Jonathan Turley: Trump’s New York Hush Money Case Is ‘Absurd’

Breitbart ^ | 04/15/2024 | Pam Key

[ChicagoConservative27]

Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley said Monday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom” that former President Donald Trump’s New York trial for allegedly falsifying business records related to payments to porn star Stormy Daniel is “absurd.”

Host Dana Perino said, “Jonathan, you wrote about Cicero saying ‘the more laws, the less justice,’ and that you seem the same here. How so?”

Turley said, “Well, the more cases against Trump, the less justice we receive as a people. You know, the opponents of Trump would have been far better off with just one case, the Mar-a-Lago case. That’s based on real law, real precedent, and one can disagree with the interpretations. But it’s not a reach in the sense of this case.”

[ChicagoConservative27]

Spot on

[BigFreakinToad]

doesn’t matter when the justice system is corrupted and owned by the left.
The law only matters to the left when it rules in it’s favor.

[GaryCrow]

He’s correct and when you reinterpret laws to target your political opponents the public loses respect for the rule of law. It’s dangerous territory when people stop believing in the rule of law, you end up with a non-functional banana republic where the legal system is just a pawn to be wielded against people you don’t like instead of a legitimate deterrent to criminal activities.

[Sacajaweau]

Actually, the Mar a Lago case is weak...He took them as President...and his copies at least....are declassified. He could have passed them around...which is another way of declassifying...but he kept them in his private home as his private files. For his purposes, they are declassified. It's not like the archives doesn't carry duplicates.

Wonder how many are STILL classified or how many were Re-classified by Biden.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s one of those New Yawk cases where affirmative action lawyers practice stealing money from and then hanging whitey. It’s an African slave reparations thing.

[Dogbert41]

Probably the reason Justice Thomas is missing today. He’s probably stroking out over today’s judiciary crimes all across the nation, including the SC. Kind of like being a part of Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, fill in the blank…

[joshua c]

political persecutions always are

[reasonisfaith]

If there are any cases against Trump that are NOT ABSURD, then let’s hear a reasonable explanation.

[JewishRighter]

President Trump has got nothing to worry about. They were able to empanel the OJ jury for his trial. /s

[ridesthemiles]

OR stolen??

OR sold???

NO SECURITY THERE AT ALL.

[DoughtyOne]

All three cases so far have been breathtakingly out of line.

I see folks talking about Trump being found guilty, and I
ask them if they’d like their father or brother convicted
for things like this, by DAs and Judges like this.

Crickets...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"You know, the opponents of Trump would have been far better off with just one case, the Mar-a-Lago case."

They want it both ways: They want to force Trump to take possession of classified documents, implicitly admitting he owns them, then they want to prosecute him for possessing the very documents they forced him to take possession of and implicitly admitted he owned.

[Fledermaus]

When not on Fox, Turley rejoices in the lawfare.

He’s a full borne Trump hater. With a bad hair dye job.

[From The Deer Stand]

I don’t understand why this sham trial can’t be dismissed. Nothing above-board in this whole Alvin Bragg sham. He’s a legal pip.

[enumerated]

Importantly, the files he took most likely related to the illegal crossfire hurricane frame-up, and he took them as evidence of the deep state plot against him.

That is why they are so desperate to get them back - these documents are evidence against them. This was was never about national security - it has always been about covering their own asses.

[zeestephen]

Great post, EPU.

First time I have seen or even heard about this dimension of the Classified Documents Case.