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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

About a year ago, when Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, indicted former President Donald Trump, I was critical of the case and called it an embarrassment. I thought an array of legal problems would and should lead to long delays in federal courts. After listening to Monday's opening statement by prosecutors, I still think the Manhattan D.A. has made a historic mistake.

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When Dems have lost the New York Times ... .

#1 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-04-24 12:07 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

Just tell me my clients can write off otherwise non-deductible expenses against their business income.

That, or admit what you really want is two tiers of justice.

#2 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-04-24 12:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

" Just tell me my clients can write off otherwise non-deductible expenses against their business income."

I thought this case was about campaign finance violation.

#3 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-04-24 12:20 PM | Reply

I thought this case was about campaign finance violation.

#3 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

It's about Trump's personal corruption.

Something you never have any problem denying.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2024-04-24 12:28 PM | Reply

#3 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

You deny Trump's criminal lifestyle and Trump's gross mental illness. You always have.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2024-04-24 12:34 PM | Reply

Jeff believes the twitter files is election interference of historic proportions. But this case is a nothing burger

Keep in mind one was about addressing something that look d like Russian intelligence operation over a person not running for office and was supported by very right wing news organizations and the other was the candidate himself working hand in hand to suppress negative stories about him

Jeff is a lying pos hypocrite that no one should listen to

#6 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-04-24 12:39 PM | Reply

"Jeff is a lying pos hypocrite that no one should listen to"

Let's parse this.......

pos....that's relative and everyone here knows you are a bigger pos anyway

hypocrite........probably the only accurate thing you posted

no one should listen to.......well, everyone DOES listen to him, including you. He earns his Taylor Swift popularity medal every day even if you disagree

lying.....what is he lying about?

#7 | Posted by eberly at 2024-04-24 12:44 PM | Reply

#7 | POSTED BY EBERLY

I invoke the Disease Model here. The poor man has got something that infects his common and moral sense. He defends darkness in the apparent hope that darkness will come. It's not even political, really. It's warping on a level more fundamental than that.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2024-04-24 12:53 PM | Reply

I thought this case was about campaign finance violation.
#3 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

It's about falsification of business records with the intent to violate campaign finance laws and tax laws.

Let me get this straight: You post an article on why the case shouldn't have been brought, BUT don't even know what the case is about?!

That's just so Jeff of you.

#9 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-04-24 12:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Look you can't expect him to actually read what he posts. That would be hard, the NYT uses some big words.

#10 | Posted by qcp at 2024-04-24 01:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#1 ... When Dems have lost the New York Times ... . ...

Your current alias seems to equate a single op-ed with the entire New York Times?

I'd have said something more along the lines of, ~kudos to the NYT for showing differing opinions on their OpEd page.

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-24 01:36 PM | Reply

"The poor man has got something that infects his common and moral sense"

That's pretty deep but you do you, Zed.

I don't know if he has a true struggle with his common and moral sense.

He's a hateful troll obsessed with another poster here but that's just what it is....a troll begging for attention.

Pathetic is a better description, IMO. I suppose we can conclude he lacks any moral compass when he tried to out the identity of another poster for no other reason that he was getting is weak ass kicked all over this place.

#12 | Posted by eberly at 2024-04-24 03:05 PM | Reply

" It's about falsification of business records with the intent to violate campaign finance laws and tax laws."

Except the "falsification" didn't occur until after the election was over.

It's so ridiculous that even NYT allowed an op ed to be published ripping this crap.

You are not required to always cheer your team. Sometimes they just get it wrong. It's okay to acknowledge that.

#13 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-04-24 03:08 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

The crime occurred before the election ie the payment to the porn star which was done to effect the election.

But you know that

Ur you also know about the hunter Biden laptop story and you claim THAT is election interference despite not being about the candidate and despite conservative news organizations being in on the conspiracy. Yet you somehow diffentiate that issue with this issue where the candidate works hand in hand with the national inquirer to squelch stories

#14 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-04-24 03:14 PM | Reply

" The crime occurred before the election ie the payment to the porn star which was done to effect the election."

I agree that it's ridiculous that he paid hush money to a porn star. That is not a crime. The supposed crime is the accounting for it after the fact. Trying to make what was at worst a misdemeanor and to try and spin it into a felony I offer to get around the statute of limitations is Banana Republic crap.

#15 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-04-24 03:25 PM | Reply

Refusing to put -------- actions in context to the laptop story
I see

------- paid the porn star in a conspiracy with the nat inq to defraud the people of ny over the election

#16 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-04-24 03:38 PM | Reply

You know. The crimes cohen was convicted for

#17 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-04-24 03:40 PM | Reply

Trying to make what was at worst a misdemeanor and to try and spin it into a felony I offer to get around the statute of limitations is Banana Republic crap.

