Trump prosecution wind-down proves it was always a witch hunt
NY Post
With the prosecution winding down in Donald Trump’s Manhattan case, we have to ask, in the immortal words of Peggy Lee: Is that all there is?
It’s become utterly apparent (if wasn’t already) that the key element of any prosecution is missing here: namely, a crime.
Yes, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg developed a totally novel legal theory by which 34 misdemeanor counts of business-records falsification, though past the statute of limitations, could be converted into felony charges because they were — allegedly — in the service of covering up another crime.
But Bragg’s team forgot to offer any evidence that the records were falsified.
Or to specify what that other crime might be, let alone to prove it.
His prosecutors have instead resorted to stunts of dubious constitutionality and legal wordplay in their efforts to pretend that Trump’s perfectly legal nondisclosure agreement — the vaunted “hush money” so beloved by lefty media — with porn star Stormy Daniels somehow broke the law.
