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Definitely a survey that a “billionaire” would commission. Definitely. Page 8 of DA Bragg’s filing in opposition to POOTWH’s 8th request for a delay. What’s POOTWH hiding, so afraid of having his day in court and proving his innocence is he? Psst, its footnote 4.
Moreover, the private, commissioned survey that defendant cites in his motion confirms rather than rebuts the ability to empanel an impartial jury from Manhattan residents, assuming that its results can be taken at face value.4 For example, Question 46 of the survey asked respondents whether, based on their knowledge or opinions about defendant, they thought they could “serve as a fair and impartial juror in a criminal trial against him.” Def. Mot. Ex. 1. In New York County, 70% of respondents said they could “definitely” (51%) or “probably” (19%) be fair and impartial—a figure that is notably higher than in any of the other four surveyed counties, which ranged from 64% to 69%. Similarly, in all five of the surveyed counties—including New York County—only about 20% of respondents felt they “probably” or “definitely” could not be fair and impartial, with another 10% to 15% of respondents being “unsure.” Id. These results establish that there is a surfeit of prospective fair and impartial jurors in New York County who could be selected for this jury. Other survey results confirm that Manhattan residents would be able to set aside any preexisting knowledge or opinions they may have about defendant if they were called to serve on
4 The People have serious doubts about the reliability of the survey, given the paucity of information that defendant has provided about it. For example, the survey does not adequately explain its methodology for collecting responses, merely saying, in conclusory fashion, that it employed “text-to-online methodology” to “obtain a random representative sample of 400 residents in each of the five counties.” Def. Mot. Ex. 1. The survey also provides no information about how it obtained the contact information of respondents or how it ensured that its samples were actually random or representative of the residents of each of the counties in question. Defendant does not even provide information about the survey response rate or an analysis of nonresponse bias—among the most basic measures of a survey’s validity and reliability. See Federal Judicial Center, Reference Guide on Survey Research, in Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, at 359, 383-86 (3d ed. 2011). Without providing more detailed information about its methodology, the results of this survey are not necessarily valid or reliable. Compare McNeilab, Inc. v. Am. Home Prod. Corp., 848 F.2d 34, 36 (2d Cir. 1988) (describing extensive process of pre-survey review and judicial approval of written questions and methodology). Nevertheless, even assuming the survey results can be taken at face value, they essentially refute defendant's claim of irremediable bias.
All because 10,900 square feet of a POOTWH Tower’s tri-plex had to be inflated to 33,000 square feet to inflate POOTWH’s ego. And Weasleberg gets 5 months in jail at age 77. We’ll know for certain come April 10th just in time for the fan club newsletter. Dark matters indeed.
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“I THINK TRUTH IS AMAZING! First of all, it is very solid, having over $200,000,000 in CASH and ZERO DEBT,” Trump posted Thursday morning. “More importantly, it is the primary way I get the word out and, for better or worse, people want to hear what I have to say, perhaps, according to experts, more than anyone else in the World.”
He went on to brag about his TV ratings, about how other social media platforms want him back, and how the “FAKE NEWS” shouldn’t be believed because “They are all on TRUTH because the have to be [sic].”
The rant comes after two of Trump Media and Technology Group’s (TMTG) top investors pleaded guilty to insider trading on Wednesday, after they traded securities using private knowledge of a shell company that later merged with Trump’s company ahead of its initial public offering (IPO). That revelation came just days after Trump Media’s SEC filings were released, showing staggering losses of $58 million with only $4.1 million in revenue, sending investors bailing.
As of this writing, TMTG’s stock is trading at $46.49, below its peak of $79.38 per share on March 26, the day of its IPO. Trump has to wait six months before he can cash in and start selling some of his 72 million shares, or get approval from the company’s board. He may decide to do that sooner as his legal bills pile up.
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Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) and John Garamendi (D-Calif.) unveiled the bill to rename the Miami Federal Correctional Institution to “the Donald J. Trump Federal Correctional Institution” in a joint statement on Friday.
“When our Republican colleagues introduced their bill to rename Dulles after Donald Trump, I said the more fitting option would be to rename a federal prison,” Connolly, referencing Trump’s ongoing criminal cases, said in the statement. “I see no reason to wait.”
