I only have one question….

T. A. Gardner said:
Bragg's case is the weakest and least relevant to Trump's time in office...

ragg's case alleges that Trump, through his former fixer Michael Cohen and the Trump Organization, falsified business records with the intent to defraud and commit another crime. Trump allegedly violated federal campaign finance laws when he paid Daniels $130,000 through Cohen to sign a NDA about their alleged sexual encounter—something we have to glean not from the indictment but from Bragg's statement that Cohen pled guilty to campaign finance violations; Cohen, who paid Daniels the money out of pocket, labeled his invoiced reimbursements as "legal services" instead of something like "reimbursement for settlement payment re: extra-marital sex."

Bragg turned this single transaction, which normally would have been one misdemeanor charge, into 34 separate felony counts with a maximum combined sentence of 136 years by throwing in the federal charge and aggressively subdividing each invoice, check, deposit, etc. into its own charge.
https://www.newsweek.com/alvin-braggs-case-against-trump-should-have-been-dismissed-opinion-1870620

Alvin Bragg's 'Election Interference' Narrative Is Nonsensical
https://reason.com/2024/04/18/alvin-braggs-election-interference-narrative-is-nonsensical/

Hasen said it’s not clear whether candidates for federal office can be prosecuted in cases involving state election laws. The defense may also argue the case can’t be brought in state court if it involves a federal election law.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-in...election-law-3cf41eb0cc5de0146840a436e49cfccc

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says Trump’s hush money criminal trial isn’t about politics

When he resurrected the case last April, the charges of falsifying records were raised to felonies under an unusual legal theory that Trump could be prosecuted in state court for violating federal campaign finance laws. Some legal experts say the strategy could backfire.

“It seems a bit of a legal reach, and the question is why are they doing it?” said Jonathan Turley, a professor at the George Washington University Law School. “It can be hard to escape the conclusion that this effort would not have been taken if the defendant was not Donald Trump.”
https://apnews.com/article/trump-ma...-money-trial-a164881f43b1d5064a528b36eada937e

All it takes is one juror to derail the whole trial by refusing to convict. Given the look of things, Bragg is trying charge stacking and if the jury decides that is the case, he's fighting an uphill battle even if he's essentially correct on at least one or more charges. Jurors don't usually take kindly to the prosecution going out of their way for blood so-to-speak.
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Nonsense.

It was Trump's own DoJ that charged and put Michael Cohen in jail for these crimes.

Giving Trump a pass under the logic of '...but Trump did worse things, so this is the weakest case' is just the type of stupidity that has allowed Trump to get away with so many other crimes or things that would have got another POTUS impeached. Everyone always focused on and thought only the worst of the crimes should be prosecuted and that is not how things work.

Trump is being prosecuted because he SHOULD be prosecuted and any defense of '...but he did worse things...so why prosecute this...' is just stupid nonsense.
 
QP! said:
Nonsense.

It was Trump's own DoJ that charged and put Michael Cohen in jail for these crimes.

Giving Trump a pass under the logic of '...but Trump did worse things, so this is the weakest case' is just the type of stupidity that has allowed Trump to get away with so many other crimes or things that would have got another POTUS impeached. Everyone always focused on and thought only the worst of the crimes should be prosecuted and that is not how things work.

Trump is being prosecuted because he SHOULD be prosecuted and any defense of '...but he did worse things...so why prosecute this...' is just stupid nonsense.
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What crimes?
 
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