Donald Trump thinks he can do one political photo op - attend the funeral of a slain NYPD police officer - and it will erase the FACT that he sent a mob to the US Capitol on January 6th to "fight like hell" and "stop the steal." His supporters proceeded to attack, beat and assault more than 100 police officers. Trump responded by telling the attackers he "loves them," that the are "very special," and that they should "never forget" that day." Then, he pledged to pardon them for the horrendous as...
Apr 02, 2024•7 min•Ep. 391
It's been a really bad couple of days for two Trump-affiliated lawyers, John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark. After a bar counsel ethics trial, a California judge ruled that John Eastman - one of the architects of the fake elector scheme - should be disbarred, saying that his "actions were carried out with deceit or dishonesty" and his plan to derail Joe Biden's election victory "was unlawful and lacked any factual or legal support." Former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark is contending with his own disbarm...
Apr 01, 2024•11 min•Ep. 390
There can be no reasonable dispute but that the institutions of government - particularly the Department of Justice - apply the rules, the laws, and the Constitution differently to Donald Trump than to the rest of us. And we are forever asking ourselves . "Why is this happening?" Glenn tries to take on that question by drawing from his decades of experience at the Department of Justice. It seems the American people will have to get to the polls and take his power away - thereby recalibrating the...
Mar 29, 2024•14 min•Ep. 389
New York State Judge Juan Merchan imposed a gag order on Donald Trump. This is the 3rd gag order judges have felt compelled to issue to Trump to protect witnesses, jurors, court and prosecutorial staff, and family members. What does this say about the way our criminal justice system deals with a dangerous defendant who in on pretrial release in four felony cases? Glenn says Trump should be detained pending trial to protect everyone involved. If you're interested in supporting our all-volunteer e...
Mar 28, 2024•14 min•Ep. 388
New York State court judge Juan Merchan seems fed up with the incessant attempts by Trump and his legal team to delay his criminal trial for interfering in the 2016 election by making hush money payments and falsifying business records to cover them up. Judge Merchan ruled that Trump's NY prosecution will begin with jury selection on April 15. In another legal development, a New York appeals court inexplicably reduced the amount of the bond Trump must put up to appeal the massive money judgement...
Mar 27, 2024•14 min•Ep. 387
New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg filed a motion seeking a firm trial date to start his criminal prosecution of Donald Trump for falsifying business records to interfere in the 2016 presidential election by covering up hush money payments. The presiding Judge, Juan Merchan, granted the motion. Glenn also takes on the issue of why Judge Merchan denied Trump's motion to try to stop Michael Cohen from testifying in the upcoming trial, and why there's actually a standard jury instruction regard...
Mar 26, 2024•15 min•Ep. 386
Donald Trump's financial world is crumbling, and there is little he can do to stop it. New reporting shows: he may be forced to sell Mar-a-Lago in a "fire sale"; he has a court-appointed monitor watching his every move to make sure he doesn't move, transfer, dispose of or hide any of his assets; and New York Attorney General Letitia James has now filed a lien on Trump's Westchester County mansion Seven Springs. 🎵We all need somebody to lien on 🎶 Thanks Letitia! If you're interested in supporti...
Mar 25, 2024•10 min•Ep. 385
Judge Aileen Cannon owes her lifetime appointment as a federal judge to Donald Trump. Yet, with that obvious appearance of a conflict of interest, she continues to preside over his federal prosecution for unlawfully possessing classified documents, obstructing justice, and violating our nation's espionage laws. Even after an appellate court found she abused her judicial discretion by previously ruling to the benefit of Trump in ways the law did not allow, she continues to issue orders that are r...
Mar 22, 2024•21 min•Ep. 384
In a new court filing, Donald Trump admitted that no surety or insurance company is willing to extend him a bond to cover his half-a-billion-dollar fraud judgment. This means that New York Attorney General Letitia James will begin the process of seizing Trump's properties to satisfy the judgment she won on behalf of the people of New York. Glenn goes through some of the more absurd portions of Trump's new court filing which implores the New York appeals court to allow him more time to put up a b...
Mar 21, 2024•11 min•Ep. 383
Donald Trump is on pretrial release in four felony cases. In the past - he's used inflammatory rhetoric to inspire and incite an attack on the US Capitol on January 6th to try to retain power. Now, Trump has ratcheted up his violent rhetoric, promising a "bloodbath" if he is not reelected. In the criminal justice system, the law provides that if someone on pretrial release poses a danger to even a single person in the community, they should be revoked on release and detained pending trial. Trump...
