The charges centered on a $130,000 payment to adult film performer Stormy Daniels
A New York appeals court will be asked on Thursday to throw out Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The case made history in May 2024, when the verdict turned Trump into the first former, and now current, US president with a criminal conviction. The historic ruling did not stop him from returning to the White House, and it brought no punishment.
The charges centered on a $130,000 payment to adult film performer Stormy Daniels, made to obscure the money’s true purpose.
Trump denies any wrongdoing, and has turned to state and federal courts in hopes of unwinding the verdict. He is not expected to attend Thursday’s court session. The appeal turns on complex legal disputes, but the political overtones are hard to miss.
I was starting to think ole Donny T was going to get away with it via the grave while everyone below him that propped up his nonsense got the brunt of it. Maybe I should have been a little more optimistic for once.
He has been especially down trodden and looking a little scared the last few days.
Donnie’s priorities: enriching himself and his shitty family to the tune of billions. Ballrooms, reflecting pools, arches and stapling tacky gold shit to the walls of the WH.
Also: making sure to cover up his own crimes.
Your Teflon is wearing off, rapey mc raperson. All in due time
I hope Jack Smith is ready to go.
God I would pay SUCH good money to see him give Ol’ Dumpy a thorough cross-examination. The man prosecuted war criminals, he’d mop the floor with his greasy ass
Same. I would so love to see that.
He can’t argue this was an official act of the president because he wasn’t fucking president then. He seems to be trying.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he leaves the White House and gets a full massive pardon from Vance. For any and all crimes he might have done.
And immediately fucks off to Russia to be with Daddy.
Qatar. It’s where he’s keeping the stolen Venezuelan oil money in a private account and received a jet as an official government gift.
Saudi Arabia. They have a history of being a retirement home for corrupt and morally depraved former national leaders (e.g. Idi Amin), and they already own whatever part of trump Putin doesn’t own.
Where he’d probably immediately be sent to the front lines in Ukraine.
But he has bone spurs!
MAGA people: “Wait but I thought he’d stay and fight with us…?” or, more likely “Yes he has to get away from the evil leftists!”
Johnson runs. trump endeavors even more strenuously to avoid paying the piper. What a gang of Recreants, Reprobants and Deviants. They should change the color to represent their party from red to yellow.
Recreants
Thank you for introducing me to this word! I am fairly sure that in my nearly 60 years I’ve not seen this before.
In my opinion these charges are an international embarrassment (not as embarrassing as Trump, but still)
Felonies for paying a prostitute and not writing “Prostitute” in the memo section of the check? Oh no.
Release the Epstein files
ETA if a politician wants to use their election funds to pay prostitutes, the last thing that we should do is put a stop to it. GO AHEAD waste all of your donor money. Good.
Falsifying business records to protect his campaign isn’t a joke, even if he’s a clown
Al Capone got got on tax evasion. If this is what gets Trump in jail, so be it.
It’ll be easier to stick him with the rest of it once he’s behind bars.
If that’s the rule that brings him down, that’s the one I’ll take
I’m just gonna leave this here: https://www.wttw.com/chicago-stories/al-capones-bloody-business/catching-capone
Bible belt evangelicals and their “family values!” 🤢
“Heee wuz sent har by gawwwwd to save this cuntry”
…is literally the kind of crazy shit they say about this pampered failson Manhattanite social climber that hung out with Epstein.
Meanwhile, someone like Obama is denigrated as a “community organizer”.
My aunt was a hardcore Christian who thought trump was literally the antichrist. But she loved him for that and voted for him every time. The antichrist is supposed to bring about the end times and she wanted that to happen. These people shouldn’t be allowed out of their houses, let alone allowed to vote.
I like to show those people that article pointing to all the parallels between trump and the biblical antichrist.
To be fair though, Obama was a great community organizer. I don’t think that’s a pejorative. Have the repugnicans started saying it?