“Everyone knows President Trump loves to write his name in gold letters on all his buildings,” Moskowitz said. “But he’s never had his name on a federal building before and as a public servant I just want to help the former president. Help us make that dream a reality.”
Garamendi asserted that “MAGA Republicans have proven themselves unwilling to solve real problems that face our country. I cannot think of a more fitting tribute to our former president, Donald J. Trump, than renaming the closest federal prison to Mar-a-Lago in his honor.”
While Republicans are the majority party in the House, the bill to rename Dulles after Trump still faces tough odds. The Democratic lawmakers’ bill to rename a prison after Trump has virtually no chance of becoming law.
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Trump says it would be a ‘great honor’ to be jailed for violating gag order
The former president has also tested the limits of a judge’s order by sharing news stories that are critical
Former president Donald Trump said Saturday that it would be a “great honor” to be jailed for violating a gag order, marking an escalation in attacks he’s made against New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan and other court officials in a case about to go to trial.
On Monday, Merchan, the judge overseeing Trump’s hush money trial set to begin on April 15, expanded his gag order against Trump to include both the judge’s family as well as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s family. That move came after Trump personally attacked Merchan’s daughter, calling her a “Rabid Trump Hater” and suggesting that the judge was “compromised” because of her work for a Democratic-aligned digital marketing company.
Writing on the Truth Social platform on Saturday, Trump dared Merchan to throw him in jail. He also compared himself again to Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner who became the first president of a post-apartheid South Africa.
“If this Partisan Hack wants to put me in the ‘clink’ for speaking the open and obvious TRUTH, I will gladly become a Modern Day Nelson Mandela — It will be my GREAT HONOR,” Trump wrote. “We have to Save our Country from these Political Operatives masquerading as Prosecutors and Judges, and I am willing to sacrifice my Freedom for that worthy cause.”
Trump has continued to test the boundaries of the gag order, persistently sharing links to stories on Truth Social that echo his critiques. In a Truth Social post written after the gag order was expanded, Trump also said that Merchan “should be recused, and the case should be thrown out,” adding that “there has virtually never been a more conflicted judge than this one.”
A recent Washington Post analysis of Trump’s social media posts since the start of his campaign in late 2022 shows that he had directly attacked judges or their families by name more than 130 times. Merchan’s gag order doesn’t restrict Trump from attacking the judge or the district attorney directly.
It’s not clear if the judge will sanction Trump for any of his latest postings. Merchan can fine or jail Trump for violating the gag order. He has also said another consequence could be withholding jurors’ names from Trump’s lawyers.
Orders restricting the public statements by criminal defendants are common in judicial proceedings. Trump has been fined before for violating another judge’s gag order in the civil business-fraud lawsuit in New York that resulted in a $350 million penalty plus interest.
Trump’s campaign on Saturday called Merchan’s gag order “unconstitutional and un-American” in defending the actions. “President Trump has not violated this wrongful edict issued by a partisan operative and will continue to speak truth to power,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement.
The trial Merchan is set to oversee this month stems from charges against Trump that allege he faked business records in connection with hush money payments to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election.
Trump, the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee, faces a total of 88 charges across four criminal cases. They include 44 federal charges and 44 state charges, all of them felonies. Trump has denied wrongdoing in each case.
This is not the first time Trump has compared himself to Mandela as a way to portray himself as a victim of political persecution. He told a crowd of supporters in October 2023, “I don’t mind being Nelson Mandela, because I’m doing it for a reason.”
The Biden campaign quickly criticized Trump for his comparison to Mandela, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
“Imagine being so self-centered that you compare yourself to Jesus Christ and Nelson Mandela all within the span of little more than a week: that’s Donald Trump for you,” the Biden campaign’s director of Black media, Jasmine Harris, said in a statement.
Harris appeared to be referencing another Truth Social post recently made by Trump, where he seemingly compared himself to Jesus days before Easter-related observances while attending a pretrial hearing for his hush money case.
