Let’s tune into Jonathan Turley’s analysis of Judge Juan Merchan’s instructions to the jury in the New York Hush Money Trial of Trump.
Turley is a legal analyst and author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage“
Here is a link to Jonathan Turley’s Tweet Thread.
Jonathan Turley’s Analysis
- I am back in the courtroom for the instructions.
- This judge has stated that he wants to stay close to the standard instructions. The problem is that this case is anything but standard. We will be looking for some of the outstanding issues, particularly on the standard of proof for key elements like “unlawful means.”
- Yesterday was chilling as the judge allowed the prosecutors to engage in what some of us view as highly improper arguments. That included effectively testifying on facts not in the record. Merchan’s view of “argument” was considerably broader for the prosecution than the defense. For the prosecutors making objections, the strike zone seemed like it stretched from dugout to dugout. For the defense, it seemed the size of a postage stamp.
- Judge Merchan is now instructing the jury. He has ruled that the jury will not be given copies of the instructions but can ask for them to be read to them again. [Mish: This is the norm in New York state trials, but it does seem silly.]
- Judge Merchan is giving the standard instruction that they can reach inferences based on facts such as inferring that it rained from seeing people in raincoats. It is a rather quaint instruction after Merchan allowed the prosecutors to state as a “fact” that federal election violations occurred in this case. There is no such violation in this case, but Merchan did nothing to correct the erroneous impression. To carry forward the analogy, Steinglass was just yelling at the jury that there was a virtual hurricane on a perfectly sunny day but the judge remained entirely silent.
- Merchan also instructed that they may consider the interests of the witness in the outcome of the case. One of the least convincing parts of the closing argument of the prosecution was the claim that Michael Cohen was attacking Trump and selling merchandise to feed his family. Steinglass portrayed Cohen as struggling in his luxury multimillion dollar condo while making millions. It was a far cry from pushing a food cart down Broadway to support his family.
- Merchan instructed that Cohen is an accomplice and, as such, there is a special concern over such testimony particularly when there are benefits for testimony. There must be corroborating evidence. In other words, you may not convict the defendant solely on the basis of the testimony of Cohen.
- After the federal election violation, Merchan says that the second crime is falsifying other documents. This creates a redundancy with the NY election violation on the falsifying documents. It allows the government to allege the falsification of documents as a felony and then allows such falsification to be also the unlawful means for certain documents. The third is the violation of tax laws.
- So a dead misdemeanor for falsifying business records was zapped back into life by alleging that under NY election law 17-152 it was done to influence the election by the unlawful means of falsification of business records. It is so circular as to produce vertigo. So the jury finds some documents were falsified to use the unlawful means of falsifying other documents. That is only one of three possible crimes and the jury does not have to agree on which was the basis for their conviction.
- The absence of a witness on media practices is becoming more and more significant. Such a witness could have discussed how stories are often killed or planted by campaigns in light of the press exception for common practices by the media. Instead, the prosecutor was allowed to state as a fact what the common practices of the media are in a campaign.
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The Jury is now in deliberation.
This Will Backfire on Democrats
This trial should never have occurred. The state wants a conviction for an unspecified crime that Trump was never charged with, and it all started with a misdemeanor .
This can backfire spectacularly. The easiest way is for acquittal.
But the most spectacular way would be for an appeals court to overturn the conviction and absolutely blast Justice Merchan for blatant errors.
The best Democrats can hope for is a hung jury. Ironically, if there is a decision, it may be better for the Democrats if there is no conviction.
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This is how courts create homeless people: by towing cars away.
By making the whole system of harassment legal.
The Taliban dispenses fairer justice.
Just made largest donation to Trump Campaign ever.
Fuck Joe Biden
Guilty guilty guilty… BAAAAAAAAhahahahah!
Loser lost.
“. . . it all started with a misdemeanor.” A misdemeanor barred by statute of limitations unless in furtherance of a felony. Due process issue not to know, in advance, exact nature of charges against you.
Judge Judy on progressive prosecutors: “Fill ice cream cones someplace. But don’t ruin cities.”
The judicial system is corrupt.
If this weren’t playing out right in front of me, I wouldn’t believe it. What do these s.o.b.s do if Trump is convicted? Lock him up? Let him post bail? Strike him from the ballot? Or . . . maybe we can skip all of that and get enough of a war going that in a patriotic spirit the government postpones (cancels) the election.
Isn’t “lock ’em up” what you poltroons love to chant so much?
Your mouth fits around somebody’s poltroon, not mine.
