Breaking moments ago, the New York Times is reporting that President Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, the sealed indictment will be released in the next few days and the surrender of President Trump to law enforcement in New York City is being worked out.
(NEW YORK TIMES) – A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Donald J. Trump on Thursday for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, according to four people with knowledge of the matter, a historic development that will shake up the 2024 presidential race and forever mark him as the nation’s first former president to face criminal charges.
The felony indictment, filed under seal by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, will likely be announced in the coming days. By then, prosecutors working for the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, will have asked Mr. Trump to surrender and to face arraignment on charges that remain unknown for now.
[..] Mr. Trump has consistently denied all wrongdoing and attacked Mr. Bragg, a Democrat, accusing him of leading a politically motivated prosecution. He has also denied any affair with the porn star, Stormy Daniels, who had been looking to sell her story of a tryst with Mr. Trump during the campaign.
Here’s what else you need to know:
♦ Mr. Bragg and his lawyers will likely attempt to negotiate Mr. Trump’s surrender. If he agrees, it will raise the prospect of a former president, with the Secret Service in tow, being photographed and fingerprinted in the bowels of a New York State courthouse.
♦ The prosecution’s star witness is Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former fixer who paid the $130,000 to keep Ms. Daniels quiet. Mr. Cohen has said that Mr. Trump directed him to buy Ms. Daniels’s silence, and that Mr. Trump and his family business, the Trump Organization, helped cover the whole thing up. The company’s internal records falsely identified the reimbursements as legal expenses, which helped conceal the purpose of the payments.
♦ Although the specific charges remain unknown, Mr. Bragg’s prosecutors have zeroed in on that hush money payment and the false records created by Mr. Trump’s company. A conviction is not a sure thing: An attempt to combine a charge relating to the false records with an election violation relating to the payment to Ms. Daniels would be based on a legal theory that has yet to be evaluated by judges, raising the possibility that a court could throw out or limit the charges.
♦ The vote to indict, the product of a nearly five-year investigation, kicks off a new and volatile phase in Mr. Trump’s post-presidential life as he makes a third run for the White House. And it could throw the race for the Republican nomination — which he leads in most polls — into uncharted territory.
♦ Mr. Bragg is the first prosecutor to lead an indictment of Mr. Trump. He is now likely to become a national figure enduring a harsh political spotlight. (LINK)
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Indict him , impeach him , send fbi into mar a lago, I don’t care about any of this noise. This will be no more impactful than Liz cheney’s committee investigation. MAGA doesn’t care about this indictment. It is annoying but irrelevant. Trump will win in a landslide in 2024 if the election is fair.
Stay steadfast
I doubt the election will be fair. The anyone but Trump movement is just getting more serious and more evil.
Amen, God willing!.
Election, what is that?
It will take divine intervention for PDJT to win, even if he has 99% of real alive voters.
It’s about a lot more that persecuting Donald Trump now,…. in their lust to Get Him they have severly damaged what’s left of our Constitutional Rule of Law and American System of Justice. They have just opened Pandora’s Box, conduct your selves accordingly now.
The election will NOT be fair! Can’t imagine what makes you think a fair election is even a possibility.
Lindsay’s eyes are bloodshot and drunk as shit. F*ck him. F*ck the system.
He was so soused, he actually sounded patriotic…..
He must have been REALLY smashed!
Rush told us he’d let us know when it was time to be worried. Today was that day.
IMESHO, the 2024 nomination and reelection of PRESIDENT TRUMP has moved up step closer to reality.
We are not going to be able to vote our way out of tyranny, folks.
Tell that to pee-low-ski.
MAGA knows they have to come up through the states, supporting President Trump’s America First candidates and taking control of the state / local election process.
Many MAGAs did that in 2021/2022 and retook the House.
Hokkoda, join the MAGAs in your district, we have just finishing the first quarter of 2023 so there is plenty of things you can do to retake the Senate and the Presidency.
Truest words typed today.
