#felonies — Public Fediverse posts
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#Jack #Smith, the former justice department special counsel who led the aborted federal prosecution of Donald Trump,
told a congressional committee that he never spoke to #Joe #Biden about his cases,
according to the transcript of a depositionreleased on Wednesday.In his behind-closed-doors testimony to the House judiciary committee earlier this month,
Smith defended the charges he brought against Trump for allegedly possessing #classified #documents
and attempting to #overturn the 2020 #election,
while warning of the consequences of allowing election #meddling to go unpunished.“Theoretically, what happens if there is election interference and the people who are responsible for that are not held accountable?”
Democratic congresswoman Pramila Jayapal asked.🔥“It becomes the new norm,
and that becomes how we … conduct elections,”
Smith replied, according to the transcript.“And so the toll on our democracy,
if you had to describe that, what would that be?”
the congresswoman asked.
💥“Catastrophic,” Smith said.Trump and his Republican allies have alleged that the former special counsel was a key figure in a justice department that Biden had “weaponized” against his predecessor.
The Republican-controlled House judiciary committee earlier this year heard testimony from one of Smith’s top deputies,
and months later subpoenaed the former special counsel for private testimony.
Smith had offered to voluntarily testify in public, as special counsels typically do.In questioning from Democratic congressman Dan Goldman,
👉Smith said he operated without interference from #Merrick #Garland, the attorney general who appointed him, or any other top justice department officials.“Did President Biden ever give you any instructions about what you should or should not do related to these investigations?”
Goldman asked.
💥“No,” Smith replied,
later specifying he had not spoken to Biden about his cases in any way.Smith was appointed in November 2022, and quickly brought the two federal cases against Trump, who also faced state-level charges of election interference in Georgia, and falsifying business records in New York.
While he would later be convicted of #34 #felonies in the Manhattan case,
neither of Trump’s federal indictments went to trial before he returned to office following the 2024 election,
after which Smith, in line with justice department policy, dropped the charges.The election-interference case was slowed by pretrial motions, including a supreme court ruling that gave presidents #immunity for official acts and forced Smith to make changes to his case.
The classified-documents case was hampered by rulings from Florida judge #Aileen #Cannon, who at one point dismissed Smith’s indictment.
Smith authored a report into his prosecutions, and the portion covering the election interference case was released prior to Biden leaving office.
🆘However, Cannon has barred the chapter discussing the classified-documents charges from being made public, though Democrats on the judiciary committee have asked her to reverse her decision.
At the outset of the hearing, an attorney for Smith, Peter Koski,
told the committee the former special counsel had received an email from the justice department advising him to avoid talking about his evidence in the case because of Cannon’s ruling.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/jack-smith-house-testimony?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
#Trump treated the #WhiteHouse like a #business, made $320 million, racked up 34 #felonies, and #America barely blinked
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#Jan6 criminals received #WhiteHouse tour
Months after being freed through a #pardon from #Trump, 2 men convicted of #felonies for their roles in the Jan 6, 2021, #insurrection scored visits to secure grounds of the WH.
Shane Jenkins, who had a criminal record before J6, was sentenced to 7yrs in prison for #assault of police protecting the Capitol & using a metal tomahawk to smash a window. The day after the attack, Jenkins wrote, "I have #murder in my heart & my head."
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/21/nx-s1-5403788/trump-jan-6-white-house -
DA Rosen said that #Trump’s intense focus on #Stanford & other #universities played no role in the decision to charge the #crimes as #felonies.😜
“What the federal administration is doing is what they’re doing. What I’m doing is applying the California Penal Code,” Rosen said.
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#Stanford #Protesters Charged With #Felonies for Pro-#Palestinian #Occupation
Prosecutors filed #felony charges on Thurs against 12 protesters, nearly all with ties to #StanfordUniversity, for breaking into an administration building & occupying it in 2024.
#law #democracy #RightToProtest #dissent #Trump #justice
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/stanford-protesters-palestine-felony.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=9055BF8D-E987-4EE2-BF56-47F25875236F -
https://nkvssp.thecomicseries.com/comics/522
Tbt, yet not long ago.
I get why they're afraid of prosecuting all the felonies at once, but why not even just 5 of them?
Why is our justice system so afraid to apply the actual law?#TBThursday #frustrating #law #applyTheLaw #felonies (not misdemeanors)
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But #Trump himself did not speak to that issue when he signed the proclamation issuing the #pardons, & it has left his own admin & the courts struggling to divine what was in his head…. [💩]
Asst US Atty Blackwell said the #DOJ’s understanding of Trump’s #pardon had *evolved* in recent wks — but she did not say how or why. She said this shift was the reason DOJ had moved in recent days to drop a slew of other cases against #Jan6 defendants who were on the hook for other federal #felonies.
