Posted on 05/28/2024 5:44:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber
At last, we can see Alvin Bragg's underlying criminal theory: he doesn't have one. Bragg and Judge Merchan are running the real trial in the court of public opinion, not to deliver justice but to hurt Trump's presidential campaign by branding him a convicted felon during the election. They seek to do this by lying to the jury -- for example, by pretending to have a criminal theory.
The prosecution rested their case without specifying the second crime, nor giving a shred of evidence for the first: even if we took Michael Cohen's testimony at face value, ignoring that he's a serial perjurer who confessed to six different felonies on Monday morning alone, his claim that Trump himself ordered the monthly payments that were calculated from Cohen's loan reimbursement demand and deemed them “legal fees” would not constitute a crime.
That case is dead in the water on appeal, but Merchan's parallel trial, which has little to do with established law and instead runs on innuendo and vagaries, aims for a temporary conviction. In it, Cohen and David Pecker explain election law to a rigged jury while Merchan allows the prosecution to dazzle them with inadmissible evidence and irrelevant, noncriminal details couched in nefarious-sounding terms like “hush money” and “catch and kill,” all the while keeping crucial information like Cohen's SDNY charges and Brad Smith's expert testimony on actual election law from reaching the jury.
Merchan reneged on his promise to release the jury instructions by Thursday night, apparently to prevent lawyers from picking apart his instructions so jury members don't find out how preposterous they are, because they're going to read the news and talk to friends, family, and co-workers in the week Merchan gave them off.
That's why he gave them the week off.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
WUT?! Pretty likely.
I’m hoping if Trump returns to office, his DoJ will begin prosecutions against Bragg, Fani, Merchan, Chutkan, Smith, Tribe, Luttig, and dozens more for election interference. We have learned the process is the punishment as attorney costs bleed those targeted. Every last person who engaged in the lawfare conspiracy should be held accountable. This of course will have to be done in a district more favorable to Trump.
deniro
in front of a camera in new dork”
a Professional pretender ( actor)
calling trump a pretender
spit
True enough.
What absolute corruption. The only way to stop this is...
they convict Trump on any of their false allegations and his vote will shoot up from 60+percent to 80 percent.
the one thing these “clever’ commies and Nazis haven’t shown the brains to figure out is that all their lies against him are driving up his support
Would an appeal have to go first to the appellate level in New York? If so, they will probably rule against Trump. Then he can appeal to the federal level but who knows how long that would take.
And you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
IMHO the lefties created 3 possible scenarios to assassinate Trump:
1) Jan 6th...they were ready to do it but the Secret Servoce would not let PDJT go to the Capitol, they new of the plan.
2) At the document raid in MAra Largo, the FBI were armed with automatic rifles with authorization to ise deadly force. The Secret Servioce again new ahead of time and made sure Trump and family were not home.THere was no face off between the Secret Servoce and the FBI.
3) Jailing Trump on this so called hush money case would allow them another opportunity to have a pre arranged nut do the job in jail. Biden will tell the secret service to stand down when the jail sentence is imposed.
The deep state wants Trump dead.....he is too much of a threat to them.
May Divine Providence keep President Trump safe , and free of these dirty sordid bastids who want to kill him.The people do indeed love him.The left do not know what that means if they kill him.....you do.A lot of us do.
If they do manage to imprison Trump, I expect we will shortly hear that he “committed suicide.” No doubt the Biden administration will contact Hillary for pointers.
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