Posted on 04/01/2023 7:50:12 AM PDT by devane617
You were probably not alone if the news of Donald Trump’s indictment seemed slightly strange: How could something so big — the first criminal indictment of an American president — seem so small?
Mr. Trump was not indicted for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election or for engaging in egregious financial fraud to increase his wealth or even for allegedly obstructing the special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, which many once thought was the best avenue prosecutors had to ensnare the former president.
Instead, the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, and his team of prosecutors have brought the country back six and a half years, to the final weeks of the 2016 election, when Mr. Trump paid the adult film star Stormy Daniels to prevent her from going public with a story about an affair she said they had while Mr. Trump was married. (The details of what the indictment contains remain unknown — its contents will be unsealed after Mr. Trump turns himself in, most likely next week — but it is expected to charge the former president with falsifying business records of the payment, disguising the payoff as routine legal fees.)
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Sounds like the NYTimes may be saying this was a bad idea, and it is.
If the NYTs actually printed this it must an April Fools prank.
Been hearing the pundits decry this as a dangerous precedent in future events. alvin ‘chipmunk’ bragg will have his day in court with likely a hand picked judge etc. The democommies couldn’t care less about a “precedent” being set because they know they will never be subjected to said “precedent”. Think anyone will be held to account for the CONvid scamdemic? But make a sarcastic meme about hildabeast and voting and BOOM! Ten years.
If we ever get a proper Conservative for President it'll be a free-fire zone on Democrats.
“...they know they will never be subjected to said “precedent”.”
I disagree. The pendulum always swings back and this can and will backfire biggly. Trump’s contributions(I don’t know for a fact) must be up in the past few days.
“...or even for allegedly obstructing the special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, which many once thought was the best avenue prosecutors had to ensnare the former president.”
Still blaming the victim, I see. And he’s not even transgender.
I can’t wait until the GOP firest the big guns at our CCP bought and paid for president Biden and admin. /s
DITTO x 10
That map is a “must” for those moving elsewhere. How did Kentucky avoid Soros contamination? Mitch?
“I can’t wait until the GOP firest the big guns at our CCP bought and paid for president Biden and admin. /s”
When Trump is reelected it is going to be a sight to see. Full on war between Dims and the rest of us.
BTTT
A report yesterday said he raised four million since the indictment.
For the first time I just donated to Trump.
Wrong. Cohen paid her with his own money and he was not reimbursed.
What’s interestingly missing in all these self-reflective reports of the indictment is the lack of comparison to the Biden and Clinton crime family crimes.
There is this worry that it sets a “dangerous president,” rather than a concern that those within the Clinton, Biden and Democrat crime families are literally getting away with committing multiple federal and local crimes. Those crimes actually include corruption and espionage against the United States, as well as sexual assault and rape of women. Yet the MSM are all focused on DJT executing a legal NDA with two persons who engaged in consentual, legal sex, who were paid and accepted payment to not discuss the activities. Has anybody see any of the Fifty Shades movies? NDAs have been used for a long, long time for all sorts of purposes, including sexual activities.
Unfortunately, as always, we’re preaching to the choir here. None of those evil bastards will ever be held accountable for what they’ve done . .
$4M at the announcement!
“…the best avenue prosecutors had to ensnare the former president.”
That says it all right there. They’ve been hunting high and low for the best “avenue” to indict Trump. It’s the Beria Soviet method of “show me the man…”
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