Most people come out to their family, but you chose an economics blog. You pervy little man you.
This is a solely campaign ploy for Brandon 2024: they need a conviction, even if its for Trump stepping on bubble gum and rubbing it in the judge’s chamber carpet. Brandon’s campaign ads are prepared and ready to roll on every television segment the moment the verdict is reached:
TRUMP IS A CONVICTED CRIMINAL!
DON’T DIRTY THE WHITE HOUSE BY ELECTING A CONVICTED CRIMINAL!
You can bet Brandon will be programmed to call Trump the CONVICTED CRIMINAL during the debates.
They have nothing else to run on. This is it. This is ONLY it.
Thinking Trump will save you?
That he’s on your side?
Thinking he’s working for you?
Thinking any of this is real?
Something cannot be and not be at the same time.
Warp speed and the Walrus.
A Wall that only exists in your dreams.
Swamp cabinet.
No one will save your country.
Including you.
It’s like watching someone sink into quicksand thinking they’re going to be saved.
It’s over.
All that remains is WAR WAR War to traumatize Gen Z and A into social compliance.
stop being so optimistic, dude.
So glad you know everything.
I read books I know things.
You can read books too.
Just don’t read any before 1980.
Sounds like a bad trip. Maybe some valium.
Black pilled nihilism…..what a pathetic “I’m the victim” mentality.
Were you not hugged enough as a kid?
Your man crush has been bleating victimhood for years... but your love never wavers.
All of the Democratics antics are just handing Trump a win in November.
I give it 2 weeks before you’re back to “the election is rigged!”
I thought this lesson was learned during the Days Of Our Lives Clinton Monica saga. GOP got pounded for pursuing it. Same will happen to Democrats for these soap operas. Americans don’t like it. Maybe once they start going down these paths there is no turning back? I do not know why but there was no scenario where Trump would get weaker.
Not sure you’re right. The MSM was largely for Clinton in that drama and are against Trump in this drama. They’re shaping public perception to some degree.
I hope you’re right though.
yes. but today we have mish, rogan, bari weiss and other examples of media for those who want better information and alternative view points.
Biden and his associated Thugs have gotten away with quite a lot as people were unable to comprehend just how sick they were.
This is not a Trial about Donald Trump it is a Trial about what is going on in Washington DC and the rulers of Uniparty.
People are finally understanding that it matters who is placed in Office. Jellyfish GOP or Left-wing Marxist Democrats are the problem and this must get corrected.
I had advised not to pay attention to this Trial as I believed it would turn into a lot of silly noise. It has turned out so much Bigger then imagination was able to conceive.
The whole Nation is stunned at how wacko the Government has become.
Know why they won? The real reason?
Republicans are weak and stupid people, and they can’t help but lose.
In a word: Losers.
That’s your word now.
Third world real estate simply isn’t worth what NYC real estate was valued at on January 1st. Most real estate developers in NYC are now bankrupt.
Pension funds, insurance companies…. and of course campaign contributors to Kathy Hotchul … all effectively bankrupt no matter how this fraudulent trial ends.
Lots of commercial real estate owners with heavy concentrations of assets in NYC are now bankrupt. Its just simple math. They levered their buildings 5 to 1 (they put down 20%) or more likely 10 to 1 (they put down 20%, but half of that was borrowed via other channels).
Real estate in third world jurisdictions is worth substantially less than in places where the rule of law prevails. At least 20% less, probably more like 40% less. Ergo, all the equity in these real estate owning companies is wiped out, and then some.
NYC property tax collections are also going to plummet, a trend that was already in progress before this sham trial.
NYC will take decades to recover from this stupidity
Trump could have avoided all this by playing ball with the Democrats. He would have come out much better financially but he chose to fight. That’s why people admire him much more than before. They see what he is made of.
Unlike Bernie Sanders who quietly receded away from any presidential ambitions when the DC Machine began investigating accounting “irregularities” at the college where his wife was the head honcho.
So he wasn’t fit to be president, and so he didn’t run. That’s how it’s supposed to work. Not “me me me me mine mine MINE MINE MINE!”
He chose to break the law. Repeatedly. For his own gain, not yours.
You simps need to learn what the people that went to bat for him on Jan 6 and are sitting in jail learned: Trump doesn’t give a f**k about anybody but trump.
Doing so would be admitting you got took by a simpleton grifter with a tv show, and you can’t seem to get past it. You’re a permasimp.
