#witnessintimidation — Public Fediverse posts
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FBI director says a judge accused of helping someone evade immigration agents has been arrested
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-judge-arrested-7997186bbca5730e70a25f2347e631f6
You can easily make this argument the other way around: ICE hindering the courts by intimidating migrant witnesses from testifying by grabbing migrants at the court house.
#Justice #Law #ICE #FBI #CashPatel #Jusge #Arrest #UndocumentedImmigrnts #WitnessIntimidation #DueProcess #CourtIntegrity
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#Trump’s unruly behavior at the NY trial makes him a candidate for #jail time, as does his #felony #crime of falsifying business records: Over the past decade in #Manhattan, >⅓ of these convictions resulted in defendants spending time behind bars. Across NY State, the proportion is even higher — about 42% of those convictions led to jail or prison time.
#StochasticTerrorism #WitnessTampering #WitnessIntimidation #JuryTampering #JuryIntimidation #criminal #law
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Despite #Trump’s political status, the judge in his #criminal NY #FalsifiedBusinessRecords #ElectionInterference case has ample grounds to jail him, a NYT examination of dozens of similar cases shows.
#StochasticTerrorism #WitnessTampering #WitnessIntimidation #JuryTampering #JuryIntimidation #law #GiftArticle
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/nyregion/donald-trump-merchan-sentencing-jail.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
The thing about #EricAdams having a #GagOrder on him means he can't talk to witnesses. This is designed to stop #WitnessIntimidation.
As an indicted defendant he is under some pre-trial release conditions. One of which is that he does not have the same rights as somebody who is not under Federal indictment.We went through this whole story about how narrowly tailored Gag Orders are not a violation of the 1st Amendment.
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@Nonilex Speaking of #WitnessIntimidation, was the goon squad still in attendance?
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#Steinglass continues the argument on #WitnessIntimidation, noting that #Trump attacked #StormyDaniels on social media the same day she had an interview w/the Manhattan DA’s office. Steinglass argues that the post contains a lie — in it, Trump said that he hadn’t seen or spoken to Daniels since meeting her on a golf course in 2006.
Steinglass says that the jury knows it to be a lie because #RhonaGraff, Trump’s loyal asst, testified that Daniels had met w/Trump at Trump Tower.
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#Steinglass again reads passages of obe of Trump’s books, in which he wrote that he can’t stomach disloyalty. Steinglass argues that #Trump disparages #witnesses who speak out against him in order to discourage other witnesses from coming forward.
Steinglass reads a Truth Social post of Trump’s from Aug 2023, in which he wrote in all capital letters: “if you go after me, I”m coming after you.”
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #WitnessIntimidation #StochasticTerrorism #MobTactics
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#SebastianGorka, Trump’s fmr White House *adviser*, walks in w/ a silver case bearing what appears to be a presidential seal.
With his legal team & Secret Service agents in the mix, #Trump’s group numbers more than two dozen. #WitnessIntimidation #JuryTampering
#RobertCostello is on the stand.
Justice Merchan reminds him that he’s under oath.#Hoffinger, one of the prosecution’s leaders, is expected to continue her cross-examination of Costello.
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#Hoffinger, the prosecutor, is now detailing a lawsuit that #Trump filed against #MichaelCohen in Florida, well after the presidency. Ultimately Trump decided not to be deposed [wonder why¿] & the case was dismissed. That suit was widely seen as #WitnessIntimidation.
Cohen reflects on his time w/Trump:
“I don’t regret working at the Trump Organization.” But in order to stay in Trump’s good graces & obey his orders, “I violated my moral compass, & I suffer the penalty.” -
Madeleine Westerhout wrote a book, Off the Record: My Dream Job at the White House, How I Lost It, and What I Learned August 11, 2020
https://www.amazon.com/Off-Record-Dream-White-Learned/dp/1546059709
Here's some excepts
https://people.com/politics/donald-trump-ex-secretary-tells-her-white-house-story/#TrumpTrial #MadeleineWesterhout #Witness #WitnessIntimidation
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CW: USPol; Trump is really pushing the edge of witness & juror intimidation in his ongoing election interference trial
The judge in Trump's current trial has repeatedly admonished #Trump's legal team and told them to control their client as he curses audibly during testimony. "It has the potential to intimidate the witness, and the jury can see that," he said. It may qualify as 3rd-degree witness intimidation under NY law.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3USPGfK
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This is #WitnessIntimidation and it needs to be stopped.
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From Kaitlan Collins
Notable moment in court today where the judge told the defense he could hear Trump cursing:Judge Merchan: "I understand that your client is upset at this point, but he is cursing audibly, and he is shaking his head visually and that's contemptuous...I am speaking to you here at the bench because I don't want to embarrass him."
#TrumpTrial #Threats #StormyDaniels
This is #WitnessIntimidation and it needs to stop.
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The #TrumpCampaign has removed 2 posts from its campaign website that Justice Merchan determined were violations of a gag order preventing #Trump from attacking potential #witnesses. Both posts involved #MichaelCohen.
It appears that the 7 social media posts that were also found to be violations of the #GagOrder have been deleted as well. Justice #Merchan ordered the posts' removal by this afternoon.
#TrumpTrial #law #criminal #WitnessIntimidation #MobTactics #NodFarter
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Lawyers indicated that their opening statements will take a little more than an hour combined. Justice Juan #Merchan also noted that one #juror reached out before court resumed to express nervousness about the media attention surrounding the case, but the judge added that the juror is still here.
