Oh no....the leftist are going all out to discredit Trump....so wats new?
‘Very real chance’ Trump’s going to prison
Trump faces criminal charges in property probe
There’s a “very real chance” Donald Trump could go to prison. Picture: Olivier Douliery/AFPSource:AFP
Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer for Mr Trump, leaves the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office after meeting with prosecutors. Picture: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images/AFPSource:AFP
While Mr Trump likely won’t go to jail for “the rest of his life”, it’s “pretty likely” that, if proven guilty of insurance and bank fraud, it could “lead to criminal charges and that would carry jail time”, The Daily Beast legal analyst Jay Michaelson said in late February.
“If Trump did commit crimes of some sort, even if they’re kind of, you know, sort of ordinary business crimes — if he died, it’s important that there not be a culture of impunity in this country, that there needs to be a message sent that there are consequences, no matter how rich and important you are, if you break the law,” chief Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, Jane Mayer, told NPR’sTerry Gross.
But, Mayer added, people she’d spoken to who know Trump are sceptical that he’ll ever serve time in prison, predicting instead that “he would flee”.
“It’s hard to know what to expect. But it’s — for me, anyway, it’s hard for me to contemplate him truly in an orange jumpsuit at, you know, Rikers Island,” she said.
“I think there’s absolutely a chance that he could face serious charges and be convicted. I mean, this is no joke.”
In addition to the criminal probe, Mr Trump was also sued this week by two Capitol Police officers, who battled the angry mob that the self-described billionaire was accused of “inciting” on the US Capitol back in January.
Officers James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby are demanding damages for the physical and emotional injuries they suffered during the violent insurrection — that killed five people — in a federal lawsuit.
“The insurrectionist mob, which Trump had inflamed, encouraged, incited, directed, and aided and abetted, forced its way over and past the plaintiffs and their fellow officers, pursuing and attacking them inside and outside the United States Capitol, and causing the injuries,” the suit states, according to The Washington Post.
“Officer Hemby was attacked relentlessly. He was bleeding from a cut located less than an inch from his eye. He had cuts and abrasions on his face and hands and his body was pinned against a large metal door, fending off attacks.”
Officer Blassingame, who is Black, faced “endless threats and attacks” from the mob, and “it was not clear to him on January 6 that he would survive to make it home”.
Mr Trump was also sued this week by two Capitol Police officers, who battled the angry mob that he was accused of “inciting” on the US Capitol. Picture: Roberto Schmidt/AFPSource:AFP
Mr Trump also faces multiple defamation suits — including writer E. Jean Carroll’s, who accused him of sexually assaulting her in Bergdorf Goodman in late 1995 or early 1996, only for him to deny her allegations and accuse of her lying to drum up sales for a book.
Another, involving former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos, has been given the green light to move forward after Mr Trump’s lawyers attempted to get it dismissed because he was the president.
Ms Zervos came forward in the lead-up to the 2016 election, alleging that Mr Trump groped and kissed her without her consent in 2007. In 2017, she sued him for defamation after he denied her allegations and called her story a “hoax”.
“Now a private citizen, the defendant has no further excuse to delay justice for Ms Zervos, and we are eager to back to the trial court and prove her claims,” a lawyer for Ms Zervos, Beth Wilkinson, told The Wall Street Journalin a statement.