More bad news for the proprietors of non-stop Trump outrage. FEC Commissioner James ‘Trey” Trainos says, in regard to Alvin Bragg’s indictment, that there’s no there there.
In a 34-count indictment of Trump, the first criminal case ever against a former president, Bragg charged that a $130,000 payment made by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to porn star Stormy Daniels, which Cohen went to jail for in a plea deal, violated several campaign finance laws that splashed onto Trump.
But, said Trainor, the FEC and Justice Department already considered the case and tossed it.
We’ve already covered how there isn’t any actual crime outlined in the indictment, just activity that we’re meant to assume with result in a crime during litigation. Real banana republic stuff. You are guilty, and as soon as we get you in front of the right judge and jury, we’ll tell you why.
Trainor says,
- First, Cohen took the blame in his plea deal. “At the end of the day, there’s the person who committed the crime, and there’s the person who is behind bars because of it,” Trainor said of Cohen.
- Second, the paperwork violation in question came well after Trump’s 2016 election, so it couldn’t have been done to help his election.
- Third, it is not obvious that the reason for the payment and the reimbursement to Cohen was to influence the election, thus failing the “objective standard” of law.
That’s probably why Bragg doesn’t specify the laws that were broken. There are none. This is just another media show trial to besmirch public opinion about the single biggest threat to the Ruling class’s monopoly on power since JFK.
Side note to Mr. Trump. Avoid open cars in Dallas between now and November 2024. And maybe not just Dallas. They are out to get you, and you know that, but I don’t think, given the politicization of the CIA, FBI, Homeland, DHS, and the rest, that we can rely entirely on the protection services assigned to you.
They’ve tried everything else, and I can’t see murder as being a deal-breaker for them, especially if it triggers the level of militant unrest they’ve been pining for from any corner willing to take up arms.
