The Tweets:
Caused to be tweeted from… Ah, legalese…
I guess the wording would cover him having an intern do the actual tweeting so he can’t claim it wasn’t him actually typing.
Yes, that is the only reason I can think of for this curious wording. Amusing (if it weren’t also so terrible).
I hope the verb “tweeted” dies soon. It sounds so childlike. “Posted” is a perfectly good word to describe publishing a message online.
And the service isn’t even called Twitter anymore. I don’t want to live in a future where news anchors start saying a celebrity “X’ed” in response to this or that.
I kinda just hope we all decide one day that the past tense of “tweet” is “twat”. Doubly so now that it would mean that legal documents about the most important political issue of my lifetime would now have to include the phrase “…DONALD JOHN TRUMP caused to be twat…”
If they’re tweets now then they would be Xeets, pronounced shits.
I prefer x-creeting and reading x-creetions or x-creement.
His fingers should be sentenced to prison!
Legalese like this is really important in terms of being precise. Say Trump tweeted it, and they can prove he didn’t (he got an assistant to do it) and that evidence may get thrown out
No rephrasing allowed, huh…
Nope, no rephrasing. That’s literally what the double jeopardy rule is about. The government gets a monopoly on violence, and we expect them to use that monopoly only within certain limits. Without those limits you get authoritarian dictatorships and really scary stuff such as found in the Catholic/Protestant wars in England’s history.
An example of how rephrasing is not allowed:
A number of years back, there was some outrage over a case where a rapist got off “on a technicality” that was headlined in various places as “the judge ruled it wasn’t rape because the severely mentally disabled victim could have objected”. The real issue was that the prosecutor decided, as a strategy to get more jail time for the guy, that they would charge him under a law against raping an unconscious person, but the truth was that the victim was not unconscious. The government is only allowed one shot at trying you for a crime though. If the prosecutor applies the wrong law, they don’t get a do over. The guy absolutely was a disgusting rapist, but he didn’t rape an unconscious person in this instance, and so he gets off scot free.
It’s vitally important that a prosecutor applies exactly the right words, because they are only allowed one shot. If a not-guilty verdict comes back for any reason, including for technicalities, that’s it. Not guilty (for that crime) forever.
Interesting, thanks for elucidating! But what is double jeopardy?
Google is your friend.
if you are found not guilty you can’t be tried for that crime again.
Trump thought that being President, and by extension the head of the party, meant that he could run the party like one of his companies. He didn’t realize that politicians wouldn’t just do whatever he told them to. Particularly high-ranking State officials, who won their elections without Trump on the ballot and owe him nothing.
To be fair, at that point I was also surprised that Republican officials opposed him.
Most of them are about the governor or the lt. governor. I don’t know that he’s going to get an assist from Kemp in this trial.
Even if Kemp wanted to, there’s not much he can do. Pardons work differently in Georgia. Criminals who want a pardon have to apply for one five years after completing their sentence, during which time they have to lead a crime-free life, before they can even begin the process. And governors don’t have the power to pardon, there’s a specific panel for it. In other words, if Trump is sentenced to prison, he is going to prison and staying in prison. Period. The end.
And this indictment looks as rock-solid as the previous ones. He’s fucked.
Since it’s a state matter can he just stay out of Georgia? If state authorities descend on him outside of Georgia, what’s the procedure when they encounter the federal secret service?
There’s these things called warrants and a process called extradition. As for the secret service, they won’t interfere except to make sure that he isn’t sent to general population which probably wouldn’t be a problem as he would presumably be given bail. Assuming he’s convicted it’s not entirely clear what will happen because, well, it’s never happened before. Theoretically he’d be treated just like any other famous inmate.
I don’t think that’s ever been tested, but it’s likely the Secret Service and state authorities would coordinate on his arrest. Trump doesn’t get to use the Secret Service as a shield against the justice system.
Considering Kemp refused to be party with the conspiracy, I’d tend to agree.
For reference, RSBNetwork is the same outlet that had the “reporter” agree with an interviewee calling to “kill them all” for “globalists”, “leftists”, etc. So. Not much of a surprise that they’re involved.
