What? No indictment yet? Maybe, Alvin Bragg thinking that he might end up being the one indicted after President Donald Trump. Trump gets exonerated upon appeal to a higher court. Bragg gets indicted for abuse of power and gets impeached then, disbarred and his law license yanked as it should be!
Let's face the reality. The NY case is the weakest of the top 3 criminal legal situations facing Trump. The other two being the Mar-a-Logo classified documents and the Georgia election subversion -- where grand jury proceedings are also underway. Also the penalties for the NY charges involve shorter possible sentences than the other investigations (Mar-a-Lago and Georgia). At most Trump in NY would get is a sentence similar to Michael Cohen (3 years). IMO it may be very possible that other prosecutors have contacted the NY prosecutor (Bragg) and convinced him to allow their cases to indict first -- leading to Bragg slowing down the process. Of course, Bragg is being aided by the Trump legal team who keep adding additional last minute witnesses to delay the NY indictment process.
Not really. The defense has no right to add witnesses or even appear at a grand jury trial unless specifically requested by the grand jury. They requested the appearance of a trump related witness/attorney which led to further requests. But the trump team has no rights whatsoever there to either appear or present. What the grand jury gets is what they request. That part about coordinating with other cases to delay or to help others get a conviction has already been discussed in a couple other posts I made. Everyone gets that the script now calls for everyone to chant the mantra that the other cases are worse for Trump, etc. now that NY has gone flaccid and Bragg wants to sideline it under the guise of working with others prosecutors. That is not true. The truth is he cannot deliver. This is a kill he wanted for his credit. Also, the notion that all the other cases against trump are much easier is also a crock. Those cases are plenty difficult -either for legal or political reasons. The mara-a-largo case is ugly to prosecute and doubly so with Biden's history of negligent document handling. And the Georgia case may very well start out with dismissal of the grand jury indictments because the jury forewoman went on national TV and basically acknowledged that she operated with the goal of finding something on Trump. Not pretty. And not easy for the prosecution. Ditto for the January six stuff. I am not going to try the cases here point by point but the notion but the prosecution has its work cut out for it. Just as NY did. Now that NY has flopped, everyone is saying "oh that was a flawed case to begin with."
Trump is being kept out of jail so he take down DeSantis then throw the presidential bid to Biden. This has to be the funniest shit ever in politics.
A grand jury in New York has voted to indict Donald Trump over his role in a hush money payment to a porn star, according to four people. He is the first former president to face criminal charges. Thursday, March 30, 2023 5:30 PM ET https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/03/30/nyregion/trump-indictment-news A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Donald J. Trump on Thursday for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, according to five people with knowledge of the matter, a historic development that will shake up the 2024 presidential race and forever mark him as the nation’s first former president to face criminal charges. An indictment will likely be announced in the coming days. By then, prosecutors working for the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, will have asked Mr. Trump to surrender and to face arraignment on charges that remain unknown for now. Mr. Trump has for decades avoided criminal charges despite persistent scrutiny and repeated investigations, creating an aura of legal invincibility that the vote to indict now threatens to puncture. His actions surrounding his 2020 electoral defeat are now the focus of a separate federal investigation, and a Georgia prosecutor is in the final stages of an investigation into Mr. Trump’s attempts to reverse the election results in that state. But unlike the investigations that arose from his time in the White House, this case is built around a tawdry episode that predates Mr. Trump’s presidency. The reality star turned presidential candidate who shocked the political establishment by winning the White House now faces a reckoning for a hush money payment that buried a sex scandal in the final days of the 2016 campaign. Mr. Trump has consistently denied all wrongdoing and attacked Mr. Bragg, a Democrat, accusing him of leading a politically motivated prosecution. He has also denied any affair with the porn star, Stormy Daniels, who had been looking to sell her story of a tryst with Mr. Trump during the campaign. Here’s what else you need to know: Mr. Bragg and his lawyers will likely attempt to negotiate Mr. Trump’s surrender. If he agrees, it will raise the prospect of a former president, with the Secret Service in tow, being photographed and fingerprinted in the bowels of a New York State courthouse. The prosecution’s star witness is Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former fixer who paid the $130,000 to keep Ms. Daniels quiet. Mr. Cohen has said that Mr. Trump directed him to buy Ms. Daniels’s silence, and that Mr. Trump and his family business, the Trump Organization, helped cover the whole thing up. The company’s internal records falsely identified the reimbursements as legal expenses, which helped conceal the purpose of the payments. Although the specific charges remain unknown, Mr. Bragg’s prosecutors have zeroed in on that hush money payment and the false records created by Mr. Trump’s company. A conviction is not a sure thing: An attempt to combine a charge relating to the false records with an election violation relating to the payment to Ms. Daniels would be based on a legal theory that has yet to be evaluated by judges, raising the possibility that a court could throw out or limit the charges. The vote to indict, the product of a nearly five-year investigation, kicks off a new and volatile phase in Mr. Trump’s post-presidential life as he makes a third run for the White House. And it could throw the race for the Republican nomination — which he leads in most polls — into uncharted territory. Mr. Bragg is the first prosecutor to lead an indictment of Mr. Trump. He is now likely to become a national figure enduring a harsh political spotlight.
