Alvin Bragg's Bogus Case

Watching the Defectives ^ | 5/5/2024 | Parker Shannon

[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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[laplata]

2) Get a Guilty verdict so their media can pound Trump and maybe switch a few votes away from him.

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While Trump gains a lot more than he loses.

[libertylover]

aint gonna happen.

I hope not, and NYT, CNN, ... can miss out on their hoped-for orgasms.

[nickcarraway]

How is that possible? Doesn’t New York State have full discovery?

[Candor7]

With JUdge Juan at the helm, anything is possible. Discovery is non discopvery according to Judge Juan.

If it looks like the prosecution is gonna lose, then Judge Juan will pull just about anything out of the hat.

[Chewbarkah]

I can’t figure out why Bragg did not have to provide a clear statement of the whatever laws Trump is charged with violating, and provide a witness list before the trial even began.

How can a defendant prepare a defense without knowing the charge?

How can a Grand Jury indict anyone with the critical violation of law left “to be determined”?

Have Trump’s attorneys filed motions to dismiss the case over these issues?

[Candor7]

Have Trump’s attorneys filed motions to dismiss the case over these issues?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Yes they have. All denied by Judge Juan.

Judge Juan even characterized NDAs as unusual and suspect t9o the jury and when the defence tried to object to say that NDAs are used all the time as a matter of course in the corporate world , and in civil litigation settlements, Judge Juam shut them right up and instructed defense consel not to tamper with the jury, he would tell them what the law was, not the TRump attys.

This is a kangaroo court of vast proportions.A trial right out of Kafka.

[William of Barsoom]

Thanks.

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