So these stories were trumped up in the media––no pun intended––but they were trumped up.
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"Ladies and gentleman, this is a trumped-up report that is based on trumped-up law," said Representative Linda F. Coleman, an African-American Democrat.
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The stabbing of a Trumped-up leader in the Public Theater's production of "Julius Caesar" was one of the big trumped-up scandals of June.
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Russia is holding several Ukrainians prisoner on trumped up charges.
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So, this is hardly a narrative trumped up by unions.
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However, many feel the charges against Lagarde were trumped up.
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He says the case was trumped up for political reasons.
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Whether they were true or trumped up is never known.
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Expect more trumped-up charges and long rides in patrol cars.
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It's not trumped up data in any way shape or form.
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Reid Hoffman and his team try their hand at Trumped Up Cards.
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Instead of trumped-up nuclear threats, there's endless propaganda about terrorist attacks.
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You're saying it's Trumpocalypse, you have a game ... Yup, Trumped-Up Cards.
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If you cringed at "Trumped-up trickle down economics," you weren't alone.
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Supporters said they were trumped up charges to silence a vocal critic.
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" The crimes of which Netanyahu is accused are serious, not "trumped up.
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This Trumped-up trickle down effect is one that has to stop now.
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Both men deny those charges, saying they are trumped up to sideline them.
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His successor, Kem Sokha, was arrested last month on trumped-up treason charges.
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Trumped-up tax charges were used to close an independent newspaper in 2017.
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But it's not saying "Trumped up economics," so at least we have that.
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Mr. Navalny has dismissed the embezzlement case as a trumped up political dispute.
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Soon after, Anwar was jailed for sodomy, charges he says were trumped up.
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"Immunity is intended to protect elected representatives from trumped-up charges," Netanyahu said.
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Soon after Anwar was jailed for sodomy, charges he says were trumped up.
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And she was even arrested and jailed on trumped up drunken-driving charges.
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"There is reason 'Trumped up' means phony," Tyler told Business Insider in an email.
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But the trumped-up charges on these three men are really out of control.
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I call it 'trumped up trickle-down,' because that's exactly what it would be.
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Ostreicher denied the accusations and claimed that corrupt officials had trumped up the case.
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These are trumped-up charges that very similar what is happening in Standing Rock.
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I call it trumped-up trickle-down, because that's exactly what it would be.
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In 2008, Mr. Kozlov was arrested on fraud charges he said were trumped up.
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I call it "trumped up trickle-down," because that's exactly what it would be.
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I call it "trumped-up trickle-down," because that's exactly what it would be.
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Marilyn Manson, but with a campy sense of humor replacing the trumped-up shock imagery.
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If the trumped-up case is not overturned on appeal, he is disqualified from running.
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The release of 'Trumped Up Cards' ... marked a new turn for the affable, pensive Hoffman.
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Osei denied the accusations and the main opposition has repeatedly said they are trumped up.
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" Those are "faux scandals, the trumped up controversies ... insults that are flung back and forth.
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In a statement provided to the Chronicle, Ferrer's lawyer said the charges are "trumped up."
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The difference is, our criticism is based on reality, not a trumped-up ideological fantasy.
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"I call it 'Trumped up' trickle-down economics," she said, and the crowd went wild.
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This threat of being detained on trumped-up charges in China has existed for years.
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"It really proves the point of my book 'Trumped up,' " the Harvard Law professor responded.
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Unafraid to call bullshit: Students protesting the trumped-up trial of seven Chicago protesters in 2000.
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In 1998 he was jailed on trumped-up charges and spent almost seven years behind bars.
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Half a dozen pro-democracy legislators have been turfed out of office on trumped-up technicalities.
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The leaders of the main Kurdish party are in prison on trumped-up charges of terrorism.
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His supporters say the charges are trumped up to keep the charismatic leader out of politics.
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We intend to vigorously defend against the baseless claims, misrepresented factual circumstances and trumped-up fines.
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Will Iran's security services take more Americans hostage, putting them in prison on trumped up charges?
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London-based rights group Amnesty International said the charges were trumped up and "brazenly politically motivated".
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Freddie will be fighting the extradition request as these are nothing more than trumped up charges.
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Kareem is currently on trial in Phoenix, and his attorney claims the charges are trumped up.
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He was arrested in January 21 and sentenced to six years on trumped up extortion charges.
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He was arrested in January 2018 and sentenced to six years on trumped-up extortion charges.
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"They are manufactured, trumped-up claims that are just all a show of vindictiveness," Beckham said.
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Anwar and his supporters maintain that all the charges were trumped up to end his political career.
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He was later booked on some trumped-up charges (though most were eventually dismissed) and court-martialed.
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His conviction on trumped-up charges of terrorism was one of those that the Supreme Court overturned.
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That offers no reassurance, retort opponents: Chinese dissidents routinely face trumped-up charges like bribery or blackmail.
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Read more: Putin slams 'trumped-up' US strike on Syria Damascus shrugs and thinks: Is that it?
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Markets typically rise to elevated expectations and fall on reality when the "trumped-up" expectations aren't met.
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They trumped up this stuff that the Russians did, and we should be fearful of the Russians.
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Bertita received frequent death threats, was detained by the police and faced trumped-up charges in court.
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The pro-Soviet Polish government arrested 16 prominent anti-Communist Poles on trumped-up charges shortly thereafter.
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Ms. de Lima is in prison awaiting trial on what she says are trumped-up bribery charges.
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He has repeatedly said that the charges against him were trumped up to exclude him from politics.
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"The government presents a trumped-up case that substitutes old lore for actual evidence," Mr. Mazurek said.
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De Lima called the charges "trumped up," part of a harassment campaign by Duterte and his allies.
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All were detained in Iran under what U.S. officials have said were trumped-up or never-known charges.
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Several prominent businessmen have been arrested on trumped-up charges of money-laundering, which is ineligible for bail.
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To this opponents retort that Chinese dissidents routinely face trumped-up charges of offences like bribery or blackmail.
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For their work protecting Cambodia's environment, "these three activists are in jail on trumped-up charges," Lambrick wrote.
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" He noted that there are three other Americans detained in North Korea with "trumped-up charges against them.
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It didn't sound that bad to me at the time—like a trumped up vandalism charge or something.
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Oleg Sentsov, a film director from Crimea, is serving a 20-year sentence on trumped-up terrorism charges.
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He is wanted in Georgia on four charges including abuse of office, which he says are trumped up.
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Remember those trumped-up claims about a 24/7 ISIS help desk that turned out to be nonsense?
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Rights groups say more than 100 political leaders and activists are in jail, mostly on trumped-up charges.
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He is now trying to put the former president in jail on what look like trumped-up charges.
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I have written a new book, "Trumped Up: How Criminalization of Political Differences Endangers Democracy," elaborating this point.
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Ms. Marushevska, the customs agency head whom I appointed, said she was harassed with trumped-up official reprimands.
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I mean, some of them from a broken taillight, trumped up charges, and driving while black, but still!
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Yet Anwar Ibrahim, a charismatic former opposition leader, has spent years in prison on ridiculous trumped-up sodomy charges.
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In the Indian state of Assam, a trumped-up rule on citizenship singles out Muslims for detention and deportation.
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He could face up to five years in prison if convicted on trumped-up charges of contempt and assault.
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The past year has seen multiple congressional hearings devoted to trumped-up allegations of bias against social media bias.
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Maybe these trumped-up rumors provide just the right circumstances for Nintendo to do a bit of soul-searching.
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"I'm no longer surprised when this administration files trumped-up charges against me," de Lima said in a statement.
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Clinton's supporters suggested that Starr, along with Speaker Gingrich, trumped up an irrelevant affair to bring down the president.
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It's super gross and would seem like trumped-up TV drama, except, you know, look around America right now.
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The media can report on the genuine diversity of the global Middle Ages without resorting to trumped-up scholarship.
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Iranian authorities have denied holding detainees for ransom and accuse Western governments of holding Iranians on trumped-up charges.
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"This is a trumped up, Cold War set of charges that make no sense at all," Ms. Derby said.
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Democrats I've talked to tend to think the charges are trumped up and won't be fatal to his candidacy.
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In the past, China has been criticized for arresting dissidents and activists on trumped up charges, including sex crimes.
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Mr. Ulyukayev, who is serving an eight-year sentence in a penal colony, says the charge was trumped up.
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He lived a simple, self-sacrificial life and faced trumped-up charges as a member of the Chicago Eight.
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And we protested when her crown was taken away in what seemed to us a trumped-up sex scandal.
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"The trumped-up charges must stop," Renato Reyes, secretary-general of activist group Bayan (Nation), said in a statement.
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Ressa, who runs the news startup the Rappler, now faces a decade in prison on trumped-up tax evasion charges.
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Iranian authorities have previously denied holding detainees for ransom and accuse Western governments of holding Iranians on trumped-up charges.
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Anwar, the charismatic opposition figure, is in jail on what critics say was another trumped-up sodomy conviction in 2014.
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And, indeed, in our era of the never-ending, Trumped-up news cycle, many people are looking for something — anything!
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In the Turkish capital, Ankara, the freshly elected opposition mayor is facing possible removal on trumped-up charges of fraud.
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National Assembly Vice President Edgar Zambrano was ordered to be arrested Thursday on trumped-up charges of treason and insurrection.
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And yet the secretary's chosen phrase of "Trumped-up trickle-down" came off as contrived and too clever by half.
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Canada had the choice not to carry out the extradition of Meng on what were trumped-up charges, it added.
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Iranian authorities previously have denied holding detainees for ransom and accuse Western governments of holding Iranians on trumped-up charges.
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Donald Trump is a trumped-up peasant, and Justin Trudeau is the heir and defender of the North American dream.
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Its preferred cudgels for critics have been trumped-up charges for crimes like prostitution and illegal business or tax practices.
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The United Nations and rights groups say the government has since arrested dozens of its critics on trumped-up charges.
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This allowed Clinton to dismiss the email scandal, and the Benghazi issue in general, as a trumped-up partisan sideshow.
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During Watergate, Mr. Nixon's team dismissed accusations against him as trumped up by a hostile establishment, especially the news media.
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Russia has said the case against Vyshinsky was a trumped up and politically motivated attack on Russian media in Ukraine.
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Russia has said the case against Vyshinsky was a trumped up and politically motivated attack on Russian media in Ukraine.
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Anti-war activists said at the time that the war was being trumped up for political reasons before an election.
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Arrested on trumped-up charges, some of the women spent more time in prison than the officers who raped them.
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" Clinton called Trump's tax policies "Trumped-up trickle-down" economics and Trump accused Clinton of being "all talk, no action.
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They accuse Museveni, in power since 1986, of stifling dissent through intimidation, beatings, detentions and prosecutions on trumped-up charges.
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"We are very concerned that these apparently trumped-up charges may constitute a renewed attempt to stifle dissent," said Colville.
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Now al-Wefaq is banned and its leader, Ali Salman, is in prison on trumped-up charges of spying for Qatar.
