NY vs. Trump: A trial in search of an imaginary crime

[lahr]

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Theater of the Absurd entered its third week, still without any evidence of crimes committed by the accused.  

Playwright Samuel Beckett would be proud. The Trump hush money trial is like "Waiting for Godot" —a chaotic and nonsensical plot of absurdist fiction. The titular Godot, of course, never arrives. It is an apt metaphor for Bragg’s case against Donald Trump. Jurors may be waiting in vain for criminal offenses that don’t actually exist in the law.  

All of which makes it a trial in search of an imaginary crime.  

But the District Attorney seems utterly unbothered that his charges are mutable, ill-defined, illusory, or just plain absent.  Instead, he’s contrived a histrionic legal fable meant to fool the jury into thinking that Trump should be convicted for assignations with nefarious people like his ex-lawyer and convicted perjurer, Michael Cohen, as well as erstwhile porn star, Stormy Daniels.  

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Any honest, knowledgeable, and intelligent judge would have long ago tossed the case. Instead, it was given to Juan Merchan. His conspicuous bias against Trump is exceeded only by his seeming incompetence.  

NY vs. Trump: A trial in search of an imaginary crime | Fox News

[Deluge]

On 5/1/2024 at 8:37 AM, lahr said:

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Theater of the Absurd entered its third week, still without any evidence of crimes committed by the accused.  

Playwright Samuel Beckett would be proud. The Trump hush money trial is like "Waiting for Godot" —a chaotic and nonsensical plot of absurdist fiction. The titular Godot, of course, never arrives. It is an apt metaphor for Bragg’s case against Donald Trump. Jurors may be waiting in vain for criminal offenses that don’t actually exist in the law.  

All of which makes it a trial in search of an imaginary crime.  

But the District Attorney seems utterly unbothered that his charges are mutable, ill-defined, illusory, or just plain absent.  Instead, he’s contrived a histrionic legal fable meant to fool the jury into thinking that Trump should be convicted for assignations with nefarious people like his ex-lawyer and convicted perjurer, Michael Cohen, as well as erstwhile porn star, Stormy Daniels.  

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Any honest, knowledgeable, and intelligent judge would have long ago tossed the case. Instead, it was given to Juan Merchan. His conspicuous bias against Trump is exceeded only by his seeming incompetence.  

NY vs. Trump: A trial in search of an imaginary crime | Fox News

Yes. These bullshit trials are even turning democrats away from Biden. I'll be surprised if Trump doesn't win in a landslide. 

[User]

There is only one criminal trial with any merit: the one with Trump and the classified documents. 

But the problem I have with that is they have proven twice now that it is political by never going after Clinton and saying Biden is too old and can't remember anything to go after. 

If you are going to prosecute people for this, then you prosecute them all. Otherwise, it is exactly as it appears to be: selective prosecution to play politics. 

 

[lahr]

1 hour ago, User said:

There is only one criminal trial with any merit: the one with Trump and the classified documents. 

But the problem I have with that is they have proven twice now that it is political by never going after Clinton and saying Biden is too old and can't remember anything to go after. 

If you are going to prosecute people for this, then you prosecute them all. Otherwise, it is exactly as it appears to be: selective prosecution to play politics. 

 

Spot on

[lahr]

1 hour ago, Deluge said:

Yes. These bullshit trials are even turning democrats away from Biden. I'll be surprised if Trump doesn't win in a landslide. 

Agreed

[robosmith]

On 5/1/2024 at 7:37 AM, lahr said:

NY vs. Trump: A trial in search of an imaginary crime | Fox News

Anyone who believes FOS LIES after they had to pay $800M for LYING is a FOOL.

[robosmith]

On 5/1/2024 at 7:37 AM, lahr said:

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Theater of the Absurd entered its third week, still without any evidence of crimes committed by the accused.  

NY vs. Trump: A trial in search of an imaginary crime | Fox News

At Trump’s Trial, a Window Into the Golden Era of Tabloids

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Under questioning from prosecutors for Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, Mr. David Pecker,  former publisher of The National Enquirer, walked the jury through his role in an effort to suppress negative news about Mr. Trump during the 2016 presidential election. He said he helped orchestrate hush-money deals related to supposed sexual encounters, and an uncorroborated story about an out-of-wedlock child.

That scheme, prosecutors said, provides context for the charges that Mr. Trump criminally falsified records at his company to cover up one of those deals, a $130,000 hush-money agreement with the porn star Stormy Daniels on the eve of the election. Mr. Trump denies Ms. Daniels’s claims that they had sex. 

34 misdemeanors for false business records (routinely prosecuted in NY). promoted to 34 felonies for using them to hide a felony campaign finance violation as testified to by Pecker and Cohen (among others).
 

[lahr]

1 hour ago, robosmith said:

At Trump’s Trial, a Window Into the Golden Era of Tabloids

34 misdemeanors for false business records (routinely prosecuted in NY). promoted to 34 felonies for using them to hide a felony campaign finance violation as testified to by Pecker and Cohen (among others).
 

 

1 hour ago, robosmith said:

Anyone who believes FOS LIES after they had to pay $800M for LYING is a FOOL.

What part was a lie? 

[lahr]

1 hour ago, robosmith said:

At Trump’s Trial, a Window Into the Golden Era of Tabloids

34 misdemeanors for false business records (routinely prosecuted in NY). promoted to 34 felonies for using them to hide a felony campaign finance violation as testified to by Pecker and Cohen (among others).
 

Not  crime.