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Trump Says He Hopes Meadows Will Remain ‘Loyal’ to Him in Election Case
(www.nytimes.com)
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Potentially violates both of these conditions from the GA bond conditions.
Rapey McCrimeboi can't stop doing crimes.
Why should he? He's demonstratively above the law.
I’m not an attorney, but I think the judge can either fine the Attourney, take the bond money and make Trump repost to stay out of jail, or just revoke bond and put him in jail.
None of those are legitimate options.
Trump's attorneys are not responsible for his actions. The bond posted - through a bail bondsman, by the way - would be returned if Trump was detained pending trial. (Returned to the bail bond office, not to Trump. His payment of 10% of his bond amount is the fee paid to the bail bondsman.)
An appropriate response from the Court would be to call Trump into a hearing, address his inflammatory, jury-pool-polluting, and tampering public statements, followed by a Consequence. Ideally, said Consequence should be severe enough to prevent Trump from making future statements of the kind he has made to date. Because it appears that there is no "bottom" to Trump's potential actions, the only sure way to prevent his continuing to make these kinds of public statement is to detain him.
Detention pending trial will not be the first consequence the Court gives. If anything happens at all, the first consequence will unfortunately be a stern talking to and a furrowed brow. The second consequence (because we know Trump will say more things which should prompt a second, third, fourth consequence) would be a fine. And we all know that if the punishment is a fine, it's only illegal for poor people. The third consequence would be ... another fine. The fourth consequence would be ... another fine. Et cetera.
It will never get to the point where Trump is jailed for contempt (in the "one to three days'" timeframe). It will never get to the point where Trump is detained pending trial.
Because it's only illegal if poor people do it.
The fact that he's not immediately arrested for constantly threatening witnesses sure highlights how unequal and corrupt our justice system is.
I don't think it violates either, technically, but still a scummy thing to do, and totally not what an innocent man would say.
An innocent man would say "I hope he tells the truth". Loyalty is bullshit in a criminal case.
Hmm, I could see how you could say this dodged those specific terms, but this is general witness tampering which I thought defendants couldn't do.
But this is Trump and everybody must cower before him in the home of the brave.
oh.... it definitely does
Yeah Jack Smith is gonna rub his hands in anticipation of the next motion for stricter bond conditions for Trump.
What trump doesn't realize: SBF did the same thing and took it to far, he now has bond revoked and has to prepare the case behind bars which costs him a lot of time and resources and probably sanity as well. Trump will end exactly at the same spot if he continues.