Indicted.... but no law was broken. It’s straight out of Beria’s Soviet Union.
He “concealed criminal conduct.”
So why didn’t they indict him for that criminal conduct?
If the indictment does not state which laws were broken, is it a legal instrument under New York law or not?
Apparently campaigning, i.e. influencing an election is illegal - if you are a Republican.
does da bragg think stormy daniels is a chinese agent?
1) He ran for office.
2) He won.
3) He claims to be innocent of wrong-doing.
That’s three felonies right there.
They indicted him and didn’t identify the specific crime he violated as a felony.
We are all Stalinists now.
Interesting point.
Another thing I wondered... remember the whole “grab them by the *****” audio? That should have doomed his chances in 2015. But it didn’t. I doubt anyone would have been shocked to find out a billionaire playboy who was on the cover of major magazines and in the society pages of New York for decades had any number of alleged sexual affairs. The premise that he “bought the silence to win the election” is faulty given that the audio released was likely to be much more damaging than paying off some woman who claimed to have gone to bed with the man.
Of course, they had to wrap this nonsense in 32 ridiculous felony charges but the fact they open the indictment with a story about a payoff his lawyer made to some alleged sexual partner tells the tale. They are of course trying to say “see, the man didn’t account for this properly, he didn’t reimburse the lawyer but booked it as legal fees” or something like that. It’s almost too absurd to be real. 32 felony charges for getting rid of a nuisance that was probably more disturbing to his family than to the general public.
Does a grand jury indictment have to be unanimous?
No – but there must be at least 12 votes toward an indictment in the New York court system. A quorum of 16 grand jurors must be present for evidence and deliberation, and at least 12 grand jurors who have heard the essential evidence must vote.
Doesn’t the indictment have to cite the particular law violated? No citation? No law broken.
Law? They don’t care about no stinkin’ law. They only care about POWER!
......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.
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?
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.
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.
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
Even so...that’s a federal law NOT state law. And the federal authorities didn’t even fine him for it.
Incorrect. The indictment cites NY Penal Law § 170.10. Total BS.
Oh my gosh — I did not mean “Total BS” to you. I was referring to the article.