Posted on 05/29/2024 5:12:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
If Trump found guilty, time to lock and load.
So wouldn't that make it "circumstantial" evidence, then?
They even have a "slush" fund they use for such payoffs. Un-fricken-real!
The amount of testimony and papers presented was overwhelming, right up to the overwhelmingly long summation, all right. With a pile like that, he hopes the jury will glom onto SOMETHING nefarious enough to convict.
And he's probably right.
Cohen made a legal independent expenditure, and it does not matter why. They have nothing on Trump. If it was arranged for Trump to pay him back, then it’s not a campaign contribution, and if Trump did not order it or know about it, then he is innocent, too. The judge seems to think that keeping private affairs private is a crime unless one reports them to the FEC, which is NOT the law. and they are twisting the definition of what is an “in kind” campaign contribution, which is something taken by the campaign and used by the campaign, eg, office space, limos, charter planes......for legit campaign purposes. The precedent set by the John Edwards decision IS THE LAW. “Silence” might be a thing of vazlue, but it’s not something Cohen could give to Trump or his campaign could take possession of or use.
CNBC is having wet dreams again of lynching President Trump and allowing their illegal alien invaders/illegal banana boater voters to use the body for a piñata.
This judge is sounding more and more like
Tralene from Star Trek.
‘You will hang by the neck until you are dead Dead DEAD!’
“They even have a “slush” fund they use for such payoffs. Un-fricken-real!”
Yes, that’s what I was referring to. That “not so secret any more” slush fund. What still is secret... is who, exactly, has used that slush fund. I’m betting it has been mostly, if not all, Democrats. Funny how they always protect their own, eh?
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if “logical inferences” have to be made, then the case is circumstantial, which requires a high bar of evidence to overcome “reasonable doubt” ... there generally must be multiple forensic pieces of evidence, such as cell phone tracking, finger prints, DNA, tire tracks, fiber evidence, etc.
The only thing that is ‘overwhelming’ about this case is the overwhelming rabid, leftist bias and enmity this judge has consistently shown throughout this kangaroo court trial.
It doesn’t matter whether this jury (which has been told they don’t have to think he’s guilty to convict) convicts or not - any appeal outside of leftist government in NYS will succeed. Regardless, I do not care - just don’t care. They want a civil war? They can have one. This time there won’t be any manufacturing advantage.
Merchan made sure the jury heard only testimony unfavorable to trump, including testimony he allowed prosecutors to give.
Don’t believe giving hush money is a crime congress and senate do it all the time.
They even have a slush fund set up for just such a thing...............
What “evidence” they showed was not “evidence” of any crime.
Even though the defense spoke yesterday, do they get a chance to follow up after the prosecution gets done?
Don’t know who gets the last word...................
If the ‘evidence’ is “overwhelming” why the need for ‘logical inferences’??
I wonder how the NDA PAYOFFS for all those congress folks was recorded in government finance reports.
Cohen was his lawyer doing legal work on his own in hopes to be part of Trump admin.
Yes, I have no clue how it should have been recorded.
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