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A Manhattan Canned Hunt: The Trump Jury is Out But is the Case in the Bag?

Below is my column in The Hill on the ongoing deliberations in the Trump trial. The instructions in the case raised concerns that the deliberations could become a legal version of a canned hunt, where the prey is trapped in a cage or fenced in areas to be dispatched. Elements of the instructions are disturbing in reducing what is required to convict the former president.

Here is the column:

Today the jury began its deliberations in the trial of former president Donald Trump. Before jurors left, however, Judge Juan Merchan framed their deliberations in a way that seemed less like a jury deliberation than a canned hunt.

For many of us, the Trump trial has seemed otherworldly, a vaguely familiar proceeding where common elements of a trial seem to have been flipped.

Even before the jury instructions, the trial was controversial for both liberal and conservative commentators. At the start of closing arguments, most honest observers were still wondering what the prosecutors were alleging as to the crime that Trump was allegedly concealing with the falsification of business records.

Then came the closing arguments. Around the country, it is standard for the government to go first with a closing to allow the defense to respond. The government is then given the privilege of a rebuttal after the defense rests. In New York, the defense must go first, giving the government free rein over its closing with no risk of contradiction from the defense. With the exception of objections, any abusive or improper arguments are left to the judge to address.

In the case of Judge Merchan, that protection was all but absent as the prosecution engaged in flagrant violations from offering testimony on unestablished facts to directly contradicting prior instructions. In one of the most egregious moments, Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass told the jury that it is an established fact that former Trump counsel Michael Cohen committed a federal election law violation on the direct orders of Donald Trump. Merchan had repeatedly said that Cohen’s earlier plea could not be used to imply the guilt of Trump. Merchan overruled an objection and Steinglass proceeded, as he did earlier in trial, to repeat the false statement.

Merchan did nothing as Steinglass told the jury that Hope Hicks cried in court because she knew that she had destroyed Trump’s defense (Hicks has never explained why she cried). Merchan did nothing as Steinglass falsely told the jury that the media and political campaigns do not do what Trump did in seeking to kill and plant stories. (This ignored, for example, that the Clinton campaign did precisely that repeatedly in the very same election, including with the false Russian collusion allegations).

It was only when Steinglass repeatedly instructed the jury on the law that Merchan finally sustained objections, at the end of his closing arguments.

So going into the deliberations, the court allowed the jury to be told repeatedly that there were federal campaign violations committed by Trump. That is not true. Putting aside that the federal government found no basis to impose a civil fine, let alone bring a criminal charge, the court barred a legal expert who could have shown that no such violation occurred. The jury does not know that. Instead, the judge allowed them to be repeatedly told a false fact that could make it difficult for anyone to acquit.

However, the instructions then went in for the kill and turned the jury deliberations into a canned hunt.

Consider just a few highlights from the curious aspects of these deliberations.

First, the judge has ruled that the jury does not have to agree on what actually occurred in the case. Merchan ruled that the government had vaguely referenced three possible crimes that constitute the “unlawful means” used to influence the election: a federal election violation, the falsification of business records, and a tax violation. The jurors were told that they could split on what occurred, with four jurors accepting each of the three possible crimes in a 4-4-4 split. The court would still consider that a unanimous verdict so long as they agree that it was in furtherance of some crime.

Second, the judge said that he would instruct the jury on the law but then omitted the key elements that established there was no federal campaign violation. Indeed, the blocked legal expert, Brad Smith, the former chair of the Federal Election Commission, was going to testify that this could not have been a federal election violation. Moreover, even if Trump’s legal settlement money could be viewed as a federal campaign contribution, it could not have been part of a conspiracy to influence the election since any reporting of a contribution would have had to occur after the election.

Third, not only can the jury disagree as to what occurred, but one of the three crimes is so circular as to produce vertigo in the jury room. The prosecutors zapped a dead misdemeanor back into life by claiming a violation under New York’s election law 17-152. The argument is that the crime was committed to further another crime as an unlawful means to influence the election. However, that other crime can be the falsification of business records. So the jury (or some jurors, at least) could find that some documents were falsified as an unlawful means of falsifying other documents.

