Democrats are truly shameless in their efforts to “get Trump,” which was highlighted again on Monday as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against the presumptive Republican presidential nominee began.
It places in high relief on the two-tiered system of justice in the United States, given the conduct of the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential race, from which Braggs’ case against Donald Trump originates.
Clinton and the DNC faced no criminal prosecution, but only had to pay a modest $113,000 in fines for covering up at least $1 million they paid to Fusion GPS through the Perkins Coie law firm to fund the infamous, unverified Steele dossier.
That document helped launch the Russia investigation, followed by special counsel Robert Mueller’s 22 month probe into Donald Trump.
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Keep in mind the Clinton campaign was headquartered in Brooklyn, so there was certainly a nexus prosecutors could have used to charge her in New York, if the state is now in the business of going after alleged 2016 federal campaign finance violations.
Bragg’s office has accused Trump of making a $130,000 payment that election cycle through his personal attorney Michael Cohen to porn star Stormy Daniel as part of a nondisclosure agreement regarding an alleged sexual encounter they had in 2006.
Bragg said that the payment Cohen made was later reimbursed by the Trump Organization and that it exceeded the federal campaign contribution limit.
But the $130,000 didn’t go to, nor did the alleged reimbursement come from, Trump’s presidential campaign. Further Trump could have had other reasons he didn’t want Daniels’ allegation made public besides whatever impact it may have had on his candidacy.
Prior to Bragg’s indictment last spring, federal prosecutors and the Federal Election Commission had already reviewed the payments to Daniels and declined to charge Trump.
Bragg himself had as well until two of his prosecutors, Carey R. Dunne and Mark F. Pomerantz, resigned and then started a public pressure campaign to get the DA to change course, which he eventually did, George Washington Law School professor Jonathan Turley noted in a Sunday opinion piece for the New York Post.
And now the deck appears stacked against Trump.
Judge Juan Merchan — who contributed to President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign and whose daughter is a political consultant for a firm that has worked for Biden — instructed Donald Trump that he must be in court every day during his trial, which is expected to last six to eight weeks, with the election just months away, CBS News reported.
Additionally, the judge warned the former president, if he failed to attend the entire proceeding he would be subject to arrest.
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Multiple legal experts have described Bragg’s case as weak and clearly politically motivated.
It’s based on misdemeanor business record charges being bootstrapped into a felony for allegedly covering up other crimes.
Turley contrasted the case against Trump versus the clear violations the Clinton campaign and the DNC committed.
“John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman, was called before congressional investigators and denied categorically any contractual agreement with Fusion GPS [through Perkins Coie]. Sitting beside him was [Marc] Elias, who reportedly said nothing to correct the misleading information given to Congress,” Turley wrote.
Elias — the Clinton campaign’s top lawyer, employed by Perkins Coie at the time — retained Fusion GPS to conduct the research for the Steele dossier, The Washington Post reported.
Turley concluded, “Yet, there were no charges stemming from the hiding of the funding, though it was all part of the campaign budget.”
Hopefully, the American people will see right through the Democrats’ clearly nefarious efforts to wrongfully influence the outcome of another presidential election and make them pay dearly at the polls in November.
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