Trump attorney Evan Corcoran saved his recollections in a series of voice memos.

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    This kills me. Dude was asked nicely, warned, and given multiple chances to avoid falling foul of the law. Few people would get such treatment from our government. And even still, he managed to do nothing, get raided, and complain about how unfair this all is. Unbelievable.

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      Developmenal psychology would recognize defendant trump as a child who never evolved into adulthood. And a child with oppositional defiant disorder at that. Except o.d.d. is only diagnosed in children. Once you reach adulthood youre looking at cluster b personality disorders. Narcissism, machiavellianism, sociopathy, psychopathy. Children always have to push to the absolute last boundary to understand their limitations. Boundaries, as much as children rail against them make them feel safe. Imagine a child who has spent their entire life seeking that boundary and never finding it until theyre almost 80 years old. This is what defendant trump is.

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        He was actively taught to be like this by his father. Dude’s mind was ruined early on he never had a chance to escape the brainwash.

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          Just for the documents, it’s 40. Was originally 37 then they added 3 more.

          91 total if you count New York + Georgia + 1/6 + Documents.

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            Yup, that is true. Didn’t know that you were only referring to the Documents case, although the number referenced would have made that clear if I thought about it.

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      Yup. Trump complains that he’s being treated differently. He’s right, but not in the way that he means. He thinks he’s being unfairly persecuted, but he’s being treated with kid gloves that few other people would get.

      If you or I had 1% of the classified documents that Trump had, we wouldn’t be posting here. We’d be locked in a jail cell awaiting trial and facing decades in prison. And that’s if we were lucky.

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        I used to have security clearance for dealing with government files. (In Canada mind you.) If I had so much as talked about some of the things I handled I would have been facing up to 20 years in jail, never mind if I brought them home and wallpapered my guest bathroom with them.

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      What really kills me is how even people who don’t particularly like him are backing him. My husband’s uncle doesn’t like the man, but in a discussion with me replied to the number of charges with “if that’s not an abuse of power I don’t know what is”. It’s like he hadn’t even considered that Trump could well be guilty enough to warrant multiple indictments.

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        They want to burn the current government, it does not really matter who’s on the bailot if they think he can get elected.

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      Seems he didn’t want to give up what he saw as his personal trophies and mementos. A physical cache proving that he was once president with access to top secret information, that he can brag about or leverage for self-gain. He’s used to always getting his way, or negotiating a favourable ‘deal’, burying those occasions which fail. A lot of his actions are difficult to rationalise as a normal person.

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      That’s what really gets me…. He FUCKING KNEW they were coming and he did nothing??? Only much later he attempted shit like trying to get the security footage deleted, like what??

      he really thought he was forever untouchable after the impeachments bs, guess I can’t blame him at that point. Get fucked donny

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      He is playing on the persecution, I think he even said it himself: each time he get arrested he’s going up in the polls.

      He is using that to stay in the media, he is taking all the space so ask the news are talking about him. Even here on Lemmy, he is now present in the news than any other personality.

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    This seemed to be popular information when I posted it (ahem) “elsewhere”. Thought it might be welcome to have here.

    If you’re trying to keep track of where we’re at in the Trump prosecutions:

    Updated 9/6/2023

    Georgia
    13 state felonies
    Election Interference
    Investigation
    Indictment
    Arrest <- You Are Here
    All 19 defendants have surrendered.
    Trial - Fani Willis has now requested a trial date of October 23rd after originally asking for a trial date of 3/4/2024, one day before Super Tuesday..
    Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee has ruled that the cases against Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell will both begin on October 23, 2023. It will be televised.
    Trial dates for the other 17 defendants have not yet been established.
    Conviction
    Sentencing

    Washington, D.C.
    4 federal felonies
    January 6th Election Interference
    Investigation
    Indictment
    Arrest <- You Are Here
    Trial - 3/4/2024, one day before Super Tuesday primaries.
    Conviction
    Sentencing

    New York
    34 state felonies
    Stormy Daniels Payoff
    Investigation
    Indictment
    Arrest <- You Are Here
    Trial - March 25th, 2024
    Conviction
    Sentencing

    Florida
    40 federal felonies
    Top Secret Documents charges
    Investigation
    Indictment
    Original indictment was for 37 felonies.
    3 new felonies were added on July 27, 2023.
    Arrest <- You Are Here
    Trial - May 20, 2024
    Conviction
    Sentencing

    Other grand juries, such as for the documents at Bedminster, or the Arizona fake electors, have not been announced.

    The E. Jean Carroll trial for sexual assault and defamation where Trump was found liable and ordered to pay $5 million before immediately defaming her again resulting in a demand for $10 million is not listed as it’s a civil case and not a crimimal one. That trial date is currently set for January 15th, the same day as the Iowa caucus. and has now been determined to be for damages only as Trump was already found liable.

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        If I were a lawyer looking for an unbiased jury, or as unbiased as I could get, I would insist only on people who did not vote in 2016 or 2020.

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              Same here. A relative of mine is frequently wishing that Trump would just drop dead. I don’t wish that. I want Trump to live to a ripe old age - from a prison cell. I want him to see everything he built over his life to be dismantled and have all his family, “friends”, and “fans” abandon him.

              Only after all of that can his years McDonald’s and “exercise drains your battery” catch up with him.

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      To be fair, he did try to hide the evidence. He just wasn’t very good at it, and the video of him trying also became evidence. As did the evidence of the failed attempt to destroy said video by “accidentally” draining the pool into the server room.

      Also, there’s the list of stuff we know he had that the FBI never found…

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    Don’t take the right wing talking points. It wasn’t a raid, they executed a search warrant.

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    Hence why he was SEEN moving a crapton of boxes to his other locations in the US and probably also moved some abroad.

    EDIT: read seen, not only as with eyes, but also on camera. The flight registered as a destination when they were recorded, with him directing what boxes had priority, government documents, were to Bedminster (New Jersey).

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      probably also moved some abroad.

      I bet he did. I bet he moved a bunch to Saudi Arabia for “safekeeping”, and not at all in exchange for that $2B investment…

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    These leaks should be way bigger news.

    This shows there are embedded MAGAts in government. These traitors need to be found and prosecuted. They are a cancer in our government and need to be found out.