Finally, Merchan is allowing conviction based on a  “general intent” to defraud “any person or entity,” a dangerously vague concept in this novel criminal case. Merchan has largely stuck to the standard jury instructions but this case is anything but standard. With an ambiguous claim of “influencing” an election, a general intent instruction without better definition to this case can be an invitation for bias.

Given the instructions and the errors in this trial, it would seem that an acquittal is almost beyond the realm of possibility. That leaves either a hung jury or a conviction. However, the framing of this case and failure to protect the rights of the defendant have undermined the perceived legitimacy of the proceedings and any possible verdict.

With Trump in a tight cage, Merchan just left it for the jury to deliver the coup de grace. We will see. I remain hopeful that a couple jurors will balk at this manufactured criminal theory. Canned hunts are great for trophies, not so much for trials.

Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.

579 thoughts on “A Manhattan Canned Hunt: The Trump Jury is Out But is the Case in the Bag?”

  1. Disgusting. Our modern dems are disgusting, our blue cities are disgusting, this judge is disgusting. Today is likely the saddest day in our country’s history since JFK was shot. DISGUSTING.

    1. Repos are so fond of telling people that talk like you to leave the country if you hate it so much, will you take your own advice?

    2. Apparently you dislike the rule of law.

      Trump was found guilty by a unanimous jury, based on the evidence presented at trial. Larry Hogan (Republican former governor of MD): “I urge all Americans to respect the verdict and the legal process. At this dangerously divided moment in our history, all leaders—regardless of party—must not pour fuel on the fire with more toxic partisanship. We must reaffirm what has made this nation great: the rule of law.”

      1. No, these Marxist Democrats crossed the Rubicon. We MUST pour fuel on this fire. No one should respect this verdict.

        1. Few Democrats are Marxists, and there’s no reason to assume that the jury was comprised solely of Democrats, much less Marxists.

          Everyone who believes in the rule of law should respect the verdict.

          And it’s unwise to pour fuel on a fire. Are you looking to get yourself burned? Trying to commit arson?

          1. The Democrat Party of today is the party of radical anti-American leftists, Marxists and Communists.
            They HATE America, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Free Speech, all of it.
            They seek only: POWER BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. Rule of Law be damned.
            Biden is done. The Democrat Party is finished. They went too far.
            THEY will soon reap the whirlwind.

            1. The state of New York will pay the price as well. Capital flight. No one in their right mind would choose to do business in New York now. It’s too risky.

          2. In fact, let’s use Chuckie Schumer’s own words as a template for the whirlwind Democrats just released on the country: “I want to tell you Garland and Biden. I want to tell you Bragg, Colangelo, Merchan, James, Engoron, Willis, Smith, Weismann, et al. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you now that you chose to go forward with these awful, Republic-ending decisions.”

  2. “I FEAR ALL WE HAVE DONE IS TO AWAKEN A SLEEPING GIANT AND FILL HIM WITH A TERRIBLE RESOLVE.”

    – ADMIRAL ISOROKU YAMAMOTO

    1. That is very true.
      The silent majority will still stay silent but will vote for Trump.
      Biden is the worst POTUS in the History of the US.

  3. Trump’s next rally will FILL Madison Square Garden. Guaranteed.

      1. Trump rally Bronx = estimated 20,000
        Trump rally Wildwood New Jersey = between 80,000 and 100,000
        Total seats MSG = 18,000

    1. If you break the law you go to jail. Trump has been found guilty of a crime. He’s experiencing what ordinary criminals like him do every day. He shouldn’t have committed a crime.

      1. What crime? An NDA is legal. It was legally billed as a legal expense. The prosecution rested without saying what the second crime was, other than a vague reference to election law. Judge Merchan disallowed the defense witness who would have told the jury no election laws were broken.

