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AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION, AMATEUR DISTRICT ATTORNEY WITH TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME ...

... CREATES SHAM INDICTMENT THAT NEGLECTS
TO MENTION THE SPECIFIC LAW PRESIDENT
TRUMP IS ALLEGED TO HAVE VIOLATED.

As Michele Bachman tells Mark Steyn, the United States has turned into the Groucho Marx dictatorship of Freedonia in the classic Marx Bros movie DUCK SOUP. https://t.co/YjiWKBt7Lm

— David Carlton (@DavidRCarlton) April 4, 2023

There's a curious omission in the Donald Trump indictment and statement of facts –

The specific federal law Trump violated. pic.twitter.com/bsM32x4jhn

— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) April 4, 2023

Alvin Bragg, sometimes called “Fat Alvin”, built his case off of copying and pasting the same charge 34 times around “concealing another crime” in order to make it a felony but didn’t include the crime being covered up in the indictment because “the law does not so require” pic.twitter.com/6AOvqRkYv2

— ALX (@alx) April 4, 2023

Underwhelming is almost generous. Amateur hour from Bragg, who is only doing this to get a gold star from his base for at least trying. Amazing how many legal analysts — including those not fans of Trump — who say this case is beyond weak. https://t.co/sOvatdaPfW

— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) April 4, 2023

GWU Law Professor Jonathan Turley: "There’s no there there…you would think if you are going to indict a president, you would rise to that moment of history and tell people with precision what it is that you want to convict him of." pic.twitter.com/EFYoGboRaY

— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) April 4, 2023

NY law stipulates one can only be guilty of a falsifying business records felony "when his intent to defraud includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof."

Who did Trump allegedly defraud? No answer from Bragg!https://t.co/5oB04SIUO1

— Tiana Lowe (@TianaTheFirst) April 4, 2023

Bragg indicted a former president for the first time ever.

The former president is running for office again.

Bragg refused to include the legal basis for the felony in the unprecedented indictment.

He bragged at his press conference he didn’t have to.

Are you kidding us???

— Mike Davis (@mrddmia) April 4, 2023

Bragg’s spent his entire tenure on this indictment & it’s total amateur hour. Pick a paralegal at random & they could assemble something more professional https://t.co/p9PKFuE7MV

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) April 4, 2023

After reading DA Bragg’s indictment of Trump and accompanying statement of facts, I’m stunned any prosecutor would move forward with this. It’s even flimsier than we were led to believe. Thirty-four stacked counts, bootstrapped to an unstated crime, to manufacture felony charges.

— Justin Amash (@justinamash) April 4, 2023

Alvin Bragg has shut down the entire city, called up 38,000 NYPD police officers, closed down the FDR Drive and is spending an estimated $200 million of city funds, all for a $130,000 NDA. I never thought I would see this level of corruption in the United States.

— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) April 4, 2023

Even John Bolton recognizes that this is a bogus case. Bolton just said he is "extraordinarily distressed" by the indictment and it is "even weaker than I feared it would be and I think it's easily subject to being dismissed or a quick acquittal for Trump." pic.twitter.com/zPEAaCjAhR

— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) April 4, 2023

MSNBC legal expert (fmr deputy AG) admits D.A. Bragg’s claims were rejected by Merrick Garland bc they are “relatively trivial and insignificant.”
Then scrambles to convince panel Trump is nonetheless terrible. pic.twitter.com/I4CiAT5n8h

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) April 4, 2023

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See also:

Former Federal Prosecutor Andrew McCarthy Notes Trump Indictment Doesn’t Outline any Crime

Andrew McCarthy notes the same thing everyone else is noticing, the absence of a violation of a criminal statute. {Direct Rumble Link}

For the first time in United States history a former president has been accused of a crime and indicted, yet the person making the accusation and bringing the charge doesn’t say what crime has been committed. What criminal statute has been violated? Even the leftist media are apoplectic at the weakness of the indictment. WATCH.

The Trump Indictment Is Even More Silly Than Anyone Imagined….
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The indictment of Donald J. Trump IS HERE and the “statement of facts” IS HERE. The situation, as it is represented within the text, is even more laughable than we could have imagined. It is no wonder why the FEC, DOJ and Mueller Teams took a pass on the allegations. The entire legal construct collapses on its face.

In the statement of facts, District Attorney Alvin Bragg says Donald Trump intended to, “influence the 2016 presidential election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to suppress its publication and benefit the Defendant’s electoral prospects. In order to execute the unlawful scheme, the participants violated election laws and made and caused false entries in the business records of various entities in New York“… However, you will note one key element missing, the statute he supposedly violated.

What is this federal election law Bragg speaks of?

Every single one of the 34 stacked counts are contingent upon some federal violation of election law that the FEC and DOJ refused to pursue. Yet, nothing is cited.

The courts have already determined that campaign funds can be used to avoid potentially embarrassing personal information (John Edwards case). Using personal funds, or campaign funds to avoid potentially embarrassing information, is not a campaign finance violation.

But wait, it gets better…. or worse, if you dislike Trump.

Every single one of the 34 instances when business records were “falsified” to conceal payments to Trump legal counsel, Michael Cohen, happened between February 2017 and October 2017. Guess what President Trump was NOT doing within the Trump organization in 2017, running it!

When Donald J. Trump won the November 2016 presidential election, he subsequently divested from the Trump organization, handing over control to Eric Trump and the company officers and directors.

Throughout 2017, presumably when these false business records (they are not) were created, President Donald J. Trump was not directing any accounting, disbursements or business record keeping within the organization.

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