Anonymous ID: 766297 Jan. 3, 2025, 1:44 p.m. No.22286999   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7017 >>7033 >>7153 >>7303 >>7362 >>7435 >>7441 >>7593 >>7607 >>7661

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Things got really weird between Cheney and Biden during sham ‘award’ ceremony…

January 3, 2025 (2 hours ago)

In a feeble and laughable attempt to paint Liz Cheney as some kind of hero, Joe Biden ran cover by handing her a phony award—the second-highest civilian honor in the nation—for her (criminal) work on the sham J6 Committee.

Let’s not forget, this is a woman who should be in prison for the lies and shady dealings she unleashed in her obsessive effort to destroy President Trump. But in today’s upside-down America, we don’t lock up the bad guys—we hand them awards. And,of course, this phony honor comes right on the heels of Cheney being referred for a criminal investigation for witness tampering.Perfect timing, right?

But it’s no surprise, really. After all, this is what the left does: they legitimize frauds and protect crooks with smoke and mirrors. They use the same playbook for their radical Marxist groups, giving them catchy, untouchable names like “Black Lives Matter” or “Antifascist” to create an illusion of credibility. Then, they gaslight anyone who disagrees: “Oh, you don’t support BLACK LIVES MATTER? You must be racist.” It’s a marketing scam, and they’re masters of it. Now, any time someone calls Cheney out as a weaponized fraud, the left will point to this award as if it’s some kind of shield.

Punch:

United States President Joe Biden on Thursday awarded a former Republican congresswoman, Liz Cheney, with a citizens service medal.

Cheney, who’s a fierce critic of President-elect Donald Trump, bagged the award after the incoming president warned she “could be in a lot of trouble” once he takes office.

The ex-lawmaker from Wyoming, along with 19 other prominent figures, was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal “for putting the American people over party,” an announcer said during a White House ceremony before Biden handed her the award.

Other recipients of the medal— the second-highest civilian award granted by the US Government — included former US senator Chris Dodd, ex-congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy and current lawmaker Bennie Thompson, who chaired the House committee that investigated Trump’s role in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

However, the ceremony didn’t go well—actually,it was downright bizarre. The whole thing felt completely staged and awkward. At one point, you can see Joe Biden clutching Cheney’s hand, awkwardly jerking it toward him as she tries to pull away, eventually rolling her eyes.

 

Tim Young: Watch the bizarre interaction between Biden and Liz Cheney today… He jerks her hand back a few times and she rolls her eyes at one point… Also he looks like he freezes when he’s handing her the bs award… and just holds on to it for too long. He is not well.

 

This was a perfectly strange ceremony for a perfectly creepy and totally fake situation.We were waiting for Joe to sniff her, to be honest. That would’ve been the icing on the cake, right?

 

Liz Cheney can run, and she can hide behind phony awards, but she won’t escape accountability for doing the Deep State’s dirty work and orchestrating a massive, costly fraud on the American people.

She lied, and she tampered with a witness.

 

Tim Young

@TimRunsHisMouth

Watch the bizarre interaction between Biden and Liz Cheney today…

He jerks her hand back a few times and she rolls her eyes at one point…

Also he looks like he freezes when he’s handing her the bs award… and just holds on to it for too long. He is not well.

 

JAN. 2, 2035 https://x.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1875041212551315472

 

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Anonymous ID: 766297 Jan. 3, 2025, 1:53 p.m. No.22287055   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7141 >>7153 >>7154 >>7303 >>7441 >>7593 >>7661

Judge sets Trump's sentencing in hush money case for Jan. 10, but signals no jail timeMICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Fri 3 January 2025

 

NEW YORK (AP) — In an extraordinary turn, a judge Friday set President-elect Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush money case for Jan. 10 — little over a week before he's due to return to the White House — but indicated he wouldn't be jailed.

The development nevertheless leaves Trump on course to be the first president to take office convicted of felony crimes.

Judge Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial, signaled in a written decision that he'd sentence the former and future president to what's known as a conditional discharge, in which a case is closed without jail time, a fine or probation.

Merchan rejected Trump’s push to dismiss the verdict and throw out the case on presidential immunity grounds and because of his impending return to the White House. The judge said he found “no legal impediment to sentencing” Trump and that it was “incumbent” on him to sentence Trump prior to his swearing in on Jan. 20.

 

“Only by bringing finality to this matter” will the interests of justice be served, Merchan wrote.

 

Trump was convicted in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records. They involved an alleged scheme to hide a hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels in the last weeks of Trump’s first campaign in 2016. The payout was made to keep her from publicizing claims she’d had sex with the married Trump years earlier. He says that her story is false and that he did nothing wrong.

 

After Trump’s Nov. 5 election, Merchan halted proceedings and indefinitely postponed the sentencing so the defense and prosecution could weigh in on the future of the case. Trump’s lawyers urged Merchan to toss it. They said it would otherwise pose unconstitutional “disruptions” to the incoming president’s ability to run the country.

 

Prosecutors acknowledged there should be some accommodation for his upcoming presidency, but they insisted the conviction should stand.They suggested various options, such as freezing the case during his term or guaranteeing him a no-jail sentence. They also proposed closing the case while formally noting both his conviction and his undecided appeal — a novel idea drawn from what some state courts do when criminal defendants die while appealing their cases.

 

Merchan ruled that Trump’s current status as president-elect does not afford him the same kind of immunity granted to a sitting presidentand does not require that the verdict be set aside and the case dismissed – a notion the judge described as “drastic” and “rare.”

 

Doing that “would undermine the Rule of Law in immeasurable ways," Merchan wrote. He opined that it wouldn't address the Supreme Court's concerns about presidential immunity, either.

 

Trump takes office Jan. 20 as the first former president to be convicted of a crime and the first convicted criminal to be elected to the office.

 

His conviction left the 78-year-old facing the possibility of punishment ranging from a fine or probation to up to four years in prison. The case centered on how Trump accounted for reimbursing his personal attorney for the Daniels payment.

The lawyer, Michael Cohen, fronted the money. He later recouped it through a series of payments that Trump’s company logged as legal expenses. Trump, by then in the White House, signed most of the checks himself.

 

Prosecutors said the designation was meant to cloak the true purpose of the payments and help cover up a broader effort to keep voters from hearing unflattering claims about the Republican during his first campaign. Trump said that Cohen was legitimately paid for legal services, and that Daniels’ story was suppressed to avoid embarrassing Trump’s family, not to influence the electorate.

 

Trump was a private citizen — campaigning for president, but neither elected nor sworn in — when Cohen paid Daniels in October 2016. He was president when Cohen was reimbursed, and Cohen testified that they discussed the repayment arrangement in the Oval Office. Trump, a Republican, has decried the verdict as the “rigged, disgraceful” result of a “witch hunt” pursued by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat.

 

Before Trump’s November election, his lawyers sought to reverse his conviction for a different reason: a U.S. Supreme Court decision in July that gave presidents broad immunity from criminal prosecution. That request was still pending when the election raised new issues. While urging Merchan to nix the conviction, Trump also sought to move the case to federal court, where he could also assert immunity. A federal judge repeatedly said no, but Trump appealed.

 

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/judge-sets-trumps-sentencing-hush-205708696.html

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