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Eventually, the Home Run Club was shut down after the city trumped up charges about the quality of its drinking water.
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But he is in Brussels, having been exiled and then convicted of (almost certainly) trumped-up charges of illegally selling property.
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He has sought U.N. help to restore his political rights, which he says were removed illegally on trumped up terrorism charges.
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Last fall, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy boasted of the trumped-up Benghazi commission's negative impact on Hillary Clinton's poll numbers.
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Prosecutors accuse him of assisting a criminal organization, charges he says were trumped up to undermine his political campaign against Poroshenko.
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But the president has also been accused of authoritarianism, including targeting opposition politicians with trumped up court cases, and tolerating corruption.
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In spite of the general disdain inspired by that trumped up interim title, its new owner, Max Holloway, stole the show.
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The BNP's leader and former Prime Minister, Khaleda Zia, is in jail on what the party calls trumped-up corruption charges.
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China has retaliated fiercely, from arresting two Canadians on trumped-up charges to halting millions of dollars in Canadian agricultural exports.
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Trumped-up "civil rights" litigation of this kind has self-evident potential for the harassment and intimidation of would-be investigators.
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In 2017, a former political protégé of his was jailed for what human rights activists considered trumped-up charges of blasphemy.
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The former justice secretary was arrested on what she says were trumped-up charges that she took bribes from drug lords.
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The 49-year-old is now wanted on criminal charges in Georgia, which he says were trumped up for political reasons.
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"This is a completely trumped-up case," Mr. Pal said in his video statement, referring to Mr. Ustinov by a nickname.
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They also include Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, who is serving a 20-year sentence on trumped-up charges of terrorism.
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"My wife sees the charges as baseless and trumped-up, and considers the bail as disproportionate," ISNA quoted Khandan as saying.
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Award-winning journalist Azimjon Askarov has spent nine years in prison on trumped-up charges for reporting on human rights violations.
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The commission ruled that a past corruption conviction, which Navalny claims was trumped up to silence him, meant he was disqualified.
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People everywhere are already eager for lightning-rod trumped-up reasons to hate the Valley and the tech industry as a whole.
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A trumped-up conviction for embezzlement in 2013, though dismissed by the European Court of Human Rights, bars him from being registered.
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"Nadiya has been unjustly imprisoned in Russia since 2014 — detained and facing trial on trumped up charges," Biden said in a statement.
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During the month of September alone, the party reckons that more than 4,500 of its members were arrested on trumped-up charges.
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Paris Jackson won't take trumped-up celebrities rumors lying down — especially when they have to do with her late father, Michael Jackson.
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When Clinton tries to use a Reaganesque catch-phrase like "Trumped Up Trickle Down Economics" it becomes a "Saturday Night Live" punchline.
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Journalists and human rights workers, including a handful of my own constituents, have been swept up and imprisoned on trumped up charges.
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Clinton, after years of enduring attacks and scandals she regarded as trumped-up, had a tendency to be stubborn about acknowledging error.
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" She seemed to hesitate before speaking that line; it sounded about as spontaneous as her apparent new catchphrase "trumped-up trickle-down.
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Is Trump saying his own party is out to get him through a series of trumped-up allegations they know aren't true?
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On July 19, a bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation that called for Turkey to stop detaining Americans on trumped-up charges.
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It wouldn't constantly arrest foreign nationals, including American journalists, on trumped-up charges as a means of gaining diplomatic or financial leverage.
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His supporters have called this a trumped-up charge to portray him as a common criminal rather than a victim of censorship.
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Read more: She wanted to become president, but ended up jailed instead "Those were trumped-up charges, made-up charges," Rwigara said.
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Otto Warmbier was an American college student who was held in North Korea for over a year on trumped up espionage charges.
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He was convicted in absentia in the Netherlands for cocaine trafficking, on charges he says were trumped up by the Dutch government.
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As leader of the opposition in 1999 Mr Anwar was imprisoned on trumped-up charges of sodomy, which is illegal in Malaysia.
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Haraszti's report said more than 900 people were detained "on trumped-up charges", including opposition leaders, human rights defenders, journalists and foreign visitors.
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Ronald Gasser believes he's being held on a trumped-up charge -- the manslaughter of Joe McKnight -- and his attorney's demanding his release, ASAP.
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Last September Kem Sokha, who led the Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP), was arrested on trumped-up treason charges and still awaits trial.
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" The Russian Embassy in Washington had demanded her release following her arrest last year, arguing she was being detained on "trumped-up charges.
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Senator Leila de Lima languishes in prison on trumped-up narcotics charges after daring to investigate his dealings with the Davao Death Squad.
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It's his little way of asserting himself amid what he undoubtedly believes is trumped-up overreaction to his initial remarks on Saturday. 3.
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Given that he faces fraud charges — which he says are trumped-up — several mainstream parties have already rejected being in government with him.
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The state's highest crime-fighting body, known as the Hawks, has called in Mr Gordhan for questioning over charges that look trumped up.
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He says the charges are trumped up and facing them would result in him being extradited to the U.S. View the discussion thread.
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And he arrested the leader of the Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtas, on what many consider to be trumped-up charges.
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They note that the tobacco giants for many years funded trumped-up science and advocacy groups to spread doubt about risks of smoking.
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Western human rights groups have accused the Saudi government of using the courts to stifle dissent and convicting activists on trumped up charges.
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Take the case of Aya Hijazi, a Northern Virginian who has been illegally detained for more than 85033 months on trumped up charges.
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"This could be a lot of theater – it looks very trumped up to me – but we'll have to wait and see," she added.
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Sessions has callously ignored the reality of voter suppression but zealously prosecuted innocent civil rights leaders on trumped-up charges of voter fraud.
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A thuggish regime might have seized his assets, tried him in absentia on a trumped up charge, or even sought to abduct him.
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This trumped-up crisis serves as a legitimation tool for Fidesz's authoritarianism, a pretext for the government to pass laws undermining its opponents.
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The authorities have frozen bank accounts associated with Navalny's foundation as part of a money laundering investigation that he says is trumped up.
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In other cases, the falsehoods appear aimed at convicting people — who may or may not have committed a crime — with trumped-up evidence.
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After serving 16 years in prison on trumped-up pot possession charges, Dolores returns broke and confused to the newly gentrified Washington Heights.
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"We maintained that it was from rehashed, trumped-up charges aimed at undermining the duly constituted government," Mr. Abella said in a statement.
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Opposition politicians in Rwanda have often found themselves jailed on what they say are trumped-up charges for standing in opposition to Kagame.
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Mr. Hun Sen's government has also forced the 24-year-old Cambodia Daily newspaper to close over trumped-up charges of tax evasion.
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His lawyer, Femi Falana, said the journalist is being held illegally and accused the government of bringing up trumped-up charges against him.
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A man in Tampa says he was threatened with a trumped-up charge of felony trespassing if he did not sign the release.
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The opposition and rights groups have said that Maduro's administration is holding hundreds of political prisoners on trumped-up charges intended to stifle dissent.
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Others, meanwhile, have already called the notion that it might be designed to replace a child "offensive," comparing Kirobo to a trumped-up Tamagotchi.
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Mr Navalny has declared his intention to run for president next year, despite being barred from the ballot because of a trumped-up conviction.
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Since then, authorities have arrested dozens of critics of Kabila on what the United Nations and human rights groups say are trumped up charges.
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Since then, authorities have arrested dozens of critics of Kabila on what the United Nations and human rights groups say are trumped-up charges.
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Indeed, many believe the charges against him have been trumped up by Nissan as a way to block his plans for a full merger.
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In particular, it can't solve the problem of eligible voters who are forbidden from voting in the first place for false, trumped-up reasons.
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CAMPAIGN 2016 Trumped up controversy: The Donald says he's seriously thinking about filing a suit to challenge the Canadian-born Ted Cruz's presidential aspirations.
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He's also the creator of Trumped Up Cards, a satirical party game that pokes fun at the "reality TV star in the White House."
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She stayed in jail overnight and eventually stood trial, accused of inciting violence and unlawfully assembling -- "trumped up charges," according to Human Rights Watch.
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Russia's central election commission declined to register Navalny as a candidate in the election, citing what Navalny said was a trumped up criminal conviction.
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But like the War of the Worlds radio broadcast panic, how much has been trumped up over the years for the sake of legend?
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Career US attorneys were scandalously fired for refusing to bring trumped-up charges against Democrats, leading Gonzales to hastily resign and avoid bipartisan investigation.
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It's strikingly unusual for the DOJ to send prosecutors to even begin looking into trumped-up charges against the president's vanquished general election opponent.
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Or "To Kill a Mockingbird," in which a Jim Crow-era jury in a trumped-up rape case makes a judgment without finding justice.
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"Even if the company thinks this is all trumped-up nonsense, they need at least to pretend like they take it seriously," he added.
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He had been detained in the notorious Evin Prison on trumped up espionage charges and was sentenced in 2017 to 10 years in prison.
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Even before I arrived, the co-mayors, Gultan Kisanak and Firat Anli, were jailed on terrorism charges that rights groups say are trumped up.
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If anything, it was a bit like her satisfied delivery of "Trumped-up trickle-down economics" — too clever by half, too obviously planned by whole.
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In addition to all the restrictions on freedom of speech, UMNO manipulated the electoral system, curbed public protests and prosecuted opponents on trumped-up charges.
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Last June it fined Emirates 29,000 yuan ($4,270) and banned it from expanding in China for six months on trumped-up charges over safety lapses.
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Despite the outcry of the international community, Savchenko spent two years in a Russian jail, being held on what many viewed as trumped-up charges.
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Khaleda was jailed in February for five years on what BNP describes as trumped-up corruption charges, an allegation the government denies, citing court independence.
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It is the same press release they've been releasing for years, only this time it's trumped up as an open letter to You, The Fan.
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With his accounts frozen, passport revoked and facing trumped-up charges in both civil and military courts, Mr Chaturon still remains optimistic in one way.
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Clinton criticized Mr. Trump's fiscal plans as "trumped-up trickle-down economics," before saying he had received millions of dollars of support from his father.
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Thus the four quarters to be played: the Republican nomination, the Democratic nomination, any viable third party candidate and how "trumped-up" will things remain.
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It felt trumped up, hanging on a sliver of an idea, and an old idea at that: male competition, inside and outside the locker room.
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Canada-China relations are also at a low point after the arrest of two Canadian executives on what are widely seen as trumped-up charges.
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Ms. Raissouni's legal team says that the charges are trumped up and that letters claiming to document medical evidence of an abortion have been fabricated.
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One is Trinculo Forsythe, who created CIEL but has undergone years of imprisonment and torture and is now scheduled for execution on trumped-up charges.
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Up there with "trumped up trickle down" Being good at politics requires having a good ideology and its bankruptcy was on full display last night.
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The commission this week barred Navalny from taking part in the March 18 vote because of a suspended prison sentence he says was trumped up.
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He was adamant that racist police officers were behind the trumped-up charges, and at the time ... told us he was gonna fight it in court.
