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The Absolutely Inane Case Against Trump in Manhattan
Townhall ^ | 04/08/2024 | Mike Davis

Posted on 04/08/2024 10:49:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

On Monday, April 15, President Donald Trump will become the first former president and the first major presidential candidate in American history to face a criminal trial. Not only is this unprecedented, it's happening with one of the weakest criminal cases in recent memory.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office searched for any way to charge the former president since 2017. The investigation poured over President Trump's personal and business life, and they settled on charging the former president with 34 felonies for the non-felony of his attorney Michael Cohen settling a nuisance claim. 

The case is so weak that The New York Times and The Washington Post both acknowledged that it’s a stretch. The New York Times reported: "The case against the former president hinges on an untested and therefore risky legal theory involving a complex interplay of laws."

Meanwhile, The Washington Post wrote that the prosecution left some “legal experts . . . scratching their heads” as “they describe it as an unusual case.” 

Indeed, it is unusual. 

Soros-funded Manhattan District Alvin Bragg says that President Trump “repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal crimes that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election.”

Bragg’s indictment, however, shows that this is a false accusation from the DA.

The 34 counts of "falsifying business records" all allegedly occurred in 2017, well after the presidential election and when President Trump was already in office. 

So, how exactly then did President Trump attempt to hide from everyone “damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election”?

A district attorney lying about the central facts of his case should be a scandal. It’s worth taking a look at the prosecutors who helped assemble this absurd case for Bragg. One of them is Mark Pomerantz, who didn’t hide that the prosecution of Trump was a personal crusade of his. Pomerantz wrote in his 2017 tell-all that Trump “disgusted” him and compared prosecuting Trump to Osama bin Laden. Pomerantz was so excited to prosecute Trump that he joined the DA’s office for no pay, and he wrote that he “would have paid the District Attorney's Office for the opportunity to prosecute President Trump."

It’s important to note as well that the prior Manhattan District Attorney (Cy Vance), the Manhattan U.S. Attorney, the Federal Election Commission, and Bragg himself examined Michael Cohen’s alleged payment to Stormy Daniels and declined to prosecute.

Then senior Biden Justice Department political appointee Matthew Colangelo got deployed to Bragg’s office as a “senior counsel” to work on the case months before the indictment. Colangelo is a lifelong Democrat activist who was a senior political appointee for both the Obama and Biden administrations. He was the number three at the Biden DOJ, a senior economic adviser in the Obama White House, and a top aide to Obama Labor Secretary and DNC chairman Tom Perez. Colangelo has never served as a line prosecutor or defense attorney. Colangelo is simply a senior Democrat operative, deployed to Bragg’s office to get Trump.

Alvin Bragg is not trying President Trump because he’s a DA hell-bent on enforcing the “rule of law.” No, brag downgraded 60 percent of felony cases last year. Bragg charged hundreds of felonies as misdemeanors, and helped harden criminals avoid serious punishment. And Bragg upgraded a time-barred bookkeeping misdemeanor, at best, into 34 felonies to get Trump. 

Have you heard about the wave of women getting randomly punched in New York City? Well, Alvin Bragg set free one of the perpetrators. Violent felons are assaulting New Yorkers while Bragg focuses his resources on targeting Joe Biden’s political opponent.

Everyone understands what this case is about. It’s an election-year assault on the Democrat Party’s number-one enemy. 

As even Never-Trumper Jonah Goldberg put it, “if President Trump’s ‘name were John Smith, Alvin Bragg would not be bringing this case.’”  

Mike Davis is the founder and president of the Article III Project, which defends constitutionalist judges. As the former chief counsel for nominations to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), he served as the staff leader for Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation. Davis served as a law clerk to Justice Neil Gorsuch, both on the 10th Circuit and Supreme Court.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: alvinbragg; hushmoney; manhattan; manhattanda; michaelcohen; stormydaniels; trumppersecution
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To: sopo

Thanks. Makes me wish I could return the compliment.


21 posted on 04/08/2024 4:29:41 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: sopo

All good questions. Are those flights however criminal? Or the deep siding if Ashley’s diary. But the quickest answer to any of the questions appears to be why did Trump make Cohen whole. Others may follow.


22 posted on 04/08/2024 4:38:32 PM PDT by joesbucks (For 2,000 years Christians have been warning of the Anti-Christ. Now they buy Bibles from him. )
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To: joesbucks

By definition criminal, transporting illegals. I’d say every or of the flights is of greater importance than proving a unique legal theory, already rejected in John Edwards case, of whether the hush money amounted to campaign finance violation, or whether the FBI asks as Joe’s secret police. I’ll give you your argument, despite innocent until proven guilty— suppose it is hush money, that’s not a crime. However, that’s not waht he’s charged with, is it a campaign finance violation? But you’re picking the country you want to live in.


23 posted on 04/08/2024 4:47:41 PM PDT by sopo
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To: sopo

So like any other perp he fights it. Is he afraid of being treated like every other schmuck?


24 posted on 04/08/2024 7:25:17 PM PDT by joesbucks (For 2,000 years Christians have been warning of the Anti-Christ. Now they buy Bibles from him. )
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To: joesbucks; sopo; Lazamataz; mlitefan; Robert DeLong
So like any other perp he fights it. Is he afraid of being treated like every other schmuck?

Thanks for your take from The View, joesFRdemocratoperative.

But if we wanted the take from that fat greasy ignorant overpaid retard Joy Behar, we'd beat it out of that mouth-breathing POS - with a Canadian sealer's tool of choice.

25 posted on 04/08/2024 9:24:07 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Ukrainian electrical grid doink?)
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