In a real trial with a real judge, the attorney for the government would not dare pull a stunt like James’s post right as the lead defendant is about to take the witness stand. This, to the contrary, is a show trial in which elected Democrat James’s elected Democrat sidekick, Judge Arthur Engoron, pronounced Trump guilty before the trial began. The two-to-three month farce that has ensued is simply about how much Engoron is going to let (or, better, help) James run up the score — i.e., the “disgorgement” penalty that could spike to more than a quarter-billion dollars by the time all is said and done . . . in a “fraud” case where there are no fraud victims.Remember, James’s case is the scraps that federal and state prosecutors decided not to indict because nobody was harmed by Trump’s inflation of asset values — particularly under circumstances where (a) Trump’s statements of financial condition contain a disclaimer essentially warning that they should not be relied upon, and (b) at issue are high-end transactions involving sophisticated financial actors (e.g., banks and insurance companies) that do their own due-diligence before transacting.
I think it was Jonathan Turley who said all these cases are Soviet show trials, except for maybe the documents case. Even in that case, the DOJ will need to explain how Trump's document storage at Mar-A-Lago - surrounded by the Secret Service - is somehow worse than Biden's classified documents strewn all over the Eastern seaboard.
2 comments:
1. Every objection above is just stupid. Have some dignity.
2. Let’s play a game, and pretend that Dementia Joe was the one indicted, and that it was Dementia Joe had said the following under oath instead of Donald Trump. Then we can speculate how you would have commented about it.
NY prosecuting attorney: Were you involved in the preparation of the 2021 statement?
Donald Trump: No. I hadn’t seen it. I was so busy in the White House. My threshold was China, Russia, and keeping our country safe.
NY attorney: The question was actually about this property value. Just for the record, you weren’t President in 2021?
Donald Trump: No, I wasn’t.
The party of fiscal restraint and personal responsibility:
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis said Monday he is “talking to members” about establishing new state law publicly funding the legal defense of presidential candidates from Florida if they are subject of “politically motivated lawsuits.”
It could be named the “Defending Freedom Fighters Fund,” Patronis said.
Fantastic! Once this great idea takes root, Florida taxpayers will be funding sanctuary cities AND Donald Trump's crimes and delay tactics.
And don't call it sucking up to Trump, because the law is wide in scope. It applies to all "presidential candidates from Florida if they are subject of politically motivated lawsuits."
It's like a reverse bill of attainder!
Post a Comment