It’s the most mundane thing that has been “Trumped up” to the extent that anti-Trumpers act like he murdered someone. Everyone else thinks “oh wow, improperly classifying an expense, who cares.”
And still at the end of it, it boiled down to “you should’ve classified the hush money as a campaign expense instead of a legal expense.” Do you seriously not understand why no one really cares?
Then, read this again — https://robertreich.substack.com/p/dont-call-it-the-hush-mon... “This case alleges that in 2016 Trump arranged to pay off an adult entertainer in order to hide his affair with her from the public. The important thing to keep in mind is that the money was given to protect Trump’s campaign for the presidency — not to protect his marriage or protect him from personal embarrassment.”
By any measure this is way worse than some stupid accounting classification with regard to hush money for a porn star? How come no charges were brought on this very serious charge?
People are nowhere near as stupid as the Democratic party likes to believe.
What happened was not an “accounting classification” issue. The jury, selected by both sides, unanimously agreed on the 34 federal felony counts because after hearing and seeing arguments, testimony, and evidence from both sides, they found it clear that this was not an “accounting classification” issue, but rather an issue of an entity exceeding legal limits on political contributions and attempting to conceal it by committing financial crimes.
Zuckerberg talking about warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62688532
Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-...
NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/us/politics/republicans-h...
NY Times and Washington Post finally admit laptop is real https://nypost.com/2022/04/01/new-york-times-finally-admit-h...
And the 34 felony was about 34 payments for the one thing so in reality was just the one "crime" beefed up by a weaponized justice system to look worse than it was.
Again, it is obviously and emphatically true that this kind of govt election interference is way worse than whatever Trump did. So again why was there no charge over this?
And I'm just going to repeat, people are not nearly as stupid as the Democrat party thinks they are.
If it's so mundane, why is it a felony then.
Judge Marchand's daughter has worked for a marketing firm since 2003 that has the DNC, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as clients https://www.nationalreview.com/news/house-judiciary-investig...
Here is DA Bragg campaigning on how he will go after Trump if elected as DA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQLflgGxUrU
Bragg downgraded 50% of felonies to misdemeanors https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/apr/08/ron-desant...
Some discussion of the convoluted logic used by Bragg to upgrade a misdemeanor (intent to defraud) to a felony (intent to defraud in the commission of another crime) https://news.syr.edu/blog/2024/05/07/law-professor-the-manha...
This is such a lame case, that should never have been brought and is clearly an abuse of the justice system for political ends.
Also I am not from USA and very happy I don't have to deal with TurboTax lobbying and shenanigans thar make the USA tax code to be just crazy.
Also the "bank fraud" trial is also monumentally stupid when they wanted to convict him and close his companies (thus making people lose their jobs) for doing something that resulted in profits for the supposed victim. Victim in fact that explained multiple times they were pleased with the business and would do it again.
The message in the second case was: we will take your jobs because your boss made a good deal, don't vote for him!
And of course this is just idiotic.
How to understand next week’s Trump criminal felony trial https://robertreich.substack.com/p/dont-call-it-the-hush-mon...
How Trump is liable for fraud even though no one was hurt https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-trump-is-liable-for-f...
> Many people I speak with are worried that this is the weakest of Trump’s four pending criminal trials because it has to do with an illicit affair.
> Wrong.
No this was the weakest case. The fact that this is the one to get across the finish line, rather than say the Georgia interference case, demonstrates raw political incompetence by the democrats.
1. ‘for a "crime" that was basically someone else filling his taxes wrong.’ — utterly false
2. Getting lucky is no excuse for fraud.
See aforementioned posts for actual, well-reasoned arguments from world-renowned UC Berkeley professor and former Cabinet Secretary Robert Reich, which Redoubts hasn’t refuted.
The case that resulted in Trump being convicted of 34 federal felony counts wasn’t the weakest case; that’s demonstrated by the jury, selected by both sides, having deliberated over the available evidence and both sides’ arguments, and having reached a unanimous verdict.
The Georgia case had been going much more slowly because it’s a much more complex case, for obvious reasons. Its current stalled status has to do with the conflict of interest that Willis created. If the case somehow resumes, the jury, selected by both sides, will decide the case.
The speed and outcomes of these cases are not “political competence or incompetence” matters on the part of Democrats.