[Rummyfan]

It's Kafka-esque.

[PGalt]

Josef K. “The Trial” - Franz Kafka

[kiryandil]

Yeah, well - I’m done with their phony “justice” system.

[The_Media_never_lie]

So just what is the crime? Curiously, the prosecution have not even announced what it is that they are trying Trump for! This would appear to be unheard of in any court of law, either here or in the US.

Is this really true?

[joe fonebone]

It’s a blog.
Why not post the whole thing right here?

[fruser1]

Just goes to show that the five-eyes are actually one.

[FLT-bird]

Not declaring it as a campaign expense during the 2016 election? No, that would be a federal offence, which a New York court would have no jurisdiction over.

Well, the NY courts could prosecute under the theory that the hush money payments were a campaign finance violation - which indeed is their theory of the case, BUT

A) This has already been tried in the federal courts and was decisively shot down by the US Supreme Court. They tried to prosecute Jonathan Edwards on this legal theory and the SCOTUS ruled 9-0 that it is not a campaign finance violation. You can spend as much of your money as you want to on your campaign. It is your first amendment right to do so. There is no limit.

and B) Even if the SCOTUS had ruled the opposite, the prosecution's theory is that this was for the 2016 election....yet the payment for the NDA did not happen until 2017 - AFTER the election had already happened. So how could it have influenced the 2016 election....even if that were a campaign finance violation which it is not.

C) There is also the problem that this selective prosecution violations the equal protections clause of the 14th amendment. This DA expressly campaigned by telling voters he would get Trump at all costs. Yes. Its literally right there out in the open in his public comments while campaigning. Pursuant to that unconstitutional end, he revived what was at best a misdemeanor case on which the statute of limitations had long run on an obviously invalid theory of the case.

[phil00071]

The BBC is very biased. They moved to the left about 30 years ago. In their coverage of U.S. politics, you will rarely see anything critical of Biden or any other democrat. In contrast, there is non-stop sniping at Republicans. In their reporting on the Trump trials, they do not even mention that half of all Americans think the trials are politically motivated.

[Vaduz]

The only crime going on is the trial.

[1Old Pro]

Judge should have stopped this long ago. But, we have Leftist activists permeating all forms of our justice system and breaking every and all judicial norms.