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OLAADEGBU:
Political Prisoners
Tom Stiglich March 19, 2023

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They loved him before he became president. Now they’re (reportedly) going to arrest him to keep him from running again. That’s what the power elite does. They put their most influential opponents behind bars.

Ajehkpako4naija:
Baseless indictment

Gentew:
He's not below the law either.....

pafo:
Guess the rest of them Dems are saints right?

Bonapart:
this one sef no follow get sense. Mumu

Beverlyjean:
They are all crooks...y sud they single home out ...most of u don't really use ur sense to post

Timetravel88:
Shut up you miserable CNN absorbent

Andrewblog:
Democrats finally have their way

A grand jury in Manhattan voted Thursday to indict Donald Trump — the first time a former U.S. president has faced criminal charges. The indictment comes in a case centered on a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the closing days of the 2016 presidential campaign. Daniels claimed she slept with the married Trump in 2006, a claim the former president has denied. Trump had classified his reimbursement of the payout as a legal expense.

Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina told NBC News that the former president, who lives in Florida, is expected to surrender to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office early next week. A spokesperson for the DA's office said, “This evening we contacted Mr. Trump’s attorney to coordinate his surrender to the Manhattan D.A.’s Office for arraignment on a [New York] Supreme Court indictment, which remains under seal. Guidance will be provided when the arraignment date is selected.”

The exact charge or charges against Trump is unknown because indictments are typically filed in court under seal after a grand jury’s vote in New York. The Manhattan district attorney was known to be focusing on a felony charge of falsifying business records. That charge carries a maximum prison sentence of four years. Trump blasted the news in a statement Thursday evening.

"This is Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history," Trump said in a statement. "The Democrats have lied, cheated and stolen in their obsession with trying to ‘Get Trump,’ but now they’ve done the unthinkable — indicting a completely innocent person in an act of blatant Election Interference." Trump's attorneys confirmed the indictment in a separate statement.

"President Trump has been indicted. He did not commit any crime. We will vigorously fight this political prosecution in Court," Tacopina and Susan Necheles said in a joint statement. Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing related to the probe and called the investigation by Democratic Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s office a continuation of the partisan “witch hunt” against him. He’s also accused Bragg, who’s Black, of being a “racist.”

Earlier this month, Trump said he’d be arrested on March 21 and issued a call on his social media website Truth Social for his supporters to “PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST!!!” In recent days, Trump has ratcheted up his rhetoric, warning last week of “potential death & destruction” if he gets indicted. Trump has said he has no plans to drop out of the 2024 presidential race even if he gets indicted. “Absolutely not,” he told reporters at an event earlier this month.

The indictment comes after a yearslong investigation by the D.A.’s office, which previously charged two companies that are part of the Trump Organization with a 15-year tax fraud scheme. The companies were found guilty last year and ordered to pay more than $1.6 million in penalties and fines. A key witness in the current case is Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer.

Cohen pleaded guilty in federal court in 2018 to making the illegal payment to Daniels for the “principal purpose of influencing” the 2016 presidential election and said he did so at Trump’s direction. He was sentenced to three years in prison for that and other crimes. Trump has acknowledged that he repaid Cohen the $130,000 but maintained the payment was legal. Trump tweeted in 2018 that the money was “not from the campaign” and that the deal had been “a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA.”

“The agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair ... despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair,” Trump said on Twitter at the time. Court filings from federal prosecutors in Cohen’s case show he was paid back the money through payments that were coordinated through the Trump Organization.
“The Company accounted for these payments as legal expenses,” the filing said, even though “there was no such retainer agreement, and the monthly invoices Cohen submitted were not in connection with any legal services he had provided in 2017.”

Trump was never charged in the probe headed by the Justice Department he oversaw at the time, but in court filings from Cohen’s case, investigators said they believed he was closely involved with payment. They noted the money was paid as Trump was dealing with the fallout from leaked audio from the show “Access Hollywood,” in which Trump said he liked to kiss and grope “beautiful women.” “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything,” he was recorded as saying.

The FBI court filing said that “in the days following the Access Hollywood video, Cohen exchanged a series of calls, text messages and emails with Keith Davidson, who was then (Daniels’) attorney, David Pecker and Dylan Howard of American Media Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer, Trump, and Hope Hicks, who was then press secretary for Trump’s presidential campaign,” the filing said. Trump and Cohen also spoke the day he wired the money to Daniels’ attorney, and the day the deal was finalized, the FBI filing said.

