Proving damages is a very difficult and chancy biz. Dominion’s lawyers did a lot for the US and for the Smartmatic Voting Machine Co which will be able to build on Dominion’s discovery for their lawsuit vs Fox. Weakening Fox is a societal good achieved by private civil litigation.
10:47 PM - Apr 18, 2023
If Dominion was awarded $787M in compensatory damages but only proved $125M in actual damages, the judge would likely reduce the jury’s verdict to the lower amount. Even w/ a punitive damages award to punish Fox, all Dominion may have been able to win in a court was $500M ($125M +$375M (3X’s $125).
10:29 PM - Apr 18, 2023
The $787M Dominion settlement needs some context. Larry Tribe said this was 6X’s Dominion’s provable damages. If true, Dominion’s victory is spectacular. Proving your biz losses resulting from being badmouthed is an iffy thing. Customers don’t say, “I didn’t buy your product b/c of what Fox said.”
10:14 PM - Apr 18, 2023
Trump is a grotesque reprobate. The NY prosecutors Statement of Facts reminds us that Trump intended to defraud Stormy by delaying the payment to her until Election Day & then just not pay her at all. That fact defeats the defense that Trump wanted to protect himself from Melania’s wrath.
11:15 PM - Apr 05, 2023
So you will be told not to think Trump guilty as he has the presumption of innocence. This is political white noise. Any pundit on the left who says it isn’t thinking and any on the MAGA side is in bad faith. Most of the evidence was made public long ago in M. Cohen. The law lagged behind the facts.
06:59 PM - Apr 04, 2023
Please note that the presumption of innocence applies only to the jury that must decide the case & the media who ought not pollute the jury pool. The rest of us may go about our lives freely as we do know TFG is as Doonesbury said so many years ago about another guilty FG, “GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY.”
06:46 PM - Apr 04, 2023
Imagine a year from now - J. Marchan has sentenced Trump to a month of jail at Rikers. As the sheriff starts to cuff him his secret service contingent speaks up. Hey judge, I have to watch this guy - do I have to sleep in the next cell?
09:43 PM - Apr 01, 2023
The law generally is the enemy. Trumps last hope is jury nullification. Trump must spout against our civil religion every day unless/until he is gagged. The new American enemies of MAGA multiply weekly. Jews, LGBT+, elected Black prosecutors, judges not born in the US, immigrants, repubs who see him
06:04 AM - Mar 31, 2023
Ron is now also a criminal. An accessory after the fact is the fancy name. Ron can onLy hopeTrump might take up the offer. Trump loves fake drama but would be foolish to accept as it shows him as a rat trapped. 2 wins for Ron. He can safely say he was willing to break the law for Trump the Lawless.
05:38 AM - Mar 31, 2023
Trump/Criminal cont’d. So Ron DeSantis dabbles in obstruction as it is now GOP catnip & brand. A most cynical & harmful potential win/win foe DeS antis; while potentially disastrous lose/lose for the US & rule of law. FL gov tells Trump you can hide in Maralago. I’ll stop NY from coming to get you.
05:12 AM - Mar 31, 2023
J. Beryl Howell entered a sealed order last week requiring grand jury testimony from Trump’s top 8 insurrectionists. This appears as big as Nixon being ordered to turn over his secret tapes. There will now be appeals and 5th Am claims but J. Smith seems as if he is the real deal. Its down hill now.
12:55 PM - Mar 24, 2023
Have you heard these ‘why this case first?’ Characters? 225 years of Am. Prez history w/o a dui v. a prior prez and TFG has grand juries hearing testimony all over — GA, DC(2), NY. He’s 2 impeachments in (so far) =ing the total of 45 prior Prez’s. & the complaint is which crime comes first? Humorous
06:35 AM - Mar 23, 2023
BTW have you read ‘The New Jim Crow?’ ‘Give Us the Vote?’
What recent books have made some difference to you? Reading books has a positive effect on me. Poverty (the book) is a reminder that most of media & pols work so that you won’t wrestle w/ societal issues that burden those who aren’t voting.
What recent books have made some difference to you? Reading books has a positive effect on me. Poverty (the book) is a reminder that most of media & pols work so that you won’t wrestle w/ societal issues that burden those who aren’t voting.
04:25 AM - Mar 23, 2023
Trump is a criminal. But also like a magician he always tries to make us look at the wrong thing. I hope you all watch enough dog & cute baby videos as a Trump explainer, life can be too barren. So today a book recommendation: ‘Poverty, by America’ by Matthew Desmond. His first book was ‘Evicted.”