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The War on #Masks Has Taken on a New Meaning
This time, the masks have nothing to do with #COVID19.
By Henry Grabar
Feb 05, 20254:57 PM"Last month, state legislators in New York introduced a bill that would create a new crime: 'masked harassment.'
"That, the law explains, is when you wear a mask 'for the primary purpose of menacing or threatening violence against another person' or 'placing another person or group of persons in reasonable fear for their physical safety.'
"If that seems like a bit of a niche offense—threatening violence is already a crime, after all—it’s because the language has been watered down to attract political support. It’s a sign of New York Democrats’ cautious new approach over masks in public life, and a retreat from last spring, when anti-Israel protests, on top of a widespread urban crime panic, pushed leaders from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to consider mask bans.
"In its original form, the New York bill would have banned masks at public assemblies entirely. But the outcry from #DisabilityRights advocates, #CriminalJustice reformers, #HealthCareWorkers, and #CivilLiberties groups was swift, and so New York wound up with this bill on 'masked harassment' instead.
"Elsewhere, the pandemic-era leniency on masking in public is over. #NorthCarolina Republicans overrode a gubernatorial veto last summer to once again #BanPublicFaceCoverings, except to stop the spread of contagious diseases. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost dusted off an old law to threaten #StudentProtesters with #felonies. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has asked the state’s Senate to consider a bill to #unmask #protesters this year.
"For Republicans, it’s a chance to kill two birds with one stone. They can strike back against the perceived overreach of pandemic-era #HealthDirectives and make it easier to arrest #demonstrators at the same time.
"In #Ohio and North Carolina, the original statutes were written in the 1950s to stop demonstrations by the #KuKluxKlan, but had been ignored or suspended during the #pandemic and the #GeorgeFloydProtests. Many lawmakers have cited the recent demonstrations in defense of #Gaza as a reason to crack down again. Defending the proposed mask ban in New York, Anti-Defamation League [#ADL] president Jonathan Greenblatt said the demonstrators were using '#KKK tactics' to intimidate Jewish New Yorkers.
"That instinct was bolstered by the sense among many city residents and elected leaders that widespread masking was a factor behind the pandemic-era crime spike. That led to #Philadelphia banning #SkiMasks in parks, on trains, and in public buildings. A more recent, high-profile example came in December with the Midtown Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO #BrianThompson by a #MaskedAssassin, which prompted New York Mayor Eric Adams to call for cab drivers and business owners to ask customers to remove their masks. The new New York bill has won over the liberal Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who endorsed the 'tailored' approach. As the police say: #NoFaceNoCase.
"For what it’s worth, there are too many confounding variables and too little data to be sure if mask-wearing is associated with crime, said Ernesto Lopez at the Council for Criminal Justice, which collects crime reporting statistics from various cities. 'From a theoretical statement it makes sense that could occur, but it has not been demonstrated that’s the case,' he told me.
"But if all that weighed in favor of more mask bans, there was also widespread resistance. Disability advocates mobilized to defend the right to mask; North Carolina had to write a medical exemption into their bill at the insistence of a GOP House member. #PoliceReformers observed that #MaskBans have often been used for pretextual #policing and racial profiling against #BlackAmericans. (#AtlantaGeorgia tabled a mask ban for that reason.)
"What looms largest, as the second Trump administration begins, is the role of protest. As Semafor’s Dave Weigel has noted, masks have become a badge of left-wing protest culture. That’s in part an extension of politicized COVID-era concerns about health and civility, but at this point it is mostly a tactic to preserve anonymity in an era of #FacialRecognition, streaming video, and #doxing. Last year, the anonymous #ProIsrael website the #CanaryMission posted photographs of hundreds of students and faculty at campus protests and posted their names and photos online, labeling some as supporters of terrorism.
"'The concern takes on new urgency as Donald Trump pledges to revoke the visas of pro-Palestine protesters, and the Trump-Musk GOP embraces the naming and shaming of otherwise private citizens. A conservative group called the American Accountability Foundation has begun circulating lists of federal workers, many of them Black, who should be
'targets' for their alleged involvement in #DEI initiatives at work."Clearly, the masked protest does not always sit well with an older generation, many of whom cut their teeth in the protests of the pre-internet age. As Georgetown professor Michael Kazin told the New York Times last year: 'I do think if you are going to demonstrate, and it’s something you feel deeply about, you should be willing to stand up and be counted.'"
