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How many catastrophic yet entertaining courtroom fails can one team of prosecutors suffer before the judge calls a halt to this goat rodeo? It’s time to dismiss this case against Donald Trump after Friday’s testimony. But don’t get your hopes up. The bulldogger of this rodeo is the judge.
Now, before we get to the testimony of Hope Hicks, who just removed–yet again—the prosecution’s foundation for a conspiracy they allege but didn’t charge, let’s appreciate what we’ve got so far (roughly in order):
- Misdemeanor bookkeeping charges announced
- A DA hinting that federal election laws were broken to steal the 2016 election, though this was not charged
- Motions by team Trump to dismiss, forestall, change venue, and keep out prejudicial evidence are denied
- The Republican presidential nominee defendant gagged to silence him from talking about participants and the judge’s Democrat activist daughter making money on the trial
- An unstated felony to which 34 misdemeanors are attached to make them felonies
- Allowing in salacious evidence that doesn’t pertain to stealing an election
- Speedily selecting jurors
- Announcing after the trial started the unstated felony is a state conspiracy and election violation charge, though no conspiracy is charged
That’s how we started. How’s it going? A guilty verdict is likely foreordained by Judge Juan Merchan, who’s all-in on the prosecutors’ Jenga legal theory of this case and is allowing in witnesses—David Pecker of the National Enquirer, former Trump campaign communications director Hope Hicks and others—to help, as Andy McCarthy puts it, “tell a story to the jury.”
The story is that Trump paid his former attorney, Michael Cohen, legal fees in 2017 to steal the 2016 election. However, the judge allowed prosecutors to call witnesses to create in the minds of jurors an uncharged conspiracy. Only in the minds of D.A. Alvin Bragg and the judge can a local lawman bring a federal case. But here we are. The New York bar is mum…
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