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I just hope Trump is rapidly indicted on the more serious charges against him. I understand the Daniels case could be a misdemeanor or a felony, and that it's worth of indictment, but it does seem petty on the face of it, which is probably why conservatives writ large are complaining the way they are. I don't think there would have been so much show of support for Trump had the Georgia indictment come first. It's the most politically powerful case, pitting Republican against Republican. I'm afraid that now Republicans of all stripes have come out in Trump's favor, they will feel obliged to also defend him on the more serious charges... and this might NOT have been the case had the other indictments come first.
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The NY case seems to not just be about Stormy Daniels, there are 34 counts.  But it seems to be more about business fraud than anything else.  I hope the Fani Willis case comes soon - and the Federal case as well.  It would be ideal to have a perfect storm of three different and unrelated cases all hitting at the same time to send Trump's legal team reeling.[/quote]

34 counts would be a violation of DOJ guidelines, which suggest a maximum of 15 counts, though it is not mandatory.
This many counts is a sign of a weak case, where the prosecutor just throws up a whole bunch of counts so the jury would take something.[/quote]

Andrew McCarthy had a good piece as to why so many charges......

[twitter]https://twitter.com/AndrewCMcCarthy/status/1642517681009033219[/twitter]

[quote]The federal prosecutors and regulators, who actually have jurisdiction over and expertise in campaign-finance law, looked hard at the Stormy Daniels caper and decided it was worthy of a goose-egg — zero, zip, nada counts. And mind you, the Biden administration has been running the Justice Department for more than two years, and has been moving heaven and earth — now, with a special counsel appointed — to make a criminal case against former president Donald Trump. Still, with Biden prosecutors now responsible for enforcing federal law, Trump’s 2016 hush-money arrangement with the porn star who alleges a long-ago fling with him has resulted in 0 criminal counts.

Alvin Bragg is more accurately seen not as a law-enforcement official, but as an elected progressive Democrat who won his political office in one-party Manhattan by vowing to his progressive base that he would exploit the district attorney’s law-enforcement powers against Trump, the Democrats’ arch-nemesis. Unlike the feds, Bragg has no jurisdiction over or expertise in federal campaign-finance laws.

So, how’s this for a shocker? Bragg looked at exactly the same evidence as the feds did, and has decided it is worth 34 criminal counts. Not one or two — 34.

I have a short opinion column over at Fox News explaining this notorious prosecutorial abuse: the effort to camouflage with quantity what a criminal case lacks in quality — loading up a dubious case with charges to suggest to the jury that the defendant is a dangerous criminal even if the evidence of any one alleged crime is weak. The column excerpts Justice Department guidance that admonishes federal prosecutors to steer clear of this unseemly tactic.

Why is Bragg doing this? Because for him to “win” the case in the all-important political realm, the court of public opinion, he just needs a jury to convict on one count. Then, no matter how flimsy the case Bragg has presented, Trump will be branded a convicted felon. By contrast, Trump can only “win” if he prevails on all 34 counts.[/quote]

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-to-make-of-34-counts-against-trump-that-bragg-just-needs-one/

He continues with how this plays out with the jury.  [/quote]
You’re taking that seriously?

I was on a jury last year, a fairly straightforward assault of an officer. There were still like 5-10 charges for (plus she either pleaded out or had already been tried for the theft which brought her into the cop’s orbit anyway) that. And you think Donald Trump - who we all watched commit crimes, openly, brag about some, openly admit others - should just be one or two counts? [/quote]

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