Thanks Steve for linking this well-written page on the Politico Journal. I've read first the 'hush money' issue, since it's the only verdict of guilt issued, first degree of judgment as clearly illustrated in the article.
I'll tell you that the case seems to be meaningless, for a person accused to be like Hitler. It is some administrative misdimeanour which has been turned criminal by political biased prosecutors, in my opinion. It is all explained in the Politico article.
n New York, the bare-bones crime of falsifying business records is a misdemeanor. But it becomes a felony if the defendant falsified the records with the intent to commit or conceal a separate underlying crime. Prosecutors charged Trump with felony-level falsifying business records, and they said he falsified the records to conceal a separate violation of a New York election law that prohibits conspiring to promote a political candidate (in this case, Trump himself) through “unlawful means.” The hush money to Daniels, prosecutors said, was unlawful because it violated campaign finance laws. And they said Trump’s reimbursement arrangement to Cohen violated tax laws as well.
34 felony counts of New York Penal Law § 175.10: Falsifying business records in the first degree
The politico article, well written and I apparently unbiased, also reports strengths and weaknesses of the case.
I've listened to a Megyn kelly podcast with the accountancy minutiae of the case, it's downright ludicrous that they charged Mr. Trump with a crime when it was just an administrative misdeamenour. Also, as I wrote previously, according to the prosecutors interviewed in the Megyn Kelly show, he was probably ill-advised by his first attorney.
All in all, this first case which proliferated into 34 criminal felonies constitutes a blatant abuse of the judicial power, carried out by Democrat judges and jurors, in a state where Democrats by far prevail, undoubtedly with the purpose to eliminate Mr. Tump from the political arena.
We can discuss all other cases, but this first one is a joke.
I'll link the Megyn Kelly show which is full of legal technicalities, the first part must be skipped because there si an interview with an influencer.
From 51 minutes.
