FLIGHT RISK? It seems inevitable, Trump will be locked up. “She’s a very good judge, straight up the middle of the law. If you treat Trump like anyone else that means if he violates the protective order he loses his right to remain on bond pending trial.”

I compiled information for this post earlier but it was superseded by:

"Michael Popok of Legal AF reports on breaking news that the then chief judge of the DC federal court determined that Trump is a “flight risk” when she ordered that a secret search warrant be issued to Twitter to grab Trump’s account and DM and user data, and that Trump not be told about it, and it all came out in an appeal decision this week when Twitter appealed a huge fine against it for not complying with the federal judge’s order."

Violent incidents in Trump's name will continue as long as Trump's stay out of prison run for president continues. 

More incidents like this one are inevitable: 

"Hours before President Joe Biden traveled to Utah on Wednesday, FBI agents shot and killed a man in his home in Provo as they were serving an arrest warrant. According to FBI documents, the man had threatened to kill the president and other government officials, most of whom he apparently believed to be mistreating former President Donald Trump.

As for his reported threats on Biden, the Utah man allegedly posted, “I HEAR BIDEN IS COMING TO UTAH,” before saying he was preparing his sniper rifle.

Reportedly, Robertson made threatening posts that mentioned U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, New York Attorney General Letitia James (who is overseeing a civil case against the Trump Organization), Vice President Kamala Harris and California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

You need not be clairvoyant to have predicted those reported threats. While Trump and his GOP have a long record of publicly denouncing the FBI and the Department of Justice, those verbal assaults are now even more heated. Since Trump has been indicted in a state court in Manhattan, and by federal grand juries in Florida and Washington, D.C., he has responded with vile and dangerously inciteful rhetoric. In posts on Truth Social, he’s called special counsel Jack Smith “deranged,” referred to former Vice President Mike Pence — a potential witness against Trump in the latest federal indictment — as “delusional” and claimed he could never get a fair trial from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was randomly assigned to that case."

FROM:

Frank Figliuzzi: Utah man fatally shot by FBI made threats comparable to 'stochastic terrorism'

Good lawyers treat Trump like an infectious disease. Trump is a narcissistic mad man. It appears inevitable Trump will be locked up until his trial. 

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"Prosecutors in the office of special counsel Jack Smith had asked to impose a protective order almost immediately after Trump was arraigned last week, specifically referencing a vaguely threatening post from Trump that read: “IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”

The prosecutors did not ask the judge to impose a gag order on Trump to prevent him from discussing the case, but made an inferential argument that there needed to be clear rules on how Trump could publicly use evidence turned over to him in discovery."

"The federal judge presiding over Donald Trump’s 2020 election subversion case on Friday warned inflammatory remarks from the former president would push her to schedule the trial sooner, saying she would take every step to safeguard the integrity of proceedings and to avoid tainting the potential jury pool.

The admonition came as the US district court judge Tanya Chutkan ruled on Trump’s requests to have fewer restrictions in a protective order that will govern what evidence turned over to his lawyers in the discovery process the former president could share publicly.

Broadly speaking, Chutkan ruled that Trump was free to share “non-sensitive materials” as designated by prosecutors, but narrowed the scope so closely that it could ultimately amount to only a pyrrhic victory. Chutkan also ended up rejecting the majority of Trump’s other requests.

The judge repeatedly emphasized that she would not take into account Trump’s presidential campaign, telling Trump’s lead lawyer John Lauro that the former president’s free speech rights were not absolute and that they came second to the fact that he is now a criminal defendant.

“What the effects of my order are on a political campaign are not going to influence my decision. This is a criminal trial,” Chutkan said. “The defendant’s desire to conduct a campaign, to respond to political opponents, has to yield.”