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And now he has gone so far as to release a card game, "Trumped Up Cards: The World's Biggest Deck" that pokes fun at Trump. nyti.
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Both applications for delay will be heard in court on November 1st, the day before Mr Gordhan is due in court on a trumped-up charge.
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It was filled primarily with black men arrested on trumped-up charges, forced to labor in the cotton fields without pay, and whipped when they disobeyed.
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Critics say those are trumped-up accusations to justify repression and distract Venezuelans from blaming the ruling Socialist Party for the OPEC member nation's economic mess.
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A small but vocal group of GOP members have suggested that the FBI weaponized the dossier in order to launch a trumped-up investigation into Trump.
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Last year, Aldana was barred from running for president because of an arrest warrant against her in a corruption case that supporters said was trumped up.
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Nevertheless, the obstacles to unseating Mr. Putin are formidable; indeed, a previous trumped-up conviction may make it difficult for Mr. Navalny to run for office.
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Earlier this month, Russian investigative reporter Ivan Golonuv was detained under what critics say were trumped-up drug charges; he was eventually freed under public pressure.
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In June, the Vatican's first auditor general resigned, saying he was forced to step down amid trumped-up accusations after he discovered evidence of possible illegal activity.
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And in Turkey, Americans are outraged over the detention of U.S. Pastor Matthew Brunson, who is now on trial for what officials say are trumped up charges.
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Russia's central election commission last year barred Navalny from taking part in the March 18 vote because of a suspended prison sentence he says was trumped up.
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LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman is selling humorous playing cards called Trumped Up Cards for $20.16, and donating $10 of every sale to the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Avenatti clearly thinks Wohl -- who was implicated in the false sexual misconduct claims against Robert Mueller last month -- has trumped up the domestic violence allegations against him.
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Venezuela's opposition parties accuse Maduro, the 54-year-old successor of Hugo Chavez, of being a dictator and maintaining hundreds of political prisoners on trumped-up charges.
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When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took over, my grandfather was imprisoned, put on trial for less than 20 minutes without a lawyer on trumped-up charges of espionage.
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In 2013, ahead of Moscow's mayoral elections, Mr Navalny was found guilty of trumped-up embezzlement charges linked to a lumber company in the city of Kirov.
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Award-winning journalist Azimjon Askarov, who is an ethnic Uzbek, has spent nine years in prison on trumped-up charges for his reporting on human rights violations.
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To get the best price, investors create a perception — sometimes true, sometimes trumped up — that the property is a headache the bank does not want, said Thomas.
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Her cringe inducing allusion to, deep breath, "Trumped-up, trickle down" economics from their first round, on September 26 in New York, seemed so very far off.
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In June, the Vatican's first auditor general resigned, saying he was forced to step down amid trumped-up accusations after he discovered evidence of possible illegal activity.
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" According to Russian state-run news agency Sputnik, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Friday that Putin believes the attack was done under a "trumped-up pretext.
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Because if I didn't someone else would claim them or any trumped-up negative noise would drown out all the ways I was succeeding in my role.
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Republicans trumped up the issue as a way to put the President on the defensive, as they did with other baseless stories, like the "Travel-gate" controversy.
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In power since 1986, Museveni has been accused by critics of using security forces to stifle opposition through intimidation, beatings, detentions and prosecutions on trumped-up charges.
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Just ask Canadian Cy Tokmakjian, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison on trumped up charges and was released only after he lost all his investments.
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Members of the opposition and activists have been jailed on charges they say were trumped up by the government as part of a crackdown to mute critics.
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In the late nineties, Khan began to represent black and Asian police officers, who were themselves suffering discrimination—often in the form of trumped-up corruption investigations.
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For all of Donald Trump's trumped-up rhetoric — that is more than ever characteristically filled with lies — understand that by any respectable measure, Hillary is still winning.
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Congress should also insist that the United States address the Central American refugee crisis as a protection matter, rather than a trumped-up threat to national security.
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Locals feared the law could lead to critics of the Chinese government being detained on trumped up charges, shipped off to the mainland, and thrown in prison.
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Media watchdogs said the charges against Ressa were trumped up and aimed at intimidating those who challenge Duterte's rule, in particular his deadly crackdown on illicit drugs.
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However, she maintains her innocence and insists that these are trumped up charges made by Duterte's henchmen in order to prevent her from criticizing his ruthless policies.
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It also froze a number of bank accounts linked to the foundation, a move Navalny's allies said was a trumped-up attempt to cripple his political movement.
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It also froze a number of bank accounts linked to the foundation, a move Navalny's allies said was a trumped-up attempt to cripple his political movement.
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The case against him is widely seen as a trumped-up attack on artistic freedom, and Mr. Serebrennikov has continued to work regardless, directing productions from afar.
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" Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Harvard Law School and author of "Trumped Up: How Criminalizing Politics is Dangerous to Democracy.
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And the trumped-up claim that he did something inappropriate to benefit his son is at the center of the ongoing impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
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We should all worry when any court convicts bona fide journalists on trumped-up charges, and by all dependable accounts that's what happened in Myanmar this week.
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When he spoke (according to Plato) those words, he was on trial for his life, on the ultimate trumped-up charge (not believing in the Athenian gods).
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"Unfortunately, the Republican majority has decided to pursue the trumped up notion that there is a special conservative bias in the way Twitter operates," Sarbanes told Dorsey.
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The pair planned to return to the U.S. after their nuptials, but were jailed in El Hilcolde on what human rights groups said were largely trumped-up charges.
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At one point, Jones can be heard explaining his brand of punditry — admitting that what listeners get is not always his authentic self, but a trumped-up persona.
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This explains the political prosecution being carried out by the Spanish justice system, which is motivated by revenge, with trumped-up charges and rulings based on fictitious violence.
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His supporters are convinced that he has been unfairly singled out, that the corruption charges against him are trumped up and that his 12-year sentence is excessive.
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Here in the States, Bixby didn't have voice control, relegating interaction to what essentially amounted to a trumped up content hub located a swipe away from the desktop.
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Media watchdogs have said the charges against Ressa were trumped up and aimed at intimidating those who challenge Duterte's rule, in particular his deadly crackdown on illicit drugs.
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The two planned to return to the U.S. after getting married, but were jailed in El Hilcolde on what human rights groups said were largely trumped-up charges.
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Boris Johnson, Britain's foreign secretary and a leading Brexiteer, claimed that the Northern Irish border was being trumped up as an insoluble issue to frustrate the Brexit process.
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Navalny has called that move and others, including the jailing of several protesters, part of a coordinated and trumped up campaign to stifle the anti-Kremlin opposition's activities.
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An opposition leader, Vladimir Kozlov, is in jail on trumped-up charges of fomenting that turmoil, which prompted a massive crackdown on the political opposition and independent media.
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Smiley's show was eventually cancelled, and, as we've reported ... he filed suit against PBS for "trumped up" sexual harassment allegations against him that he claims were racially motivated.
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While some dissidents have been allowed to run, the strongest opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, has been convicted on trumped-up charges to keep him out of the race.
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"Republicans held Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt when they were pursuing their trumped-up investigation of the 'Fast and Furious' gunrunning scheme," the Post editorialized.
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A Philippine senator and Duterte's long-time foe, de Lima was arrested in February on drugs charges she says were trumped up as part of a presidential vendetta.
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"Anan is among a growing number of candidates arrested or convicted on trumped up charges by the Egyptian authorities," the London-based rights group said in a statement.
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It makes sense because the Clintons have, since even before Bill Clinton won the Democratic nomination in 1992, been magnets for scandal, many of them trumped-up nothings.
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Using blackmail by holding an American citizen as a prisoner on trumped-up charges, he has tried to put a nail in the remnants of democracy in Turkey.
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KESSEL: I&aposm giving a miss to Turkey for its continued detention of American pastor, Andrew Brunson, who has spent almost two years behind bars on trumped-up charges.
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All eight opposition MPs, including six from the BNP whose chairwoman is in jail on what the party calls trumped-up corruption charges, have yet to be sworn in.
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"They're clearly trumped up by Aurora Police Department in order to justify their shooting of one of their own citizens in the back in his own home," he said.
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Russia's authorities banned Alexei Navalny, the country's most prominent opponent to President Vladimir Putin, from standing in the presidential election due in March, citing a trumped-up graft conviction.
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Mr Navalny is campaigning, but the Kremlin says he is ineligible because of a conviction on (trumped-up) embezzlement charges in 2013, for which he received a suspended sentence.
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This dynamic essentially puts the spotlight on the dads instead of the moms who will actually give birth, making the whole thing a weird performance of trumped-up masculinity.
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And one of his staunchest critics, opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was barred from running in the election over a corruption charge Navalny claims was trumped up to silence him.
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The recent release of some of those jailed on trumped-up charges should not fool anyone into thinking that the wind in Baku is blowing in a different direction.
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Pavlensky, 32, fled to Ukraine with his partner last month to avoid being sent to prison on what he said were trumped-up allegations of committing a sex crime.
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Danylyuk is under investigation for suspected tax evasion, which he says is a trumped up charge in retaliation for his efforts to root out corruption and tackle vested interests.
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The proposal has its origins in a trumped-up claim about the use of "secret science," but the facts instead show why the EPA proposal itself is so dangerous.
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A prominent anticorruption campaigner and Kremlin opponent, Mr. Navalny himself has been ensnared in a tangle of apparently trumped-up criminal cases in Moscow, including the supposed art theft.
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" "Although Myanmar has failed shamefully to redress the injustice of their trumped-up arrest and conviction on spurious evidence, we are relieved that their ordeal behind bars is over.
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After all, it was trumped-up outrage over supposed bias in its last group of human editors that helped to set us down this benighted path to begin with.
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The ethnic Uzbek's reporting on corruption, abuse and human rights elicited trumped-up charges that included incitement to ethnic hatred and complicity in the murder of a police officer.
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Detained days after the vote on trumped-up charges, he spent much of the remaining war in a military prison, his plight attracting more attention overseas than at home.
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In places like Iran and North Korea, rogue regimes have used trumped up and unfounded charges to imprison Americans, kicking off years of complex negotiations with the US government.
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He can turn the tables by saying that he was wrong on that vote, and that he has learned exactly how badly trumped up intelligence can hurt a country.
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He has vowed to run against President Vladimir V. Putin for the presidency in 2018, even though a previous conviction, widely viewed as trumped up, makes that technically illegal.
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The editor-in-chief and founder of local news site BlogSochi was arrested January 19, 2018 and is currently serving a six-year sentence on trumped up extortion charges.
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"Senator Sessions has callously ignored the reality of voter suppression but zealously prosecuted innocent civil rights leaders on trumped-up charges of voter fraud," Brooks said in a news release.
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The Kremlin also noted the American failure to react to the news that Alexei Navalny, an opposition leader and anti-corruption campaigner, would be tried again on trumped-up charges.
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Ortega's critics say she was closely allied with Maduro's efforts to crack down on dissent and, before her break with him, had helped jail opposition leaders on trumped-up charges.
