[Lazamataz]

To: kiryandil
I believe Trump has had a fair trial. Should I be charged with crimes, I hope I would be treated as well as Trump.

148 posted on 5/29/2024, 11:06:08 PM by joesbucks

And I stand by that.

And you stand by that..
.... even after you read this:

• This judge was specifically selected to handle this case. This case was judge-shopped. The venue was specifically selected to ensure a Trump-hating jury.
• "Judge" Merchan took over Federal jurisdiction of election law, even though this was a state court.
• Further, Trump stood accused of a crime in which he had zero personal participation. Some nameless accountant filled out the expense information offered as evidence.
• Merchan refused to allow the defense to present witnesses that could refute the prosecution claims, most notably, one of the nation's foremost experts on Federal election law)
• The New York law (falsifying records) requires a predicate crime, none of which were proven or even formally alleged.
• Merchan instructed the jury to ignore the above fact and assume that a predicate crime exists.
• Multiple federal and state prosecutors passed on even charging Trump with any of those predicate crimes. The state crime that Trump was accused of, falsifying business records in pursuit of any other fraud, had long passed the Statute of Limitations, and could not legally be used as a charge.
• During the entire fraudulent trial, he out a gag order on Trump to ensure Trump could not defend himself in the court of public opinion.
• Merchan allowed elements of character assassination to be entered as evidence. How, exactly, was the Access Hollywood tape pertinent to this case?
• Merchan allowed a convicted perjurer and serial liar (Michael Cohen) to be the lead prosecution witness. The timing of the prosecution and sentencing of this case was carefully timed to inflict maximum political damage.

Yeah, you're not being obtuse. You are a rabid leftist p.o.s.

By the nine Greek gods I swear, I shall celebrate your permanent banning.

[joesbucks]

Judge shopping. Merchan had been randomly assigned to supervise the investigative grand jury, and that judges who supervise such probes are then assigned to try any cases that come out of the grand jury. But let’s say he was. Would the rhetoric had been different with any other judge in that district? Remember, anything Trump is involved in is rigged unless he wins.

As for federal v state, the feds did look at it and backed off when they bumped into DOJ standards to not prosecute a sitting president. And they were a bit concerned with Cohen being a key witness because of his credibility issues. Once Trump was out of office, Cy Vance had already began his work on behalf of the state. Vance opened his investigation in 2018. Not Bragg. Bragg took over once Vance left office. And the feds also did not proceed because Barr told them not to. Not sure what that was based on.

Trump had no personal involvement? You know this how? You were there?

Let’s also not forget that in 2018, Trump attorney Tacopina had called the hush-money payment "an illegal agreement", "a fraud", and "a potential campaign finance issue".