Unknown Charges… The unprecedented case against Trump will have wide-ranging implications. A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Donald J. Trump on Thursday for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, according to five people with knowledge of the matter, a historic development that will shake up the 2024 presidential race and forever mark him as the nation’s first former president to face criminal charges. An indictment will likely be announced in the coming days. By then, prosecutors working for the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, will have asked Mr. Trump to surrender and to face arraignment on charges that remain unknown for now. Mr. Trump has for decades avoided criminal charges despite persistent scrutiny and repeated investigations, creating an aura of legal invincibility that the vote to indict now threatens to puncture. His actions surrounding his 2020 electoral defeat are now the focus of a separate federal investigation, and a Georgia prosecutor is in the final stages of an investigation into Mr. Trump’s attempts to reverse the election results in that state. But unlike the investigations that arose from his time in the White House, this case is built around a tawdry episode that predates Mr. Trump’s presidency. The reality star turned presidential candidate who shocked the political establishment by winning the White House now faces a reckoning for a hush money payment that buried a sex scandal in the final days of the 2016 campaign. On Thursday, the three lead prosecutors on the Trump investigation walked into the building where the grand jury was sitting in the minutes before the panel was scheduled to meet at 2 p.m. One of them carried a copy of the penal law — with Post-it notes visible — which was likely used to read the criminal statutes to the grand jurors before they voted. About three hours later, the prosecutors walked into the court clerk’s office through a back door to begin the process of filing the indictment. Mr. Trump has consistently denied all wrongdoing and attacked Mr. Bragg, a Democrat, accusing him of leading a politically motivated prosecution. He has also denied any affair with the porn star, Stormy Daniels, who had been looking to sell her story of a tryst with Mr. Trump during the campaign. Here’s what else you need to know: Mr. Bragg and his lawyers will likely attempt to negotiate Mr. Trump’s surrender. If he agrees, it will raise the prospect of a former president, with the Secret Service in tow, being photographed and fingerprinted in the bowels of a New York State courthouse. The prosecution’s star witness is Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former fixer who paid the $130,000 to keep Ms. Daniels quiet. Mr. Cohen has said that Mr. Trump directed him to buy Ms. Daniels’s silence, and that Mr. Trump and his family business, the Trump Organization, helped cover the whole thing up. The company’s internal records falsely identified the reimbursements as legal expenses, which helped conceal the purpose of the payments. Although the specific charges remain unknown, Mr. Bragg’s prosecutors have zeroed in on that hush money payment and the false records created by Mr. Trump’s company. A conviction is not a sure thing: An attempt to combine a charge relating to the false records with an election violation relating to the payment to Ms. Daniels would be based on a legal theory that has yet to be evaluated by judges, raising the possibility that a court could throw out or limit the charges. The vote to indict, the product of a nearly five-year investigation, kicks off a new and volatile phase in Mr. Trump’s post-presidential life as he makes a third run for the White House. And it could throw the race for the Republican nomination — which he leads in most polls — into uncharted territory. Mr. Bragg is the first prosecutor to lead an indictment of Mr. Trump. He is now likely to become a national figure enduring a harsh political spotlight.