Law, Power, and Justice

TRUMP TRIAL NOTES

2:40 PM CNN

• The prosecution is trying to take Cohen’s character and transfer it over to the man who hired him, Donald Trump.
• (Note: Well, everything here came to a crashing halt.  There was an Eastern Bluebird on the feeder.  You might think that they would be common, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one at our feeder, in eleven years.  What a truly beautiful bird.  Donald Trump is incapable of seeing or appreciating the beauty of anything.  What a loathsome human being.)
• Prosecutor agrees about Cohen “stealing” from the Trump Company.  Note: I’m not sure you can even talk about stealing from a stealing, lying operation.)
• Prosecutor: “It’s not a defense” to false business charges if “one of the conspirators is also guilt of stealing from another.”  (Note: YA THINK?)
• OMB Elie Honig is on again about Cohen stealing from Trump.  Jesus.  These guys just CANNOT STAND TO BE WRONG about something.  Honig and Tapper have spent hours and hours arguing that the “Cohen is a thief” is a deal breaker and a “bombshell.” 
• Honig is saying that the fact that Cohen could steal from Trump means Trump didn’t know what was going on with his finances.  This, of course, leaves out all the information about owing somebody (the other company) and Cohen skimming off the top.  These guys.
• Now, Honig is blathering on and on about how the prosecutors didn’t charge Cohen with the crime of skimming off a skimmer and criminal who stole an election.  This is like whining and whining about not prosecuting Sammy the Bull for skimming The Teflon Don.  Jesus H. Christ.
• Prosecutor making the point that Cohen is making money off Trump and it’s one of the only thing he has left to make money off of.
• Trump’s case is that everybody is lying except Trump (who isn’t taking the stand.)
• The prosecutor is pointing out that Cohen lied to congress about the number of dealings Trump had with Russia over the Trump Moscow Hotel (instead of 10 Cohen said 2, for example).
• (Note: Why did Trump not satisfy Cohen and keep him within the fold?  I don’t get it.)
• The prosecutor just did what I did for myself – acted out a brief conversation in which Cohen could have asked for Secret Service protection from calls and also acknowledged that he had taken care of the Daniels affair.
• (Note: Great, another Trump ex-attorney on CNN).
• (Note: I want all the time back I have spent listening to people thank MSM hosts “for having” them.  It is just so unnecessary, time wasting, sucky behavior.
• Prosecutor: Trump chose Cohen for the same qualities that his attorneys now urge you to reject his testimony because of.”
• “…literally a mountain of evidence of corroborating testimony that tends to connect the defendant to this crime.”  (Note: “tends to connect?”  What?  That’s a pretty wimpy statement.)
• Prosecutor talking about federal election law.  Prosecutor is saying what Blanche told the jury about “catch and kill” was not true.  They talked about it, just didn’t use that term.
• The Trump tower meeting was “subversion of democracy.” Prosecutor.
• CNN commentator says that the picture of Trump and Schiller was admitted into evidence.
• CNN commentator says that time in the Trump white house, affected Ivanka and Jared’s social life.  They had to move to Florida to get a fresh start.  Good lord, these people.
• These are unlawful campaign contributions (possibly the most valuable contribution ever made).
• This behavior could well be what got Trump elected.
• (Note: Thank God Jake Tapper is not on CNN).
• (Note: Trump doesn’t care about the verdict because they will try to appeal to the Supreme Court and he has already stacked that court due to illegal campaign activity.(
• Once it was discussed that money would change hands to help protect the campaign, that becomes a campaign finance issue.
• Jury doesn’t have to be unanimous about what the underlying crime was.
• Falsifying the records to conceal what crime?  New York state eletion law is what was evaded. 
• Prosecutor: It’s no wonder the pay off occurred 10 years after the affair.  He wasn’t concerned abut protecting his family, but his election.
• (Under the category: “I don’t know why I keep watching corporate news because they are just propagandists.”  MSNBc’s Ari Melber is now acting like it’s a big deal that Pecker was willing to sacrifice the company’s “bottom line,” for Trump.  What he is not mentioning is how much money Pecker was anticipating to make from his association with Trump if Trump became president.  The office of the presidency has become an enormous money-spinning nexus.  Pecker was just doing good speculative investing.)
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