The Problem With The Trump Trial
There are many problems with the Trump trial, but let me focus on the basics.
Trump is, essentially, charged with documentation fraud — claiming payment for a past debt was a legal fee.
However, the statute of limitations is well past the time to charge Trump with that.
So, the New York District Attorney has decided to elevate the issue to a felony and get it within the statute of limitations.
To do this, Alvin Bragg has to accuse Trump of engaging in documentation fraud to hide an underlying crime. The underlying crime is a federal campaign finance violation. That violation is Trump paying off the porn star through his lawyer and failing to disclose it on his campaign finance forms because it was a campaign-related expense.
It was a campaign expense because if Trump had not paid off Stormy Daniels, she could have gone public and cost Trump the election. Yes, the left argues that the man who, on video, said he could grab women by their you-know-what would have been undone by this revelation.
The rule for a campaign expense is this: Would the transaction have still happened even if the candidate were not running for office? Trump’s wife had a prenuptial agreement. Trump would have had to pay her millions for adultery. So, even if Trump were not running for office, it is still very likely he would have had to pay Stormy Daniels.
Therefore, this was not a campaign finance violation. Therefore, there is no underlying felony. Therefore, there is no New York felony. Therefore, the case falls apart.
But, even if it were a campaign finance violation, federal law states that only the federal government can prosecute campaign finance violations. Neither the Federal Elections Commission nor the Department of Justice have chosen to prosecute or charge Trump, so Trump has not been found guilty of a federal campaign finance violation.
To repeat myself: therefore, this was not a campaign finance violation. Therefore, there is no underlying felony. Therefore, there is no New York felony. Therefore, the case falls apart.
This case concerns the Democrats getting their pound of flesh out of Donald Trump. Frankly, these are Donald Trump’s chickens coming home to roost. This case is flimsy, but Trump’s personal, professional, and political conduct have all collided with the Democrats and many ordinary non-political Americans, assured he’s done something bad. So prosecutors will find something with which to prosecute him.
The problem is that this is not how American justice is supposed to work. Just because Trump might have brought it on himself, the charges must fit. This case is a legal stretch by an overaggressive prosecutor who lets non-white murderers go free, but will stretch the law outside the bounds of justice to get an old white guy whose politics he hates.
Donald Trump’s superpower remains this: He causes others to act in the very ways they claim he acts. They claim Trump is a banana republic autocrat. They behave exactly as they claim he does.
pretty simple. Given the current events in the Middle East and how badly Joe Biden is.
The two words I have for this whole ordeal is WHO CARES!
People should still vote for trump and should still get Joe Biden out of office.
I said this is why we needed someone else as the nominee, even if that was hailey. But we got who we got and we need to support them.
Trump is womanizing, brash, boorish, business man with a routine of letting his mouth be his guide. None of that, will raise my taxes, get my daughter beaten or raped in the locker room by a mentally ill dude, cause inflation to rise, or start WW3. A Joe Biden 2nd term will do all of that and more. So no, I don't care that Trump is a womanizing brash loudmouthed SOB. He gets the job done, that's all I care about right now.
Bingo Erick! Facts are facts but there is one fact we do not know. Exactly what he has truly done in his personal life and what has been manufactured by a press that hates him and his policies and a Democrat party that hates the same. And if Trump’s personal life is imperfect, who walks among us that hadn’t sinned. All I know is we were much better off economically and geopolitically under Trump. Democracy didn’t end. Gays and trans individuals weren’t persecuted. Women were still able to have abortions. They still are even with the end of RvW. The press lied about Russia Collusion. They lied about the phony Ukraine corruption impeachment. They lied about Covid and censored scientists that knew otherwise, they lied about the Taliban bounty story. They lied about the Hunter Biden laptop. The list goes on and on. The true chaos during the Trump administration was caused by the press and frankly I think the fact he called them on their BS and punched back was cheered on by a majority of the country and a vast majority on the right.