[Master Thread] Federal & State Charges Against Pres. Trump

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Very clear reasoning how Bidementia's hoodlums hosed their own case.

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FBI Bungling May Collapse Mar-a-Lago Case Against Trump

 

[...] Imagine the documents "discovered" by the FBI at Mar-A-Lago as a deck of cards.  Smith criminally charged Trump with intentionally possessing a small number of those documents, which we can imagine represented by the ace of spades.  Until recently, we assumed the former president took the entire deck of cards with him when he left the White House.  It turns out, however, that the deck was cut.  He shipped everything above the cut when he was president.  We've now learned that the Biden administration's General Services Administration (GSA) sent the bottom of the deck to Mar-A-Lago after Trump left office.  [...]

 

https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/fbi-bungling-may-collapse-mar-a-lago-case-against-trump/

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Every word here by Jonathan Turley makes sense.

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'I see dead people' — Alvin Bragg's case against Trump goes paranormal

 

[...] The Daniels testimony will live in infamy in the annals of criminal justice.  For two days, she offered lurid and completely irrelevant details whose only possible purpose was to humiliate Trump.  Admitting that she was coached by the prosecution in her testimony, it was clear that she was there not to win a case but to win an election.  Judge Juan Merchan allowed this legal burlesque to unfold in his courtroom, later blaming defense counsel who had vociferously objected to her appearance and the scope of the examination.

The cross examination was devastating.  It shattered her laughable claim that she had not really been seeking money in shaking Trump down for a non-disclosure agreement, a claim contradicted by her own former lawyer.  Daniels also revealed that she had spoken with the dead, and that a ghost had once held her boyfriend under water in a bathtub.  She also said that she lived in a haunted house, only to discover later that the spirit haunting it was actually a large possum.  [...]

 

https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/4656591-i-see-dead-people-alvin-braggs-case-against-trump-goes-paranormal/

 

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New York Builds Separate Massive Courthouse Just For Prosecuting Trump

 

NEW YORK, NY — With his case against Trump beginning to crumble, DA Alvin Bragg has announced several dozen new cases against the former President, and a brand-new courthouse completely dedicated to prosecuting Trump.

Sources confirmed the new 30-story facility in midtown Manhattan will house an army of lawyers dedicated to only bringing new cases against Trump around the clock, 7 days a week.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/new-york-builds-separate-massive-courthouse-just-for-prosecuting-trump

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Trial Judge's Daughter Helped Campaign to Kick Trump Off Colorado Ballot

 

[...] It had been revealed earlier that Judge Merchan's daughter was making bank off the trial, and now a Post Millennial report outlines how Loren Merchan has been working to destroy Donald Trump for months and making a pretty penny in the process.  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/05/14/trial-judge-in-ny-daughter-helped-run-campaign-to-kick-trump-off-colorado-ballot-n3788322

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Surprise!

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Tom Fitton:  'Caution' Letter Proves Judge Merchan's Ethics Violation

 

The judge now infamous for his role in the politically charged New York case against Donald Trump reportedly received an official "caution" for his ethics violation.

 

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton cited the as-yet-unreleased caution letter to Judge Juan Merchan as proof of the latter's ethical failure.  While a sitting judge, Merchan reportedly donated to Democrats, including Donald Trump's current Democrat presidential opponent Joe Biden.  The latest news is that Merchan was officially cautioned over this ethics failure.  [...]

 

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/05/18/tom-fitton-caution-letter-proves-judge-merchans-ethics-violation-n4929140

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This Week In Lawfare Land:  Bragg's 'Star Witness' Blows Up His Own Credibility

 

Here's the latest information you need to know about each prosecution Democrats are waging against the Republican presidential candidate.  [...]

 

https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/17/this-week-in-lawfare-land-braggs-star-witness-blows-up-his-own-credibility/

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I was inside the court when the judge closed the Trump trial, what I saw shocked me:  Alan Dershowitz

 

[...] in my 60 years as a lawyer and law professor, I have never seen a spectacle such as the one I observed sitting in the front row of the courthouse yesterday.

 

The judge in Donald Trump's trial was an absolute tyrant, though he appeared to the jury to be a benevolent despot.  He seemed automatically to be ruling against the defendant at every turn.

Many experienced lawyers raised their eyebrows when the judge excluded obviously relevant evidence when offered by the defense, while including irrelevant evidence offered by the prosecution.  [...]

 

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/inside-court-when-judge-closed-trump-trial-what-saw-shocked-me-alan-dershowitz

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Just How Bad Was Cohen's Performance -- And Merchan's?

 

the scope of Cohen's dishonesty in this testimony is simply breathtaking.  It isn't just the embezzlement to which he admitted under pressure, either.  Cohen repeatedly and consistently misrepresents himself on nearly every aspect of his testimony, especially regarding his relationship with Trump.  Blanche patiently boxes him in every time, usually with Cohen's own e-mails and public statements.

The press largely ignored just how comprehensively Blanche planned and executed this cross-examination.  Even worse, the media tried to make Cohen's admission of embezzlement into some kind of evidence of his honesty.  You have to deliberately ignore everything else that happened in Monday's testimony to sell Cohen as a truth-teller, as you'll see when watching the video.  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/05/22/just-how-bad-was-cohens-cross-examination-n3788846

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Prosecution Offers Michael Cohen $130,000 Hush Money To Stop Talking

 

NEW YORK, NY — Prosecutors in the trial against former president Donald Trump offered star witness Michael Cohen $130,000 if he would keep his big mouth shut for a while.

"Every time Cohen talks, it totally ruins our case…" Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger told the press.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/prosecution-offers-michael-cohen-130000-hush-money-to-stop-talking

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This article is quite good, I think.

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Trump's sham 'hush money' case is a trial that has exposed New York's corrupt justice system

 

The Manhattan court docket says it's the "People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump."

Legally, yes, but in a larger truth, no.  As the case nears the finish line, it increasingly feels as if New York itself is on trial.

Only a top-quality case, beyond reproach and political taint, should have been used to bring the first-ever indictment of a former president.  Instead, the city and state put on a show trial long on theatrics–porn star testifies about sex! — and short on evidence that any crime was actually committed.

And so the script has flipped, with the trial itself an assault on the notion that justice is blind.  No matter what the jury says about Trump, the prosecutors, the judge, the state court system and the political class have been revealed as thoroughly corrupt.  [...]

 

https://nypost.com/2024/05/25/opinion/trumps-hush-money-case-puts-on-trial-the-morals-of-new-york/