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Selahattin Demirtas, co-leader of a pro-Kurdish party, was poised to become one of the main No voices but has ended up behind bars on trumped-up terror charges.
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Even the lion of the anti-Putin underground, Alexei Navalny, himself barred from running due to a criminal conviction he claims was trumped up to silence him, dismisses Sobchak's campaign.
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The key is to cover old ground in new ways, either by using catchy phrasing (Clinton's "Trumped-up trickle down" was not so catchy), or by introducing actual new information.
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"This Lula-centered farce was trumped up as an affront to the democratic state and intelligence of Brazilian citizens," one of Lula's lawyers, Cristiano Zanin, told reporters in Sao Paulo.
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Trump Fish went for the redesigned San Diego Chargers logo, complete with a yellow lightning bolt pelt, even though a Trumped Up Miami Dolphin would've been the more obvious choice.
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Mr Gayoom, in turn, joined forces in March with Mr Nasheed, his former nemesis, who lives in exile after being sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment on trumped-up terrorism charges.
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Maimane held a rally on Friday in the South African capital Pretoria to demand that the case against Hichilema be dropped, saying the Zambian politician was facing trumped up charges.
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His supporters call it a trumped-up charge to derail the couple's marriage in the courts by making it seem that her conversion was part of a larger jihadist plot.
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Prosecutors wanted him placed under house arrest while investigators look into accusations he assisted a criminal organization, charges he says were trumped up to undermine his campaign to unseat Poroshenko.
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Assange has called the charges trumped up and has warned that he could be extradited to the U.S. on spying charges if he stepped foot outside of the Ecuadorian embassy.
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There's Hunter Walk's Take Off Election Day and Spotify's new "Clarify" podcast series, CRV's Fuck Trump announcement that offers visa coverage for immigrant founders and Reid Hoffman's Trumped Up Cards.
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The good news: He survived and is back in a leadership position after spending nearly two seasons either imprisoned (for the trumped-up Joffrey murder charge) or on the road.
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Clinton assailed his economic policies as favoring wealthy Americans, calling them "trumped-up, trickle-down," and then made the first of several attempts to bait Mr. Trump into an overreaction.
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LEDE: The "brain training" company Lumosity has agreed to pay $2 million to settle charges that it deceptively trumped up the health benefits of its mobile app and online games.
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Pichugin has been held by the Kremlin for 85033 years, on trumped-up charges as part of Putin's campaign against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other leaders of the Yukos oil company.
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Maggie Haberman of the NYT has a look inside the first few days in a Trumped-up White House: A portrait of Andrew Jackson now hangs in the Oval Office.
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President Putin: I arranged for my only serious political adversary, Aleksei Navalny, to be convicted on trumped-up charges of embezzlement so he would be banned from running against me.
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Three months ago, the prosecutor in my case closed the investigation, establishing that I was not guilty of any crimes (I had faced trumped-up charges of possession of explosives).
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The 43-year-old filmmaker was detained in Crimea in 2014 and sentenced to 20 years in a maximum security prison on terrorism charges which he says were trumped up.
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But among men who are legitimately prominent, not just unfortunate collegians, there have been few cases of late where the accusations have seemed trumped-up or the punishment too severe.
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"I fought in a war started by a president with false and trumped up intelligence," said Representative Seth Moulton, Democrat of Massachusetts and a former Marine who served in Iraq.
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PKR was formed 20 years ago to carry on Anwar's reform agenda, after he was first jailed on what he has said were trumped-up charges of corruption and sodomy.
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I just wish those who are so vigorous in fighting the trumped-up "War on Christmas" would devote the same moral energy to the real and tragic assault on women.
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When commentators like Ronson or Hart attempt to reduce online outrage cycles to empty or trumped-up dramas, they diminish the validity of anger as a tool for creating change.
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The BNP is in disarray following the jailing early this year on corruption charges of Khaleda, on what the party says were trumped-up charges to keep her out of politics.
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Last year Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, or Ahok, an ethnic-Chinese Christian who succeeded Jokowi as governor of Jakarta, lost one election and is now in jail on trumped-up blasphemy charges.
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Maria Ressa, Philippine Journalist Critical of Rodrigo Duterte, Is Arrested Maria Ressa, a crusading pro-democracy journalist in the Philippines, has been arrested on trumped-up charges by the Duterte regime.
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He was jailed for five months in 1986 for robbery, an accusation he said was trumped up to intimidate his campaign soon after he filed the first petition for gay unions.
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But by writing trumped up stories about the glory of the supermoon, we're just taking empty clicks and leaving readers overhyped about an event that's undeserving of this level of attention.
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As the fans arrive, cinemas have been showing "Leto", a new film directed by Kirill Serebrennikov, who has been under house arrest on trumped-up corruption charges for nearly a year.
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On February 16th a court sentenced six media workers, including a prominent novelist, to life in prison without parole on trumped-up charges of involvement in an abortive coup in 2016.
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Its candidate for president, one of Mr Erdogan's most outspoken rivals, Selahattin Demirtas, was arrested in 2016 on trumped-up terrorism charges, and is leading his campaign from a prison cell.
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Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on both the Oversight Committee and Benghazi Committee, who has been running interference since 2011 against what he sees as the GOP majority's trumped-up attacks.
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But barely visible are those of its opponents, many of whom, including BNP chairperson and three-time premier Khaleda Zia, have been jailed on what the BNP calls trumped-up charges.
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"The American Sephardi Federation believes that this trumped-up controversy over the celebration's venue risks obstructing its significance," Jason Guberman, executive director of ASF, said in a statement to The Hill.
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She has been suffering severe depression, according to close friends, especially after authorities sentenced her brother to 11 years in prison over what supporters call trumped-up charges of business fraud.
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The plaintiff "experienced hostility when she opposed this proposed tax dodge, and was subjected to a transparently trumped up reason for her firing," her lawyer Jason Rozger said in an interview.
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A former economic minister who clashed with him over policy, Aleksei V. Ulyukayev, was sentenced to eight years in jail in 2017 on what many saw as trumped-up corruption charges.
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So pick the guy who's the outsider, pick the guy who's giving you an explanation—in my view, a trumped-up one, not convincing—but, nevertheless, people are hungry for that.
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Op-Ed Contributor Even in the long, inglorious history of trumped-up causes, the idea that American clergy members are persecuted by the government for speaking their minds takes the cake.
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Exiles are currently raising awareness about 13 Muslim Brotherhood members recently sentenced to death in Egypt for what they say are trumped-up charges, and raising money for the detainees' families.
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Human rights groups say the charges, which also have been made against Future Forward's deputy leader and could involve prison time, have been trumped up in order to kneecap the party.
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Opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is unlikely to be allowed to run against Putin due to what he says is a trumped up criminal conviction, said Putin was overstaying his welcome.
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CNRP leader Kem Sokha was arrested on trumped-up treason charges in September and, in November, Cambodia's Supreme Court formally disbanded the party, banning its 118 members from politics for five years.
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The persecution of vulnerable folk on trumped-up allegations of witchcraft may sound like a horror story from a history book, but the practice is on the rise in modern-day Africa.
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Secondly, an attack on NATO, trumped up on any excuse of Russian-speaking people, either in the NATO countries or in Finland or Sweden, is going to be an attack on us.
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During Monday night's debate, the Democratic presidential nominee called her rival's plan "trumped-up trickle-down economics," claiming his income and estate tax cut proposals would help wealthy people like himself most.
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The opposition and rights groups say Maduro's leftist administration is holding hundreds of political prisoners on trumped up charges intended to stifle dissent in the South American nation of 32 million people.
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In the government's eyes, the opposition is bent on overthrowing an elected president—the aim of protests in 2014, after which Leopoldo López, an opposition leader, was jailed on trumped-up charges.
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In the past four months the government has closed two American-funded radio-news services, dozens of broadcasting frequencies and one of the country's best independent newspapers on trumped-up tax charges.
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Oyub Titiev, head of the Chechnyan branch of human rights group Memorial, has been behind bars since January, again on trumped-up charges (Titiev says the police planted the drugs on him).
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And it shouldn't surprise anyone that, in 2016, they're using some trumped-up allegations against a high-profile Clinton aide who just happens to be Muslim to convince us to do so.
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The opposition has already been weakened, with one member, Senator Leila de Lima, in jail for what she says are trumped-up charges, and another critic, Antonio Trillanes, not seeking re-election.
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A top U.S. government official had previously expressed concern about harassment faced by Ismail's family from unknown parties, and rights group Amnesty International has called the charges against her father "trumped up".
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The comments continue a long-running blame game that has included prosecutor's accusing Saakashvili of assisting a criminal organization, charges he says are trumped up to undermine his campaign to unseat Poroshenko.
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Hasina and Khaleda, who between them have ruled Bangladesh for decades, are bitter rivals and the BNP says its leader has been jailed on trumped-up charges to keep her out of politics.
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All the eight opposition members, including six from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) whose chairwoman is in jail on what the party calls trumped-up corruption charges, have yet to be sworn in.
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Officials in Pakistan confirmed that Asia Bibi, a Christian woman whose death sentence on trumped-up charges of insulting the Prophet Muhammad was overturned in October, had been allowed to leave the country.
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In 2017 Mr Amin's testimony as an Islamic scholar helped secure the conviction of Basuki Tjahaja Purnama ("Ahok"), a former governor of Jakarta and an ally of Jokowi, on trumped-up blasphemy charges.
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De Lima was arrested on what are widely believed to be trumped-up accusations built on shady testimony from inmates at Bilibid prison, and she is currently detained at Camp Crame awaiting trial.
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"One man in, another man out," thinks the imprisoned Uzbek writer Abdulla Qodiriy—a real historical figure—as his cell-mates in Tashkent in 1938 are dragged away to face trumped-up charges.
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He was released a year later, along with hundreds of other secularist officers who had been locked away on trumped-up charges by prosecutors close to the Gulen community, a secretive Islamic movement.
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Sodomy is a crime in Malaysia and Anwar Ibrahim, who Mahathir has named as his successor, spent about a decade in jail under the law on what he said were trumped up charges.
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Though much of the conversation surrounding this album has been a trumped up "controversy" about whether he copied a similarly titled yee-haw-minded Mitski full-length, the actual songs deserve closer attention.
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As for the wax job, Jim says White and her lawyer used the bumps she got as trumped up evidence of what they said was herpes and tried to pin it on him.
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However, while serving in that role, he was illegitimately made the scapegoat in the Odebrecht scandal and is now under house arrest on trumped-up charges by Colombia's Attorney General Nestor Humberto Martinez.
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They understood that, if they didn't use this congressionally delegated power prudently, other countries would retaliate with their own trumped-up "national security" limits on American exports, eventually undermining open rules-based trade.
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The post of auditor-general has also been vacant since 2017, when Libero Milone resigned, saying he was forced to step down with trumped-up accusations after discovering evidence of possible illegal activity.
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I used to look forward to each new trumped up "bombshell" with guarded concern, clicking each exaggerated headline with bated breath to see what spin the media would impart on the latest revelation.
