And lest you think I am just attacking you, regarding your “banana republic” article - Trump’s lawyers challenged that, “the New York DA doesn’t typically prosecute people for falsifying business records with the intent to commit or conceal a different crime. The judge noted that the prosecution showed the DA’s office had brought approximately 437 cases charging just that in the previous decade. Just Security surveyed the last 15 years of New York state criminal cases and found over two dozen felony prosecutions for falsifying business records in the first degree. The Washington Post found that from 2014 to 2023, prosecutors brought first-degree business records falsification charges 11,663 times.” So yes, Trump is square in the crosshairs for his own actions.
Crimes are not analogous according to their number. Elements and facts need to be the same, and they obviously need the same verdict. Forget all the felonies, dismissals, and not guilty verdicts. Find the same citations and then compare.
Is the crime having an NDA? No, that’s legal? Is it hiding it? It’s a Non Disclosure Agreement so it is not a crime. Was the intent to win the election? That is to be proven again after 6 years. Is alleged but consensual sex a crime? No, and can’t be proven. What stature is Bragg going to cite to the jurors to deliberate?
I agree with some of your posts. The case is coming before a jury to decide. It’s not about paying a prostitute through an intermediary to keep it quiet from his spouse. It’s about falsifying documents to influence a presidential campaign reeling from a previous video tape release. That’s what raises the bar from misdemeanor to felony and that’s what DA Bragg will try and prove.
Remember Cohen plead guilty in a Manhattan US attorney’s case to two campaign-finance violations tied to payments he made or orchestrated to women during the campaign – adult-film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal – to stay silent about alleged sexual encounters with Trump.
Prosecutors have said that in executing the payments, Cohen “acted in coordination with and at the direction of” Trump, who has denied having the affairs with the two women. Cohen also pleaded guilty to five counts of tax fraud and one count of making false statements to a bank.
This is the part of what DA Bragg will litigate. It was Trump who acted in concert with Cohen.
The actions that aren’t crimes - unless statutes can be cited, and elements proven beyond a reasonable doubt in the federal case that was dismissed 8 years ago. Clear and convincing proof is needed be Bragg, who also has to prove the mens rea for the second crime.
You are exactly correct, “its major purveyors, like Avenatti and Cohen — have been long discredited and prosecuted – and served prison time – for fraud, perjury, and all sorts of ethical and criminal breaches.” Now it’s time for their principal controller to follow what he ordered them to do, and to also pay the consequences. It’s going to be an interesting couple months. Let’s see if he has the courage to take the stand in his own defense.
I don’t think that will happen. Insofar as Cohen, he’s a known perjurer (and I didn’t follow his case), but Avenatti was Clifford’s attorney, who was not in Trump’s orbit. He’s incarcerated for 10 years for defrauding his client, Ms. Cliffords. What is the SOL? This is old history.
Loren Merchan is another cringe commissar - check out her wedding photos: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-conduct-a-show-trial-merchan
And lest you think I am just attacking you, regarding your “banana republic” article - Trump’s lawyers challenged that, “the New York DA doesn’t typically prosecute people for falsifying business records with the intent to commit or conceal a different crime. The judge noted that the prosecution showed the DA’s office had brought approximately 437 cases charging just that in the previous decade. Just Security surveyed the last 15 years of New York state criminal cases and found over two dozen felony prosecutions for falsifying business records in the first degree. The Washington Post found that from 2014 to 2023, prosecutors brought first-degree business records falsification charges 11,663 times.” So yes, Trump is square in the crosshairs for his own actions.
Crimes are not analogous according to their number. Elements and facts need to be the same, and they obviously need the same verdict. Forget all the felonies, dismissals, and not guilty verdicts. Find the same citations and then compare.
Is the crime having an NDA? No, that’s legal? Is it hiding it? It’s a Non Disclosure Agreement so it is not a crime. Was the intent to win the election? That is to be proven again after 6 years. Is alleged but consensual sex a crime? No, and can’t be proven. What stature is Bragg going to cite to the jurors to deliberate?
I agree with some of your posts. The case is coming before a jury to decide. It’s not about paying a prostitute through an intermediary to keep it quiet from his spouse. It’s about falsifying documents to influence a presidential campaign reeling from a previous video tape release. That’s what raises the bar from misdemeanor to felony and that’s what DA Bragg will try and prove.
Remember Cohen plead guilty in a Manhattan US attorney’s case to two campaign-finance violations tied to payments he made or orchestrated to women during the campaign – adult-film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal – to stay silent about alleged sexual encounters with Trump.
Prosecutors have said that in executing the payments, Cohen “acted in coordination with and at the direction of” Trump, who has denied having the affairs with the two women. Cohen also pleaded guilty to five counts of tax fraud and one count of making false statements to a bank.
This is the part of what DA Bragg will litigate. It was Trump who acted in concert with Cohen.
Are you able to cite the state misdemeanor? Or the Federal FEC crime that was dismissed 8 years ago?
The actions that aren’t crimes - unless statutes can be cited, and elements proven beyond a reasonable doubt in the federal case that was dismissed 8 years ago. Clear and convincing proof is needed be Bragg, who also has to prove the mens rea for the second crime.
Interesting your use of samizdat comrade.
You are exactly correct, “its major purveyors, like Avenatti and Cohen — have been long discredited and prosecuted – and served prison time – for fraud, perjury, and all sorts of ethical and criminal breaches.” Now it’s time for their principal controller to follow what he ordered them to do, and to also pay the consequences. It’s going to be an interesting couple months. Let’s see if he has the courage to take the stand in his own defense.
I don’t think that will happen. Insofar as Cohen, he’s a known perjurer (and I didn’t follow his case), but Avenatti was Clifford’s attorney, who was not in Trump’s orbit. He’s incarcerated for 10 years for defrauding his client, Ms. Cliffords. What is the SOL? This is old history.