The Sorazz paid chicken Chit DA, Bragg, even Sealed the Indictment,….. only to protect himself,… and that will fail Bigly!
This is a ridiculous charge: Miranda Devine – Fox News Video
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2023/03/this-is-ridiculous-charge-miranda.html
It’s not about the charge. It’s the PROCESS that is the punishment. Same as the impeachments. They knew he would never truly be impeached but that wasn’t the point. And our so called party does absolutely NOTHING. They are weak and pathetic. I for one will NEVER EVER vote for another Republican other than Trump until I see them fighting like our enemies. The are dead to me.
They are the front line of our defense. It will be interesting to see where they all stand. Those that cower should be voted out.
Miranda is great-her comments on the downstream effects and destruction of norms is right on
Obviously you missed her on Laura pretty much trashing President Trump after his interview on Hannity. I suggest you look it up with Stephen Miller.
Today, Tammy’s “My D, I, V, O, R, C. E” seems more appropriate after the Marxist Dims declared war on our Rule of Law and American Justice System. After today, they won’t have much to Bragg about. Watch.
How many local GOP DAs are now preparing Indictments against local Dim Pols,,,, you know,… from spitting on the side walk to talking Xi’s CCP Checks,…. like our Poser Preezy has and does???
Any bets that Duffos Biden in Depends gets Impeached by a furious House, real soon? Does Lost Wages have a Line on it yet?
Well, you should be hearing shortly about the pending draft of IMPEACHMENT proceedings against old FJB, if the Republicans have learned to fight fire with fire!!! Also, they need to follow through and subpoena Braggs fat arse to appear for a grilling before the Committee!!! 🤔
The republicans don’t fight fire with fire. They fight it with naphtha and oily rags.
Sorry I was under the impression strongly worded letters would suffice in loo of fire.
Please tell me how you ‘impeach’ someone who is NOT president????? This is an honest question.
BWAHHHAAAAA are you serious. Biden should have been impeached DAY 1. Republicans don’t fight in the same sandbox or by the same rules as our enemy and yes at this point the are our ENEMIES. They are so feckless and weak I don’t know how ANY of us can vote for them any longer. A new party is SORELY needed and fast. I’ve said it here many times but Trump was always just a speed bump to slow down the inevitable destruction of our country as it was founded. As Sundance says, Prepare for a new world accordingly.
Old: Russia interfered with our election!!!
New: NYC district attorney’s office interfered with the election??
Our government and it’s fraudulent voting system installs a drug smuggling killer in Brazil and a empty vessel in the WH and a senator in PA and many other positions and we are surprised by this ?
This country and our “Freedoms” have been nothing but a facade for many decades and 2016 the curtain was pullback for that conformation.
Yes, plan accordingly.
So you can be in the fight later.
I am no SD, so I am probably wrong. When the leak broke out earlier this month to indict Trump the Manhattan DA clearly backed down feeling he had gotten ahead of his superiors and decided to wait till he got a clear order to advance. And as of a few days ago the DA was still waiting and was about to send the Grand Jury home for the month. Something big is going to happen in the next month that is such a big threat that the Deep State needed to get ahead of. Recession? No, that is still a few months off. Bank failure? No, not a big enough problem. School Shooting? No, story will be off the front page by next week. Has to be really big. Has to be that intelligence is telling the regime that Ukraine will fall next month.
Add a complete financial collapse a year from now.
Nobody is going to believe FJB won against PDJT.
You may be right about Ukraine. Hoping you are. But it is more likely their fear is of whistleblowers going before House committees and too many videos coming showing J6 to have been a set up.
I call on every Republican Presidential Canidate to withdraw their nomination and drop out of the race.
Stand with Trump = Stand with America
Petty tyrants. I think they’re going to realize they stepped in it, bigly.
See ya later, bub.
A misdemeanor case past the statute of limitations…but lets divide and ruin the country further and any remaining fume of its legal system. Bragg and the NY legal system should behind bars.
