November 7, 2024
"Merchan doesn’t have the stomach to imprison a former president or president-elect. Now that Trump has won, his criminal problems go away."
Said former prosecutor Neama Rahmani, quoted in "Judge in Trump’s ‘hush money’ trial considers tossing felony conviction after election win" (NY Post).
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Our esteemed hostess is a law professor emerita. Can she explain to us bumpkins the crime(s) of which Donald Trump was convicted?
I try not to be vindictive, but everyone involved in that sham trial (excepting jurors) should feel pain.
Bragg, Merchan, et. al. need to not be forgotten. They must be remembered as villains.
""Merchan doesn’t have the stomach to imprison a former president or president-elect."
Said without evidence.
Well his daughter already got her boodle as a Democrat consultant. So with the family till topped up, why go ahead and further sully your family name.
Plausible apologetics belies liars" ulterior motives. The witch hunt became politically inconvenient, a burden when the political rug was pulled. Abort.
Trump should wear any further persecution by this judge as a badge of honor, a war wound. And remember Pres Ford when the nyt printed “Ford to NY, drop dead.”
It presents an interesting question in how he could walk away from it. Some piece of evidence suddenly becomes inadmissible?
I say it is 50/50 whether Merchan tries to sentence Trump to prison. Of course, trying to do so will expedite the federal courts' entrance into this case which will be overturned for being utterly corrupt beginning to end.
Now, if Merchan has an IQ above 100, he will dismiss the case himself so that he can control the narrative for the why of it.
And what? Did Hochchul hire Beelzebub as her press agent? She is tripple distilled hate.
Alvin better leave the country along with Jack Smith.
There’s nothing wrong with correcting a bad decision - even if it’s for reasons you don’t agree with.
He'll dismiss it. The balance of power has totally shifted. When he considers all the possibilities now, he'll conclude it's...not a good idea.
"Let's let bygones be bygones, eh?"
I must politely disagree. Trump should have the book thrown at him by this judge, to cement this stain upon the judicial system in our national history. Ford pardoned Nixon before a criminal conviction to heal the nation's wounds, and all that got us was 50 years of lawfare by Dems. Let this judge sentence Trump to jailtime, immediately. The it would be up to dementia Joe's handlers to pardon Trump, or the appeals courts to toss this garbage case asap, or we'd have a popular, newly elected President kept from his transition duties very publicly by a kangaroo court judge. I say let the judge continue being an ass, braying publicly as loud as he can.
The judge knows the verdict and the entire trial was bullshit. Their plan to lock Trump up before the election didn't work. If the charges, crimes, and convictions were real, why throw them out if the law applies to everyone?
Biden can't pardon Trump. This is a state conviction, not a federal one.
I think there's a good chance that the jury instructions will found to have been incorrectly written. They were specifically written to bring about convictions rather than follow the actual law.
The Trial was a fraud. Merchan is a fraud.
Oh, right, Biden can't pardon Trump. Hochul, you're up!
He’s refused to take any off ramp up to this point so I’m skeptical he would now. I also doubt he cares that the case will be tossed. More likely he considers it his resistance duty to go down swinging. In any event, continuing the case would insure his place in the cool kids country club hall of fame. And that’s all he really cares about
My, what a big pile you've got, there. See you in Federal Court, with my bright, shiny, new DOJ.
I think she already told us she couldn’t. In her usual way.
Dismissal adds to the heap of evidence it was always about politics, not the law...
yupper...
No. The jurors were complicit too.
As if we needed it, but this should be immortalized together with Jack's folly and the documents case as the shining, inevitable proof that all of these cases were 100% political, beginning, middle, and end.
I really want to see that smug prick Engoron get disbarred. Letitia James, too.
Hochthulhu.
He should vacate the verdict because it was based on inadmissible evidence, starting with evidence of immune presidential conduct. He also allowed the jury to be non-unanimous in determining whatever underlying crime Trump was supposed to be hiding by writing "legal" on the subject line of checks to his lawyer. Also, he excluded testimony from Trump's expert witness that there were no FEC violations while allowing Stormy Daniels to opine on a number of irrelevant topics.
Sort like the trial
Didn't a state appellate court take up this appeal? I saw some scathing questions to the prosecution. IMHO, the appellate court strikes this down HARD with punishments to prosecutors and the judge so they can say they took care of it.
He was convicted of falsifying business documents in order to disguise a series of hush money payments to Stormy Daniels to keep her from disclosing Trump's actions as a John. C'mon, you guys all know this. Stop pretending. (I'm wonder if Trump didn't want Daniels to spill it to keep the fact of the encounter hidden from his wife or because he was concerned the world would learn of the possibly unflattering (to him) particulars of the encounter she might disclose.)
a LOT of things (and people) have Just Disappeared!
Did God Rapture Some 15 Million Democrat Voters? If Not, Where'd They Go?
The Trump DOJ is going to come knowicking on his and his daughters door and bank accounts...
Look what happened to Kim Gardner in St Louis after what she did to Eric Greitens.
