Hmmm. I followed the trial and am still waiting to hear what the crime is and what the evidence is.
Well, we can’t exactly expect the prosecution to admit that their case is weak.
I still don’t see an underlying crime. Trump wanted to minimize bad press. That’s not illegal.
I still haven’t heard what the payment “should” have been classified as if it wasn’t a “legal expense”
I don’t think the case or any “evidence” matters in this fiasco.
The verdict was decided at the beginning and the trial was just a show to take up time and an attempt to justify the preplanned verdict.
Sounds like they think the crime was to deny Hillary her destiny.
“I’m not suggesting [Daniels] wasn’t looking to get paid, but that is a different thing from … extortion.”
No, that’s extortion.
Not looking forward to the day the leftists get their perp walk of Trump. I’m certain the MSM will have their cameras perfectly set up for the event.
here is no real crime here: no one has been killed, assaulted, robbed, or stolen from.
So Trump’s crime, whatever it is, is in the area of perception. It isn’t anything physical or countable; it’s in the minds of the emotionally upset. Trump did something that upsets people.
He upset them so badly they want him in jail for 150 years over it. But no one lost money or had a single scratch or scar.
Even we are looking for one of those emotional upset laws, but the bottom line in that no one is injured in a real way. No one anyplace.
So, when will NY go after every businessman, celebrity or rich person who paid to buy privacy by paying off an accuser and charging off the payment as a cost of doing business? There have to be thousands of New Yorkers who have done this? Go get them NY AGs….
Overwhelming. Adam Shif used that word a lot.
Has the jury found him guilty yet?
Would have been nice if the judge would have insisted the prosecution tell the defense what the crime was before final summation.
This will be the first time in American history that a president is found guilty of intending to commit something that is not a crime.
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!’
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.