Monday, April 15th: First Ever Criminal Trial for a Former US President

The evidence of it being election money is not relevant. The charges for the misdemeanor portion are that Trump misrepresented the purpose of writing the checks to Cohen as business deductions, rather than hush money payments. Trump violated state and federal laws for tax reporting. Secondly, the charges rise to the level of criminal acts when Trump, Pecker, and Cohen conspired to conceal that the payments were made to hide the impact on Trump's election chances. This is contrary to the claim that the payments were made to protect his family from emotional harm.

The AG must prove they conspired to hide the stories to affect the outcome of the election. That's the aim of the trial.
No misuse of campaign funds were alleged which means that Trump used money from his private company to initiate an NDA. So Bragg's case is to prove a conspiracy to use his own money in an attempt to protect his name by paying off a porn star to not muddy his name during an election cycle and that since it wasn't campaign funds then it had to be his own money and Bragg is now trying to prove it was illegal to post in a deceptive manner what the purpose of those funds were used for in his own private company ledger. Whose the victim here? To add to the sham prosecution the payments continued well into 2017 which would seem to indicate it wasn't a conspiracy to buy an election because the election was over.
 
No misuse of campaign funds were alleged which means that Trump used money from his private company to initiate an NDA. So Bragg's case is to prove a conspiracy to use his own money in an attempt to protect his name by paying off a porn star to not muddy his name during an election cycle and that since it wasn't campaign funds then it had to be his own money and Bragg is now trying to prove it was illegal to post in a deceptive manner what the purpose of those funds were used for in his own private company ledger. Whose the victim here? To add to the sham prosecution the payments continued well into 2017 which would seem to indicate it wasn't a conspiracy to buy an election because the election was over.
Deplorables always have the best legal advice regarding any/all of the 87? 88? criminal indictments against trump, but yet, somehow, here he is still finding himself in court. Either you should offer your legal services to dear leader or, better yet, send him more of your money so he can pay for better representation.
 
No misuse of campaign funds were alleged which means that Trump used money from his private company to initiate an NDA. So Bragg's case is to prove a conspiracy to use his own money in an attempt to protect his name by paying off a porn star to not muddy his name during an election cycle and that since it wasn't campaign funds then it had to be his own money and Bragg is now trying to prove it was illegal to post in a deceptive manner what the purpose of those funds were used for in his own private company ledger. Whose the victim here? To add to the sham prosecution the payments continued well into 2017 which would seem to indicate it wasn't a conspiracy to buy an election because the election was over.
Say it with me. Falsification. Of. Business. Records.

See? That wasn't so hard now, was it?



Speaking of "not hard", how about that David Pecker? Hey-oh! High five!
 
Cohen wrote the checks. Cohen was guilty of tax evasion. The misdemeanor has passed the statute of limitations. The case is a sham case. The only party guilty of election fraud or election interference is Bragg!!!!
Silly person. Cohen paid the porn star. The checks under investigation are those written by Trump's business accountants and seven or so of them Trump signed personally to Cohen while he was in the White House. Those checks are in evidence and on record.

Get your facts straight, or watch something besides Fox for your sources. The statutes for election fraud have not expired. That's been stated several times in the news already.

You swear Bragg is guilty of election fraud - your proof water carrier?
 
I just caught an MSNBC soundbite on Trump's supporters. The report pointed out that no Republican Trump supporters anywhere held large rallies at courthouses to protest his court trial in NY.

Trump complained on television that the police barricaded the courthouse area to keep his MAGA crowd away. Cameras panned the area, showing it had free traffic flow, and the news reported that one person was there earlier. The MSNBC news reporter went out to the street earlier to check his claim and said he saw THREE of the MAGA supporters outside—not a 'crowd' of them. No one, the reporter declared, seemed to care about Trump's trial.

To add to the pain of that embarrassment, MSNBC pointed out that no family members were in the courtroom nor were there any close friends of Trump present to lend visible support. Trump was alone, wedged between lawyers, and emotionally unsupported.

That's sad, yet comforting. By that, I mean the J6 type of vitriolic hate speech had not managed to put a ripple in the waters of justice.

Wednesday is an off day. See you all back on Thursday!
 
The report pointed out that no Republican Trump supporters anywhere held large rallies at courthouses to protest his court trial in NY.

Trump complained on television that the police barricaded the courthouse area to keep his MAGA crowd away. Cameras panned the area, showing it had free traffic flow, and the news reported that one person was there earlier. The MSNBC news reporter went out to the street earlier to check his claim and said he saw THREE of the MAGA supporters outside—not a 'crowd' of them. No one, the reporter declared, seemed to care about Trump's trial.
Trump supporters are too busy in their virtual worlds to bother wirh anything happening in the real world. Did you hear about Texas winning their civil war at online fantasy camp?

