News contributor and legal expert Jonathan Turley said former President Donald Trump’s trial in Manhattan over allegedly falsifying business records has left him “in utter disbelief.” “What is clear, is in this case, Trump is right. I mean, this is an embarrassment. I mean, the fact that we are actually talking about this case being presented in a New York courtroom, leaves me in utter disbelief. I mean, the the arguments today did in fact capture all the problems here,” Turley said Monday afternoon on Fox News. "You had this misdemeanor under state law, that had run out, this is going back to relate it to the 2016 e******n. And they zapped it back into life by alleging that there was a campaign finance violation under the federal laws that doesn't exist," he said. Turley was reacting to the trial Monday, which has officially kicked off in earnest after jury se******n last week, as well as a recent poll finding 31% of Americans find Trump’s behavior at the crux of the case unethical, but not illegal. While an additional 14% said there was “nothing wrong” with Trump’s actions, and 35% who said his actions were “illegal.” “This case should not have been brought , and if it were brought, there was no reason to have this right before the e******n in my view. But this is becoming the split screen e******n,” Turley said. “Earlier it was pretty damaging to see the split screen between Trump in different courtrooms. This is even more effective when the other side of the screen shows Biden campaigning in key states like Pennsylvania, while he's held in this courtroom.” “It really brings home something that bothers a lot of Americans, including people don't particularly like Trump, that this is the weaponization of the criminal legal system. It's something we should all be able to condemn.” Court wrapped up around 12:30 on Monday, earlier than initially anticipated, after aTrump attorney Will Scharf slams Manhattan case as 'first of the Biden show trials’ An attorney for former President Donald Trump, Will Scharf, slammed the ongoing trial in Manhattan as the “first of the Biden show trials.” “I think this is the first of the Biden show trials playing out you in front of every American around the country. I think Americans see these prosecutions for what they are, which is politically motivated in an effort at e******n i**********e. I think President Trump's absolutely right," Scharf said Monday on Fox News. "I'd also say that I'm limited in what I can say about this subject because of the wildly unconstitutional, unilateral gag order that Judge Merchan placed against President Trump and his team that prevents us from raising some of the very real issues that have come to light in court papers. And that just infect this prosecution from its initiation through to the present day.” Trump is under a gag order that prevents him from speaking publicly about witnesses and family members of court officials. Presiding Judge Juan Merchan will hold a hearing on the prosecution's request that Trump be held in contempt for violating a gag order Tuesday morning. “I think it's a sad day for democracy to see e******ns playing out in courtrooms instead of at the b****t boxes where they belong," Scharf added. Monday marked the second week of Trump’s ongoing trial in Manhattan, where he is facing 34 charges of falsifying business records in the first degree. He has pleaded not guilty to all counts. The trial’s origins reach back to October of 2016, when Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen paid former pornographic actor Stormy Daniels $130,000 to allegedly quiet her claims of an alleged extramarital affair she had with the then-real estate tycoon in 2006. Trump has denied having an affair with Daniels. Prosecutors allege that the Trump Organization reimbursed Cohen, and fraudulently logged the payments as legal expenses. Scharf continued Monday in his comment to Fox News that evidence presented during the trial will show the business records were not fraudulent. “This is an indictment about business records fraud, purported business records fraud. And all the evidence is going to show that the business records in question, one, were not made by President Trump and, two, were not in any way shape or form fraudulent,” he said. “This is a show trial. President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong. And we firmly believe that the evidence is going to bear that out in court in the coming weeks."
Get Trump no matter what, find a crime. They are really stretching it on this one. Would not be a case if he had not ran again. It laid in silence for 8 + years . But somebody has got to stop Trump from winning again. If this gets pushed through and they jail him the civil war is gonna look like a pee wee football game in comparison. The blue collar backbone of America is fed up with corruption and lies. God Save us from these I***ts in charge.
This debacle just might turn into the "Great War of Southern Aggression!
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