How Judge Merchan Is Orchestrating Trump’s Conviction

[ThisIsMe]

The DA's case hinges on showing falsification of business records.

The campaign violations in this case were committed in a criminal manner by others:

• Cohen, convicted and went to prison.
• Pecker/AMI realized they were opening themselves up to criminal liability and secured a non-prosecution agreement for their crimes.

WW

Yes, but braggs case hinges on those campaign finance violations to revive his case out of limitation, and to be able to upgrade his state crime to a felony.

Without the federal campaign finance violation charge, Bragg has nothing. And therein lies my point, Bragg is trying to prosecute Trump for a misdemeanor hinged on another crime that other presidents have only been fined for, and federal justice department passed on.

Again, if his case is sound, why do you have multiple left wing news sites saying even they think his case is bogus?

 

[lantern2814]

Yeah as more evidence comes available positions change.

Too bad you don't actually HAVE any evidence of the crap your hero Fat Alvin is claiming. This gets tossed in about 3 seconds if the jury stupidly goes along with this corrupt judge and know nothing DA.

 

[lantern2814]

Repeat that to yourself to help comfort you in this difficult time

Repeat this to yourself you ignoramus. There is NO underlying crime. FEC and DOJ refused to even consider prosecuting. Stock up on tissues for November now

 

[Lord-Humungus]

Too bad you don't actually HAVE any evidence of the crap your hero Fat Alvin is claiming. This gets tossed in about 3 seconds if the jury stupidly goes along with this corrupt judge and know nothing DA.

The jury will hear all the evidence presented by both sides and make their determination. I will agree with whatever they decide, will you do the same?

 

[lantern2814]

The jury will hear all the evidence presented by both sides and make their determination. I will agree with whatever they decide, will you do the same?

We know there's NO crime and this entire case is nothing but political persecution to try to help Xiden. Period. You'll bitch and moan when Trump eventually gets exonerated and you know it.

 

[Lord-Humungus]

Repeat this to yourself you ignoramus. There is NO underlying crime. FEC and DOJ refused to even consider prosecuting. Stock up on tissues for November now

November is going to suck for the country, a know liar who has a history of inappropriate behavior and ignoring the constitution will be elected.

 

[Winco]

The prostitute never should get away with making threats against a person.

Are you calling Trump a prostitute?
Sounds like you are.

 

[lantern2814]

November is going to suck for the country, a know liar who has a history of inappropriate behavior and ignoring the constitution will be elected.

No, a man who loves this country (Trump) will toss out the grifter in chief, a known liar with a history of inappropriate behavior and ignoring the Constitution.

 

[Lord-Humungus]

We know there's NO crime and this entire case is nothing but political persecution to try to help Xiden. Period. You'll bitch and moan when Trump eventually gets exonerated and you know it.

The only person bitching and moaning is you. Any excuse is a good one in order for you to keep your hand in the sand and ass in the air to talk out of

 

[jc456]

More.

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Merchan Suppresses Trump’s Non-Prosecution and His Election-Law Expert​

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Of course, at least equally relevant as the Cohen and Pecker/AMI agreements with the Justice Department and FEC is the fact that the feds decided not to proceed against Trump after thoroughly investigating the matter. This was not because the DOJ and FEC approved of what Trump did; it was because a prosecution would have been futile. The agencies knew that if they’d been challenged, it was unlikely that they could prove the NDA payments technically qualified as campaign expenditures. Plus, as the candidate, Trump was not subject to a spending limit, as were Cohen and AMI.​

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But that apparently doesn’t matter to Merchan.​

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The judge has barred Trump from arguing that he is innocent because he was never charged by the federal authorities that — unlike Bragg — have actual jurisdiction. Merchan reasons that Trump’s non-prosecution is irrelevant because the feds may have dropped the case for reasons having nothing to do with whether Trump was guilty. Maybe so, but then how can Merchan justify admitting Cohen’s guilty plea, as well as Pecker’s/AMI’s non-prosecution and conciliation agreements? They had huge incentives to cut those deals for reasons having nothing to do with whether they were guilty, yet Bragg is being permitted to flaunt their admissions as proof of their guilt — and thus to imply that Trump, too, must be guilty.​

