Posted on 04/15/2024 5:22:33 PM PDT by bitt
I find this,
(https://nypost.com/2024/04/15/us-news/trumps-hush-money-nyc-trial-live-updates-reactions-photos-analysis/)
from this morning’s proceedings in Trump’s “hush money” trial, inexplicable:
Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass looked for a backdoor way of introducing Donald Trump’s infamous “Access Hollywood” interview into the hush money trial Monday morning, where he recited, word for word, Trump’s “grab ’em by the p—y” speech.
Justice Juan M. Merchan had previously ruled that the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office could not play Trump’s interview to a jury because it could be prejudicial.
He doubled down on playing the tape — but said prosecutors could introduce the exact words that Trump said, meaning so long as jurors don’t hear the recording itself, it’s fair game.
Steinglass argued that the video was an “admission of sexual assault” and “living proof that the defendant wasn’t all talk.”
The tape is not actually an admission of sexual assault–it is the opposite, in fact–but put that aside. Trump is charged with the misdemeanor (bootstrapped into a felony by the prosecutor) of filing business records that were incorrect. What on God’s green Earth does the Access Hollywood tape have to do with Trump’s accounting records? Nothing. I can see no basis for this ruling other than an outrageous effort at election interference by the trial judge, Juan Merchan.
It does not bode well for the coming weeks–during which, by the way, Trump will be required to be present at the trial and will not be able to campaign. More election interference.
P
The US judicial system may not survive this. Massive reforms will be needed. The bias on the part of judges, prosecutors, and juries is just too stark.
It’s impossible for him to receive a fair trial, in either NYC or DC.
Communists run amok; who in their right mind would live in, or patronize such a place?
Survive? Are you joking? Look around the Marxist and socialist are winning. Look at our border. Open doors wide open and look at what our party just did to the American people passing FISA!!! This country is done … normal will never return. Every branch of our government is corrupt. There are none that side with their citizens! We have become spineless not willing to take a stand and fight for our nation!
certainly not me. But violent criminals seem to love it. Commit a crime, back on the streets before the ink dries.
The smack-down by the Supreme Court will be epic. However, it will not come until after the appeal works its way through the lower courts. The judge and prosecutor realize this and have no problem crossing way over the line in both ethics and election interference.
George Orwell’s imagined two minutes of hate has nothing on the vitriol I’ve read at leftist sites today. Progressives care nothing about the law, Constitutional rights, or fair trials for the defendant. They are gleeful in their thirst for Trump’s blood.
Trump will not see the inside of the White House again through an election.
Face the truth. He stands on the Rubicon.
You’re right, but who will make the reforms. We can’t depend on the cowardly GOP. They’re worse than the RATs.
“ We can’t depend on the cowardly GOP. They’re worse than the RATs.”
Yes they are. Someone here sees the truth.
This is exactly what Obama wants. Van Jones proudly proclaimed it on television…..(paraphrasing) top down, bottom up destruction so it can be built back according to their vision. What needs to happen is everyone involved in this massive miscarriage of Justice needs to face the harshest punishment imaginable…..and very publicly. After that….NO MORE FOREIGN BORN JUDGES.
His lawyers are terrible to let the cases get this far. They should have kaboshed this thing from the get go. Even the Fani Willis thing was started by another attorney. Why couldn’t Trump’s people figure that out?
How far do you think this would have gotten if a Southern judge and DA pulled this on Obama?
This is a clown show.
Nothing of course! But this kangaroo court will proceed.
” The bias on the part of judges, prosecutors, and juries is just too stark.”
It’s disgusting and beyond contempt. Yet they feel they can pull whomever they like into their own personal life and wealth destroying Leviathan.
A reckoning is coming.
Many of them believe that Trump is the modern day Hitler, because they are simpletons.
If you want to make a difference donate $s to the Trump campaign, talk does nothing
You are being too nice to them. They are the scum of the Earth. Donald Trump is a better man/person than they will ever be.
Now, the ones in the press spreading these lies far & wide, are absolutely scum, but they will learn what they are when they judgement for knowingly & wantonly saying things they know are not true.
Remember that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That's why we must make them face judgement here on earth, for their own sakes.
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