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The Donald Trump New York City farce is on the way to being over. The prosecution (at least) rested after what would’ve been a disastrous performance by Michael Cohen in any other trial, but the standard rules don’t apply here because this is not actually a trial. This trial has nothing to do with law. It is a scummy attempt to frame a political opponent of the Democrats to keep him from winning an election against the desiccated old pervert in the White House. Normally, a jury would laugh this case out of court, except that it would never have been in court had the defendant been named Tronald Dump. Everything about it is a lie and a scam, and as soon as you understand that you will understand this disgraceful case.
The Democrats behind this charade are wearing the law like a skinsuit, presenting an exterior that makes this look like a real jury trial when, in fact, it is nothing of the sort. You see the forms and processes performed, but they mean nothing because the fix is already in. Let’s talk about what happens now in terms of procedure. In terms of legality, why bother? Again, this isn’t a legal matter. This is a joke.
The state must prove each of the elements of the charge beyond a reasonable doubt. Remember, in real trials, criminal charges have elements. For instance, fraud is typically a knowing misrepresentation intended to induce reliance that causes monetary damage to the victim. Each of those requirements is an element. Was there a misrepresentation? Was it knowingly false? Was it intended to induce reliance? Was someone who reasonably relied on it damaged in terms of losing money? Each of those elements must have substantial evidence in support of it. Remember, the state has to prove everything. The defendant can just sit there with his arms crossed like a late-80s rapper and say nothing, and if the state fails to provide evidence beyond a reasonable doubt proving each element, he must be acquitted. Others have discussed how the state has failed to prove any of the elements against Trump here — suffice it to say that, as a legal matter, the state has failed on every one of the elements. But again, this case isn’t a legal matter. This is a kangaroo court. We’re just talking about how the scam will proceed.
The defense could have chosen not to call any witnesses at all. If you think you’re winning because the state has failed to make its case, it’s often a good idea to send it to the jury right then. But I agree that Trump was right to try to put on a defense because that helps him in the court of public opinion. There’s no helping him with the jury – the jury is biased, and the majority of them will convict him regardless of the evidence or law. Defense is for the benefit of the voters.
The Democrat-donating judge severely limited some of Trump’s most important evidence. One witness was a former federal elections commissioner who is an expert on federal elections law and could testify as an expert witness as to how none of these alleged expenditures would violate federal campaign finance laws. Now, the judge excluded that testimony based on what is normally solid ground – an expert witness cannot testify as to what the law is. An expert witness provides factual evidence of matters outside the experience of a jury. But during the trial, the prosecution improperly elicited testimony regarding what is and isn’t a federal campaign finance violation from non-expert witnesses – including Michael Cohen. Typical with regard to Trump, there are apparently exceptions to the rules when it involves screwing him over. Allowing this expert witness to testify would be fair, so no surprise it did not happen.
Another witness the defense called was Michael Cohen’s former attorney, who you might think could not testify because of attorney-client privilege. Except Michael Cohen went behind his back and began talking about his discussions with his attorney to the Southern District of New York federal prosecutors when he was trying to sell out Trump to save his behind from jail. When you disclose attorney-client confidentialities, you waive your attorney-client privilege. Attorney Robert Costello, a respected criminal defense lawyer in New York, has already testified to a House committee that everything Michael Cohen said on the stand was a lie, not to convince the jurors because there’s no convincing the Democrat jurors, but to show America what a fiasco this is. On Monday, the judge blew up at Costello, who was disgusted by how the judge was limiting his testimony by sustaining the DA’s ridiculous objections.
As an aside, it is a disgrace that a prosecutor would ever put up on the stand as its key witness a convicted perjurer like Cohen, who has been publicly expressing how he wants to screw over the accused. On Monday, this centipede admitted stealing tens of thousands of dollars from Trump, something the NYDA knew about and failed to charge. I’m glad my mom, who was a judge and a prosecutor before that, doesn’t have to see this. Any decent past or present prosecutor with integrity would be appalled. Carefully note those who are not appalled.
Next week, the parties will do closing arguments. Look for the DA to try to convict Trump of “election interference” and “paying hush money,” neither of which is a crime. But again, this is not about the law; it is about pulling a jury of Democrat partisans who want to help stop a political opponent.