Plus, Trump is even too deplorable for the Deplorables. Some of the scummiest Deplorables on Lit have now thrown him overboard. No honor among thieves.
 
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Shoe store customer: Does this dress make me look fat?
Al Bundy: No, the FAT makes you look fat!

Alina Habba Claims Judges Try to Make Donald Trump's Attorneys Look Bad

Habba, Trump's current legal spokesperson, told Newsweek that she feels judges treat the former president's legal team unfairly.

Loser Lawyer: The judges make the legal team look bad.
Lit: No, the bad legal team makes the legal team look bad.
 
Shoe store customer: Does this dress make me look fat?
Al Bundy: No, the FAT makes you look fat!

Alina Habba Claims Judges Try to Make Donald Trump's Attorneys Look Bad

Habba, Trump's current legal spokesperson, told Newsweek that she feels judges treat the former president's legal team unfairly.

Loser Lawyer: The judges make the legal team look bad.
Lit: No, the bad legal team makes the legal team look bad.
Alina Habba on a podcast: "I can fake being smart!"
 
I just caught an MSNBC soundbite on Trump's supporters. The report pointed out that no Republican Trump supporters anywhere held large rallies at courthouses to protest his court trial in NY.

Trump complained on television that the police barricaded the courthouse area to keep his MAGA crowd away. Cameras panned the area, showing it had free traffic flow, and the news reported that one person was there earlier. The MSNBC news reporter went out to the street earlier to check his claim and said he saw THREE of the MAGA supporters outside—not a 'crowd' of them. No one, the reporter declared, seemed to care about Trump's trial.

To add to the pain of that embarrassment, MSNBC pointed out that no family members were in the courtroom nor were there any close friends of Trump present to lend visible support. Trump was alone, wedged between lawyers, and emotionally unsupported.

That's sad, yet comforting. By that, I mean the J6 type of vitriolic hate speech had not managed to put a ripple in the waters of justice.

Wednesday is an off day. See you all back on Thursday!
I (me, the actual person) have way too much integrity to make an old man fart joke of dear leader and his newfound loneliness in court and lacking support. Though my vietato, cerrmin, ignobel, kioti madeup alt for talking politics certainly would.
 
CNN - In a nutshell reminder of what this case is about:

"Don’t call it a hush money trial, urged Norm Eisen.

“The core issue … is not the payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels in October 2016 to conceal her claimed affair with Trump (he denies the affair took place). The core issue is why Trump made them.

“Paying hush money by itself is not a crime. The crime alleged in this case is felony document falsification, as the judge detailed. That requires intent to conceal, aid or commit another crime. Here, the prosecution alleges that the intent was to violate federal campaign finance laws and also the state statute prohibiting the ‘unlawful influence’ of an election — i.e., election interference.”

“No one can seriously dispute,” Eisen concluded, that the reason former Trump fixer Michael Cohen and Trump himself “allegedly hatched the scheme was to deprive voters of information that could have changed the outcome of an extremely close election.

Meanwhile, Alina Habba, Trump's E. Jean Carroll's case lawyer, appeared in the court hallway at Trump's trial for a cameo, spouting that the lawyers in his case were not getting respected, so she says:

"I plan, for the next six weeks, to truly just be spitting the truth and giving people facts they may not be hearing while he's in court."

Gotta like it when lawspitters get into the act - but it being truthful is doubtful.
 
I agree with the emphasis on the election interference part. At the same time I like to see all of that plus the sleaziness of the sex part as well laid out in detail. Beyond making Trump face it right there in court, I want his fundamentalist/evangelical supporters to have his sleaziness that they are participating in dangled in front of their faces.
 
Today is an off-day in the trial. What's the over/under on Trump posts on his tanking social media platform?

I'll put my bet on 100+.
Pecker’s (haha) testimony showed that the National Enquirer saw fit to publish all the stories about Trump’s rivals that were false but the actual true stories of Trump‘s lewd dalliances and infidelity (which, btw, the base reader of the Enquirer would have loved 🥰) were the ones that needed to be buried.

And yes, I look forward to telling Americans of the future that I lived in the dumbest of timelines. 🙄💩
 
Silly person. Cohen paid the porn star. The checks under investigation are those written by Trump's business accountants and seven or so of them Trump signed personally to Cohen while he was in the White House. Those checks are in evidence and on record.

Get your facts straight, or watch something besides Fox for your sources. The statutes for election fraud have not expired. That's been stated several times in the news already.

You swear Bragg is guilty of election fraud - your proof water carrier?
What election fraud?<
Say it with me. Falsification. Of. Business. Records.

See? That wasn't so hard now, was it?