If they can’t trap Trump on these charges, there will be others until they get him. He cannot be the GOP nominee in 2024. This is for all the marbles. Us vs them.
There might be one instance where President Trump missed a piece of dog poop as he was picking up his pup’s dump?
Oh no…. Not cuss words, wouldn’t want to offend anyone during lent
Welcome to the newly created United States of Bolivia,…. brought to you by the Marxist Dim installed regime of Joe Biden’s handlers.
What’s next, Marxist Dims, your Military Coup,… to complete your Fundamental Transformation of the USA into a 3rd World Chitole like Bolivia,… or is Cuba or Venezuela more to your liking now? At least even those corrupt tyrannical Dictatorships didn’t force Perverted Sex and Delusional Tranny Madness on their populace.
They will rue this day!
At this point the only question is if there will be one sane, reasonable and objective person on the jury that can withstand the pressure from the crazies pushing a guilty verdict.
The jury was rigged against Trump. Standard procedure where he is concerned.
The other problem is the lack of any honest judges who see this as the abuse of power and political stunt that it is.
The Left owns the judiciary and it is oh so coincidental that Trump’s cases are always heard by far Left judges.
His illegal 3rd term … in the carcass of a delusional dementia patient puppet. Sad that America could come to this.
They already used option 1 in November 1963 so they went this route.
True – but I would not put it past them to use it again. They are so hysterical they are foaming at the mouth like a rabid animal – which is what they are.
Hopefully, the House Freedom Caucus uses its ability to remove McCarthy from the Speakership to drive forward with legislation to defund New York City, County, and State. The DA should be subpoenaed by Congress as it exercises its plenary power to govern Federal elections, specifically illegal campaign donations in the form of politically-motivated “indictments” and direct interference in Federal elections.
Furthermore, the HFC should announce that all Federal law enforcement budgets are “dead on arrival” and that the House is now considering a government-wide 25% reduction in 2024 funding. This will be non-negotiable and if the government “shuts down” there will be no back pay for non-military Federal employees.
There also needs to be a coordinated set of economic sanctions by MAGA voters. Unfortunately, our leaders are mainly cowards who won’t call for MAGA voters to exercise their right to silently protest by withdrawing spending from the economy especially targeting TBTF banks (move money to local banks and credit unions), TBTF big box stores, streaming services, and chain restaurants/grocery stores.
If we take to the streets, the FBI posers will cause violence and retaliate. They can’t hit what they can’t see, folks.
The fake, cowardly, spineless HFC will do exactly none of these things.
We can do some of these things ourselves without the HFC. We need to set a date to implement citizen sanctions.
If you didn’t lose good family relations or friends because of Trump, you might now. An acquantence of mine is laughing at me and all Trump supporters tonight.
He won’t be laughing when he’s falsely accused and indicted by the same zombies he supports.
Leftists are deaf and blind. They do not see the light of truth in any way. It doesn’t matter what you say to them. Very heartbreaking when people you know are so deeply deceived.
Once they begin to lose everything, they may begin to listen. Until that time, it’s our duty to defend God and our nation.
More like they won’t be laughing when he is eating radioactive rats as his last meal.
Even then these cultists will never admit there stupidity.
That will likely come first for most people. I’m not even prepared myself. I just do what I can and help others to understand what’s at stake.
I don’t disagree with you on defending God and nation, but that’s a bit of a tall and amorphous order for little old us. I think a more manageable goal is to point out uncomfortable truths that may make it hard for the not yet completely zombified to sleep at night.
Here’s a bit of the rub in that: It may require the use of reverse psychology and a dumping on Trump.
Leftist: I bet you are upset now that your boy is going to prison and won’t be able to run for president.
Me: No, I’m only upset that he is only going to be sent away for what is basically low scale tax evasion instead of accepting bribes from Big Pharma to help them jump start their gene therapy programs that were years away from being able to pass all the traditional, scientifically-based safety testing protocols. But hopefully DeSantis’s grand juries in Florida will result in indictments against Big Pharma executives and Fauci and perhaps even Trump himself and it won’t look as if DeSantis is trying to take out his main rival for the nomination if NY took him out first.
