Also a YUGE judicial ethics case against Judge Juan of Torqmanda...he will live only in infamy.
Juan will not be allowed to journey to far off Barsoom , not like Carter at all.
Posted on 05/05/2024 6:45:59 AM PDT by Candor7
rump's "hush money" trial is all about smearing Donald Trump
One year ago, New York City district attorney, Alvin Bragg, was asked by a reporter, "What crime did Trump commit to be on trial?", and Bragg replied that he didn’t have to tell him what the crime was, because the law doesn’t require it. The legal theory behind the People v. Trump
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s "Theater of the Absurd" entered its third week, still without any evidence of crimes committed by the accused.
When Bragg first brought charges against Donald Trump in March 2023, the legal theory behind the indictment remained remarkably unclear. Bragg had charged Trump under New York Penal Law § 175.10, "Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree."
The falsification of business records alone is a misdemeanor under § 175.05, but Bragg had boosted the charge to a felony by alleging that Trump fudged the records with the “intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof,” but what other crime?
The indictment doesn’t say.
The potential object offenses could be a violation of New York election law, federal election law, or tax fraud. Bragg’s legal theory is genuinely tangled.
Further, to build his case, Bragg had to custom-tailor it to apply to Trump. He elevated a misdemeanor charge to a felony charge and he had to change the statute of limitation. Trial update
So far, the jury has heard testimony from David Pecker, a former publisher of the National Enquirer who allegedly helped “catch and kill” news stories about President Trump’s previous alleged affairs; Gary Farro, a banker who worked with Michael Cohen and detailed his financial activity related to the alleged “hush money” payments; and Keith Davidson, the attorney who allegedly negotiated the “hush money” agreements for Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.
In a line of questions for Davidson that included discussions of Charlie Sheen, Hulk Hogan, and Tila Tequila, Trump’s lawyers highlighted Davidson’s history of striking agreements with celebrities to keep damaging stories out of the media in exchange for large sums of money. Seeking to undermine Davidson’s credibility, Trump’s lawyers painted Davidson as someone who went “right up to the line without committing extortion.”
On May 2, the prosecution also played a 2016 audio recording of President Trump and his then-lawyer Michael Cohen allegedly discussing the purchase of Karen McDougal’s extramarital affair allegations.
As of this week, Trump had already been fined $9,000 stemming from 9 alleged violations of Judge Merchan’s gag order. Another hearing on 4 additional gag order violations was held on May 2, and a ruling is still pending. This week, Judge Merchan also issued a written order threatening Trump with jail time for future gag order violations. Trump has continually referred to the gag order as “unconstitutional.”
DA Bragg seems utterly unbothered that his charges are ill-defined, illusory, likely to change, and just plain absent. Instead, he’s contrived an histrionic legal fable meant to fool the jury into thinking that Trump should be convicted for assignations with nefarious people like his ex-lawyer and convicted perjurer, Michael Cohen, as well as erstwhile porn star, Stormy Daniels -- and how can there be any intent to interfere in a 2016 election Trump had already won with 2017 acts?
Bragg's case is a mess, while Judge Merchan does his best to make Trump’s trial as salacious as possible. Judge Merchan
Merchan has ruled that the Access Hollywood "pussy" transcript can be admitted even though it has absolutely nothing to do with the charges. By allowing the prosecution to introduce the transcript to the tape, Judge Merchan has made it possible to expand discussions on sex in an open court..............
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NOte that the article also summarizes the history of the federal DOJs hit man who was sent from Washington to prosecute this bogus case, Matthew Colangelo, the DoJ's hand-picked assassin. Biden's finger prints are all over this bogus case.Its actually a false prosecution which should net Colangelo and others jail time.
Article after article says Bragg has no case. He doesn’t need one. He has a NYC judge and jury. A black man accused of raping a white woman in Georgia in 1901 had better chance of getting a fair trial than Trump does.
Well, we will have to see. I wonder how they think they can make it stick. IMHO impossible.
BTTT
Yet on it continues, and like the other case in New York, Trump will probably be convicted. Because New York has become a communist state. Thus it operates like a communist tyranny nation does.
Malicious Prosecution?
Denial (infringement) of constitutuional rights under color of law?
Buhler?
Will Stormy take the stand? Could be good.
You would think blacks would stand up and say this is wrong?
Then again you would think Churches would condemn this witch-hunt?
You would think the Democrats would stand up and denounce their own party for this insanity?
Yep..I know in advance.
Sad, but true.
Will Stormy take the stand? Could be good.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
She may have a blue dress.
Or some other trivia.
BUt somehow I doubt it.
I think that the reported uptick in black support for Trump is partially fueled by empathy for his unfair treatment by the justice system. They know when someone is being railroaded when they see it
I think this will eventually be tossed at some level of appeal, but in the short term, they'll probably get their conviction and perhaps pictures of Trump being led away in handcuffs.
Clifford should take the stand.
Then the defense can ask why she extorted the defendant.
And further ask why the prosecution ignored her cheap hustle and prosecuted the victim instead.
No, no, the Rump’s trial is about election interference, in Fulton County, GA.
Bkmk
Also a YUGE judicial ethics case against Judge Juan of Torqmanda...he will live only in infamy.
Juan will not be allowed to journey to far off Barsoom , not like Carter at all.
perhaps pictures of Trump being led away in handcuffs. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
Sure thing, the secret service will allow it.Remember Epstein “hung himself” in the NYC prison system. No cuffs, it aint gonna happen.
What NY is trying to bust him for is using campaign finance money to knowingly pay off daniels for the purposes of haveing hillary lose the election.
headline....bragg supports extortion by women.
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