        My God. If an NDA is a crime, Joe Biden and all of Congress would be in prison.

        Stalinesque.

        1. The crime was falsifying business records. After all this time, why don’t you know that?

          1. Falsifying business records is a misdemeanor, with a statute of limitation long passed. In order to try this case, the DA claimed that the misdemeanor rose to a felony, with a different statute of limitations, because it was perpetrated to commit a second felony.

            That second felony was not specified, other than vague references to election law.

            The prosecution rested without specifying that second felony. That is why the judge instructed the jury that they didn’t need to agree what second crime was committed, just that any second crime occurred.

            It would be like trying someone for murder, but telling the jury they could find the defendant guilty as long as they all agreed some crime was committed, from negligent homicide, manslaughter, to premeditated murder. That’s not how the justice system works.

            In addition, the original claim of falsifying business records was incorrect. NDAs are legal, and properly referenced as legal expenses.

            I’m surprised how many people don’t understand why the falsification of business records was a fabricated crime, that the statute of limitations was passed, or that the second crime was never specified.

    2. Except, Honey, Democrats beat Trump in 2016, 2020 and all the elections in between. Trump found a way around losing the popular vote in 2016, and tried to cheat again in 2020 but it didn’t work.

      1. Bless your heart. Republicans win the 2016 presidential election. Are you an election denier? According to Democrats, that’s treason. Are you an insurrectionist election denier?

        1. Karen S: Trump CHEATED in 2016 with the help of Russian hackers who spread lies about Hillary Clinton. She WON the popular vote anyway. The lie campaign against her was orchestrated by Trump’s campaign–turn enough votes in certain districts in key swing states to win the Electoral College–they fed this information to Russian hackers, and it worked. Trump KNEW he couldn’t beat her any other way, and that massive ego craved the power and prestige of the presidency, so he cheated. Read the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committe Report that confirms these facts. According to any reasonable person, what Trump did is CHEATING. And, Republicans lost in 2017, 2018. 2019, 2020 and 2021. They’ll lose again in 2024.

    3. He did what he was indicted for. What he did was illegal, and a jury found him guilty. You just don’t like it.

      1. I refer you to Jonathan Turley’s blog posts analyzing how this case should never have been brought.

        It will be overturned on appeal.

        This was abuse of power and election interference.

  6. The Democrat Party is a threat to Democracy. When they can’t win a fair election, they cheat.

    In order to win all future elections forever, they allowed in over 10 million illegal immigrants, which will affect the apportionment of House seats. Either amnesty, or illegal aliens having children here in the US, will be an insurmountable source of Democrat votes.

    Throwing open the borders was another way Democrats cheat. They just imported a massive wave of future Democrat voters.

    They brought false charges, with no stated specific crime, against Joe Biden’s political opponent, ahead in the polls.

    1. Except it was Trump that tried to cheat, not demos. Your words are contrary to facts on the record

      1. NDAs are legal. It wasn’t cheating.

        Cheating was the Biden campaign colluding with activists in positions of authority to bury the Hunter Biden laptop story, that outlined his corruption, as well as cover up his cognitive decline.

        Cheating is lawfare to target political opponents to interfere in the election.

  7. Now, at the end, America revisits the beginning:  1860, when “Crazy Abe” broke the Constitution and imposed tyranny.

    “Crazy Abe” Lincoln took a bite of the apple. 

    “Crazy Abe” chose evil.

    His successors-cum-progressives-cum-socialists-cum-communists took it from there.  

    “Crazy Abe” chose tyranny and dictatorship over the Constitution and the law (reprehensible slavery must have been abrogated legally).  

    Secession was fully constitutional, and immigration law was the Naturalization Act of 1802. 

    Now America stands at the Nexus of Evil, its Constitution and Bill of Rights gone with the wind. 

