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CNN Senior Legal Analyst Describes How The Trump Conviction Was A Political Hit Job

1. "The judge donated money... in plain violation of a rule prohibiting New York judges from making political donations—to a pro-Biden, anti-Trump political operation."

2. Alvin Bragg boasted on the campaign trail in an overwhelmingly Democrat county, “It is a fact that I have sued Trump over 100 times.”

3. "Most importantly, the DA’s charges against Trump push the outer boundaries of the law and due process."

4. "The charges against Trump are obscure, and nearly entirely unprecedented. In fact, no state prosecutor — in New York, or Wyoming, or anywhere — has ever charged federal election laws as a direct or predicate state crime, against anyone, for anything. None. Ever."

5. The DA inflated misdemeanors past the statute of limitations and "electroshocked them back to life" by alleging the falsification of business records was committed 'with intent to commit another crime.'

6. "Inexcusably, the DA refused to specify what those unlawful means actually were — and the judge declined to force them to pony up — until right before closing arguments. So much for the constitutional obligation to provide notice to the defendant of the accusations against him in advance of trial."

7. "In these key respects, the charges against Trump aren’t just unusual. They’re bespoke, seemingly crafted individually for the former president and nobody else."

8. "The Manhattan DA’s employees reportedly have called this the “Zombie Case” because of various legal infirmities, including its bizarre charging mechanism. But it’s better characterized as the Frankenstein Case, cobbled together with ill-fitting parts into an ugly, awkward, but more-or-less functioning contraption that just might ultimately turn on its creator."

https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1796577680919511048

Patrick says

Judge Merchan has scheduled Trump’s sentencing for July 11, just a few days before the Republican National Convention starts. In a sane world, since the crimes were victimless misdemeanor process crimes, and because Trump is a first-time offender with no criminal record, Merchan should give him a fine and maybe probation.

Why can't they just do any sentencing next week?? Not sure how it works in NY but my SIL got her 6th DUI (felony) and was sentenced the next day for 2 months in jail. With Trump it's borderline two whole fucking months? I don't even care about the convention timing of it. It shouldn't take that long regardless of the obvious politics of this.

How much dumber can the Dems get? They're just feeding the right leaning independents to vote for Trump.

Patrick says

In one overreaching fell swoop, they’ve handed Donald Trump a fully formed, ironclad narrative, a singular theme around which voters can rally and that frames the entire election.

For whatever the reason, it seems to be in the DNA of most Americans to support the underdog, in particular, if that underdog has been obviously unfairly mistreated. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that in order to obtain freedom, we had to take on and defeat the then greatest Empire in the world?

Many Americans feel that they have also been mistreated by our obtrusive, sometimes oppressive Government. Many too feel that the 'American Dream,' defined in a variety of ways, is slipping away. Whether it is justified or not, Trump is perceived to be representing them, so any unjustified attacks on him is in effect also upon them.

This obvious sham of justice is already backfiring and the idiots on the left continue to rub it in, which makes matters only worse for them. The other day, I read where Whoopi Goldberg gleefully ended the left's flagship *idiotic TV show by saying the word 'Guilty' 34 times. How clever of her. What she doesn't realize is that almost everyone hates her. They also know that she is on the show for only one reason that you can easily guess. I hope the left continues to add fuel to the fire by using these types of antics. It just might bring out enough enraged voters for Trump in order to overcome the steal.

* A few years ago, I was forced to watch a few minutes of the View while in a Dr.'s waiting room. It felt like torture, but it also made me realize, to a depth that I never felt before, how many idiots there really are in America that could watch this stupid show, day in and day out. A sad fact, but a fact nevertheless.

Tulsi Gabbard on Sham Trump Verdict: 'Banana Republic'

(So says the former member of the Council on Foreign Relations and World Economic Forum 'rising star' that the Deep State has planted as one of their VP choices)

https://rumble.com/v4ytayr-tulsi-gabbard-on-sham-trump-verdict-banana-republic.html

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

Missing the Bay Area, Portland, all of Maryland, Seattle area.

Amazing, a Trump rally in London:

https://x.com/TPostMillennial/status/1796945197483618540

@jazz_music

Please read https://patrick.net/post/1381434/2024-06-01-grand-unified-theory-of-recent and tell me where I'm wrong.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/05/31/republicans_vow_to_scorch_the_earth_after_trump_conviction__151038.html

https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/31/after-trumps-conviction-republicans-should-do-to-democrats-what-they-did-to-him/

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-outlaw-saturday-june-1-2024-c

As of yesterday afternoon, Trump’s campaign shattered fundraising records, raising an astonishing $53 million dollars from small donations in just 24 hours following the Manhattan Verdict. Maybe even more meaningfully, a full third of those donations were from new donors who had never previously participated.

https://x.com/Shawn_Farash/status/1796608352002154859

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-outlaw-saturday-june-1-2024-c

Bear with me for a little history lesson. In 1960, Alabama’s democrat officials indited Dr. Martin Luther King on charges of perjury, related to alleged underpayment of his state income taxes in 1956 and 1958. Dr. King’s intial charges were misdemeanor tax evasion. But democrat prosecutors later upgraded the charges to felony perjury — for lying on his tax returns — with a possible prison sentence of two to five years for each count.

Boosting misdemeanor tax evasion — which requires dishonest tax reporting — into a felony required some very creative prosecutorial thinking.

The technical basis for charging Dr. King with felony perjury instead of misdemeanor tax evasion was the Orwellian allegation that he had perjured himself in signing his evasive tax returns. Note that, like with Trump, Dr. King’s alleged unreported Alabama income was related to political donations.

