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This dude's primary in NY-16 is tonight. Should be entertaining enough; I think he'll lose but the prospect of him beating $14.5 million of small hat money is amusing.
Bowman also pulled the fire alarm in order to stop a vote on a Republican-written spending bill a while back:
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Didn't some kid just go to jail for doing a similar kind of fuckery with Hillary's campaign? Of course that's (D)ifferent.
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Judge alters Trump’s gag order, letting him talk about witnesses, jury after hush money conviction
NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan judge on Tuesday modified Donald Trump’s gag order, freeing the former president to comment publicly about witnesses and jurors in the hush money criminal trial that led to his felony conviction, but keeping others connected to the former president’s case off limits until he is sentenced July 11.
Judge Juan M. Merchan’s decision — just days before Trump’s debate Thursday with President Joe Biden — clears the presumptive Republican nominee to again go on the attack against his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, porn actor Stormy Daniels and other witnesses. Trump was convicted in New York on May 30 of falsifying records to cover up a potential sex scandal, making him the first ex-president convicted of a crime.
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AP correspondent Julie Walker reports Donald Trump’s gag order in his hush money case is altered just ahead of the presidential debate.
In a five-page ruling Tuesday, Merchan wrote that the gag order was meant to “protect the integrity of the judicial proceedings” and that protections for witnesses and jurors no longer applied now that the trial has ended and the jury has been discharged.
Merchan said it had been his “strong preference” to continue barring Trump from commenting about jurors, whose names have not been made public, but that he couldn’t justify doing so. The judge did leave in place a separate order that prohibits Trump and his lawyers from disclosing the identities of individual jurors or their home or work addresses. Trump lawyer Todd Blanche said after the verdict the defense team has destroyed that information.
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“There is ample evidence to justify continued concern for the jurors,” Merchan wrote.
Merchan also left in place a ban on Trump commenting about court staffers, the prosecution team and their families until he is sentenced, writing that they must “continue to perform their lawful duties free from threats, intimidation, harassment, and harm.” That portion of the gag order does not prohibit Trump from commenting about the judge himself or District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office prosecuted the case.
Trump’s lawyers had urged Merchan to lift the gag order completely, arguing there was nothing to warrant continued restrictions on Trump’s First Amendment rights after the trial’s conclusion. Trump has said that the gag order has prevented him from defending himself while Cohen and Daniels have continued to pillory him.
Though largely a win for Trump, his campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung criticized Tuesday’s ruling as “another unlawful decision by a highly conflicted judge, which is blatantly un-American as it gags President Trump, the leading candidate in the 2024 Presidential Election during the upcoming Presidential Debate on Thursday.”
Cheung said Trump and his lawyers “will immediately challenge today’s unconstitutional order,” arguing that the portions of the gag order still in effect prevent him from speaking about the judge, whom he alleges had a conflict of interest, or repeating his unfounded claims that Biden directed the prosecution.
The Manhattan DA’s office had asked Merchan to keep the gag order’s ban on comments about jurors in place at least until Trump is sentenced, but said last week they would be OK with allowing Trump to comment about witnesses now that the trial is over.
A message seeking comment was left with the Manhattan DA’s office.
Cohen, who testified for four days against his ex-boss, reacted to the ruling via text message. He wrote: “For the past 6 years, Donald and acolytes have been making constant negative statements about me. Donald’s failed strategy of discrediting me so that he can avoid accountability didn’t work then and won’t work now.”
Trump was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records arising from what prosecutors said was an attempt to cover up a hush money payment to Daniels just before the 2016 presidential election. She claims she had a sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier, which he denies.
The crime is punishable by up to four years behind bars, but prosecutors have not said if they would seek incarceration and it’s unclear if Merchan would impose such a sentence. Other options include a fine or probation.
Following his conviction, Trump complained that he was under a “nasty gag order,” while also testing its limits. In remarks a day after his conviction, Trump referred to Cohen, as “a sleazebag,” though not by name.
In a subsequent Newsmax interview, Trump took issue with jury and its makeup, complaining about Manhattan, “It’s a very, very liberal democrat area so I knew we were in deep trouble,” and claiming: “I never saw a glimmer of a smile from the jury. No, this was a venue that was very unfair. A tiny fraction of the people are Republicans.”
Trump’s lawyers, who said they were under the impression the gag order would end with a verdict, wrote a letter to Merchan on June 4 asking him to lift the order.
