underlying crime? We really don’t know. The prosecution has never said. They have been defensively silent on that.
In a most recent update on the trial, Andrew McCarthy concisely explained the lawlessness inherent in Bragg’s prosecution (with links to previous columns that support each point). Under New York’s state constitution, the felony statute invoked gives insufficient notice of what it is criminalizing. The indictment fails to explain what laws Trump is alleged to have broken.
It is a disgusting middle finger given to justice and fairness. OF COURSE the anti-Trump jury will find him guilty (of what?). And OF COURSE the verdict will be overturned on appeal.
Sure, but the whole point of this dog-and-pony show certainly isn’t to make things “stick.” It is to interfere with the election in November! This was a jerk move.
That is clear to even the dullest among us…