George Washington Law Professor Jonathan Turley took a sledgehammer to evidence Bragg presented thus far in court in an op-ed published by The Hill.
Turley called the case Bragg put on “truly insane.”
Turley started with Bragg’s opening witness, National Enquirer publisher David Pecker.
Pecker testified about his magazine paying Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal $150,000 for her story about an alleged affair with Trump.
“Bragg decided to start with a witness to discuss an affair that is not part of the indictment. David Pecker, former publisher of the National Enquirer tabloid, had supposedly been paid to kill a story of a Trump affair with a different woman, Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model,” Turley wrote.
But the payment to McDougal isn’t part of the indictment, so all Bragg did was waste time on a witness who testified about a story that Trump isn’t facing charges for.
Pecker also testified about the volatile nature of Bragg’s star witness – former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen – which only serves to undermine the testimony Cohen will deliver when the time comes.
The absurdity of Bragg’s case summed up
Eventually, Bragg is going to get to the point – which is that Trump identified payments to Michael Cohen as for legal services when they were allegedly to reimburse Cohen for the nondisclosure agreement (NDA) payment to Stormy Daniels.
But Cohen was Trump‘s lawyer at the time.
And Turley pointed out that Cohen will testify that Trump should go to jail for following Cohen’s legal advice on how to structure the NDA to Daniels.
“Pecker added that Bragg’s star witness, Michael Cohen, commonly exaggerated and often became loud and argumentative. Cohen will effectively ask the jury to send his former client to jail for following his own legal advice,” Turley added.
Turley also compared this case to Rube Goldberg, an inventor who designed a machine that took multiple convoluted steps to achieve a simple task.
“Bragg has created the perfect Rube Goldberg attraction. The artist himself explained his unlikely success by saying, ‘It just happened that the public happened to appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.’ In New York, that appreciation has moved from the satirical to the legal,” Turley wrote.
If the jury is acting out of any sense of fairness and a desire to see justice done, they will all vote to acquit Trump in short order.
But no one thinks that will happen because the jury is pulled from Manhattan, where both Bragg and Joe Biden got more than 80 percent of the vote.
The good news for Trump is that polls show the American people don’t view this case as serious as poll after poll show only a distinct minority of the public – likely all Trump haters to begin – think Trump did something illegal.
Darling Mary wrote:
George Washington Law Professor Jonathan Turley took a sledgehammer to evidence Bragg presented thus far in court in an op-ed published by The Hill.
Turley called the case Bragg put on “truly insane.”
Turley started with Bragg’s opening witness, National Enquirer publisher David Pecker.
Pecker testified about his magazine paying Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal $150,000 for her story about an alleged affair with Trump.
“Bragg decided to start with a witness to discuss an affair that is not part of the indictment. David Pecker, former publisher of the National Enquirer tabloid, had supposedly been paid to kill a story of a Trump affair with a different woman, Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model,” Turley wrote.
But the payment to McDougal isn’t part of the indictment, so all Bragg did was waste time on a witness who testified about a story that Trump isn’t facing charges for.
Pecker also testified about the volatile nature of Bragg’s star witness – former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen – which only serves to undermine the testimony Cohen will deliver when the time comes.
The absurdity of Bragg’s case summed up
Eventually, Bragg is going to get to the point – which is that Trump identified payments to Michael Cohen as for legal services when they were allegedly to reimburse Cohen for the nondisclosure agreement (NDA) payment to Stormy Daniels.
But Cohen was Trump‘s lawyer at the time.
And Turley pointed out that Cohen will testify that Trump should go to jail for following Cohen’s legal advice on how to structure the NDA to Daniels.
“Pecker added that Bragg’s star witness, Michael Cohen, commonly exaggerated and often became loud and argumentative. Cohen will effectively ask the jury to send his former client to jail for following his own legal advice,” Turley added.
Turley also compared this case to Rube Goldberg, an inventor who designed a machine that took multiple convoluted steps to achieve a simple task.
“Bragg has created the perfect Rube Goldberg attraction. The artist himself explained his unlikely success by saying, ‘It just happened that the public happened to appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.’ In New York, that appreciation has moved from the satirical to the legal,” Turley wrote.
If the jury is acting out of any sense of fairness and a desire to see justice done, they will all vote to acquit Trump in short order.
But no one thinks that will happen because the jury is pulled from Manhattan, where both Bragg and Joe Biden got more than 80 percent of the vote.
The good news for Trump is that polls show the American people don’t view this case as serious as poll after poll show only a distinct minority of the public – likely all Trump haters to begin – think Trump did something illegal.
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I've been following these proceedings. Lota sleazy innuendo but I have heard nothing that ties Trump to criminal wrongdoing.
JFlorio wrote:
I've been following these proceedings. Lota sleazy innuendo but I have heard nothing that ties Trump to criminal wrongdoing.
With a crooked judge and a biased jury it does not matter.
Liberty Tree wrote:
With a crooked judge and a biased jury it does not matter.
True. Democrats believe the end result justifies any means necessary.
JFlorio wrote:
True. Democrats believe the end result justifies any means necessary.
Of course, & he’ll probably be found guilty. Of course if sent to prison for a day or two, his ratings will go up.
The case seems to be falling apart in all areas of rule of Law!!!
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