https://www.yahoo.com/news/pot...florida-125317593.html

Business Insider

Florida officials are preparing 'contingency plans' for a possible Trump indictment from New York, report says

Jake Lahut,Sonam Sheth
Thu, May 13, 2021, 8:53 AM

Palm Beach County officials in Florida are reportedly prepping for Trump to get indicted.

Two officials involved told Politico Playbook that there could be "thorny extradition issues."

Trump is facing significant legal scrutiny from the Manhattan district attorney's office.

Prosecutors appear to be nearing the end stages of their investigation.

As the Manhattan district attorney's criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump enters its final stages, officials in Florida are preparing for potential "thorny extradition issues that could arise" from a statute in the Sunshine State, Politico Playbook first reported on Thursday.

Two officials involved in the "contingency plans" told Politico that law enforcement personnel in Palm Beach County are looking at what to do if Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.'s investigation results in an indictment while Trump is at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

State law allows Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis - a staunch Trump ally - to step in and investigate whether a "person ought to be surrendered" if they're indicted, Politico said.

Right now, Trump is residing at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey for the next few months.

Read more: Meet Donald Trump's next nemeses: The 15 prosecutors and investigators from New York who are primed to pepper the ex-president with history-making civil and criminal probes

If Trump is indicted while in New Jersey, extradition issues could prove less tricky because the state is led by Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, who would likely be less sympathetic to the one-term president.

Trump has repeatedly claimed that his perceived political foes are out to get him post-presidency and expressed concern about several ongoing federal and state criminal investigations into his financial dealings. Insider previously reported that while Trumpworld is largely shrugging off the Justice Department's investigation into the Capitol riot, they see more danger in Vance's inquiry and a separate investigation by the Fulton County District Attorney's office in Georgia.

The New York probe is examining whether the Trump Organization violated state laws when it facilitated illegal hush-money payments to the adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who claims she had an affair with Trump in 2006. Vance's office secured a major victory earlier this year when the Supreme Court cleared the way for it to obtain Trump's closely held tax returns.

In March, legal experts said it looked like Manhattan prosecutors were nearing the end stages of their investigation.

"They mean business now," one source told The New Yorker's Jane Mayer. The person believed Vance's investigation had stagnated while Trump was in office and prosecutors were fighting a court battle to get his taxes. But now, the source told Mayer, prosecutors' questions have become "very pointed - they're sharpshooting now, laser-beaming."

A former top deputy in Vance's office told Insider that Vance would likely want to make charging decisions before his planned retirement in December.

Preet Bharara, the former head of the US attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, made a similar point while speaking with John Banzhaf, a professor of public interest law at the George Washington University Law School.

"Cy Vance is not running for reelection. Vance is, as they say, a lame duck," Bharara said, which means he wouldn't be subject to the usual political forces that candidates for public office normally area. The former Manhattan US attorney also noted that Vance's decision to hire an outside forensic accounting firm is another signal that "there's a good likelihood of a [criminal] charge" against Trump from the district attorney's office.

In Georgia, meanwhile, prosecutors are looking into Trump's efforts to manipulate the state's 2020 election results. The Washington Post reported in January that Trump pleaded with Georgia's secretary of state in a phone call to "find" enough additional votes to help secure a win for him in the state's presidential contest.

"The people of Georgia are angry - the people in the country are angry," Trump told Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger in the January phone call. "And there's nothing wrong with saying, you know, um, that you've recalculated."

He later added: "All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state."

The Daily Beast reported in March that there were two grand juries underway in Fulton County, Georgia as the prosecutor's office's public integrity unit investigates whether Trump illegally tried to influence the state's election results.

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Dora Hates You

Progs are still terrified of Trump. Good.

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I :heart; Q

Trump still planning on being indicted. Better.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

I'm skeptical overall, but it could be a hell of a show if Desantis tries to hide him and block extradition.

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“It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism “ - Michael Parenti

Rules for thee, not for me. It's the elitist way.

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QOP = Terrorists
FK = Gay

wtf: Rules for thee, not for me. It's the elitist way

Yeah so said every Liberal Governor and representative not wearing masks while mandating them for the common folks
Yeah so said Biden when bragging about his involvement in foreign politics demanding they fire a prosecutor messing with Hunter.


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Oh I agree that this occurs everywhere, there are no sides when it comes to this among elites.

But there are levels.


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QOP = Terrorists
FK = Gay

This will be fun to watch.
The "rule of law" party is being led down the sewer pipes to the swamp by their lore and odor dear leader, the magat
in thief.
FBI and us marshalls vs paunchy palm beach cops and fat flag waving losers.
Wonder how many cops they'll murder this time.
Hey sandi: got any popcorn left?


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It's a democratic hoax