Wow. Talk about split-screen narratives. Or, one screen two movies. The Dems see it this way, the Reps see it that way.
The way that the narrative is seen by Alvin Bragg the Prosecutor, Judge Juan Merchan and the tribe, is that in fact the “Bookkeeping error” -- if indeed it was an “error”, which it wasn’t -- was in fact a very deep concept to steal the 2016 election. Anything, anything to find a reason other than Hillary Clinton being a bad candidate.
First, Hillary’s “Russia collusion” claim, bolstered by her invented Steel Dossier, all of it found as nothing, by the Mueller Report.
Now a hush-money payment to steal an election. And the Dems really believe it. At least many many do. Apparently.
Snip from Andy McCarthy:
I was mesmerized by the Blehar blast at the Trump trial. (It’s really time for Jeff to come out of his shell, don’t you think?) And he’s right: It would be a travesty for anyone, let alone a former American president and de facto major-party nominee to return to the presidency, to be consigned to Rikers Island, Attica, or some similarly squalid New York hoosegow over a “crime” — I guess I should say 34 “crimes” — that the Democratic district attorney manufactured before the Democratic judge guided the jury to its guilty verdict.
Brother Jeff inhabits the real world. In that shrinking space, Trump was found guilty of trivial business-records infractions which should have been time-barred by 2019 and regarding which the district attorney can point to no fraud victims — just like the Empire State’s Democratic attorney general could point to no fraud victims in her civil-fraud case against Trump before the Democratic judge found him liable for over half a billion dollars in damages (on which interest continues to accrue even as the appellate process snails along).
Alas, people who see Bragg’s case that way, the way Jeff and I see it, are narrative-challenged.
Having followed the case closely from the start, and even been through the looking-glass during the trial’s last weeks, I must tell you: That’s not the way it played in the courtroom.
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ADDED: “Another election boost for Trump” [Word] by Lionel Shriver [or at the magazine]