MORE AT:

The Guardian

Inflammatory remarks could speed up 2020 election trial, judge warns Trump

Judge Tanya Chutkan rules ex-president free to share ‘non-sensitive materials’ but rejected majority of his other requests

Hugo Lowell

Fri 11 Aug 2023 15.25 EDT

Judge Chutkan ‘clear’ Trump and his team will be ‘accountable’ if they violate new protective order:

Considering that Trump has a record of firing lawyers who give him good legal advice. Incompetent lawyers might be the best he can get. 

Jack Smith MOCKS Trump Lawyers with Brilliant Motion:

 “Jack Smith is absolutely wiping the floor with Donald Trump’s lawyers.”

For accuracy & truth Trump it should be, “I could” (direct someone) “to stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” Trump is a dangerous mob boss, he must be detained until trial.

It’s unprecedented to allow a defendant to threaten prosecutors, judges, witnesses & jurors. U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan should put Trump in custody for his threats. 

Legal AF Host Karen Friedman Agnifilo reports on a recent Utah raid by the FBI explaining why it all links back to disgraced Former President Trumps' dangerous rhetoric. 

Trump’s THREATS Cause FBI Standoff:

Karen Friedman Agnifilo served as Chief Assistant District Attorney of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. As Chief Assistant DA, Ms. Friedman Agnifilo oversees an office of approximately 500 lawyers, 700 support staff and roughly 80,000 cases per year. In addition to overseeing the work of the office, she is also responsible for overseeing all policy related matters including the Office’s Criminal Justice Investment Initiative, which seeks to transform the Criminal Justice System by investing more than $800 million criminal asset forfeiture funds in projects that improve public safety, prevent crime, and promote a fair and efficient justice system. Ms. Fried- man Agnifilo rejoined the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in 2010 as Executive ADA and Chief of the Trial Division, leaving her position as General Counsel to the New York City Mayor’s Criminal Justice Coordinator. In that capacity, she managed multi-agency criminal justice policy initiatives and projects and helped shape New York City’s criminal justice legislative and policy agendas. Her areas of focus have included human trafficking; internet safety; sexual assault; DNA; domestic violence; mental health; technology projects; juvenile justice; identity theft; and fraud. Ms. Friedman Agnifilo previously served for 14 years as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, including four years as Deputy Chief of the Sex Crimes Unit. She also served in the Homicide Investigation Unit, the Family Violence and Child Abuse Bureau, and the Asian Gang Unit. Ms. Friedman Agnifilo is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and a 1992 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center.

FROM:

The Institute for Innovation in Prosecution at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (IIP) 

Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Attorney, Geragos & Geragos

Frank Figliuzzi: Utah man fatally shot by FBI made threats comparable to 'stochastic terrorism'

"Hours before President Joe Biden traveled to Utah on Wednesday, FBI agents shot and killed a man in his home in Provo as they were serving an arrest warrant. According to FBI documents, the man had threatened to kill the president and other government officials, most of whom he apparently believed to be mistreating former President Donald Trump.

The FBI affidavit in support of the search warrant request describes the alleged conduct and threats it attributes to Craig Deleeuw Robertson, a retired steel and welding inspector. Those threats reportedly include Robertson’s social media posts indicating his desire to also harm the FBI agents investigating him and kill Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who leads the New York “hush money” case against Trump.

No one should be surprised by this development. In fact, I’d be surprised if we don’t see more violent threats against government officials, given the incendiary rhetoric from Trump and his supporters. Robertson’s threats against those officials appear to be an end result of stochastic terrorism, generally defined as the public vilification of a particular group of people that randomly and unpredictably leads to violence against members of that group...

As for his reported threats on Biden, the Utah man allegedly posted, “I HEAR BIDEN IS COMING TO UTAH,” before saying he was preparing his sniper rifle.

