[Steely Tom]

I suspect that Alvan Bragg has no “off” switch, based on cultural factors.

[Sacajaweau]

I keep thinking that Melania is going to walk in after Cohen finishes his "I hate Trump" monologue....and tells the jury...

"As soon as McDougal and Daniels began their "scheme", my husband and I sat down. He said..."I was NOT involved with either of these women. I'm just learning what they're all about. It seems to be an extortion scheme.

[MtnClimber]

The NYC leftists are probably proud of themselves as they step over poop and needles only to be distracted by the sidewalk obstacles and blindside assaulted by someone who does not speak English.

[LastDayz]

Please don’t. Let them continue to destroy themselves and show the whole world their ginormous brown round.

[Political Junkie Too]

More from Turley:

After Bragg closes the prosecution’s case, the defense will make a standard motion for dismissal. Merchan should grant that motion.

There has been no showing of an actual crime, let alone a clear record tying Trump to key decisions or actions.

Merchan will then have to decide whether he has the courage that Bragg lacked.

Stopping the trial after the prosecution rests its case would be the best outcome for everyone.

-PJ

[AndyTheBear]

Yet he stands accused of using the “false business records” to somehow steal or rig an election that was already over.

Which is why I am not sure how even a misdemeanor charge of falsifying business records can be supported, much less the extension of it to a felony for a "different crime". You have to have a crime before there can be a "different" one.

The "Second Degree" falsification which is the misdemeanor requires an "intent to defraud":

A person is guilty of falsifying business records in the second degree when, with intent to defraud, he:

1.Makes or causes a false entry in the business records of an enterprise; or

2.Alters, erases, obliterates, deletes, removes or destroys a true entry in the business records of an enterprise; or

3.Omits to make a true entry in the business records of an enterprise in violation of a duty to do so which he knows to be imposed upon him by law or by the nature of his position; or

4.Prevents the making of a true entry or causes the omission thereof in the business records of an enterprise. Falsifying business records in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.

Since the entries were all made AFTER the election, who was "defraud"ed by these entries? And if nobody was defrauded, how on Earth do you have any basis for second degree falsification?