Trumo indicted! Trump indicted! Trump indicted!

[Nicholas Scheuer]

Drag his sorry a-s off to Richters Island!

[Jim Mahan]

Bazzinga!

[Saving the Dancing In the Street for his incarceration.]

[Nicholas Scheuer]

He won't be permitted to wear his red tie in jail. Will someone suggest he take vaseline?

[Captain Lint]

Let the witch hunt continue. JK. I despise trump and his family.

[icyb]

Bazzinga!

[Saving the Dancing In the Street for his incarceration.]

I'll be patiently waiting!

[Mrleft88]

He won't be permitted to wear his red tie in jail. Will someone suggest he take vaseline?

Vick's Vapo-rub..... If yer gonna do it, might as well make it unpleasant for both.

[Tom Montgomery]

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Now Trump knows what it feels like to be grabbed by the p****.

[Art Haberland]

Could not have happened to a better person.

[Wine47]

Bring it - I hope it sticks!

[Jim Bow]

Andy Richter says, “Leave my island out of it!”

[Tom Montgomery]

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Just seen racing to Mar-a-Lago.

[sonofswen]

O Happy day!

[McMike]

This had better be Ironclad.

[Captain Lint]

I have the feeling this might be just the beginning of the orange cheetos felony woes. Jack Smith is the one dude I would not go to sleep on.

[Nicholas Scheuer]

Woe is Lindsey Graham. His golf buddy if headed for jail. Lindsey won't want to caught dead at a Trump golf course.

[Yeadon]

Little known fact. Can’t have a second indictment until you have the first.

[WX]

Let the witch hunt continue. JK. I despise trump and his family.

I sincerely hope he gets the orange overall for a long time.

[David G]

Still early days, folks. The indictment is a good first step. Will he be convicted? I hope so, but am not laying any odds just yet. You have to give him credit for being a master conman... which means a prodicious ability to avoid responsibility, and use ANY development to pad his faulty Sophistic narrative. Will it help or hurt his candicacy? It's bound to fire up 'the base'... but what about the rest of the R's? And I bet there are several prosecutors out there keeping their powder dry

Trump's indictment could mark turning point in 2024 campaign, but not how he predicts: ANALYSIS

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trum...ry?id=97892781

[Dave Gray]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/polit...ess/index.html

[JayInOz]

Beau seems to think they are currently investigating a second payment- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ezCGzTzE-8

[Nicholas Carey]

So Jimmy Fallon just pointed out that DeSantis will have to sign off on extraditing trump to New York.
This gives DeSantis HUUGGGGE leverage upon the unfortunate trump.
trump just became DeSantis's bit*h.

Jimmy Kimmel is incorrect. Article IV, Section 1, the "full faith and credit" clause says DeNimwit has nothing:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitu...cleiv#section1

"Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof."

Unless he can prove that the indictment or warrant is somehow fictitious, Florida has to deliver him to New York on presentation of the warrant.

[elf]

I doubt he'll need to. Trump's trumphal trip to NY to be indicted will be just one more grift, and he'll rake in another few millions from his saps doing it.

I can't wait for them to see the mug shots, however. Their hero without makeup and his hairdo will be something else.

[Chip-skiff]

Given their increasing rivalry, Desantis will be happy (after the obligatory kicking and screeching) to offer Trump up to the vengeful gods of the liberal conspiracy.

[Lugs]

An extra in the 1992 film ‘Home Alone 2: Lost In New York’ has been indicted on fraud-related charges.
The un-named extra has just one line in the film – “Down the hall and to the left” – which is coincidentally the same words that officers will use when showing him to his jail cell in the coming weeks.

Since his 1992 role, the actor gained occasional roles play-acting the part of a successful businessman and, more recently, pretending to be the US President.
He is expected to be arrested in coming days once authorities can find cuffs small enough for his tiny little hands.
MORE TO COME (from The Shovel)

[Nicholas Carey]

Jimmy Kimmel is incorrect. Article IV, Section 1, the "full faith and credit" clause says DeNimwit has nothing:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitu...cleiv#section1

"Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof."

Unless he can prove that the indictment or warrant is somehow fictitious, Florida has to deliver him to New York on presentation of the warrant.

Heather Cox Richardson just reminded me (I'm slipping) that Article IV Section 2 provides that

"A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime."

Maybe TFG's incompetent lawyers could posit an argument that he did not "flee from justice" and that therefore Art. IV Sec. 2 does it apply. Pretty sure, though, that that would be a moribund argument (a rather lot of precedent/case law around this topic, I am sure.)

[skuthorp]

I cannot help feeling that this is another delaying tactic to the main matter that the authorities are desperately trying not to approach……….. The reason, precedent.

Maybe they think they'll get away with a minor charge, or he'll die if they wait long enough, or get sick so that they can decline to charge him on 'compassionate' grounds. Or that Joe may die or retire and the next Pres. pardon him.
The reluctance hangs over the American justice system like a vulture waiting for the pickings.

[Tom Montgomery]

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The indictment contains more than 30 counts. More than 30 counts. MORE THAN 30 COUNTS!

[George.]

I thought there was supposed to be a single toast thread. Three floating on the Bilge this morning.

[Rich Jones]

I thought there was supposed to be a single toast thread. Three floating on the Bilge this morning.

It's gonna take at least three toasters to handle 34 criminal counts.

[Hallam]

It's gonna take at least three toasters to handle 34 criminal counts.

X 3


or

[George.]

Let's not get too excited:

Prosecutors could also potentially allege that this breaks election law, because his attempt to hide his payments to Ms Daniels was motivated by not wanting voters to know he had an affair with her. Covering up a crime by falsifying records would be a felony, which is a more serious charge.


Even advocates for prosecution acknowledge that either way, this is by no means a clear-cut case. There is little precedent for such a prosecution, and past attempts to charge politicians with crossing the line between campaign finance and personal spending have ended in failure.


"It's going to be tough," says Catherine Christian, a former financial prosecutor for the New York City district attorney.

A conviction on a misdemeanour would result in a fine. If Mr Trump were convicted on the felony charge, he would face a maximum sentence of four years in prison, although some legal experts predict a fine is more probable, and that any time behind bars is highly unlikely.

If he gets a fine most people will just shrug. Everyone gets fined for something.

If he gets off, it will be totally pathetic for the US.

[Jim Mahan]

This is only the opening salvo, as it were, the ice-dam breaker. Now that this has happened will have the option, later down the road of history, to celebrate three 'in' holidays associate with the demise of trmp: INdictment Day, IN Custody Day, and INcarcerated Day.

[Nicholas Scheuer]

How'bout INtombment DaY?

[Tom Montgomery]

[John Smith]

Heather Cox Richardson just reminded me (I'm slipping) that Article IV Section 2 provides that

"A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime."

Maybe TFG's incompetent lawyers could posit an argument that he did not "flee from justice" and that therefore Art. IV Sec. 2 does it apply. Pretty sure, though, that that would be a moribund argument (a rather lot of precedent/case law around this topic, I am sure.)

Fla's governor says he will NOT deliver Trump to NY.