Mar 20, 2024•8 min•Ep. 382
In what should be viewed as a break glass moment - and the final straw on the recusal front - Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon delivers Trump an absolute gift. Although she denied Trump's motion to dismiss his 32 espionage charges, she denied the motion "without prejudice." This means Trump can raise the motion again during the trial, at a time when - if she decides to dismiss the charges - Special Counsel Jack Smith COULD NOT APPEAL HER DISMISSAL. Judge Cannon is virtually trumpeting her bia...
Mar 19, 2024•21 min•Ep. 381
Donald Trump's favorite judge and benefactor, Aileen Cannon, held an all-day hearing on two of Donald Trump's motions to dismiss his federal prosecution in Florida for unlawfully retaining classified documents, obstructing justice, and violating our nation's espionage laws. Glenn gives us three of his top takeaways from the court hearing. If you're interested in supporting our all-volunteer efforts, you can become a Team Justice patron at: / glennkirschner If you'd like to support us and buy Tea...
Mar 18, 2024•13 min•Ep. 380
Judge Scott McAfee, who's presiding over the Georgia state RICO prosecution, granted a defense motion to dismiss six of the charges in the indictment, including three of the charges against Donald Trump. Judge McAfee ruled there wasn't enough specificity in the indictment regarding the precise nature of the crimes being charged. However, the judge told prosecutors - they can cure the technical defect in the indictment by re-indicting the charges with greater specificity. Glenn reviews the law su...
Mar 15, 2024•12 min•Ep. 379
A longtime Trump employee named Brian Butler has come forward with some of the incriminating information he has regarding the conduct of Trump and his two co-defendants, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira. Butler was identified only as "Trump employee 5" in Trump's federal indictment in Florida for unlawfully concealing classified documents, obstructing justice, and violating our nation's espionage laws. Butler said he hired his own attorney rather than accepting an attorney provided by Donald Tr...
Mar 14, 2024•23 min•Ep. 378
In three new developments: Judge Mehta orders Peter "Green Bay Sweep" Navarro to report to prison on March 19th; Donald Trump posts a $90 million bond for defaming E. Jean Carroll and promptly defames Ms. Carroll again; and Trump looses big time at the Oscars (and he wasn't even nominated). If you're interested in supporting our all-volunteer efforts, you can become a Team Justice patron at: / glennkirschner If you'd like to support us and buy Team Justice and Justice Matters merchandise visit: ...
Mar 13, 2024•12 min•Ep. 377
Donald Trump's first criminal trial is set to begin on March 25th. New York state court Judge Juan Merchan has ruled that the jury will remain anonymous in Trump's 2016 election interference case, involving hush money payments and falsification of business records. According to NBC News, Judge Merchan said he 's ordering the jury to remain anonymous "citing a likelihood of bribery, jury tampering, or of physical injury or harassment of jurors". Glenn says the important thing to remember is the m...
Mar 12, 2024•14 min•Ep. 376
Donald Trump has lost civil trial after civil trial in the US. Now, he's an inter- continental loser as the BBC just reported, "Donald Trump told to pay six-figure cost of firm he sued." This latest Trump loss involves a suit he brought against Christopher Steele's consulting firm for information that became public from the Steele Dossier. But this loss comes with a twist: Trump is the one who filed the suit - a suit that the judge ruled was "bound to fail". As a result, the judge ruled that Tru...
Mar 11, 2024•8 min•Ep. 375
Donald Trump is sending his lawyers from one New York courtroom to another, making them repeatedly ask judges to reduce the amount he must put up to appeal his massive losses in both the E. Jean Carroll case and his NY fraud case. Judge Kaplan and Judge Engoron have both told Trump's lawyers they won't reduce the amount. This is unsurprising, given that Trump recently boasted that he is worth $14 billion. So putting up $83 million in one case and a half-billion in the other should be a financial...
Mar 08, 2024•11 min•Ep. 374
Donald Trump is forever saying he hires only "the best people." Recent developments seem to suggest otherwise. Trump's long-time Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, was previously convicted of participating in a 15-year-long scheme to defraud in connection with his work at the Trump Organization, and he went to prison. Upon his release, he was called as a witness at Trump's New York fraud trial and Weisselberg committed perjury, lying in an attempt to help his boss. Weisselberg has now pl...
Mar 07, 2024•8 min•Ep. 373
The United States Supreme Court has dealt American democracy a gut-punch, ruling that state election authorities CANNOT keep an insurrectionist off the state presidential primary ballot... even after a state trial court and State Supreme Court ruled that a person HAD engaged in insurrection against the U. S. But all is not lost: the Supreme Court said there's a remedy . . . Congress can legislate and come up with a statutory scheme by which insurrectionists CAN be kept out of federal office. Wha...
