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NY Prosecuting Trump for Being Extorted
American Thinker ^ | 4 May, 2024 | John Cleer

Posted on 05/04/2024 5:53:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The closer you look at Bragg's case, the stupider it becomes.

None of the liberals calling for Trump's head know what he's accused of, they just know he did it. They don't remember how the previous accusations ended or even what they were, despite having taken the strongest of positions; and here they are, again, taking the strongest position on the one issue they want you to know they care about: Donald Trump is Guilty.

So that's the Manhattan jury pool. Almost all of them read the New York Times so it's no wonder. But to be fair, no one else knows what Trump's accused of, either. Not the lawyers, not the pundits nor the people they interview. Three weeks in, no one on either side or on the outside knows what the crime is. I heard a Politico reporter tell Brian Lehrer that a prosecutor doesn't have to say what the charges are, but can figure them out as he goes. Lehrer affected that this made perfect sense to him, and I think they're right: Alvin Bragg himself doesn't know what the charges are.

I asked my mom, a reliable barometer for MSM messaging, to explain the crime in Trump's “hush money” payments, and she said it's the cover-up. “That's what an NDA is, Mom. An contract to pay someone not to talk.”

“But Trump covered that up,” she said. “During an election.”

She thinks of the hush money as the crime and the cover-up, but simultaneously, thinks the crime is the cover-up of the hush money. In other words, she tracks Bragg's case perfectly. Michael Cohen paying Stormy Daniels and billing Trump for reimbursement could only have been directed by Trump as an illegal scheme to conceal the NDA.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: donaldtrumpisguilty; electioninterference; johncleer; showtrial
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1 posted on 05/04/2024 5:53:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

It is nothing but election interference. Just like the other cases.


2 posted on 05/04/2024 5:53:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Andrew McCarthy agrees. But he pointed out the jury is only being fed information and instruction from the judge. They will believe what Mercan tells them, I’m sure.
Weinstein is a reference concerning evidence allowed. He was convicted in 2020, the prosecution used (and the judge allowed) tainted testimony not pertaining to his case and is now getting a new trial.


3 posted on 05/04/2024 6:03:31 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: MtnClimber

Exactly right


4 posted on 05/04/2024 6:06:36 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: MtnClimber

One can only wonder what the payoff is for the judge & DA as they trample upon the justice system.


5 posted on 05/04/2024 6:07:09 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: MtnClimber

““But Trump covered that up,”

He’s under no obligation to disclose it in the first place.

Perhaps the author’s mother thinks she’s supposed to advertise everytime she banged a guy on a date when she’s applying for a job?


6 posted on 05/04/2024 6:14:41 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: MtnClimber

Blackmail and Bribes are the bread and butter of the Democrat party. plenty more to come.


7 posted on 05/04/2024 6:18:47 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: MtnClimber

Yes, but it seems there is an industry that does this. They make better money thru extortion than by printing it in tabloids.


8 posted on 05/04/2024 6:40:50 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: MtnClimber
Bragg in action:

"OFF WITH HIS HEAD!" ( or he will be president!)



9 posted on 05/04/2024 6:42:58 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Rlsau1

Great point. Maybe a deep dive needs to made into ALL of the Lawfare judges. The system NEEDS to be changed or we will not survive as a Republic.


10 posted on 05/04/2024 6:49:03 AM PDT by Judge Bean
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To: MtnClimber

I’ve used such language prior - though perhaps not here - and it’s about time someone wrote an analysis of this tack.

I would label it ‘accurate’.


11 posted on 05/04/2024 6:59:52 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: MtnClimber
Yesterday’s testimony revealed differently. At least related to Stormy. There was no evidence to this point Clifford came after him for money. Trump and/or his team sought her silence as it became known she was releasing a story.

Hope’s testimony showed he lied when he denied knowing anything about it publically in 18 when in fact she was involved in the silencing efforts in 16.

Yes, she mentioned keeping newspapers from Melania on the access Hollywood video (doesn’t she watch tv or listen to the radio?) but she also said Stormy caused Trump just as much concern campaign wise. There are so many that try to absolve this as an either/or situation when it appears to have been both personal and political. One doesn’t negate the other.

Since the judge clearly said Trump can testify, do you expect he will take the stand like he promised early on? Will he give us a Col. Jessup moment? B

12 posted on 05/04/2024 7:01:30 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: Rlsau1

That place is becoming as ‘awash’ with money as DC


13 posted on 05/04/2024 7:03:25 AM PDT by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: MtnClimber

This writer needs to fire his mother. She has proven to be an idiot.


14 posted on 05/04/2024 7:20:44 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: joesbucks

Lookit joesbucks, the FR Democrat Party operative, defending the Colombian cartel stooge-judge’s show trial, and Fat Alvin’s non-case.


15 posted on 05/04/2024 7:54:08 AM PDT by kiryandil (Democrat Party operatives! Attack Kristi Noem because she's an effective woman!)
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To: MtnClimber

If Trump got mugged, he’d be charged with aiding and abetting criminals.


16 posted on 05/04/2024 8:11:05 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Dementia ain't just a river in Egypt. )
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To: kiryandil

Are you upset she exposed Trump lied to us when asked about Stormy in 18 saying he knew nothing about it when he was involved in 16? Is Hope a liar? Will Trump testify like he promised earlier now that the Colombian Cartel judge made it clear after schooling him there’s nothing stopping him from testifying should he want to?


17 posted on 05/04/2024 8:18:39 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: Rlsau1

When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras. Bragg is prosecuting the case because he promised the voters he would prosecute Trump and he fears he won’t get reeelcted. Judge is acting as he is because he’s just a leftist hack. He may surprise us in the end… the appellate court has seemed to be willing to play it more straight. No judge likes to be reversed, particularly not in a high profile case


18 posted on 05/04/2024 8:20:06 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: joesbucks
Are you upset she exposed Trump lied to us when asked about Stormy in 18 saying he knew nothing about it when he was involved in 16?

Thanks for your opinion on this, Nicolle Wallace.

Opinions are like YOU - everyone has one.

19 posted on 05/04/2024 8:31:08 AM PDT by kiryandil (Democrat Party operatives! Attack Kristi Noem because she's an effective woman!)
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To: Lazamataz

Nicolle Wallace [aka joescucks] escaped from the PMSNBC backyard pen again, and is barking up a storm.

I think the meds wore off.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4235576/posts?page=17#17


20 posted on 05/04/2024 8:33:23 AM PDT by kiryandil (Democrat Party operatives! Attack Kristi Noem because she's an effective woman!)
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