Only if you ignore the depth of actions taken by ------ and the National Enquirer which intentionally placed false stories about Trump's GOP opponents so that he could defeat them and gain the party's nomination. Once you introduce the money/payoff factor, the conspiracy to affect the election becomes the underlying crime that elevates the travesty into a felony as it should be. Trump and ------ defrauded and deceived the American voters in two ways. First, they conspired to print knowingly false information that damaged multiple GOP candidates' campaigns at the exact moment their polling threatened Trump's nomination. And second, they conspired to buy the silence of multiple women willing to let the public know that Donald had sexual relations with them while he was married to Melania, keeping damaging character information from the voting public everyone readily understands could have fatally damaged his candidacy, denying him the White House.

Trump is under 88 indictments. No one charged with that level of criminal activity deserves any benefit of the doubt as to their innate criminal nature and total lack of respect for laws and regulations. Trump has never claimed that he's actually innocent of any of these charges outside of lying that he didn't have sexual relations with either McDougal nor Daniels. The charges aren't banana republic-like, Trump's denigration and total disdain in disrespecting public servants (and their family members) doing their jobs and trying to give him fair trials with impartial juries is the most dictatorial, tyrannical act any defendant has ever played when faced with accountability for their own actions.

#18 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-04-24 04:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Regardless of the outcome I am enjoying the truth coming out (under oath) about how Trumpy created actual fake news with Catch and Kill and using the Enquirer as a campaign fake news generator and then he pretended it was CNN and everyone else who were creating fake news when it was Trumpy behind the fake news all along.

Can't wait to see how Trumpy justifies his Trumpy scumduggery

#19 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-04-24 04:22 PM | Reply

@#13 ... It's so ridiculous that even NYT allowed an op ed to be published ripping this crap. ...

Yeah, the author should have given it to FoxNews who might have published it as a news story.


#20 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-24 05:24 PM | Reply

Filing false business records is a crime no matter the underlying election laws, which are notoriously hard to prosecute... because they are written by politicians who don't want to be prosecuted.

Whether the AG makes the charges stick or not, just the first day of testimony showing the extent of Trump's disregard for the truth in the lies he told his followers, and his disregard for the truth in general; paying off a news source to hide and manufacture facts for him... is worth the price of admission.

And there's lot's more exposure to come.

Including trans Jeffebelle's love child with Trump that the Doorman got 30K to fergit, lol.

#21 | Posted by Corky at 2024-04-24 05:42 PM | Reply

The chronology lines up with his election efforts.
All the Ted Cruz stories, all the Hillary stories, one lie after another, all based on phone calls from Trump's team to the National Enquirer. Then the Stormy incident, and the payoff which was incredibly obvious with the recordings, etc.
You have to have your head up your a** to think this isn't a big deal.

BTW - Hillary's still alive, 9 years later. She was supposed to be dead in 6 months. Remember all that nonsense?

The payoff to Stormy proves that part all out.
The testimony of ------ proves out the rest.

It'll be interesting to see what the jury does.

#22 | Posted by YAV at 2024-04-24 06:38 PM | Reply

>>It's so ridiculous that even NYT allowed an op ed to be published ripping this crap.

I read the NYT regularly. You'd be surprised by who they let -------- op eds. JD Vance telling america they should just walk away from Ukraine recently.

#23 | Posted by schifferbrains at 2024-04-24 07:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

When Dems have lost the New York Times ... .

#1 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER AT 2024-04-24 12:07 PM | REPLY | FUNNY: 2

Oh puhleaseeeee. Don't forget how Judith Miller at the New York Times that sold the country a bill of goods that Saddam had WMD. The desperation of you Jeff is palpable.

#24 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-04-24 08:58 PM | Reply

"I thought this case was about campaign finance violation."

It's about crimes committed in furtherance of another crime.

This is just another case of you being ignorant of the subject.

You haven't read the indictments, have you?

#25 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-04-25 12:23 AM | Reply

"Except the "falsification" didn't occur until after the election was over."

Except the discovery of the conspiracy would've been traced back to BEFORE the election. Like it has been.

You know...the salient, illegal part.

#26 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-04-25 12:28 AM | Reply

Banana Republic crap.

#15 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Come on, man. Everyone knows how much you like bananas.

#27 | Posted by Zed at 2024-04-25 10:11 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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