Mar 06, 2024•19 min•Ep. 372
In a move that again highlights why Judge Aileen Cannon should be recused from presiding over Donald Trump's federal prosecution in Florida, she refused to set a trial date during a hearing on Friday. This is inexplicable given that Jack Smith proposed a trial date of July 8th and Trump's lawyers proposed one for August 12th. This prompted Jack Smith's prosecutor to tell Judge Cannon that the one thing the parties seem to agree on is that there can be a summer trial date - which would at least g...
Mar 05, 2024•9 min•Ep. 371
In a stunning development, the Supreme Court not only decides to take up on appeal Donald Trump's absurd, baseless presidential immunity claim, but they won't even hear oral arguments in the case for nearly two months. And it could take them weeks or months thereafter to decide the case, making it unlikely that Trump's trial for trying to overturn the results of the last presidential election will take place before the next presidential election. So the Supreme Court has made it clear that they ...
Mar 04, 2024•14 min•Ep. 370
Donald Trump is now in the " F around and find out" stage of his long life of fraud. He must put up more than $450 million in either cash or a bond if he wants to stop New York Attorney General Leticia James from beginning to satisfy the money judgment against him by seizing his property. Insultingly, Trump told the court he will only put up a bond in the amount of $100 million because he doesn't want to have to sell his properties to put up the rest of the money he owes. The New York courts are...
Mar 01, 2024•14 min•Ep. 369
Donald Trump is once again turning to Judge Aileen Cannon, hoping that she'll throw him a lifeline. Trump filed a motion to dismiss his obstruction of justice/ espionage/ stolen documents case - claiming that he's the victim of selective prosecution. In other words, Trump alleges that other people who committed the same crimes he committed - haven't been prosecuted, therefore it's unfair to prosecute HIM. Special Counsel Jack Smith has filed his reply to Trump's absurd selective prosecution clai...
Feb 29, 2024•10 min•Ep. 368
It's beginning to feel like the Trump show is in reruns, as gag orders again make an appearance in the Trump trials. Trump may have lost all his civil cases, but his first criminal trial has yet to commence. HIs first prosecution is set to begin in New York on March 25th. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has now filed a motion seeking a gag order in an attempt to protect the witnesses, the jurors, the prosecutors and the court staff from Trump's dangerous and reckless rhetoric, and the th...
Feb 28, 2024•11 min•Ep. 367
We are learning more about how Republican Congressmen Jim Jordan and James Comber came to use Russian lies provided by Alexander Smirnov as the basis for an impeachment inquiry of an American president. It turns out that Bill Barr tasked a Republican, Trump-appointed US Attorney named Scott Brady to vet the truthfulness and accuracy of the claims being made by Smirnov about alleged bribes being paid to the Bidens - information that proved to be Russian disinformation. Now, Rep. Jerry Nadler has ...
Feb 27, 2024•11 min•Ep. 366
Now that we know that Representatives Jim Jordan and James Comer used Russian lies/disinformation to try to impeach President Biden, what should happen to them moving forward? Should they be investigated to determined if they were complicit in a conspiracy with Russia to defraud the United States and interfere in a presidential election? Glenn takes on the implications of the recent arrest of Alexander Smirnov, Jordan and Comer's star witness who admitted telling lies about Hunter and Joe Biden,...
Feb 26, 2024•16 min•Ep. 365
Donald Trump has had three massive money judgments entered against him by judges and juries alike. What happens next? Can he get out of it by stalling with appeals? What will the courts do? Property seizures? Liens? Bankruptcy? Glenn discusses Trump's financial . . . predicament, and how he really has no way out this time. Link to Politico article https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/16/trump-civil-judgments-what-to-know-00142034#:~:text=What%20happens%20if%20he%20resists,could%20begin%20seizin...
Feb 23, 2024•10 min•Ep. 364
New York Judge Juan Merchan has set Donald Trump's first criminal trial for March 25th. That trial is likely to conclude in early May. At the moment, Trump's second criminal trial is set for May 20th. But that case - his federal trial in Florida for unlawfully retaining classified documents, obstructing justice and violating our nation's espionage laws - is being presided over by Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon. Judge Cannon has shown a willingness to cater to Trump, so she may end up cancel...
Feb 22, 2024•12 min•Ep. 363
Many people are asking the question: "Can prosecutors really impanel fair and impartial juries to decide the many criminal cases against Donald Trump?" Glenn discusses the selection of the juries that have just ruled against him. Over the course of three trials; 3 juries (totaling 30 jurors) have unanimously found against Donald Trump and his namesake, the Trump Organization. These results provide some important foreshadowing regarding how future juries are likely to resolve the four criminal ca...
Feb 21, 2024•8 min•Ep. 362
