Anything to get Trump

Vincent J. Curtis

10 Apr 23

RE: It’s time for Trump’s day in court.  Spectator editorial 10 Apr 23.

As with most things Trump, the Spectator gets it wrong, viciously wrong.  But, to the point of the editorial, the sooner Trump gets a day in court, the better.

Trump is accused of falsifying business records for the purpose of concealing a felony.  Now, to be guilty of concealing a felony, you’d think that the accused actually committed the felony in question.  But Alvin Bragg, the New York DA who brought the charges, won’t say what that felony is, stating that the law does not require it.  Well, the 6^th Amendment does require that an accused know what he’s being charged with, and by hiding what the underlying crime was, Trump was indicted in a New York courtroom without being informed of the charge against him.

This is the conundrum.  Trump hasn’t been charged, let alone convicted, of felonious campaign finance violations; and everyone who’s looked at that case, notably the FEC, declined to charge, including Bragg’s predecessor, Cyrus Vance.  Trump deserves his day in court, all right, to get the charges tossed.  It ought to have happened in a New York minute had the judge asked Bragg about the obvious deficiency in the charging documents.  But no; the U.S. justice system is utterly corrupt; and the stench of these charges will linger for a long time.

(If a jury found Trump not guilty, what would it be of – the felony or of concealing the felony?  This ambiguity is the problem with the charge, and why it needs to be tossed.)

What worries Democrats is that this sets the precedent for a city DA in Podunk, Idaho, to pull the same trick against them.

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