by John Cleer, American Thinker:
At last, we can see Alvin Bragg’s underlying criminal theory: he doesn’t have one. Bragg and Judge Merchan are running the real trial in the court of public opinion, not to deliver justice but to hurt Trump’s presidential campaign by branding him a convicted felon during the election. They seek to do this by lying to the jury — for example, by pretending to have a criminal theory.
The prosecution rested their case without specifying the second crime, nor giving a shred of evidence for the first: even if we took Michael Cohen’s testimony at face value, ignoring that he’s a serial perjurer who confessed to six different felonies on Monday morning alone, his claim that Trump himself ordered the monthly payments that were calculated from Cohen’s loan reimbursement demand and deemed them “legal fees” would not constitute a crime.
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That case is dead in the water on appeal, but Merchan’s parallel trial, which has little to do with established law and instead runs on innuendo and vagaries, aims for a temporary conviction. In it, Cohen and David Pecker explain election law to a rigged jury while Merchan allows the prosecution to dazzle them with inadmissible evidence and irrelevant, noncriminal details couched in nefarious-sounding terms like “hush money” and “catch and kill,” all the while keeping crucial information like Cohen’s SDNY charges and Brad Smith’s expert testimony on actual election law from reaching the jury.
Merchan reneged on his promise to release the jury instructions by Thursday night, apparently to prevent lawyers from picking apart his instructions so jury members don’t find out how preposterous they are, because they’re going to read the news and talk to friends, family, and co-workers in the week Merchan gave them off.
That’s why he gave them the week off.
Merchan and Bragg are attempting to fool the jurors into a guilty verdict by feeding their bias and denying them the information to make an informed decision. The second, “underlying” crime has not been named, and Merchan just told the jurors it can be whatever they want it to be and turned them loose for a week, during which they will undoubtedly hear of and read news reports charging Trump with all manner of fake crimes, any one of which they’re now free to consider Trump’s underlying crime.
If they convict him, Harry Litman thinks (13 min.) it will take “a few months” to move Trump’s case from “bail pending appeal” to the appeals process, which would land Trump in the middle of the summer before the appeal is filed, after months of wall-to-wall media coverage drilling Trump’s “Convicted Felon” status into the public’s brains.
The underlying charge, then, on which the validity of the case relies, is literally anything, and Bragg’s charges only exist in the mind of the juror.
In the pretend trial, which is to say, the one that’s based on the law, the prosecution’s arguments start to take shape if you look at things as they are. It’s a scoundrels’ court and an organized crime racket. The first sign of that is Merchan: if N.Y. cases are assigned randomly, as they’re supposed to be, how was the same judge picked for Donald Trump, Allen Weisselberg, and Steve Bannon’s trials?
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