Sen. Bob Menendez corruption trial begins in New York
By
Ashley Oliver
May 13, 2024 6:00 am
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Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) will appear Monday at a Manhattan courthouse for his criminal trial after he was charged by the Department of Justice with accepting bribes and illegally acting as a foreign agent on behalf of Egypt and Qatar.

The trial will begin with jury selection and is expected to overlap with several days that the Senate is in session.

Menendez has not decided whether he will take the witness stand in his trial but plans to be present every day for the proceedings “subject to the schedule,” he recently told a reporter. Criminal defendants are typically required to be present for trials.

Menendez, his wife, and three businessmen were indicted last fall on corruption charges. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York alleged that Menendez accepted bribes in exchange for using his influence as the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to benefit the Egyptian government.

The bribes included hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, gold bars, mortgage payments, a luxury vehicle, and more.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3000561/sen-bob-menendez-corruption-trial-begins-in-new-york/

The Fall of the House of Presidential Persecutions › American Greatness
Victor Davis Hanson


None of the five civil and criminal cases currently lodged against former President Donald Trump have ever had merit. They were all predicated on using the law to injure his re-election candidacy—given a widespread derangement syndrome among the left and a fear they cannot entrust a Trump/Biden election to the people.

These criminal and civil trials are merely the continuation of extra-legal efforts of the last eight years to destroy a presidential candidate in lieu of opposing him in transparent elections.

As such, the current lawfare joins the Mueller investigation of the Russian-collusion hoax. It is a continuation of the laptop disinformation caper and the “51 intelligence authorities” who lied about its Russian origins. It logically follows from the two impeachments, the Senate trial of Trump as a private citizen, and states’ efforts to remove him from their ballots.

The E. Jean Carroll case, the Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, and Fani Willis local and state trials, and the Smith federal indictment share various embarrassments.

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https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/13/the-fall-of-the-house-of-presidential-persecutions/

Trump’s sleazy accusers
By
Byron York
May 13, 2024 8:12 am
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TRUMP’S SLEAZY ACCUSERS. The Trump trial in Manhattan is expected to come to a climax of sorts this week with the appearance of star prosecution witness Michael Cohen. Cohen will follow the prosecution’s other star witness, Stormy Daniels, the porn star who testified last week.

Daniels testified about the sexual encounter she has at times said she had with former President Donald Trump and at times said she did not have with Trump in 2006. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Daniels had a lawyer who specialized in shaking down celebrities who want to quell embarrassing news. In the final days before voting, Trump, through his lawyer Cohen, paid Daniels $130,000 to stay quiet about the matter. Such a transaction, while tawdry, was entirely legal, and there is only a trial because Alvin Bragg, the Democrat who was elected district attorney of Manhattan on a promise to go after Trump, accuses Trump of falsifying his company’s bookkeeping regarding the $130,000 payment in order, Bragg says, to pull off some sort of super-secret scheme to steal the 2016 election.

Here’s the thing about both Daniels and Cohen. They have an extreme animus against Trump, so much so that even if they did not have records of making untrustworthy statements, and they do, their Trump hatred would make it difficult for an unbiased observer to believe anything they said. Much of their lives in the past decade have been devoted either to attacking or trying to get money out of Trump.

Neither is a person of good character. A fundamental fact about this case is that the prosecution’s star witnesses are a woman who had sex for money and a lawyer who did sleazy things. (That’s on top of the felonies, including tax evasion and bank fraud, that Cohen pleaded guilty to a few years ago.) It does not speak well of Trump that he had anything to do with people like Cohen and Daniels, and now he is paying a price for doing so. Before the trial is over, Bragg may regret getting mixed up with them, too.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3001354/trumps-sleazy-accusers/

DAY 16: Michael Cohen's Testifies

Alexander Sheppard 🇺🇸
@NotAlexSheppard
Now that Ashley Biden’s diary has been authenticated by the courts, when will Creepy Joe Biden be held accountable for pedophilia?

https://twitter.com/NotAlexSheppard/status/1415156365337694208