Trump wrote that someone sent him a text saying, “It’s ironic that Christ walked through His greatest persecution the very week they are trying to steal your property from you,” along with a Bible verse.
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Moreover, the private, commissioned survey that defendant cites in his motion confirms rather than rebuts the ability to empanel an impartial jury from Manhattan residents, assuming that its results can be taken at face value.4 For example, Question 46 of the survey asked respondents whether, based on their knowledge or opinions about defendant, they thought they could “serve as a fair and impartial juror in a criminal trial against him.” Def. Mot. Ex. 1. In New York County, 70% of respondents said they could “definitely” (51%) or “probably” (19%) be fair and impartial—a figure that is notably higher than in any of the other four surveyed counties, which ranged from 64% to 69%. Similarly, in all five of the surveyed counties—including New York County—only about 20% of respondents felt they “probably” or “definitely” could not be fair and impartial, with another 10% to 15% of respondents being “unsure.” Id. These results establish that there is a surfeit of prospective fair and impartial jurors in New York County who could be selected for this jury. Other survey results confirm that Manhattan residents would be able to set aside any preexisting knowledge or opinions they may have about defendant if they were called to serve on
4 The People have serious doubts about the reliability of the survey, given the paucity of information that defendant has provided about it. For example, the survey does not adequately explain its methodology for collecting responses, merely saying, in conclusory fashion, that it employed “text-to-online methodology” to “obtain a random representative sample of 400 residents in each of the five counties.” Def. Mot. Ex. 1. The survey also provides no information about how it obtained the contact information of respondents or how it ensured that its samples were actually random or representative of the residents of each of the counties in question. Defendant does not even provide information about the survey response rate or an analysis of nonresponse bias—among the most basic measures of a survey’s validity and reliability. See Federal Judicial Center, Reference Guide on Survey Research, in Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, at 359, 383-86 (3d ed. 2011). Without providing more detailed information about its methodology, the results of this survey are not necessarily valid or reliable. Compare McNeilab, Inc. v. Am. Home Prod. Corp., 848 F.2d 34, 36 (2d Cir. 1988) (describing extensive process of pre-survey review and judicial approval of written questions and methodology). Nevertheless, even assuming the survey results can be taken at face value, they essentially refute defendant's claim of irremediable bias.
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“I THINK TRUTH IS AMAZING! First of all, it is very solid, having over $200,000,000 in CASH and ZERO DEBT,” Trump posted Thursday morning. “More importantly, it is the primary way I get the word out and, for better or worse, people want to hear what I have to say, perhaps, according to experts, more than anyone else in the World.”
He went on to brag about his TV ratings, about how other social media platforms want him back, and how the “FAKE NEWS” shouldn’t be believed because “They are all on TRUTH because the have to be [sic].”
The rant comes after two of Trump Media and Technology Group’s (TMTG) top investors pleaded guilty to insider trading on Wednesday, after they traded securities using private knowledge of a shell company that later merged with Trump’s company ahead of its initial public offering (IPO). That revelation came just days after Trump Media’s SEC filings were released, showing staggering losses of $58 million with only $4.1 million in revenue, sending investors bailing.
As of this writing, TMTG’s stock is trading at $46.49, below its peak of $79.38 per share on March 26, the day of its IPO. Trump has to wait six months before he can cash in and start selling some of his 72 million shares, or get approval from the company’s board. He may decide to do that sooner as his legal bills pile up.
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Democrats introduce bill to rename Miami federal prison after Trump
A group of House Democrats introduced legislation to rename a federal prison in Miami after Donald Trump — jabbing Republicans for introducing a bill earlier this week to rename Washington Dulles International Airport for the former president.
Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) and John Garamendi (D-Calif.) unveiled the bill to rename the Miami Federal Correctional Institution to “the Donald J. Trump Federal Correctional Institution” in a joint statement on Friday.
“When our Republican colleagues introduced their bill to rename Dulles after Donald Trump, I said the more fitting option would be to rename a federal prison,” Connolly, referencing Trump’s ongoing criminal cases, said in the statement. “I see no reason to wait.”