04:10 AM - Mar 23, 2023
The CDC story is a repeat of why criminals make poor Presidents. Criminals trust lies as the dominant form of communication. The deep state (CDC) was interested in the health of Americans. This was unacceptable. The re-election of TFG was paramount and covid needed to be minimized. People will die?
08:40 AM - Mar 22, 2023
Trump is a criminal. First, the report from the NYT re the CDC being muzzled in 2/2020 as covid was spreading in the US. Hundreds of Trump lies later almost 2 million Americans are dead. Are you surprised Trump will never face a fine, penalty or jail for his intentional lies and interferences?
08:29 AM - Mar 22, 2023
Trump is a criminal, again? This is a very small thing. I write @ Trump b/c the criminal justice system is how we must proceed to rid society of dangerous elements. Today the papers report on two new aspects of Trump’s horribleness/terribleness. Next.
08:22 AM - Mar 22, 2023
Trump has crimed non stop throughout his life. There is almost no non-violent crime he has not committed. He is not an example of prosecutorial over reach but an example of under reach. Difficult moral questions don’t apply to him ever.
10:20 PM - Mar 21, 2023
Why does Al Capone fall to tax evasion? Because he shielded himself from his murders; not b/c he was not a murderer. He made it hard. Trump has used every trick to make it hard. He pays for not so independent att’ys for his potential co-defendants & threatens or fires independent witnesses etc.
10:10 PM - Mar 21, 2023
Trump is a criminal. Lots of teeth gnashing, breast beating @ prosecutors discretion to prosecute or to pass. This gets boiled down to are DA’s picking on TFG? This has to be the largest load of BS, almost ever. There are people who need to be stopped. Prosecutors properly target the bad, bad guys.
10:01 PM - Mar 21, 2023
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Russian/Chinese election interference is the most effective, safe and inexpensive way to wage war on the US. All of the damage is to our confidence in our most central idea - the voice of the people rule (Vox populi). Since they have nothing like that the war is waged entirely in our head space.
06:02 PM - Mar 21, 2023
Atlanta and New York City have Black prosecutors. I heard several repubs call them ‘George Soros funded prosecutors.’
America has to get wiser to survive.
America has to get wiser to survive.
02:48 AM - Mar 21, 2023
GA legislators have passed a bill allowing the gov. to remove the Atlanta prosecutor and thereby shut down that prosecution of Trump for criminally attempting to interfere in that state’s election. As immoral & corrupt as that is the GOP may well get away w/ it. It is the new New Jim Crow.
02:40 AM - Mar 21, 2023
Bill Barr, Trump’s 3rd AG, violated the law by interfering w/ prosecutions of Trump and Trump thugs. He wanted the SDNY prosecutors ‘unconvict’ Michael Cohen after he had already gone to jail - to protect Trump after he left the White House and was subject to prosecution. Trump is a criminal.
09:44 PM - Mar 20, 2023
Trump has made the public forget that probable cause is an important brake on gov’t. over reach. Today 3 GOP house committee chairs want to bring DA Alvin Bragg before them knowing that they have no proper motive and Bragg has to keep his evidence secret. Their acts are cynical and corrupt.
09:01 PM - Mar 20, 2023
DoJ (FBI) does not properly ‘investigate’ people w/o first a finding that: 1. there has been a crime, and 2. there is probable cause that a particular person is the criminal actor. Appreciate that for a moment. Each of the steps are fully necessary. Our collective freedoms are built on those 2 steps
08:53 PM - Mar 20, 2023
Grand jury in NYC will vote to indict on Wednesday. The issue is whether the prosecutor proved probable cause. The grand jury heard months of testimony. I mention this b/c Trump ignored probable cause when he destroyed civil servants careers and lives. He used DoJ to ‘investigate’ his enemies.
08:45 PM - Mar 20, 2023
Xi meets Putin today in Moscow. They ache for the return to power of their mutual friend, Trump. China & Russia will attack our free elections. Helping Trump was less important in 2016 than harming Hillary. Knowing that Trump is loyal, Putin makes subverting US elections his #1 job re the US.
10:12 AM - Mar 20, 2023
You don’t have a political trial. Jack Smith could never bump jurors simply b/c they are repubs. With the victims being members of Trumps donor base overcoming a jurors political leanings would be easier. I kind of like the idea.
04:46 AM - Mar 20, 2023
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So I guess I was just alerting you DoJ (Smith) might just go in a different direction and decide to try Trump as the con artist he is; scamming his own base. It makes some sense in keeping the focus on Trump - this to one defendant. You don’t have 30. lawyers making this a 9 month trial.
04:38 AM - Mar 20, 2023
