Sunday, April 28, 2024

Rube Goldberg lawfare

This article from Jonathan Turley does an excellent job explaining the sheer absurdity of the New York legal case against Trump: "On Alvin Bragg and the art of not taking the law too seriously." 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Jonathan Turley concurs with the "banana republic" misfire because he's a few bananas short of a bunch.

Turley said Trump should have taken the stand and testified in the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial. Lionel Hutz wouldn't give that advice.

Turley says that Trump pressuring Georgia officials to "find" enough votes to flip the election result is weak evidence... and he also thinks that Trump wasn't asking for a recount at all.

Turley thinks that the January 6 indictments are not credible. And that Trump can present a plausible defense by saying he only sought out enablers who told him what he wants to hear... which in Turleyworld is analogous to Biden forgiving student debt.

Turley says that the Mar-a-Lago classified documents trial is now "more complicated" because of Joe Biden and Mike Pence.

That's right: in the mind of Turley, Mike Pence calling the FBI on himself to examine his own few documents is of identical weight to Trump shuttling documents away from investigators. And Pence's misdeeds are of more legitimate legal concern than Trump's extended plot and attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. And Alvin Bragg is the lawless actor here, not Donald Trump. One could draw a Rube Goldberg cartoon depicting Turley's farcically convoluted reasoning.

Though it is a refreshing change of pace to see Turley praising the Department of Justice's prosecutorial judgment.

Just like it was nice to see you citing and agreeing with the New York Times.