Posted on 04/05/2023 6:13:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged former President Donald with a crime that “doesn’t exist,” an attorney for the former president told Tucker Carlson Tuesday.
“Let’s talk about what we can see in the indictment, which is the year and date. I’m no crazy brilliant human being, but I’m sure I know how to read a calendar. We have dates, February 2017 for a few months. Where was President Trump in February 2017? In the Oval Office,” Alina Habba told Carlson, a co-founder of the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Okay. So what they’re saying there were checks written to his former lawyer while he was in the Oval Office. That’s in Washington, D.C. Just on its face what we do know from this, what he failed to put in was any factual basis. What we do know is he was sitting in the Oval Office. Explain to me how that’s campaign finance interference?”
Trump surrendered Tuesday to be arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records charges, and pled not guilty to all charges during his appearance in court. Bragg secured a grand jury indictment against Trump Thursday in a case centered around an alleged $130,000 payout to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 in return for Daniels signing a non-disclosure agreement during Trump’s successful run for the White House.
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Bragg claimed Trump paid three people to suppress negative stories during a Tuesday press conference.
“In order to have an effective NDA, you should probably have some consideration, which is called money, right?” Habba asked Carlson. “So for all non-lawyers, we do this all the time, we do this all the time.”
Habba also ripped Bragg over the indictment, which has drawn criticism from Trump critics like former National Security Adviser John Bolton and Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah.
“When you have somebody extorting you, which Mark Pomeranz said in his book he believes this to be, and I recommend you all take a close look at it. He lays this out,” Habba said. “We have Michael Cohen, who was a convicted felon and liar, who was afraid of what was going to happen to his wife. We have Mike Pomeranz admitting they couldn’t bring charges. Neither could the FEC, which regulates this. Alvin Bragg stood up today and said he was bringing a state federal crime. It doesn’t exist. It doesn’t exist. It’s a federal crime, not a state crime.”
“And to hear it on NBC News today, MSNBC, it was hush money. Really? How many women alleging sexual harassment or assault has NBC News paid off this year?” Carlson asked. “I mean, spare us, please. I used to work there.”
Well, I’m really disappointed. I thought Trunip had the nads to make a citizens’s arrest of Bragg for the felony of releasing the indictment, and turning custody over to the bailiff for incarceration.
Trump’s lawyer explained it well. The campaign finance laws don’t bar people from spending money on themselves — expenditures that are customarily and lawfully made by non-candidates and candidates alike, such as payoffs to avoid litigation — just because there may be a side benefit for a campaign. Suppose a candidate paid to have his teeth straightened, which make him more photogenic to voters. Not an illegal campaign expenditure.
The democrats think that Alvin Bragg was their super secret quiet submarine to sink Trump but it’s aircraft with MAD (magnetic anomaly detector’s) that sink them.
Trump is MAD
What grieves me is that “the law” is to have precedence over all and it does not. Nobody, like bragg is supposed to be able to pick and choose to prosecute or not, make deals or not, choose which to make important or not and certainly not to make up crimes. Only the law is to matter and everyone answers to the agreed laws including the Constitution. Everyone is reduced to only being an executor, subject or beneficiary of “the law”. There is no self determination, only determination of the agreed laws.
We have become no more than a kingdom or dictatorship. The republic is probably dead, replaced by mob rule or worse, dictatorship but more probably anarchy.
So how would the judge fare if he followed the law and dismissed the charges?
If he were to do it, it would need to be argued in at least two phases: One would be consolidating the redundant charges, two would be explaining the misapplications of law.
Alina Hubba Hubba
“I would have thought the ‘political pendulum’ would have started swinging back to center by now, but I was wrong.”
It already did, which is why Trump won more votes than any Republican candidate in history. Twice.
But the political mood of the public is somewhat irrelevant now that the left is rigging elections.
Sadly, we have a long way to go, to get back to so-called “normal”, but I fear we’re never going to get back there, ever again.
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There will be an economic collapse. There won’t be money for welfare. Young people that don’t work will start working.
Suppose a candidate paid to have his teeth straightened, which make him more photogenic to voters.
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Being alive is necessary to campaign, so eating, having a house, using electricity, and everything that you need to do to live is a campaign expenditure
Ditto that, in my other post.
The republic is probably dead, replaced by mob rule or worse, dictatorship but more probably anarchy.
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The US will not tolerate anarchy. If there is anarchy, a dictator similar to Pinochet will quickly take over the government.
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