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The indictment is legally insufficient on its face... Maybe that's why no law is actually cited in the indictment.
Twitter.com ^ | April 04, 2023 | Robert Barnes @barnes_law

Posted on 04/04/2023 4:53:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: robertbarnes; trumparrignment; trumpindictment
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To: jpp113
They can't do this and they can't do that but they can pursue this through the court system and keep it going until November next year so that the "press" can claim all sorts of heinous felonies have been shown right up to the election. I wonder what kind of dealing or threats went on to keep the Donald out of handcuffs and out of jail. I would not have been surprised at arrest and no bail to lock him out where he can get terribly depressed and, er, kill himself.
21 posted on 04/04/2023 5:36:49 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe \_|_/)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

......I think that the number of democrats in the whole United States, with an IQ above room temperature, are equal to the number of fingers on one hand; AND, these 5 dimwits KNOW that THE BEST their marxist socialist party was EVER going to get out of this entire “indictment” would be a perp walk video, which they didn’t get or Trump in handcuffs which they didn’t get either.

Now, it’s just a matter of how long before a REAL judge looks at this laughable indictment document and throws it out.


22 posted on 04/04/2023 5:41:41 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

23 posted on 04/04/2023 5:44:35 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Col Frank Slade

“And no violation of any criminal statute is cited.”

Cohen went to jail for this non-violation.


24 posted on 04/04/2023 5:44:58 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

“No one has ever been charged for violating the non-law before.”

On December 12, 2018, Cohen was sentenced to three years in federal prison and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine after pleading guilty to tax evasion and campaign-finance violations.


25 posted on 04/04/2023 5:46:17 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
According to public announcement and signed affidavit, Clifford said that she did not sleep with Donald Trump.

She threatened to defame, slander and libel PDJT and say that she had an affair with him, unless she was paid money.

Isn't this extortion?

26 posted on 04/04/2023 5:48:33 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: jpp113

That’s what I thought. Trump and his lawyers should shout this from the roof tops, even if the Judge puts a gag order on the case.


27 posted on 04/04/2023 5:49:43 PM PDT by Widget Jr
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How does one influence a 2016 election by scheming from August 2015 until December 2017? The 2016 election is supposed to be long over by December 2017.


28 posted on 04/04/2023 5:53:52 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Fungi

Mark Levin covered this. A bunch of nonsense is all this is but it will be drawn out to persecute Trump. Ultimately, it will fail.


I agree. But it’s great news for the Hunter Biden crime family. We know what the media will choose to over shadow the Hunter Biden crimes now being investigated.


29 posted on 04/04/2023 5:54:07 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

SECTION 175.05
Falsifying business records in the second degree
Penal (PEN) CHAPTER 40, PART 3, TITLE K, ARTICLE 175
§ 175.05 Falsifying business records in the second degree.

A person is guilty of falsifying business records in the second degree when, with intent to defraud, he:

1. Makes or causes a false entry in the business records of an enterprise; or

2. Alters, erases, obliterates, deletes, removes or destroys a true entry in the business records of an enterprise; or

3. Omits to make a true entry in the business records of an enterprise in violation of a duty to do so which he knows to be imposed upon him by law or by the nature of his position; or

4. Prevents the making of a true entry or causes the omission thereof in the business records of an enterprise.

Falsifying business records in the second degree is a class A
misdemeanor.

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/175.05

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.

Falsifying business records in the first degree is a class E felony.

https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/penal-law/pen-sect-175-10

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.


30 posted on 04/04/2023 5:57:54 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

https://www.manhattanda.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Donald-J.-Trump-Indictment.pdf

statement of (alleged) facts:

https://www.manhattanda.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Donald-J.-Trump-SOF.pdf


31 posted on 04/04/2023 5:59:35 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: TexasGator
Cohen went to jail for this non-violation.

Isn't that because the dumbass pled guilty? Trump didn't do that.

32 posted on 04/04/2023 6:01:02 PM PDT by OA5599
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To: OA5599

“Isn’t that because the dumbass pled guilty? Trump didn’t do that.”

Trump is being charged with falsifying records to hide that crime.


33 posted on 04/04/2023 6:03:26 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: OA5599

By pleading to everything tossed at him Cohen blocked future prosecution risk.


34 posted on 04/04/2023 6:09:37 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: TexasGator

“hush money” or blackmail, you decide


35 posted on 04/04/2023 6:12:27 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Even so...that’s a federal law NOT state law. And the federal authorities didn’t even fine him for it.


36 posted on 04/04/2023 6:14:06 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Incorrect. The indictment cites NY Penal Law § 170.10. Total BS.


37 posted on 04/04/2023 6:17:19 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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Cohen pled guilty to a crime, and tax evasion. Trump was not charged with any crime... what so ever. 3 other prosecutors already looked at all this— it took the Soros stooge having smoke blown up his considerable skirt to foolishly throw himself on the “look at me” demonrat USER wagon— and they will soon disown him and toss him. One stupid a@@hole IOW.


38 posted on 04/04/2023 6:17:30 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Oh my gosh — I did not mean “Total BS” to you. I was referring to the article.


39 posted on 04/04/2023 6:20:39 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Labyrinthos
In order to defraud someone, Trump would have to deprive them of something that belongs to them.

The indictment makes the bizarre claim that Trump defrauded the public of information they were entitled to know.

By that measure, a political candidate defrauds the public simply by coloring his or her hair.

40 posted on 04/04/2023 6:24:11 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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