April 15, 2024
“Reality TV” Soviet Show Trial Of Trump Begins To “Keep The Masses Entertained”
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A thought-provoking new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting the leftist American media establishment has begun pumping out fear-drenched articles like “The World Stands On The Brink Of All-Out War”, “The West Must Remember How To Fight. It May Already Be Too Late” and “The US Army’s Power To Rapidly Defeat Enemies May Be A Thing Of The Past”, says this avalanche of leftist media fear caused Director Maxim Suchkov of the MGIMO School of Government and International Affairs to assess: “The US presidential campaign is not only a central event in the country’s social and political life, but also a time for reflection on the big issues: where America is going, its place in the world…And what it should be…Uncle Sam doesn’t know whether to look for affection or to coerce other states into toeing the line…The elites need to make up their mind”.
As it pertains to the mindset of the warmongering socialist elites ruling America, this report notes, it’s evidenced in the just released article “19 Retired Generals, Admirals File Supreme Court Brief Against Trump Immunity Bid” and the news: “Trump will make history Monday morning by taking his seat at the defense table in a Manhattan courtroom, where the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president will begin”.
Facing President Donald Trump today, this report continues, is an indictment brought against him by radical socialist Democrat Party prosecutor Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who alleges that the Trump Organization made false entries in its general ledger to make hush money payments—in total Bragg alleges 34 such false entries were made, all of which are misdemeanors if proven true—instead of misdemeanors, however, Bragg charged these 34 false entries as felonies by linking them to a federal crime he has yet to reveal—if convicted on all of these alleged false entries into the general ledger it would see President Trump jailed for 136 years—and the Wall Street Journal, in its article “The Trump Trial Spectacle Begins”, observed:
The facts are these: Ms. Daniels has said that in 2006 she and Mr. Trump had one, er, intimate encounter.
A decade later, as the 2016 election neared, Mr. Trump’s fixer Michael Cohen paid Ms. Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet. A nondisclosure agreement isn’t illegal.
Mr. Bragg’s complaint is about the paperwork. Mr. Cohen was reimbursed through 2017 via a monthly retainer “disguised as a payment for legal services”. the DA said.
He padded his indictment by separately charging each invoice, check and ledger entry to get 34 counts.
Falsifying business records in New York can be a misdemeanor, but the statute of limitations on that has expired. Mr. Bragg therefore must charge felonies, which under New York law means showing that Mr. Trump cooked the books with “intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof”.
Even that requires special dispensation. The 2017 payments are outside the five-year felony window, but state judge Juan Merchan ruled that Mr. Bragg enjoys an extra year of leeway after emergency Covid-19 executive orders stopped the clock on legal cases.
The crucial question is Mr. Trump’s alleged second crime. To bring bookkeeping felonies, Mr. Bragg needs an underlying offense that Mr. Trump intended to commit or conceal, even if it isn’t prosecuted.
Mr. Bragg didn’t charge the second crime and didn’t clearly identify it in last year’s indictment. His court filings since have advanced four theories of what that crime might be, three of which the judge blessed.
One theory is that the Stormy payoff was effectively a donation to Mr. Trump’s campaign, in excess of federal limits. Two, he says the payment broke a New York law against promoting a candidate “by unlawful means”. Yet this loops back to No 1., since the “unlawful means”, Mr. Bragg said, include busting the federal donation cap.
It’s a dubious argument. Is paying a mistress a bona fide campaign expense? Brad Smith, a former member of the Federal Election Commission, has argued persuasively that the answer is no.
The DA’s third theory: Since the reimbursement was treated as payment for services, the amount was “grossed up” to ensure Mr. Cohen would “be left whole after paying approximately 50% in income taxes”, as Mr. Bragg told the court. Filing a false return, he added, is tax fraud. But it’s an odd kind of fraud if the result was Mr. Cohen overpaying taxes on illusory income. Perhaps such a distinction is legally irrelevant, as the judge suggested, though it matters to whether the case is worth bringing.
Such problems help explain why this case wasn’t pursued by the feds or Mr. Bragg’s predecessor. Yet the newly elected Democratic DA was under political pressure to do something. His top Trump prosecutors quit in a huff, and the media scorched him for failing to charge Mr. Trump in his first months on the job.
Now the country is on the brink of an extraordinary moment, as Mr. Bragg uses a weak and untested legal premise to put the other party’s presidential nominee on trial during the 2024 campaign.
Last Wednesday, this report details, President Trump posted the message: “LOOK WHAT I JUST FOUND!…WILL THE FAKE NEWS REPORT IT??”—and what he found that the fake news leftist media didn’t report one single word about was the officially signed legal document:
Official Statement of Stormy Daniels
January 30, 2018
To Whom It May Concern:
Over the past few weeks, I have been asked countless times to comment on reports of an alleged sexual relationship I had with Donald Trump many, many, many years ago.
The fact of the matter is that each party to this alleged affair denied its existence in 2006, 2011, 2016, 2017, and now again in 2018. I am not denying this affair because I was paid “hush money” as has been reported in overseas owned tabloids. I am denying this affair because it never happened.
I will have no further comment on this matter. Please feel free to check me out on Instagram at @thestormydaniels.
Colliding with the “Official Statement of Stormy Daniels”, this report notes, is the just released Politico article “Michael Cohen Is An Admitted Liar. He’s Still Going To Be The Star Witness Against Trump”, wherein it revealed: “By his own admission, he has lied in court…He has lied to the media…And he has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress…Now, he’s set to be state prosecutors’ key witness against Donald Trump…Michael Cohen, the former president’s fixer-turned-foe, is expected to tell jurors in the criminal trial starting Monday that Trump directed him to pay $130,000 in hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels so that she wouldn’t go public in the final weeks of the 2016 election with an allegation about a sexual encounter with Trump”.
Along with the Wall Street Journal warning today: “Picking an impartial jury on Democratic turf, where President Biden won 87% of the vote in the 2020 election, will be challenging, say trial consultants…“I can’t think of another place where he is more loathed than his hometown of New York City”, litigation consultant Alan Tuerkheimer said of Trump”, this report continues, world-renowned American constitutional law expert Professor Jonathan Turley at Georgetown University previously most factually observed: “Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has long been searching for a crime in the criminal code to fulfill his pitch during his campaign that he was the man for voters who wanted to bag Trump”—a factual observation exactly reminiscent of Lavrentiy Beria, the most ruthless and longest-serving secret police chief in Joseph Stalin’s reign of terror in the former Soviet Union, who bragged: “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime”—and was a Beria brag followed by “The Moscow Show Trials” and the political genocide in the former Soviet Union of all opponents to Stalin.
As the real life Soviet Show Trial of President Trump beings today, this report concludes, Republican Party leader Governor Chris Sununu assessed about this socialist kangaroo court travesty of justice yesterday: ”The average American just thinks it’s more reality TV”—and was a fitting and accurate assessment not surprisingly quickly followed by the article “Bread And Circuses: What It Means For Once-Great Nations”, wherein it observed: “Keep the masses stuffed and entertained, and they won’t utter a peep against you”.
[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
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