As former attorney Michael Cohen gets set for a second day of testimony in Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York, there are things happening that I find to be rather astounding. Now, we can all agree that this “lawfare” is having some rather dire consequences, but not for Trump himself. There was a poll that came out yesterday that showed the former president is leading the current president by rather wide margins in five of the six “battleground states”. Only Wisconsin is slightly favoring Joe Biden, and that’s within the margin of error at 2 points.
So, what does this tell you? To me it shows that Trump’s trial is having the opposite effect that Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan wanted to have. Instead of getting Americans to switch to Biden, they are leaving Biden in droves and moving to Trump. In fact, Trump held a rally in very blue New Jersey over this past weekend, and between 80,000 and 100,000 people showed up. We’re talking Taylor Swift type of crowds here.
In fairness to the sitting New York Judge Merchan, I thought today I’d be nice and try and help out his career a little. Judge, here’s what you need to do:
- Stop sustaining all of the Trump legal team’s objections. It’s not working. It only makes you look like a fool. You’re not fooling anyone with your bias. Everyone and their cousin knows you and Alvin Bragg are in cahoots on this trial.
- Lift Trump’s gag order. You didn’t include anyone in the prosecution in the gag order, which usually tells BOTH sides to keep quiet. You showed your conflict of interest right then and there.
- When the prosecution rests, which I hear should be sometime this week, the Trump team will ask for a directed verdict of not-guilty. Not only has Bragg’s team failed to prove Trump is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, they haven’t even been able to define what the felony is. Not to the jury. Not to the media. Not to Trump. Not even to Merchan himself. So, stop playing games and call this thing over before it becomes a landslide in Trump’s favor.
If Juan Merchan were smart, he’d end the charade before it really gets bad. Already, Alvin Bragg is going to be facing a tough reelection bid because he’s wasted tons of taxpayer money on bogus charges that never should have been brought. We’re talking about stuff that happened almost two decades ago, and the statute of limitations has already run out. Merchan can’t be so big of an idiot to not realize that he’s going to lose all of this on so many points of appeal that the Appellate Court could be blind, deaf, and mute, and still overturn any guilty verdict.
And that’s just what happens IF the jury comes back with a guilty verdict. I never thought I’d say this, but as bad as this trial has been for the prosecution, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if the jury comes back and acquits Trump on all charges. Hell, we don’t even know the charges yet!
Juan Merchan can save whatever is left of his career if he wraps this thing up, and dismisses the charges as soon as he possibly can. He probably should have done that after the Stormy Daniels testimony, but he blew it. Regardless, he still has a chance to save his career, otherwise he’s going to be going down in flames along side Bragg and Letitia James as laughing stocks in the Empire State!
Carry on world…you’re dismissed!
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