    1. You might be confused. It was the South that started a war to preserve slavery. That is evil.

      1. Broken record Sammy. Think of it like EV’s. Here comes the Fed telling every farmer in the South they will no longer have a work force they owned, even as wrong as it was. Additionally, agricultural goods were taxed while industrial goods were not. States Rights is where the fight was, slavery was well on its way out. Slavery is still alive, it just wears a different face, look at the rotting inner cities and the people providing the dope.

      2. You might be confused.

        The Confederate States of America (CSA), having constitutionally seceded, was a sovereign foreign nation (please cite the Constitution for any prohibition of secession).

        “Crazy Abe,” hoping, precisely, to start a war, deployed military forces on CSA soil and refused to withdraw those adversarial forces.

        1. The Articles of Confederation explicitly stated that they were perpetual. The US Constitution contained no such statement (still does not have it), and for a reason: the supporters of the new Constitution worried that they might have trouble getting nine states to ratify. (The Constitution required ratification by nine states before the Constitution would go into effect). And in fact the supporters of the Constitution had difficulty getting the nine states to ratify.

          And even after they got the nine states, Virginia and New York, major states that had not yet ratified, only eventually ratified because both of them added to the ratification that they eventually passed reservations. One of their reservations was that they both reserved the right to secede. Under treaty law, when other states accept a treaty and additional states accept it only with reservations, then, if the earlier signers accept the additional states’ ratification with reservations, that means that they all accept the reservations, so that those reservations become part of the treaty for all signers.

          A couple of years later, when Rhode Island, the 13th state to ratify, also attached the same reservation of a right to secede, surely that made it all the clearer that all states had a right to secede. Surely Virginia, which mentioned its reservation in its ordinance of secession in 1861, had that right.

      3. “Sammy”, it is reassuring to know that you monitor this forum so diligently, upvote your comment and have a long list of email addresses to populate your various sock puppet names, e.g. new George, Wally, etc. Which VPN do you find safeguards your anonymity online? Now that we know there is no justice in the country, VPN accounts will come in very handy.

        thanks in advance!

        Concerned Citizen

      4. To reiterate:

        Secession was fully constitutional, and immigration law was the Naturalization Act of 1802, the immigration law of the Founders, passed four times and persisting for 73 years.

  8. I am furious. No more attempts at bipartisan compromise should be taken. The Left has reverted to its KKK roots of antisemitism, as well as its attacks on black people who don’t vote how they’re told.

    At this point, the moderate Democrats need to face facts that their party is antisemitic, totalitarian, and Stalinesque, and switch to the Republican or Libertarian Party. They need to distance themselves from the modern Nazi Party of the Left. After all, the Nazis were the National Socialist German Workers Party. Much of Nazi propaganda, including the condemnation of Jews, is indistinguishable with modern Democrats.

    Moderate Democrats, stop complaining about the Democrat Party and its illiberal policies, yet continue to vote Democrat. Vote responsibly. Vote Republican or Libertarian.

  9. Whether you’re a fan of Trump or not…
    At this point… the only option is to vote for Trump.
    Else we face the end of our Democracy.

    Note that while the Dims continue to claim Trump will want to end Democracy… its really Biden and the Dims that want a single party system. Theirs.

    Everything that they accuse Trump of… Biden has actually done it or will do it.

    So voting Trump in… allows us to get back to sanity.

    This travesty of justice just forced us to elect Trump.

    -G

    1. To vote for Democrats would be to ratify lawfare as a legitimate method for selecting our political leaders, thereby undermining the granting of consent of the governed as a core value of our system of government. In short, Democrats are an existential threat to our country.

      1. (addendum) This is why the 2024 presidential election is a referendum on lawfare.

        1. It’s hilarious how Trump supporters have turned into mewling snowflakes. Trump was bound to be found guilty from one of his criminal indictments.

          Reality hit hard and many weren’t prepared to face it. That’s what happens when their information silos are violated by reality and the law.

    2. What was the column Turley recently wrote about democrats bemoaning the end of democracy if Trump got elected?

      Now we have Trump supporters losing their fragile minds and claiming it’s the end of democracy. Oh the irony.