If Merchan is intelligent as he is corrupt, he would immediately flee the USA to Iran where the Ayatolla would glady make use of his judicial ethics in their show trials.
As noted, the power dynamics have shifted, by the results of the election. Trump is no longer the former President or Presidential candidate, but President Elect. That means USSS protection above everyone else than the serving President. They can’t jail him without a sufficiently large and well armed Secret Service detail. Besides, he hasn’t yet exhausted his appeals. Can they hold him pending the appeal? Unlikely. Is he likely to flee the country? After his campaign, decidedly not. He wants to be President again. Badly. And earned it the hard way.
Then after the inauguration, he has plenty of levers to push. Want to use the FBI Crime Lab? Sure, but they have a two year backlog. Plenty of other ways to pressure the city and state with loss of federal help. Possibly a trade with the governor of federal assistance or funds, in exchange for a pardon. Best done for all around if it is implied. Etc.
And, yes, the conviction will be overturned on appeal. If nothing else, it’s was a fairly blatant Due Process violation. So, why might the judge sit on his hands for awhile? Because some Dems are planning on trying to keep Congress from confirming his win in the Electoral College, using that he is a convicted felon as their justification. I don’t think that they have the votes, esp if the House votes by state, instead of by representation.
I'm wonder if Trump didn't want Daniels to spill it to keep the fact of the encounter hidden from his wife
so, Even the Esteemed Constitutional Law scholar Robert (The MAN) Cook thinks that it WAS NOT a felony.. Thanx for your input Professor Cook!
The smart thing would be to grant a new trial and then the State of NY would dismiss. Too many reversible errors to list here.
He was convicted of mischaracterizing the NDA payment that was funneled through his lawyer's office as legal fees rather than as the epitome of human evil.
A payment to a lawyer was listed as “legal expenses.” Oh deary me!
After reading the transcript of Sunny Daniels’s testimony I think (1) there never was a sexual encounter between her and Trump, and (2) whether there was or wasn’t, it’s a slam dunk that she was guilty of extortion.
I'd bet he'll blame SCOTUS. Their ruling could mean that some of the evidence at trial should have been excluded. I'd also bet he won't specify which evidence, and will strongly hint that SCOTUS's ruling was outrageous and wrong and he hates having to let this felonious scofflaw go unpunished -- no one is above the law, and all that.
I predict the conviction will be upheld and the sentence will be a large fine, which Trump will never pay.
My guess is that they were fraudulent in 2020. Harris’ total votes were not that out of line with those that could be projected from Crooked Hillary’s and Obama’s totals. Then, we got a big, >10 million vote bump in 2020, that disappeared in 2024. I think that the difference was that the Republicans were watching things closely around the country, and esp in the swing states. The Dems going into polling places wearing official looking badges? In court within hours, and a court order that they stay 100 yards from the polling locations. We saw a lot of this sort of thing the last days of the campaign. The Republicans had a lot of observers on the ground, and lawyers ready to go to court, or even wake judges up in the middle of the night.
Sorry. But if the state wins in the NY appeal courts, it then goes into the federal courts, for US Constitutional violations - at a minimum, 5th Amdt Due Process violations (though Begley has a long list of violations). In the end, if everything else fails, the Republicans have a 6-3 advantage in SCOTUS.
MY guess is that the reason that the judge hasn’t sentenced Trump is that he knows that he will be slaughtered on appeal.
Cookie: Did you forget the part about the underlying felony already?
Democrat bigwigs are giving Merchan an earful. There's a new Sheriff in town. Their lawfare gambit failed. Those convictions will go away by appeal. Merchan probably retires sooner.
PS: Glad to see you back, Cookie. Still looking for Inga, though.
"He was convicted of falsifying business documents in order to disguise a series of hush money payments to Stormy Daniels to keep her from disclosing Trump's actions as a John. C'mon, you guys all know this"
So like Gary Hart, whom the Federal Government also declined to prosecute, and he paid off the bimbo with campaign contributions?
Or like Hillary Clinton, who reported the expenses involved in faking up the dossier as legal expenses. She was fined for this, she was actually legally guilty, and the purpose of it was to steal the election from Trump. When is she going to be prosecuted?
Imagine if this family were Republican Trump supporters, instead of Democrats making bank off of Daddy Judge's malicious prosecution of Trump
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dem-clients-of-daughter-of-ny-judge-in-trump-hush-money-trial-raised-93m-off-the-case/ar-BB1kNRmm
Didn't the appelaste court throw it out?
Merchan is going to give Trump a suspended sentence.
Anyone with an IQ above room temperature knows that the conviction will be overturned upon appeal, but Merchan is hoping that Trump will let it go if the sentence is suspended.
The court is taking it's sweet time issuing an opinion. Loaded with Democrats, they still questioned the validity of the case. Indicating that at least they were thinking of actual law.
A lot of people are gonna be looking over their shoulder for the rest of their lives,
Merchen is a biased leftwing freak. I"ll believe he "doesn't have the guts" when he frees TRump.
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