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Now before you beat up on me, I’m not saying I’m for DeSantis, I’m just saying make your Leftist acquaintances fear that perhaps their worst nightmare is something other than Trump getting the nomination.
And who is to say Trump didn’t maneuver for this indictment as a feint so as to allow a DeSantis or someone to outflank them and launch a surprise attack?
It’s kind of funny you bring it up. Reverse psychology is a move I do often make. It does stop people in their tracks. Dead silence. They are usually not too bright and just change the subject.
Doesn’t do much good though. Ultimately, they just dismiss it — being so confounded.
As another former President stated and was paraphrased in the paper….Ford to NYC. DROP DEAD!
We have now ascended to one of the top spots among the lowest of corrupt nations .
May our Good God please help us out of the bottom of this pit.
George Soros praises DeSantis and vilifies Trump and what do you know? A Soros funded DA indicts Trump.
Seriously, I don’t think Soros is alive. Something tells me that he is either dead or brain dead.
Lots of comments here, but now what? The Democrats and Deep State are going to make sure Trump is not elected……EVER!
They are on a mission, and I doubt nothing will stop them.
If President Trump is locked up with no bail because they will claim he is a flight risk, then what?
Ron DeSantis is not the answer. None of the other candidates are viable choices.
There needs to be a Plan B.
I plan to write in Donald John Trump even if he is not the candidate. He won’t win, but I will be true to what I thoroughly believe in.
Plan B is always murder.
I think we need to start somewhere well before that. But, I can see the Deep State considering your option.
President Trump can run from jail and serve from jail if necessary. He’s plan A and B for me.
In the meantime, I’m going to do everything in my power to help fix election fraud. If hundreds of thousands join the election integrity efforts underway, that’s a powerful response to the indictment.
Sundance will go down with the Trump ship… he cannot do this forever.
Rich Baris re Jason Whitlock
That was powerful. It even looks like Tucker Carlson was touched; his comment after Jason Whitlock finished looked like Tucker had trouble speaking and could only get out, “I agree.”
In the world of pretending, Ronny Meatball is a pretender. Glenn Youngkin is a pretender. Neither of them could say his name in their official statements. Compare that with Kari Lake’s comments from the heart….she says his name and her belief in his innocence.
Just curious, what is his reasoning for never having voted?
Sad day in America, 98.454545 percent of elected Republicans hate President Trump and the Patriots of America! Learned today, Mike Pence is a Traitor, Laura Ingram has a Adams Apple, Hannity aged 20 years after impregnating his daughters girlfriend, Mark Levin is a useless con artist and a loud talker , more blacks hate America and white people then can be imagined
Glenn Youngkin
@GlennYoungkin
It is beyond belief that District Attorney Alvin Bragg has indicted a former President and current presidential candidate for pure political gain. Arresting a presidential candidate on a manufactured basis should not happen in America.
The left’s continued attempts to weaponize our judicial system erode people’s faith in the American justice system and it needs to stop.
7:25 PM · Mar 30, 2023
Very Mealy Mush, Youngkin,… most of the commenters here could write a better respone to Bragg’s debacle to interfer in a national election,…. tell your speech writing staffer to at least include the name in your hasty response,… former President and current GOP front running Candidate for the ’24 Presidential election – Donald J. Trump.
Sheesh, where to these poseurs come from,… RINO Central Casting?
Yeah, yeah, I know, now is the time for the GOP to mount up and rally to Trump’s defense, lets just make sure that it is done in earnest and sans political maneuvering by eager opportunists.
OK, treep-frogs, we’re ALL riled up tonite, justifiably. Be cool, reflect on the Kipling SD offered. A poem we’ve read in this house many times. JK
I will proudly wear a t-shirt with my beloved PDJT’s mug shot , stating that he is and always will be the True President of this United States . MAGA
I realize this is probably a crazy way out there question, but do you think that it may be possible that this is all happening so that Biden can issue a pardon so that in their mind it would make him look like some type of a hero even though we know otherwise? They have to do something to raise his numbers election wise.
