Posted on 04/22/2024 12:01:26 PM PDT by Red Badger
Opening statements were underway in President Trump’s ‘hush payment’ trial in New York City on Monday morning.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s top prosecutor lied during his opening statement and claimed Trump “orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election” when he paid porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about their alleged affair.
Trump has denied the affair.
Bragg’s top prosecutor who gave the opening statement on Monday – Matthew Colangelo – previously worked in the Justice Department (Biden appointee) and is a lifelong left-wing activist.
“The defendant, Donald Trump, orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election. Then he covered up that criminal conspiracy by lying in his New York business records over and over and over again,” prosecutor Matthew Colangelo – a former top Biden DOJ appointee – told jurors, according to AP.
Alvin Bragg indicted Trump last April on 34 felony counts related to ‘hush payments’ he made to Stormy Daniels.
Trump was accused of paying porn star Stormy Daniels, AKA, Stephanie Clifford, ‘hush payments’ through his then-attorney Michael Cohen in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Enquirer.
The payments made to Stormy Daniels did NOT come from Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The payments were made through internal business records – there was no tax deduction taken and there was no obligation to file it with the FEC, according to Trump attorney Joe Tacopina.
Alvin Bragg didn’t explain what exactly he wanted to convict Trump of in the charging documents.
Bragg told reporters he doesn’t have to tell anyone what the underlying felony is.
This is a glaring example of a two-tiered justice system.
Recall that the FEC in 2022 fined Hillary Clinton and the DNC $113,000 for lying about funding the fake Russia dossier.
The FEC fined Clinton and said her campaign violated the rules because they failed to disclose payments funneled to Fusion GPS through DNC law firm Perkins Coie.
Hillary Clinton got a light slap on the wrist for her crimes while Trump is on trial in New York City.
But President Donald Trump sits in court and is abused and slandered by the prosecutors and presiding judge, a far left Trump-hater.
Democrats are destroying our justice system like everything else they touch before our eyes.
People need to be disbarred for bringing these bogus cases.
If you saw how those 53 Intelligence “experts” worded their statement - they said the laptop “has all of the characteristics if a Russian disinformation campaign”.
That phrase gave them an out.
Just ask Vince Foster or Ron Brown about Clinton’s corruption... Oh wait... You can’t.
Paying “hush money”
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There’s a congressional fund that is used to “ pay “ “ buy off” whatever you want to call it that needs to be exposed.
If they can be protected what’s wrong with a
Private person doing it.
If paying money for a non-disclosure agreement is "corrupt[ing] the 2016 presidential election," then paying money for negative ads against an opponent is also corrupting the 2016 presidential election.
What's the difference between paying somebody to not say something versus paying somebody to say something?
-PJ -PJ
Right.
It's why they didn't bother renewing the consent decree of 1982 in 2018 after Dickinson Debevoise finally tipped over.
AND NOT A THING WILL HAPPEN. I won’t even bother to vote in November.
How can that be? We're supposed to believe without cross-examination that Bragg has an actual felony that was the justification for reviving the expired misdemeanor?
Doesn't President Trump have a right to face his accusers? Who is accusing Trump of the felony? Why can't that person be cross-examined?
-PJ
Interesting history
maybe he was embezzling money from the boss to fund his fling?
Beryl Howell interned for Dickinson Debevoise in 1983-1984.
In on the ground floor of industrial-strength Democrat ballot fraud and vote fraud.
After law school, Howell was a law clerk for Judge Dickinson Richards Debevoise of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey from 1983 to 1984. From 1985 to 1987, she was in private practice as an associate at the New York City law firm of Schulte Roth & Zabel.
Thick as thieves
Campaigning is a scheme to influence an election.
The 6th amendment says that "the accused shall enjoy the right...to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation..."
They are trying to see how many of the Bill of Rights can be violated in Trump's case. They have already done the 4th amendment with the Mar-a-Lago raid and the 8th amendment with the excessive fine from Judge Engoron. The trial by Engoron may also violate the 7th amendment right to a trial by jury.
Wow.....great observation.
Matthew Colangelo was number 3 in Biden’s DOJ.
Whistleblower Claims Michael Avenatti Said Michael Cohen Had Affair With Stormy Daniels Since 2006, Planned Trump Extortion Deal Before 2016 Election
https://twitter.com/OANN/status/1773162937093374213
Matthew Colangelo was number 3 in Biden’s DOJ.
Up until when?
Thx
Former Acting Associate Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice will Support Office’s Housing & Tenant Protection, Labor & Worker Protection, and White-Collar Investigations
District Attorney Bragg Announces Matthew Colangelo as New Senior Counsel
https://manhattanda.org/district-attorney-bragg-announces-matthew-colangelo-as-new-senior-counsel/
Attorney. Colangelo, who most recently served as a senior official at the U.S. Department of Justice, will focus on the Office’s cases, policies, and strategies in housing and tenant protection and labor and worker protection, as well as the Office’s most sensitive and high-profile white-collar investigations.
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