[Beowulf9]

His popularity has gone up. Hahaha.

[minnesota_bound]

I imagine that Hillary Clinton will be soon arrested as she came up with russia russia russia etc and many other crimes with help from her husband and corrupt politicians and news media people.

[Verginius Rufus]

2016 was the 56th Presidential election, if I have counted correctly, and Donald Trump was the first candidate ever to try to keep embarrassing information out of the news. What a shocking departure from decorum.

/sarc

[Bobalu]

[Magnum44]

[Boogieman]

“the district attorney will attempt to frame the payments as part of Trump’s more expansive plot to suppress negative stories that could cost him the 2016 race”

If that’s a crime, then we need to lock EVERY politician up.

[Red Badger]

These charges will be difficult to prove.

The OJ prosecutors had DNA evidence, bloody socks and bloody carpet and they lost the case...................

[fwdude]

The indictment isn’t intended to be a slam dunk, it’s meant the smear Trump during next year’s campaign season.

[cld51860]

What will be darkly humorous is IF this thing blows up in their face the media slobs and the corruptocrats will cheer on the riots and destruction that will ensue.

The problem is the world is no longer a place that made at least some sense. The world has gone mad, and there is no law. And thus, they will likely force through a conviction regardless of the facts, and DJT will be jailed.

Which will also bring riot and destruction from the left as they celebrate that conviction.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The Trump Indictment Is Not the Slam-Dunk Case Democrats Wanted

It doesn't matter. As Alan Dershowitz says, Bragg is likely to get a conviction on one or more counts from a New York jury in a case presided over by a New York judge. Any conviction will doubtless be overturned on appeal, but this thing will drag on well into 2024 and beyond, and that's the entire point - it's an opportunity for Democrats to punish Trump for daring to win in 2016 and for daring to run again now. RINOs can be counted on to (as usual) stand around impotently, clucking their disapproval toward Trump.

[Leep]

Who needs to prove anything..just make crap up.

[Gene Eric]

It may be, however, in terms of election interference.

[I want the USA back]

Trump is truly a brave fighter. He knows the fight will be long and dirty. The left will throw everything they have, and things they don’t have) at him to keep him from making this country great again.

[Catholic and Conservative]

The Slate article says

Under New York law, it is pretty clear that Trump’s actions, as alleged, were made with “intent to defraud.” So this aspect of the charges should be a slam dunk.

but the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly held that in order to constitute fraud, the object of a scheme must be to deprive a victim of money or property. Who was deprived of money or property in the case? Is Bragg prosecuting Trump for defrauding himself?

[Brian Griffin]

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.