No. of Recommendations: 11
bighairymike:
From the beginning, this trial and its timing was designed to inflict damage to Trump and to influence the 2024 election. Say what, now?
Let's look at some facts, shall we?
President Trump was "Individual 1" in the Stormy Daniels case but was protected against indictment by longstanding Justice Department policy preventing federal prosecutors from pursuing criminal charges against a sitting president. When Bill Barr was auditioning for the role of attorney general, he argued with Geoffrey Berman, the United States attorney in Manhattan, about the Michael Cohen indictment and conviction, looking for a way to stop any investigation of Trump's role as individual 1.
After he became attorney general, “Barr instructed Justice Department officials in Washington to draft a memo outlining legal arguments that could have raised questions about Mr. Cohen’s conviction and undercut similar prosecutions in the future.”
Prosecutors in New York resisted the effort. Berman was fired.
Trump filed motion after motion after motion to slow the trial and every motion was rejected by as many as 15 different appeals court judges.
No one has done more to try to slow the legal process in this case than Trump. Had he believed he was an innocent man, he could have had this trial over and done with long ago.
bighairyguy:
The prosecution dumps 200,000 pages of documents for the defense to review and the judge only grants 30 days to do so even though the defense requested 90 days to properly review. Why? To hit the target sweet spot for the trial perhaps.The US Attorney’s office did not possess those documents in January and March 2023 when the district attorney made the initial discovery request and only a small number of the records produced are new: the batch “contains only limited materials relevant to the subject matter of this case...fewer than an estimated 270 documents, most of which are inculpatory and corroborative of existing evidence.”
bighairymike:
The inevitable conviction will be overturned for one of a number of reasons...Thank you for that fact free opinion but you know what they say about opinions, right?
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