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“Well, they have discretion, but they don’t have discretion to create their own laws,” he said. “And what is being done is something that most of us consider really beyond the pale, that is Bragg is taking a New York misdemeanor, which, by the way, has expired, only a two-year statute of limitations, and he’s potentially bootstrapping that into a felony. But he intends, according to reports, to prove a federal crime that the Department of Justice itself declined to prosecute. Now that effort, he’s losing already the court of public opinion. A poll came out showing roughly 60 percent of people viewed this as politically motivated. But he’s playing to a jury pool in New York.”

“And the likelihood of finding a Trump supporter in the New York jury pool is about the same as finding a triceratops,” Turley added. “I mean, it’s not that likely. But he also has judges in New York who I think are going to look askance at this and say, wait, you’re a state prosecutor, and you’re going to prove a federal crime? I think he’s got a rough road ahead. But what he has done is handed Trump proof positive of his long narrative. This is a political prosecution.”

Turley: Alvin Bragg Has Handed Trump 'Proof Positive' of His Long Narrative — 'This Is a Political Prosecution'

On this week's broadcast of "Fox News Sunday," George Washington law professor Jonathan Turley criticized Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's aggressive push to prosecute former President Donald Trump. | Clips

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Manhattan Grand Jury Now Scheduled to Break for a Month Before Deciding on Trump Indictment​

Important reminder, The State Dept use CNN. The CIA/DNI use Washington Post. The FBI/DOJ and domestic IC use New York Times and Politico.

About the pending Manhattan indictment, yesterday we noted, “A delay in the timing would seem likely given the nature of the political winds that generally coordinate to manipulate public opinion. An indictment timed in support of, and in concert with a Ron DeSantis campaign launch, would be more appropriate given the nature of the intentions.” (link)


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I wonder if they can keep putting it off until closer to next year's Primaries.

 

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A RUBICON IS CROSSED​

So the Democrats decided to indict Donald Trump after all. (I assume that Alvin Bragg would not have proceeded without a green light from higher-ups in the party.) Here, as in so many other areas, we are in uncharted waters. The Democrats have launched a sort of blitzkrieg against our traditions, our Constitution, our culture (at least, our culture as it was), and every form of restraint that makes civil society possible. They have unleashed a wind, and seem serenely confident that they will never face a whirlwind. I don’t know, maybe they are right. I do know that after today, our country will never be the same again.

In the short term, the indictment will help Donald Trump politically. Perhaps that was the Democrats’ intention. But I don’t think any of us can foresee how it will play out. Legally speaking, the indictment is a joke. No doubt Trump will try to have it dismissed, but I don’t know enough about criminal procedure in New York to have any idea how long that will take, or what his prospects of success are. Bear in mind that any motion to dismiss will most likely be heard by a Trump-hating Democratic judge. If the case makes it to trial, it will go before a New York jury that probably will consist entirely of Democrats and–once again–Trump haters. There is no way a conviction can be ruled out. Appeals would follow, likely taking a year or more.

No doubt Trump will get a political bump in the short term, but what if the case is still going on when the primary season begins? Will Republican primary voters really want to nominate a candidate who is in the midst of a criminal proceeding that theoretically could send him to jail? I don’t know.

 

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The Trump Indictment Is An Assault on Democracy​

There is no evidence of a crime being committed in the Stormy Daniels affair; even if there were, the statute of limitations on the supposed charge has expired, and the state cannot evade it by inventing a federal crime. The indictment is simply an attempt to prevent the leading opposition candidate from contesting the 2024 election.

Worse, the indictment was purchased by notorious left-wing billionaire George Soros, who hates Trump and spent $1 million to elect Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

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This is how politics and prosecution work in the Third World — which is perhaps appropriate for Manhattan, which is quickly falling apart under Bragg’s misrule.

If Trump had indeed committed an actual crime, even a minor one, there is no question that he should have been investigated and prosecuted, regardless of his status as a presidential candidate.

But that is not the standard that applied to President Joe Biden and his family.

No — for the Bidens, who were caught red-handed soliciting payments from corrupt foreign businessmen, including those with ties to the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party, the law enforcement and the intelligence communities went into cover-up mode.

The FBI seized Hunter Biden’s laptop in late 2019 but did nothing; prosecutors have sat on tax violations for years; officials let Biden take home classified documents.

It’s Trump whose home is raided; it’s Trump that is indicted; and it’s Trump supporters who rot in solitary confinement for non-violent offenses at the Capitol riot in January 6, 2021, even as Democrats storm state capitols over gun control, or voting rights, or labor union law, or whatever other demand they have that day.

The double standard is, as the saying goes, not hypocrisy; it is hierarchy. And it destroys the rule of law.

 

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This move shows that Florida is not willing to cooperate with a biased legal system and is committed to protecting the rights of its citizens. The fundamental principle of our justice system is to treat all individuals equally, regardless of their political affiliations. However, there appears to be a clear double standard in how justice is applied to those on the left versus those on the right.

Trump has been indicted over an offense that normally results in a minor penalty for a Democrat, as it did for Hillary Clinton. Last year she was quietly fined by the Federal Election Commission for misreporting payments made to the Perkins Coie law firm during the 2016 campaign to hire Fusion GPS to conduct research that resulted in the Steele dossier. That document was later used by Congress to impeach Trump. Clinton had labeled these expenses as “legal services,” but they were in fact a way to hide their funding of the document. As a result, she was fined $113,000 for misrepresentation.

