Sad!

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

When is the Grand Jury going to be done with Cohen?

Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to ex-President Donald Trump, testified Wednesday afternoon in front of a New York grand jury as part of an investigation into hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

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Cohen testified for “a couple” of hours Wednesday following about three hours of testimony on Monday, according to his attorney, Lanny Davis. As he arrived for his testimony on Wednesday, Cohen told reporters that it would “hopefully” be his last time appearing before the grand jury.

  CNN

We're all hopeful on that account, assuming Cohen is the last to give testimony before Bragg indicts Trump.

Speaking to CNN Thursday in his first on-camera interview since his testimony, Cohen wouldn’t say what he was asked specifically, but suggested the questions may include topics that were broader than just the hush money scheme.

“Their questioning of me started out at, like, 35,000 feet. By the time I hit the 20th interview (with the district attorney), we were down to, like, three feet, ready to land,” Cohen told CNN’s Don Lemon. “The grand jury was the actual take-off back to, we’ll call it, ‘accountability-ville.’”

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

New Manhattan DA

Democrat Alvin Bragg was sworn in as the first Black Manhattan district attorney on Saturday and will now oversee a case previously presided over by former Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. (D) regarding former President Trump's business practices.

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Earlier this year, New York prosecutors charged the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, with fraud and conspiracy, though both parties maintain they did not commit any wrongdoing. Weisselberg has already pleaded not guilty to those counts.

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In an interview with CNN in December, Bragg signaled that he would be engaged in and personally focused on the Trump case, telling reporter Kara Scannell that “this is obviously a consequential case, one that merits the attention of the DA personally.”

Bragg also said at the time that he would be keeping on attorneys Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz to continue their work in the investigation into the former president’s business practices.

  The Hill

Cue the racist MAGAhats.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

It's too much to hope for

Frankly,  I can't see an American jury indicting an American president.  Not even one as criminal and dangerous as Trump.  Not even in New York where he is supposedly disliked immensely.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:  Trump didn't like it.

“No other President in history has had to put up with what I have had to, and on top of all that, I have done a great job for our Country, whether it’s taxes, regulations, our Military, Veterans, Space Force, our Borders, speedy creation of a great vaccine (said to be a miracle!), and protecting the Second Amendment.”

  The Hill

I don't think I can take this country seriously after having elected Trump for president.

UPDATE:  Also, there are civil suits...

Bad morning for Trump in court

President Donald Trump’s attorney faced a rough Friday morning at the Second Circuit where a three-judge panel appeared inclined to let a Manhattan grand jury access his tax returns for an ongoing fraud investigation.

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“Are you asking us to change the ways grand juries have worked since time immemorial?” Chief U.S. Circuit Judge Robert Katzmann asked at one point, referring to the traditional secrecy and breadth of their operations.

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Trump initially claimed that a sitting president, his associates and his businesses have immunity from state criminal proceedings — an argument resoundingly rejected by every court that has heard it.

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During his colleague’s withering questioning, U.S. Circuit Judge Pierre Leval referred to the allegations of Trump’s complaint as “contrived” and inquired whether it asked questions that were “irrelevant.”

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Trump has been fighting to keep a grand jury from seeing his financial records since late last year.

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U.S. Circuit Judge Raymond Lohier [...] asked [Trump’s attorney William] Consovoy whether there was a document request that Trump would not consider overbroad. Consovoy answered in the negative. “That’s a problem,” responded Lohier

  Courthouse News

"It's investigating fraud with respect to a tax return filed in New York, by a New York taxpayer," said Leval [...] . "It needs to investigate all the documents on which that tax return will be based and there's no reason why that wouldn't include business operations outside the county of New York."

Trump has mounted a new legal challenge to the subpoena following a Supreme Court ruling in July that the president does not have any special immunity to such investigations.

His lawyers are appealing a district court judge's ruling that rejected the claim that the subpoena is overly broad and was issued in bad faith.

They are arguing that the subpoena goes far beyond what had been reported to be the scope of the investigation, namely hush money payments in 2016 to two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.

"If you were to look up the definition of a fishing expedition, this is it," William Consovoy, Trump's personal attorney, told the court. "The district attorney isn't focused on anything."

The prosecutor's office, led by District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. (D), has countered that they have never suggested that the investigation was limited to the payments, which were delivered by Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen, who is serving a three-year prison sentence for his role in the scheme.

  The Hill

Also, it's not unheard of for a case to go before a grand jury and come out with additional charges.

And last month, the prosecutors hinted at a much broader probe into "possibly extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization."

At [today]'s hearing, Judge Raymond Lohier [...] questioned why the court should dictate what the grand jury could and couldn't investigate.

"I think that's a natural conclusion that every grand jury investigation, particularly of this importance, will start to grow, both in terms of the nature of the possible charges that the grand jury is investigating, and in terms of the documents, and witnesses and so on, that may be of interest to the grand jury," Lohier said. "And given that, why should we require a specific allegation that this is the one grand jury investigation that's unique, in that it's stuck, it did not expand beyond the 2016 Cohen payments."

To be continued.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.