“It’s everywhere!”
A CNN legal analyst exclaimed as he tackled Alvin Bragg’s bogus hush money trial during CNN’s “News Central” segment.
If there was one thing Bragg successfully did in the trial, it was to tarnish the New York justice system and weaponize the law against the leading presidential candidate.
Defense lawyer Randy Zelin slammed the prosecutors in Donald Trump’s trial, emphasizing that Bragg and his panel “fell way short.”
Zelin told host Kate Bolduan, “The burden of proof is an important one to remind everyone: It’s on the prosecution, right? They need to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he committed — that Donald Trump broke the law. And you think after listening to all of this, you think they fell short. How?”
The CNN legal analyst continued, “They fell way short because let’s start with reasonable doubt. What is reasonable doubt? And it’s not simply a doubt based upon reason. Any time a human being needs to make an important decision in life, if you have enough information, for example, a doctor says you need open heart surgery. ‘Doc, go ahead and schedule. I don’t have a reasonable doubt.’ Conversely, if I say, ‘I appreciate it, but I need a second opinion, I need more information,’ that is having a reasonable doubt. There is reasonable doubt all over this case.”
Zelin argued, “Where is Keith Schiller? Where is Allen Weisselberg? How did Michael Cohen get away with stealing $30,000? Hold a pity party for him — made $4 million on this, thought he’d be chief of staff. He’s a fixer! If the plumber comes to my house to fix my leak, I could be home. That doesn’t mean I know how he’s doing it and what it’s taking to be fixed.”
“Stormy Daniels, let’s hold a pity party for her. Why do we need to know whether or not the former president wore a condom or not?” asked the CNN legal analyst.
“It’s simply about: Did the former president know that books, his records, false entries for legal fees, Michael Cohen was his lawyer, getting intent to cover up the election or to protect his family? It’s everywhere. Everywhere!”
Bragg accused the presumptive Republican presidential nominee with 34 counts of falsifying business records to secure payment for porn star Stormy Daniels.
Trump maintained his innocence.
The prosecution’s burden is to prove that Trump “beyond reasonable doubt” concealed his $130,000 payment to Daniels to silence her amid the 2016 election.
Trump’s lawyers agreed with Zelin and said during the closing arguments on Tuesday that Bragg failed to “meet the burden of proof. Period.”
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