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 06:51 PM
Friday

Pasty, big bags, hair half combed. He has also lost weight.
No matter how he blabs, this is taking a huge toll;e on him.

Dem4life1234

(2,040 posts)
46. He definitely lost weight
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 10:08 AM
Yesterday

His neck is sagging.. hopefully nature takes its desired course. He doesn't look as robust as 2015 era.

magicarpet

(17,209 posts)
51. Ozempic for weight loss.
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 10:31 AM
Yesterday

... at his age the more the weight loss the more the skin becomes saggy.

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Dem4life1234

(2,040 posts)
55. Only 42%?
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 10:57 AM
Yesterday

Sidenote, that number seems so tiny! I would have thought 70%! Plus obesity includes those with heavy muscle and bone density, too. Wow, would have thought the figure to be higher.

Blue_Tires

(57,208 posts)
24. Remember, even Donnie didn't at any point claim to be innocent
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 07:32 PM
Friday

His "legal defense" was that his crimes should be made retroactively legal because he's Donnie J. and he's above any laws of God or man.

EndlessWire

(7,338 posts)
23. I'd be willing to let Nauta and the other defendant go
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 07:13 PM
Friday

in order to read a completely unredacted version of what Trump did. Not for our overseas assets, but otherwise spell it out. What he took, where he took it, etc.

Don't forget that he took docs on a plane to show to unqualified reporters, for what reason? If you or I had done that, we'd have gone to jail for several years. He had box after box after box sitting unsecured in his toilet, and on the stage. This is the guy that mouthed off for Russian greeters in Washington, had Xi visit him at MAL, and wanted a direct back line to Moscow installed. Feel safe? Hell, he saluted a North Korean general. What a POS.

rampartd

(1,119 posts)
27. they wer charged in order to encourage them to turn states evidence
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 07:44 PM
Friday

not much sense in that now.

but it does not matter. we won't be seeing any reports

OrangeJoe

(441 posts)
52. Pardoned
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 10:35 AM
Yesterday

Trump will pardon them in one of his many first day assaults on democracy. It will be news for 5 seconds as we reel from all the other shit he’s going to do on that day.

BlueTsunami2018

(4,107 posts)
31. "Major Blow" to what?
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 07:59 PM
Friday

It doesn’t matter what it says in there, he’s being sworn in on January 20th and no one is going to do anything.

He’s free and clear.

msfiddlestix

(7,899 posts)
37. yeppers.
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 08:35 AM
Yesterday

just think, four years ago, in my mind that sick traitorous fuck was headed to justice for a plethora of crimes that should have landed him in the klinker for at least 500 consecutive years.

hatrack

(61,335 posts)
56. "Major Blow"? Yes, the current situation certainly blows, as will the next four years.
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 11:01 AM
Yesterday

Not seeing a link to the Toddler-In-Chief, though.

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