Until now, XT has been posting baseless opinions that he pulled from his ass. At least he's citing a source this time. What Dershowitz is saying is shared by others, people who are not GOP partisans. Does XT seem desperate because he obviously cherry picked to confirm his bias rather than learn? Yes he does. Still, though, he gave us something to refer to so we that we have more than his raving and rants to go on.
https://abc7news.com/why-trump-indictment-might-hinge-on-a-novel-legal-theory/13059302/
Falsifying business records is usually a misdemeanor in New York, but charges could be enhanced to a felony if done in furtherance of another crime. In theory, the alleged felony could amount to federal campaign violation if prosecutors argue it helped Trump politically coming so close to an election.
"We are pretty sure that at the heart of this charge is filing false business records with an attempt to defraud -- that's a misdemeanor, a state charge -- that can become a felony if it's done in furtherance of another crime," Shaw said. "So, the question becomes what might that other crime be?"
"If it's a federal campaign finance crime, that is pretty novel legal terrain," she continued. "It's also possible that there's another crime, in the vein of a state tax crime, that a false records charge could be tied to, making it into a felony."
Then again, Bragg's not stupid,
As the Manhattan DA weighs criminal charges against the ex-president, one former senior law enforcement official says Bragg will also need to treat it “like a political exercise.” Prosecutors who don’t will “usually get in trouble.”
www.vanityfair.com
When Bragg took office, he inherited the cases from Trump and he hit the brakes, cancelling one investigation, drawing criticism that Bragg was weak..
People who have worked with Bragg find this interpretation implausible. Instead, they believe it was completely in character for the DA to have slowed down the Trump investigation while methodically evaluating the evidence. His team may also be incorporating valuable new witnesses and fresh evidence, including Trump’s tax returns. And even Snell wholeheartedly backs Bragg against the critique that linking the murky payment to Stormy Daniels with an alleged violation of federal election regulations—something necessary to charge the former president with a felony—is a novel, tenuous legal strategy. “I think that criticism is ridiculous,” Snell says. “It’s not a novel legal theory to simply apply the plain letter of the law. Just because you haven’t had a situation where that law was paired with a particular crime before does not make it a weird, far-out legal theory. It just means that this permutation of laws has never occurred before. If people are going to say that this combination of statutes is uncharted—well, yeah, the combination of offenses is uncharted too.”
Terri Gerstein worked with Bragg as a prosecutor in the New York attorney general’s office, and she regards him so highly that she campaigned for him to be elected DA. “When you’re on the outside of a government investigation, you just don’t know what’s happening on the inside, even if someone was a prosecutor themselves,” says Gerstein, who is now the director of a workers’ rights program at Harvard. “Alvin is not someone who would bring a weak case. He follows the law and the facts without fear or favor.”