AMI later cooperated with the federal investigation into Cohen, and acknowledged paying another woman, Playboy model Karen McDougal, $150,000 to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Trump in order to help his campaign. The U.S. Attorney’s office said the publisher admitted making the payment “in concert with a candidate’s presidential campaign.” Tacopina, one of Trump’s attorneys, told MSNBC’s Ari Melber this month that the records weren’t falsified, because the money went to Trump’s then-lawyer Cohen and therefore was a legal expense. “It’s not a crime,” Tacopina said.

Cohen met repeatedly with prosecutors after the grand jury began hearing evidence in the case in January, and Hicks was seen leaving a meeting with prosecutors this month. Pecker testified before the grand jury on Monday and is believed to be the last witness the panel heard from before its vote to indict Trump. Prosecutors had offered Trump a chance to voluntarily testify before the grand jury this month — a sign the investigation was in its final stages — but Trump declined the offer. “We are not convinced they will bring a case, but if so we will deal with it,” Tacopina said when Trump was weighing how to proceed.

State prosecutors in Manhattan had for years eyed the falsified business records as part of a larger investigation into Trump, with one former member of the team telling MSNBC earlier this year there were concerns internally about the strength of the “zombie” case. “You need the intent to commit or conceal another crime to raise the offense of a falsified business record to a felony from a misdemeanor,” the former prosecutor, Mark Pomerantz, told Rachel Maddow last month.

“When we first looked at it, we saw, gee, there’s a real risk here, a legal risk that if we bring felony charges, they’ll be reduced to misdemeanors and we’re investigating a whole slew, as you mentioned, of other felony charges. So the first time in my tenure when this came up, we took the decision (of) let’s table the hush money situation,” Pomerantz said. “We referred to it in the office internally as the zombie case because it arose from the dead, went back into slumber, rose from the dead, and this happened a number of times,” he added.

Trump is also the subject of at least three other criminal probes. In Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis is investigating whether he and his allies coordinated attempts to alter the outcome of the election in the state. Special counsel Jack Smith, meanwhile, is overseeing dual probes into Trump’s actions around the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, and his failure to comply with a Justice Department subpoena demanding the return of government documents and possible mishandling of those documents. Trump has denied wrongdoing in all three probes and maintains he’s being unfairly persecuted.

Penguin2:
https://twitter.com/realFFK/status/1641372009488699393?t=7HdWTY14lF7hDTgbTvhj-g&s=19

Femi Fani Kayode has stated that nobody will break the new found trust between the north and the Southwest.

He goes to infer that the APC/Tinubu is trying to build a new Nigeria of North and Southwest.

The implication is that the Southeast and the Southsouth have no place in Tinubu’s government.

So, if you are from the Southeast or Southsouth and you are supporting Tinubu, it’s time to ask yourself some existential questions.

Hopefully this will get to Wike and co.

201ibikeye:
This looks like Simon Ekpa he was already threatening to enforce Sit at Home in LagosThis looks like Simon Ekpa he was already threatening to enforce Sit at Home in Lagos...

Proudlyomonna:
Them no born Epka well to enter Owerri
We will cure His madness

History555:
Tell ekpa to com to onitsha market first, we want to check something

ozalogbo:
I am the first child of my mother, and I have two younger male siblings. I am doing well financially. My wife is the last of four children in her family. My dad died when I was still in the university, and this affected my mum.

However, as she aged, her health waned. She was a retired teacher. My brothers are not in the country. Both of them are in Europe. I wanted to have my mother stay with me in her later years because of her health and loneliness but my wife did not want it.

Whenever she was ill and I brought her home to be with us, my wife was usually hostile, especially if my mum had stayed beyond a week. She did not hid her disapproval, and this caused problems in the marriage. People advised that I should send my mum away and pay someone to live with her and take care of her. They said that marriage was between a man and his wife, not between a man, his wife, and his mother. I did and peace returned. Eventually my mum passed on after a few years.

