let's remember what got the notorious Al Capone behind bars: tax fraud.
This feels more like going after Al Capone for an unpaid parking ticket. Except he already went to court to fight the ticket and the cop didn’t show up and it was dismissed
ok that was a pretty good analogy
if this is conventional wisdom/popular opinion, then the right has already won. and i get it, stormy had her moment in the spotlight what seems like eons ago in this age of short attention spans.
what, exactly, has trump successfully defended himself against? reminder: in the stormy affair, trump was never criminally accused of anything. she sued him first to have the NDA invalidated, and then later for libel.
michael cohen got 3 years for his involvement so clearly there were crimes committed: campaign finance violations, business record falsification, tax evasion, bank fraud, etc.
the state DA investigated trump and declined to prosecute him for what she focused on, valuation manipulations and insurance fraud. lots of reasons other than innocence can explain why a DA doesn't proceed with a case. the manhattan DA has, as far as we know, honed in the stormy's payments. so, different crimes (AKA not the same traffic ticket... also, using a traffic ticket as an analogy on minimizes the crimes).
there is a theory out there that the DA might be going for more than just individual, unrelated crimes. instead, they might try making this a
RICO case by arguing that the long list of (at times low-level) crimes are symptomatic of an inherently corrupt organization. should they go for this grand-slam, more crimes will be heaped on to the stormy thing.
