“A criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election.”
That’s the crime prosecutor Matthew Colangelo – a top official in Joe Biden’s Justice Department until he joined the Manhattan district attorney’s office to prosecute Donald Trump – claimed last week Trump had committed.
That “scheme” is why Trump faces 34 New York state felony charges for “falsifying business records,” a crime that is normally a misdemeanor, Colangelo said in his opening statement to the Manhattan jury that will decide if Trump is guilty.
In mid-April, a Richard L. Hasen, a left-leaning expert on election law, wrote in the Los Angeles Times the New York charges “are so minor I don’t expect they will shake up the presidential race.”
Hasen was half-right. The charges are minor. But the way prosecutors are framing the case is not. Local Democratic prosecutors want to send Trump, a Republican, to prison, for a “crime” that comes down to beating Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Win or lose, their effort may destabilize the American legal system for decades.
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Author: Alex Berenson
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