Lisa Rubin-Why Trump's attempt to dismiss the New York hush money case warrants attention

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Yes, the brief's everything-but-the-kitchen sink, grievance-laden brief is predictable. But it's also a potential harbinger of policies — and penalties — to come.

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-motion-hush-money-case-dismiss-todd-blanche-rcna182826

It contains several statements that are misleading at best.
The brief contains multiple plain statements of purported fact that run the gamut from misleading to baseless. For example, there is no proof that the Biden Justice Department “sent” Matthew Colangelo, who served as the chief aide to Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, to the Manhattan DA's office, much less that the DOJ and Bragg's team were in cahoots to “unfairly target President Trump in this empty and lawless case.”

Likewise, in arguing that the DA’s office tolerated former Trump fixer Michael Cohen’s repeated lies while punishing former Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg with a second prison term for “alleged perjury,” the Trump team blames the DA for choosing the “morally bankrupt choice.” But it ignores that Weisselberg pleaded guilty to two perjury counts concerning his testimony in the Trump civil fraud case, which is currently on appeal.....

Its arguments about misconduct or bias take on an ominous tone given Trump's top law enforcement picks.
Trump's intended nominees to lead the primary federal law enforcement agencies, namely, Pam Bondi at the DOJ and Kash Patel at the FBI, have publicly warned that critics of Trump and/or those who have prosecuted him will be pursued. In light of those pledges, then, the brief's accusations of misconduct and/or bias by certain individuals, whether named prosecutors, a member of the district attorney's family, or even the CEO of a political consulting firm in which the judge's daughter is a partner, takes on an ominous tone.

To be sure, not everyone in a Trump-led DOJ shares Bondi's or Patel's thirst for revenge and/or urge to purge the purported "deep state." Trump world encompasses more reasonable, experienced minds who surely recognize no federal statute criminalizes even the most charged of the brief's allegations, such as its assertion that by the time Trump was tried last spring, "the prosecutors were willing to say or do anything to obtain a conviction." But assuming they push back against any planned persecution of those involved in the Trump criminal cases, can they prevail? And will they survive? I'm not convinced.

[dugog55]

1. The title " Hush money case" is newspaper jargon

Trump was charged and convicted with 34 counts of felony fraud. The media just changed the title to make it sound less ominous and criminal.