Reportedly, Robertson made threatening posts that mentioned U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, New York Attorney General Letitia James (who is overseeing a civil case against the Trump Organization), Vice President Kamala Harris and California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

You need not be clairvoyant to have predicted those reported threats. While Trump and his GOP have a long record of publicly denouncing the FBI and the Department of Justice, those verbal assaults are now even more heated. Since Trump has been indicted in a state court in Manhattan, and by federal grand juries in Florida and Washington, D.C., he has responded with vile and dangerously inciteful rhetoric. In posts on Truth Social, he’s called special counsel Jack Smith “deranged,” referred to former Vice President Mike Pence — a potential witness against Trump in the latest federal indictment — as “delusional” and claimed he could never get a fair trial from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was randomly assigned to that case.

If it seems to you that you’ve seen this kind of thing before, you’re right. Trump used similar provocative and accusatory language after he lost the 2020 election. Then, on Jan. 6, 2021, many of his supporters violently attacked police officers, breached security and tried to stop certification of the Electoral College vote.

I supplied information about local Coatesville characters to a USA prosecutor & local Chester County prosecutors. Watching & on rare occasions testifying in court I’ve developed a respect for prosecutors & our justice system. With the assistance of Republicans Trump is attempting to destroy our justice systems. In doing so Trump is attempting to destroy our democracy. We must stop him. 

ALSO SEE:

 The hand wringing political machinations over convicting lifetime criminal Donald J. Trump’s one man crime spree is infuriating. 

Trump is a common criminal who happened to chose the Republican Party in his quest to be the biggest criminal of all time. He chose the Republican Party as his criminal yacht because the Democratic Party would not accept him. 

FROM:

Friday, August 4, 2023

The United States of America vs Donald J Trump is is no more political than The United States vs John Gotti. The Republican Party put politics into it.

 

 

Florida schools drop AP Psychology. Next physics will be illegal & not be taught in Florida as physics violates the Bible. The sun revolves around a flat earth. Gov. DeSantis may proclaim that Cape Canaveral Space Force Station must move from Florida.

"Copernican heliocentrism (Earth rotating daily and revolving around the Sun)... The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was foolish, absurd, and heretical since it contradicted Holy Scripture."

^FROM:

Wikipedia

Galileo Galilei

 “In a statement, the Brevard County Schools said they were in a no-win situation, because the College Board made clear that any course that removed the objectionable material would not be certified as AP.

“In essence, if we don’t teach all of the content, our students will not receive AP credit. If we do teach all of the content, our instructors will violate the law. Therefore, we will not offer AP Psychology at any of our high schools this year,” the district said.

The popular class has been taught by Florida high schools for 30 years, with thousands of students in 562 schools set to take part this fall.

Fla. rejects AP Black history class, saying it ‘lacks educational value’

The conflict stems from Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, dubbed by opponents as the “don’t say gay” bill, which outlaws classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. In April, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Education Department expanded the prohibition to include all grades. Teachers who violate the ban could see their teaching licenses suspended or revoked.”

MORE AT;

The Washington Post

Florida schools drop AP Psychology after state says it violates the law

Laura Meckler

August 9, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

Hyundai & Kia cars are being stolen by young people in Coatesville. “TikTok videos showing how to steal cars without push-button ignitions and immobilizing anti-theft devices has led to at least 14 reported crashes and eight fatalities..."

Teens stealing vehicles can sometimes end in death.

 “Hyundai Motor and Kia Corp. agreed to a consumer class-action lawsuit settlement worth $200 million over rampant car thefts of the Korean automakers’ vehicles, lawyers for the owners and the automakers said on Thursday.

In February, the Korean automakers said they would offer software upgrades to 8.3 million U.S. vehicles without anti-theft immobilizers to help curb increasing car thefts using a method popularized on TikTok and other social media channels.

The settlement covers about 9 million U.S. owners and includes up to $145 million for out-of-pocket losses for consumers who had cars stolen, lawyers for the owners said.

Hyundai and Kia said they will compensate owners “who incurred theft-related vehicle losses or damage in addition to reimbursement for insurance deductibles, increased insurance premiums, and other theft related losses...

TikTok videos showing how to steal cars without push-button ignitions and immobilizing anti-theft devices has led to at least 14 reported crashes and eight fatalities in the United States, regulators said in February."

