Criminal Charges filed against Trump/Vance in Springfield, OH

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/haitian-nonprofit-in-springfield-files-criminal-charges-against-donald-trump-jd-vance

36 Comments

  1. ButtholeCharles on

    Oop. This is unexpected spiciness on a Tuesday.

    Turns out maybe you can’t just say whatever you want and talk shit.

  2. LittleBallOfWait on

    >The following charges were filed:

    * Disrupting public service — by causing widespread bomb and other threats that resulted in massive disruptions to the public services in Springfield, Ohio;

    * Making false alarms — by knowingly causing alarm in the Springfield community by continuing to repeat lies that state and local officials have said were false;

    * Committing telecommunications harassment — by spreading claims they know to be false during the presidential debate, campaign rallies, nationally televised interviews, and social media;

    * Committing aggravated menacing in violation — by knowingly making intimidating statements with the intent to abuse, threaten, or harass the recipients, including Trump’s threat to deport immigrants who are here legally to Venezuela, a land they have never known;

    * Committing aggravated menacing — by knowingly causing others to falsely believe that members of Springfield’s Haitian community would cause serious physical harm to the person or property of others in Springfield; and

    * Violating the prohibition against complicity — by conspiring with one another and spreading vicious lies that caused innocent parties to be parties to their various crimes.

    I mean, they have Vance on CNN telling the host that they were all lies and that he will continue to lie to get outfits like CNN to pay attention to their desperate campaign to ~~keep Trump out of prison~~ get Trump elected.

    Edit: JFC, I fixed the formatting!!!

  3. Trump is successful because he threatens whoever gets in his way, such as Robert Mueller, Merrick Garland, Congress and the Supreme Court. Whoever stands up to him is a hero comparable to the Founding Fathers.

  4. overcomebyfumes on

    I got all excited when i read the headline, but:

    >The leader of the nonprofit Haitian Bridge Alliance filed charges against former president Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, for the chaos that ensued from their uncorroborated statements about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, eating pets, according to the Cleveland law firm representing the agency.

    >The Chandra Law Firm says the nonprofit used a state statute allowing private citizens to “file an affidavit charging the offense committed.”

    >Through the filing, the nonprofit asks the court to affirm probable cause and to issue arrest warrants.

    >The court must have a hearing before rejecting the affidavit as part of the legal process.

    So the City filing charges would be one thing, but charges brought by private citizens have to go in front of a judge, who can throw them out.

    I’m keeping my fingers crossed, but I’m not hopeful.

  5. stonedhillbillyXX on

    Filing criminal charges and pressing charges… that is a power of Prosecutors and District Attorneys, they do that. Not citizens. Citizens file a police report or complaint. It irks me to no end how misunderstood that is.

    So right off I was skeptical. Sure enough…

    >The Chandra Law Firm says the nonprofit used a state statute allowing private citizens to “file an affidavit charging the offense committed.”

    Further in the article, after the list of offenses they allege

    >The court must have a hearing before rejecting the affidavit as part of the legal process.

    Those are the only two sentences in the article that are actually relevant.

    Dig in boys

  6. Good for them.

    This will be dismissed early, but this is not a frivolous case and the accusations are very real. We have laws to protect the civil order, and I suspect that the intentional lies spread by the campaign may have violated some of them.

    In a just world, this would go in front of a jury to decide if there are laws that are specific to the acts of the trump/vance campaign. That won’t happen, though.

  7. snoopingforpooping on

    A nominee for a major party in the United States of America.

    Im so sick of this shit. Vote Harris and every Democrat on the ticket.

  8. Well, if “Yelling “FIRE!” in a crowded theater.” has any teeth to it, this has to be a textbook case, what with Vance admitting he made it up.

  9. You just know it bugs Republicans to get sued by migrants using our legal system against them. They’re FUMING.

  10. Dapper-Membership on

    I love how Cheung alludes to Springfield Haitians as “illegal immigrants” but in this case these folks are here LEGALLY which in my opinion makes things more damning.

    Sadly, nothing will come of it. Supreme
    Court has been bought and paid for.

  11. We’re all sitting here thinking, *”it has to be illegal to just makeup all this pet-eating bullshit and repeat it over and over.”*

    About time. I’m just wondering how strong this state statute is allowing citizens to file charges.

    I think the state should have, but is obviously reluctant and they don’t want to be “political”, so they haven’t.

    This **FORCES** the state to review the charges and either agree with them or decline and explain why they declined. The problem is the crimes are pretty straight forward so they might be compelled to act.

  12. BeginningOil5960 on

    More reasons to vote Harris-Walz:

    ✅ No active litigation against either of them during the 2024 election cycle (currently): especially by an entire population in a city that they specifically mentioned during the campaign

    ✅ No existing convictions on either of them, especially Harris as potential POTUS

    (There are more reasons but let’s focus here for now)

  13. Calling it now. Somehow Trump gets off without a smack on the wrist and JD Vance ends up on death row.