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There is an unmistakable message when a Trumped-up threat as flimsy and fantastic as the "migrant caravan" can bring out such a nakedly authoritarian response to a genuine humanitarian crisis: You're next.
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He is willing to accept Putin's denials, despite what the intelligence community has told him, because he wants to believe that the entire Russia story -- from meddling through collusion -- is, well, trumped up.
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His financial records were improperly disclosed, he has faced what he calls a trumped-up investigations about a long-ago real-estate transaction, and he has gotten scores of threatening emails and letters.
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Human Rights Watch called him the world's longest-imprisoned-journalist; he was convicted of a number of trumped-up charges, including terrorism, while he was writing for the opposition newspaper Erk, or Freedom.
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That's not supposed to stop Chuck from taking Taylor in on trumped-up charges regardless, offering a humiliating deal to go back to work at Axe Cap in exchange for freedom from prosecution.
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An autocratic politician emerges from retirement at age 92 to defeat his handpicked but appallingly corrupt successor, and to clear the way for a former deputy he had imprisoned on trumped-up charges.
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"These trumped-up charges were always a sham — a blatant attempt by the Trump administration to prevent more automakers from joining California and agreeing to stronger emissions standards," he said in a statement.
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The outcry this week followed a similar public campaign to release Ivan Golunov, a prominent investigative journalist, who was arrested in June on drug trafficking charges that his supporters said were trumped up.
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His is one of a handful of recent cases in which the government, amid an outcry over what opponents say are trumped-up charges, has backed away from harsh punishment of its critics.
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Conservative Islamic groups helped rally popular support for the imprisonment in 2017 of Widodo's former ally, Jakarta mayor and Christian Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, on what some saw as trumped-up blasphemy charges.
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Another Duterte opponent, Senator Leila de Lima, who has been detained for more than two years after being accused by Mr. Duterte of involvement in illegal drugs, called the latest charges trumped up.
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Another Duterte opponent, Senator Leila de Lima, who has been detained for more than two years after being accused by Mr. Duterte of involvement in illegal drugs, called the latest charges trumped up.
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Few of those investigated turned out to actually be communists, and McCarthy's name became synonymous with leveling trumped-up, unsubstantiated accusations of wrongdoing against one's political opponents in a highly pressurized political climate.
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In particular, Sobchak asked about the case of opposition leader Alexei Navalny who looks unlikely to be allowed to run in the election due to what Navalny says is a trumped up criminal case.
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And the national prosecuting authorities initial moves to charge finance minister Pravin Gordhan for fraud, widely assumed to be trumped up and politically motivated, deeply shocked the general public and some senior ANC members.
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"These trumped up charges were always a sham — a blatant attempt by the Trump administration to prevent more automakers from joining California and agreeing to stronger emissions standards," Newsom said in a statement Friday.
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Muckraking journalists, rights advocates, opposition politicians, government whistle-blowers and other Russians who threaten that image are treated harshly — imprisoned on trumped-up charges, smeared in the news media and, with increasing frequency, killed.
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Ms. Kane has since been indicted on perjury and other charges that she says were trumped up because she took on what she called the old boys' club of the judiciary and law enforcement.
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Ferried by helicopter across the country over several weeks, General Arellano and his combat troops, overruling local commanders, singled out dissidents who had been arrested on trumped-up charges and ordered them summarily executed.
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Human rights groups described these as trumped-up charges, staging a situation in which Maduro was likely to cynically use Holt's jailing as a bargaining chip for opening lines of communication with U.S. officials.
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It's not clear what, within the scope of the regulations, would happen to such a report in the scenario laid out here, where Mueller got fired on some trumped-up claim of improper action.
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Editorial Nabeel Rajab, a prominent human rights activist in Bahrain, has racked up a long rap sheet of trumped-up charges over the past decade for peacefully exercising his right to criticize the government.
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"I HOLD OUT my hands and they handcuff me," Ahmet Altan wrote in his prison memoir, recalling the moment a court sentenced him to life without parole on trumped-up terror and coup charges.
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A former taekwondo champion, Mastikasheva spent years in Ukrainian custody on what she says were trumped up treason charges in a case that was documented by rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
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Navalny, a lawyer who has campaigned against official corruption, was barred from running in the election by the central election commission in December over what he said was a trumped up suspended prison sentence.
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"As far as I can tell, (Darrell) Issa's primary contribution to the United States Congress has been to obstruct and to waste taxpayer dollars on trumped-up investigations that have led nowhere," Obama said.
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"We are focused on compliance and fixes, not on big fines that are trumped up," said Jim Semerad, who leads the division of the North Dakota Department of Health that enforces air emissions rules.
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To its credit the State Department has stepped up its public criticism of Bahrain recently, including calling for the immediate release of leading rights advocate Nabeel Rajab, facing an unfair trial on trumped-up charges.
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Democrats only poured fuel on the fire by spending their allotted five minutes helping Pichai shoot down those trumped-up claims, which are hard to prove either way thanks to the company's black box algorithms.
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"That all changed with Watergate, which conservatives saw as a scandal trumped up by the liberal media to bring down a Republican president," wrote Nicole Hemmer, a historian at the Miller Center of Public Affairs.
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In 2005, when she was an eighteen-year-old law student, Wai Wai Nu was convicted of various trumped-up charges—the judge didn't even bother to take any notes—and sentenced to seventeen years.
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A statement from the Russian Embassy accused U.S. authorities of arresting Butina on "trumped-up charges" and claimed that prosecutors were trying to "intimidate" her ahead of her trial by placing her in solitary confinement.
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Tehran's surprise decision this weekend to sentence an American citizen to 10 years in prison on trumped-up spying charges means the president will now have to decide whether to actually act on those words.
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The election is a "historic fight against the resurgence of tyranny," said an incumbent senator, Leila de Lima, who is in jail on drug-trafficking charges that she and rights groups say are trumped up.
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Southerners sought to replace slave labor by jailing African-Americans on trumped-up charges and turning them over to, among others, sugar cane plantations in the region once known as the Sugar Bowl of Texas.
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Navalny, who has been barred from running over what he says is a trumped-up suspended prison sentence, has called on voters to boycott what he says will be a rigged election on March 18.
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Leila de Lima said her arrest Friday over "trumped up" charges signals the slow demise of democracy, and is meant to silence opposition to the drug war the President has waged since taking office in June.
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T.I.'s demanding someone pay up and take the fall for what he calls "trumped-up charges" from the arrest at his gated community ... because the case is ruining the image he worked hard to rehabilitate.
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was barred on Monday from running in next year's presidential election after officials ruled he was ineligible to take part due to a suspended prison sentence he says was trumped up.
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M. Shahidul Alam is only the latest journalist to be held on trumped-up charges, but his impact on the photo world in Asia cannot be overstated, and that makes his imprisonment all the more infuriating.
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" Here to explain that and more of what he thinks about the today&aposs developments, Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law Professor Emeritus and author of the new book "Trumped Up: How Criminalization of Political Differences Endangers Democracy.
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"Senator Sessions has callously ignored the reality of voter suppression but zealously prosecuted innocent civil rights leaders on trumped-up charges of voter fraud," NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks said in a news release.
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda, who between them have ruled Bangladesh for decades, are bitter rivals and the BNP says its leader has been jailed on trumped-up charges to keep her out of politics.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican's first auditor-general, who resigned without explanation in June, has broken his silence, saying he was forced to step down with trumped-up accusations after discovering evidence of possible illegal activity.
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The opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who had been barred from running because of a fraud conviction he says was trumped up by the Kremlin, had called, seemingly to little effect, for a boycott of the elections.
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Mr Bo's efforts earned him much approval locally, but were also widely criticised for their ruthlessness—critics said the campaign was used as a pretext to arrest businesspeople on trumped-up charges and seize their assets.
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Shortly after Mr. Gabyshev's arrest overnight at his roadside camp in eastern Siberia, prosecutors in Moscow asked a court to free a jailed actor whose recent conviction on transparently trumped-up charges had stirred widespread outrage.
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Black began to realize that the evidence he'd always used to support his racist views—involving supposed IQ differences between the races and immigrant crime rates—had been trumped up or misused by those in his movement.
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The great showcase of American soccer began on Friday night in a stadium with a trumped-up attendance total, liberal dabs of yellow jerseys, salvos of Olé and a 2-0 drubbing which never felt especially close.
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Navalny, who was barred from taking part in the March presidential election over what he said was a trumped-up suspended prison sentence, has been repeatedly jailed for going ahead with such protests anyway despite official rejections.
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Aldana has also been a strong critic of the current government, and her supporters says charges against her for allegedly spending public funds on workshops that never happened were trumped-up to damage her tilt for office.
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Russia says it is acting purely to prevent acts of terrorism, but some Crimean Tatars say the authorities are using religious extremism as a trumped-up pretext to lock up people they deem to be ideological opponents.
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IRPT chairman Mukhiddin Kabiri, who has left Tajikistan and spoke to Reuters before the verdict was announced, dismissed the charges as trumped-up and said they were part of a broad campaign aimed at eliminating the party.
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They included the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who had been jailed in Russia after being convicted on what were widely seen as trumped-up terrorism charges, and 24 sailors detained late last year in waters near Crimea.
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Among the award winners in the Prix Benois ceremony was the ballet's original choreographer Kirill Serebrennikov, who is awaiting trial on what his supporters say are charges trumped up to punish him for challenging the Russian establishment.
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But, having said that, apparently, the impetus to originally look into him were these reports that he was talking to Russian operatives or Russians in general, apart from all of this other -- pardon the term -- trumped-up stuff.
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Like everything related to Assange, reaction to the news was polarized and contentious, with supporters crowing that trumped-up charges had finally been dropped against an innocent man, and others dismayed that justice had been thwarted yet again.
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Over more than a decade, he has gradually turned the Turkish press into his personal mouthpiece — critical independent outlets faced fines, administrative penalties, or trumped-up charges of tax evasion, and one by one they fell in line.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was barred on Monday from running in next year's presidential election after officials ruled he was ineligible to take part due to a suspended prison sentence he says was trumped up.
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The couple was waiting for Caleno&aposs U.S. visa when they were arrested at her family&aposs apartment in a government housing complex for what the U.S. considered trumped-up charges of stockpiling an assault rifle and grenades.
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In that conflict, known locally as the United States Intervention in Mexico, a trumped-up border dispute in Texas ended with U.S. soldiers occupying the capital and forcing the government to sign over half of the country's territory.
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The imprisoned Demirtas, who has been jailed pending trial on terrorism-related charges he has called trumped-up and politically motivated, was in third place in the presidential race with 593 percent of the vote, according to Anadolu.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Days before Kathy Griffin's infamous photo shoot, audiences at the first preview of the Public Theater's Trumped-up production of Julius Caesar witnessed an even more lurid attack on the presidential body.
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The woman at the center of a sexually charged political firestorm involving U.S.-Russian relations was arrested in Thailand while teaching a course on seduction, in a case she claims was trumped up by Moscow to punish her.
