Yep, they don’t get it at all. They just made Trump the classic underdog movie hero going against the big crooked govt trying to take him out at every turn.
When you have many $millions invested in a producing field you can’t just “stop producing there”. You have contracts to pay for leased equipment and to deliver product well into the future. It’s not unusual for wells to go through periods of income and loss. As I read it, this particular rip-off has been calibrated to not hit too hard at first but it will later. Some of the best paying jobs in the state may go away over time.
> “Unless there is a federal law issue, the SCOTUS has no say.”
Here’s how the Dems did it. They hid a federal law until the defense had rested and then stated that Trump had broken that law (never mentioned during the trial) and that was the underlying law that makes all the other charges criminal. They said Trump used all those other actions to hide the federal law he broke.
The court is a State court leaning on a federal law to get a conviction. Will it stand? I have no clue.