Oh wait, a large percentage of the US population actually IS in jail.
No. It isn't.
> That's not a crime
Also not what he did.
> Now I can see how they can find some stuff in there to make SOMETHING stick
So you called it a weak case. Despite not seeing the 34 charges and severely misunderstanding the basic facts of the situation?
Maybe its not a weak case and you just do not know about it?
Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen paid 130,000 dollars to a pornstar to hush about sex she had with Trump in 2006 while Melania was pregnant. He did this weeks before the election. This can be considered campaign financing violation, similar to what Clinton did with the Steele Dossier. Despite this, he lied about it, and a number of other charges were discovered. So he pleaded guilty and got a 6 year ruling.
During this trial he admitted Trump told him to pay that money, this opened the investigation into Trump's involvement. The first discovery was that Trump had paid Cohen with money from his business to give him back the 130,000$. That is misclassification of business files to commit a crime, which is a felony, the investigation fo said felony opened up a ton of documentation into Trump's finances and business. The DA got access to Trumps taxes in 2020, and after over 2 years of investigation are now presenting 34 charges, all of which the jury found substancial evidence to indict.
What started it, a misdemeanor of paying off someone to not make you look bad right before an election, opened up the investigation into the entire trove of potentially illegal business fillings. Some of which appear to be felonies.
Lets see when the case is unsealead if it's so weak, but it is not looking good.
Edit: I guess I DID misunderstand something here. Thanks for the clarification. Let's see how it goes, and if they found some real meat.
So having a strong legal case is not enough for you?
> These are all technicalities
How do you know, the case is sealed. Like you keep arguing against something you cannot possibly have any knowledge of.
Like one of the crimes can be multi million dollar tax evasion from Trump org. Or killing a dog with a dog with a shovvel. Who knows what the 34 charges are. All that is known is that the investigation started on the payment to Stormy Daniels.
> many people will not think that any real crime has been committed.
12 people have already agreed they have seen enough evidence to warrant an indictment. who cares about any number of people who have not seen the evidence?
> Furthermore, things you present here as facts still need to be proven in a court
The things I presented as facts, ARE facts. All those events have been either sworn under oath, or are so easily factual as to not need any verification (like the dates or ammounts of the payments).
What has since been uncovered, in the 3 year investigation we do not know as it is sealed. All we know is a jury saw the evidence and saw enough to convince them to indict.
> which might be another technicality that evens out the other technicalities.
Going from manslaughter to murder is based on the technicality that you planned it and meant it. It being a technicality doesn't make the crime not stick. What kind of silly defense is this?
Yes legal charges are based on technicalities, depending on the ones you did you are charged for a crime or another.
Oh, that's not what he's being charged with? They don't typically charge high profile cases on a whim for things that aren't a crime? Nevertheless. What's up with the U.S. justice system? No, like what's UP with it!? Haha. What are the basics, and what's an attorney? Why do they wear those suits? If THAT were a crime, we'd ALL be in jail, haha.
Oh wait, what point AM I trying to make?