    3. Vote for a convicted felon who nearly put us in a full blown depression? If Trump got back into office, disaster would result. His tax cuts for the wealthy would be paid for by cutting Social Security and Medicare. Repealing the ACA would cause millions of Americans to be uninsured. His tariffs would cost the average family thousands more every year because the increased costs of goods would be passed on by higher prices. His concentration camps for immigrants would cost billions and would probably be illegal. Who will do the work they’re doing now— work in restaurants, hotels, hospitals, child care, landscaping, laundry, roofing, etc? Now they’re working while waiting for their asylum hearings.

      Then, there’s banning all abortions, and possibly contraception, especially IUDs. He would abolish the Department of Education. Trump promises to stack federal agencies with syncophants whose sole qualification would be doing Trump’s will instead of benefiting the American people. Then, there’s the billions of tax dollars that would be spent on seeking vengeance.

      Why on earth would anyone vote for this loser, a thief of classified documents, a liar, racist, convicted felon, womanizer, and someone who calls military members “suckers and losers “? He started an insurrection and still lies about losing in 2020. Even if these reasons aren’t enough, he did a lousy job.

    1. So says the “Happy Communist,” a direct and mortal enemy of the American thesis of freedom and self-reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, actual Americans, and America.

    3. There will soon be no joy in New York City and New York state. Two words: Capital flight.

  11. The Democrats have seized control of government, which they have weaponized against Republican political opponents.

    The NYC sham trial is election interference. Trump was found guilty of signing a LEGAL NDA, under the pretense that a legal NDA was election interference, when the trial ITSELF is election interference.

    Democrats are trying to stop Donald Trump from getting lawfully elected by any means necessary. They are also trying to strip him of Secret Service protection, so he can get assassinated if he goes to prison.

    It’s Stalinesque.

    Governor Ron DeSantis, I’m calling on you to file charges against Joe Biden, NY AG Letitia James, DA Alvin Bragg, and Democrat activist Judge Merchan for conspiracy to interfere in the 2024 presidential election. It clearly doesn’t matter if federal election law is the purview of the FEC. These Democrat activists in NY have weaponized the government and criminal justice system to interfere with the right to vote in FL, all the red states, and all the Republicans languishing in Democrat supermajority states. Unlike in Donald Trump’s case, there is clear evidence of crimes committed by Joe Biden and his corrupt family, as well as the lawfare committed against Donald Trump.

    Democrats have decreed that no Republican may run for office who might actually win. When Donald Trump won in 2016, Democrats abused every position of authority possible to knowingly bring false accusations against him, such as working for the Russians. That was a false story planted by Hillary Clinton to distract from her mishandling of classified documents scandal, and to interfere in the election.

    Democrats have made Republicans their sin eaters. Joe Biden engaged in a quid pro quo in Russia to get the prosecutor investigating Burisma fired. Donald Trump was impeached for inquiring about it. The latent antisemitism in the Democrat Party has ignited in an inferno that swept the country, to the point that Jews are afraid to walk in NYC or on virtually any college campus. Democrats claim it’s Republicans who are really antisemitic, despite that over 85% of Republicans support Israel. Joe Biden stole classified information for decades, stored it in an unsecured garage and at multiple residences, shared it with his ghostwriter, and with the Chinese-funded Penn Biden Center. Hillary Clinton hid a bootleg server in her bathroom, in order to avoid the State Department having records of her communications, stored classified information on it, lied about it, uploaded it to the Cloud, and wiped it clean with BleachBit. Yet it’s Donald Trump, who had the power to declassify documents, who has been criminally charged with mishandling classified information. His lawyers were engaged in a dispute with the NA over what documents they were entitled to, as all presidents do. Joe Biden has used NDAs, and his campaign lied about and buried stories about his cognitive decline, his corruption, the Hunter Biden laptop, and the criminal operation of the Biden Family. Donald Trump may be sentenced to 134 years for the use of a legal NDA.

