That DA Alvin Bragg’s case was a fishing expedition is not surprising, that his office and the New York Times are so cheerful about laying that out there isn’t too surprising either. Whatever principles or judgment once existed have largely gone by the wayside and their expected audience is only complaining that it took so long.
But yes, for the record, it was a fishing expedition.
What they were doing, new interviews show, was going back to square one, poring over the reams of evidence that had already been collected by his predecessor.
For a time, their efforts were haphazard as they examined a wide range of Mr. Trump’s business practices, including whether he had lied about his net worth, which was the focus of the investigation when Mr. Bragg had declined to seek an indictment. But by July, Mr. Bragg had decided to assign several additional prosecutors to pursue one particular strand that struck him as promising: a hush-money payment made on Mr. Trump’s behalf to a porn star during the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign.
This is classic, ‘show me the man and I’ll show you the crime’ stuff.
Or as another op-ed in the Times notes, “‘Attorney general and future justice Robert Jackson observed more than 80 years ago, “A prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone.’ He added, ‘It is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it; it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books or putting investigators to work to pin some offense on him.’”
That’s an apt summary of what’s being described here. This wasn’t an investigation of a crime, it was what it had always been, a free-ranging investigation of a political opponent in search of a crime.
The radical Dems are Liberal Bolsheviks and a parody of the former Soviet Union . What will they do next ? Read the history of the S U and find out !
Well, we already have political dissidents rotting away in gulags.
The NYC Soros DA stooge is doing the errand boy indictment job that even the Fed bureaucrats could not find the slightest merit in doing. Now we have the utterly absurd picture of a state’s local judiciary’s rabid dog looking to bite the leg of the leading POTUS candidate. There’s no place in the country where such an animal wouldn’t be reported to the animal control authorities.
In his ‘fishing expedition’ scenario, Greenfield describes Stalin’s secret police chief, Lavrenty Beria: ‘You show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.’ This from a mass murderer, assassin, serial rapist, torturer, and many other crimes. And their type now sit in judgement of Trump, no us.
What particularly pisses me off is that Trump is going to be fingerprinted and have a mug shot photo taken. He should never have agreed to any of this criminality.
I don’t think he actually committed any crimes. The hush payments are routine nuisance settlements and are not illegal. Congress has a fund, no doubt paid by taxpayers, that they use to buy silence. If Trump had consensual adult relationships there is no crime there and even the hush payments are not illegal. I think the case rests on Cohen, who even the Dems dismiss as a pathological liar..
I don’t believe he engaged in any criminality. The hush payments are routine and not illegal. I think the case rests on Cohen, who even the Dems see as a pathological liar.
I thought my first comment failed. Sorry for the repeat.
I Hope and PRAY that this whole Rotten thing will Blow Up in Their Faces!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Using the tactics of Stalin’s henchman Beria, will earn Bragg, Beria’s ultimate reward.
They’ve pretty much all been fishing expeditions. The original investigation was based on a dossier they knew was false when they applied for the FISA warrant. They knew they had no case so were mostly fishing for process crimes, undermine the presidency, keep Trump from removing them, build a false narrative, and keep “Russiagate” in the news cycle.. The deep state could leak lies (especially at politically opportune moments), the msm legal and intel ‘experts’ could erroneously insinuate and speculate, and the dem party could lie about Trump, and what they knew.
The same goes for the sham impeachments, and when they again found nothing, they impeached Trump anyway. Still waiting on that proof schiff said he had.
Without any evidence Lelita James publicly bragged that she was going to bring down the Trump presidency. With zero probable cause, she investigated every aspect of Trumps business and personal finances in New York. There had to be crooked judges involved for that to go on.
Alvin is a genuine pig inside and out.
Yes, he is truly a steaming pile of crap.
The “Democrats” are shooting themselves in the foot with this whole story. I didn’t think they could be that stupid. Moreover, they are only throwing oil on the fire, and it may happen that Americans will end up taking up arms to defend freedom in the country. The Democratic Party has become a party of fascists. They must be arrested and sent to a forced labor camp, at least they will be useful for something. They are a scourge to be fought without mercy.
I think Dems would love another excuse for Jan 6 style militarisation.
Do you care what they’ll like, dislike?
Are you a prisoner of them?
If this works for them, DiSantis is next. Somewhere, Alinsky is laughing.
“Alinsky is laughing”
I don’t think he’s laughing in hell, with his hero Lenin.
Alvin Bragg is the new Mike Nifong and he should end up the same way.
I doubt he is laughing, I know he is burning.
Alvin Bragg’s legal literacy would be described by Shakespeare as follows: Julius Trump is being back-front-and-side stabbed. He cries out, “Et tu, Braggus!” Braggus says, “Number tu and trying harder”
Election interference is a perfectly utilitarian decision and self explanatory.
There is little point to having power if it is unused.
This impunity may not last and wasting this opportunity would be intolerable.
Democracy’s defense requires Republicans be sent to prison for seeking office.
Why is it necessary to explain the obvious?
If ever were needed a demonstration of the impracticality of scruples and why they are to be avoided, this is it.
You dreamers better wake up, and grow up.
The Left owns the future. They’ve claimed dibs.