Posted on 05/18/2024 11:10:42 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg laid out his 34-count indictment of President Trump with links to underlying documents in this press release dated April 4, 2023. The indictment relies on section 175.10 of New York’s criminal law (“Falsifying business records in the first degree”): “A person is guilty of falsifying business records in the first degree when he commits the crime of falsifying business records in the second degree, and when his intent to defraud includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.”
In his most recent update on the trial, Andrew McCarthy concisely explicates the absurdity of the prosecution with links to previous columns that support each point. Under New York’s state constitution, the felony statute invoked gives insufficient notice of what it is criminalizing. The indictment fails to explain what laws Trump is alleged to have broken. Bragg purports to enforce federal law over which he has no enforcement jurisdiction. To top it off, Bragg’s version of federal campaign-finance law — over which he has no authority — diverges from the interpretations followed by the two federal agencies with exclusive jurisdiction over that law (the Justice Department and the FEC). Other than that, gangbusters.
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The Columbian drug runner has let this farce go on too long. It’s all his fault.
Not a bit of this matters if the judge doesn’t care about the law and the jury is selected out of people who don’t care about the law.
Writing legal services when the vendor is an attorney is not falsifying records. I write Staples, Blick, etc etc (vendor)...the receipts are in the shoe box.
Yup.
I see this as a Nothing case. There is nothing there. No crime. No legal jurisdiction. It’s 100% empty.
I bet the jury votes to convict.
But the other huge flaw in Bragg's case is that even the misdemeanor of falsifying business in the second degree requires that its done with intent to defraud--not just that the records are false. Who was defrauded though? The voters? Nonsense...unless the voters were looking into the future at Trump's log entries made after the election through a crystal ball or something.
Thus with no plausible target of fraud the second degree charge is void, and thus the the first degree charge can not apply.
The court and DA have committed numerous crimes such as malicious prosecution. Some are federal crimes, including obstruction of justice and election interference.
“Title 18 §1506. Theft or alteration of record or process; false bail:”
“Whoever feloniously steals, takes away, alters, falsifies, or otherwise avoids any record, writ, process, or other proceeding, in any court of the United States, whereby any judgment is reversed, made void, or does not take effect...”
“Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
“Title 18 USC §595. Interference by administrative employees of Federal, State, or Territorial Governments:”
“Whoever, being a person employed in any administrative position by the United States, or by any department or agency thereof, or by the District of Columbia or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or by any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States, or any political subdivision, municipality, or agency thereof, or agency of such political subdivision or municipality (including any corporation owned or controlled by any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States or by any such political subdivision, municipality, or agency), in connection with any activity which is financed in whole or in part by loans or grants made by the United States, or any department or agency thereof, uses his official authority for the purpose of interfering with, or affecting, the nomination or the election of any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”
There is no crime and no case but likely you’ll see a guilty verdict so the deep state media readers can start calling Trump a convicted felon. Of course a higher court will overturn the whole thing.
The MSM-Democrats are clearing a path for a future Democrat candidate who will have been convicted of something much more consequential.
It seems to me that the issue is not what was written in the memo of the check or how it was booked. Bragg is trying to say that the "crime" was paying for it with campaign money, not that it was a "legal expense" that was booked as a legal expense that was paid for with personal money.
The problem with Bragg's argument is two-fold:
It is a clear case of election interference by these idiot LIBS.
“The indictment fails to explain what laws Trump is alleged to have broken.”
They’re pretending to prosecute according to the law, but what they’re doing is prosecuting according to personal preference.
This is one of the reasons these people are designated as low IQ.
There is nothing dumber on this planet than a low I.Q., Affirmative Action shyster weasel lawyer.
He salvaged some of the family's honor.
Bragg’s case in short: “My handlers at the Hoover Building have been reminding me “Orange Man Bad”.
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