Posted on 05/03/2024 8:06:27 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator
Edited on 05/03/2024 10:26:12 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
The case blew up in their faces yesterday. Michael Cohen nailed for perjury by the prosecution’s own witness.
Update, some observations.
President Trump will be appealing the illegal gag order on constitutional grounds. Gag orders are normally applied to the prosecution to avoid tainting the jury pool.
It’s never intended to be used against the defendant. The prosecution by definition doesn’t need protection — the defendant does.
The case may never reach the jury. Another thing. SCOTUS’s pending ruling on immunity (June) may factor into this.
The alleged falsification of business records ALL took place AFTER Trump became president. An evidentiary hearing to sort what may have been executive vs personal actions would be in order. This another reason this trial should not have move forward before all the constitutional challenges were settled.
The statute of limitations on the alleged records falsification has already expired. So they turned an expired misdemeanor case into a felony by alleging that the falsification was in furtherance of another crime — a state election fraud law that doesn’t even apply to this case since Trump was a federal candidate.
Harvey Weinstein’s conviction was overturned for similar abuses of discretion by prosecutors in that case. They prejudiced the jury by hauling into the courtroom all kinds of stuff having no connection to the case at hand.
Hope Hicks.
She’s regurgitating stuff we already knew. Airing dirty laundry, nothing more. Still no crime. She wasn’t in the room during the supposed Pecker-Trump meeting in August, 2015. Which wouldn’t have been a crime either. This is the most laughable case I’ve ever witnessed.
Colangelo & co are making all the same mistakes the Weinstein prosecutors made. They’re trying to prejudice the jury by bringing in all this extraneous stuff to create the air of criminality.
The entire content of Hope Hicks testimony appears to be that Trump was very hands on with the rebuttal of these accusations. She had no knowledge of Trump’s interactions with Pecker and Cohen regarding catch and kill, non-disclosure agreements, payments, etc. The hype around her being a witness was much ado about nothing.
You summed it up succinctly.
Hanging a four year old and thinking it makes sense is what we see in the deep state crime syndicate as they go after Trump.
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