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The Absolutely Inane Case Against Trump in Manhattan
Townhall ^ | 04/08/2024 | Mike Davis

Posted on 04/08/2024 10:49:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

On Monday, April 15, President Donald Trump will become the first former president and the first major presidential candidate in American history to face a criminal trial. Not only is this unprecedented, it's happening with one of the weakest criminal cases in recent memory.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office searched for any way to charge the former president since 2017. The investigation poured over President Trump's personal and business life, and they settled on charging the former president with 34 felonies for the non-felony of his attorney Michael Cohen settling a nuisance claim. 

The case is so weak that The New York Times and The Washington Post both acknowledged that it’s a stretch. The New York Times reported: "The case against the former president hinges on an untested and therefore risky legal theory involving a complex interplay of laws."

Meanwhile, The Washington Post wrote that the prosecution left some “legal experts . . . scratching their heads” as “they describe it as an unusual case.” 

Indeed, it is unusual. 

Soros-funded Manhattan District Alvin Bragg says that President Trump “repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal crimes that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election.”

Bragg’s indictment, however, shows that this is a false accusation from the DA.

The 34 counts of "falsifying business records" all allegedly occurred in 2017, well after the presidential election and when President Trump was already in office. 

So, how exactly then did President Trump attempt to hide from everyone “damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election”?

A district attorney lying about the central facts of his case should be a scandal. It’s worth taking a look at the prosecutors who helped assemble this absurd case for Bragg. One of them is Mark Pomerantz, who didn’t hide that the prosecution of Trump was a personal crusade of his. Pomerantz wrote in his 2017 tell-all that Trump “disgusted” him and compared prosecuting Trump to Osama bin Laden. Pomerantz was so excited to prosecute Trump that he joined the DA’s office for no pay, and he wrote that he “would have paid the District Attorney's Office for the opportunity to prosecute President Trump."

It’s important to note as well that the prior Manhattan District Attorney (Cy Vance), the Manhattan U.S. Attorney, the Federal Election Commission, and Bragg himself examined Michael Cohen’s alleged payment to Stormy Daniels and declined to prosecute.

Then senior Biden Justice Department political appointee Matthew Colangelo got deployed to Bragg’s office as a “senior counsel” to work on the case months before the indictment. Colangelo is a lifelong Democrat activist who was a senior political appointee for both the Obama and Biden administrations. He was the number three at the Biden DOJ, a senior economic adviser in the Obama White House, and a top aide to Obama Labor Secretary and DNC chairman Tom Perez. Colangelo has never served as a line prosecutor or defense attorney. Colangelo is simply a senior Democrat operative, deployed to Bragg’s office to get Trump.

Alvin Bragg is not trying President Trump because he’s a DA hell-bent on enforcing the “rule of law.” No, brag downgraded 60 percent of felony cases last year. Bragg charged hundreds of felonies as misdemeanors, and helped harden criminals avoid serious punishment. And Bragg upgraded a time-barred bookkeeping misdemeanor, at best, into 34 felonies to get Trump. 

Have you heard about the wave of women getting randomly punched in New York City? Well, Alvin Bragg set free one of the perpetrators. Violent felons are assaulting New Yorkers while Bragg focuses his resources on targeting Joe Biden’s political opponent.

Everyone understands what this case is about. It’s an election-year assault on the Democrat Party’s number-one enemy. 

As even Never-Trumper Jonah Goldberg put it, “if President Trump’s ‘name were John Smith, Alvin Bragg would not be bringing this case.’”  

Mike Davis is the founder and president of the Article III Project, which defends constitutionalist judges. As the former chief counsel for nominations to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), he served as the staff leader for Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation. Davis served as a law clerk to Justice Neil Gorsuch, both on the 10th Circuit and Supreme Court.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: alvinbragg; hushmoney; manhattan; manhattanda; michaelcohen; stormydaniels; trumppersecution
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1 posted on 04/08/2024 10:49:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m not much for payback, but in this case an example needs to be made that this is a two way street.