    Republicans need to stop complaining about being bullied, before the modern day Stalinists start a Holodomor to starve and murder political dissidents.

    Joe Biden couldn’t win a fair election, so his activists weaponized government to take out his competition, and they’re moving to get him assassinated by trying to remove his Secret Service detail.

    They will do this to every Republican candidate. They’ll Kavanaugh Republican judges and candidates, and women will come out of the woodwork claiming abuse while drinking out of Solo Cups. All it took for Trump to be found civilly liable for “sexual abuse”, though not rape, was for Jean Carroll to tell her friends about an alleged incident wherein she claimed she laughed the entire time, then pushed Trump away, who then left. Jean Carroll’s statements and her statements to friends were all the evidence presented, to my understanding. A Democrat activist NY jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million over that. There was absolutely no way to defend against such a case, so it will be the playbook upon which all political warfare against Republican candidates will be waged.

    Republicans, stop complaining, and be effective. The way to teach Democrats the error of their ways is to apply the exact same standard to Joe Biden, and all Democrats who abuse their positions of authority to interfere in fair elections.

    1. “Governor Ron DeSantis, I’m calling on you to file charges against Joe Biden, NY AG Letitia James, DA Alvin Bragg, and Democrat activist Judge Merchan for conspiracy to interfere in the 2024 presidential election.”

      I join you.

      1. It’s unreal how little MAGA deplorables understand about the legal system and how they fell for the lies put out by MAGA media. A governor does not prosecute people— that’s the job of an elected prosecutor, who is subject to the Rules of Professional Conduct for prosecutors as well as state substantive laws. A prosecutor represents the people, not a politician. Contrary to the lies pumped out by MAGA media, Joe Biden did not orchestrate Trump’s prosecution. There’s no evidence that he had anything to do with it. The investigation of Trump’s payoffs and falsified records started when Barr was still in office and he ordered federal prosecutors to drop the investigation. Bragg decided to proceed under NY law.

        Judges and prosecutors are immune from prosecution, especially by other states. DeSantis can’t prosecute New York State prosecutors, judges or the Attorney General— but even if he could—what would be the grounds? Trump committed the crimes he was found guilty of doing.

        1. “A prosecutor represents the people, not a politician.” Really? LOL.
          Bragg campaigned on “I’ll get Trump.”
          Tish James campaigned on “I’ll nail Trump.”
          Fani Willis (and her lover) promised to “get Trump.”
          After the verdict, Bragg looked into the camera and said, “I did my job.” Who is Bragg working for? Colangelo came from Biden’s DOJ to do Bragg’s job FOR him.
          Biden donor, corrupt judge Juan Merchan, “did his job.”
          His daughter is raking in MILLIONS.
          Who is Merchan working for? The Democrat Party is who.
          “Joe Biden did not orchestrate Trump’s prosecution.”
          “There’s no evidence that he had anything to do with it.” Oh really? These Trump prosecutions, and the timing for peak election interference, ARE the entirety of Biden’s campaign strategy.
          We have records showing these corrupt Soros prosecutors actually billing their time to “Meetings at the White House” –that kinda gives the game away.
          Obviously this is all being coordinated thru the Biden White House and weaponized DOJ.
          We have Biden DOJ #3 guy Colangelo leaving to take the lead on Bragg’s case, that kinda gives the game away.
          When we have President Biden say – before the trial ends – that he plans to address the nation from the White House once the verdict comes in — that was a direct message to the jury.
          They blew it. The country is now going to unleash the whirlwind on these Democrat criminals. Biden is finished. No coming back from this.

        2. All Republican DAs and AGs: Make a Democrat Hit List. Indict. Indict. Indict the Left until there is no one left to indict.
          Congress: Get moving. Subpoena bank records for Loren Merchan. How much money has she made off her father’s case? How much off this verdict? Subpoena Bragg. Get the records of “meetings with Biden White House.”
          Do not give an inch. This is WAR.

