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Nicole Gelinas

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Published May 19, 2024, 12:59 p.m. ET

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With the prosecution winding down in Donald Trump’s Manhattan case, we have to ask, in the immortal
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words of Peggy Lee: Is that all there is ?

become utterly apparent

It’s (if wasn’t already) that the key element of any prosecution is missing here:
namely, a crime .

Yes, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg developed a totally novel legal theory by which 34 misdemeanor counts of
business-records falsification, though past the statute of limitations, could be converted into felony
charges because they were — allegedly — in the service of covering up another crime.

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But Bragg’s team forgot to offer any evidence that the records were falsified.

Or to specify what that other crime might be , let alone to prove it.

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beloved by lefty media — with porn star Stormy Daniels somehow broke the law.

And the mysterious pseudocrime at the heart of the case is, even in the vague and misty contours we’ve
been permitted to glimpse, total nonsense.

Itdemands Bragg enforce federal election law he has no authority to prosecute — and relies on a totally
strained reading of that law to boot.

Bragg said Trump’s crimes could be a felony since they were used to cover up a different crime.
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Since the eyes of America were always going to be glued to the trial, you’d expect the prosecution to have
had some cache of damning and hitherto non-public evidence ready to unload against the former prez.

But what they actually had is . . . Michael Cohen .

Yes, the prosecution is utterly reliant on the testimony of a convicted felon and embittered ex-Trump
staffer who couldn’t be trusted to deliver a weather report .

Cohen’s own former attorney, Robert Costello, blew him up last week in front of Congress as having told
numerous lies under oath in the Bragg trial , which Costello also testified to during Trump’s grand
jury. (Actually, the first grand jury didn’t indict, so Bragg went to a second one.)

This was never a trial, in other words.

From the start, Bragg’s case was nothing more than a political witch hunt.

If the judge doesn’t toss the case as soon as the prosecution rests, we hope even the deep-blue NYC jury
will see that — because a victory here means you (or anyone else whose politics Bragg doesn’t like) could
be next .

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TrutHurts
4 hours ago
Here are some of the issues;
The statute of limitations for this type of crime is 5 years. The check was written in 2017,
case filed 2023, missing the statute of limitation cut off.
The check was written on Trump’s personal checkbook check from his personal account
his personal not business la...
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Huntley Brinckley
4 hours ago
Agreed but it would seem that politics has mutated the law and they make it up on the fly.
allow it to happen. That's the real threat to all of us.
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Paul Jones
3 hours ago
Add this to your quiver:
BIDEN/DOJ/SMITH/ BRAGG /WILLIS/JAMES have not provided We, the People, with
heir PREDICATE IAW our U.S. Constitution's 4th Amendment to bring Trump before a
jury much less a court trial!

Our United States Constitution is present in ALL grand jury actions.

ALL grand jury...

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Mitchell
4 hours ago
Sorry, but if Stormy says that the Trump people mis-coded the money on their books, you must

Just because she has no way of knowing, means nothing.

This is a Republican running for President.
In NYC, you do what you can to stop him.
Especially when it becomes obvious that he is going to ...
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TiffanyBlue
4 hours ago
She wrote at least two letters saying it never happened. Then she started making money
it in the fake media and started her lies.

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B G
4 hours ago
Sorry "Mitch" this ain't Zhongnanhai..
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COMMONSENSE
3 hours ago
" victory here means you (or anyone else whose politics Bragg doesn’t like) could be next ."
his phrase from the article is the most chilling aspect of what is happening to President
While the phrase refers only to Bragg, it could, and should, be expanded to include the
cabal of radic...
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