From Conservative Brief: “Trump Turning Manhattan Trial Into ‘Political Gold’

headline by  Jon Dougherty May 4, 2024

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Perhaps Donald should be called Donald “Midas” Trump for his amazing ability to turn his Trial in Manhatten into a political rally. the judge unconstitutionally removed the protection of his Right to Free Speech and told him to shut up even outside the courtroom but Trump has not only overcome the bias of the biased against Trump judge he has turned the trial into political gold.  “The Donald” is six points ahead of Biden amongst registered voters nationwide. It’s incredible how he sort of performed a judo move on Biden and these prosecutors by turning these attacks into favorable political ratings,” said John Loo, a scholar and University of California-Berkely law school professor at University of California-Berkely law school. The  professor continued:

“I think maybe part of his what we just saw, Biden has trouble giving a press conference and stringing cogent sentences together. I tell you, Neal, you sit in a courtroom for ten days in a row where you can’t say anything, and all you have to do is listen to people attack you,” Yoo added. “And then at the end of that day, you get up and give a pretty good press conference. They’re pretty good cogent statements not typed, you know, no transcript written out for you not practiced. And so you look at that contrast between him and Biden, and he comes out looking better.”

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Hope Hicks testimony was an “epic miscalculation that backfired spectacularly” on the prosecution, Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said in a piece for Fox News.

“The account by Hicks demolishes District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s primary claim against Trump that he paid porn star Stormy Daniels for her silence with the intent to benefit his campaign and, thereby, influence the election by ‘unlawful means.’  To the contrary, it nicely corroborates the findings of a federal investigation that no crimes were committed, or campaign finance laws broken because there was another purpose for the non-disclosure agreement that Daniels signed,” he said.

“Like the prosecution witnesses before her, Hicks disparaged Bragg’s planned star witness, Michael Cohen, Trump’s one-time personal lawyer.  ‘He used to like to call himself Mr. Fix-It, but it was only because he first broke it.’ Ouch!  But that denigrating remark is tame compared to the other derisive comments that have been leveled thus far at the insufferable Cohen, who is a convicted liar who went to prison,” he said.

“Hicks confirmed that Trump was aware that Cohen paid off Daniels to end what can fairly be described as aggressive blackmail demands. When the election drew near, Daniels ratcheted up her greedy scheme to profit from Trump by threatening to go public about a supposed affair, which he denied.  Not incidentally, she renounced the purported tryst. Then, in a head-spinning maneuver, she recanted her repudiation,” the analyst said.

It was something that her former attorney, Michael Avenatti, said on X, formerly Twitter, from his prison cell.

“Keith Davidson is lying,” he said on Thursday. “After I confronted her w/ her own text msgs, Daniels admitted to me in early 2019 that she & Davidson had extorted Trump in Oct. 2016 – it was a shakedown.”

“This was one of the many reasons I fired her as a client in Feb. 2019,” he said.

Davidson was the attorney for Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who secured confidentially agreements and payoffs for both of them.

Jarrett wondered where the crime was in the case, as confidentiality agreements are not against the law.

“The payments made were not illegal.  Non-disclosure contracts in exchange for silence are not unlawful. Killing negative stories violates no statutes.  More to the point, it is not a crime for Trump to know about a non-crime. That would be a senseless syllogism,” the legal analyst said.

“So, where exactly is the crime? To quote a memorable line from ‘Shakespeare In Love,’ ‘I don’t know…it’s a mystery!’” he said.

“There is, however, no mystery behind Alvin Bragg’s politically driven prosecution of Trump.  Out of thin air, the DA conjured up expired misdemeanors, dumped them into a Cuisinart, tossed in a garbage state statute that doesn’t apply to a federal election, hit the “puree” button, and then poured out an absurd concoction of faux felonies,” he said.

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