S&P and Nasdaq beat their record highs today. Dow is about 150 pts from record high earlier this year.

Dow will be at 40,000 soon. A story today on the 'net people are taking their record profits and spending them which will help the economy.

Well with things going so well...except for all the businesses going out of business, all the people losing their full time jobs and having to work two or three part time, all the people who lose their jobs and have to go on unemployment, all the people who lose their jobs to illegals, all the food and other items people won't buy because of inflation, I guess your happy as a pig in shit and will be voting for Joe who made all this possible. I wonder if you recall how large a segment of America are living close to subsistence level that don't invest in the market and see no benefit from the market. If things are so bitchin where are all the start ups, new businesses hiring hundreds of thousands even tens of thousands of Americans? If there is so much money out there that's being spent to help the economy why the hell are we taxpayers bankrolling so much private development with our tax dollars? And finally

Trump trial's OJ glove moment: Cohen tape undercuts prosecutors’ main story to jurors

This follows a pattern of weaknesses in Bragg’s case, which has been consistently undercut by other witnesses. But if the tapes don't fit: they must acquit.

By John Solomon and Steven Richards


Published: May 14, 2024 11:04pm

Updated: May 14, 2024 11:23pm


When Alvin Bragg's prosecutors opened their felony record-keeping trial, they promised to show the jurors that Donald Trump "orchestrated" a conspiracy to hide allegations from a porn star and another woman from voters in 2016 and disguise the source of the cash in his firm’s books.

When their star witness Michael Cohen played a tape he secretly made of his ex-boss and client, the recording appeared to show that Trump was unaware of key details, seemingly aloof to a plan that Cohen himself admitted he had concocted to make the so-called “hush money” payments.

Like the glove too small to fit OJ Simpson, the Cohen tape may prove an explosive boomerang that benefits the defense more than the prosecution. In the recordings, Trump doesn't admit to knowing the full scheme or ever mention trying to impact the elections—central components of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s charges against the former president.

If Trump didn't admit, jurors may certainly be asked to acquit. In criminal cases, the jury is required to find guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt."

“The defendant, Donald Trump, orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election; then he covered up that criminal conspiracy by lying in his New York business records over and over and over again,” prosecutor Matthew Colangelo told the jury in his opening statement, succinctly summarizing Bragg’s case.

The prosecutor laid out the case, now the witnesses would have to provide the evidence to back up these claims. However, witness after witness seemed to undercut the central components of the case: that Trump had knowledge of the payments, that he was the orchestrator, and that he was motivated by manipulating the 2016 election to win.

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https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/trump-trials-oj-moment-cohen-tape-undercuts-prosecutors-main-story-jurors

Wonder how popular $15 Big Macs will be in CA?

Too much confidence being bantered around. 

Hitlerly was talking about the same 50 state mandate back in '16, at about this time.  We all know how that came out.

Trump......   Ignore deep blue states, and focus 99% of the campaigb on the 6 swing states that will get you elected.

So what's the plan, delay, delay, delay, until after the election hoping the democrats can pull off the steal and the Big Guy can give him a presidential pardon without any pre election anger?