Posted on 04/05/2023 12:44:32 PM PDT by Signalman
A few things are clear about the Trump indictment. First, after his press conference, I think it's fair to say that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is not exactly Eliot Ness. Or even Barney Fife. His entire case rests on the assertion that Donald Trump used illegal business practices to cover up or commit a greater crime.
But what crime? Bragg told reporters that he doesn't have to say.
Oh.
It's instructive to put Alvin Bragg in the TV show "Law and Order: Criminal Intent." The fearless lawman is convinced that an alleged dalliance between Mr. Trump and an actress that occurred in 2006 is the basis of 34 felonies in 2023.
Think about this. Ten years after the interlude supposedly occurred, Ms. Stormy shows up with a lawyer demanding money. Why? Because it's two weeks before the election of 2016. If Daniels had not brought the lawyer, who's now in prison, she could have been charged with alleged extortion. And then there was another woman who wanted to sell her ancient history to the National Enquirer.
These are the people Alvin Bragg is championing.
The hapless DA has to know that "intent" to violate the law has to be established in order to convict Trump. Surely, the former President's lawyers will say money changed hands to avoid family embarrassment. That happens in this litigation-mad country every minute.
Tuesday was not a good day for law enforcement in America. Alvin looked like one of the chipmunks, not a champion of justice.
Or am I wrong?
See you later for the No Spin News.
Since nobody is above the LAW remove biden from WH
I guess since this joker released or failed to prosecute all the other New York felons (too many to list) that he ran out of things to do. Follow the money!
Alvin Braggs thinks he gets one powdered donut for each count like on Sesame Street. Then he will go to Coney Island with his bag of donuts and sit on a park bench and eatch his career go out to sea and sink.
Who knows what Alvin Bragg has been promised?
I’ve heard he has been talked about for higher office someday.
Maybe he’s been promised a gig on MSNBC at some point in the future.
He is now a liberal hero, regardless of the merits of the legal case. He’s working to bring down Trump , and that’s all that matters to the MSNBC crowd.
For most democRATS, indictments and jail / prison are resume’ enhancements. Heck, look at Alcee Hastings. He was a DemocRAT judge who was impeached and thrown out of office. Next thing you know the RATS elect him to the House of Representatives.
Now that President Trump has been impeached twice AND indicted, he should be on top of the RAT world.
President Trump threatens the Deep State and the $$$ faucet. I remember Rush mentioning, during the 2007-8 financial debacle, that the Fed issued trillions of $$, but would not disclose the recipient(s). The current Obama / Biden Regime is printing and stealing as much as possible before the spigot is shut down. Yes, they will do whatever they can to stop President Trump, DeSantis etc, in order to make the $$ faucet neverending. If President Trump manages to win in 2024, the months before he takes office will be very interesting, and dangerous. SloJo will be placed back in the basement. Obama and his Deep State, Ruling Class minions will continue to damage everything they can.
SECTION 175.05
Falsifying business records in the second degree
Penal (PEN) CHAPTER 40, PART 3, TITLE K, ARTICLE 175
ยง 175.05 Falsifying business records in the second degree.
A person is guilty of falsifying business records in the second degree when, with intent to defraud, he:
1. Makes or causes a false entry in the business records of an enterprise; or
2. Alters, erases, obliterates, deletes, removes or destroys a true entry in the business records of an enterprise; or
3. Omits to make a true entry in the business records of an enterprise in violation of a duty to do so which he knows to be imposed upon him by law or by the nature of his position; or
4. Prevents the making of a true entry or causes the omission thereof in the business records of an enterprise.
Falsifying business records in the second degree is a class A
misdemeanor.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/175.05
A person is guilty of falsifying business records in the first degree when he commits the crime of falsifying business records in the second degree, and when his intent to defraud includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.
Falsifying business records in the first degree is a class E felony.
https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/penal-law/pen-sect-175-10
The term “intent to defraud” is important.
Defraud means according to my Random House Dictionary “to deprive of a right or property by fraud”. The “de” of “defraud” matters.
Actually, no. Not this time. Even CNN was unimpressed with Mr. Bragg.
Mr. Bragg is probably right now crying to his handlers: "I thought you told me I had a case!"
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