Source:
https://slate.com/business/2025/02/mask-bans-new-york-los-angeles-crime-protests-criminalize-face-coverings.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #SurveillanceState #SilencingDissent -
Being there, will not suffice in the real world #SOF
The #OrangeImposter will save the world with #tariffs and #felonies 🥳
#dada #aiart #dalle3 #RealLifeOnMars #reallifeonmarswithoutelonandjeff #forallmankind
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Being there, will not suffice in the real world #SOF #NotMyPresident #trump The #OrangeImposter will save the world with #tariffs and #felonies 🥳 #dada #aiart #dalle3 #RealLifeOnMars #reallifeonmarswithoutelonandjeff #forallmankind
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President #Biden - release the #DOJ #JackSmith #classifieddocuments report to the public. Volume 2 of Jack Smith’s Report Into #Trump #democracy #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt - you have #immunity - #governmentdocuments #legalresearch #corruption #MaraLago #accountability #crimes #criminallaw #felon #felonies #criminal #congress #uspolitics #politics #government
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#SupremeCourt Denies #DonaldTrump Request to Stop His #Sentencing. He is scheduled to b sentenced in #NewYork on Friday morning after being convicted of 34 #felonies. #presidency used to #subvert #justice for #criminal actions. Thank Judge #merchan for completing the work he is obligated to do as judge #AileenCannon facilitates #trump #corruption #subversion of #democracy. Justices #ClarenceThomas, #SamuelAlito #NeilGorsuch #BrettKavanagh would have granted Trump’s request to block.
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Too little, too late. Judicial theater.
Judge sets date for Trump hush-money sentencing but rules out prison term
President-elect will be sentenced for his 34 felony convictions on Jan. 10, Judge Juan Merchan rules
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/03/trump-hush-money-trial-sentencing
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New York Judge Denies #Trump’s Bid to Throw Out #Conviction Over #Immunity Ruling. Justice Juan M. Merchan thwarted one of several attempts by #DonaldTrump to clear his record of 34 #felonies before returning to the #WhiteHouse. “The People’s use of these acts as evidence of the decidedly personal acts of falsifying business records poses no danger of intrusion on the authority and function of the executive branch,” the judge, Juan M. Merchan, wrote in a 41-page decision. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25459328/merchan-immunity-ruling.pdf
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Trump committed 32 (?) Class E felonies. Ceritus paribus, what’s the typical sentence for such? I.e., what’s the range?
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Possible #Trump US #AttorneyGeneral pick: #MarkPaoletta
Paoletta is spreader of #ConspiracyTheories: he claimed the legal cases against Trump were fabricated. The world witnessed #Jan6, the #ClassifiedDocuments case is undeniable, Trump was convicted of 34 #felonies in NY by a jury, was found liable for #defamation & #SexualAbuse & the judge minced no words in his opinion about the fact that Trump #raped #EJeanCarroll, & Trump & TrumpOrg were found liable for committing decades of #fraud.
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American citizens, including some #Trump supporters, were presented evidence, and they decided of their own free will to convict Trump of multiple #felonies. It was not unfair. It was not the Left. It was the basic justice system of the United States.
He's a criminal. If you support or vote for him, you are objectively against the rule of law. No amount of mental gymnastics can change that.
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Trump: "I'm a different kind of person".
Harris: "Talk about extreme!"
Quite the show! A lot of humor here, unintentional.
Harris' reaction: laughing /amused by the TrumpVirus #WordSalad #delusions / liesCrowd size, tariffs. Whew!
Please #media, don't #sanewashAnd the #projection and #BrainSpurs are on full display....
As Harris addresses #felonies and Sir StableGenius says that Harris "weaponized" government for which he "took a bullet to the head".
Oooooh...
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'#Lockhimup!': #HillaryClinton #smiles and #nods amid #chants echoing #Trump #supporters.
The three-beat #chant was a new #spin on the tired republican “lock her up,” one of the constant refrains of Trump’s #presidential #campaign against Clinton in 2016.
— Trump unlike Clinton has been #convicted of 34 #felonies.
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Trump claimed (again) that his #criminal trial in NY was controlled by the #DOJ.
False.
One prosecutor who worked on the case, in which Trump was #convicted by a #JURY of 34 #felonies, used to be a #Justice Dept official, but the case itself was brought by the local DA in #Manhattan, #AlvinBragg.
Period.
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If Donald Trump, a man convicted of 34 felonies, can be President of the United States, the question 'Have you ever been convicted of a felony?' needs to be removed from every job application in America.
