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Prosecutors Got Trump — But They Contorted the Law
nymag.com ^ | May 31, 2024 | Elie Honig

Posted on 05/31/2024 7:19:34 PM PDT by lowbridge

The judge donated money — a tiny amount, $35, but in plain violation of a rule prohibiting New York judges from making political donations of any kind — to a pro-Biden, anti-Trump political operation, including funds that the judge earmarked for “resisting the Republican Party and Donald Trump’s radical right-wing legacy.”

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Most importantly, the DA’s charges against Trump push the outer boundaries of the law and due process. That’s not on the jury. That’s on the prosecutors who chose to bring the case and the judge who let it play out as it did.

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But when you impose meaningful search parameters, the truth emerges: The charges against Trump are obscure, and nearly entirely unprecedented. In fact, no state prosecutor — in New York, or Wyoming, or anywhere — has ever charged federal election laws as a direct or predicate state crime, against anyone, for anything. None. Ever.

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Standing alone, falsification charges would have been mere misdemeanors under New York law, which posed two problems for the DA. First, nobody cares about a misdemeanor, and it would be laughable to bring the first-ever charge against a former president for a trifling offense that falls within the same technical criminal classification as shoplifting a Snapple and a bag of Cheetos from a bodega. Second, the statute of limitations on a misdemeanor — two years — likely has long expired on Trump’s conduct, which dates to 2016 and 2017.

So, to inflate the charges up to the lowest-level felony (Class E, on a scale of Class A through E) — and to electroshock them back to life within the longer felony statute of limitations —

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: columbaroocourt; kangaroocourt; showtrial; trump

1 posted on 05/31/2024 7:19:34 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Non paywall link

https://archive.ph/fjqIN


2 posted on 05/31/2024 7:20:09 PM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: lowbridge

how did he categorize this donation?

non profit
political contribution
legal expense
wokey/wobley club

enquiring minds want to know


3 posted on 05/31/2024 7:26:55 PM PDT by algore
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To: lowbridge

Commie show trials are just the beginning of the horrors...


4 posted on 05/31/2024 7:28:04 PM PDT by GOPJ (Our legal system's a drunk whore dancing for democrats stuffing dollar bills up her filthy twat.)
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To: lowbridge

Did anyone read the trial transcripts? Concerning guilt goes Ben Trump on Election fraud. The judge overruled the defense and sustained the prosecution’s objections.
DJT was presumed guilty from the beginning. He did not think he had to prove innocence. Well now you do


5 posted on 05/31/2024 7:46:15 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: lowbridge

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6 posted on 05/31/2024 8:33:23 PM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: lowbridge

THANK YOU!!


7 posted on 05/31/2024 8:34:50 PM PDT by jackibutterfly
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To: lowbridge

And NY Mag is a Democrat outlet.


8 posted on 05/31/2024 8:54:25 PM PDT by ifinnegan (MDemocrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: lowbridge

Judge Merchan donated money, in plain violation of a rule prohibiting New York judges from making political donations of any kind — to a pro-Biden, anti-Trump political operation, including funds that the judge earmarked for “resisting the Republican Party and Donald Trump’s radical right-wing legacy.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/complaint-dismissed-against-trump-hush-money-judge-who-donated-biden-2024-05-17/


9 posted on 05/31/2024 9:05:47 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: lowbridge

“the DA’s charges against Trump push the outer boundaries of the law and due process”

Another way of putting it is they replaced the law with politics.

I don’t take pleasure in repeatedly saying this, but these people who replace law with politics do so from low IQ.

It’s not a personal attack I’m making. It’s simply a statement of objective truth.


10 posted on 05/31/2024 9:11:00 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: lowbridge

Contorted?

They turned it into balloon animals.

CC


11 posted on 05/31/2024 10:57:45 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: lowbridge

You can call “judge” Merchan a judge. He is a “Hanging-Judge” that is how he should be referred to with regards to his title! He doesn’t deserve the respect or honor of his title. All these talking heads that state with certainty that “no one is above the law” make me want to vomit! This hanging judge, Democrat DA Bragg and Democrat jury all put themselves above the law. They all participated in the greatest travesty of the judicial system of the USA. They sold their souls to the devil and they will reap the benefits of the decisions they have made.


12 posted on 05/31/2024 10:58:43 PM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals crazy!)
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To: missnry

He made every single ruling for the prosecution. Is this in line with his track record?


13 posted on 06/01/2024 2:41:57 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: ifinnegan

No- they are not democrat- they are far, far left. The magazine version of Pravda


14 posted on 06/01/2024 3:37:46 AM PDT by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: lowbridge

Criminals got Trump. They are the “law”. They’ll see no repercussions. They are EVIL. “Laws” do not protect anyone against the criminal. Their innocent victims can tell you that if they are still alive.


15 posted on 06/01/2024 3:41:40 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: God luvs America

“ No- they are not democrat- they are far, far left. The magazine version of Pravda”

True. I think that’s the same now.

They work with Dems to place propaganda and narratives concocted by the Dems.

That’s why I thought it surprising they published this.


16 posted on 06/01/2024 9:55:03 AM PDT by ifinnegan (MDemocrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

I agree....


17 posted on 06/01/2024 10:08:05 AM PDT by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: lowbridge
The courts in New York have just established a 'legal precedent' of unconstitutional law persecution
which will be overturned
It was a "Show Trial" of Marxist concocted and contorted drama which ignored Constitutional law and the Bill of Rights.

18 posted on 06/01/2024 1:40:50 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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