Trump is Processed in Miami For The Worse Crimes an Individual Can do to The People of the U.S.

Today is the second time this man is suspected of holding on to the Sensitive top secret and Nuclear weapons plans of the U.S. These are not political documents but Nuclear war weapons. The top secrets this nation of the U.S. wants to keep secret. Of all people this crime was being perpetrated by the top of the U.S. government: The President of the United States. No need to say alleged because we saw it on tv and he admitted to it. Trump has gotten away with so much all his life, maybe this time he will pay a little but he is facing at least 20 years on this alone. The question is: If Biden loses the election would the next republican Pardon him? At least he would have done a couple of years before that and there is the case in Georgia in which the president cannot pardon. But, the Governor can, would a GOP governor do it?  (apologies for the delay on this report but time to throw this computer away. Maybe by the time, Trump says he is sorry...I forgot, he said he has never said he is sorry. Who elected this man with no conscience or allegiance to the flag or the constitution which guided his country against so any that wanted to do what he was close to doing, take over and be a Putin.
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Federal prosecutors shocked political pundits and legal analysts alike with their damning criminal indictment of former President Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling sensitive national security documents.

The details were stunning. The charging document, released Friday, cited a recording of Trump showing a roomful of people without security clearance a military attack plan he called “secret information.” It contained a now-infamous photograph of sensitive intel documents piled in a bathroom next to a toilet. Prosecutors alleged that Trump literally took the nation’s nuclear secrets down to his beach club, and then hosted events featuring tens of thousands of guests. 

Pretty bad for Trump, everyone said. Then came the rub: Trump drew the most infamously pro-Trump judge in all of South Florida. If anything can save his bacon from this otherwise-doomed hellscape of a legal inferno, Judge Aileen Cannon just might find a way. And she’ll have plenty of authority to do so.  

“The district judge has tremendous power over a criminal case from beginning to end,” explained Harry Sandick, a former prosecutor for the Southern District of New York. 

Trump’s case will be overseen by Cannon, 42, who shocked lawyers and experts last year by bending over backward to deliver favorable rulings to Trump during a civil legal battle over the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022. 

Back then, lawyers watching her decision-making process ran out of adjectives to describe Cannon’s baffling and disturbing decisions. 

In September, Judge Cannon froze the review of files seized by the FBI and appointed an independent legal expert to look at them first. Lawyers called that decision a “nutty,” “laughably bad,” “nonsensical legal pretzel.” She fretted openly about the “stigma” and “reputational harm” that the investigation, and a possible indictment, could cause Trump. She overruled the legal expert, known as a Special Master, whom she herself had appointed to review the files when he tried to get Trump to clarify his position in the case and speed up the process.  

Judge Cannon was eventually slapped down by an appeals court, which issued a blistering decision saying she never had the authority to intervene in that case in the first place. In the meantime, she showed no sense of shame about all the incoming criticism she received.

Now, she’s back. And her assignment to this case represents a glimmer of light for Trump in an otherwise dark legal outlook.  

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“I think the Cannon draw is actually a serious blow to the prosecution,” Paul Rosenzweig, a former prosecutor, an expert on presidential investigations, and member of the Ken Starr investigation into former President Bill Clinton, told the New York Times. “If this were a normal person and a normal case, you’d be talking to your client about pleading guilty.” 

Trump was charged with 37 criminal counts, for allegedly violating the Espionage Act and obstructing justice, by Special Counsel Jack Smith, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland last November. 

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Trump has declared himself an “innocent man,” and he is expected to plead not guilty at his arraignment in Miami federal court on Tuesday. From here on, however, Judge Cannon, a longtime member of the conservative Federalist Society, will have lots of ways to tilt the board in Trump’s favor. 

Judge Cannon could slow the case down, and help ensure that a trial only takes place after the November 2024 presidential election.  

She could approve the selection of jurors who show partiality towards Trump — in a city where Trump enjoys broad support from Latino voters who fear that his Democratic rivals might bring socialism.  

She could disqualify the prosecution’s most important witnesses, or refuse to admit damning evidence. She could grant Trump’s team advantages and deny motions by the prosecution. 

She could even dismiss the case completely. Depending on the circumstances, prosecutors might not be able to do anything about it. 

“The judge can dismiss a case on limited legal grounds before trial, in which case the government can appeal,” Sandick said. “However, if the judge dismisses the government’s case mid-trial, after the government presents its case but before it goes to the jury on the basis that the government has not proved its case, the government cannot appeal from this dismissal.” 

Dismissing the case would be widely seen as an extreme move, especially given all the skepticism about her impartiality. But the question becomes: Would Judge Cannon care? 

