Live thread [05/07/2024]: Trump show trial in New York, brought to you by Biden operative Matt Colangelo; post comments here

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[Sidebar Moderator]

No crime in sight yet. And no smoking gun.

[Sidebar Moderator]

Stormy Daniels? Doesn’t she owe Trump $300k?

[Sidebar Moderator]

Trump defense team will shred her.

[ridesthemiles]

LAST I heard-—YES.

[bray]

Stalinist Russia is the model for the DNC.

[Sidebar Moderator]

“ At least one juror smirked as the prosecution showed the chapter from the Trump book ‘Trump: How to Get Rich’ titled ‘Pay Attention to the Details’” — NBC

RIGGED. JURY.

[Sidebar Moderator]

Moscow show trial at its finest.

[dfwgator]

Of course, Hitler referred to Freisler as, "That old Bolshevik", because Freisler was one in the early 1920s.

[Sacajaweau]

I'm trying to figure out why they are questioning the amounts paid to Cohen. We know he was reimbursed for the $130,000. Surely he was paid to get that "project" done. There had to be plenty of "billable" communications between Cohen and her attorney and the other attorney involved. Was Cohen supposed to work for nothing.

Let's be real...Trump was being blackmailed...

I do believe Cohen called the shots...for payment to be made in $35,000 increments that covered an entire year...12 months. So what....he worked....he got paid.

[Sidebar Moderator]

Totally agree. It was a shakedown op and the victim is on trial.

[Sacajaweau]

I thinks it’s even more than that.

[Sidebar Moderator]

Yup, closer to $600k, per Wikipedia.

[libertylover]

No crime in sight yet. And no smoking gun.

I hope you realize that doesn't matter, at this level anyway. Kangaroo Courts with OJ juries don't often find in favor of the "defendant". Maybe when it gets to the appellate level.

[Sacajaweau]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/04/politics/stormy-daniels-pay-trump-legal-fees/index.html

[Sidebar Moderator]

Well, the original OJ jury did find for the defendant, but I get your point.

[mware]

Apparently judge is going to permit details of sex into the trial. Wouldn’t that destroy the nondisclosure deal?

[Sidebar Moderator]

Thanks!

[Sidebar Moderator]

She already broke that deal.

[rktman]

So has the jury decided yet? Even though it hasn’t gone to them yet? Follow their debt loads and see if they somehow suddenly become debt free.

[adorno]

This is a sham trial, with the charges being totally made up and the prosecution and judge and jurors clearly biased.

Trump has nothing to fear, if the law was to be followed and the truth is the only thing that counts...

but...

this in NY and the judge and prosecution and even the jury, all have it in for Trump...

so...

the prosecution and judge are going to do everything possible to get Trump found guilty, even if the case against Trump is very weak or non-existent.

Beware! This is going to be a case where the court WILL NOT let the def3ndant go without a guilty verdict. This case is about doing whatever it takes to get Trump, and coming to a verdict of guilty is the only outcome that democrats will accept. Not guilty is out of the question.