2 posted on 04/08/2024 11:00:01 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: SeekAndFind
they settled on charging the former president with 34 felonies for the non-felony of his attorney Michael Cohen settling a nuisance claim THAT TRUMP DID NOT EVEN AUTHORIZE
3 posted on 04/08/2024 11:26:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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4 posted on 04/08/2024 11:40:15 AM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ping


5 posted on 04/08/2024 11:48:57 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim (C)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Then why did he make Cohen whole?


6 posted on 04/08/2024 11:54:58 AM PDT by joesbucks (For 2,000 years Christians have been warning of the Anti-Christ. Now they buy Bibles from him. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He’s on tape authorizing it.


7 posted on 04/08/2024 11:59:04 AM PDT by Fuzz
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To: V_TWIN
Oh I can easily make exception for payback. For some things and some people payback is not enough, going over the top and getting well ahead and over just barely covers it.

Revenge being a dish best served cold only means to think about it before you do it. It does not mean it is any less tasty nor does it mean it will be unpalatable.

8 posted on 04/08/2024 11:59:22 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: V_TWIN

If a payback case(s)were made for Donald Trump, how should it be done for the defendants (if convicted) in that case. I’m sure a lof thoughts might be for hanging, firing squads, caning,etc. When this is all said & done something needs to be done against those who have falsely accused him, as I think it could be said to be a large number of people. At the least, I think that anyone convicted of such things should be at least be permanently removed from any kind of further public service, & even that might be letting them off too easily.


9 posted on 04/08/2024 12:31:00 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: V_TWIN

If a payback case(s)were made for Donald Trump, how should it be done for the defendants (if convicted) in that case. I’m sure a lof thoughts might be for hanging, firing squads, caning,etc. When this is all said & done something needs to be done against those who have falsely accused him, as I think it could be said to be a large number of people. At the least, I think that anyone convicted of such things should be at least be permanently removed from any kind of further public service, & even that might be letting them off too easily. It might be a treat watching some of them serving in a capacity equal to their talents, like cleaning toilets.


10 posted on 04/08/2024 12:33:23 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: joesbucks

TDS much?


11 posted on 04/08/2024 2:42:10 PM PDT by sopo
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To: Fuzz

TDS much?


12 posted on 04/08/2024 2:43:39 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Ukrainian electrical grid doink?)
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To: Fuzz

TDS much?


13 posted on 04/08/2024 2:43:42 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Ukrainian electrical grid doink?)
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To: sopo

So why DID he make Cohen whole?


14 posted on 04/08/2024 2:57:16 PM PDT by joesbucks (For 2,000 years Christians have been warning of the Anti-Christ. Now they buy Bibles from him. )
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To: Fuzz

Cohen took his own funds and paid off the woman, which Trump did not know about.

Then he went to Trump to be reimbursed.


15 posted on 04/08/2024 3:05:05 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: lurk

They are on tape discussing setting up a shell company to make the payments was before Cohen fronted the money.

He was reimbursed and paid over 400,000.

So, no.


16 posted on 04/08/2024 3:18:17 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: SeekAndFind
Trump will be FINE! He continues to be under a "Hedge of Protection" provided by the Good Lord!

For those that may NOT have noticed.. it's been in place since he announced back in 2016!

17 posted on 04/08/2024 3:28:34 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: joesbucks

Was this the only time, or was it something they did regularly? What kind of arrangements is Joe Biden setting up with OMGs to fly illegals all over the country? Who’s being made whole from the US treasury for fronting money to pay for those flights? Who paid the FBI out of U.S. Treasury to deep six Ashley Biden’s account of incestuous molestation by Joe?


18 posted on 04/08/2024 3:51:53 PM PDT by sopo
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To: sopo

And what’s the deal with airline peanuts? If the jar is round why do they call in ovaltine? Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?

It’s all just insane!


19 posted on 04/08/2024 4:20:39 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: Fuzz

Keep posting, it’s entertaining


20 posted on 04/08/2024 4:23:33 PM PDT by sopo
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