 

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“Most of all, if the district judge makes errors during the trial that favor the defense, and the case ends in an acquittal, there is no appeal for the government from these errors — the case is over and double jeopardy bars a second prosecution,” Sandick said. “The judge also has very broad discretion at sentencing, which is only lightly reviewed by the Court of Appeals.”

Judge Cannon was randomly assigned to the case, and will only be removed if she decides to recuse herself, the chief clerk of the federal court system in the Southern District of Florida told the Times over the weekend. 

It remains possible that Judge Cannon may feel that the criticism she received — from both outside observers, and from the appeals court in her own 11th Circuit — may be enough to cause her to change course. 

 

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Former President Donald Trump’s second criminal indictment looks all but certain to go down this summer. You could even mark it in your calendar: Sometime between July 11 and Sept. 1.

That’s because Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has formally asked local officials to beef up security during that window when she plans to announce charging decisions in her long-running investigation of Trump’s attempt to reverse his 2020 election defeat in Georgia. 

She wouldn’t need all that extra security if she weren’t planning to go after Trump himself, former prosecutors and legal experts say. 

“The Fulton DA’s letter makes it almost certain that Trump is getting indicted,” said Titus Nichols, an Atlanta-area defense lawyer and former prosecutor from the nearby Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office. “There is no other reason to send something in writing to the sheriff.”

The strong likelihood of a second Trump arrest, combined with the former president’s frontrunner status in the GOP 2024 presidential primary, creates the novel, almost surreal, probability that the next Republican presidential nominee is poised to enter the general election battling criminal charges in two different districts. Trump was indicted in Manhattan in April for allegedly falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payoff to a porn star who claimed she slept with him. 

 

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Trump’s battles with prosecutors seem to have solidified his support among hardcore Republicans, as demonstrated by a recent NBC poll, which found that two-thirds of GOP primary voters support Trump despite his New York arrest and other legal troubles. 

But conventional wisdom holds that Trump’s criminal nightmare is far more likely to hurt him in the general election, however, if he makes it through the primary. A recent CNN poll found that 60 percent of voters approve of Manhattan prosecutors’ decision to indict Trump. 

 

The question now becomes: What will happen if Trump is criminally indicted again in Atlanta this summer? And will a second indictment play out similarly to the first one, with Trump supporters limiting their outrage to mere threats? Or will they stage a more active protest in round two, when the arraignment takes place in a southern capital with far looser gun laws than in New York City? 

DA Willis asked Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat to prepare for a “significant public reaction” to her announcement, which she said would occur during the court’s fourth term of this year—a two-month period starting on July 11. Willis said she wanted to give Labat time to prep for possible attacks or violent demonstrations. 

“We have seen in recent years that some may go outside of public expressions of opinion that are protected by the First Amendment to engage in acts of violence that will endanger the safety of our community,” Willis wrote. “As leaders, it is incumbent upon us to prepare.” 

“Willis is highly unlikely to issue this letter if she’s not fully intending to charge Donald Trump, as opposed to not bringing charges against him or bringing charges only against lower-level figures,” wrote Andrew Weissmann, who served under former Special Counsel Bob Mueller during his investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, for MSNBC. “Why not write something shorter and sweeter that kicks the can down the road, if you are not anticipating a fight over an upcoming indictment?”

 

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Willis has reason to be concerned about possible unrest if she goes after Trump. 

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s office was swamped with racist death threats, including inside one envelope that also contained a white powder (eventually proven harmless), after Trump was indicted. Trump fanned his supporters’ outrage by accusing Bragg and Willis, who are both Black, of being “racist” and targeting him out of political bias.  

A special purpose grand jury recommended that Willis bring charges against over a dozen people, including famous names and “potentially” Trump, the foreperson of the jury, Emily Kohrs, told media earlier this year. 

Trump’s attorneys in Atlanta downplayed the significance of Willis’ letter. 

“The public release of this letter does nothing more than set forth a potential timetable for decisions the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office previously announced would be coming,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in a statement. “On behalf of President Trump, we filed a substantive legal challenge for which the D.A.’s Office has yet to respond. We look forward to litigating that comprehensive motion which challenges the deeply flawed legal process and the ability of the conflicted D.A’s Office to make any charging decisions at all.” 

Trump has denied wrongdoing in all cases. But an indictment in Atlanta, if it indeed comes this summer, might not even be the last time Trump is criminally charged before the 2024 presidential election. 

Trump is also under investigation in two federal probes led by Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is investigating Trump’s attempts to stay in power despite losing the 2020 election, and whether Trump broke the law by stashing sensitive government documents at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.

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