And as with Trump’s prosecution, it was the first time in Alabama history that any defendant was ever charged that way.

Both cases were brought by democrats against their political enemies. Both cases involved charges for victimless process crimes. Both cases involved creative bootstrapping of misdemeanors into felonies. Both cases included unprecedented interpretations of the law, charging prominent political figures with crimes never brought against others. Both cases involved charges deeply intertwined with their political activities and public roles: campaign donations in Dr. King’s case, and “legal expenses” argued rather to be campaign expenses for Trump.

Dr. King’s case might help explain why black Americans resonate with Trump’s conviction. And it might also help explain yesterday’s Daily Mail’s headline, which explains in part what has forced corporate media into its desperate efforts at damage control:

Patrick says

Dr. King’s case might help explain why black Americans resonate with Trump’s conviction. And it might also help explain yesterday’s Daily Mail’s headline, which explains in part what has forced corporate media into its desperate efforts at damage control:

In other words, fuck around and find out.

Patrick says

jazz_music

Please read https://patrick.net/post/1381434/2024-06-01-grand-unified-theory-of-recent and tell me where I'm wrong.

I read it, all be it quickly. I saw a lot of assumptions being made. Some I disagree with, some I don’t.

The unification you mentioned is a whole bundle of conspiracies, heard on the right wing echo chamber, brought together into an over arching narrative.

It has the quality of truthIness and hints at the knowledge of some great truth, which only special people know, and that means nobody who has liberal political views.

If I did an exhaustive takedown of that little essay, you might merely consider it proof that I am of the unwashed outsiders, who think that government is a vehicle that must be driven by the people, in opposition to the monetary might of wealthy interests.

And pursuit of wealth gets to be a murderous sickness with the result of killing all because in the final analysis, there is room for only one rich person to exist. Then there would be peace and universal austerity.

Trump is not a hero, he is looking for wealth and power not to satisfy his rejection by other elites, but to soothe his daddy issues. You follow him to your betrayal and doom.

He reveres dictators for the simplest reasons, he wants to be one. Never put your fate in the hands of anyone who claims that they will be your hero. You must get actively involved. All of us must manage our fate,

He only wants your silence and loyalty. The same as all who came before him, with the audacity.

Patrick says

jazz_music

Please read https://patrick.net/post/1381434/2024-06-01-grand-unified-theory-of-recent and tell me where I'm wrong.

I read it, all be it quickly. I saw a lot of assumptions being made. Some I disagree with, some I don’t.

The unification you mentioned is a whole bundle of conspiracies, heard on the right wing echo chamber, brought together into an over arching narrative.

It has the quality of truthIness and hints at the knowledge of some hallowed yet completely unfounded truths, which only special people know, and that means nobody who has liberal political views.

If I did an exhaustive takedown of that little essay, you might merely consider it proof that I am of the unwashed outsiders, who think that government is a vehicle that must be driven by the people, in opposition to the monetary might of wealthy interests.

And pursuit of wealth gets to be a murderous sickness with the result of killing all because in the final analysis, there is room for only one rich person to exist. Then there would be peace and universal austerity.

Trump is not a hero, he is looking for wealth and power not to satisfy his rejection by other elites, but to soothe his daddy issues. You follow him to your betrayal and doom.

He reveres dictators for the simplest of reasons, he wants to be one. Never put your fate in the hands of anyone who claims that they will be your hero. You must get actively involved. All of us must manage our fate,

He only wants your silence and loyalty. The same as all who came before him, with the audacity.

RayAmerica says

For whatever the reason, it seems to be in the DNA of most Americans to support the underdog, in particular, if that underdog has been obviously unfairly mistreated

You should consider the implications that this is not some little known fact.

DhammaStep says

RayAmerica says

For whatever the reason, it seems to be in the DNA of most Americans to support the underdog, in particular, if that underdog has been obviously unfairly mistreated

You should consider the implications that this is not some little known fact.

I think I understand your comment but, could you explain it?

Patrick says

Dr. King’s case might help explain why black Americans resonate with Trump’s conviction.

I doubt that many Black Americans are even aware of the phony tax evasion felony charges against MLK. In fact, most Blacks seem unaware that it was Dems who prosecuted MLK overall.

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/trump-sentenced-to-four-years-confinement-in-oval-room-in-washington-dc

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/welp-250-years-wasnt-a-bad-run-says-george-washington-looking-on-from-heaven

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/banana-republics-starting-to-feel-kinda-bad-for-united-states

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/democrats-celebrate-trump-being-convicted-of-whatever-it-was-he-did

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/even-rino-mitt-romney-is-denouncing-trumps-sham/

Even the notorious RINO and former presidential candidate Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah is denouncing the sham conviction of President Donald Trump.

In a rigged trial orchestrated by New York Democrats in conjunction with the Biden White House, Trump was found guilty of all 34 charges of falsifying business records related to a hush-money payment made to adult porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election.

Romney, who makes no secret of his disdain for the former president and has tried to sabotage him at every turn, argued that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg should never have let the case go to trial.

“Bragg should have settled the case against Trump, as would have been the normal procedure. But he made a political decision,” Romney reportedly told his biographer McKay Coppins, a writer at the Atlantic.

“Bragg may have won the battle, for now, but he may have lost the political war,” he continued. “Democrats think they can put out the Trump fire with oxygen. It’s political malpractice.”

It's also a criminal abuse of power. Everyone involved in creating the sham trial should themselves be in prison.