Nothing To Bragg About

When will we ever be rid of the scourge of Donald J. Trump?

Just when his star was finally fading and the prospect of an alternative GOP candidate for the 2024 presidential race was gaining steam (i.e. Gov. Ron DeSantis) the lunatic who George Soros put in the Manhattan DA’s office comes up with this absolute joke of an indictment.

The “34 counts” consist of three misdemeanors, where the statute of limitations has already expired. These putative offenses are then each cut and pasted 11 times to match the monthly reimbursement checks to Michael Cohen for the hush payments he made to the Donald’s lady friends with respect to dalliances two decades earlier.

These three repetitive “books and records” violations include Cohen’s invoice for reimbursement (X11), its entry into the Trump Organization’s general ledger (X12) and the latter’s receipt of a check from the Donald to cover the payments (X11).

In turn, this no-count minutia is transformed into a felony aimed to bring down a former president for the first time in American history and the leading GOP candidate for 2024 by pure legal legerdemain. That is, the boosting of these stale misdemeanors into felonies owing to an alleged bad intent to hide something actually jail-worthy. And in this case, repeated 34 times for good measure.

 …..with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof.

What the additional crime was, the indictment does not say. Bragg just assured that we would find out by the time of the trial, which is not likely to occur until after the GOP presidential primaries are over!

Of course, the unnamed crime is not hard to guess. It is failure to report these perfectly legal hush money payments as campaign expenditures. That is, offenses like the $113,000 civil fine Hillary paid when the ample money he campaign supplied to Christopher Steele to concoct the RussiaGate dossier was falsely reported as an expense for “legal services”.