The 34 Felony Convictions' Mantra Just Disintegrated

PJ Media ^ | 08/21/2026 | Eric Florack

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I note over at Townhall the always-worthwhile Matt Vespa's latest, wherein we read:

President Trump was interviewed by his former attorney, Michael Cohen, the star witness in the hush money case, which verdict is under appeal. Trump said Cohen was weaponized against him by the Justice Department. Cohen agrees, adding that he felt coerced by the Feds. The case stems from the president's effort to pay adult film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 during the 2016 election.

CNN legal analyst Elie Honig effectively pronounced the case dead, leaving its former cheerleaders with nothing but a pile of sad confetti. There's a reason federal prosecutors originally passed on this nuclear hot potato while Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg sprinted to pick it up: the Feds knew Michael Cohen's credibility was a nuclear biohazard. As Honig pointed out, if Cohen is a liar, the entire foundation crumbles. If he was coerced, the trial was a farce. Take your pick — either way, the shell of a case is empty.

Yeah, about that... 

While I've never fully trusted a word out of Michael Cohen's mouth in either direction, I lean toward believing his coercion claim here. It fits the pattern too cleanly not to. (Cohen is pictured above, by the way.)

Be honest, now. If Bragg was willing to weld together the legal Frankenstein's monster he actually built to get this conviction in the first place, there's no particular reason to think he'd suddenly develop scruples about how hard he leaned on his own star witness to get there.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hushmoney; michaelcohen; stormydaniels

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Mind you, none of this is coming from some late-night outrage merchant on conservative talk radio, howling into a ring light. This is CNN's own senior legal analyst, standing on CNN's own soundstage, calmly dismantling the exact legal drama CNN itself spent two solid years treating as if it were holy scripture handed down from Sinai.

Honig didn't bury this in an obscure Substack nobody reads. He dropped it directly into Jake Tapper's lap, on live television, and let the silence that followed do the talking. I'd genuinely have paid money to watch Tapper's face in that exact moment.

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Duh!

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It will never disintegrate for the Left.

Every day I see liberals repeating the mantra that Trump is a pedo.

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As I posted many times in 2024:

Bragg and Merchan violated President Trump's fifth and sixth amendment rights in so many ways.

1. Trump's sixth amendment right to "an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed" was denied to him by Bragg and Merchan by not moving the venue to a more balanced location outside of New York City.

2. Trump's sixth amendment right to a trial in "which district shall have been previously ascertained by law" was denied to him by Bragg and Merchan by trying a federal campaign finance law in a county court in New York.

3. Trump's sixth amendment right "to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusations" against him was denied to him by Bragg and Merchan by not revealing what the underlying charge that bootstrapped the misdemeanors was. Even after conviction, nobody knows what the underlying crime was.

4. Trump's sixth amendment right to "have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor" was denied to him by Bragg and Merchan by not letting Trump put the former Chairman of the Federal Elections Commission on the witness stand to give expert testimony on what constitutes illegal campaign spending.

5. Trump's sixth amendment right to have a unanimous jury verdict was denied to him by Bragg and Merchan by letting the jury pick from several possible underlying crimes without all agreeing on what that crime was.

6. Trump's fifth amendment right to "due process of law" was violated when Bragg and Merchan instructed the jury to presume guilt of the underlying crime that resuscitated misdemeanors that were past their statute of limitations.

Now they can add:

7. Trump's sixth amendment right to "speedy... trial" is being denied to him by Bragg endlessly delaying the appeals process.

-PJ