Hyundai, Kia agree to $200 million settlement with customers over car thefts

The settlement covers about 9 million U.S. owners and includes up to $145 million for out-of-pocket losses for consumers who had cars stolen.

May 19, 2023, 11:13 AM EDT

By Reuters

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Coatesville Dems Blog

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Our community has been tested by violence. We responded with grace

Three Days of Violence: Baton Rouge, St. Paul, and Dallas

At Monday's Coatesville City Council meeting a man asked if Coatesville has a contingency plan if something happens in Coatesville.

Do you remember this:

Kid, 13, Dies in Crash After Police Pursuit Over Stolen SUV 

THURSDAY MAY 6, 2010 

Police began following the truck after seeing its headlights were off 

 13-year-old Rasheem Butcher was killed after the stolen SUV he was driving rolled over, pinning him late Wednesday, police say. 

 By Vince Lattanzio

There was a near riot in Coatesville. More than 50 police officers, including PA State Troopers came to Coatesville, PA. 

It didn’t help that Fox News put a frantic women on TV video who claimed the police deliberately overturned the SUV on Rasheem Butcher. 

Friday, May 7, 2010

Ten minutes

That's how long it took for several of Coatesville's community leaders to get to the crash scene on Wednesday night. They stayed past midnight. Cool heads prevailed.

Thanks 

Posted by James Pitcherella at 7:25 PM 

I recorded this at the Community Information Meeting on Saturday May 8, 2010 at the Second Baptist Church in Coatesville. The occasion was an open discussion between the City of Coatesville community, law enforcement officers, community leaders and church leaders concerning the accidental death of a 13 year old Coatesville youth driving a stolen vehicle and pursued by Coatesville Police the previous Wednesday.

It contains his speech on made at the dedication ceremony of Zachariah Walker Memorial in 2006 on prejudice. 

Tuesday, July 10, 2012 

Joseph Carroll-"I firmly believe that men of good will speak every language, belong to all races and worship all Gods. We need to replace fear of one another with trust. Hate with understanding. And I believe that the need that precedes that understanding is planted in our souls."

Pastor, Harris, “Well, I’ll answer, I’ll try to answer. I’ll try to answer your question. There are some of us who are out on the streets. There are some of us who are involved in the community. There are some of us who are really concerned about the welfare of our community and our children.

One of the things that I do find out is that I have to throw some things back on you. You ask to us where we are. Where were you? You send your children to us for maybe two, three hours a day. We only have the time to mentor them while we are in the confines of this district. We try to teach them morally. We try to reach them spiritually. We even teach them on a level of being brothers and sisters. 

We know we can’t reach everybody. But the ones that we can reach we do. Some of us are in the trenches trying to save our children, your children. And when they hurt we hurt. Some of you don’t know that up on Coates Street; I have many children that come to me for community service. And I teach every last one of them, whether they’re black children or white children. I tell them it takes 10 seconds to make a better choice. But I can’t be mom and dad to them 24 hours a day. That’s not my job. That’s our job. That’s your job. They’re your children too. So we can’t start blaming the church for everything that goes on in the community.

A jeep was stolen. Two teens were in it. It became airborne after hitting a  bump on the East End Bridge in Coatesville. It went over the guardrail and into the ditch below. I can't find that one. 

Her paw was bitten. Our cat stopped sitting on our neighbors squirrel house. She did crossword puzzles for The New York Times. Her husband was a Times correspondent stationed in Singapore during WWII. We read The Sunday Times on the Morris Arboretum lawn

Betsy with cat at our home on Durand St.
In Mt. Airy, Philadelphia PA 

We would get the Sunday New York Times. If conditions were good we would read it on the lawn of UP's Morris Arboretum in Chestnut Hill. Halfway around the world the Vietnam War raged. 

Our neighbors didn't like the Vietnam War. 

