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Jonathan Turley, one of those lawyer/professors that the right brings out to appear unbiased, seems to have finally figured out the story:
Even for those of us who have long been critics of the “hush money” case against Donald Trump and its dubious legal theory, it has been surprising to see that the prosecutors had no more evidence than we previously knew about.
The assumption was that no rational prosecutor would base a major criminal case almost entirely on the testimony of Michael Cohen, who was recently denounced by a judge as a serial perjurer peddling “perverse” theories in court.
The calculus of Alvin Bragg is now obvious. He is counting on the jury convicting Trump regardless of the evidence.
This may be the week Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump falls apart
This was always the plan. Bragg wanted to be the first to get former President Trump on a criminal case to raise his profile. I don’t believe that he wanted to go first in terms of a case, for his’ was the weakest, but now he’s pinning everything on the jury convicting Trump, which he believes is a foregone conclusion.
Trump’s defense team is pinning their hopes that they can get the judge to see that there is no “there there” and not let the case go to the jury. I think that’s a long shot as well.