Speaking of "not hard", how about that David Pecker? Hey-oh! High five!
Say it with me, Bragg is trying to catch Trump in a perjury trap. There is no crime. Bragg, James and Fanny Willis should be disbarred.
 

Trump Lied More Than 30,000 Times During His Presidency.​

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/donald-trump-thirty-thousand-lies/

Either Alvin Bragg is the world’s smartest and laziest big game trapper or you’re the most gullible person living to think trump’s version of truth shall set him free.

I’m betting that both statements are true.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/9/president-biden-is-liar/

Have you ever wondered how President Biden could lie so often and so egregiously? Have you ever asked yourself how anyone can stand before millions of people on a near-daily basis and say things that are so blatantly false and do so with a straight face and an apparent clear conscience?

By almost any measure, Mr. Biden is a proven fraud and a pathological liar of the highest order.


Over the past few weeks alone, the president has repeatedly lied about his business dealings with his corrupt son. He has lied about inflation. He has lied about gas prices. He has lied about creating new jobs. He has lied about the national deficit. And he has lied about our nation’s borders.

So there’s that!
 
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/9/president-biden-is-liar/

Have you ever wondered how President Biden could lie so often and so egregiously? Have you ever asked yourself how anyone can stand before millions of people on a near-daily basis and say things that are so blatantly false and do so with a straight face and an apparent clear conscience?

By almost any measure, Mr. Biden is a proven fraud and a pathological liar of the highest order.


Over the past few weeks alone, the president has repeatedly lied about his business dealings with his corrupt son. He has lied about inflation. He has lied about gas prices. He has lied about creating new jobs. He has lied about the national deficit. And he has lied about our nation’s borders.

So there’s that!
Deflection.

I just linked you 30k lies told to you by trump. Wouldn’t it be nice and refreshing, for your sake, to be able to come here with your posts and pasting cries of trump being railroaded to simply say that your dear leader didn’t pay for committing adultery and was innocent?

Haha! I laugh at myself for thinking you could be able to do that.
 
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/9/president-biden-is-liar/

Have you ever wondered how President Biden could lie so often and so egregiously? Have you ever asked yourself how anyone can stand before millions of people on a near-daily basis and say things that are so blatantly false and do so with a straight face and an apparent clear conscience?

By almost any measure, Mr. Biden is a proven fraud and a pathological liar of the highest order.


Over the past few weeks alone, the president has repeatedly lied about his business dealings with his corrupt son. He has lied about inflation. He has lied about gas prices. He has lied about creating new jobs. He has lied about the national deficit. And he has lied about our nation’s borders.

So there’s that!
And he lied about his uncle being eaten by cannibals. One lie among thousands.
 
Silly person. Cohen paid the porn star. The checks under investigation are those written by Trump's business accountants and seven or so of them Trump signed personally to Cohen while he was in the White House. Those checks are in evidence and on record.

Get your facts straight, or watch something besides Fox for your sources. The statutes for election fraud have not expired. That's been stated several times in the news already.

You swear Bragg is guilty of election fraud - your proof water carrier?
There is no crime, no victim. The trial is turning out to be a bad joke. Here Jonathan Turley explains the idiocy involved:

 
There is no crime, no victim. The trial is turning out to be a bad joke. Here Jonathan Turley explains the idiocy involved:

Haha!

15 seconds in and the fake news channel that paid millions for lying asks the poser of a lawyer who can only give credible legal counsel when under oath and in front of congress to opine on the take of the court of public opinion. :ROFLMAO::rolleyes:

Did trump have an affair? Did Michael Cohen go to prison for actions taken for a then immune co-conspirator #1?
 
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/9/president-biden-is-liar/

Have you ever wondered how President Biden could lie so often and so egregiously? Have you ever asked yourself how anyone can stand before millions of people on a near-daily basis and say things that are so blatantly false and do so with a straight face and an apparent clear conscience?

By almost any measure, Mr. Biden is a proven fraud and a pathological liar of the highest order.


Over the past few weeks alone, the president has repeatedly lied about his business dealings with his corrupt son. He has lied about inflation. He has lied about gas prices. He has lied about creating new jobs. He has lied about the national deficit. And he has lied about our nation’s borders.

So there’s that!
Remind me ... again: which candidate has been branded a narcissist and a pathological liar by a certified psychiatrist? Ans: Donald Trump Sr.

No one in Biden's family proclaims that distinction and no medical professionals support your accusation.

So there's that. :nana:
 
There is no crime, no victim. The trial is turning out to be a bad joke. Here Jonathan Turley explains the idiocy involved:

It's cute that the folks eager to know all the monetary details of a father buying his son a secondhand car would suddenly think that 130k paid indirectly to a pornstar to cover an affair during an election to be a nuthingburger.

Did you and ican see what I did there? I made a Biden deflection but still stayed on topic.
 
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