Posted on 05/13/2024 10:29:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Up to now, there is a winner and a loser out of this Manhattan trial. The winner is President Trump, who keeps getting stronger. The loser is New York, or the perception that the Empire State is a banana republic. Using the legal system to target political opponents is Banana Republic 101.
This is from Jonathan Turley:
Cohen’s testimony will be the culmination of this travesty of a trial. But Bragg already jumped the shark with Daniels. After three weeks, legal experts are still debating what the crime was that Trump was seeking to conceal by recording payments for a standard non-disclosure agreement as a legal expense. (That is the same characterization used by Hillary Clinton’s campaign for its funding for the infamous Steele dossier.)
It is still unclear that Trump even knew how the payments were characterized, and the alleged false record was not even created until after the election was over. Yet he stands accused of using the “false business records” to somehow steal or rig an election that was already over.
After this circus with Cohen is complete, Trump will be allowed to testify. He would be insane to do so. Merchan has already said that he will allow a broad scope to cross-examination, making any appearance unlikely.
That is when Merchan will face a key test of judicial ethics. He has failed to protect the rights of the defendant from a baseless, politically motivated prosecution. He could insist that he simply felt Bragg had a right to present his case. He will soon be done and, as expected, it is entirely based on Cohen, a disbarred perjurer who will ask for his former client to be sent to prison for following his own legal advice.
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I suspect that Alvan Bragg has no “off” switch, based on cultural factors.
Marchun knows this circus will be overturned...He wants to drag it out and destroy Trump as much as he can........
"As soon as McDougal and Daniels began their "scheme", my husband and I sat down. He said..."I was NOT involved with either of these women. I'm just learning what they're all about. It seems to be an extortion scheme.
no way he recuses himself or calls a mistrial. He'd lose too much money.
The NYC leftists are probably proud of themselves as they step over poop and needles only to be distracted by the sidewalk obstacles and blindside assaulted by someone who does not speak English.
BINGO.
That is how they are bribing the judge. His Cupid Stunt of a daughter is the “bag man” just like Hunter is/was for Joey.
Please don’t. Let them continue to destroy themselves and show the whole world their ginormous brown round.
After Bragg closes the prosecution’s case, the defense will make a standard motion for dismissal. Merchan should grant that motion.Stopping the trial after the prosecution rests its case would be the best outcome for everyone.There has been no showing of an actual crime, let alone a clear record tying Trump to key decisions or actions.
Merchan will then have to decide whether he has the courage that Bragg lacked.
-PJ
Bragg is a tool and has no choice. He will await orders from Washington before doing anything different.
Winner winner chicken dinner
Which is why I am not sure how even a misdemeanor charge of falsifying business records can be supported, much less the extension of it to a felony for a "different crime". You have to have a crime before there can be a "different" one.
The "Second Degree" falsification which is the misdemeanor requires an "intent to defraud":
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.
Since the entries were all made AFTER the election, who was "defraud"ed by these entries? And if nobody was defrauded, how on Earth do you have any basis for second degree falsification?
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