This mimics a Soviet style show trial in the late thirties. I experienced this lawfare type of thing myself in late 1963 and early 1964. I was one of the leaders of the local civil rights “movement” and the local police and DA were desperate to get rid of us (I was a senior at University). After a sit-in two men who were local klan members shared me up the street with knives draw and actually chased me around a police car that had pulled up. They threw me in the police car took me to the station and charged me with carrying a deadly weapon which was a pepper spray type of thing. They warned me not to charge the two guys who were trying to kill me whom they knew from previous arrests. The police sad that the klan knew where I lived. Next they called my parents at 2:00am and made me sound like Al Capone. I had no money for a lawyer and had to plead no contest. My parents kicked me out of the house and I became homeless for nine months. I finally was graduated later on in the summer of 1965. I know how they can charge you with anything and then break you financially to make you plead to something. General Flynn anyone?
Prediction from shipwreckedcrew:
“The NY trial judge is going to allow that case to go the jury and get a verdict (if the jury doesn’t hang).
He’s then going to delay sentencing as long as he can.
But before sentencing arrives, he’s going to grant a motion for a new trial based on unduly prejudicial evidence having come from one or more witnesses.
The political goals will have been accomplished — the “evidence” was publicly aired in a courtroom and given saturation coverage in the media.
A jury will have convicted Trump of felony offenses (if they don’t hang). The campaign narrative is furthered.
But the Judge won’t end up suffering a reversal for his myriad errors in his biased decision making and conduct of the trial.
He’ll set a new trial date after the election.”
NYC real estate prices are going to plummet, as the rule of law has broken down. Check out real estate prices in Baltimore or Detroit. It takes generations to come back, if ever.
NYC real estate was already in trouble before this scam trial. The break down in the legal system only accelerates the trend (Trump might try to take credit, but the trend started before).
If your feeling “furious and outraged” about this?
Barking mad are you!
You’re being played.
It’s all fake it’s all theatre.
Reality TV star doing reality TV.
They’re on stage and we’re the audience.
Sowing division is the only goal.
Evil commies vs Evil Hitler racists
Remember the riots against at you racists.
Remember the 1/6 protest against the commies.
Like a pendulum it swings to and fro.
You are too stupid to talk like Yoda, try a Sesame Street character
So DA Bragg is in on this whole show?
How much tin foil do you go thru every yr?
They can’t help it. They’re really that stupid. It’s hard to accept that there are that many people that are that stupid, but it’s true.
What’s more, these you see here are the cream of that crop. Those that can compose a coherent sentence, heck, a paragraph sometimes, and manage to type it in with 2 fingers and not interfere with the spellcheck. They appear quite good at articulating their stupidity… savants almost, but they’re just repeating the transmissions from Stupid Central Command.
The rest of them are pretty much fat, mean, victimized versions of Gomer Pyle.
It’s enough to drive a man to eugenic musings…
After convicted, the sentence will be 4 years in the White House.
All conservatives who honestly believe Trump is being done wrong by the judge can rejoice, for their being right will also mean overturn on appeal of any convictions herein. But it might be time to dig the paranoia hole deeper just in case.
Most useful thing Trump has done, instilling concern for the rights of persons accused of crimes in people who tend to disdain such.
“Do or Die” moment for Democrats.
Time is running out.
Big business is packing his bags to get the hell out of New York City. Rule of law is a business necessity.
The wicked witch Governor Hocul has already said they won’t use this law on other people and businesses
Why does this ridiculous third world bimbo think legal precedent isn’t going to apply once it is created?
Bragg did not do this on his own. The usual suspects. Mike Bloomberg, $90bn richest man in NY, ran for Prez, Trump ridculed him, public laughed him off stage, he funds the anti 2nd movement to a large degree. Chuck Schumer, NY Senior Senator, Senate Majority Leader, “six ways from Sunday” etc. How did Hochul get into office? Appointed after they deep sixed Andrew who was going a bit rogue. He really thought he ran things. Look at all the NY Govs who are perverts and suddenly get ousted. Eliott Spitzer? Or in office, the Wiener? His ex wife and Killary’s fluffer is dating Baby Soros.
Funkenstein said that Gov Hochul (who is a bimbo outside of this case and not a prosecutor who would make such decisions anyway) promised not to use the legal precedent set in this case against other people and businesses.
Bragg did not make this error on his own, and there were lots of other shady people involved… hence her assurances that they won’t abuse the legal system again are hollow.
This abuse of the NY legal system is going to devalue all real estate in NY because third world legal systems do not support first world real estate prices
If Trump acquitted SPY might rise to a new all time high
Bob Brinker recommended SPY over 25 years ago. “Thank you for your call.”