Yes, he was, but the right acted (and still act) like that was a pejorative. You and I don’t think that’s a pejorative, but the cons were trying to paint it like it was some kind of shameful or scary thing to be engaged in.
I’d ask these people if they were scared of the Rotary Club, or the local Elks, or people organizing church basement bingo, etc…no answer.
But these are the same people that use “activist” as if it’s a pejorative, even if right wing activism is not only very much a thing, but very well-funded. I guess right-wing activism doesn’t have to really bother with getting people out on the streets…
They use the most ridiculous excuse of “god works through flawed people” or something equally dumb.
- Offer not available for liberals.
Well the bible is specifically for genocide, incest and a whole bunch of other dodgy shit…
My favorite is offering up your daughters to be raped instead of visitors by your neighbors. In the first chapter!
Everybody point and laugh
34 felony counts
The historic ruling did not stop him from returning to the White House, and it brought no punishment.
The absolute joke that is “rule of law.”
Meanwhile if you had 34 felony convictions you could not get hired to work at McDonald’s.
The lack of punishment is ridiculous.
The ability to be elected to office even with felony convictions is a safeguard. If you were barred from office if you had a felony, then this government would just keep charging everyone it hated with felonies, hoping either for a conviction, the person to go bankrupt and give up, or create enough smoke that the potential constituents don’t vote for them.
I mean, you know Ken Paxton would’ve had Talarico and O’Rourke up on charges, and enough Texans are Fox addicts that they’d have either eventually gotten a conviction for something or at least discouraged people from voting from them. And you know Trump would be relentlessly going after AOC, Omar, Sanders, Mamdani, etc.
Rape, pedophilia, genital obsession, treason, insurrection, pathological lying, cowardice…
“Right On”
– magaTo be fair, they want someone who will fight for their interests 🤷♀️
Don’t forget a stated interest in committing incest with his daughter
Founding Fathers- “do we add some clarity? Naahh that would never happen”
One semiquincentennial later “Well now see here there ain’t nothin on these books sayin we can’t elect a rapist felon to the highest office”
The rapist part was civil, not criminal. Granted he’s definitely criminally a rapist as well, it just hasn’t been proven in court.
So its more a felon and a rapist, but not a felon rapist which implies felony rape conviction.
Rapist felon, best I can do take it or leave it.
I think that at least separates it from felon rapist, so I’ll take that.
I get the whole being elected thing being ok, it’s the no punishment thing that really pisses me off. Any one of us would have the book thrown at us…
There is something to be said about a tyrannical government charging people with felonies to prevent them from being eligible to be president, so as long as the people still vote for them I guess it’s ok. But as far as the law goes, wtf is the point of a felony if there are no repercussions? I go to jail or face fines but Donnie two diapers doesn’t because he’s rich, famous, and has a cult?
i think you meant quarter milennia, as a quarter century is 25 years
D’oh. Fixd
Founding Fathers- “do we add some clarity? Naahh that would never happen”
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Rules for thee
Bruh just commit sepuku on live tv already. You know you want to Donnie.
+1…But the racist chicken shit would fly to Moscow.
Ryuk is anxiously waiting
Only if he eats a frisbee folded in half.
That would be REAL ULTIMATE POWER!
I still have a shirt with the logo on the front and “Ninjas are cool and by cool I mean totally sweet” on the back.
Wow, I haven’t seen this site in lo these many years. Good on ya, son (though I’m guessing that, since you know about this site well enough to call upon it for reference purposes, you and I are probably the same age)
Many of us have already started puberty, which is bragable.
Code of honor, him?
Bud Dwyer beat him to it, his ego won’t let him go second
That’s why I say hey man nice shot.
Bud Dwyer was a man of honor. He died in office so that his family wouldn’t starve.
Fine, he can do it in a bunker instead. Nobody, and certainly not his idol, has ever done that before, right?
The problem is a system that rewrites past actions as “that never happened, and if it did, it doesn’t mean anything”. The narcissist’s prayer is written into how the law works.
Yeah, but I don’t think he can produce a time machine by EO.