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Ghosn, who was charged in Japan with under-reporting his future compensation and breach of trust, has repeatedly asserted his innocence, saying authorities trumped up charges to prevent a possible fuller merger between Nissan Motor Co. and Renault.
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"I will go to the elections when there's a choice," read one placard in Vladivostok, a reference to the fact that Navalny has been barred from running over what he says is a trumped up suspended prison sentence.
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Doğan used her release to draw attention to Sisê's health and those of other inmates that are often placed in confinement on trumped up, overzealous charges, left to languish for years in jail without leniency of any kind.
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The candidate who came in third in the presidential election, Selahattin Demirtas, ran his entire campaign from a maximum security prison, where he is being held pending trial on terrorism charges he says are trumped up and politically motivated.
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Activists in, say, Sweden or New Zealand may have few concerns that police will use their technological prowess to arrest them on trumped-up charges, because rule of law is strong and those governments generally respect citizens' civil liberties.
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Maria Ressa, the award-winning head of news platform Rappler, was served a warrant live on television at her office on Wednesday for what media watchdogs said were trumped-up charges aimed at intimidating those who challenge Duterte's rule.
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Among the award winners at the Prix Benois ceremony in Moscow was the ballet's original director Kirill Serebrennikov, who is awaiting trial on what his supporters say are charges trumped up to punish him for challenging the Russian establishment.
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"President Putin considers the U.S. strikes against Syria an act of aggression against a sovereign country violating the norms of international law, and under a trumped-up pretext at that," the Russian Tass news agency reported Peskov as saying.
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We do not need to know their names to recognize that the pattern of persecution and prosecution is the same: arbitrary arrest, torture in detention, denial of the right to a fair hearing, trumped-up charges, and the like.
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But Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader with the highest profile in the West, has been barred from standing over a suspended prison sentence for what he says is a trumped-up fraud charge, and is planning post-election protests.
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"These trumped up charges were always a sham – a blatant attempt by the Trump administration to prevent more automakers from joining California and agreeing to stronger emissions standards," California governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement about the news.
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As a result, he has been denounced on state television as a traitor, Russian border guards have defaced his passport to prevent him from leaving the country, and he has faced a string of seemingly trumped-up criminal charges.
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But Republicans argue that Schiff and his fellow Democrats shoulder the blame for the committee's partisan war, starting with the push to remove Nunes as head of the committee with what they argue were trumped-up, partisan ethics charges.
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Azimjon Askarov Award-winning journalist Azimjon Askarov, who is an ethnic Uzbek and has contributed to independent news websites including Voice of Freedom, has spent nine years in prison on trumped-up charges for reporting on human rights violations.
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Bolton is not only a longtime proponent of regime change in Iran, he was also a key player prior to the 2003 Iraq War in the production of trumped-up charges that Saddam Hussein was preparing to produce nuclear weapons.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities on Thursday froze a slew of bank accounts linked to jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny as part of a money laundering investigation that his allies say is a trumped-up attempt to cripple his political movement.
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Maria Ressa, the award-winning head of news platform Rappler, was served a warrant live on television at her office on Wednesday afternoon for what media watchdogs said were trumped-up charges aimed at intimidating journalists who challenge Duterte's rule.
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Anwar Ibrahim, the charismatic leader of the informal opposition coalition which won the popular vote in an election in 2013 (though not, thanks to gerrymandering, a majority of seats), has been in prison since 2015 on trumped-up charges of sodomy.
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The case shed a stark light on the often dysfunctional Egyptian judiciary, which since 2013 has sentenced hundreds of people to death or to life in prison in mass trials on what human rights advocacy groups have called trumped-up charges.
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Last year two opposition leaders who had sought to run for president were freed from prison, including Victoire Ingabire, a Hutu who had been sentenced to 15 years on trumped-up charges of inciting "divisionist" (ie, Hutu v Tutsi) rebellion.
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He says the allegations that he rigged the case allocation process were trumped up by his enemies in revenge for his attempts to stamp out bribe-taking and to stop him securing a seat at a newly established Supreme Court.
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And without the quicksilver brilliance of Anwar Ibrahim, who was jailed under Mr Najib on trumped-up sodomy charges but who re-emerged into the limelight on May 16th with a royal pardon, there would have been no momentum for change.
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Yorov has dismissed the charges against him as politically motivated and rights groups such as Human Rights Watch have said they appeared to be trumped-up and that the move threatened the legal profession in general in the Central Asian nation.
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A spokesman for Massaad's legal team said Massaad strongly denied the "trumped up charges", which relate to the 2011 sale of Georgia's Poti Sea Port and are part of a wider corruption case against Massaad, a former chief executive of RAKIA.
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Primaries, conventions, debates, and an endless parade of scandals (whether valid or trumped up) give hosts and writing staffs an embarrassment of riches to work with: Every headline is a new monologue joke, every gaffe a potential Saturday Night Live sketch.
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"We are very worried that these women and other activists detained, like activists before them, will be tried and sentenced on trumped up security-related charges for their peaceful human-rights activism," said Dana Ahmed, Amnesty International's campaigner on Saudi Arabia.
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There was a too-eager invocation of "Trumped-up trickle-down economics"; a repeated, awkward pronunciation of China; some audible sniffling and a vehement complaint of a broken microphone; a plea to call Sean Hannity; and a gleeful shoulder shimmy.
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The United Nations uses a rubric to determine how much member states contribute to its regular budget based on "gross national income" -- which is basically a trumped-up version of gross domestic product that includes salaries and taxes from overseas.
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Navalny, a 41-year-old lawyer whose protests and corruption exposes of the sometimes gilded lives of government officials have irked the Kremlin, has been barred from the contest over what he says is a trumped up suspended prison sentence.
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The object is to force the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to release Andrew Brunson, an American and evangelical Christian pastor who has been imprisoned by Turkey since 2016 on trumped-up charges of aiding an aborted coup by Erdogan opponents.
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Azimjon Askarov (Kyrgyzstan)Award-winning journalist Azimjon Askarov, who is an ethnic Uzbek and has contributed to independent news websites including Voice of Freedom, has spent nine years in prison on trumped-up charges for reporting on human rights violations.
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Despite the clout of a few individuals such as John Maynard Keynes, economists as a class were once held in almost universally low esteem by serious policymakers, who saw them as trumped-up statisticians with strange views about human behaviour.
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The president has also claimed to have seen a sex tape of one of his leading critics, Senator Leila De Lima, who is serving a prison sentence for what she says is a trumped-up charge of protecting drug lords.
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"I have willed a substantial amount of money to the museum — not in the same league as the trustees, but a lot for me — and I am angry enough at these trumped-up charges to change the bequest," Ms. Hirst said.
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A congressional committee voted on Monday by a larger-than-expected margin to recommend that Rousseff be impeached for breaking budget laws to support her re-election in 2014, a charge Rousseff says was trumped up to remove her from office.
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"I had been harboring a secret, megalomaniacal dream — that I was going to get him to apologize," Stern writes, never explaining how she planned to "get him" to do anything while steadfastly indulging his self-pitying monologues and trumped-up delusions.
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In addition to the opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who is in jail on what many people believe are trumped-up sodomy charges, at least 18 opposition lawmakers have been investigated for or charged with sedition and other offenses since 2013.
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Several American citizens figure among the tens of thousands of people jailed under Mr. Sisi, most notably Aya Hjazi, a humanitarian worker arrested in May 2014 on what have been widely viewed as trumped-up charges of trafficking and child abuse.
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In an interview after he was released from custody, Mr. Stone said he believed that "these charges are politically motivated," and called them trumped up to compensate for the special counsel's inability to prove collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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" The drama in You Vs. Wild is naturally a little trumped-up, since to shoot a real choose-your-own-adventure-style branching narrative, Grylls would have had to play out both choices in any scenario, including the one that didn't "end well.
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Under Mr Najib and, to a lesser extent, his predecessors, the press was cowed, the electoral system was rigged, the judiciary and bureaucracy were pliant and critics, whether within or outside the government, were harassed or imprisoned, often on trumped-up charges.
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The release of "Trumped Up Cards" in the fall of 2016 marked a new turn for the affable, pensive Hoffman, who soon embarked on something of a media blitz, including a rare appearance on the "The Daily Show" to tout the game.
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Suspended President Dilma Rousseff told the Senate on Monday the future of Brazil was at stake in her impeachment trial as her conservative opponents were using trumped-up charges to oust her and roll back the social advances of the past 13 years.
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The CNRP's top leader is in self-exile to avoid arrest over a case he says was raked up for political reasons, and its acting leader has been holed up in his headquarters to avoid what he says are separate trumped up charges.
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He says it was a trumped-up charge by his brother, a cop in Philadelphia, and an ex-classmate from Catholic school who worked for the District Attorney, after he and his brother had a falling-out over the care of his mother.
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Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said: "President Putin regards the U.S. attacks on Syria as an aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law, and under a trumped-up pretext at that, " according to the Russian Tass new agency.
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"The charges against him are so absurd and so trumped up that once he is likely forced out of the public office in the coming weeks, it will be a clear act of political vengeance," the Daily Maverick, an online political magazine, wrote.
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Major Panther leaders were arrested on trumped up charges, misled into attacking rival Black Power organizations, and in some instances, shot and killed at the hands of law enforcement officials given a virtual green light to assault the group by the FBI.
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A congressional committee voted on Monday by a larger-than-expected margin to recommend that she be impeached for breaking budget laws to support her re-election in 2014, a charge Ms. Rousseff says was trumped up to remove her from office.
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Another person familiar with the visit said Prince, in his late November dinner at Rodriguez's home, urged the release of six executives of Houston-based Citgo held for more than two years on what are widely seen as trumped-up corruption charges.
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"I have willed a substantial amount of money to the museum — not in the same league as the trustees, but a lot for me — and I am angry enough at these trumped-up charges to change the bequest," she told the Times.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A Cambodian opposition leader has been holed up in his party's headquarters for seven days to avoid arrest on charges he says are trumped-up as Prime Minister Hun Sen looks to neutralize his opponents ahead of a 2018 election.
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The royal family of Bahrain, which is Sunni Muslim, has pursued an aggressive crackdown against calls for democracy from the kingdom's Shiite Muslim majority, including a campaign of widespread arrests and many convictions on what human rights groups say are trumped-up charges.
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Titiev, who ran the Chechen office of the Memorial Human Rights Centre that reports on rights abuses in the region, was sentenced in March after the court found him guilty of possessing illegal drugs, a charge his supporters say was trumped up.
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The attack had the ancillary effect of separating Trump from Putin, who views the the strikes as "aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law," and believes the attack was done under a "trumped-up pretext," according to his spokesman.
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Screenshot: GizmodoFederal prosecutors on Tuesday debunked a long-running conspiracy theory promoted by President Trump and right-wing blog The Daily Caller, firmly declaring a former congressional IT staffer of Pakistani birth innocent of a slew of trumped up espionage and computer related crimes.
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Last year critics blasted the government for ignoring the rulers' apparent disapproval of a noxious new security law; meanwhile the opposition is hoping that a royal pardon will free Anwar Ibrahim, its leader, who has been imprisoned since 2015 on trumped-up charges of sodomy.