A presidential candidate in jail? That’d really seal the deal. I always vote for the guy in jail.
Imran Khan is in jail.
US is in third world standard.
It will be interesting to see what happens to the market when we get the guaranteed guilty verdict and jail time for Joe Biden’s political opponent. Here is a prediction. Large equity and bond market sell off. After all one couldn’t blame investors from concluding that if America is going to act like a banana republic then she should be treated like one.
If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime. Furthermore, America: Love it or Leave it.
Any other greatest hits you’d like to hear?
If you get your covid shots you can’t catch covid and you can’t pass it to others .People like you believe anything .
What crime? The prosecutor never established one.
Maybe the charges should not have been pursued, but do you really think Trump didn’t do pretty much what the prosecution is suggesting he did? I mean maybe he’s not guilty by reason of not enough proof but there can be no doubt in any reasonable persons mind that he is not innocent.
He did the dirty deed with the porn star, paid her to keep quiet, and then tried to bury it and probably made it a tax deduction all to win an election.
The net effect of course is that he likely stole 2016 from Hillary.
The other question is how does a genius like Trump ( and a stable genius at that) get himself in so much trouble? I mean wouldn’t you expect him to be 10 or 12 moves ahead of an old geezer like Biden and those idiot democrats? He must have been having an off day.
Beck, “Loser”.
What is the reason for sell off?
No, I don’t agree.
Stock market and gold are the last resort to save our saving and wealth.
Banana republic and its fake money will lose its shine.
The true tragedy of this is even though Trump has the money to fight these rediculous cases that are nothing more than progressive political persecutions.
This shows you the lenths these clowns will go using the purse of the tax payers. to destroy anyone who doesn’t believe like them . They are using lawfare to silence desent and there is nothing worst than dirty cops and lawyers . The tragedy is they are willing to do this even though most see thru these lies . How about at the local level where teyn can destroy someone using the tax payer money to silence free speech and doing this to people who can’t afford to fight it . Essentially forcing people to take a plea because they can’t afford the process man the Dems have sunk to new lows . People better wake up !
So… how much have you sent him? Bought an NFT? The sneakers?
Go watch some CNBC reruns of Russia collusion People like you will believe anything .
Are Adam Schiff and Eric CIAramello still in possession of the Russian Hooker P-ss Tapes?
The political payback will start in January 2025, Trump will pick an AG that he KNOWS won’t recuse themselve and will go after his political opponents for TRUE crimes committed.
Morons
He works for the ultra wealthy.
Your his useful idiot.
I have some land to sell in Florida BTW
Anyone with any integrity whatsoever should be outraged regardless of their personal opinions about Trump. These are the kinds of banana republic / soviet show trial shenanigans that we used to make fun of other countries over.
Years ago, Detroit was an amazing city to live in. Mansions and wealth everywhere. In addition to the car companies, there was Mo-town music, there were all sorts of food processing companies, thousands of small businesses.
Today, Aretha Franklin’s house is a wreck. There are sections of the city with several blocks in a row are 100% abandoned houses. Street lights don’t get turned on, because the city can’t afford it. The bulbs were smashed long ago, the copper wiring was stolen and sold for recycling value.
Real estate prices in a banana republic do not get the same values as real estate in a city that used to respect the law.
No matter what this jury decides or how long it takes to have the ruling vacated on appeal. Even if the jury fully exonerates Trump and calls out the judge as a fraud (highly unlikely but lets just say for arguments sake)… NYC real estate prices are worth less than half of what they were last New Years Day.
If NYC residents had trouble getting your building superintendent to fix something last week when the building was worth more than the mortgage, just wait until you try to get anything fixed now.
And I don’t know how NYC residents can fix this. Apologizing to Trump (however unlikely that might be) isn’t going to fix this
The NYC residents forgot to ask De Niro how his buddies Epstein and P-Diddler were doing yesterday.
It’s lose-lose for the Democrats. If Trump is acquitted the Democrats lost on a trumped up charge. If he has a hung jury then he still wins because enough jurors saw through the Democrat’s inequity. If he is condemned then the view would be that a prejudiced jury under the influence of the Democrats have weaponized the judicial system. Frankly, this is so obvious that I wonder whether the objective all along was to augment Trump’s chances of winning the election. Perhaps the swamp is not as fetid as we think and that enough parts of it have realized that the country under Democrat leadership is a direct path to disaster.
