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Former President Donald Trump, with lawyer Todd Blanche (L), attends the second day of his trial for allegedly covering
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current president hits the campaign trail.
New poll shows Biden closing 90,442
gap on Trump — but that’s
where good news ends for They have taken to calling Don­ald Trump “Hitler Pig” in
Democrats emails and text messages among White House staff,
campaign aides and other Democrats close to the
Woke Dems have lied about administration, reported Politico Wednesday.
transgender suicide — but there
is hope
So much for Joe Biden bringing civility back to politics.
Dr. Jill Biden’s main priority:
Putting herself first as country That’s as believable as his other tall tales, that he stopped Ilhan Omar's daughter suspended
flounders under Joe from Barnard College for her
inflation and never spoke to his son about overseas business involvement in anti-Israel protests
dealings.

Behind closed doors, the president reportedly calls Trump a “sick f–k” and a ­“f–cking a–hole.” 83,624

Itmust infuriate Biden that all the lawfare that his DOJ and other Democratic prosecutors have flung at
Trump has succeeded so far only in turning public sympathy toward the former president and given him a
constant ­media presence.

Trump seems to have a knack for turning legal lemons into polling lemonade.

Of all the cases to go to trial first, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s hush-money case is the feeblest and most Cops storm Columbia, bust 100 anti-
srael protesters after university prez
embarrassing — for Trump’s Democratic persecutors, as well as for Trump himself as it involves finally tells NYPD to clear campus
allegations, which he denies, that he had an adulterous affair with a porn star and then had his then-
Michael Cohen pay her off before the 2016 election to stop her spilling the beans.
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Bragg has been doing his best to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear by trying to recast the case as
being about election interference, in which Trump sought to keep voters in the dark about damaging
information — the Daniels payoff — that could have cost him victory in 2016.

“The case — the core of it — is not money for sex,” Bragg said in a radio interview last year.

“We would say it’s about conspiring to corrupt a presidential election and then lying in New York business
12 jurors now selected for Trump's
records to cover it up.” 'hush money' trial

Bragg has declared he was compelled to bring the case because he “cannot and will not normalize
serious criminal conduct.”

That’s a joke, because normalizing criminal conduct is all that Bragg has done since his first day in office,
to the great detriment of the residents of this city.

In his infamous “day one” memo made public in January 2022, he directed his office to downgrade felony
charges for armed robbery and drug dealing.

Giving thugs a pass

Instead of getting tough on thugs randomly punching women in the face, Bragg is cracking down on
“irregular bookkeeping.”

Here he is, while violent criminals roam the streets, seeking 34 felony counts in a case against Trump that
is really about a misdemeanor allegation of falsifying business records to conceal the hush-money
payments.

According to Bragg, Trump should have told his accountants to list the $130,000 payment to Daniels as
“hush money” rather than legal fees, which you would think rather defeats the purpose of paying hush
money in the first place.

Bragg has creatively transformed this bookkeeping misdemeanor into a felony by alleging the falsification
was done to conceal campaign-finance violations.

His star witness is Cohen, a convicted felon, perjurer and disbarred lawyer with a pathological hatred of
his former boss and a Rolodex stuffed with the most Trump-deranged media figures in the country, such
as Don Lemon, Rachel Maddow and George Stephanopoulos.

A curious element of the case is that lawyer Bob Costello, who was briefly Cohen’s legal adviser after the
Trump fixer was raided by the FBI in 2018, has not been asked to testify on Trump’s behalf as a character
witness against Cohen.

Costello was a dynamite witness for Trump in his testimony to the grand jury.

When Costello first met Cohen at The Regency hotel, Cohen was distraught and suicidal, and said
repeatedly, “I will never spend a day in jail” and “I don’t care what the f–k I have to do,” according to a file
note Costello wrote afterward memorializing the meeting.

Cohen kept asking what his “escape hatch” was, and Costello, a former Manhattan senior federal
prosecutor, told him information incriminating Trump would be his “get out of jail free” card.

And yet Cohen insisted to his lawyers that he didn’t have anything on Trump to trade.

Now Cohen has changed his tune again, and on his word rests Bragg’s entire flimsy case.

Costello is perplexed about why he hasn’t been asked to testify by Trump’s defense team.

The omission has led people close to Trump to question the motives of the praetorian guard of advisers
insulating the former president, with suspicions that someone in his inner sanctum may have been
compromised by DOJ special counsel Jack Smith .

Finger-pointing
Fingers have pointed to Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn, said to be an “unindicted co-conspirator” in
Smith’s filings and described as a “control freak” who has alienated other Trump lawyers, such as David
Schoen and Tim Parlatore.

When Parlatore quit the classified-documents case, he blamed Epshteyn for “doing everything he could to
try to . . . prevent us from doing what we could to ­defend the president.”

People close to Trump’s legal team say that any insinuation that Epshteyn is a detriment to the former
president’s defense is “completely wrong and unfounded.” Instead, he is an “invaluable asset to the team
as they fight to defend the president [Trump].”

Whatever is going on, Costello is Trump’s trump card and it is inexplicable that he would be left out of the
case.

In the end, as with the rest of the lawfare against Trump, this trial serves as a smokescreen to cover the
corruption revelations about the Bidens that have come from the House impeachment committees.

Biden let the cat out of the bag when asked about the probes of Trump the day after the 2022 midterms
when he said his goal was to make sure Trump doesn’t take power.

“We just have to demonstrate that he will not take power if he does run, making sure he — under
legitimate efforts of our Constitution — does not become the next president again.”

The next month, Biden’s No. 3 political appointee at the DOJ, Matthew Colangelo, was sent to Bragg’s
office to run the Trump case.

Bragg is a cog in the Democratic attack machine.

That’s the real election interference.

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Eevan
16 hours ago
I enjoyed seeing the author of this article, Miranda Devine, on the Stephen Gardner YouTube
hannel. She nailed it all the way thru the interview. She was brilliant; needs to do more

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Never Nikki
13 hours ago
Unfortunately or fortunately, the Dems truly believe they will be in power forever. They
eem very certain Trump won't win a 3 rd time. I hope they are wrong and fail miserablely
time but they do have tons of tricks up their an.uses.
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Accidental Influencer
6 hours ago
Democrats - Making Donald Trump more electable with every passing minute! Keep up
great work!
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Humphrey Bogard
10 hours ago
This was serious enough for Trump’s own DOJ to prosecute and convict Cohen of it and send
im to jail. The federal prosecutors wanted to also go after Trump but Bill Barr ordered them
stand down and not go after him. Thank you Alvin Bragg for holding this criminal
Also congratula...
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Gravity two
3 hours ago
Homicides haven't been reduced. If no witness comes forward and no suspect is found,
murder isn't added to the record of homicides.
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Hoss
10 hours ago
Coming from a lib who fell for the russian collusion hoax - too funny. How does maddow
such a hold on your lib minds? pretty extraordinary
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Wanker Dongster
6 hours ago
I would like to know how much taxpayer money is being wasted on these Trump indictments.
t this point, it's got to be in the billions. All the lawyers, cops, judges being used by the Dems

a desperate effort to maintain power is being paid for by us.

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