“Everyone knows President Trump loves to write his name in gold letters on all his buildings,” Moskowitz said. “But he’s never had his name on a federal building before and as a public servant I just want to help the former president. Help us make that dream a reality.”
Garamendi asserted that “MAGA Republicans have proven themselves unwilling to solve real problems that face our country. I cannot think of a more fitting tribute to our former president, Donald J. Trump, than renaming the closest federal prison to Mar-a-Lago in his honor.”
While Republicans are the majority party in the House, the bill to rename Dulles after Trump still faces tough odds. The Democratic lawmakers’ bill to rename a prison after Trump has virtually no chance of becoming law.
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Trump says it would be a ‘great honor’ to be jailed for violating gag order
The former president has also tested the limits of a judge’s order by sharing news stories that are critical
Former president Donald Trump said Saturday that it would be a “great honor” to be jailed for violating a gag order, marking an escalation in attacks he’s made against New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan and other court officials in a case about to go to trial.On Monday, Merchan, the judge overseeing Trump’s hush money trial set to begin on April 15, expanded his gag order against Trump to include both the judge’s family as well as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s family. That move came after Trump personally attacked Merchan’s daughter, calling her a “Rabid Trump Hater” and suggesting that the judge was “compromised” because of her work for a Democratic-aligned digital marketing company.
Writing on the Truth Social platform on Saturday, Trump dared Merchan to throw him in jail. He also compared himself again to Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner who became the first president of a post-apartheid South Africa.
“If this Partisan Hack wants to put me in the ‘clink’ for speaking the open and obvious TRUTH, I will gladly become a Modern Day Nelson Mandela — It will be my GREAT HONOR,” Trump wrote. “We have to Save our Country from these Political Operatives masquerading as Prosecutors and Judges, and I am willing to sacrifice my Freedom for that worthy cause.”
Trump has continued to test the boundaries of the gag order, persistently sharing links to stories on Truth Social that echo his critiques. In a Truth Social post written after the gag order was expanded, Trump also said that Merchan “should be recused, and the case should be thrown out,” adding that “there has virtually never been a more conflicted judge than this one.”
A recent Washington Post analysis of Trump’s social media posts since the start of his campaign in late 2022 shows that he had directly attacked judges or their families by name more than 130 times. Merchan’s gag order doesn’t restrict Trump from attacking the judge or the district attorney directly.
It’s not clear if the judge will sanction Trump for any of his latest postings. Merchan can fine or jail Trump for violating the gag order. He has also said another consequence could be withholding jurors’ names from Trump’s lawyers.
Orders restricting the public statements by criminal defendants are common in judicial proceedings. Trump has been fined before for violating another judge’s gag order in the civil business-fraud lawsuit in New York that resulted in a $350 million penalty plus interest.
Trump’s campaign on Saturday called Merchan’s gag order “unconstitutional and un-American” in defending the actions. “President Trump has not violated this wrongful edict issued by a partisan operative and will continue to speak truth to power,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement.
The trial Merchan is set to oversee this month stems from charges against Trump that allege he faked business records in connection with hush money payments to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election.
Trump, the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee, faces a total of 88 charges across four criminal cases. They include 44 federal charges and 44 state charges, all of them felonies. Trump has denied wrongdoing in each case.
This is not the first time Trump has compared himself to Mandela as a way to portray himself as a victim of political persecution. He told a crowd of supporters in October 2023, “I don’t mind being Nelson Mandela, because I’m doing it for a reason.”
The Biden campaign quickly criticized Trump for his comparison to Mandela, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
“Imagine being so self-centered that you compare yourself to Jesus Christ and Nelson Mandela all within the span of little more than a week: that’s Donald Trump for you,” the Biden campaign’s director of Black media, Jasmine Harris, said in a statement.
Harris appeared to be referencing another Truth Social post recently made by Trump, where he seemingly compared himself to Jesus days before Easter-related observances while attending a pretrial hearing for his hush money case.
Trump wrote that someone sent him a text saying, “It’s ironic that Christ walked through His greatest persecution the very week they are trying to steal your property from you,” along with a Bible verse.
Trump dares New York judge to jail him over gag order - The Washington Post
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"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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