I find it interesting because from my perspective at least it’s like the Democrats are intentionally trying to get Trump elected. It’s like a comedy show watching these bungled prosecutions most of which shouldn’t have happened or should have happened on a timely basis instead of right in front of the election. I am an Independent and not fond of Trump but all this harassment of him pisses me off further at the DNC.
If they convict Trump with this 3rd world style malicious prosecution, the ramifications to the financial markets may be huge. I think the equity and bond markets are already slipping ahead of the verdict.
Jury nullification is a defacto right of any juror. If the juror keeps thier mouth shut, exercising it is difficult, if not impossible, to prove. When on a jury you don’t have to explain the rationale behind your verdict to anyone,including other jurors.
A farce of a trial. Really sad.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden shows up at Hallie Biden’s house to talk just days before she testifies as a key witness in Hunter Biden’s gun trial. That’s flat-out witness tampering but of course, the majority of the mainstream media ignored the story.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/27/us-news/joe-biden-visits-hallie-biden-days-before-she-testifies-in-hunter-biden-gun-trial/
Reminds me of when Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch met in a private jet on the airport tarmac in 2016 to exchange photos of their grandkids and certainly not to discuss Hillary’s case.
I dislike Trump but the weaponizing of the justice system and grand canyon-size double standards (like Trump’s classified document case when Biden gets a pass for doing the exact thing) is actually driving me to root for Trump and support him.
The dems are totally corrupt and above the law.
He might have just gone there to bang her.
lol. Do you really think he could get it up? He probably just wants a sniff.
Drain the swamp.
Would point to Trump support in Bronx as example that not all New Yorkers are brain dead sheep.
There is going to be someone or several Jurors who recognize a railroad job as a railroad job.
That Merchan lost control of his courtroom and himself as well is not going to get overlooked by Jurors either..
any “conviction” will be overturned within days – the judges illegal instructions absolutely guarantee this. the judge in this case is more likely to go to jail than DJT. that’s a fact.
this is all about getting a “perp walk” photo opp.
this is all about giving freak progressives five minutes of pleasure.
in any case, the end result will be a massive backfire on The Left… just like everything else they’ve tried. they are terminally stupid, but they will never change. they would rather die than admit failure.
This is more than just a backfire on the left and making Trump into a martyr guaranteed to win the Presidency.
This is a cluster f#ck of biblical proportions for NY state’s legal system. The legal precedent being set by allowing the fraud to go to a jury trial, the circus of having an inept clown posing as a judge using a courtroom to go after a political opponent … these are things expected of a third world shit hole, not the North American center of capitalism and rule of law.
The NY bar was considered the toughest in the USA to pass. Being a NY state bar member used to be different than being a Zimbabwe bar member.
NY real estate values are going to plummet. The exodus of the wealthy, and more importantly the brain drain out of NYC … regardless of how fast this nonsense gets appealed … the damage to NY is done.
Trump can fix his situation on appeal, and it will be easy.
NY state is going to have to purge judges chambers, convict their DA (which means every case he was on has to be retried).
NY is truly fucked, and they did it all for nothing. They won’t “get Trump”. They won’t convince anyone Trump is worse than whatever people already thought. Trump’s reputation isn’t going to change; if anything people will sympathize with him.
The NY courts have just crapped all over NYC and NY state
Pack your capital and flee the USA before the “Government” seizes all your assets, because…….who knows why, but they will do it anyway…..because Bannana Republic stupid.
Nothing you predict will happen.
NY is locked down 100%.
It’s “fabrication reality culture show” central.
You have no rights.
You live in a totalitarian fascist police state – OBEY or else.
Hey Trumpies, what about your bankrupt bros rotting in prison. Did you enjoy bigely your Trump humiliation ritual.
Keep making those excuses.
Meanwhile back on the farm.
The government can do whatever it wants to you and you can’t do shit all about it.
10% of people on death row are innocent.
4+% of executed people are found innocent later.
Idiots who cheer these turds who rule over you – there going to send your fucking children to die in Eastern Europe and China.
What your seeing has been in the works since WW2. Generational trauma lesson is in the works – the horrors will match Gaza and Ukraine and it’s going to be your kids dying.
Gen Z doesn’t believe the lies you all swallow. That means it’s time to break out the whip and “learn them who’s in charge.”
nobody’s afraid of a generation that doesn’t know the difference between a boy and a girl. not to mention a generation raised on synthetic foods and lack of sunlight. what are you going to do … best us in a game of Tetris?
Like Alex Berenson, you are assuming there are grownups in the New York court system. One time when he was the most wrong man on the internet.
