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kentuck

(114,438 posts)
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 09:48 AM Friday

Trump plans on using the justice system to delay all the evidence.

It is reported that he plans on requesting a judge release all the "pertinent" evidence from the Grand Jury. If he can find the right Judge, then he can get one that refuses his request. That is what he wants. Then he can get the delay that he desperately wants and needs to put this behind him and continue his daily grift of robbing the American people of everything they have ever worked for. Time has always been an ally of Trump. Just wait, we will know in about two weeks...

This is his modus operandi.

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bucolic_frolic

(51,514 posts)
1. Delay, delay, delay, but expedite bills that destroy society to SCOTUS.
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:01 AM
Friday

It's a strategy for sure, and a conspiracy, but there are no authorities to notice.

Bernardo de La Paz

(57,178 posts)
2. Plus: the Grand Jury evidence is limited to a narrow case, doesn't have much on the broader "clients" issue
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:02 AM
Friday

PLUS: Blondi gets to decide what is "relevant" even before asking a judge.

dutch777

(4,628 posts)
4. Delay will only make the conspiratorial thinkers more suspicious. This a court of public opinion matter not real court.
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:06 AM
Friday

I am sort of surprised Trump sees this as a threat. I see why the GOP does, as they looking like they are covering for him damages their already risky position for holding Congress going into the 2026 midterms. But Trump will never face formal charges and even if we Dems take back the House and Senate, while their may be moves on impeachment, the results will be what they were before, nothing.

Ocelot II

(126,088 posts)
5. It doesn't work that way. Grand jury materials are confidential
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:14 AM
Friday

and can't be released on Trump's or Bondi's order - a judge would have to approve it, and no judge is likely to approve a very extraordinary request for the release of a grand jury transcript. And even if a transcript were released it would contain only the evidence the prosecution presented as probable cause for an indictment - not actual proof of any crime, which is what the actual trial is for. It would be meaningless. And what would be delayed if a transcript isn't released? There's no legal action pending right now to delay, and the scandal will continue unabated now that the WSJ came out with the article about the creepy letter. Transcript/no transcript won't make a damn bit of difference.

Ocelot II

(126,088 posts)
7. It won't matter. Nobody cares about a grand jury transcript.
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:31 AM
Friday

The juicy stuff like the WSJ letter is already in the wind. Trump can't placate MAGA just by pretending he's trying to get a grand jury testimony transcript he can't actually ever get. MAGA wants the file, not some piddly transcript.

kentuck

(114,438 posts)
8. "MAGA wants the file..."
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:34 AM
Friday

Not some piddly transcript.

They want Democrats in jail. They don't believe Trump is guilty of anything, in my opinion.

Ocelot II

(126,088 posts)
9. MAGA have been convinced that there are prominent Democrats in the files,
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:51 AM
Friday

especially the Clintons - and Bill is known to have had at least a passing acquaintance with Epstein, as did a lot of other prominent people, because Epstein cultivated that crowd. That's why MAGA so eagerly awaited the files' release. When Bondi did a sudden 180 and told them there's no there there, they freaked out, and now they think she and maybe Trump himself are part of the Deep State. If there are all those evil pedo Democrats in the files why is Trump withholding them? That's what MAGA can't wrap their tiny brains around.

kentuck

(114,438 posts)
10. Yep.
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 11:00 AM
Friday

They still believe it is a "Democrat" scandal. They will not desert Trump until they see the evidence. They have to be shown.

allegorical oracle

(5,387 posts)
11. Agree. He'll sue, will lose, then ride the appeals up to the SCOTUS. He believes
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 11:35 AM
Friday

that court is his safe harbor.

The delays enable him to continue wrecking the nation, reaping revenge, and profiting off the WH.

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