En splittergal statsanklager i New York ville angiveligt arrestere Donald Trump, for at have overtrådt, nogle regler om valgkampsbidrag, i forbindelse med en pengeoverførsel til den tidligere pornofilskuespiller Stormy Daniels (et kunstnernavn). Daniels havde påstået, som en del af et marketingfremstød for hendes selvbiografi, at hun havde haft et seksuelt forhold til Trump ti år forinden. Trumps, der var midt i en valgkamp og et ægteskab, ville selvfølgelig forhindre, at den historie dominerede nyhedsstrømmen.

Ideen om at Trump har gjort noget ulovligt, var altid idiotisk og proportionerne understregede de vanvivittige samtidige beskyldninger imod Trump, om at han var både krigsgal og ville indlede en atomkrig samtidig med, at han var i lommen på Ruslands Putin, der hav svindlet med valget. Dengang for 6 år siden eksisterede der ikke et ord som ‘valgkampsbenægter’.

Jonathan Turley giver en neddæmpet afvisning af systemets seneste bizzare forsøg på at stoppe truslen imod deres hegemoni.

Bragg is attempting something that many lawyers think is as improbable as the reanimation of the dead. 

The Justice Department itself declined this prosecution and both the former chair of the Federal Election Commission and various election law experts have thrown shade on the theory.

Not only did Bragg’s predecessor, Cyrus Vance, not bring this case, but Bragg himself stopped the prosecution.

It was after one of Bragg’s lead prosecutors resigned and wrote a book on prosecuting Trump that pressure became too much for the district attorney, who grabbed his shovel and went to work.

There are serious challenges to this prosecution, including an argument that time has expired under the statute of limitations.

The limit is two years for a misdemeanor and, even if he can convert this into a felony, it is not clear if he can meet the longer five-year limitation.

Bragg will have to convince a court that Trump paid the hush money for the sole purpose of the election.

As a married man and television celebrity, Trump had other reasons to try to avoid a scandal.

That is precisely why such cases (like one against former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards) failed in prior prosecutions.

However, the greater danger may come if he succeeds in moving this case to trial. 

Locals in New York will be thrilled, but will the rest of the country join the pitch-folk carrying mob?

This is a patently political prosecution.

Viva Barnes giver deres besyv med her, Marc Dice her og Dan Bingino giver sin indsigt her.