Posted on 04/15/2024 7:15:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“Once someone determined Trump was so bad it was okay to lie about him, it set the precedent that the only thing that mattered was a subject’s politics.” — Matt Taibbi.
What fascinates us about sex, I suppose, is that most everyone wants it and seeks it, driven by irresistible natural impulses, and yet the act itself is such an affront to civilized decorum that it inspires both comedy and horror, two states of consciousness that are themselves irresistibly compelling. Add lawyers to all that and you find yourself entering the realm of opera bouffe, which is to say, kitsch, human expression reduced to its most self-consciously ridiculous.
Enter Stormy Daniels, that notorious pair of cumulous clouds attached to a person, who made a career in the sex industry and later on, at the age when sex workers generally face retirement, had a fresh start as a political gadfly buzzing around the mystifying hair-do of President Donald Trump. Stormy first encountered Mr. Trump in 2006 when he was a mere TV star who played in a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe. She was hanging out there with two porn-star girlfriends. Golf nuts all, must’ve been.
Stormy managed to blow into Mr. Trump’s hotel room there, so her story goes, where she apparently teased him into a state of florid desire, while mocking him, and then obliged his advances, even developing a sort of friendship that, over a few years, included more hotel room meet-ups and promises of revamped stardom on his “The Apprentice” TV show, alas, never consummated. Strange to relate, around that time Stormy launched her own political career way before Mr. Trump made the leap into government.
But once Mr. Trump jumped into the 2016 presidential primaries and began to terrify the establishment by winning one contest after another, Stormy finagled $130,000 hush-money payment through Trump attorney Michael Cohen to keep her big yap shut about their doings. By 2018, she hitched herself to California lawyer Michael Avenatti (now in prison) and filed a lawsuit against then-President Trump attempting to invalidate the non-disclosure agreement that came with the hush-money. Stormy also engaged a publicist, and, what do you know, The Wall Street Journal published a story about the alleged romance. By then, Stormy had launched a “publicity tour” and got herself booked on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show to discuss the allegations.
In December 2018, Stormy lost a defamation suit against President Trump filed by Mr. Avenatti, and was ordered to pay over $300,000 to Mr. Trump. Five years later, an appeals court ordered her to pay an additional $122,000 to Mr. Trump to cover his legal fees. By then, Michael Avenatti, her lawyer, was in jail in California for embezzling client funds. Various letters had emerged allegedly signed by Stormy stating that she hadn’t engaged in sex with Mr. Trump, along with Facebook conversations on her account saying the same thing.
Also, in 2018, Mr. Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen was busted by the FBI for tax evasion and eventually plead guilty. He was interrogated by the Mueller special counsel operation which, by a convoluted route, earned Mr. Cohen a conviction for perjury in congressional testimony. Stormy Daniels then sued Mr. Cohen for defamation but the case was dismissed. Mr. Cohen eventually served a year in prison but was released to home confinement due to the Covid-19 event.
These doings did not go unnoticed by the politicized Southern District of New York office of the DOJ and by then Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance, Jr. Both tried to construct some kind of case against President Trump on all this monkey business, but gave up because the payment of hush-money was itself not illegal between consenting parties and they could not torture the facts into a theory that would make it a crime. Also, by then, their chief witness, Mr. Cohen, had been disbarred and was officially branded a perjurer and liar....
They will be dredging up the jurors from the New York sewer system so we all know what the jury composition will be.
This is not a trial. It’s an attempted lynching.
Stormy Daniels has repeatedly denied she had sex or an affair wuth Trump.
THis case will be dismissed on appeal.
NO way it can stand.
The jurors will know how they are expected to vote, and that if they fail to do so there will be official reprisals and also unofficial doxxing to unleash the hoards of crazies on them and their families.
I know you are right.
Sad time for America
The world is going to learn it was Cohen who had the affair with Stormy, and he paid her hush money to save HIS marriage, not Trumps. And then scammed Trump by telling him it was necessary to pay the hush money to protect him.
They will make sure that no Trump voters are seated on the jury.
No matter how weak the case is, they should manage to get a conviction on at least one felony count, which is what they need: the Democrats will keep blasting that Trump is a convicted felon from then until election day.
True, the conviction would likely be dismissed on appeal, but it could take a while before that ruling comes down.
Will they try the nuclear option if they get a guilty verdict--order Trump to prison? That will depend on what the White House tells them.
That will depend on what the White House tells them. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Tis case will never fonosh trial before the election.
There will be an interlocutory appeal to SCOTUS, based on extrordinary writ, likely Pet Cert with MANDAMUS IN AID.
The bogus judge has violated so many of Trumps due process and Civil Rights, so has the prosecution.
Watch what happens to Cohen.
If it goes to the jury, all Trump needs one hold out.
The Supreme Court has been afraid of its own shadow ever since the Left lambasted them for the correct and necessary ruling in the Florida recount back in December 2000. If Chief Justice Roberts has his way, they won’t do anything. Trump won’t “have standing” to appeal.
Alan Dershowitz says that any guilty verdicts that might be handed down will be overturned by Federal appeals courts. But that,of course,won’t happen until long after the election. Given that every trial will end with guilty verdicts DJT’s best strategy is to delay every trial until after the election.
Nope...it’s Manhattan...”New York County”. The jurors will come from The Upper East Side...The Upper West Side...Tribeca...Hell’s Kitchen...Midtown...and Harlem.
We’ll see.
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