President Trump loses bid to dismiss Mar-a-Lago charges due to postponement of hush money lawsuit: Live

A Florida man charged with obstructing police during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol siege is credited to a “network” of supporters who helped other Capitol riot defendants avoid arrest by the FBI. Prosecutors said in a court filing that they were connected. week.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered Thomas Paul Osborne to be released from a Florida prison while he awaits trial on charges of stealing a police officer’s baton during the mob attack on the Capitol. Before the judge handed down his sentence, Justice Department prosecutors argued that Mr. Osborn was a flight risk after his Feb. 22 arrest.

Prosecutors say Osborne was hiding Christopher Worrell on January 6, who disappeared after being convicted of assaulting police with pepper spray during the Capitol riot last year. . They believe Worrell, a member of the extremist group Proud Boys, lived at Osborn’s home in Lakeland, Fla., for about six weeks while on the run.

Prosecutors also cited Osborne’s relationship with the families of Jonathan and Olivia Pollock. They are a brother and sister from Lakeland who were charged with charges related to the Capitol riot and are considered fugitives. Osborne traveled to Washington, D.C., with the Pollocks and their parents on January 6 to attend then-President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally near the White House.

In January 2024, FBI agents arrested the Pollock family and a third fugitive, Joseph Hutchinson, at a ranch in Groveland, Florida. Jonathan Pollock had been on the run for more than two years. Olivia Pollock and Hutchinson had been on the run for about 10 months after tampering with court-ordered GPS monitoring devices.

Even though the legal strategy in criminal proceedings is to delay everything as long as possible, the former president told Truth Social tonight:

What transpired in the Manhattan prosecutor’s office in collaboration with the people at the Justice Department responsible for “getting Trump” is truly remarkable. They illegally withheld thousands of pages of documents. Then there’s the really shady “Pomerantz” problem, but wow, no one has ever seen a problem like this. This makes Hwan-hee and her “lover” look like little potatoes!!!

Earlier, campaign communications director Stephen Chan said:

President Trump and his lawyers have consistently argued that the lawsuit has no legal or factual basis and should be dismissed. Today, the Manhattan DA’s office agreed to an adjournment after admitting significant discovery violations by the office. We will continue to fight to end this hoax and other Crooked Joe Biden-led witch hunts once and for all.

Here it is ariana bioReport from earlier today:

martha mchardy has the following story:

Gustav Kilander I will explain:

The former president appeared with his lawyers in federal court in Florida to hear two motions to dismiss the case, arguing that the charges against him based on his age for espionage were unconstitutional and “vague,” and that the Presidential Records Act would limit him. It claimed to be protecting them from prosecution.

U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon, who has repeatedly questioned the core of Trump’s claims, did not immediately issue a ruling after Thursday’s hearing in Fort Pierce.

The resolution of the defense’s questions is based on the “issues and disputes that the definitions of the statutory terms/phrases charged remain in flux, as well as at least some of the disputed factual issues raised in the complaint. “Much depends on the guiding questions asked,” she wrote.

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Judge Eileen Cannon promised a speedy ruling on Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss the federal secrets lawsuit filed against him by Special Counsel Jack Smith, but held no hearing. The first complaint was dismissed just over an hour after the meeting ended.

The judge rejected claims of “unconstitutional vagueness” surrounding the law underlying the charges against the former president.

Trump’s complaint concerns statutory language such as “unauthorized possession,” “related to national defense,” and “entitled to receive,” which, when applied based on the facts presented, are vague and unconstitutional. It says it violates rules of due process and leniency.

“While this motion raises various arguments that warrant serious consideration, the court, after lengthy oral argument, concluded that the resolution of the overall issue posed is that the statutory term/phrase being accused is The court ultimately determined that much depended on the contested guidance question about the still-fluctuating definition of at least some of the disputed factual issues raised in the motion. Would it be premature to determine whether the application of 18 U.S.C. 793(e) in this situation, despite the purported judicial language, would result in irretrievable ambiguity? elect to dismiss the motion without prejudice and to properly raise it in relation to the jury – instructions and/or other appropriate motions.”

Donald Trump is once again influencing the TikTok debate by attacking Facebook.

TikTok is not as dangerous to the US as the real enemy of the people, Meta (Facebook!). They spent $500 million on me and our great Republican Party, “Lockbox,” etc., and that should never have been allowed to happen. TikTok was not like that. Like crooked Joe Biden, Facebook is a huge threat to democracy, and removing TikTok will only make it bigger and more powerful. Do you want to do both? – And limit the money spent on politics and lockboxes by Meta/Facebook!!!

President Trump and his lawyers have consistently argued that the lawsuit has no legal or factual basis and should be dismissed. Today, the Manhattan DA’s office agreed to an adjournment after admitting significant discovery violations by the office. We will continue to fight to end this hoax and other Crooked Joe Biden-led witch hunts once and for all.

Stephen Chan Trump campaign communications director