Posted on 05/30/2024 6:51:54 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator
Edited on 05/30/2024 6:53:08 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Deliberations resume this morning, after Merchan rereads instructions back to the jurors. Thoughts?
or there’s a bunch of very clever dogs in the neighborhood.
Please don't blame the country we love. Put the blame squarely where it belongs...on the Democrats and their fellow communist/socialist travelers who are infesting it like a plague of locusts. Sometimes the only way to kill locusts is to burn the fields. Metaphorically, that might be what we will need to do via a massive electoral defeat of Democrats everywhere.
I know what’s gonna happen if they come down with a guilty verdict.
His poll numbers will get even higher.
Why doesn’t he give the jury a written copy?
That too. :)
They are now hearing Pecker’s testimony of when he received a call from Donald Trump. He said that Trump told him that Karen “is a nice girl” and that he heard that there was a group trying to buy McDougal’s story and asked what Pecker thought he should do. Pecker recommended buying the story. Pecker said that he believed that the story would be embarrassing “both to himself and to his campaign.” That is an interesting passage because it shows a dual interest in avoiding such stories. Pecker also testified that he previously killed stories for Trump (before he ran for office) and did so for a number of other celebrities.
My understanding is the defense must agree on any jurist being taken off.
Or if your neighbors turned on their sprinklers overnight
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To run off all the pro-palestine protestors.
...The jury is now hearing another snippet from Pecker when the same phone call came in while Pecker was at an investor’s meeting. This second recollection included that Trump said “I normally do not buy stories because they always come out.” That is the second such observation from Trump. Pecker pushed that they should purchase it.
I'm not worried about polls (which I have little faith in anyway). I'm worried about what happens to the man. Will they immediately take him into custody? He will have to face a sentencing hearing. Will this vicious Leftist judge throw every possible extreme penalty at him? Where does President Trump go to get his reputation back once he becomes the only former president convicted of a felony?
They are now on to the next snippet. This is the direct examination of Pecker by Steinglass on the agreement that was not executed. Pecker testified that he no longer wanted to be reimbursed for the money paid to McDougal in speaking with Cohen. He said that he was not going forward and wanted to “rip up the agreement.” He said Cohen was “screaming” at him and said that “I am the lawyer...and can’t understand why he is concerned.”
Read Post 7...It has a Trump quote by Pecker...
Pecker says that Hope Hicks was in and out of the meeting. Trump and Cohen were present. Pecker said that he did not know what the purpose of the meeting was. He said that he was asked what the magazine could do to help the campaign. Pecker said that he intended to run positive stories on Trump, negative stories about opponents, and remain the “eyes and ears” for Trump including any stories involving women
Is a hung jury necessarily a good thing? I mean, if we get a hung jury and we get a mistrial, prosecution decides to retry the case. They keep dragging this thing around month after month, year after year. Is it better so simply get a verdict, then if guilty, immediately appeal?
Read Post 7...Trump's response....says it all.
Notably, this account said that it was meant as a more general discussion of helping the campaign but included a reference to stories involving women. Pecker said that “in a presidential campaign” it was common for such stories to come forward based on his “past experience” with other campaigns. He said that he expected that would be the case with Trump as well given his dating of many women. Pecker also said Bill Clinton’s womanizing would also be a draw for his readers as were negative Hillary stories. He said it was “easy for him to say that” because it would help his magazine.
Here and reading to catch up... Good morning!
Hung jury is good, not as good as acquittal, but there is likely zero chance of Bragg trying the case again as it would occur after the election. The only value would be to drag down a sitting president.
“ Metaphorically, that might be what we will need to do via a massive electoral defeat of Democrats everywhere.‘
You could be casting ballots for a million years and that will never happen. The system itself is far too corrupted in favor of elitist/insider government power.
You are not voting your way out of this…the action taken by the Administration to launch these Star Chambers around the country proves that. If you want the fields burnt to destroy the locusts, you are going to have to use real fire.
The word is they would try it again...almost immediatley.
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