Finally, Donny Boy will face a jury of Manhattanites beginning Monday in the historic first criminal trial of a former President. They will have to do their civic duty while looking at the
Ochre Menace frowning at them for six or eight weeks. His last ditch efforts to delay the inevitable were unsuccessful. He even went so far as to sue Justice Merchan for alleged bias because his daughter has Democratic Party affiliations; that suit is going nowhere. Fortunately, Justice Merchan has not taken the legal bait laid at his feet by Trump, delaying the trial even more. Merchan rejected his fourth attempt to dismiss the case today. Trial proceedings will start with jury selection in the city that knows him best. In Georgia,
Judge McAfee ruled that the RICO case against Don Legit should also go forward, rejecting an appeal from the defendant on free speech grounds.
His accounting minion, Allen Weisselberg, was sentenced to five more months at Rikers Island for perjury on Wednesday. He is accustomed to the food since he already served 100 days for tax evasion. Weisselberg will not have to testify against his former boss in his campaign finance violations trial as part of the plea deal.
Another red flag for AG Letitia James as the civil fraud bond posted by Defendant Trumpilini comes under legal scrutiny: Knight Speciality Insurance is backed by a reinsurer located in the Cayman Islands, notorious as a secretive tax haven. One insurance specialist told the
Daily Beast that the arrangement "stinks to high heaven" because collecting from the insurer becomes more difficult in the event of a default.
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| credit: M. Wuerker, Politico.com |
