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2023-03-22 Government Corruption
DA Bragg to cross the Rubicon and divide the nation by indicting Trump
[NYPOST] How much does a mug shot mean to you?

To Alvin Bragg, it apparently means quite a lot.

All signs point to Bragg, Manhattan’s progressive prosecutor, indicting Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
 for his 2016 hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels.

The old Karl Marx line is that history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce.

This historic first-ever indictment of a former president of the United States would skip straight to farce.

First, there’s the tawdry and relatively trivial subject matter.

Trump stands accused by his critics on the left of fomenting an insurrection to overthrow the Constitution, and the criminal offense they are going to get him on stems from a dalliance with a porn star in 2006.

Then, more important, there’s the question of the merits. Unless Bragg has something unexpected on Trump, this appears to be a prosecution in search of a legal theory.

Everything indicates Bragg is more interested in subjecting Trump to the humiliations attendant to getting charged (turning himself in, getting fingerprinted and photographed) and the grinding distraction of defending himself against a criminal charge than the cogency of the case itself.

As The New York Times

... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
 put it last week, the Bragg case "hinges on an untested and therefore risky legal theory involving a complex interplay of laws, all amounting to a low-level felony."

In other words, exactly what you want to indict a former president on.
Posted by Fred 2023-03-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ]  Top

#1 I wonder what the statute of limitations is on this so called crime...
Posted by 49 Pan 2023-03-22 03:21||   2023-03-22 03:21|| Front Page Top

#2 my understanding is 2 years so middle of Trump's first term
Posted by 3dc 2023-03-22 03:35||   2023-03-22 03:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like a mutually beneficial transaction to me. What is the crime again?
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-03-22 08:25||   2023-03-22 08:25|| Front Page Top

#4 The indictment is a dumb idea for the Dems and Deep State because the case is so weak and the effort is transparent as political targeting. It is good for Bragg, though, as he will have fulfilled the will of his master Sauron. It also will be popular in the small toilet sized political pool in which he currently floats. Like the squad, Bragg cares little about the popularity of Democrats nationally.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-03-22 09:09||   2023-03-22 09:09|| Front Page Top

#5 so were all the other investigations into Trump but they sure as hell went on with them anyway.
Posted by Chris 2023-03-22 10:03||   2023-03-22 10:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Bragg and whatever idiot is pulling his strings are playing with fire. They are irresponsible. Like Nazi Germany, the prosecutors and judicial system made up crimes and laws against enemies. These are dangerous times with a moron at the helm totally owned by the CCP.
Posted by JohnQC 2023-03-22 11:46||   2023-03-22 11:46|| Front Page Top

#7 IF this case ever goes to trial, the first thing Trump's lawyers need to do is get a change of venue. No way in hell can he get a fair trial in New York.

But here's a question: How can the prosecution prove that Trump had sex with that woman, Ms. Daniels? It's kinda like a rape case in that sense isn't it? If the alleged victim takes a shower, she washes critical evidence down the drain. Without any other evidence, it gets down to "He said. She said." An impartial jury would need more than that to convict. And if Ms. Daniels cannot prove that she ever had sex with Trump, how can she allege that he paid her hush money for it? She's just another whore claiming she had sex with a celebrity. Not the most credible witness.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-03-22 12:05||   2023-03-22 12:05|| Front Page Top

#8 BTW, women who make pr0n are whores because they get paid to have sex. That is the very definition of prostitution. DA Bragg is basing his entire case on the testimony of a whore.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-03-22 12:13||   2023-03-22 12:13|| Front Page Top

#9 But then, the way DA Bragg has compromised his integrity for the money he got from George Soros, some folks might consider him to be a whore as well.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-03-22 12:37||   2023-03-22 12:37|| Front Page Top

#10 How can the prosecution prove that Trump had sex with that woman

disclaimer: Not a lawyer
My understanding is the case is not about boinking but accounting: Was the payoff business-as-usual celebrity hush money or was it an illegal use of campaign funds? DA Bragg is alleging a campaign finance law violation.
Posted by SteveS 2023-03-22 12:56||   2023-03-22 12:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Grand jury was told to stay home today!
Posted by Mad Eye Omeretch7959 2023-03-22 13:15||   2023-03-22 13:15|| Front Page Top

#12 DA Bragg is alleging a campaign finance law violation.

