Thursday, April 06, 2023

Seven Things You Don’t Know About the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Case

Seven Things You Don’t Know About the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Case - By Adam Mill
  • If these trumped up charges were being used to disable a candidate in, say, Egypt or Russia, the U.S. State Department would condemn these tactics.
"...Over and over again, the indictment claims Trump, “with the intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise.” 
  • But it fails to identify 1) the false statement, 2) why the statement was supposedly false, 3) the person or entity Trump supposedly intended to defraud, and 4) what crime Trump supposedly tried to cover up. These are nice-to-know details.
...The legacy media have overlooked a long list of weaknesses in the legal case against Trump.
Let’s walk through a few key points the get-Trump media and their cult won’t consider.
  • ...4) How does the Manhattan D.A. get around the two-year statute of limitations?
Nobody disputes the fact that the New York law criminalizing falsification of business records is a misdemeanor with a two-year statute of limitations
The only way, therefore, to drag this 2016 incident into a 2023 courtroom is to recharacterize it as a felony...

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