Another Court Gags Trump

[Dill]

(04-23-2024, 10:31 AM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: The worst part is, these charges should have been done much sooner. 

Trump was first indited in Mar 2023... Dam near 3 years after he was out of office and at conveniently the start of campaign time? 

Genuine or Political, I know you can't or won't admit it because TRUMP, but the timing is definitely questionable and Trump is going to play that up.

From what i see, only one might actually reach a verdict before he's elected, and the Stormy Daniels thing is really flakey. Buying stories isn't illegal in any way. We can question the method he did it with, but any good PR person is going to be doing just what they did, watching for negative stories and buying them before they can be printed. Celebrities/Rich People do this, and you'd do it to if you were getting alot of negative press and could afford it.

Two quick points: 

1. Trump is not charged with "buying stories." 

2. I can admit the "timing is questionable." We've been over the question of trial timing on another thread. 

Why didn't Trump Trial Start Years Earlier? Blame Bill Barr.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/didnt-trumps-trial-start-years-earlier-blame-bill-barr-rcna148036

Berman [the federal prosecutor overseeing southern NY]went so far as to claim that once Bill Barr became Trump’s attorney general, Barr “not only tried to kill the ongoing investigations, but — incredibly — suggested that Cohen’s conviction on campaign finance charges should be reversed.”

Berman’s office was told to “cease all investigative work” on the allegations until Barr and his team were satisfied that there was a legal basis to the campaign finance charges to which Cohen had already pleaded guilty. The prosecutor wondered at the time about whether the then-attorney general was trying to shield Trump from possible legal liabilities after he was out of office.

All of which is to say, Barr and his team directly intervened in an ongoing federal criminal investigation that implicated the then-president, who’d appointed Barr. As part of this intervention, Berman’s office was also directed to remove damaging references to Trump in court filings.

In case that weren’t enough, Trump’s Justice Department also directed Berman to investigate Democrats who’d committed no crimes. When the prosecutor resisted, Barr told the public that Berman had resigned. He hadn’t. Soon after, Trump fired him.  

But while the then-attorney general and his team interfered in a case that implicated their boss, it had the effect of delaying local prosecutors' investigation because they deferred to their federal counterparts....

The former president has the entire scandal backwards. He believes the real controversy is that the case wasn’t prosecuted sooner, when it reality, it would’ve been prosecuted sooner had partisans on his team not corrupted the process on his behalf