  12. Ignoring the trolls.
    It seems that Trump’s campaign website that takes in donations crashed… Seems it couldn’t keep up w the donations.

    I wonder if the DNC can survive the blow back.

    1. The surge will be short lived. Once the hurt and anger subsides. There will be a realization that Trump’s base is still too small to affect change.

    2. He spends almost all of the donations on his legal fees.
      According to required FEC filings in February, he is spending an average of $230,000 PER DAY !!!!!
      He continues to face massive legal bills, because now he has to appeal this verdict.

      Any donations you suckers make go straight into the pockets of his incompetent lawyers.
      Very little to none of the donations will go to campaigning.

      Have the noticed all the TV ads he has been running ???
      No ???
      Neither have I.

  13. I’d like Trump’s Generals to comment on this verdict:

    General H.R. McMaster, General John F. Kelly, General James Mattis and General Mark A. Milley……By the way, Trump made a death threat against General Milley.

    1. Anon, haven;t all of them made a comment by pushing this verdict to a Trial and pushing the Ukrainian-Russian War to the nuke-point it is.
      reuters.com/world/biden-secretly-gave-ukraine-permission-strike-inside-russia-with-us-arms-2024-05-30/
      zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-targets-radars-are-part-russias-nuclear-warning-system
      zerohedge.com/geopolitical/denmark-says-ukraine-can-strike-targets-inside-russia-danish-supplied-f-16s

      General H.R. McMaster, General John F. Kelly, General James Mattis and General Mark A. Milley and Others Got their War,
      No One (like Trump) is going to take it away from them, so prep & hunker down – it going to be a Great One (WW.III).

      -TRA

      1. I’m not Anon, Douche Bag!

        Meanwhile, Putin complains about western weapons that are being used on Russia territory, while Russia gets new weapons shipped from North Korea & Iran to use on Ukraine territory.

        1. That’s right Anonymous The Generals: General H.R. McMaster, General John F. Kelly, General James Mattis and General Mark A. Milley have their WW.III – it’s alive an kicking.

          Read: The Keystone Defense Initiative
          Ukraine Military Situation Report | May 29
          By: Can Kasapoğlu ~ May 29, 2024
          https://www.hudson.org/missile-defense/ukraine-military-situation-report-can-kasapoglu

          Nikki Haley on the Dangers of National Security Weakness
          By: Nikki R. Haley – Walter P. Stern Chair ~ May 22, 2024
          https://www.hudson.org/events/nikki-haley-dangers-national-security-weakness

          The antics of this Election year are just a sideshow.
          Unless you need the Black Rain of Nuclear Fallout raining down on your bare skin prove it,
          We are already in War (III) – Got it Pal?

    2. And the Communist American Deep Deep State “Swamp” Regime assassinated JFK too.

  15. Don’t worry about it -Trumps still on the Ballot November 5th 2024
    Just make sure your vote gets made & counted.

    Orange is the new: Red, White, and Blue 🇺🇸

    1. Yea, lets make the buy that hates the military, especially wounded veterans, assaults women, commits fraud with his companies, cavorts with porn stars while his wife is pregnant or has recently given birth. The guy that calls everyone he mets Juvenal kindergarten names.

      Yea, that makes sense.

    1. Fake-“felon” Just like fake-news. And fake-law.
      Everything about trump’s opposition is FAKE.

    3. Democrats. If they can’t beat you, they’ll incarcerate you.

      You’re cheering Stalinesque tactics.

  17. Important lesson here.

    Is it still possible to believe that these people wouldn’t cheat lie and break the law to steal an election?

    No, it is not.

    1. “The election is now over. There is no scenario in which Biden can win and have the result seen as legitimate. Either Trump will prevail by sheer force of popular will, or we will be ruled by a tyrannical regime, leading to internal conflict and steady attrition from public life.” @joelpollak

      We are at WAR in this country. It is now Victory over this EVIL or nothing. If we don’t quit or back down, we win.