Along the line, my father in law also died. And down the line, my mother in law's health began to deteriorate. We live in the same town. Among my wife's siblings she is the only one doing quite well. Now there are suggestions that the mother should come and live with us so that my wife can give her proper care. I believe that her living with us and seeing her grandchildren will help her. And indeed i have no problem accepting her, but when i remember the treatment my wife gave to my mum, there is a strong revulsion, in fact, anger in me. I shared with a friend, and he advised i forgive my wife, but the revulsion is so strong that i would feel cheated if i agreed.

What do you guys think. She reminded me then that marriage was between a man and his wife only. Shouldn't this also apply to my wife now?

saintrow1:
Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool scumbag is pained looooooool.
Looooooool recharge card loool I don't live in Nigeria, I use monthly subscription lol. The only thing you are going to waste is your useless unfortunate life, you are just pained and desperate.
Tinubu is the God of the ibos, the man that allowed you to be humans, the man that fed you like pigeons, without tinubu majority of your people won't be able to afford daily meal. The US government have so many times denounced the drug issue but because of hate, jealousy and envy you people keep talking about it to make him look bad but you keep failing as usually. When you wish someone bad things, bad things will always come your way. That is why you yeebows are seeing hell, you have no future , no tomorrow, no direction, hopeless barbarians. if they chase all of you out of yorubaland today, you will all perish. Continue moving around Nigeria like Fulani cows eating grass lol. NDLEA keep catching you people everyday. Your people are on death row across the world. Shame shame, soul losers, poor piss of shit.
When its not that you people are farm animals, how can 15 ibos be living in 1 room face me I face you, ewwwwww. Breathing on each other, farting on each others face, snoring like pigs. You people are disease, you people invented ebola, cholera, covid, monkey box, diphtheria, dysentery, bubonic plague, tuberculosis, typhoid ,typhus, HIV, cancer etc. Your people are living in lagos like street local dogs with rabies eating shit.

zinaunreal:
Better than a senseless maggot that speaks English yet he dropped out of Tinubus nose

saintrow1:
Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool scumbag is pained looooooool.
Looooooool recharge card loool I don't live in Nigeria, I use monthly subscription lol. The only thing you are going to waste is your useless unfortunate life, you are just pained and desperate.
Tinubu is the God of the ibos, the man that allowed you to be humans, the man that fed you like pigeons, without tinubu majority of your people won't be able to afford daily meal. The US government have so many times denounced the drug issue but because of hate, jealousy and envy you people keep talking about it to make him look bad but you keep failing as usually. When you wish someone bad things, bad things will always come your way. That is why you yeebows are seeing hell, you have no future , no tomorrow, no direction, hopeless barbarians. if they chase all of you out of yorubaland today, you will all perish. Continue moving around Nigeria like Fulani cows eating grass lol. NDLEA keep catching you people everyday. Your people are on death row across the world. Shame shame, soul losers, poor piss of shit.
When its not that you people are farm animals, how can 15 ibos be living in 1 room face me I face you, ewwwwww. Breathing on each other, farting on each others face, snoring like pigs. You people are disease, you people invented ebola, cholera, covid, monkey box, diphtheria, dysentery, bubonic plague, tuberculosis, typhoid ,typhus, HIV, cancer etc. Your people are living in lagos like street local dogs with rabies eating shit.

saintrow1:
Crumbs eating ibos, that is your destiny, we have enough for ourselves, we even have surplus. we don't move around like cattles to eat grass across nigeria like you yeebow people do. No matter how much you trash talk lagos, your people will sell their organs just to raise transport money to make it to lagos. Shame on you rats, you all couldnt even go home for xmas. Yorubaland is your heaven on earth. Don't you people have shame, shame no they worry you people. Imagine your useless people couldnt even bury their own people back home, your dead people are used as fertilizer in S.W to grow agbado and cassava. 15 yeebows are living in one bedroom face me I face you in lagos, shitting and farting all over each other ewwwwww. Dirty pigs, smelling rats, all your people are the ones occupying those slums across lagos. Una no get money to pay for rent, the few ones that can afford a house are into crimes. Products of Evans the kidnapper, drug barons, oloshos, organ harvesters and trafficers, armed robbers, baby factory operators. Lagos state governments need to chase you bigs out before you turn the whole lagos to a slum. We don't use to have slum in lagos until after the civil war when you pigs started trooping into lagos. Bloody ingrates and FOOLs