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Yes the poor have it so much better than Mr. Trump. If there ever was victim, it's Mr. Trump. He's a poster boy for rich, fat, orange victims.

Commented: Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 @ 10:59 am By: Big Bob

Yada yada yada. Steven, poor people live with this system daily. I absolutely don’t feel sorry for rich orange boy. Heard his speech today? He’s completely nuts.

Commented: Monday, October 23rd, 2023 @ 11:25 pm By: Big Bob

The squeeze by the far left Democrat prosecutor in Georgia on other defendants is a huge danger to coercing questionable testimony against President Trump. It is a targeted version of the common prosecutor squeeze on co-defendants. Most prosecutors just want to bolster their conviction record, and having a co-defendant rat out other defendants helps them get convictions. When a co-defendant pleads to a lesser charge in return for "truthful testimony", truth is not measured by whether it would pass a polygraph, but whether it works with the prosecutor's theory of the case. Deviate from what the prosecutor wants, and one loses his or her plea deal.

In a run of the mill case, if the prosecutor gets one defendant to flip, they will go along with that defendants version of what the others did, which is often tilted. For example, in a four defendant capital murder case where I was first chair counsel for one of the defendants, another co-defendant flipped and told a version to minimize his role and portray much larger roles for the other three. The DA just wanted convictions, so he went with that. Four defense attorneys for other defendants concluded that based on other known facts, the "cooperating defendant" was almost certainly the triggerman and the instigator of the murder, but he put that off on others.

Now take a DA like the one in Georgia who has an agenda in the case, a particular defendant she is after. No other defendant is going to get a plea deal unless they tell the story the way that DA wants to go after that particular defendant. It doesn't matter what the actual truth is, they have to conform to the "truth" as that DA sees it.

Paul Manafort and Roger Stone both came forward to reveal that anti-Trump prosecutors offered them sweetheart deals if they would tell what the prosecutor wanted against Trump. They knew the prosecutor's version was a lie, so they accepted time in prison rather than lie for a crooked prosecutor.

The financial burden of contesting any of these cases would likely break most of the co-defendants financially, and enough charges are piled on that they would do significant jail time if found guilty. These defendants, especially the lawyers among them, also know they are facing a jury pool that will be highly unfavorable to President Trump or anyone associated with him. The places where these cases were brought were chosen for that very reason. These defendants want to survive this and have a life on the other side, and all of this creates an enormous pressure to just say whatever it is the DA considers "the truth" in order to save their own skins. Few have the stamina of Manafort and Stone to do what is right and stick to the actual factual truth.

Donald Trump is facing a kangaroo court in Georgia, and that is a threat to American democracy. Of course, the DC and Manhattan situations are not much better. At the very basic level, without a change of venue to get an unbiased jury, the Georgia, New York, and DC cases all present fairness problems in a big way and need a change of venue at a minimum but it is highly unlikely that will happen.

Welcome to the new American banana republic.

Commented: Monday, October 23rd, 2023 @ 6:34 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Super Patriot. I love it!! To the bat cave, Alfred!

Commented: Sunday, October 22nd, 2023 @ 10:30 am By: Big Bob

I’m sorry that you guys are so unamerican that you would tear down the institutions that bind us. Just awful.

Commented: Saturday, October 21st, 2023 @ 7:22 pm By: Big Bob

There do not seem to be any consequences for FBI, DOJ, and crooked partisan prosecutors lying. They seem to get away with it all the time. Also, Biden. There is another one for whom lying is a regular part of his life.

Commented: Saturday, October 21st, 2023 @ 3:03 pm By: Rino Hunter

I do this all the time; I move money between my personal business and S Corp business, but there is a difference ...

There are no shell corporations, nor relatives involved in passing money back and forth, nor do I EVER include what I do in my government position in any of my businesses (other than being a county commissioner has given me another unique education); businesses that provide a profound service; businesses that were created out of nothing but with the inspiration to do only good by providing what is true, what is real ... while doing it at a far higher level than what the public is currently use to.

This Eastern NC NOW platform that provides accommodative space to the Beaufort Observer is one such product, and I own the code "the makes it so."

Joe Biden, "America's First Idiot President," has never created anything in his ancient life. While I have created two CMS's that have powered the top platforms that have ever emanated from this region of NC ... I own that.

The Idiot President does not even own what rattles around in his brain, and this puppetry presidency is starting to scare people who have a sense of what is real.

This check may actually not be like what any of us, the real people, actually do. And it is just one of the many "smoking guns."

Commented: Saturday, October 21st, 2023 @ 10:25 am By: Stan Deatherage