#law #Trump #AlvinBragg #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #JuryTampering #WitnessIntimidation #StochasticTerrorism #MAGA #MobTactics
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CW: USPol: Trump's history of witness intimidation is starting to cost him in court
The judge in Trump's election interference/records falsification trial has agreed that the prosecution doesn't need to give Trump's lawyers advance notice of which witness they'll be calling the next day. As legal experts point out, this means the judge has lost trust in Trump's *lawyer*, too, not just Trump himself.
#TrumpTrial #consequences #FAFO #WitnessIntimidation #Trump #USPol
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Trump's Intimidation of courts
A PREDICTION
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BLANCHE: What if I commit to the Court & the People that *President* #Trump will not tweet about any witness?
MERCHAN: I don't think you can make that representation... they won't give it to you today or tomorrow--& they're not required to.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #WitnessIntimidation #WitnessTampering #MobTactics #harassment #StochasticTerrorism
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From #TrumpTrial transcript:
BLANCHE: …I would ask that the People provide us w/the names of their first 3 witnesses so that we can prepare...
STEINGLASS: Look, I got to be honest: That's a courtesy that we normally extend. [but] Mr. #Trump has been tweeting about the witnesses. We're not telling who the witnesses are.
MERCHAN: I can't fault the People for that.
#criminal #law #WitnessIntimidation #WitnessTampering #MobTactics #harassment #StochasticTerrorism
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#Trump, for example, has taken aim at #MichaelCohen, his onetime fixer & one of #AlvinBragg’s main witnesses, calling him a “liar” & a “rat.” And in a rambling & angry post on his social media site on Tues, Trump made an ominous reference to Cohen, claiming w/o explanation that his former fixer was “death.” He also referred to one of Bragg’s prosecutors in pejorative [#racist] terms.
#law #criminal #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #WitnessIntimidation #StochasticTerrorism #MAGA #Republicans
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…in seeking the #GagOrder last month, #AlvinBragg’s prosecutors highlighted #Trump’s “longstanding history of attacking witnesses, investigators, prosecutors, judges, & others involved in #legal proceedings against him” — comments that the judge seized on in his ruling.
“His statements were threatening, inflammatory, denigrating,” Justice #Merchan wrote in the Tues order.
#law #criminal #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #WitnessIntimidation #JuryTampering #StochasticTerrorism #MAGA #MobTactics
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Lawyers for #AlvinBragg, the DA, are seeking to #protect #jurors & #witnesses in the first criminal prosecution of a fmr president.
#Manhattan prosecutors on Mon asked the judge overseeing the #criminal case against #Trump to prohibit him from attacking witnesses or exposing jurors’ identities.
#law #HushMoney #ElectionInterference #GagOrder #WitnessIntimidation #JuryTampering #StochasticTerrorism
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/nyregion/trump-gag-order-hush-money-trial.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb -
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This line is spot on.
"I believe in playing by the rules. Except when someone tries to apply them to Trump. Then they aren't rules anymore, but Partisanship."Trump has violated more than rules, he's violated LAWS. It's NOT partisanship to demand consequences for his #WitnessIntimidation. Fines don't stop him. JAIL!
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Legal expert warns Trump co-defendant may be indicted again for “straight up witness intimidation
#Salon #LegalExpert #TrumpCoDefendant #IndictmentAgain #WitnessIntimidation #StraightUp #Politics #News
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Appeals court suggests it may pare back #Trump’s DC #GagOrder
Panel weighs #1stAmendment protections for Trump’s speech as presidential candidate against danger posed by his verbal attacks on witnesses, prosecutors & the court in 2020 election case#JuryTampering #WitnessIntimidation #Law #ElectionInterference #Jan6
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/11/20/trump-appeal-gag-order-hearing/ -
In absence of any restrictions, #Trump immediately issued a direct #threat against #Meadows.
In Judge #Chutkan’s decision to reimpose the restrictions, she wrote, “The #FirstAmendment rights of participants in #criminal proceedings must yield, when necessary, to the orderly administration of #justice,” She said Trump “simply fails to acknowledge … evidence” that his public statements are often followed by #harassment & #threats against the people he singles out.
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ICYMI
#JudgeChutkan reimposed restrictions on #Trump in #Jan6 case
#Chutkan had already issued the limited #GagOrder, but agreed to lift it while Trump awaited appeal.On the same day Judge Chutkan lifted the order, news that #MarkMeadows had cooperated w/ #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith’s investigation broke.
#law #WitnessIntimidation #WitnessTampering #PoliticalViolence #RightWingExtremism #DomesticTerrorism #MAGA #Republicans #StateSponsoredTerrorism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/10/29/trump-gag-order-resumes-jan-6-judge/ -
#JackSmith says that #Trump also commented on #MarkMeadows' credibility & anticipated testimony in a press conference at a #NewYork state courthouse where Trump faces a #civil #fraud #trial.
"The defendant's targeting included insinuating that if the reporting were true, the Chief of Staff had lied & had been coerced, & the defendant sent a clear public message to the Chief of Staff, intended to intimidate him," Smith writes.
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Smith points to a social media message #Trump posted on Oct 24 after ABC News reported that Trump's last chief of staff, #MarkMeadows, had testified in exchange for a grant of #immunity.
"Some people would make that deal, but they are weaklings & cowards, & so bad for the future of our Failing Nation," Trump said in the post, a screenshot of which is included in the government's filing. "I don't think that Mark Meadows is one of them, but who really knows?"