Our cat sat on top of a squirrel house our neighbors across Durand St. built. Said cat had her paw bitten and stopped sitting on the squirrel house. 

She did crossword puzzles for The New York Times. Her husband was a New York Times correspondent stationed in Singapore during & after World War II. 

Our neighbors were more accepting of a different cat named Peaches. When the former New York Times correspondent & New York Times puzzle maker walked their dog. Peaches walked beside her dog friend. 

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Roger Cohen is the Paris bureau chief. He has worked for The Times for 33 years and has served as a foreign correspondent, foreign editor and an Opinion columnist. In 2023, he won a Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award as part of Times teams covering the war in Ukraine. 

A few lines from Roger Cohen's article. I suggest reading his article:

"Along the way, I encountered fear and fervid bellicosity, as well as stubborn patience to see out a long war. I found that Homo sovieticus, far from dying out, has lived on in modified form, along with habits of subservience. So with the aid of relentless propaganda on state television, the old Putin playbook — money, mythmaking and menace of murder — has just about held."

 

"He has always used war — in Chechnya, in Georgia and in Ukraine — to unite Russians in the simplistic myths of nationalism and to usher them to the simplistic conclusion that his increasingly repressive rule is so essential that it must be eternal.”

"For all of Mr. Putin’s efforts to vilify the West, it still lives in the Russian imagination as a chimera of cool.”

“Our values are different,” Mr. Tolstoy said. “For Russians, freedom and economic factors are secondary to the integrity of our state and the safeguarding of the Russian world.”

"Repression has become fierce and the war Mr. Putin started in Ukraine has been waged with near total unconcern for the consequences of his decision, a human trait that John le Carré once described as “a primary qualification for psychopathy.”

Putinism is a postmodern compilation of contradictions. It combines mawkish Soviet nostalgia with Mafia capitalism, devotion to the Orthodox Church with the spread of broken families, ferocious attacks on a “unipolar” American world with revived Russian imperialist aggression — all held together by the ruthless suppression of dissident voices and recourse to violence when necessary.”

"Nobody, he argues, knows what the country really thinks. All that is known is that the older generation believes in Mr. Putin with a religious passion."

"As for the young, up to one million of the best and the brightest have left since the war began. These young Russians, Mr. Muratov tells me, did not want to kill or be killed. They did not think that glory was attained through bloodshed. If anything, they believe glory lies in art and intellect. To replace them will take a generation or more, he believes."

"On my last day in Moscow, I went to the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge beneath the Kremlin. A small shrine marks the spot where Boris Y. Nemtsov, a towering opposition figure, was gunned down on Feb. 27, 2015 — a flagrant political murder.

Somebody is always present at the shrine, watching over it, making sure there is a fresh bouquet of flowers. On this day, the task fell to Arkady Konikov, who told me: “Nemtsov was an honest politician, a very unusual thing. He was a brave man, a great man.”

The year before Mr. Nemtsov died, almost a decade ago, as the Russian-instigated fighting in the Donbas region of Ukraine began, he wrote on his Facebook page: “Putin has declared war on Ukraine. This is a fratricidal war. Russia and Ukraine will pay a high price for the bloody insanity of this mentally unstable secret-police agent. Young men will die on both sides. There will be inconsolable mothers and sisters.”

"More recently, just before Mr. Gorbachev’s death on Aug. 30, 2022, Mr. Muratov, the Novaya editor, visited his friend as he lay in a Moscow hospital. The condition of the Soviet leader who decided to set Russians free, and whose funeral Mr. Putin would not attend, was grave. He could not understand much.

There was a big TV in his room. On it, playing over and over, were images of bombings and explosions in Ukraine. As Mr. Muratov left the room, he heard Mr. Gorbachev say: “Who could be happy because of this?”

MORE AT:

The New York Times

Putin’s Forever War

Aug. 6, 2023

Vladimir Putin wants to lead Russians into a civilizational conflict with the West far larger than Ukraine. Will they follow him?

By Roger Cohen