'Additional crime': Conservative George Conway says Trump may face new charges in Michigan – Raw Story
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Former President Donald Trump might expect a fifth round of criminal charges in the near future, suggested conservative attorney George Conway on CNN Thursday — this time in Michigan.
This comes amid a bombshell new report that Trump "personally pressured" at least two Republican lawmakers in Michigan to block certification of the election results in that state, around the same time as he placed the infamous phone call to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in Georgia demanding he "find" 11,000 extra votes.
"This gets at the heart of the case [special counsel] Jack Smith is building that he actively conspired to overturn the 2020 election," said anchor Pamela Brown. "How big of a deal is this? Help us put this into context."
"Well, it's thoroughly consistent with the criminal conspiracies that have been alleged by the Department of Justice, by Jack Smith in the Washington, D.C. federal case and by Fani Willis in the Georgia Fulton County prosecution," said Conway. "And it's very much reminiscent of the phone call that you mentioned that had — where President Trump attempted to coerce and bully Secretary of State in Georgia Raffensperger to stop his — to interfere with his duties in certifying an election. And the same thing here."
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"I mean, there is no factual basis given for the claim there was fraud, and there was intimidation involved," Conway continued. "And according to the Detroit News article, it's suggested by a former elections official there that in essence what was happening here, he suggests, is that they were being induced by the — by the promise of legal protection, by the promise of getting attorneys for them to violate their official duties, which potentially could be an additional crime under Michigan law."
"I think an interesting question would be whether the Michigan attorney general, Dana Nessel, has this tape or aware of this tape," added Conway. "Certainly the details of the call were not known publicly. Dana Nessel, the attorney general of Michigan, has charged the fake electors there, as we know. The question there is, I think it's not necessary for Jack Smith to add this to his case, but it's certainly consistent with his case. And the real question is whether or not authorities in Michigan will seek to prosecute Ms. McDaniel or Mr. Trump."
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Donald Trump on Friday celebrated the fact that the Supreme Court shut down Special Counsel Jack Smith's request to skip over an appellate court when it comes to deciding if Trump is immune from prosecution over his alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 election.
The Supreme Court rejected Smith's request for an expedited review, instead seeking the appellate court's input on the matter.
Trump, who was found by the lower court to be seeking king status with his request for immunity, said that the court ruled against Smith "unanimously," although legal experts say the lack of dissenting opinions doesn't necessarily mean no one disagreed.
"The Supreme Court has unanimously rejected Deranged Jack Smith’s desperate attempt to short circuit our Great Constitution," Trump wrote on his social media network, Truth Social. "Crooked Joe Biden and his henchmen waited three years to bring this sham case, and now they have tried and failed to rush this Witch Hunt through the courts."
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On the merits, Trump doubled down on his argument for immunity.
"Of course I am entitled to Presidential Immunity. I was President, it was my right and duty to investigate, and speak on, the rigged and stolen 2020 Presidential Election," Trump claimed. "Looking forward to the very important arguments on Presidential Immunity in front of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Make America Great Again"
George Anthony Devolder Santos is very upset that Delta Airlines can’t figure out what his name is and he wants Congress to act.
“Hey Anthony D’esposito, how 'bout you do something, yah meatball?” Santos sneers in a viral video released Friday. “Congress is a joke.”
Santos’ 2-minute rant takes a long journey that begins with a boast about his Medallion status and ends with a call for overturning the entire government.
It also includes reference to unconfirmed accusations from the writer of an anti-trans children’s book who claims taxpayer dollars are paying for undocumented migrants to fly on Delta Airlines.
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Delta Airlines did not immediately respond to Raw Story’s request for comment, but the children’s book author appeared very upset when an employee she demanded answers from replied, “What does it matter, they’re humans too.”
This outraged Santos, because he uses a shorter version of his name on his SkyMiles account and it causes trouble in airports, as it did in the House of Representatives and with the Justice department.
“God forbid it’s not in the format on how I registered my SkyMiles,” Santos complains. “It becomes a mismatch. It’s a nightmare.”
Santos takes his complaint directly to Delta CEO Ed Bastian, whom he declares he used to respect but no longer does, because, “This is bulls—."
“This is a f—ing crime,” Santos declares. “Who is going to do something?”
After skewering D’Esposito with the meatball quip, Santos bemoans the state of the House of Representatives, from which he was ousted over allegations that campaign finance funds paid for his botox.
“We need to revamp,” Santos said. “All, not just some, but all of government at this point.”
His followers agreed.
“I am a new fan,” said DickiesBeer, “but why the F were you now raising hell BEFORE you got booted out of congress?”
“We don't deserve you, Saint George!” said BuffyCheddy. “Merry Christmas!!”
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The Supreme Court rejecting Jack Smith's request to expedite former President Donald Trump's presidential immunity claims is a win for the former president — but he is far from out of the woods yet, argued former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen on a CNN panel Friday.
"There are … accelerating factors that may come into play," said Eisen. "The Supreme Court, when it gets it, may simply say, as they did in Trump v. Thompson, the big case about whether Congress could investigate Trump and could pierce the executive privilege, cert denied. They did the same thing when the special master was appointed, 11th Circuit overturned that in the Mar-a-Lago documents case. They refused to hear it. That could be an accelerant … and another thing that could accelerate, the D.C. Circuit has the power to turn the stay of the case down or off."
"Personally, I think Jack Smith was too conservative in not fighting to say, I want to do those things that will keep the case going, like jury selection, I just won't empanel the jury," he continued. "This panel is going to be by reading their opinions, studying their careers. They think this immunity is inimical to American law, it's borderline frivolous."
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But one of the biggest potential issues for Trump, he said, is that he's still facing other state-level cases — and one, Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg's business fraud case, already has a trial date ready to go.
Bragg, said Eisen, "didn't count on all these projections and schedules and orders. He said, I'm a prosecutor, I've got a trial date, March 25th, 2024, and he's reaffirmed that he's ready to go. So we will see a case."
"And that brings in this polling where the American people, in that big New York Times/Siena poll, a 14-point swing in the six swing states if there's a conviction," he added. "So it is going to be a very unpredictable calendar politically and legally in the first six months of 2024."
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