Then you get back to Cohen's testimony. Some say Michael Cohen 'lying' in grand jury testimony, his former legal adviser says ahead of Trump's possible arrest.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-03-22 13:22||   2023-03-22 13:22|| Front Page Top

#13 "Why Johnny Tyler! Where are you going with that legal theory?"
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-03-22 13:30||   2023-03-22 13:30|| Front Page Top

#14 The entire charade, dressed up as law enforcement, is the political theater for the media and useful idiots of the Demokrat base. The outcome of the case tried before a Manhattan jury pool might well be guilty, since Trump-hate is epidemic, the facts and actual law notwithstanding. In the long run, even our biased and sclerotic appeals courts would overturn the farce. But the theater of the absurd outcome either way doesn't matter, it is the display of POWER they seek, the optics. Trump beaten, made to obey, tainted! That is the holy grail for the Marxists who control the government.

If it precipitates a violent set of reactions by Trump supporters, it is a gift that emboldens the Puppet Show to act to curtail even more freedom of speech.

What would actually be massively impactful is peaceful, but widespread cessation of everything. The national strike that cripples Washington DC in a few days, and sends shockwaves as the depth of the national anger is displayed, peacefully, but insistently. If the genuine American people cannot muster unified, collective determination to show our now unrepresentative government how angry we are, our passivity ensures the acceleration of our disintegration as a nation.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-03-22 13:32||   2023-03-22 13:32|| Front Page Top

#15 On Wednesday morning, Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social that Bragg was having problems with the grand jury. “The Rogue prosecutor, who is having a hard time with the Grand Jury, especially after the powerful testimony against him by Felon Cohen’s highly respected former lawyer, is attempting to build a case that has NEVER BEEN BROUGHT BEFORE AND ACTUALLY, CAN’T BE BROUGHT,” he claimed. “If he spent this time, effort, and money on fighting VIOLENT CRIME, which is destroying NYC, our once beautiful and safe Manhattan, which has become an absolute HELLHOLE, would be a much better place to live!”

Trump was clearly on to something. The Wednesday session of the grand jury has been canceled, according to a report from Business Insider.

Two law enforcement officers have informed Insider that the grand jury in the Trump case has been instructed not to report for duty on Wednesday — the day previous reports suggested there would be a possible indictment vote against former President Donald Trump. Although there is no confirmed schedule beyond Wednesday, one of the sources, speaking anonymously, indicated that it is doubtful the grand jury will convene at all this week. The grand jury typically meets on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and Fox News reports that the grand jury is on standby for Thursday.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-03-22 13:42||   2023-03-22 13:42|| Front Page Top

#16 maybe someone got to Bragg and told him back off, you have no case and it makes Trump look better.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-03-22 13:58||   2023-03-22 13:58|| Front Page Top

#17 It's gonna happen folks. The Dems have run themselves into a corner, and their ideology demands they continue. Consequences are considered part of the equation, so - best of luck to each and everyone of us.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-03-22 13:58||   2023-03-22 13:58|| Front Page Top

#18 They have to indict or Rob Reiner will take them on Twitter.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-03-22 14:00||   2023-03-22 14:00|| Front Page Top

#19 Bragg is sweating.
Posted by Mad Eye Omeretch7959 2023-03-22 14:13||   2023-03-22 14:13|| Front Page Top

#20 If fhis were about campaign fund irregularities, wouldn't this be in the wheelhouse of the Federal Election Commission not an eager-beaver prosecutor in lower Manhattan.

If this were about hush money being paid to Stormy Daniels, isn't this a common legal ploy to get rid of nuisance claims in a civil court case? How did a civil case suddenly become a criminal case?

I thought this case was dealt with earlier in the courts?

This is radical left-wing lawfare (read as persecution). Such cases undermine the legal and judicial system.

Posted by JohnQC 2023-03-22 16:57||   2023-03-22 16:57|| Front Page Top

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