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You may be thinking, “Don’t worry, surely Trump will be able to call an expert witness who can explain campaign-finance law to the jury, including why the payments Bragg is highlighting were not campaign expenditures.” Think again.​

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Trump’s team asked to call Bradley Smith, an expert who served for years on the Federal Election Commission. Smith has written in the pages of National Review about why Trump’s so-called hush-money payments did not violate federal law. But Merchan has ruled that Smith will not be permitted to explain federal campaign-finance principles to the jury. Merchan reasons that such testimony would be improper because it would seek “to instruct the jury on matters of law.” In other words, the judge thinks it’s fine if the jury is instructed on campaign law by David Pecker and Michael Cohen but not by someone who actually understands it.​

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Conclusion​

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As you consider all of this, try to remember: Trump is not charged in the indictment with a conspiracy to steal the 2016 election by violating federal campaign law. He’s charged with falsifying business records in 2017, months after the 2016 election. As Manhattan DA, Bragg could not have indicted Trump for conspiring to violate federal law. The business-records charges in the indictment relate only to the reimbursement of Cohen for paying Stormy Daniels — they have nothing to do with payments to McDougal and Sajudin that Bragg is touting. Under long-standing legal principles, moreover, Cohen’s guilty plea to federal campaign crimes, and the Pecker/AMI non-prosecution agreements and FEC fine, are not admissible evidence against Trump.​

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Nevertheless, Trump is almost certain to be convicted on the charges in the indictment. Merchan is collaborating with Bragg to frame the case for the jury as a conspiracy to violate campaign laws. He has rigorously denied defense objections to that disingenuous framing. He is admitting legally inadmissible evidence, the only conceivable relevance of which is to brand the legal NDA payments as illegal campaign expenditures. And he has denied the defense the ability (a) to inform the jury that Trump was not prosecuted by the same federal agencies that cut deals with Cohen and Pecker/AMI and (b) to call a qualified expert who can explain that Bragg, who has no authority to enforce federal law, has made up a version of it that runs afoul of actual federal law.​

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In light of how Judge Merchan is putting his thumb on the scale for​

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Bragg, I don’t see how Trump has much of a chance.​

i say it all out loud and tell the judge to suck my dick!!!! This is fking america and he can go back to stalin's grave and pray some more.

 

[Lord-Humungus]

No, a man who loves this country (Trump) will toss out the grifter in chief, a known liar with a history of inappropriate behavior and ignoring the Constitution.

Trump will toss himself out?

 

[mamooth]

We know

Who's this "we"?

Oh, that's right. You're counting the voices.

 

[j-mac]

November is going to suck for the country, a know liar who has a history of inappropriate behavior and ignoring the constitution will be elected.

I didn’t know Cohn was running…

 

[Smokin' OP]

No, a man who loves this country (Trump) will toss out the grifter in chief, a known liar with a history of inappropriate behavior and ignoring the Constitution.

 

[j-mac]

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[Smokin' OP]

 

[Weatherman2020]

Trump probably shouldn’t have paid a porn star to keep quiet while he ran for president and all of this would have been avoided.

Not against the law.

 

[j-mac]

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I gotta say, you libs are sure good at mockery, too bad it’s not a life skill…

 

[Smokin' OP]

I gotta say, you libs are sure good at mockery, too bad it’s not a life skill…

Not really.
Trump makes it SO easy.
The mockery writes itself.

 

[j-mac]

Not really.
Trump makes it SO easy.
The mockery writes itself.

Well, when the shit hits the fan, you’ll have yourself to blame…But, as usual today, you’ll probably try and flip the script and say it’s all Trumps fault….