Why does Manhattan have jurisdiction when John Edwards was tried in federal court for the same thing?President Trump should demand the same treatment that Edwards got.
For proper context, we have to look at the incident with John Kerry's 2004 VP running mate John Edwards. Edwards' wife Elizabeth announced that she had breast cancer the week before the 2004 election, which Kerry/Edwards lost.
Edwards later ran for President in the 2008 Democrat primaries. He was getting the sympathy vote because his wife had announced that her cancer had returned. Early in the campaign, the National Enquirer discovered that John Edwards was having an affair with campaign photographer Reille Hunter, and ultimately had a love child with her. Edwards eventually dropped out, the charge of cheating on his dying wife was too much for even a Democrat to overcome.
Allegedly, Edwards was paying Hunter to keep quiet about it, but it was eventually discovered. People questioned whether the payments to Hunter amounted to illegal use of campaign funds, but the Edwards campaign argued that cash is fungible and it's hard to tell which cash - campaign cash or Edwards' personal cash - was used for the payments. Edwards eventually went to trial in federal court in North Carolina and was acquitted on the count of misuse of campaign funds, and two other counts were a mistrial. The DoJ declined to retry those two counts.
If President Trump were to be indicted for misuse of campaign funds when he had billions of his own (and no love child to hide), it would be in a New York court which would be hostile to him.
Still, the spectacle of trying President Trump in a local New York City court for the same charge that Edwards was acquitted on in federal court would twist the liberal talking heads into knots, especially when no child was involved and Trump didn't need the campaign cash to pay anyone off.
I just don't see how Bragg has any jurisdiction here.
-PJ
Alan Dershowitz said it best in his book........GET TRUMP.......
Thanks for the refresher. I had forgotten the details of the trial.
If I’m not mistaken:
Edwards paid his money while he was a declared candidate and he used campaign money.
Pres Trump did neither.
Also…
This case was originally investigated by Bragg’s predecessor, Vance. Vance dropped the case saying nothing was there.
Bragg also dropped it….. https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-bragg-trump-explain-20220329-6fa77vsvhfbytikdbpjwt2fi7e-story.html
It is now reborn.
Well:
Pres Trump is soundly in the lead in damn near very poll
Banks are collapsing.
Ukraine is getting worse and House Republicans don’t want to spend more money
The Biden’s did take cash from the Chinese and laundered it through one of the widows.
Harris continues to be a moron and only getting worse
Etc etc etc etc etc