You don’t have to be a Donald Trump supporter to realize that his conviction raises serious questions. For example, how can you be convicted of covering up a crime when you haven’t been found guilty of the crime you allegedly covered up? How can the mere receiving of bills from your attorney (counts 1, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 29, 32) be crimes?
If Trump’s bookkeeper had created ledger entries (counts 2, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33) and check stubs (counts 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, 31, 34) that read “bill from attorney” instead of “attorney’s fees,” would there be no case against Trump?
How many other people in New York have been found guilty of a felony for the wording used on their check stubs? What kind of legal hocus pocus changed these misdemeanors into felonies? Why wasn’t this case brought the day after Trump left office?
This case was less about demonstrating that no one is above the law and more about demonstrating how a politically motivated district attorney can make a felon out of anyone.
Ed Pencoske
Trafford