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After Trump is convicted I expect a number of Republican office holders to strongly condemn this travesty. I fully expect DeSantis to do that.

The rest of the Republican current and former office holders will fall into one of the following groups:

  1. Republicans who say nothing. I expect this will be the largest group.

  2. Republicans who say absolutely nothing about whether Bragg's illegal prosecution is legitimate but call for Trump to end his campaign. I have a feeling Pence will be in this group. Maybe Haley as well.

  3. A few Republicans may actually endorse what Bragg did. I don't know if any current Republican office holders will be in this group, but I could see nuts like Cheney and Kinsinger doing that.


1 posted on 04/12/2024 9:56:41 PM PDT by lasereye
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To: lasereye

BTTT


2 posted on 04/12/2024 10:00:14 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: lasereye

Much like the claim that the 2020 election was the purest ever, these lawfare charges are totally bogus.

Half of America knows that the Deep State needs to be kicked to the curb.


3 posted on 04/12/2024 10:08:52 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: lasereye

The criminal justice system in America has run amok. It’s long past time to reign it in to constitutional norms, and provide new rights of appeal to the accused to end vexatious criminal prosecutions.


4 posted on 04/12/2024 10:09:05 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: lasereye
I don't know that any Republican will be let off the hook by the MSM and allowed to say nothing or "No Comment".

This will be as big to Dems as the abortion bills.

They will need to get each and every elected Republican official on the record as to what they think about what happened to Trump after the case is settled.

There will be some who will go full-Trump-supporter, and many of these might surprise us. Calculations will be made, and those who think that Trump will eventually prevail will want to be on his side when the dust settles.

5 posted on 04/12/2024 10:13:17 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: lasereye

That this case could even begin to get this far is the death of the country.

The basis for it is the very definition of a “trumped up” phony charge, to use the obvious pun. And that is precisely why the Founders went to great lengths to prevent such things in the Constitution. This one is close to a Bill of Attainder, but not quite.

That petty officers could engage in such a frontal assault on the Federal Executive - and Trump is definitely one of a small group of people who have stood at the top of that - is an insult to the system that smacks of the tactics of the English Crown. It should not stand.

Certainly, such a strained reasoning to arrive at a “crime” when the current occupant of the White Hut has casually admitted to major felonies associated with the Espionage Act but not been prosecuted is a shocking in its hypocrisy and hubris.

The trial should be ended before it starts, and the participants rebuked and prevented from using state power ever again.


7 posted on 04/12/2024 10:13:26 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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Anything they say.do.Try...is a lie and made up to get him out of their global dream.. While they give Joe and Hunter a huge pass over criminal acts.

If God has not dealt with them before Trump is back.. They all will be fired in 2025.


8 posted on 04/12/2024 10:31:37 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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Should President Trump be convicted of cooked-up charges, it will only give him more street cred in the 'hood. I'm sure he will garner sympathy from some quarters, a quarter who normally don't vote for republicans. Right now President Trump stands at over 25% of black voters, including women.

When I was a schoolboy, I remember the story of President Andrew Johnson, and I was horrified by the way he was ill-used by the politicians, even impeaching him for political reasons. I thought it could never happen again, that we were too advanced. I was wrong.

10 posted on 04/12/2024 10:37:54 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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“ I fully expect DeSantis to do that.”

Would you kindly state just one example of DeSantis defending Trump on anything


15 posted on 04/12/2024 11:04:53 PM PDT by stanne
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To: lasereye

It might make Chip Roy happy.


17 posted on 04/12/2024 11:07:51 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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To: lasereye

If York is correct, Trump will be easily acquitted.


21 posted on 04/12/2024 11:22:31 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king (Just a Texas Playboy at heart)
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To: lasereye

Republican cowards say nothing.


24 posted on 04/13/2024 1:28:51 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: lasereye
Right now, Bragg is the army the anti-Trump coalition has, and on Monday, they go to war.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Oh we are shaking in our bootz at these kangaroo courtz!!

Bragg does not know what war is.

Bragg's war will be a premature redaculation.

I bet the jurors will be characters........all Trump needs is one hold out for acquittal, and the odds are good.



27 posted on 04/13/2024 3:34:39 AM PDT by Candor7 (Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: lasereye

It’s amazing to me the Republicans are such cowards. They stood by with their thumbs up their butts watching as these evil RATs destroyed Donald Trump and our country. At 77, this will be my last vote for President and it will be for Trump. I’m not voting for anyone else. To hell with them.


28 posted on 04/13/2024 3:40:26 AM PDT by abbastanza
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To: lasereye

Like most analyses, this one leaves out a he two biggest weaknesses. First, the crime isn’t making false entries in a checkbook. It’s making those entries with the intent to defraud another or the government. Question: Who was defrauded? Bragg says that Trump’s books potentially could mislead state taxing authorities if they did an audit, but that argument fails bc regardless as to how the payments were characterized in the check ledgers, Trump gained no tax advantage. Bottom line: Would one really expect the ledger to read “payment for blackmail by porn star”. Trump’s motive was to hide the payment from his employees and the public, not to defraud.
Second, if you read the indictment, the crime of making a false entry did not occur until the year 2017. So how was Trump committing the crime with intent to commit a felony? Bragg argument is that he did it to conceal a campaign finance violation, but Trump had already won the election. And conceal it from who? His employees? State tax collectors?


30 posted on 04/13/2024 4:08:02 AM PDT by bort
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To: lasereye

Alan Dershowitz said last night on Newsmax in his 60 years of practicing law, he has never seen a weaker, more politically charged case than this one. The whole thing is a mockery of American jurisprudence.


33 posted on 04/13/2024 4:52:24 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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“For the man behind the case, the elected Democratic district attorney of Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, the trial is more than a trial. It’s a campaign promise kept.”

This is ultimately angry blacks “getting whitey”. There is no other scenario that remotely works. You elect these people thinking it’s “the right thing” and this sh!t starts. Every. Damn. Time.


35 posted on 04/13/2024 5:40:19 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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You mean desantis say things in support of Trump, like he does the J6 people?

And are you going to be celebrating that Trump’s going to trial, and that it could expose Trump in such a bad light that he’ll lose the general election?


36 posted on 04/13/2024 6:09:35 AM PDT by backpacker_c
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Democratic district attorney of Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, the trial is more than a trial. It’s a campaign promise kept.

No matter how illegal it has to be it’s a democrat operation so it’s all okay.

Media approved


37 posted on 04/13/2024 7:05:56 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: lasereye

Manhattan?

Guilty verdict has already been decided.


38 posted on 04/13/2024 7:43:32 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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