Fox News correspondent Nate Foy has more on the four-hour-long jury deliberations Wednesday in the NY v. Trump trial on 'Special Report.'
As former President Donald Trump awaits a Manhattan jury’s verdict, he can be forgiven for feeling that his criminal trial resembles a surreal "Alice in Wonderland" farce. He is left to peer through a "Looking-Glass" where everything is backward.
The culprit for this hallucinatory nightmare is District Attorney Alvin Bragg who brought a bizarre case based on warped interpretations of law and distorted facts. It is now up to twelve jurors to wade through the lunacy in search of the illusive truth.
Bragg’s fractured case requires the jury to reach several distinct conclusions on issues that make little sense to begin with. A Ouija board might help.
JURY BEGINS DELIBERATIONS IN NY V. TRUMP TRIAL AS FORMER PRESIDENT BLASTS CHARGES AS 'RIGGED'
Prosecutors allege that Trump falsified business records by booking payments to ex-porn star Stormy Daniels as "legal expenses" and that it was done to conceal or commit another uncharged crime not identified in the indictment. This is the so-called "mystery" or secondary crime that was never fully specified by the DA, even during the trial.
In other words, jurors must now guess. We’ll return to that in a moment. But the first step is to determine whether the record entries were accurate. If they were, there can be no secondary crime and the case should end with an acquittal.
This makes the records themselves the threshold question to resolve.
The Trump Organization controller testified that he alone made the decision to enter the term "legal expenses" in the company’s computer program. Why? Because the Daniels reimbursements were paid to the defendant’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, who handled the legal transaction.
No one, including Trump, directed the routine accounting decision. It........