TWIT: Cheeseburger in Paradise

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BC Idonwanna sez: Apré moi, le deluge!

Don 'Legit' posted an appeal bond of $91 million in the E. Jean Carrol defamation case at the last minute, allowing him to appeal the verdict without paying her a dime.  US Person had little doubt he would be able to come up with the money.  The bond was provided by the Chubb Group of Companies. 

Readers may remember the infamous "Steele Dossier", the source of salacious allegations that Trumpilini cavorted with prostitutes while on business in Moscow. Trump sued Orbis Business Intelligence, founded by former MI6 agent Christopher Steele. His case was thrown out of court by a British judge as being "bound to fail" because it was filed outside the six year statute of limitations.   He was ordered to pay all court costs and legal fees incurred by Orbis amounting to an initial £300,000.

Other developments in the prosecution of the most dangerous man in 'Merica are also not favorable. Kenneth Chesebro, former Trump attorney, agreed to a plea deal in the Georgia election interference case, but his testimony may be discredited by new evidence revealed as part of the settlement of a Wisconsin civil suit brought against fake electors.  Chesebro maintains that the Trump electors were a legal strategy in the event a court found that their claims of election fraud were valid. But emails and text communications show the scheme was much more intentional and planned.   Chesebro began communicating with Wisconsin MAGA campaign lawyer Jim Troupis as early as November 8th, 2020 to create a fraudulent scheme claiming Trump won the Electoral College vote in Wisconsin and submitting an alternate slate of electors. “Having the electors send in alternate slates of votes on Dec. 14 can pay huge dividends even if there is no litigation pending on Jan. 6,” Chesebro said in an email.  Chesebro asked Troupis in a text to send his detailed December 6th memo on the idea to the White House.  Troupis was then in touch with Rudy Guliani and Boris Epshteyn, senior Trump aides.  Troupis spoke to Congressman Ron Johnson a full month before January 6th about the plan to submit fake electors.  A Johnson aide spoke to Mike Pence's legislative director Chris Hodgson, telling him that they had the lists for Michigan and Wisconsin.  Hodgson told him, "do not give that to him [Pence]". Keneth Chesebro texted Troupis on January 8th, two days after the insurrection, saying that the events opened more avenues for legal opinions favorable to Trump.

The new evidence confirms Chesebro always intended to sow confusion about the outcome of the electoral vote in order to throw the election into the US House of Representatives where there is a majority of Repugnant state delegations.  By now it is beyond deniability that MAGA operatives, with the approval of the deranged nascent dictator, wanted to exploit the weaknesses of the Electoral College system.  To prevent another autogolpe in the future,  the President should be elected by a binding popular vote and the College discarded as obsolete.

Alan Weisselberg, who is a witness in the business records criminal fraud case in Manhattan, has plead guilty to two felony counts of perjury.  Former CFO Weisselberg has already served time for tax evasion related to Trump Org.  He lied in the NY Attorney General civil fraud case about the size of Don Legit's apartment in Trump Tower, a major asset on his financial statements, and about his lack of knowledge of the process in which fraudulent documents were created.  His perjury conviction increases the chances of Trump being convicted of business records fraud. The judge in Trump's criminal prosecution, Juan Merchan, is the same one who sentenced Weisselberg for tax evasion.   At seventy-nine, he cannot afford to stop another bullet on behalf of the Boss.