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He could not fight for a seat during the election PH won in May, paving the way for Malaysia's first ever change of government, because he was languishing in prison, for a third time, on trumped-up charges of sodomy (a crime in Malaysia).
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When Donald Trump fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on a trumped-up pretext and then sent a series of tweets lambasting special counsel Robert Mueller and his team in dishonest terms, it sparked a new spasm of concern about the future of Mueller's investigation.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court sentenced a former mayor and vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin's allies to 12 1/2 years in jail on Wednesday in a graft case the liberal opposition said was trumped up to end its fledgling success in the regions.
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"Bobomurod Abdullayev's has already paid a terrible price for his independent journalism, spending seven months in Uzbekistan's most notorious detention center where he was allegedly tortured to confess to trumped up charges," said Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty's Deputy Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
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These myriad characters have one thing in common: they all have appeared on state-run China Central Television (CCTV) since President Xi Jinping took power three years ago, confessing their alleged crimes in front of a nationwide audience amid public outcries over trumped-up charges.
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With her communication with the outside world almost completely cut off by the government, Liu Xia has been suffering severe depression, according to friends, especially after authorities sentenced her brother to 11 years in prison over what supporters call trumped-up charges of business fraud.
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With her communication with the outside world almost completely cut by the government, Liu Xia has been suffering severe depression, according to friends, especially after authorities sentenced her brother to 11 years in prison over what supporters call trumped-up charges of business fraud.
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Secularists resent the group's followers in the police and judiciary for staging mass trials from 2008 to 2013 that sent hundreds of army officers to prison on trumped-up coup charges (with the blessing of Mr Erdogan, who was then allied to the Gulenists).
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" A report on Tuesday by the ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights chided the Duterte administration for what it said were threats and aggressive rhetoric and trumped-up criminal charges against opponents that amounted to "deliberate effort to muzzle critics and weaken checks and balances.
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Putin, who is running for re-election in March, was answering a question at his annual news conference about opposition leader Alexei Navalny who looks unlikely to be allowed to contest the election due to what Navalny says is a trumped up criminal case.
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What is at stake with the American capitalist propaganda of Koons's "Bouquet of Tulips" is the recognition of art as a means of seeing through Orwellian falseness, through the clichéd, through the indifferent, through the tendentiousness of Trumped-up, hyped-up, falsified life and death.
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Make no mistake: if Republicans hold both houses of Congress this November, Trump will go full authoritarian, abusing institutions like the I.R.S., trying to jail opponents and journalists on, er, trumped-up charges, and more — and he'll do it with full support from his party.
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According to Netherlands-based independent Azerbaijani historian and prominent human rights defender Arif Yunus, who was previously jailed in Azerbaijan on what Amnesty International considers trumped-up charges of "treason," the Azerbaijani president's anti-Armenian posture is inflated jingoism aimed at cementing his regime.
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Vikings 26, Saints 20 It was trumped up a bit because it came against New Orleans, but tight end Kyle Rudolph appeared to commit something akin to offensive pass interference on his game-winning touchdown catch, which could not have felt good for Saints fans.
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Joseph Barone had sued over his 2009 arrest on what his lawsuit described as "trumped-up charges that he had participated in a murder-for-hire plot," in a case that offers a glimpse at the sometimes conflicted relationship between informants and their government handlers.
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During his years as prime minister from 1981 to 2003, Mr. Mahathir muzzled the media, jailed his opponents on what were seen as trumped-up charges and turned a blind eye as leaders of the governing National Front coalition personally profited from their political positions.
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Republican congressional leaders Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, for example, apparently saw the B.D.S. debate as yet another cudgel with which to beat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats over the head with the trumped-up charge of disdain for America's Jews.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A prominent Russian human rights advocate jailed on charges his supporters say were trumped up walked free on Friday, but said he would not return to his work in Chechnya because he felt the risk to his staff there would be too great.
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" Against U.S. strike Russia: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian state-run news agency Sputnik that president Putin regards the attacks on Syria as "an aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law, and under a trumped-up pretext at that.
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With her communication with the outside world almost completely cut by the government, friends say she has been suffering severe depression and nervous breakdowns, especially after the authorities sentenced her brother to 11 years in prison over what supporters call trumped-up charges of business fraud.
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Devin Nunes, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, stepped down from his role overseeing the committee's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, pending an Ethics Committee investigation into complaints that he leaked classified information to kick off the trumped-up scandal surrounding Rice.
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VILNIUS, Lithuania — Facing trial in Russia over the theft of a street-art drawing valued by its creator at $22009, Nikita Kulachenkov, a Russian forensic accountant involved in anticorruption work, fled to Lithuania to avoid what he decided was a doomed battle against trumped-up charges.
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But it was in 2006, when Chen was jailed for four years on what he said were trumped up charges, he discovered prisoners were being forced to work for up 16 hours a day to make various products and tortured if they did not work hard enough.
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California's actions from the governor down to local mayors on green policies are a good offset to the federal government, which, as of late, indicates any tangible change in regards to climate change policy is going to be bottom up rather than Trumped-up trickle down.
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Mr. Young started flipping through a pile of response cards pledging support for the Committee to Defend Martin Luther King and the Struggle in the South, founded in Mr. Belafonte's apartment in 1960, after Dr. King was arrested in Alabama on trumped-up charges of tax evasion.
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Mr. Serebrennikov, one of Russia's leading stage and film directors, has been under house arrest in Moscow since August 2017 awaiting trial on corruption charges that are widely considered to be trumped up, a punishment for provocative work that stoked the ire of Russia's ruling elite.
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It was despicable when Trump leaned on a foreign leader to push for a trumped-up corruption investigation, against the information and advice of his advisors, to the detriment of foreign service officers on the ground, and against the interests of the United States of America.
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In September, Russia and Ukraine swapped dozens of prisoners, with Russia returning a Ukrainian filmmaker, Oleg Sentsov, who had been jailed in Russia after being convicted on what were widely seen as trumped-up terrorism charges, and 24 sailors detained late last year in waters near Crimea.
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" In it, Trump bemoans in a trumped-up quote: "We have not seen one single NEA-backed project come close to justifying its cost since the Swedish-American sculptor debuted his Pop Art masterpiece in 1970, challenging the way we grapple with questions of industrialization and decay.
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He conditioned its release on Egypt's meeting three requirements: ending military and diplomatic cooperation with North Korea; resolving the case of 22014 staff of American and German democracy NGOs convicted in 22017 on trumped-up charges; and repealing or amending a repressive law regulating the work of NGOs.
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Using trumped-up drug charges to silence critics is nothing new for Russian authorities, but what happened next may be without precedent: Following public outrage protests on the streets of Moscow over the treatment of Golunov, the Kremlin, and Putin, were forced to tacitly admitted a mistake was made.
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"These trumped-up charges, used to attack peaceful activists like Nguyen Viet Dung and many other dissidents before him, show just how easy it is for the government to harass, detain, prosecute and imprison any person," said Phil Robertson, Deputy Asia Director at New York-based Human Rights Watch.
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"These activists, held for over five months on trumped up charges, have not only been unjustly detained, but have also found themselves before a kangaroo court in which the principles of law and justice are being disregarded," Amnesty's deputy director for Southern Africa Muleya Mwananyanda said at the time.
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"The reality is that the Philippines under Duterte may have squandered the most solid legal ground it has against China in the South China Sea conflict," Leila de Lima, an opposition leader now in detention on what human-rights advocates say are trumped up charges, said in a statement.
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Malaysia's democracy is clearly flawed — the same coalition has ruled it since it became independent in 1957, and it has jailed opposition leaders on trumped-up charges — but it is not in the same league as countries like China and Russia, where freedom of speech is extremely circumscribed.
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Her sister was detained in an effort to silence her while she was abroad, and her husband was arrested, tortured and coerced into denouncing her on state TV. In 2016, Mohammadi was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment on trumped-up national security charges, which she is currently serving.
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Many Catholic Venezuelans were disappointed that the Vatican did not take the opportunity to rebuke Mr Maduro openly (or even obliquely) over the country's humanitarian crisis, or over the fact its most prominent opposition leader, Leopoldo López, is in prison on what human-rights organisations consider to be trumped-up charges.
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Along with the reopening of that rock venue, this slim black booklet reminds us in our new Trumped-up world of revenge, intolerance, and isolationism, of the capacity for resistant strength and healing when open and charitable characteristics are sutured back together through the magnanimity of artistic expression and noisy convergence.
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In 2014, during the Sochi Winter Olympics, alongside her Pussy Riot comrade Maria Alyokhina (who was also arrested and imprisoned following the now-infamous "Punk Prayer" church protest), Tolokno was detained by police on trumped-up charges; once released, the women were chased down and horsewhipped by a band of Cossacks.
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Across the 1930s but especially 1937 and 1938, Stalin ordered the arrests of some 1.6 million party officials, military officers, intelligence agents and others on trumped-up charges of betraying the nation, a stunning display of ruthlessness that gutted Soviet leadership circles at a time of mounting threats from abroad.
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By contrast, when Ms. Porras's predecessor, Thelma Aldana, announced her candidacy for the presidency, 18 legal motions were filed against her, a judge issued an arrest order, and an electoral court disqualified her on the day before her candidacy would have become official, all over trumped-up and phony charges.
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But he didn't get here by hitting any of the traditional markers, and when Hillary Clinton repeated her obviously rehearsed "trumped-up trickle-down economics" line and smiled at nobody, it was like watching a robot take pleasure performing a function its maker had come to feel deeply unsure of.
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Of the alternatives, Selahattin Demirtas, the leader of the HDP, the main Kurdish party, is impressive but has no chance of winning—not just because he is a Kurd in a country that mistrusts them, but also because he is campaigning from behind bars, having been jailed on trumped-up terrorism charges.
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Although the proposed bill would allow extraditions to more than 170 other jurisdictions, the protests have focused on the potential for people in Hong Kong, including foreigners there, to be sent to mainland China, where courts are explicitly under the Communist Party's control and dissidents are jailed on trumped-up criminal charges.
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Russia Reaction: Opposes strike Russian President Vladimir Putin regards the US attacks on Syria as "an aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law, and under a trumped-up pretext at that," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by Russian state-run news agency Sputnik.
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One of the evils of the practice has been that when a woman was killed for honor, inquiries often revealed a trumped-up adultery case that hid a property dispute, a tribal enmity or even a man's wish simply to rid himself of a first wife in order to marry a second.
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When Vano Merabishvili, formerly in charge of the Georgian police as internal affairs minister, discussed these attacks with me in 2011 (before he was ousted by Georgia's corrupt and often pro-Kremlin elite and imprisoned on trumped-up charges), he opined that graft and greed were the real causes of all this bungling.
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Mr. Cipollone's task at that point will be to deconstruct the House case that has sunk in over three days, arguing not just that the process has been unfair to the president but also that Democrats are trying to achieve through a trumped-up impeachment process what they cannot at the ballot box.
