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Can you convict a ham sandwich? What if the ham sandwich's name is Donald Trump?
American Thinker ^ | 04/17/2023 | John Leonard

Posted on 04/17/2023 10:41:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Pretty much everybody knows the old expression that says a prosecutor can even persuade a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich because the defendant hasn't been allowed his day in court and the testimony presented is all one-sided. Ironically, it was none other than former New York state chief judge Sol Wachtler who famously uttered those words in a 1985 interview with the New York Daily News, long before Donald Trump became an unstoppable force in American politics.

For the first time in history, a state prosecutor has filed criminal charges against a former U.S. president.  Alvin Bragg has charged former president Donald Trump with 34 counts of the same crime: falsifying business records — which is normally a misdemeanor.  To be clear, Bragg has seriously overstepped his authority by having a grand jury indict Donald Trump for what can be tried as a federal crime in a courtroom only under the jurisdiction of the Federal Elections Commission, which has already declined to pursue the case.

Let's get one thing straight: Donald Trump is the quintessential ham sandwich. He's a ham.  He's hilarious and quick-witted.  He's obscenely rich, famous for both his philanthropy and his lavish lifestyle.  He's bombastic.  His ego is so big that he's even named buildings after himself.  Years before Trump became a politician, artist Berkeley Breathed was poking fun at him in Bloom County comic strips that claimed that Trump had been seriously injured in an accident and his brain had been transplanted into Bill the Cat.  In fact, Trump proved so influential that he was credited with ending Breathed's 25-year hiatus from writing Bloom County strips.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alvinbragg; hamsandwich; manhattan; trump
Only the most avid Donald Trump–haters hold any real hope for a conviction produced by the efforts of Alvin Bragg. A rumor briefly circulated on Twitter claiming that one of the counts mentioned in the indictment was a charge of conspiracy, but then the real details emerged, much to the disappointment of the NeverTrump crowd.

Here's what we do know now: Donald Trump is being charged for a crime that was not nearly as bad as what Bill Clinton did while serving in the White House. Trump's alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels has been publicly denied by both Trump and Daniels. Daniels later claimed to have signed the letter officially denying that she had any sort of sexual relationship with Trump due to pressure coming from her own representatives. So the question becomes, is she lying about the affair or lying about denying the affair?

Either way, Stormy Daniels is a liar.  One could argue that her story keeps changing as she tries to remain relevant to the conversation.

There is another paragon of virtue involved in the Stormy Daniels affair.  That would be notorious liar and disgraced lawyer Michael Cohen.  He claims to have paid Daniels out of his own pocket and to have never been reimbursed by Trump for that payment.  I'm not a legal expert (nor do I play one on television), but it seems to me that any case requiring testimony from two acknowledged liars (both of whom previously have gone on record to claim that Trump was not involved with any payments to Stormy Daniels) is extraordinarily weak and should not even make it to trial.

The question is not whether you can indict a ham sandwich. Can you convict a ham sandwich?

1 posted on 04/17/2023 10:41:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Not if it has bacon and cheese.


2 posted on 04/17/2023 10:42:54 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Taxman

Ping


3 posted on 04/17/2023 10:44:03 AM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bragg’s goatsmellin’ arse needs to be thrown in jail.


4 posted on 04/17/2023 10:47:01 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's time to indict the Dung Beetle Party's token affirmative action chubby cheeked shyster lawyer.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sure but this has never been about conviction, only about keeping Trump from being reelected.

The real question is: If the Democrat election fraud mechanism is as effective as many of us fear it is, why are they going through all these weak legal maneuvers to indict and convict Trump and thus spoil his chance in 2024? Why not just steal another election?


5 posted on 04/17/2023 10:58:56 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: SeekAndFind

6 posted on 04/17/2023 12:11:13 PM PDT by null and void (Attention! Non-compliant Resident Alert! Attention! Non-compliant Resident Alert! Attention! Non-com)
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To: null and void

That’s pretty good.

5.56mm


7 posted on 04/17/2023 12:12:35 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go)
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To: bigbob

Why not both?


8 posted on 04/17/2023 12:13:04 PM PDT by null and void (Attention! Non-compliant Resident Alert! Attention! Non-compliant Resident Alert! Attention! Non-com)
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