Trump denies the allegations against him, but even if we assumed that the allegations against him were true, they were aimed at hiding a relationship that he did not want to be publicly known. In contrast, Clinton and her presidential campaign commissioned a document filled with bogus opposition research with the intention of harming Trump’s chances of becoming president. The document was then used by the Obama administration as a pretext to surveil Trump’s campaign and, later, as a justification to investigate Trump for connections to Russia that never existed.

Ron DeSantis Throws a Wrench in DA Bragg's Indictment of Trump

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Indictment of Donald Trump ‘Clearest Example’ of Democrats Weaponizing Government Against Their Opponents​

 

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Alvin Bragg's intention to criminally charge the former president for his payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels was revealed on Thursday - sparking consternation and anger in Mar-a-Lago, and, according to The New York Times, in Washington DC.

The paper reported that 'senior officials' at the Justice Department had concerns about the strength of Bragg's case.

The case has not been made public yet, but is believed to contain at least 30 counts related to the payment to Daniels shortly before the 2016 election.

Justice Department officials reportedly consider Bragg's case a weak one. They're currently probing claims Trump tried to overturn Biden's 2020 election win in Georgia, and whether he incited the January 6 2021 riots.

Federal attorneys are said to believe both cases are stronger than the hush money allegations, and fear Bragg's decision to proceed could undermine future prosecutions if the New York case against Trump does indeed collapse, or end in acquittal.

Justice Department 'irritated by Manhattan DA's indictment of Trump'

Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney (left) on Thursday announced that Trump would be criminally charged. DoJ officials told The New York Times they were worried.

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Washington Post blasts Trump indictment as 'poor test case for prosecuting a former president'​

"Donald Trump deserves the legal scrutiny he's getting — which has come from many corners on many counts," the editorial stated. "Yet of the long list of alleged violations, the likely charges on which a grand jury in New York state voted to indict him are perhaps the least compelling. There's cause for concern, and caution, ahead."

A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict former President Donald Trump earlier this week over his alleged role in a payment to Stormy Daniels in 2016, making him the first former president to face criminal charges.

Many have criticized this indictment from a legal perspective, including liberal lawyer and Harvard professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, who told the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show that the indictment announced Thursday is the weakest case he's ever seen in his 60 years of practicing law.

The Washington Post also wrote that a campaign finance charge that Trump is being accused of isn't very strong and compared it to a similar case that happened at the state level where the charges were dropped.

 

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Critics of Trump Indictment: 'It's banana republic time'​

"Tonight’s indictment of Donald Trump isn’t about the law. It’s about power. Raw power," U.S. Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, R-MO, tweeted. "It’s the Democrat Party telling the nation they will stop at nothing to control the outcome of the next presidential election. It is an assault on our democracy, pure and simple."

Carol M. Swain, a retired political science professor from Vanderbilt University and a TV analyst, feared the indictment will lead to the FBI targeting Trump supporters.

"Be very afraid of what the Left will do while the world is distracted by the #TrumpIndictment. It gives the FBI an excuse to focus on triggered Trump supporters rather than hate crimes perpetrated against Christians," Swain tweeted. "It also interferes with the electoral process by crippling the strongest opposition candidate. #2024Elections"

 

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CNN Analyst Claims Trump Being Indicted On More Than 30 Counts​

The indictment is in connection to a yearslong investigation into hush money allegedly paid to former porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, allegedly sent $130,000 to Daniels so she would not disclose an earlier alleged affair with the president. Cohen claims Trump then reimbursed him. The Manhattan District Attorney’s office investigated whether Trump forged business records to hide the alleged payout.

There are dozens of counts, CNN reports.

“I am told by my sources that this is 34 counts of falsification of business records, which is probably a lot of charges involving each document, each thing that was submitted as a separate count in a couple of matters,” CNN’s Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst John Miller said on “Outfront.”

 

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CNN Panicking that It's Backfiring, That Mugshot and 'Martyrdom' Will Make Trump More Powerful​

How long have Democrats been trying to throw anything up against the wall when it comes to former President Donald Trump, trying to make something stick? They’ve been trying to get him for years, with the ready assistance of the liberal media in the effort. And now that they may have finally gotten an indictment in a turkey of a case, they’re beginning to become concerned that this is already backfiring on them, that what they’ve done may just be making him stronger for 2024 and he may prevail over them.

CNN commentator/Democratic operative David Axelrod urged the authorities not to release Trump’s mugshot because it might make him even more iconic.

 

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Seven Things You Don’t Know About the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Case​

1) What does the statute in question actually criminalize?
2) Was Trump’s statement false?
3) Did Trump intend to defraud anyone?
4) How does the Manhattan D.A. get around the two-year statute of limitations?
5) How can Bragg argue that a misdemeanor should be treated as a felony?
6) The indictment appears to fail to meet New York minimum requirements.
7) Does the prosecution apply the same rules to Democrats?

 

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They tried a fake dossier, a made-up narrative that the media put on repeat. They accused him of a high crime for a transcript of a phone call. They accused him of advocating violence when his words said precisely the opposite. Now they are trying to say he obstructed justice when he, in fact, followed the request of the FBI to the letter. Now they are trying to say that another phone call is evidence of a felony when again, his exact words prove otherwise. Now they have indicted him for something that if a crime is even evident (and clearly it is not), the statute of limitations ran out years ago. They tried to argue he avoided paying taxes, only for the record to show he followed the tax code with precision. They want to argue now that he intends to defraud the government of what he owes in taxes, even though during his four years in public office, he refused his $400k salary and returned it in full to the government coffers.

No elected leader has been more maligned, lied about, and attempted to be neutralized as they have with former President Trump.

Jail Him, Or They Lose

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