Wednesday, April 5, 2023
CURRENT EVENTS / TRUMP / INDICTMENT
Big day on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Former President Donald J. Trump was indicted for fraudulent business records. Except there was no fraud. The bizarre thing, is the indictment is proof that there was no fraud. Trump's lawyer at the time these fraudulent business practices are said to have occurred, sent him multiple invoices to cover legal expenses. So Trump's accountant cut multiple checks to pay the invoices. This is known as paying "legal fees". There is no rule or law, anywhere on planet earth, that states that a business must include a detailed account of what the legal services were for in detail. So how is it fraud for a lawyer to submit an invoice, and an accountant then pays the invoice? If this is 'fraud" then every single business on the planet will need to be brought up on charges.
This case is not just weak, it's literally non-existent. Stating that the perfectly normal payment of legal invoices is a crime is absolutely ludicrous. Which is probably why NO LAWS WERE LISTED IN THE INDICTMENT that Trump allegedly violated! You can't even make this stuff up!
Here is what John Hinderaker at the Powerline blog had to say:
You can read Alvin Bragg’s indictment of Donald Trump and a supporting statement of facts here. The indictment is what we expected. It all has to do with paying $130,000 to Stormy Daniels for a non-disclosure agreement, which was legal. The payment was made by “Lawyer A,” Michael Cohen. Trump reimbursed Cohen using Trump’s own money, which was legal. The “34 counts” arise out of the fact that by agreement, Cohen got reimbursed by sending monthly invoices to Trump or his revocable trust. So for each monthly bill from Cohen, we get three counts of falsifying documents: one for the invoice, one for the ledger entry, and one for the check stub. Pathetic.
The indictment alleges that all of this was done “with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof,” but it never says what that other crime was. The second crime is mandatory because without it, falsifying a business record under New York law is a misdemeanor on which the statute of limitation has run. Presumably the second crime is alleged to be a campaign finance violation. But the payment to Daniels did not violate the campaign finance laws.
So Alvin Bragg is trying to say, without saying it, that the payments were in violation of campaign finance laws, but Trump's never been charged for that, and for good reason, there's no case for it. So what we basically have are a series of perfectly normal legal billings being paid, but it's a crime because the DA hates Trump. Not gonna happen.
This is truly a very sad day in American history. According to the polling data I've seen, an over-whelming number of Americans are seeing this for what it is: a political witch hunt.
But here's the thing, there will be no repercussions for any of this nonsense. It won't hurt the Democrats in the least. So why not do it? There's literally nothing for them to lose.