Then the case goes to the jury. The jury is instructed by the judge on the law to be applied. It’ll be interesting to see what jury instructions this judge gives since this completely unprecedented case will require many custom jury instructions. You see, there are standard jury instructions for routine cases. Murder, bank robbery, sex crimes, and the other things that Democratic constituents do all the time have standard jury instructions. Since this is an invented crime that has never been charged against anyone before, the parties will have to make up instructions and the judge will pick the DA’s version.
Then the case goes to the jury and the jurors will decide the case solely based on how much they hate Donald Trump. That is not how the law is supposed to work, but this isn’t about the law. This is about Democrat voters in Manhattan screwing over a political opponent. If twelve of them agree, they will convict him. If one or more jurors hold out for the truth and do not get kicked off the jury for “refusing to deliberate,” the jury will hang. This results in a mistrial, and the DA can retry the case. If twelve jurors reject the trumped-up Trump charges, Trump will be acquitted – but that will never happen because they’re Democrats, and it doesn’t matter what the facts are or the law is.
If you think I’m cynical, chalk that up to 30 years of experience.
There is a slight chance the jury will acquit Trump on some of the charges, but my guess is you’ll see him convicted on everything. Hopefully, at least one juror has the integrity and the guts to withstand the pressure to frame, but hope is not a plan.
Now, if convicted on up to 34 felony charges, a typical defendant would be remanded immediately into custody. Of course, Alvin Bragg’s DA office is notoriously easy on actual criminals, but it will certainly demand jail time here. It is quite possible that the judge will hook Trump up and take him into the back in chains. If that happens, a lot of people are going to be really, really sorry down the road. That image would be a devastating blow to our teetering Jenga tower of a country. If they want to throw open the Overton window, they should remember that it is a long way down.
More likely, this Democrat judge will release Trump on bail and set a sentencing date. But who knows? This has been a blatant and unrepentant farce from the beginning, one that at least half of Americans see as an attempt to frame the political opposition with false charges over made-up crimes before a biased judge and jury. If you want to bet, bet that they do the most outrageous thing – and bet that they cry like little girls when they feel the full blowback of their new rules down the road.
Keep your fingers crossed for at least one juror with the integrity to refuse to play his part in this show trial.
Trump’s real crime was beating Hillary and threatening Democrat power then and now.
The Trump trial is not a kangaroo court. A kangaroo court is a procedure thrown together, by soldiers on a battlefield or by convicts in a prison. It does not pretend to abide by the rule of law.. The Trump trial is a star chmber proceding
Not exactly. The phrase “kangaroo court” has come to mean any legal proceeding involving a courtroom where the judge and prosecutor go through the motions, and give some appearance of acting according to the law, but in reality the fix is already in. That is happening in this case. But it could also be called a Stalinist Show Trial, which functions in the same way. A Star Chamber process is where the accused is not present and convicted by a secret process–something akin to our FISA courts. All of these are disgraceful, of course.
Thank you for the clarification. Did the phrase “kangaroo court” originate with procedures thrown together by convicts in Australia?
President Trump is always saying that they’re coming for him and then
they’re coming for the rest of us. And he is so right.
It is ultimately terrifying to read and understand this article. To think a
group of leftist men and women have actually put a former President
of the United States on trial for made up crimes – charges that legally
are not really crimes – and that a leftist jury could actually convict him
illegally and they all get away with it – is bone chilling. The Soviet show trials
spring to mind. And so do the J6 defendants who have unconstitutionally
languished in jail without a trial for years – powerless, penniless and
unable to do anything about it.
The globalist-communist mantra “You will own nothing and you will be
happy” is not a prediction. It is an order. And antithetical to “liberty and the
pursuit of happiness”. What is happening to Donald Trump and the J6’s
and others around the country is a portent of what will happen if that order
for the Commie idea of happiness in the future is not obeyed.
God bless America and President Trump.
That’s right – if Biden is re-elected, America will become Gestapo city for the rest of us.
If silence is complicity then Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (the moot conservative darling) is as guilty as George Soros-bought prosecutor Alvin Bragg for the kangaroo court outrage perpetrated against President Trump in Manhattan. What’s the matter, Ron, cat got your tongue?
Note DeSantis’ DEAD silence on the Mar A Lago raid too, in which he failed to stand up for Trump, who just happens to be one of his CONSTITUENTS.
DeSantis is being backed by the GOPe darlings who backed McCain and Romney. Notice how he got $200 million for a race he was polling 20 points ahead in since MARCH, while Trump-endorsed candidates in other states were left out to dry.
