News Flash: A Trump Conviction Doesn’t Hang on Michael Cohen, but it hangs on Did the former president “cause” the creation of false business records

[beagle9]

Silly ^ post.

Not a reason in the world for him to take the stand.

The nonsensical liberal refrain that it’s because he’s “scared” is also absolutely without substance.

Laughable libs.

They just wanted to try and see if they could somehow make a fool of the man or display him in a weakened state for their cult. They actually don't realize what they are dealing with, because they've built their case thinking that Trumps house is built out of twigs, and we know what happened in the story of the three little pigs. Trumps house is built out of bricks. They have huffed and puffed but can't blow Trumps house in.

 

[beagle9]

quote you may want to digest:

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office presented its case with testimony from 20 witnesses over 15 days. Cohen, 57, was a key witness — the only one to directly tie Trump to the alleged scheme to falsify business records.

The entire trial along with it's player's involved was a complete political scam. It's coming out.

 

[beagle9]

Anyone in Trump's orbit looks to be a liar and a thief. It's the Trump Family Crime Syndicate Show.

If only you dipsticks had the same on fire for justice when it comes to Joe Bidens alleged crime family. This lack there of actually proves that Biden has made criminal aiding and abetters out of you all. How many people do you people think that you are fooling ??? Until true justice returns, this country will have no justice. FACT !!

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Trump will never, ever be anything but a political gangster and criminal.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Trump will never, ever be anything but a political gangster and criminal.

The trolls have all showed up in this thread

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The trolls have all showed up in this thread

Indeed, to be a MAGA first mate requires to be a third rate troll.

 

[beagle9]

The trolls have all showed up in this thread

You included Trump troll..

 

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Opinion
Guest Essay
Jeffrey Toobin

"A Trump Conviction Doesn’t Hang on Michael Cohen"

Opinion | A Trump Conviction Doesn’t Hang on Michael Cohen

As provocative as the testimony has been, this case may turn on something a great deal more mundane.

www.nytimes.com

Toobin asks "Did the former president “cause” the creation of false business records?"

Trump supporters have been attacking Trump's former long time, personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, just as they have attacked Stormy Daniels and other prosecution witnesses -- even attacking the witnesses who are not hostile to Trump, who even showed a like or respect for the man. But as I've said before -- the case against Trump doesn't rise or fall on the testimony of Cohen alone ("We don’t have to rely on just Cohen’s word. We can believe Cohen because of the receipts, the tapes and the hard evidence.”)

Trump supporters have been attacking people for discussing the historical trial happening in real time. Attacking people for discussing a criminal trial without precedent in the history of the United States, as somehow being an unhealthy obsession with Trump. As if being focused on a former president being tried in criminal court should somehow not be upper most in discussions around the proverbial water coolers. How desperate, pathetic, and sad that is I'll leave up to others to decide.

I like what Toobin has laid out in his article. While I do not claim him as being the last word on this, his insights and opinions are well informed and well argued.




If the jury is told the in instructions what the case is really about? There will be no not guilty verdict, no hung jury. Only a well reasoned guilty verdict.


quotes from reporters inside the courthouse today:

Emil Bove, a defense lawyer, is suggesting that the prosecutors, in their proposed jury instructions, has shifted their theory of the case. It sounds like he’s talking about the state election law that underlies the felony business records charges against Trump. Justice Merchan doesn’t seem to agree, but in any case, he says, the prosecution’s proposal for jury instructions holds no weight at the moment. It is only a proposal.

“Just relax,” Merchan tells the defense lawyer, as he continues to argue. Nothing, he signals, has been determined yet.

Bove continues to argue. He can tell that the judge is frustrated, but it’s clear that Bove is, too. If he believes that the prosecution changed its theory of the case in these final weeks, it would help to explain why he’s irate. Merchan seems to understand that, as Bove continues to push for more testimony from their proposed expert witness on election law.

Trump folds his arms over his chest as Bove finishes his argument. He then starts whispering to his lawyer as Matthew Colangelo, a prosecutor, begins to address the court.

Matthew Colangelo, a prosecutor, stands up and fights back. He says that “there’s nothing new at all” about the theory to which the defense is objecting. In short: the charges against Trump are felonies because prosecutors have argued that he falsified business records to conceal another crime. They have signaled that other crime was seeking to promote his own election "by unlawful means," in violation of state election law. That introduces a third potential crime.

So, if you’re keeping score, that’s three potential crimes, all wrapped into each of the 34 felony charges of falsifying business records.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/20/nyregion/trump-trial-hush-money

Interesting day.

Yep.