Trump convicted of a victimless "crime" in a kangaroo court. Our country is so screwed.
Some of the biggest problems I have with this:
1. The lead prosecutor Matthew Colangelo was a Biden surrogate. He was the no. 3 man at the DOJ, appointed by Biden. Left that job to join the Manhattan district attorney's office and head up this prosecution. An enormous step down career wise. In other words, Biden sent one of his top political appointees to try and put Biden's chief political rival in prison. A legitimate media would be all over this.
2. Even after the jury verdict, we don't know what the underlying crime was. It was not in the indictment. The judge didn't require the prosecution to disclose it before the case started. The judge gave the jury three options on what the underlying crime could be, and told them they didn't even have to unanimously agree. Because the defense was forced to give closing argument first, the first time we even got any clarity on the alleged underlying crime was during the prosecution's closing argument, with no chance for Trump to respond. The jury verdict does not specify the underlying crime. This is the worst violation of due process I have ever seen.
3. One of the alleged underlying crimes was supposedly an improper campaign contribution. The judge refused to allow Bradley Smith to testify and explain what constitutes an improper campaign contribution. He is the former head of the FEC and Clinton appointee. Then the judge let in evidence that Cohen pleaded guilty to an FEC violation and that David Pecker got a deal with prosecutors to not charge him with an FEC violation in exchange for his testimony. Then refused to allow evidence that the FEC and DOJ investigated Trump over this and refused to charge him. This left the obvious impression that Trump must be guilty of an FEC violation.
There is more, but those are some of the most glaring to me.