He didn’t need that money to win. That’s a presidential war chest.
DeSantis is George W. Bush 2.0.
Well, not really. Bush actually got the votes of the American people. The only way DeSantis will win the White House would be the same way basement “good ‘ol Joe from Scranton” stole it in 2020. DeSantis won’t get the votes that Romney or McCain received, either. The GOP rank and file KNOW who the Bush’s and Cheney’s and DeSantis people are, what they represent, and that they never WILL represent them.
DeSantis or Haley as the 2024 GOP Presidential nominee, spells the death of the GOP, “elevating” the party to the history books just after the name “WHIGs”.
The Mara Lago raid was federal, not state. It would have been improper for the governor to make any comment on the matter. He might have even subjected himself to Deep State “justice.”
Trump buried the hatchet with Gov. DeSantis weeks ago. But go ahead, keep on kicking DeSantis and watch Florida go blue. Idiots.
These cases weren’t built to withstand scrutiny. They were built to obstruct.
Their only qualified success is keeping Trump from campaigning for a day or two.
I agree, but I think it goes further. I think the Progs want the visual of President Trump in chains (even if only for a couple of hours), and the foreman of the jury standing reading the verdict.
It will be a virtual crucifixion and grounds to howl like a Banshee when the courts let him out. In their eyes, I think it is the next most satisfying outcome short of executing him.
Progs are hostile and delusional – a dangerous combination.
that’s why we have he 2A
And look how well that’s working out. 35,000 attendance at a rally in one of the bluest places in the country.
Jews and people from the South Bronx – Trump’s new voting block that will make liberal heads explode.
It’s about time they noticed how they were being cynically used and abused by a party that clearly loathes them(much as they openly loathed those of us who enlisted or accepted commissions in the military). Same with their black and legal hispanic constituents. They had to be thrown under the bus before they even began to realize it, or how they were played against each other.
The crap the clintons said about Dick Morris would have done it for me, back in the 90s. And as a Christian, even if I knew nothing of the clintons, the fact that bill required a squad of “spiritual advisers,” told me all I needed to know about him. I may not be the sharpest spoon in the drawer, but I’m smarter than that.
Hopefully there will be a revival of the knowledge of the nature of rights and privileges, and meritocracy. Then maybe we can become e pluribus unum, baking our own pies, instead of balkanized and enslaved factions fighting for their cut of an ever diminishing socialist pie.
Where was that? Certainly not the Bronx. That rally was hundreds, not thousands.
Nope, that was tens of thousands. You’re looking at a picture from 11:00 am, seven hours before the rally. You’re also not counting the line that stretched for blocks, of people who couldn’t get in. You commie maggots can’t even fill a high school gym without a free concert, lol. Spork, lmao, probably plastic on top of that.
Excellent article. It reminds me of when I was younger and seeking a change in work. A mentor told me that if I sent out 12 resumes I would receive at least one positive response — and I did. I’m holding out that there is at least one juror who is willing to bet on the truth.
maybe, JUST MAYBE, one person will succumb to the desire to become famous overnight.. the ONE jurist who withstood the pack of salivating wolves.
It would be one way of being remembered, of standing out from the mob.
There’s a reason the hero in our culture is the lone lawman who’s right, standing against the mob.
That doesn’t always end in justice, but it makes it no less right. A mob showed up at the jail and was going to lynch the perps for what they did to the Alday family, but the Sheriff talked them into going home, “we’ll do this right, and they’ll get justice.” It didn’t work out that way, but that was still the right way to do it.
This is nothing more than the left honing their skills at doing an ol’ Soviet show trial.
This is a classic case of idiot behaviour, the Democrats are so sure of themselves, yes they have caused Trump a lot of wasted time and money but they’re causing Americans all over to think about who they’ll vote for..
Voters might think Trump is a bit out there, a bit loud and brash but he is a way better option than Biden, Biden is ruining their way of life (which includes their security)
The Democrats have painted themselves into a corner if they think this will change, they have to keep it going or it will look like a bigger conn,
“Law is but a heathen word for [power.” –Deniel Defore–
A 1930s Kremlin Stalinesque purge show trial, or at best just a real crummy Perry Mason TV extravaganza where all the worst actors got the best parts. If you don’t think unscrupulous Democrats and liberal progressives can’t rig national elections, observe how they rigged the criminal justice system against Donald Trump in New York and other states! Their deconstruction of the letter and spirit of the Constitution, legal blackmail, distortion of objective reality, the overthrow of the discernible truth, manipulation of the ignorant masses and the defeat of justice… Is the driving Machiavellian force and destructive societal cancer as to why we have become a nation not of stable laws, but of inconstant and willful men and women.
