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“Hush money” is not illegal when it’s purpose is not to supress evidence of a crime. When there is no underlying crime, the “hush money” is no more than a compensation to someone to not publicly discuss something involving the person making that compensation. That’s it.
What Bragg is doing is trying to subvert the law and the meaning of th law, claiming that it is not the “hush money” itself, but that the intent of it was an election campaign law violation because it was trying to hide a negative issue from the public. Yet, there was no hiding of it and the reporting of the “hush money” itself made the issue exposed, before the election. Bragg is an idiot.
Gag orders are unconstitutional, illegal and give the state an unfair advantage as they go out and trash a defendant while making sure no response can be given. Such orders are used by prosecutors and their witnesses to influence potential jurors and give fodder to the MSM’s attacks and build a “trial by public opinion”, not facts.
Cohen routinely goes on TV to call PDJT names, make wildly weird claims about being a russian agent, accuse him of raping puppies, etc. His interviews are then used by the state and democrat media to influence potential jurors and give fodder to the MSM’s attacks. Americans are fundamentally fair people. The thinking ones cannot stomach seeing these kinds of attacks while gagging the target to prevent any defense or response.
There should never be a “gag order”. Witness tampering is already illegal and a crime. And like all crimes in the once great American jurisprudence, it also requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt it occurred. IF there’s a gag order because of the peculiarities of a case, it must apply to all lawyers, witnesses, court staff, anyone involved in the case. Otherwise it is a punishment imposed on an unconvicted, presumed innocent person before any trial is held, and one that gives an unfair advantage to the already massively advantaged and unlimited funded state prosecutors.
Political prosecutions, with no identifiable ‘victim’ of a statute that has never before been used in a criminal setting and publicly declared to be intended to prevent a candidate from obtaining office, is the hallmark of a banana republic.