Posted on 05/29/2024 8:23:32 AM PDT by janetjanet998
No, the judge needs to be arrested and tried for interfering with an election.
Jonathan Turley
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...After the federal election violation, Merchan says that the second crime is falsifying other documents. This creates a redundancy with the NY election violation on the falsifying documents. It allows the government to allege the falsification of documents as a felony and then allows such falsification to be also the unlawful means for certain documents. The third is the violation of tax laws.
The point of any of these Kafka-on-meth trials is not to get a conviction that will survive appeal, it’s simply to get the conviction. This is merely point #195 in this trial that makes it an instant dismissal on the inevitable appeal, but that doesn’t matter.
But why, you may ask? Everything the Dummies have done to Trump has backfired spectactularly. As Rush always pointed out, they didn’t make Trump so they can’t break Trump. So what to do?
None of this is being done in a Dem attempt to take out Trump. It’s being done as a setup to attack EVERY establishment Repubican in a strategery to have THEM take out Trump. They have the media attack machine poised; the biggest crook/creep in the nation will give a presidenty-non-partisan national address about how the other party will SIDS democracy in the crib by running a >gasp< CONVICTED FELON, and anyone who has an (R) after their name is just as guilty.
Don’t be surprised at a 3 or 4-way election after the Repubicans self-immolate. And lots of monkey business at the election if it gets that far (which is why Biden is trying to ban live betting on the 2024 Election - the single biggest tell in 2020 that it was not on the up-and-up).
>> he does not stand a prayer of a chance
President Trump absolutely DOES stand a PRAYER of a chance!
Please join me in praying that the Spirit of GOD convict the heart and spirit of each and every juror towards Righteousness and Justice and away from the evil of that unjust persecution and unrighteous judge.
Even if eleven of those jurors harden their hearts against the Truth of the Spirit... it only takes one juror to align with the Truth.
100,000%.
But that's not the point of this case. Merchan knows he has shown great bias. He doesn't care. The only thing he wants is to let the Democrats call Trump a convicted felon, get a video of him in handcuffs, and -- their fondest wish -- to imprison him during the upcoming campaign season.
Michael Cohen is a lawyer too, so don’t hold your breath on that one.
Calvinball.
I could get my head around being found guilty on one of three possible crimes.
BUT the jury not agreeing on which one? No.
That would mean 2/3 of the jurors find him innocent on each of the crimes.
It also means the 12 jurors can each decide that the false entry was to hide pretty much any possible crime.
The law can be pretty obscure, but I do not think this is Constitutional.
Trump: Mother Theresa couldn’t beat those charges from this judge in this rigged trial.
It’s a disgrace!!!
We still only need one to have a brain and vote no crime at all.
Yes. In a normal world a reasonable jury would unanimously conclude that no crime has been committed. In a New York world trial like this perhaps a few reasonable and strong jurors will emerge.
It has become "show me the man and I'll find you the crime(s)".
So does the fact one party, the GOP, is feckless, spineless and cowardice.
This case was judge shopped to give the case to Merchan because he could be counted on to run a rigged trial.
Why would the Democrats go to such lengths to rig a trial without tampering with the jury as well.
But, on the other hand , if the jury members were in the tank to convict Trump, why would Merchan need to issue such blatantly illegal jury instructions to get a conviction.
No way this thing stands on appeal.
There is so much nonsense here, including that Trump didn’t make the entries.
Plus the entries were accurate.
Enough money or power flows his way, he'd rule that the sun rises in the West.
“Mother Theresa could not beat these charges,” Trump said to reporters in the court hallway just now, shortly after the jury was released from the courtroom to begin deliberating.
“The trial is rigged. The judge is so conflicted he can’t breathe.”
NY Post
I believe Cannon is from Columbia also.
While CERTAIN to be overturned on appeal, Merchan is determined to get a conviction.
To convict, jurors must unanimously decide that Donald Trump falsified business records with the “intent” to cover up the hush money payout to Michael Cohen, and that the hush money was part of an illegal “conspiracy” to elect Trump in 2016 by what’s called “unlawful means,” the judge said.
But panelists can take a choose-your-own-adventure path to deciding what those “unlawful means” are.
Per the judge, jurors can consider whether the hush money payouts to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal breached campaign finance laws, were tax fraud, or whether business records were themselves falsified during that process — for example, whether Cohen fudged records to create his shell companies that he used for the payoffs.
But they don’t have to agree on what those “unlawful means” are.
NY Post
“It will be overturned on appeal, but that won’t happen until the election is over.”
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After destroying what little faith people may still have had in our so-called judicial system and creating a political nightmare for the country.
Our national decline continues apace. That seems to be the only constant nowadays.
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