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Court Officially Confirms Details for First Hearing in Trump Criminal Case

Former President Donald Trump’s first hearing will take place on April 4, a court spokesperson confirmed on Friday.

Trump is set to appear at 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday before New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, the spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email.

The hearing will be open to members of the public and the press on a first come, first serve basis, the spokesperson said. The hearing will not be livestreamed.

The courthouse is located in lower Manhattan.

Trump has been indicted by a grand jury for reasons that are under seal. Trump is the first former president to face criminal charges in the history of the United States.

A spokesperson for the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, said in a statement that it is now coordinating with Trump’s attorneys his “surrender to the Manhattan D.A.’s Office for arraignment on a Supreme Court indictment.” Bragg had been probing a payment by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to adult performer Stormy Daniels, who has alleged Trump had an affair with her. Trump has denied the claim. Cohen has said he spoke to the grand jury.

Merchan on Thursday signed an order authorizing Bragg to disclose the indictment’s existence, in part because the indictment “would be in the public interest” and such an order is “an appropriate exercise of this Court’s discretion,” the judge said.

Trump’s attorney, Joseph Tacopina, previously said his legal team was working out the details of the former president’s first court appearance in the case.
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Trump said in a statement that Merchan “HATES ME” and that the judge “railroaded” Weisselberg.

“He strong armed Allen, which a judge is not allowed to do, & treated my companies, which didn’t ‘plead,’ VICIOUSLY,” the former president wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

Weisselberg was hit with 15 felony charges, including tax fraud. He pleaded guilty and testified against the Trump Organization and another Trump company.

Weisselberg received five months in prison but Merchan warned him that he could face additional jail time if he did not adhere to the plea agreement, CNN reported. Additionally, Merchan said during the sentencing hearing that he would have sentenced Weisselberg to “a much greater sentence” if he had not previously agreed on the prison term.

George Soros Responds to ‘Soros-Funded DA’ Label Stuck to Alvin Bragg

George Soros said he neither knows Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg nor did he contribute to his election campaign, with the billionaire financier responding to a question as to what he thought about the “Soros-funded DA” label often slapped on Bragg by his critics.

Soros told Semafor that he did not contribute any money to Bragg’s election campaign and doesn’t know him, while responding to a question about his thoughts on supporters of former president Donald Trump linking Soros to Trump’s unprecedented indictment.

“I think some on the right would rather focus on far-fetched conspiracy theories than on the serious charges against the former president,” Soros replied.

The billionaire financier has contributed significantly to the Color of Change PAC, which endorsed Bragg in his campaign for Manhattan district attorney in 2021 and which pledged more than $1 million on an independent expenditure campaign to support Bragg.

Soros spokesperson Michael Vachon told CNN recently that while Soros and Democracy PAC—a PAC to which Soros has donated money—jointly contributed $4 million to the Color of Change PAC, Vachon insisted, however, that none of those funds were earmarked for Bragg’s campaign and that “there has been no contact between the two.”

In his remarks to Semafor, Soros pointed to an op-ed he had written explaining why he’s donated to “reform-minded prosecutors” and why he has “no intention of stopping.”
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“The Manhattan district attorney is a Soros-funded prosecutor, and so he, like other Soros-funded prosecutors, they weaponize their office to impose a political agenda on society at the expense of the rule of law and public safety,” DeSantis said Monday.
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DeSantis warned further that other “Soros-funded prosecutors” might carry out “a high-profile politicized prosecution, and that’s bad.”

Open Editorial Part 1

 Oh but that creepy guy NEVER contributed to Bragg's campaign at all...
Even a staffer has to correct his master's declaration by providing us even more scandalous information than Soros did.
 Seriously guys, that NY DA is bragging about his illegal ability to prosecute a former US President by pressing charges that depend on alleged misdemeanors that he wants to turn into actual felonies against what the state and federal laws actually allows a state DA to do. In fact, why didn't that cowardly DA Garland try to prosecute Trump himself? He would have been allowed to do so IF he'd ever proved that the alleged felony hasn't prescribed already and had enough evidence that doesn't contradict itself like Stormy Daniel's affidavit claiming she never got intimate with Trump.

