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.
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.
It had all the promise of an only-in-America blockbuster trial, brimming with salacious detail and a former president in the dock.
In fact, it’s hard to imagine a bigger courtroom drama, tailor-made for the media, than one that stars Donald Trump, once the world’s most powerful figure and someone vying to be so again, forced to sit through allegations of an awkward sexual encounter with a porn actress.
A political and legal thriller in which a man – not known for his humility – has had to listen, often with eyes tightly shut, as everything from depictions of his satin pyjamas and comparisons to a “Cheeto-dusted cartoon villain” have entered the court record.
Most people know bullshit when they see it.
The judge in Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial has stacked the deck against the former president.
How far out on a limb is Judge Juan Merchan willing to go to help Manhattan’s elected progressive Democratic district attorney, Alvin Bragg, convict former president Donald Trump based on inadmissible evidence?
Despite the flashing of actual swastikas at pro-Hamas protests among the Dearborn set which votes Democrat, Joe Biden is determined to pin the ‘Nazi’ label on President Trump, which is falling flat.
He’s done it at least once, errantly hammering over and over again the misheard, out-of-context “fine people” statement President Trump made about a riot. And in his raging warnings about Trump being a threat to ‘democracy,’ he’s looked distinctly Hitlerian himself against a red backdrop.
The first criminal trial against a former president in the history of the United States could see a verdict by the end of next week. Closing arguments for President’s Trump’s hush money trial will begin on Tuesday and probably last the entire day. Then, presumably, on Wednesday morning the judge will instruct the jury on the charges, after which the five women and seven men will go into deliberation. If the twelve jurors return with a guilty verdict, which must be unanimous on each count, what will happen to Mr. Trump?
The hopes that Donald Trump’s multiple legal problems would seriously damage his election bid are fading.
The long-running hush money trial hasn’t dented his support in opinion polls. Most legal experts are predicting an acquittal or a hung jury. Even if convicted, it’s uncertain that there would be much negative impact.
As his luck would have it, trials on three other more serious sets of charges are all now likely to be put off until after the Nov. 5 election day.
This would be great.
Inconvenient truth from Lisa Raitt about what a Trump victory would mean for the $50B in taxpayer funded EV plants @lraitt
“If Donald Trump gets elected, he has stated very clearly what he is going to do with respect to electric vehicles”And Trudeau’s big bet, blown! pic.twitter.com/oaG8lnxkj3
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) May 22, 2024
The decidedly fixed New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s corrupt prosecution against Donald Trump has been caught out by summoning Michael Cohen, a seriously admitted lying key “witness,” to the stand.
The FBI was authorized to use “deadly force” against former President Donald Trump when the Biden administration agency raided Mar-a-Lago in search of classified documents, according to newly unsealed court documents shared on X by independent journalist Julie Kelly.
h/t Mauser
The wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind exceedingly fine.
If you’re like me, you may have been losing faith in the U.S. justice system, as it has been politicized, weaponized, and turned against Donald Trump and his supporters. But as time has passed, the cavalcade of bogus cases against the past and future president has been disintegrating like comets passing into the Earth’s atmosphere. Let’s begin with the most recent meltdown.
Under another day of withering cross-examination on Monday, former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen admitted that he stole $60,000 from the Trump Organization.
Between February and December 2017, Cohen was paid $35,000 per month by the former president.
Judge Aileen Cannon is “disappointed” in Special Counsel Jack Smith, a development that does not bode well for the prosecutor’s hopes to put President Trump on trial for mishandling America’s secrets at Mar-a-Lago.
The reprimand came in a weekend order from Judge Cannon disposing of a range of matters relating to requests for redactions submitted by Messrs. Trump and Smith. The special counsel has, she explains, asserted a “need for continued secrecy over the subject material” found at the Palm Beach manse.
The only discernible crime in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s lawfare case against former President Donald Trump is that the star witness, convicted liar Michael Cohen, admitted Monday on the stand that he stole from the Trump Organization because he was “angry.”
The prosecution’s ‘star witness’ Michael Cohen is back on the stand for a third day, as the court waits with bated breath to find out whether former President Donald Trump could testify himself.
He finally admitted under oath that he stole $60,000 from the Trump Organization by ‘grossing up’ payments for tax. Donald Trump was seen shaking his head as his former ‘fixer’ made the revelation, confirming he’s a common thief.
Cohen also dramatically revealed that he dealt with an apparent photo ‘extortion’ blackmail attempt involving the ex-president’s daughter, Tiffany.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s flimsy case against former President Donald Trump rests on the testimony of its star witness, convicted liar Michael Cohen. But unsurprisingly, Cohen — and his allegations against Trump — fell apart on the witness stand under cross-examination by Trump’s defense team on Thursday.
Even CNN couldn’t help but admit it.