No..
No. Biden’s team wouldn’t let him do that.
How would it raise Biden’s numbers? MAGA voters wouldn’t be impressed. Crazy leftists would be mad at Biden. Moderates? Independents? In other words, the fickle–they might be happier with Biden for 48 hours, but as soon as the next crisis comes around, he’ll lose their support again.
I will be standing on the overpass tomorrow holding and waving my Trump flag
I’m literally to the point of tears while at work. Luckily right now none of my patient’s have the news on. I can’t believe this is happening. This isn’t the USA anymore and not enough people realize it.
I finally escaped Chicago after residing there for all of my 50+ years. My main motivation was I could no longer take the Quasi Marxist Freaks. I’m sure New York is as bad or worse. That’s why I’m concerned for President Trump. At this time all bets are off. Don’t assume this bogus charge has no teeth. I truly hope farmers cut off all supplies to New York. This indictment is a reflection of their residents as much as the Uniparty.
(Peaceably) sanction NYC.
Easy to do….slow drive *everything*. Slow unload trucks, ships. Speed limit 30? Go 15-20 out of an abundance of caution. Power plants need more maintenance suddenly, takes time to do it properly.
Lots of ways to throw sand into the gears – peaceably.
It likely won’t be the last either as it is what communists do.
THIS EVIL ACTION MAKES ME MORE DETERMINED TO STAND BY PRESIDENT TRUMP.
IT MAKES ME MORE DETERMINED TO WORK AS HARD AS I CAN TO RID THE SCUM FROM THIS COUNTRY.
THEY HAVE TREAD ON ALL OF US AND WILL NOW REAP WHAT THEY HAVE SEWED.
I like the picture. Trump in the lyin’s den.
Article III Project statement:
https://article3project.org/article-iii-project-statement-on-president-trumps-reported-indictment/
Is it me or are all the soros deep state dumber than shit democratic prosecutors around the country are non white !!
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“Although the specific charges remain unknown, Mr. Bragg’s prosecutors have zeroed in on that hush money payment and the false records created by Mr. Trump’s company. A conviction is not a sure thing: An attempt to combine a charge relating to the false records with an election violation relating to the payment to Ms. Daniels would be based on a legal theory that has yet to be evaluated by judges, raising the possibility that a court could throw out or limit the charges.”
Folks, this is New York Istanbul. There is no way PDJT will not be arrested and tried if he sets foot in New York ever again.
These clowns will run the day that they ever dreamed up this prosecution that has so many holes it will never float.
The question I have is, why bother to go to this extent, when they know they have the demographics and the cheating capacity to defeat him in 2024? Let’s face it, indictment or not, there is no way TPTB would allow a Trump victory.
Ergo, there’s no rational reason and it’s pure spite, revenge, and muscle-flexing
Bragg is heralded as a hero… a brave warrior in the fight for justice… that’s why he does it.
“It’s not enough to simply defeat him. We must destroy him, so that no others will rise up after him….”
They are creating plausible reasoning
This ain’t 1992, James Carville, now “Its the Economy and the Indictment, Stupid!”
It would appear our VSGPDJT has set about to have the liberals in the general N.Y. area release, over the next few months, his re election message.
This way the American people who may not be predisposed to otherwise listen to the truth, will see and hear it on the “news” …. He will be assisted in this endeavor by a willing “press” that will gather daily en mass to hear whatever our President has to say, they will be a great assist to our country in this way. Bravo !
Brilliant.
Praying for all America, the country and it’s people that he loves! “Lord, Hear His Prayer!”
This indictment will flip many minorities for Trump. Black men know what it’s like to be prosecuted by overly zealous prosecutors. Michigan will flip in 2024, but we need GOP folks there to get on the INSIDE to report on the potential cheating that will occur.
