WSD Drawings

#Witness #TrumpTrials Molly Michael was just doing her job in the White House and at Mar-a-lago, picking up after Donald J Trump. She began working for him in 2018 and continued on after he lost the election. In her testimony before the House Jan 6 committee, she reported that after the FBI raided Mar-a-lago  she found additional classified documents in her possession. Trump had used them as note cards and had written To Do lists for Molly on the backs of these classified documents.   Ominously, Trump told Molly "You know nothing about the boxes." Unfortunately, Molly knew quite a bit and has told the truth in her testimony. We have another young White House assistant to thank in the next entry!  This drawing is not great!  I was working from a video still and the original is murky. If I get a better visual source, I will definitely give her another try, as she deserves it for standing up to Trump and quitting her job.

Jeffrey Clark is a no good scumbag who tried to worm his way into Trump's inner circle after developing his anti-environment work under George W Bush as Assistant Deputy District Attorney in the Civil division. You might say his career has been devoted to destroying the planet as he fought against regulating green house gasses. In both public and private roles, he was on the side of the filthy polluting rich people and their corporations. Clark had the traditional proper education, went to Harvard, learned how to debate and got his higher degrees and passed the bar. Unfortunately, Clark gravitated toward those who value money over all, and that has brought about his downfall. His involvement in the #TrumpTrials may have been motivated by his own need to seek power. He was angling for Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen's job, as Rosen would not support Trump in his pursuit of election fraud. Clark went all in on seeking out ways to dispute the election.   From Wikipedia: ...

Breaking News!  Friday, Sept 29 -- one of the 19 Rico co-defendants has pleaded guilty to the charges against him, according to CNBC .  He gets 5 years probation and has agreed to "testify truthfully in this case and all further proceedings." h Scott Hall is a bail bondsman and you can look at his own autobio here . He had built up quite the professional reputation in the bail bonding profession and may have quickly realized that he had better get on the right side as soon as possible after falling under the sway of this foolish ragtag group of Vote-Finders. Ahhh -- this news so satisfying! For so many years, we have become numb to people in power at all levels of government blatantly lie, cheat and steal without any impunity. So much like those Watergate days gone by and yet unlike them -- the MAGA power base is far-reaching and more dangerous than Nixon's Silent Majority. It is also satisfying because I have been working on a bunch of the Atlanta #TrumpTrials defendants...

Judge Cannon is a US District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, nominated by Donald John Trump .  You can read about her undistinguished career here . You might remember that she was the presiding judge in the initial court hearings regarding the classified documents case in Florida. She granted Trump's request for a "Special Master" to review the documents. After much delay and upon appeal, the 11th Circuit found that Cannon wrongly exercised jurisdiction over the case.  Now she has returned to oversee the federal criminal case against Trump for his mishandling of the documents. She has not recused herself, although some legal scholars have called for her to do so. I say, leave her on! Let her try to up the drama -- let's see what happens then! In her official photographic portrait, the judge has every hair in place, every stroke of make-up is perfection. She is pleased to be a judge.  Let us hope that she has the wisdom to listen to her elders in the 11th ...

We will be seeing the most of this judge over the next year of trials, as he is leading the proceedings in the only trial that is being televised/streamed. He was a Bush era appointee but does not appear to be crazily conservative. My sense of him so far is that he is quite aware of the gravity of the proceedings and is not going to be leaning on one side or the other. He put up a lot from Sydney Powell's and Ken Chesebro's attorneys in the one session I watched. But in the end, it felt like he knew they were making their objections and motions on behalf of clients who are in deep trouble.  These are all my speculations based upon fleeting moments of character study as well as deep observation of photographs of the subjects' faces. It will be interesting to record how my reactions might change as the trials move forward.  

She has been very tough on all the Jan 6 defendants who hav landed in her court. Could this be the reason team Trump is calling for Judge Tanya Chutkan to recuse herself? Daughter of a professional dancer and a doctor, Tanya's Wiki bio is well worth the read. I loved drawing this face, and indeed did several versions!  One looked way too much like Rachel Maddow for my tastes. I think this one has the proper solemnity and self-confidence necessary to deal with Donald John Trump in court. Unfortunately, this one will not be televised, but we will look forward to the pool reports and the court room drawings. Is it proper to make sketches based on other artist's sketches?  Seems like a sketchy move!  

  Sydney Powell is what we used to call a wack job. She started life as a lawyer and a prosecuting attorney but took hard veers to the right when she began defending Enron executives, and went full tilt boogie in fighting the Mueller investigation.  If you don't have the time or inclination to read her full Wikipedia entry, this section should suffice: Powell claimed that Flynn was framed by a covert " deep state " operation, [6] [11]  and has promoted personalities and slogans associated with the  QAnon conspiracy theory. She alleged that a secret international cabal involving communists, " globalists ",  George Soros ,  Hugo Chávez  (who died in 2013), the  Clinton Foundation , the  CIA , and thousands of Democratic and Republican officials—including then-Trump ally and  Georgia governor   Brian Kemp —used voting machines to transfer millions of votes away from Trump in the  2020 presidential election . [12] [13] [14]  ...