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BREAKING: Donald Trump Enters Plea on 34 Charges

After surrendering to be arrested at a courthouse in New York to face 34 charges handed up by a grand jury last Thursday, former President Donald Trump was processed and formally arraigned in the case being pursued by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

The felony charges — relating to alleged "hush money" payments made to two women during the 2016 presidential campaign — were read aloud as the 45th President of the United States sat with his legal team in the New York courtroom.

The full indictment had been under seal since the grand jury made its decision on Thursday and is expected to be made public later on Tuesday.

Trump entered a "not guilty" plea on all charges, as expected, but did not make any statement to reporters gathered in the courthouse after he was processed and before he entered the courtroom to be arraigned.

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BTW, the judge overseeing this case is a Biden donor.

So 34 misdemeanors bumped up to felony because they were in concert of concealing another crime. Yet THAT crime is not charged or even identified? Sounds like quite the stretch. Legal folks are suggesting the other crime is federal campaign stuff which DA has no authority to prosecute.

So if there isn’t a crime he has been convicted of, and they aren’t charging him one, how do they support the felony charges to conceal a crime that hasn’t been charged?

I don’t think they have much of a case, they are just trying to hobble DJT as the campaign for 2024 winds up. DA asked for Jan 2024 date, that says a lot.

I’d kinda like to see DJT’s legal team go Fast and Furious on it with “right to speedy trial”.

I just read the indictment and statement of facts, and as a lawyer, it seems pretty weak to me. They are basically charging him with a separate felony for each check he wrote to Michael Cohen. 34 charges for what is essentially the same conduct. That's not unusual, but the fact that is all they have to throw at him does not do much to bolster the image of the case as a strong one. It is a reach to go after a former president on charges such as these, which are essentially the exact same thing that Hillary did with the Perkins Coie law firm. It does little to dampen the idea that this is a purely political prosecution.

And much of the "evidence" in this case will be based on the testimony of Cohen, who pled guilty to making false statements to the feds.

It's NYC and the judge and the jury will be strongly biased against Trump, but this is really weak sauce. It's a huge disappointment to see the Democrats throw out all norms and precedents for this. Another step they will eventually regret.

Here you go. IANAL but it seems like he’s being charged 34 times for one thing.

https://www.manhattanda.org/wp...Trump-Indictment.pdf

https://www.manhattanda.org/wp...ald-J.-Trump-SOF.pdf

I read it a couple of times and while it's somewhat different dates, some are the same and it's all from the same general series of events just repeated over and over.

34 felony counts in 15 pages of documents is very thin, IMO.

It say the crimes occurred in the commission of another crime but it doesn't say what the crime actually is. Unless that underlying crime is adjudicated or there's a plea, there is no crime and the house of cards falls mightily.

Is Bragg alleging that he has some sort of inherent ability or authority to make out a federal case against Trump and that opens the door to these charges? He can't prosecute a federal crime and the feds have passed on it already.

This is really slim pleading by Bragg. After the libs get drunk with excitement tonight, once they sober up in the AM they'll see it's a case light on substance.

Trump will say that Cohen was his attorney and he followed Cohen's direction and counsel.

quote:

"I believe President Trump’s character and conduct make him unfit for office,” Romney said in a statement. “Even so..."

"Even so" nothing, ASSHOLE.

You'll never be POTUS, Romney, and you know it, don't you, you RINO ASSHOLE? Donald Trump punk'd you good, and you're never going to get over it, and everyone knows it.

Doesn't ol' Mitt boy have a horse hitched up to a post outside somewhere?? Because "...the horse he rode in on."

Head over to Rumble for the president's remarks

https://rumble.com/v2g5sqs-liv...ivers-remarks-a.html

Just saw a headline, Trump is heading back to Florida, Mar-A-Lago for an event.

The Australian media press have no clue, no interest, just simply make bold statements with no basis of facts.


Example: KIIS FM 101.1 @ 1105 AEST:
Radio news broadcaster states that (para-phrased) Trump has been arrested and charged, for "essentially cooking the books".

I've called the station to express my regret at their inappropriate and incorrect on air statements.

Their PR person apologised and said yes we made an incorrect statement; and as a result our lines lit up like a christmas tree, with people calling in, some with unsavoury comments about our reporter's comment ...

Lip service a**h0l3s.
Changed the channel to something else.
--chris

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President Trump, rock solid freedom loving American. 2024 Sir.

Watching the Biden f tard laughing at reporters this morning, when asked about what they are doing to the real President, Donald Trump. Laughing. Not even a attempt to answer the questions. I too will laugh when this old criminal bastard strokes out. I will knock the top off a Rolling Rock. Satan awaits you Biden. America hates you. Don't ever walk in the forest alone.

I watched some clips of the events yesterday, but the one that really stood out was during the press conference with Bragg.

A reporter mentioned the 34 misdemeanors that Bragg upgraded to felonies, because they supposedly were to cover up a larger crime. The reporter asked what the "larger crime" was, and Bragg said that it wasn't necessary to specify what the larger crime was.

W-T-F! They allowed this to go to court?

The average person couldn't explain what a grand jury is and what the definition of "indict" is. This is nothing more than a headline of "34 felony counts" that all the Trump haters will use to confirm their bias of hatred for the man.

To those who actually care about the law and its application, this is a serious abuse and it will not go unnoticed. According to "independents" they were ready to move on from Trump. Well there's plenty of "independents" who understand political prosecution and how wrong it is. Have you seen the polls? The donations to Trump due to this whole debacle? I'm not saying Trump will win the Presidency but this sure as hell helps him and I think the more they conjure up bullshit charges the more "the people" are going to back Trump to get rid of this corruption, if nothing else to make a statement.

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Originally posted by Ironbutt:
I watched some clips of the events yesterday, but the one that really stood out was during the press conference with Bragg.

A reporter mentioned the 34 misdemeanors that Bragg upgraded to felonies, because they supposedly were to cover up a larger crime. The reporter asked what the "larger crime" was, and Bragg said that it wasn't necessary to specify what the larger crime was.

W-T-F! They allowed this to go to court?

I feel like not only should they have to specify what crime he was covering up, but that they should have to convict him of that crime first.

This seems like charging a guy for felony possession of a firearm without convicting him of a felony first.

I can't believe how stupid to make him appear in person. Just as stupid as the entire thing. Election interference cubed.

Tucker Carlson posted this last night: "Think what you want about former President Trump and the reasons he's being indicted. But just imagine if this happened in any other country, where a government arrested the main opposition candidate. The United States ability to use "democracy" as foreign policy is gone." Nayib Bukele - Salvadoran President