Keep in mind that Trump would need a Secret Service detail to be deployed in New York city even before he arrives there. And that would not exempt them from protecting him even if he were in jail. Yet, that chipmunk Alvin wanted Trump to pay him a visit later today. This move definitely shows his total lack of concern for the defendant's security. He simply wants to finish this step in the criminal process at once without paying attention to how he does it. Well, he's simply following his master Soros' orders after all.

DeSantis is now speaking against Soros not just because he knows how that old man funds radios in Florida to indoctrinate people but also due to the serious suspicion that his bought district attorneys across the country will go after any other Republican, himself included. As long as Soros keeps funding them, this can only get worse and worse every day that passes.

What people should immediately understand about this case is that right here and right now they're instaurating a communist regime in the US by judiciary force so to say. Forget about the rule of law, it is becoming the rule of the mobsters aka ochlocracy or mobocracy. If you say something "wrong" in public or online, you'll simply go to jail. It doesn't need to be a real crime, being or sounding politically incorrect is enough reason to put you behind bars. And if for any reason you think this can't ever happen in this world, just think twice.

Really, this whole crappy situation sounds more like a Babylon Bee article that was supposed to be a mere satyre instead of a prediction.

China, Russia Leading Push to Replace US Dollar as World’s Reserve Currency

Jim O’Neill, a former chief economist at Goldman Sachs, suggested that the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) bloc should expand its presence and enhance the alliance’s work to threaten the greenback hegemony in global financial markets.

Writing in a March 26 paper in the Global Policy Journal, O’Neill championed adding new members to the group to bolster its objectives if these countries meet the initial criteria of maintaining large populations and have promising economies.

“The U.S. dollar plays a far too dominant role in global finance,” O’Neill wrote. “Whenever the Federal Reserve Board has embarked on periods of monetary tightening, or the opposite, loosening, the consequences on the value of the dollar and the knock-on effects have been dramatic.”

If the BRICS pact grows, it could facilitate the emergence of a multi-currency global financial system, he added.
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Russia’s Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Alexander Babakov championed the proposal of the BRICS partnership producing its own currency.
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South Africa will host the 15th annual BRICS Summit from Aug. 22–24.

Last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed in an address to BRICS Business Forum participants that “creating the international reserve currency based on the basket of currencies of our countries is under review.”
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In the meantime, BRICS members are not waiting for a currency basket to compete against the dollar. Over the last year, many cases have occurred of China, Russia, and other partners engaging in cross-country trade settled in yuan, rubles, and other national currencies.

In May 2014, China and Russia fired the opening salvo in the de-dollarization initiative, signing the Agreement on Cooperation that would undercut the dollar’s position on top of the currency mountain.

But while this has been a decade-long affair, the de-dollarization efforts have accelerated since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Open Editorial Part 2

You know what, he deserves to be treated as an actual traitor, or foreign agent depending on his nationality, for such declarations.  And why do they dare to make such statements? Because they clearly know that the US is weak and chaotic nowadays.

White House Says It Wasn’t Given Advance Warning of Trump Indictment

The White House was not tipped off about the indictment against former President Donald Trump, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on March 31.

“All of us, including the president, found out about the news yesterday just like every other American through the news reports,” Jean-Pierre told reporters.

White House chief of staff Jeffrey Zients alerted President Joe Biden to the situation after perusing reports, Jean-Pierre said.

Biden, a Democrat, “was not given a heads-up,” she said.

She was speaking en route to Jackson, Mississippi. Biden was scheduled to tour areas struck by tornadoes in the state last week.
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Jean-Pierre declined to comment on the indictment.

“We’re not going to comment on an ongoing case,” she said.

Asked if he had a reaction to the indictment before he departed Washington, Biden said, “No.”

He also declined to say whether he was concerned the indictment will further divide the country or whether he was worried about possible protests.

“I’m not going to talk about Trump’s indictment,” he said, adding later, “I have no comment at all on Trump.”