They are after the women vote with this move.
Trump’s conversation with some Pastors Pray for the Country. . .
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Liz Harrington
@realLizUSA
“The best thing you can do for me is to pray for our country and the safety of our country because the danger we are in right now I think is greater than any danger we’ve ever had.”
twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1641627437892087808
President Trump cannot be locked in a cell upon an indictment without triggering an immediate petition to a United States District Court for a writ of habeas corpus. An indictment is NOT a conviction and is a LOOONG WAY from a conviction.
A former President has the guarantee of Secret Service protection under federal law. A New York DA cannot overturn Secret Service protection guaranteed President Trump under federal law.
I would expect some real legal fireworks to be set off immediately and end up quickly in emergency session of the U.S. Supreme Court. Alvin Bragg may see the inside of a federal prison sooner than many think and nobody deserves it more than Bragg. He could likely be disbarred and never be allowed to practice law again AND be forced to PERSONALLY pay all attorney fees incurred by President Trump.
This outrage is a threat to the entire legal system of the United States and any sane judge will see it that way.
Keep in mind there is absolutely NO LEGAL PRECEDENT for these charges. It is a blatant act of political and malicious prosecution pulled out of the sky with no basis in law.
And if there are any that are not Sane Judges, then many GOP DAs nationwide will start filling indictments against Marxist Dims using these same tactics to bring Sanity back to American courtrooms. Then, Jury Nullification will be used as a rather rude wake up to those judges that still agree with Bragg’s violation of prosecutorial misconduct.
Many can play this Marxist Dim game until sanity is returned to the American Justice System. They dealt this crooked hand, now, Lets Play!
What is to stop Texas,for instance,from now indicting Soetoro for the Fast and Furious scandal that put guns in the hands of cartel killers,some of whom killed Americans in this country?Only the reluctance to be like the slime of the democrat party.Biden will spend his dotage in a prison hospital,at least what’s left of his dotage by the time he slithers out of office.It doesn’t matter that Trump’s charge is likely,ultimately unwinnable.
I find myself strangely unreluctant to encourage Conservative DAs and AGs from going after slimy Leftists.
The problem is that New York has no sane judges. 95% of the denizens of NYC voted for Biden so one can only imagine what a jury would look like. The SCOTUS needs to become involved in order to stop this madness.
Roberts will not allow the Supreme Court to get involved, under threat if necessary.
If you can indict a ham sandwich, but an indictment is not a conviction, and all you have to do is depend on a ‘sane’ judge, then how much time do you think he’ll get after they convict him?
Has anybody heard from the White House yet? Can’t wait to hear what Barry Soetoro and W have to say.
Trump is less indictable than a ham sandwich. Keep in mind the FEC and other prosecutors went over ALL of this before deciding they couldn’t.
I would hope you are correct. But the recent history of our judicial system isn’t so rosy. How many times has the FBI made up reasons for FISA warrants? The judges know, and have criticized the FBI for their blatant law breaking, but they continue to rubber stamp. My confidence that the legal system will be upheld by the current judges is somewhere between slim and none.
That’s part of our problem…the courts. It appears most of them have been comprimised or corrupted…maybe even the Supreme Court. When the judicial process has been corrupted too…then what? We are One day closer to 1776….to trust a system that has been infiltrated and corrupted, and is being weaponized and used against us…is insane!
just remember
the SC ruled Obamacare is a tax
Soros paid a lot of money for this guy and more than likely something “more.”
You make a solid argument, but forget that the Left owns the judiciary, and they will make sure that Trump’s case is only heard by extreme Left judges as has been the case thus far.
The objective is to make sure Trump cannot be President again.
Sorry, either there are no sane judges in NY, or the case will be assigned to a Trump hater. No one will pay a price and our President may well be Epsteined in captivity. They know they have nothing to lose and everything to gain by going down this path to the limit. Watch Biden order the secret service to abandon Trump and fire those who do not.