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Yup, just announced. All 34 counts.
Almost certainly not. A quick, very incomplete summary...
The prosecution presented zero actual evidence except the testimony of Michael Cohen, who is a serial liar and perjurer. They did not charge him with any of the predicate offenses that could have supposedly turned the misdemeanor bookkeeping offense into a felony, and did not even present evidence that he had committed any of them.
The judge, whose daughter is on the direct payroll of people in the Biden administration and other high ranking democrats like Adam Schiff, refused to recuse himself in defiance of New York State law saying that a judge with a personal interest within 6 degrees of separation of the case must do so. Among a litany of other obviously biased things he did, he gave instructions to the jury that they don't even need to agree on the underlying predicate offense (which, again, he was not charged with and had never been convicted of) to find him guilty of the bookkeeping misdemeanor with felony enhancement.
The defense was not allowed to present expert witnesses from the FEC that would say that he had not committed any campaign finance violation. A former federal prosecutor of 20 years who had briefly served as Cohen's lawyer and had a waiver of attorney client privilege was not allowed to testify that Cohen had told him that Donald Trump had done nothing wrong when the SDNY prosecutors were demanding that he flip on Trump
This is barely scratching the surface. There will be libraries written about all of the nonsense surrounding the case.
Even if he is 'guilty', the process has so little credibility that nobody should believe it.
And also, even if he is 'guilty,' it's a fucking process crime of not labeling something correctly when written in a fucking ledger. This is what they're sending a former president to jail for: writing something down wrong. Not starting a war based on lies. Not executing American citizens without due process. Not some sort of corruption or financial gain that would allow him to buy a gigantic mansion on Martha's Vineyard.
One of his employees wrote something down in a financial ledger that (the prosecution alleges) should have been labeled "hush money" instead of "legal services." That's why President Trump is guilty.
The government proving yet again it has long since been illegitimate.
Washington would have been stacking bodies by now.
Holey Moley, that's some passion.
I disagree. Nothing about this case will be in literature, except to say "WE GOT HIM!".
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” -Orwell
No way, complete kangaroo court.
Great, I’m not gonna enjoy dinner with the in laws after my mother in law drops the “did you see they finally are gonna lock Trump up?” Meanwhile an actual criminal who brought drugs into the White House is perfectly fine and definitely should be voted for again
Stalin would be so proud of his American comrades
No, the judge fixed the whole thing from the beginning. They kicked off one juror that had been selected when it became clear that he planned to do his job instead of convicting no matter what.
Some idiot NYT reporter let it slip that one of the jury members is a democrat, and the judge himself is some democrat guy.
Depends on what you mean. Did he break some fine point of campaign finance law? Could be, I'm not a lawyer. Did he do something 34 felonies worse than every other politician? Hell no, this was purely political and it couldn't be any more obvious.
No, not 34 different felonies. They took one instance of bookkeeping and charged him for every step in the bookkeeping process.
-Logged the bank transaction? That's a charge.
-Transferred the money from one G/L account to another? That's a charge.
-Funds logged into a bank account? That's a charge.
etc etc.