They also have the CIA software.
Brace yourselves.
Those indictments against Donald Trump by those vicious malice-filled leftists in power isn’t really “; legal prosecution” but political persecution.
Those vicious leftist/socialists along with their comrades of the Red/Green alliance have now come after Donald Trump with all their hate-filled malice, it’s only a matter of time before they will later come after all Conservative patriotic Americans.
Actually , they already have, as seen in that Joe Biden gulag in which “Big Brother Biden” keeps his political prisoners from January 6, 2021.
Those malicious leftists with their vicious libelous political persecutions against Donald Trump are despicable beyond the limits of reason.
Likewise, all this malicious persecution against Donald Trump truly is a “witch hunt.”
Furthermore, those indictments of Mr., Trump are a vicious wicked travesty. It’s been rightly called “legal voodoo.”
Those vicious leftists in power in their spiteful malice and hate for Donald Trump don’t actually care if their charges against him are valid and true or not, they are only interested in their horrendous agenda against Mr. Trump and all American patriotic Conservatives is successful.
To put this in another way, those bizarre balderdash of “legal indictments” against Donald Trump by the horrendously wicked insidious and sinister left-wing power elites who have examining everything they could, regardless of how baseless those accusations against Mr. Trump are , to use in their malice-filled and vicious determination to take the American patriot down hard and keep him down.
Those indictments against him only prove that saying true, which is that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
Just to think about one aspect of this Stormy Daniels story . If ,and that is “if” Donald Trump ,so many years had originated an infidelity with Miss. Daniels , then it’s so what ? He at that time was still a young man. It’s very natural for young and middle aged men to be attracted to healthy young women, of which Stormy certainly was as still is now.
In sharp contrast it’s not natural what Barack Obama might done.
It has been discovered that Obama might be a homosexual or a bisexual had already been exposed in the Dinesh D’ Souza video documentary entitled Trump Card. In it, a man was interviewed as a spoke about a sex affair with Obama. That gay man didn’t even know that Obama was a US senator at the two different time that he engaged in sex with him.
The documentary also revealed about other gay man that Obama had sex with. That man had earlier died under suspicious circumstances after he started to talk to many other people about his having sex with Obama.
In December 2007, two men who attended the Trinity United Church of Christ died from gunshot wounds. One of them was the choirmaster, Donald Young. Both are CPD cold case files to this day. Both men were members of Trinity’s “DLC.” Go ahead, ask me.
Soon will be finishing ⁰Arakady Vaksburg book The Prosecutor and the Prey, Vyshinsky and the 1930s Moscow Show Trials. They forgot to torture Trump until he admitted all the crimes they pretend he did as the Stalinists actually did in the 1930s and then again in the later 40s.
No matter whose side you’re on, this article is a mess. Case in point: Monetary damages are NOT required in a case like this. The damage was in purposely hiding knowledge from the electorate. Many people may have voted differently if they knew he had screwed a PORN STAR weeks after having a new baby with a new wife. Not illegal, of course, but the cover up is. As far as your elements of fraud test; of COURSE there was fraud. Why did he pay Cohen in 12 EQUAL PAYMENTS when he was no longer his lawyer? Obviously they were trying to make the reimbursements look like something else (uh… fraud) Cohen presented no LEGAL BILLS, but Trump signed 12 CHECKS. If you don’t think that’s evidence, you should return your Parry Mason Jr ID card.
The spokespeople for the DemocRAT Party are…
1) A female Porn Star that was paid $130K to stay silent about an affair, and she didnt hold up her end of the deal…
2) A disgraced, disbarred Lawyer that lied on the Stand and stole money from his Boss at the time.
Question… Can they go any lower?.
”They are not coming for me, they are coming for you, Im just in the way”…. Donald J. Trump.
If they can do to him what they are clearly and openly doing, without shame, to Trump they know they can also do whatever they wish to you average American people.
The Fine against Trump is in total violation or the 8th Amendment but the Democrat/Globalists prefer to ignore the Constitution look at how the support Gun Control/Confiscation