I don’t like Trump, and I don’t like Biden even more. If Trump is convicted based on these shenanigans, this country is going to come unhinged and with good reason.
A bunch of fat old boomers trying to gin up domestic terrorism is far from an existential threat. We’ll be fine. You do what you need to.
Go vote for Biden again
I’ve been wondering about whether this might be the actual plan after all.
Convict Trump on some bogus charges and get the MAGA supporters riled up (marching etc) similar to what happened on Jan 6th only on a nationwide basis.
Use this as a pretext for declaring another insurrection with the goal of declaring martial law. Allow martial law to be the guise for keeping Biden in power (can’t have a Republican/Democratic conventions under martial law, it would be too dangerous then extend that ‘too dangerous’ through the election and declare Biden as an unopposed winner).
Sure, it’s the stuff of movies, but with Biden looking increasingly unlikely to win by the day this would be the perfect way to keep him in power and since he’s so senile he wouldn’t even object or know better than to let it happen.
You Canadians have a similar problem.
True. Except in Canada, everyone knows Trudeau is done, even his own party and their supporters.
It’s what happens when you elect an unqualified person based on looks and family history and then leave them in power for 10+ years.
So why is the third candidate, Kennedy is disappearing?
Should he be popular?
Nothing will happen.
1500 of our friends who paid the ultimate price for caring about our country had their lives ruined and literally no cares?
Instead of giving money to Trump pay their mortgages and car payments. And visit them and tell you you appreciate them.
Not one of them thinks good of you.
The time to act has long passed.
NOTHING WILL HAPPEN
Mont Tremblunt. Aging Hollywood stars, democrat DAs, judges and the fake media are
afraid of Trump retaliation.
Hamas raided bank accounts and stole millions. The IDF controls 100% of the 8 miles
Philadelphi border line. Both Israel and Egypt destroyed Hamas tunnels crossing the border. Blinken is shocked. Blinken puked. The IDF and Hezbollah exchange painful jabs for eight months. Sinwar babies will be born in June/July. Ilan might become a member of Trump’s gov.
Hi Mish. What do you think of the recent trick-or-treat incident in $$$$$Winnetka$$$$$ Illinois?
Carjacking shootouts only happen in Chicago. What you heard is a figment of your imagination.
It was on the local news Mike. My friend (not Avery) who likes to point out the neverending drug territory shootings in Chicago always forgets the mass shooting in Highland Park. The Winnetka resident they interviewed wasnt planning to move. Thank goodness!!
Never forget Highland Park! – the guys on the bikes in the yellow security vests circling around the perimeter of the parade route before, during and after the shootings, completely unphased, as if it was all part of the script. The mkultra perp had pink and purple pigtails not a red hat, so someone messed up in Wardrobe.
Did not see it. Will look
There are hundreds of wealthy real estate developers in NYC (besides Trump) who have NDAs against their “secretaries”, “nieces”, and whatever euphemisms we are using for Stormy Daniels profession. Once a legal precedent is set, its not just Trump who goes on trial.
NYC is already F#cked with a capital F because the other clown claimed it is illegal for real estate developers and banks to have different guesses of what a building might be worth.
Of course, this case is going to get appealed until long after Trump is offering to rebuild the pearl gates of heaven. The damage to NYC’s reputation will go on for long after that.
The question Mish didn’t address (and the answer isn’t obvious to other commentators either) … how does NYC send Alvin Bragg and the corrupt judges to prison to correct this mess? They have to fix the legal precedent, not just apologize to Trump
As I understand it,
So no precedent is set for ordinary non-disclosure agreements. Although a whole lot more discretion is advised concerning sex-relations with another person. Former VP Mike Pence has a good plan.
Clearly you don’t understand the case at all. None of that has been proven, and this crazy judge says it doesn’t matter whether the anti-Trump jury believes it. The judge (not the jury) decided this as a “fact” even though the evidence says it isn’t true at all.
That same third world bullshit can now be used to attack anyone with “the other” political affiliation in NYC.
You really need to be more careful here. You clearly didn’t think this through at all
Trust me I know some of those people.
NY is locked down tight as a drum.
9/11 is all you need to know.
Is he guilty yet? Not that it matters cause he wont spend a minute in jail.
What is the densest element in the universe?
I don’t know the answer to that, as there could be many elements we are unaware of.
I know what the densest force on planet earth is: Leftism.
And its practitioners.
I’d like to see him jailed just to observe his followers’ tantrums.
The show will have to wait till tomorrow