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EPISODE · Jun 8, 2024 · 40 MIN

420: Welcome to Venezuela -- The Trump conviction

from Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill · host Pigweed and Crowhill

Trump was recently convicted of 34 felony violations realted to falsifying business records in order to influence the 2016 election. We've now had our first political show trial where those in power go against their political opponents. Welcome to Venezuela. Democrats keep telling us to that Donald Trump will use the power of government to take revenge against his political enemies. But isn't that precisely what we're seeing right now? Biden has nothing to run on except lawfare against Trump, so he has weaponized the justice system against Donald Trump. We keep hearing about “election interference," but this is it. Here are some of the reasons this is all bogus. The prosecutor (Alvin Brag) was political, ran on a platform to get Trump, and revived goofy charges that had already been investigated and found empty. Judge Merchan was political. * He had financial conflicts of interest involving his daughter, who is raising money on this issue. * He donated money to anti-Trump political effort. * He imposed a gag order on Trump. * He excluded defense witnesses * He preferred the prosecution in motions. * He allowed the salacious testimony of Stormy Daniels (which is very similar to why the Weinstein convinction was overturned). * He gave very strange jury instructions This was a political jury. There was no crime specified. The entire prosecution was based on a new and novel legal theory. “The underlying crime is seemingly a minor misdemeanor – falsifying business records – which long ago expired under the statute of limitations. In order to turn it into a felony within the statute of limitations, prosecutors will have to show that Trump falsified the records in order to impact his election, thus constituting a federal election felony. …The problem is, however, that federal authorities have not prosecuted Trump for this federal election crime. Moreover, state prosecutors have no jurisdiction over federal election law. Finally, we were not even clear, when the trial began, as to precisely which federal election laws the District Attorney was relying on. ” –Dershowitz This case would never have been brought against anyone but Trump. This is selective prosecution and sounds suspiciously like "show me the person and I'll find the crime."

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