Posted on 04/05/2023 3:12:50 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The Donald Trump indictment is our Late Roman Republic cirque du jour, and until now I’ve recused myself from writing about it. I had to wait for that one tiny detail to emerge, that one giant tell, so absurd that it required the special attention of the man who invented drunkblogging.
Only now, on Day Two of our accelerating descent into Total Banana Republic from Partly Banana Republic, has that absurdity come to light.
To see that absurdity in all its slimy glory, we must venture now to the pages of POLITICO, the semi-official mouthpiece of all goodthinking Outer Party swamp-dwellers.
“The charges against Trump do not include any tax fraud offenses,” Josh Gerstein reported on Wednesday, “that some legal experts said they hoped to see to buttress the seriousness of the case.”
I must interrupt myself for a moment to remind you that when someone at POLITICO uses a phrase like “some legal experts said…,” what they really mean is, “group-thinking swamp-dwellers all agree…” That done, let’s get back to Gerstein’s report.
“The statement of facts [Manhattan District Attorney Alvin] Bragg filed along with the indictment makes a surprising claim,” and when Gerstein describes it as “surprising,” what I took away from it was “gob-smackingly stupid.” The problem, you see, is “that Trump and his associates engaged in deception by paying New York state more in taxes than it was owed.”
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Yeah, we’ve gone from an insane asylum to a full banana republic in a few years. Trying to keep the faith.
It also makes Harvard lawyers in NYC and DC look like they simply bought their JDs online atL Laws R Us.
Ping
I’m just repeating what the media reported. It was all under legal services and Trump wasn’t aware of any of it happening until after the election. Of course Cohen is a lying felon who has changed his story multiple times so who really knows what happened.
Thx.
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