mugshot of the first U.S. President to be criminally prosecuted
On CNN yesterday, I saw states rights champion Donald Trump say outside a state courthouse in New York city where he is being tried by the State of New York for criminal fraud, that he directed his lawyer to pay Stormy Daniels and marked it down as a business expense, and his accountant treated it as a business expense, and that’s why he got indicted.
This former tax lawyer asks, since when is a mob boss paying hush money to a prostitute he had sex with, to help his chances of being elected president and to keep his wife from knowing what he did, a legitimate business expense that reduces his income taxes? Wasn’t income tax evasion how the federal government put Al Capone in prison?
As a criminal defendant, Trump does not have to take the witness stand. If he does not take the witness stand, he cannot be asked any questions about what he did. However, as a matter of law, what he said, which I watched on CNN, can be admitted into evidence against him.
The day before on CNN, I saw a lawyer explaining that the trial judge in that case can rule Trump violated a gag order that he not talk about, intimidate or threaten jurors, witnesses, prosecutors and their staff, the court and its staff, after Trump threatened a potential juror being questioned by his attorneys.
The lawyer said the judge could fine Trump $1,000 for the first violation of the gag order, $10,000 for the second violation, $100,000 for the third violation. I thought (a) that's chicken feed to Trump and good luck collecting it from him, and (b) what law school did that lawyer attend? Why didn’t that lawyer say the judge can hold Trump in contempt in put him in Manhattan’s county jail and let him watch his trial on Zoom with his Secret Service Agent detail sitting beside him in the same jail cell?
In yet another parallel universe, I saw this below in my Facebook feed today and tossed in my former U.S. District Judge law clerk and practicing attorney’s sentiments.
Republican Voters Against Trump
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Carol, a former Trump voter from Texas:
“The fact that Trump says he wants to do away with the Constitution, to me, is mind blowing...Democracy will falter under his watch. Please do not vote for Donald Trump.”
Carol, a former Trump voter from Texas who is not voting for him this ye...
Carol, a former Trump voter from Texas: “The fact that Trump says he wants to do away with the Constitution, to...
Sloan BashinskyAfter graduating form the University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa in 1968, I clerked for a God-fearing United States District Judge who presided over every federal criminal prosecution in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
Very unfortunately, the pagan Donald Trump and his goose-stepping hordes make it very clear that they have zero interest the U.S. Constitution, except as it it allows them to get what they want.
On President Trump’s watch, and on the watch of Republicans who voted for Trump in 2016, the Christian right took over the United States Supreme Court, demolishing the Founding Fathers' determination not to allow America be run by religion, eg. Amendment 1.
Unlike all other judges in America, federal or state, United States Supreme Court justices serve for life, and they answer to no one, for any reason. They do not have to recuse in cases in which they have a conflict of interest.
A God-fearing political independent, I never will understand how any person voted for Trump in 2016, when what he was was in plain view for all to see. Especially, I will never understand how any woman, person or color, or Christian voted for Trump in 2016.
The people who voted for Trump in 2016 accepted the attending karma. By repudiating Trump after voting for him in 2016, they mitigated but did not fully resolve that karma.
In 2016, I published several times at my blog that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton should be locked up in adjoining cells. I tell Democrats they have themselves to thank for Donald Trump being elected in 2016, because they ran the one Democrat he could beat. Republicans who voted for Trump in 2016 have yourselves to thank for him being president.
In Proverbs is said,"Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”
When people vote, they need to understand that God is watching, and they will be held accountable for their vote.
Jesus made that very clear in the Gospels, when he said, "Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
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