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The Battle Begins: Trump’s Trial Tests American Justice › American Greatness
Roger Kimball
7–9 minutes

Monday, April 15, 2024, is not only Tax Day in the United States.  It is also the day that this country will take another fateful step towards banana republic-like tyranny.  For it is the day that New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg—or, to give him his full title, “Soros-funded District Attorney Alvin Bragg”—will begin his 34-count felony trial against Donald Trump.

Exactly what is the presumptive Republican nominee for president charged with by the Biden Department of Justice?  Paying Stormy Daniels—or to give her the invariable epithet, “porn star Stormy Daniels” (think “swift-footed Achilles,” “gray-eyed Athena”)—to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter in 2006 (which Trump has consistently denied).

But is paying someone to sign a non-disclosure agreement a crime?  No.  Then what’s going on here?  As always seems to be the case when the subject is the Byzantine world of Donald Trump’s legal woes, it’s complicated.  One of the best brief summaries I have seen was in an editorial in The Wall Street Journal this weekend. “The facts,” the Journal writers explain, “are these”:

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Fishrrman:
The "evidence" in this case, as ephemeral as it is, doesn't matter.

What matters is that Mr. Trump will face a New York City jury, the majority of whom can't stand him.

The jurors will decide the case on their prejudices, not on the evidence.
Most of them won't even UNDERSTAND the evidence.

This is my prediction.
I will be amazed otherwise, and freely admit I'd like to be proven wrong.

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