Former President Trump makes remarks outside the New York State Supreme Court after being fined over gag order violation.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Theater of the Absurd entered its third week, still without any evidence of crimes committed by the accused.
Playwright Samuel Beckett would be proud. The Trump hush money trial is like "Waiting for Godot" —a chaotic and nonsensical plot of absurdist fiction. The titular Godot, of course, never arrives. It is an apt metaphor for Bragg’s case against Donald Trump. Jurors may be waiting in vain for criminal offenses that don’t actually exist in the law.
All of which makes it a trial in search of an imaginary crime.
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But the District Attorney seems utterly unbothered that his charges are mutable, ill-defined, illusory, or just plain absent. Instead, he’s contrived a histrionic legal fable meant to fool the jury into thinking that Trump should be convicted for assignations with nefarious people like his ex-lawyer and convicted perjurer, Michael Cohen, as well as erstwhile porn star, Stormy Daniels.
Stormy Daniels (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images)
On Tuesday, another illusion of wrongdoing took center stage when Cohen’s banker, Gary Farro, testified that his client seemed anxious to create a shell company that was used to wire Daniels $130,000. But shell companies are perfectly legal, and there is no evidence whatsoever that Trump even knew about it. According to last week’s main witness, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, Cohen acted all on his own without his boss’ knowledge.
Bragg’s courtroom smear campaign against Trump continued with prosecution witness Keith Davidson, the Los Angeles lawyer for Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal, who purportedly had an affair with Trump. Davidson negotiated the so-called "hush money" payments for both his clients, which were completely lawful. Paying someone for their silence in exchange for a non-disclosure agreement is not a crime. Indeed, it’s a staple of thousands of settlement........