Love or hate Trump, this rotten trial is an assault on justice

Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts in a trial in Manhattan on May 30. Democrats are singing with joy, but it was a truly sad day for America.

This was a prosecution that never would have been brought had the defendant not been Donald Trump, and had Trump not run for reelection in 2024. Rather than prosecuting an obvious crime, prosecutors set out to prosecute a political opponent. And to do so, they invented a criminal theory to pursue.

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What Happens Next after Trump Hush-Money Conviction

Former president Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony charges on Thursday for falsifying business records, but legal experts say the case is far from settled – and unlikely to wrap up before the November election.

Speaking outside the courthouse on Thursday, Trump proclaimed, “This is far from over.”

A lengthy appeals process is likely to begin very soon, says Zack Smith, a former assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Florida and a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

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CNN’s Coates: De Niro’s Appearance Was Not Political

On Tuesday, CNN’s Laura Coates failed to understand how actor Robert De Niro’s appearance in New York was a political move by the left. De Niro spoke outside the courthouse as closing arguments in Donald Trump’s trial began. The day before he appeared in New York, he starred in a new Biden Campaign released a new advertisement which criticized Trump.

WTF?

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Trump Found Guilty in Hush-Money Case

Donald J. Trump has been convicted of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened his ascent to the White House in 2016, part of a scheme that prosecutors described as a fraud on the American people. He is the first American president to be declared a felon, a stain he will carry as he seeks to regain the presidency.

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Trump’s Trial Has Already Damaged the Office of the Presidency

To limit and undo that damage and restore the rule of law, Republicans may have no choice but to respond in kind.

Now that the jury holds the fate of former president Donald Trump in its hands, we can pause to more broadly assess the meaning of his trials. Observers (this one included) have followed every cross-examination tactic and surprise witness but at the cost of overlooking the trial’s larger blow to our political and constitutional norms.

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Another Violation of Trump’s Constitutional Rights in the Bragg Case

Andy has written another great two-parter on the evidentiary bait-and-switch that Judge Merchan has used in the Trump hush-money trial to allow prosecutors to tell the jury about guilty pleas and settlements for federal campaign-finance-law violations. The prosecution wants these before the jury for the purpose of convincing the jury that the payments to Stormy Daniels were illegal under the federal campaign-finance laws, and thus that Donald Trump knew he was covering up those crimes when he engaged in falsifying business records.

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MSNBC’s Primal Scream: Those Darn Voters Don’t Understand How Dangerous Trump Is!

Saturday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Weekend was one, long primal scream of frustration over the failure of voters to understand – and be duly stampeded into supporting Biden – by how dangerous Donald Trump supposedly was.

Much attention was paid to a video that was briefly reposted to Trump’s social media feed that included, in blurry letters, a mention of a “united Reich,” which was taken by the panel to reflect Trump’s plan to replicate in America something akin to Nazi Germany.

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TDS

Ouch!

h/t Mauser

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What will Trump jury decide? Here are the three options

After more than five weeks, countless hours of testimony and a mountain of documents, New York Justice Juan Merchan will soon instruct a panel of 12 New Yorkers to make a historic decision: whether Donald Trump is guilty or not guilty of felony charges.

After both sides make their final pitches to jurors on Tuesday, Justice Juan Merchan will deliver deliberation instructions, going over each of the charges and explaining the elements of the alleged crime. While they can be technical and dry, the instructions are important guidelines for jurors’ deliberations.

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What happens if Trump is convicted in hush-money trial?

Thirty-four charges, 12 jurors, one often exasperated judge and a parade of witnesses.

After nearly five weeks, both the prosecution and the defence have rested in Donald Trump’s history making hush-money case.

Closing arguments will begin on Tuesday, and then the jury will start deliberations. After that, it is anyone’s guess when they will return and what they’ll decide.

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Anatomy of a Kangaroo Court

The Donald Trump New York City farce is on the way to being over. The prosecution (at least) rested after what would’ve been a disastrous performance by Michael Cohen in any other trial, but the standard rules don’t apply here because this is not actually a trial. This trial has nothing to do with law. It is a scummy attempt to frame a political opponent of the Democrats to keep him from winning an election against the desiccated old pervert in the White House. Normally, a jury would laugh this case out of court, except that it would never have been in court had the defendant been named Tronald Dump. Everything about it is a lie and a scam, and as soon as you understand that you will understand this disgraceful case.

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