About trump: Isn't all the fraudulent evidence the NY AG anounced today...

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much the same as what Manhattan DA prosecutors had on trump earlier and were prepared to indict, yet their boss, Manhattan DA Bragg, shut the case down?

Sure makes one wonder what was up with that.

[wryter2000]

1. I believe so

That definitely stank.

[Ocelot II]

2. Maybe, but a criminal case has to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

The NY AG's case is a civil case, which needs to be proved only by a preponderance of the evidence (51%). So the evidence in the civil case might not be enough to get a conviction in a criminal case.

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4. Aren't there are thousands of pages of bank, tax and real estate records/documents...

filed to attest to all this that the AG's office spent years investigating? Isn't this a paper case?

[Ocelot II]

5. It is a paper case, but the problem with a paper case is

that the paper doesn't always demonstrate the degree of intent that's needed to prove a criminal case. Since TFG doesn't use email, the testimony of others would be necessary to prove that TFG personally intended beyond a reasonable doubt that he intended to commit the fraud that's the basis of the NYAG's civil case. That evidence probably isn't in the paperwork.

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6. Ok, signatures to fraudulent records which overvalue assets by...

not just rounding up or down amounts, but by two, three and four times actual value...I mean not what can be excused as "honest" mistakes?

[magicarpet]

3. Lest we forget,..

.. how Billy Barr prostituted himself at the alter of the Orange Messiah.

The Manhattan DA Bragg could likely be a member in good standing in the Orange Messiah's KKKlub. Unwavering blind loyalty for some reason or other.