Another month another nothing.

Anonymous wrote:

Thank you for posting, PP. For those who are too lazy to read the resignation letter, here are two key excerpts:


"As you know from our recent conversations and presentations, I believe that Donald Trump is guilty of numerous felony violations of the Penal Law in connection with the preparation and use of his annual Statements of Financial Condition. "

"In my view, the public interest warrants the criminal prosecution of Mr. Trump, and such a prosecution should be brought without any further delay."

The sad thing is that the Right will just spin the end of the investigation and the failure to bring charges as an exoneration, just as they did with the Mueller report, even though Mueller said:"...if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fix is in. Wall Street doesn’t want Trump prosecuted for fraudulent financial practices and tax evasion because the whole system is based on financial fraud and tax evasion.

Ding ding ding.

We should all really get used to the idea that there are people in our society that are above the law. Trump is most decidedly one of them.

This. Prosecutors hate losing. Defendants like Trump can make any case a slog. They can throw tons of resources into it, far more than typical public defender and sole practitioner chattel they enjoy overpowering into plea deals for their clients. As PP indicates, lots of high $ VIPs who have no desire to see this pursued. Then Trump is unique because he can almost assuredly find a couple of secret MAGAs on a jury to spike the case, and he has substantial organized crime resources backing him up and terrifying line prosecutors and staff. So yes, it’s time to accept that many, many people are just VERY difficult to convict, such that it’s easier to move on.

Anonymous wrote:How did he get the job?
What happened to Vance?

He got elected after Vance declined to run again. Bragg is the DA who wants to treat armed robbery as petit larceny, a misdemeanor, and he requires no bail. He's already a failure, a month into the job. Reports are he's so tied up with the personal criticism of his incompetency that he has not read any of the Trump investigation. I hope someone is investigating who his big donors were. NYC residents should demand he hold a press conference and explain his lack of action.

The state civil investigation is still on, as is the investigation in Georgia. There's also no proof the NYC case is dead yet. He may want to appoint his own politcos to swoop in and be the heroes with the evidence the resigned ADAs gathered.

Anonymous wrote:The fix is in. Wall Street doesn’t want Trump prosecuted for fraudulent financial practices and tax evasion because the whole system is based on financial fraud and tax evasion.

Ding ding ding.

We should all really get used to the idea that there are people in our society that are above the law. Trump is most decidedly one of them.

How did he get the job?
What happened to Vance?

The kindest thought is that Bragg is being either extorted or bribed.

More likely it is his inexperience and lack of the cujones to do the hard things that get the job done.

Anonymous wrote:The fix is in. Wall Street doesn’t want Trump prosecuted for fraudulent financial practices and tax evasion because the whole system is based on financial fraud and tax evasion.

I don’t know where the fix is in precisely, but it does feel like he’s being allowed to avoid prosecution.

The fix is in. Wall Street doesn’t want Trump prosecuted for fraudulent financial practices and tax evasion because the whole system is based on financial fraud and tax evasion.

Anonymous wrote:If there was no case, they wouldn't be resigning. They would just drop the charges.

If Dunne and Pomerantz believe so strongly that Trump should be charged, they should go public.

What does Trump have on Bragg? Who is this guy?

Maybe Dunne and Pomerantz have not done the "bang up" job that they think they have.

Anonymous wrote:If there was no case, they wouldn't be resigning. They would just drop the charges.

If Dunne and Pomerantz believe so strongly that Trump should be charged, they should go public.

What does Trump have on Bragg? Who is this guy?

A public resignation like this may be about as much as they can do. They probably cannot legally disclose the evidence they've gathered that they think supports charges. This certainly puts a lot of pressure on Bragg. There will be calls for his head from all corners of NYC politics since this makes it look like he is protecting Trump.

If there was no case, they wouldn't be resigning. They would just drop the charges.

If Dunne and Pomerantz believe so strongly that Trump should be charged, they should go public.

What does Trump have on Bragg? Who is this guy?

And ... the net result of the resignations is that he is not going to be charged ...

Anonymous wrote:Hmmm.... Maybe these attorneys have concluded this is nothing but a politically motivated witch hunt.

You should read the article next time. They say the resignation is in protest of the DA's reluctance to pursue charges against Trump.

"The prosecutors, Carey R. Dunne and Mark F. Pomerantz, submitted their resignations after the new Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, indicated to them that he had doubts about moving forward with a case against Mr. Trump, the people said."

So it seems these attorneys actually think Trump is guilty as sin, and are pissed off that he's going to get away with it again.