    2. “If you are a state AG/prosecutor with original criminal jurisdiction, you had better be drafting up charges, indictments, and warrants for every Democrat official involved in this insane, treasonous attack on our entire constitutional republic.”

      “If you’re a Republican running for office, you can just go ahead and throw away all of your elegant little policy proposals for this or that corporate exclusion or tax subsidy. Give me a list of which Democrat officials you’re going to put in prison, or get lost.

      There’s only one way to deal with nuclear war, which is what Democrats have unleashed, and that is mutually assured destruction. Democrats declared war on our entire system of justice and the rule of law, and our only options are victory or defeat. I intend to win. Do you?” @seanmdav

      No one is coming to save this nation. It is up to us, WE the PEOPLE.

  18. I for one had no idea that my vote was defrauded. If only I had known about this NDA. I feel completely and utterly victimized that my voting rights were infringed upon. I have decided to seek psychological counseling.

  19. Oh my. The facts determined it. Guilty on all 34 counts. Thank God we have 12 citizens in NY with infinitely more courage than the Republican party and its supposed leaders. With my past work experience with trump, this is the least surprising thing ever….

    But I realize there are many who’ve been cultified here…, so I’m wishing the most positive grieving and redirection possible for you. Get a good therapist. All the best in your endeavors. God speed.

    1. You go straight to hell. There is a reason why the rest of America hates you scums in the DC/New York corridor and the West Coast nut jobs. You are here bragging about the actions we see in 3rd world Banana Republics you fool. Hillary used Political Money to try and smear Trump with Russia, we know this because the FEC fined her, but yet where is the charges in NY? Here is what we know, this crooked Columbian Judge, dd not let a former FEC chairman testify that is is NO CRIME. This will be thrown out, even this crooked judge knows it will be. So, f9r all your BS pomp, its a nothing burger, everyone of you clowns will have egg on your face, the Supreme Court may decide this in week, because there was such injustice they ca take this case straight away. Y9ou are so dumb, you think everyone close doesn’t understand how rigged and evil you people are you are only exposing yourselves dummy. You are loosing the youth and black vote because the blacks see Trump as a martyr, and they see themselves as such.

      Any party or person that advocates Abortion and Homosexuality will bust hell wide open. You and all Dems are evil punks

      1. Try not to spit on yourself while raving like a crazed magat, Cletus.

        Or not. Your choice.

  20. All Americans should be profoundly embarrassed by this entire proceeding.

    1. All Americans should be profoundly ashamed that a pig like Trump got away with cheating his way into office, constantly lying about anything he thought made him look bad, including lying about COVID, causing unnecessary deaths and suffering, stealing classified documents, lying about returning them, lying about declassifying them, starting an insurrection after he lost a free and fair election, and now, getting convicted of 34 felonies, based on liaisons with nude models and a porn actress, payoffs and falsifying business records to cover up his misconduct.

      1. Joe Biden – with his shell companies laundering money from bribes from foreign countries.

        Having an alleged one night stand is not illegal. An NDA is not illegal.

        It was Joe Biden who killed the story about the Hunter Biden laptop, that interfered with the 2020 election.

        We are witnessing Democrat interference in yet another presidential election on a massive scale. Hilary Clinton’s false story about Russian interference pales in comparison. It’s Stalinesque, while the antisemitism that has ignited across the Left harks to the Nazis.

        I told you the Left was antisemitic. It’s now reached the point that Jews are afraid on college campuses and in NYC. I told you the Hunter Biden Laptop story was real, and that the story that Trump was working for Russia was a false story planted by Hilary Clinton.

        Democrats have weaponized government against their political rivals, in collusion with the media, Google, and social media.

        It’s Stalinesque.

      2. I think you mean the Biden crime family. If Trump was corrupt in his business dealings, he defrauded another corrupt businessman. If Biden was corrupt in his bribery and corruption he defrauded every American citizen.

        Trump did more for America in four years with a team of jackals on him than any Democrat ever.
        Felonious Trump 2024!

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