Prosecutors urged Merchan to keep the gag order’s ban on comments about jurors and trial staff in place “at least through the sentencing hearing and the resolution of any post-trial motions.” They argued that the judge had “an obligation to protect the integrity of these proceedings and the fair administration of justice.”
Merchan issued Trump’s gag order on March 26, a few weeks before the start of the trial, after prosecutors raised concerns about the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s propensity to assail people involved in his cases.
Merchan later expanded it to prohibit comments about his own family after Trump made social media posts attacking the judge’s daughter, a Democratic political consultant.
During the trial, Merchan held Trump in contempt of court, fined him $10,000 for violating the gag order and threatened to put him in jail if he did it again.
In seeking to lift the order, Trump lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove argued that Trump was entitled to “unrestrained campaign advocacy” in light of Biden’s public comments about the verdict, and Cohen and Daniels ′ continued public criticism.
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Associated Press reporter Jill Colvin contributed to this report.
MICHAEL R. SISAK
Sisak is an Associated Press reporter covering law enforcement and courts in New York City, including former President Donald Trump’s criminal and civil cases and problems plaguing the federal prison system.
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He's guaranteed an overwhelming Labour victory. Nothing better set to pile more ruination on the existing state than that.
Essentially he failed to get the work done so instead outsourced it to people who have a proven recent track record of getting the objective achieved.
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I think those Trump voters who can vote on Election Day, and not a day sooner, should do so. Keeps the Dems on the wire not knowing how many ballots have been cast for Orange Man and how many need to be "found." Because they can, and do, open and "process" these ballots before the day of the election. They're just trying to use reverse psychology. I always vote in person for this very reason.
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That and they can't use covid to bend the rules
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It is amazing it is taking 7 days to readjust Joepedo's sundown schedule so he can be 50% effective on Thursday, not to mention all the nip/tucks they are going to do to him, maybe even weld his stability shoes to his feet so he can't fall over.
Meanwhile Carson and Bergum will be at the debate:
Meanwhile Carson and Bergum will be at the debate:
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Trumpers are getting way ahead of themselves. The Dems literally stole the last election in front of the entire world, but yes this time Orange Man is going to win every state, every county, and get one billion votes because HURR BIDEN DEMENTIA. He ain't even gonna win this stupid-ass debate. He'll cluck in the background while Biden rambles on, then spend most of his time fighting with the CNN moderators who will outright call him a liar and refuse to let him speak.
Charlie Kirk and Sean "UKRAINE" Hannity will have orgasms.
Charlie Kirk and Sean "UKRAINE" Hannity will have orgasms.
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I agree. They shouldn't get too cocky.
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I'll second not getting cocky. but look at what's happening elsewhere in the world. The so-call right wing are being voted in. Trump wasn't an outlier. He was the first break in the dam. So even if Trump loses in 2024, Biden's team is gonna have to work with all these "far-right" types getting voted in in europe and elsewhere. And that's gonna be funny. I think it bodes well for Trump winning. But gotta let others know we can't be complacent until Trump is being sworn in.
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Vivek, Burgum, Carson - with so many of Trump's potential VP appointees coming I wonder if he's planning on coming out and announcing it to the crowd like they're the winner on the Apprentice
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I'm not ready to see the debate since I know for a fact they're gonna bring up Charlottesville and January 6. It's hard not to harp on this fact, it's just that I remember biden and kamala kept bring up Charlottesville in the 2020 debate ad nauseam
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And Snopes just gave Trump the talking point that "even far lefty Snopes admits that's a hoax Joe, or did you forget? I hear you're having trouble with that lately."
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And that trump is a Felon. and that he called wwi soldiers "suckers and losers". Even though that last one has been debunked.
Also, that you could never own a canon under 1a and that if you wanna take on the government, you'll need f15s and nukes. The biden greatest hits cause he's a one hit wonder basically.
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I really, really hope Boebert loses her primary tonight so her inevitable OnlyFans career starts sooner rather than later 
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Weird they're pushing this now out of nowhere.
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I guess. But they also have literally nothing else to run on at this point besides falling back to fear mongering about guns and abortion given that nobody seems to be buying the whole "threat to democracy" bullshit that they had planned on basing their entire campaign strategy on.
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Where is the F-16 ban?
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Dude white people were a public health crisis not that long ago.
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