(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) In spite of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s effort to artificially beef-up his politically motivated case by charging President Donald Trump with 34 felony counts, experts noted that there was no legal basis for the desperate overreach.
What exactly could be the second crime they tried to conceal by Cohen paying hush money with his own funds to a porn star who now owes Trump thousands of dollars bc of losing lawsuits against him? If it's campaign finance, remember that the FEC refused to go after Trump for it.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 4, 2023
Trump walked away from the sham arraignment Tuesday with a public-relations knockout, and his legal team already has set about dismantling what many leading legal analysts called a dismal case that stood little chance of success.
One glaring shortcoming was the lack of an apparent underlying crime that Bragg had used to bootstrap already suspect misdemeanors charges for falsifying business records to bury alleged affairs in an attempt to illegally influence the 2016 election.
“I’ve reviewed the Trump indictment,” wrote Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. “There’s nothing there. Trump and the American people have been abused.”
The Trump indictment, which I read, would be laughable in any other circumstance. It’s the same offense copied and pasted 34 times, with the date changed each time. This is the biggest farce I’ve ever seen.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) April 4, 2023
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., flipped Bragg’s election interference claims on the embattled prosecutor.
“Alvin Bragg is attempting to interfere in our democratic process by invoking federal law to bring politicized charges against President Trump, admittedly using federal funds, while at the same time arguing that the peoples’ representatives in Congress lack jurisdiction to investigate this farce,” McCarthy wrote. “Not so. Bragg’s weaponization of the federal justice process will be held accountable by Congress.”
Trump Attorney Joseph Tacopino was asked if he was surprised by anything in the indictment.. His response..
"Yeah, I was surprised there weren't any facts in it.."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
— Matt Couch (@RealMattCouch) April 4, 2023
“The indictment is legally insufficient on its face,” wrote attorney Robert Barnes.
“New York state law does not make it a crime to influence an election,” Barnes added. “Federal law does not make it a crime either. Maybe that’s why no law is actually cited in the indictment. Nor are the facts sufficient.”
The indictment is legally insufficient on its face. New York state law does not make it a crime to influence an election. Federal law does not make it a crime either. Maybe that's why no law is actually cited in the indictment. Nor are the facts sufficient. #TrumpArraignment https://t.co/CbOj27v41v
— Robert Barnes (@barnes_law) April 4, 2023
Tacopina was so disdainful of Bragg’s weak sauce case that he had already announced on Monday his plans to file “a host of” motions to dismiss “based on selective prosecution and prosecutorial misconduct,” the Epoch Times reported.
The attorney also said once the indictment was reviewed, more motions were likely, including a venue change or statute of limitations considerations.
Trump also scored an added bonus from the high-profile drama that unfolded inside the Lower Manhattan courtroom and around the country, which he was quick to spin to his advantage.
This iconic image of a generation pic.twitter.com/JN8LPRVC8f
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 4, 2023
Officially Martyred. pic.twitter.com/TidVVnMMj7
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) April 4, 2023
Images of Trump waving to crowds of supporters before his court appearance, along with photos of Trump fans lining streets, have already become legend.
The stone-cold stare Trump delivered entering court was from a leader who could stand down a lunatic like Putin. Biden has only been able to mange a stare with that intensity after scoring a sugar rush from Jeni’s chocolate chip and seeing a dead congresswoman standing in the way of his next hair-sniff fix.
WATCH: Following his incredible speech tonight at Mar a Lago after spending the day in New York being unjustly arrested, President Trump walked through the crowd and shook hands with adoring supporters!
Trump has more energy than anyone I know. He’s a force of nature. #Trump2024 pic.twitter.com/7KLI4QzaCt
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) April 5, 2023
“The hearing was shocking to many in that they had no surprises,’ and therefore, no case,” Trump posted on Truth Social while he was en route to Mar-a-Lago after being arraigned. “Virtually every legal pundit has said that there is no case here. There was nothing done illegally!”
Conservative talkshow host Dan Bongino, a former NYPD officer and U.S. Secret Service agent, tweeted that “1% of me thought Alvin Bragg couldn’t be this dumb but I read the indictment & it was even worse than we thought.”
.@dbongino: 1% of me thought Alvin Bragg couldn’t be this dumb but I read the indictment & it was even worse than we thought. They made this whole thing up. If you blacked out Trump’s name, any legal professional would read it & say ‘What kind of a clown joker wrote this thing?’ pic.twitter.com/93O0XzdeiV
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) April 5, 2023
Bragg’s case was so demonstrably limp that even fake news regime collaborators were forced into conceding the obvious.
Almost consensus skepticism and disappointment about the strength of this indictment on CNN, including among highly "non-Trumpers."
— Jeff Greenfield (@greenfield64) April 4, 2023
On top of the disappointment that many on the Left felt from Bragg’s dubious case, they faced another setback in a separate defamation case involving Stormy Daniels, the porn star at the heart of the alleged hush-money case.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on Tuesday that Daniels would be required to pay Trump $122,000 in additional attorney fees for a failed defamation lawsuit.
BREAKING!!! the 9th Circuit just awarded Trump $121,962.56 in attorney fees from Stormy Daniels. Order just released. This in addition to the roughly $500k she already owes him.
LOL glad she’s out there saying her T-shirt sales are booming she’ll be able to afford to pay Trump!
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 4, 2023
“Congratulations to President Trump on this final attorney fee victory in his favor this morning,” tweeted Harmeet Dillon, one of his attorneys in the case. “Collectively, our firm obtained over $600,000 in attorney fee awards in his favor in the meritless litigation initiated by Stormy Daniels.”
Hey Dems – The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals just awarded Donald Trump $121,962.56 in attorneys fees from Stormy Daniels
Yes, a *California* appellate court just made Stormy pay Trump today
But good luck with your Stormy indictment in NY
I’m sure he’s “going down this time!”
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 4, 2023
