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A prosecution so crooked it would make
Stalin blush!: Alan Dershowitz reveals
the exact courtroom moment he knew Trump
was doomed to a guilty verdict

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Posted By: OhioNick, 6/1/2024 1:08:23 AM

Long before Donald Trump's hush-money trial concluded, I predicted that his conviction was a forgone conclusion – despite the obvious weakness of the case against him. Had the prosecution been brought in another part of the country, or even in another part of New York State, which was more fairly balanced with anti and pro-Trump voters, I am in little doubt that the outcome would have been different. But instead, on Thursday, Trump became the first former president to be found guilty of a crime – convicted on all 34 flimsy counts of 'falsifying business records.'

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Reply 1 - Posted by: mifla 6/1/2024 3:10:48 AM (No. 1728824)
If the shoe were on the other foot, the Dems would be out burning and looting NYC.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: kono 6/1/2024 3:20:04 AM (No. 1728829)
Some people truly suck.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: kono 6/1/2024 3:20:54 AM (No. 1728830)
(and we saw a lot of them teaming up against Trump in this)
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Strike3 6/1/2024 3:40:09 AM (No. 1728840)
Enough with the hand-wringing and stating of the obvious. Bragg and Merchan clearly did something illegal and unconstitutional here and anybody with even a smidgen of knowledge of the law should be screaming about this abuse. A big boycott of New York City is in order.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Flyball Dogs 6/1/2024 4:46:17 AM (No. 1728881)
Well. This is certainly a chilling summation of events. (WHEN is Dershowitz going to leave the Dem [communist] party?) Others have suggested red states and attorneys general start lawsuits of their own. I don’t think it will work the same way. With no morals or love of anything other than money and power, communist defendants can’t be compelled to show up or be held to account. They will ignore any suits or court proceedings like they ignore Congressional subpoenas. And no law enforcement officers are going to knock on their doors at 3:00 am. There is now, officially, a 2-tier (at least) justice system.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Krause 6/1/2024 7:51:25 AM (No. 1728917)
The judge, the DA and the prosecutor are all corrupt democrats. Do you hear of any democrat politicians complaining about the court antics? No, meaning they are just as corrupt as the court tyrants.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: bpl40 6/1/2024 8:35:15 AM (No. 1728937)
There were several stages at which this 'case' sank deeper and deeper into illegality and invalidity. But the judges 'instructions' sealed the deal. Jurors have to unanimously agree on the specific crime for which the defendant is being found guilty. Guilty verdict based on three different crimes cannot be valid. Left wing Media is falsely accusing their Conservative counterparts of saying that the judge told the jurors they do not have be unanimous. The judge is not stupid. He is just biased and evil. If the SCOYUS does not intervene here right away it will lose all moral authority.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: red oak 6/1/2024 12:24:07 PM (No. 1729099)
First, regarding the 34 counts of a misdemeanor allegedly caused by the false recording (NY Penal Code Section 175.05, which misdemeanors are time-barred absent the elevation of them to felonies) of each of the invoice payments as the first step of this verdict, Query: Couldn't at least one of the invoices paid by Trump to Cohen have had no reimbursement at all for the so-called (legal) hush money? In other words, Cohen billed Trump for various things he worked on. The invoices totaled over 400k while the "hush money" was only 130k (no grossing up of the 130k for tax purposes would have taken it up to over 400k). How could the jury possibly know that Cohen tainted each and every one of the 34 legal services invoices with some portion of the "hush money." The jury likely didn't examine the particulars of each invoice and even if they did, how could they conclude that each invoice carried some of the "hush money?" And all done in the 12-hour deliberation? Second, "criminal intent" to either commit or cover up a crime by falsely recording the payments, was required per Section 175.10 of the NY Penal Code for each of the alleged 34 falsely, if any, entered payments for them to become felonious and not time-barred by the statute of limitations (requiring Trump to have been consciously intending to commit a criminal act with each [misdemeanor] "falsely categorized" invoice payment, thus presumably intentionally committing, with each payment, the " by unlawful means" snapped onto the otherwise lawful "conspiracy" to sway the 2016 election). Just reading the foregoing gives a flavor of the Rube Goldberg design of this ridiculous case that could potentially put a man in prison for life. How on earth could the jurors have divined the intent of Donald Trump as to the "unlawful means" (the three choices given by the judge being any one or more of a campaign violation, false documentation, and/or tax law violation per the judge's instructions) he was intentionally implementing back in 2017 with each of the 34 invoices in the course of a 12-hour deliberation period? For that matter, how could they ever divine his "criminal intent" as to even one invoice? Did the evidence show criminal intent as to any one of the three so-called "unlawful means" on any invoice payment by Trump? For an example to the contrary, Hope Hicks, a prosecution witness for Pete's sake, said that Trump was concerned about protecting his family. Why wasn't that a fourth choice in the instructions to counter the three "unlawful" ones? Plus, Trump paid out of personal funds, not campaign money. In sum here, with the three choices of "unlawful means" allowed by the judge in his instructions, if even one juror or set of jurors chose a different (i.e. different from another juror or set of jurors) "unlawful means" from the set of three, then the 12 jurors simply couldn't have been unanimously agreeing that Trump's criminal intent was proven. That is, each different choice of "unlawful means" thereby would have been added into Trump's brain as part of his criminal intent required by NY Penal Code Section 175.10. For us to believe that Trump was so deviant as to be scheming to commit more than one "unlawful mean" in any one or more invoice payment is so ludicrous as to be even more laughable than this outrage already is. It seems that the judge outsmarted himself by giving more choices of "unlawful means" to choose from to attribute to the criminal consciousness of Donald Trump. This shell game was played from the get-go even with the indictment itself. Will we ever get to know what Trump has been convicted of (see Jonathan Turley's questioning about this). It is possible, though we don't yet know, that all 12 unanimously chose just one of the "unlawful means" choices. But was there evidence of "criminal intent" with any of the three such "unlawful means" with any or all of the 34 invoices that Trump paid? Dear God. Post trial motions need to get going.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Red Ghost 6/2/2024 8:21:48 AM (No. 1729421)
A rather tepid article by the Dersh. What scares me, is that Trump's attorneys have not already, written and filed their appeal to the United States Supreme Court. They could have written that appeal weeks ago, only tweaking it to include the last few days and the judge's corrupt instructions to the jury. That appeal should have been presented to the Supremes, the next morning. Trump's constitutional rights and therefore every single American's constitutional rights have been beaten up, battered, treated like fish wrapped paper, and laughingly discarded, and not a peep out of Trump's attorneys to the Supremes. What the hell are they doing? What bigger emergency application to the Supremes could there be? If not this case, this time, during a presidential election, then when boys? Friggin' DO IT.
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