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For that, the administration will have to regularly converse with the Iranian government, something that appears not to have happened, even to try to win the release of the businessman Siamak Namazi, and his father, Baquer Namazi, two Iranian-Americans who were sentenced to 10 years in prison by Iran on trumped-up spying charges.
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But analysts say that unlike her rival presidential candidate Francois Fillon – a onetime front-runner whose campaign is reeling over allegations he gave his wife a trumped-up job as his parliamentary assistant – Le Pen has largely managed to shrug off the scandals, citing them as evidence the system is stacked against her party.
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So, ahead of that, something that comes up is that a number of Democrats are saying, for all the Republicans&apos whining about whether this whole thing is a trumped-up thing against Donald Trump, no pun intended, sir, it was his investigation and stumbling around, James Comey, they&aposre referring to, that cost our candidate the election.
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Thanks to the obstacles identified above, any such prosecution would be transparently political, and would thereby set a precedent pursuant to which newly elected presidents might seek to pursue trumped-up charges as a way of silencing their opponents -- or use the specter of such prosecutions as a means of intimidating those who would run against them.
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MOSCOW – Russian authorities this week brought fresh legal action against an acclaimed researcher into Stalin&aposs purges, accusing him of sexual misconduct toward his underage daughter, in what human rights groups see as a trumped-up attempt to shut down his work at a time when the government is seeking to gloss over Soviet-era crimes.
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It'll be familiar as well to political junkies who remember the trumped up controversy over an Obama adviser's description of the administration's approach to Libya as "leading from behind"; or the undeserved mockery Obama endured after his reelection when he promised to "create a permission structure" that would allow Republicans to cut a budget deal with him.
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"The American people deserve to evaluate their options in a presidential election fully informed about the candidates' financial ties, yet the current system allows candidates to provide what could be a trumped-up excuse for hiding their tax returns by claiming a pending IRS audit, whether or not that is actually happening," Huffman said in a statement on Thursday.
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"Since I was all over national TV, cable and print defending wikileaks and Assange against the claim that you are Russian agents and debunking the false charges of sexual assault as trumped up bs you may want to reexamine the strategy of attacking me- cordially R," Stone wrote to Wikileaks on October 13, 2016, according to The Atlantic.
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The Nunes memo, like the Super Bowl, is what Daniel Boorstin called a "pseudo-event," which is basically a made-up (or trumped-up) drama, the chief purpose of which is to give people something to talk about in a way that benefits the political or corporate interests of whoever invented the drama in the first place.
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But using the old-fashioned charge of blasphemy (with the implication that religions or philosphical systems have a right to be shielded from attack) is surely the worst possible signal that a liberal democracy could send to a world where trumped-up or malicious charges of blasphemous behaviour are causing untold suffering, from the cities of Punjab to the villages of Nigeria.
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Yet it now sounds like the last blast of the trumpets of a defeated army: Russia, hardened by life in a tough geopolitical neighborhood, did invade Ukraine, on the pretext – not, in President Vladimir Putin's mind in the least "'trumped up"' – that it is inseparably bound to Russia, while Putin and most Russians believe Crimea, annexed in 2014, has always been Russian.
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Second - "Trumped- Up" National Emergencies: Imagine tens of thousands of Latinos, and their non-Latino sympathizers, openly and violently resisting a President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE order to deport them and their families from the country that they call home.
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In U.S.-allied Philippines, the outspoken senator and former human rights commissioner Leila de Lima, who has been critical of President Rodrigo Duterte's antidrug war that has left more than 7,000 dead in the past three years in gun battles with the police and vigilantes, was thrown in jail in February 2017 on trumped-up drug charges and still languishes there.
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Ghosn, who was charged with under-reporting his future compensation and breach of trust, has repeatedly asserted his innocence, saying authorities trumped up charges to prevent a possible fuller merger between Nissan Motor Co. and alliance partner Renault SA. His 1.5 billion yen ($14 million) bail that Ghosn posted on two separate instances to get out of detention is being revoked.
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By comparison, To Kill a Mockingbird was 23 pages long, and while it involved both a court case and trumped up accusations, it did not, as far as I recall, involve text messages about "The Deflator," watermelons as metaphors for footballs, which pressure gauge was used to measure the contents of an inflated urethane bladder, or preponderances of the evidence regarding all of the above.
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Both the book and film contend that Hillary Clinton's much-mocked assertion that there was a vast right-wing conspiracy out to get her and Bill was literally true; that there really was a concerted effort from funders like Richard Mellon Scaife, outlets like the American Spectator, congressional Republicans, and the independent counsel's office to take down the Clintons on trumped-up, phony charges.
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If anybody endangered "national security" in Ukraine, you'd have to conclude it was Obama and former vice president Joe BidenJoe BidenPompeo says Trump-Zelensky call was 'consistent' with administration policy Alyssa Milano to co-host Biden fundraiser next month House panel advances resolution outlining impeachment inquiry MORE, not Trump — the trumped-up (pun intended), rumor-based, case from mid-level bureaucrats such as Taylor notwithstanding.
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Philippines: journalist Maria Ressa to turn herself in after police issue warrant The editor of independent news site Rappler (and a personal hero) says she will challenge trumped-up charges of tax fraud that are being used to intimidate her and her news organization, Hannah Ellis-Petersen reports: On Sunday night, Ressa confirmed to the Guardian a warrant for her arrest had been issued.
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Based only on the thin slice of publicly available facts, it's possible the Department of Justice has amassed sufficient evidence to charge Trump with additional crimes relating to: Staunch MAGA followers might assume, at a minimum, that were it not for the internal DOJ guidance frowning upon the prospect of indicting a sitting president, prosecutors would charge Trump with "trumped-up" crimes if they could.
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Sure. (In the words of Kevin Garnett, anything is possible!) But the key question is whether the American public -- up to and including loosely affiliated Trump voters in 2016 -- are willing to believe that the Justice Department and Mueller are willing to risk their credibility and that of the American justice system to pursue a trumped up (ahem) case against a variety of Trump campaign officials.
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Both the book and film contend that Hillary Clinton's much-mocked assertion that there was a vast right-wing conspiracy out to get her and Bill was literally true; that there really was a concerted effort from funders like Richard Mellon Scaife, outlets like the American Spectator, congressional Republicans, and the independent counsel's office to take down the Clintons on trumped-up, phony charges.
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Primed by recent show trials in newly Sovietized Eastern Europe that showed defendants like Hungary's Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty parroting confessions to trumped-up charges in a trance-like state, American audiences took the prisoners' rehearsed mea culpas as yet more evidence of a new Communist triumph: Scientists behind the Iron Curtain had apparently developed techniques that could wipe the mind clean and repattern behavior.
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Turnout is expected to be on the low side and the winner is unlikely to command a strong mandate, especially after electoral authorities excluded other popular candidates from the first round in June - conservative candidate Zury Rios on the grounds that close relatives of coup leaders are barred from top office, and anti-corruption crusader Thelma Aldana due to an arrest warrant against her in a corruption case that supporters said was trumped up.
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The protest route was lined with street stands promoting causes such as government-funded dental care for disabled people; "Fixing Hong Kong", volunteers who repair poorly-maintained public housing; "Societas Linguistica Hongkongensis," promoting the Cantonese language; "Water For Free," discouraging bottled water; a group of residents from a remote district protesting a government decision to sell their local shopping mall; and a group supporting a Hong Konger imprisoned for 17 years in the Philippines on apparently trumped-up charges.
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BRUSSELS — Turkey is engaging in "hostage diplomacy" by holding several US and German citizens on seemingly trumped-up terrorism charges as bargaining chips in order to force the US and Germany to extradite Turkish nationals, according to current and former security officials in Europe and the US. Among those being held are an American pastor, Andrew Brunson, who'd lived in Turkey for 7003 years before his arrest 10 months ago, and a Turkish-German journalist, Deniz Yücel, who was detained in February.
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Tiffany Trump seemed to have a little fun at her father's expense during a recent night on the town in Washington, D.C. Donald Trump's younger daughter, 24, posted an Instagram story of her visit to D.C. hotspot HalfSmoke — including a photo of herself posing with "Trumped Up Cards," a "Cards Against Humanity"-style game that pokes fun of the president's catchphrases, hand size, hatred for the media and … well, there are 550 cards in the "bigly" deck so let's just say the list goes on.
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His films were overtly political, as seen in their spectrum of subjects, including the impossible dream of interracial marriage; the hostility of light-skinned blacks to darker-skinned ones; the great moral cost of trying to pass as white; the unjustified arrest of blacks on trumped-up offenses and the use of black prisoners' forced labor by white business owners; the legal chicanery that kept neighborhoods segregated; and the ills, such as bootlegging, gambling, and prostitution, that afflicted black communities deprived of education and opportunities.
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Opening with a scene of Harrison calling the US State Department—asking to speak to Hillary Clinton herself about the matter—the film documents the ongoing exile of Harrison, a UK citizen of Australian descent who cannot return to ol' Blighty after helping Snowden find his way to Moscow in 2013, and Assange, who has been holed up the past four years at the Ecuadorian embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden for sexual-assault charges that some feel are a trumped-up way of landing him in US hands.
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Political scientists have calculated that between 1972 and 2008, 87 presidential scandals occurred, or one every five months: Benghazi, the targeting of Tea Party groups by the Internal Revenue Service, yellow cake in Niger, torture in Abu Ghraib, the outing of Valerie Plame, Swift-boating, the Monica Lewinsky affair, Whitewater, Willie Horton, Iran-Contra, Billy Carter and Bert Lance, the Pentagon Papers and the My Lai Massacre, phony claims of shelling in the Gulf of Tonkin, wiretapping of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Bay of Pigs, the trumped-up Soviet missile gap, vote-stuffing in Chicago, and packing the Supreme Court, to name a few.
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It was twenty years ago todayThe industrial sport complex learned women would pay more money than men for slightly trumped up versions of poorly tailored gender-specific clothingThey've been going out of styleBut they're guaranteed to raise a smile from those reaping profits of 80 percent over manufacturing costSo may I introduce to youThe act you've known for all these yearsThe polyester shit they think you'll buy when all you want is a regular t-shirt I couldn't rightly tell you who was the first of my female ancestors to get her Women's Traditional Nightshirt, the one I, like every other woman I know, was lucky enough to inherit through a line of women that stretches back centuries.
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The human story is replete with examples of moments when the truth was traduced or when the truth was obscured: the disputed reports about how the battleship Maine was sunk in 1898; the trumped-up conspiracy surrounding the 1933 burning of the Reichstag that led to a brutal suspension of civil liberties shortly after the Nazis took power in Germany; the false contention that the U-2 reconnaissance plane flown by Francis Gary Powers in 1960 wasn't engaged in espionage over the Soviet Union; the misleading claims about the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin episode that drew the United States deeper into Vietnam; the repeated obfuscations of the 1970s Watergate scandal; Bill Clinton's 1998 denials of a relationship with Monica Lewinsky; and the false belief that Saddam Hussein harbored weapons of mass destruction in 2003.
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