On 30 May 2024, NY DA Alvin Bragg successfully prosecuted former President Donald John Trump and received 34 felony count convictions for accounting related to a Non-Disclosure Agreement termed "HUSH MONEY" by the media.
As a result, whether or not the verdict is overturned, members of the HONEST MEDIA (if any exist) who are covering political activities or campaigns now have the professional obligation to ask and demand an answer to the question: "Have you ever been a party to, or associated with a Non-Disclosure Agreement?"
The only acceptable answer is an immediate "NO."
If the individual hesitates, equivocates, or avoids answering, the presumption is they have been and it is something that could affect their campaign.
Interstingly, a yes requires them to disclose that which the NDA said was not to be disclosed.
Effectively, Bragg has made NDAs invalid in the political arena.
If the subject of the NDA could in any way alter a single vote, the data must be disclosed or be classified as Election Interference.
If the payments are reported to the tax authorities, the way they were classified -- if not specifically stated as an NDA payment -- would indicate tax fraud. Thus, ALL NDAs -- politically related or not -- must be itemized as such. They are NOT legal fees or a form of legal reimbursement except where the NDA association is clearly stated.
The Trump Trial Verdict has altered the law and media reporting responsibility. There is also the possibility that suppressing or intentionally declining to report a story is now illegal. The Media MUST report all stories that could impact public attitudes.
We know the Media will violate the legal mandate implied by the Trump verdict. But we also know that the Judge, in his directions to the jury, specifically stated that inferred criminality is sufficient for a guilty verdict.
Juries no longer need "Beyond Reasonable Doubt."
Juries no longer need to see the Biblical test of TWO WITNESSES to an event. Inferring it rained because the sidewalk is wet is sufficient to claim with certainty that it rained (as opposed to a street cleaner passing by and washing the street, or someone with a garden hose washing it, or that a tanker truck had spilled liquid on the street and sidewalk).
The core of American Law has been changed.
Cities or States can now invoke Federal Laws that the Federal Government did not believe were violated. In the case of Trump, a CPA Accountant determined that a payment to an attorney for work performed, and expenses incurred in performance of that work, were LEGAL EXPENSES.
The costs must now be itemized in detail -- subject to appellate court review of the Trump verdict.
Given the established maximum penalty, trump can be fined $170,000 and sentenced to 136 years in jail. Or he can be fined $5,000 and get four years in prison -- rather than four more years in the Oval Office.
Republicans impeached Clinton over sex but declined to go after the money aspect (over $800,000). Democrats retaliated by impeaching Trump and going after the money ($130,000).
Since both impeachments failed, we now know that the proper state venue going after the money will achieve as much or more.
New York has now established it appeared to be anti-business. This was done in a manner that made it clear that the Governor of New York had to issue a statement saying they were only going to prosecute Trump, and would ignore the same loan-related activities conducted by others.
However, the 30 May verdict now shows New York State is opposed to standard {LEGAL} business practices and that this extends to any practice designed to establish privacy or protect trade secrets. For Trump, the possibility he had sex with a porn actress impacts the idea he could have had sex with a contestant in a beauty pageant.
Given that Trump's wife, Melania is a Beauty Queen, the fact that he needed to have sex with an overweight and basically ugly porn star is an insult to Melania...in itself ample reason for a NDA. If we assume they really did have sex -- which was only her word, and lacked witnesses to their meeting at the location involved.
Well, the weaponization of the legal system has been achieved. Business in general is now exposed to any form of "crime" the DAs seek to assert for personal or political benefit.
America has become a Banana Republic and its economy, under the second term of Joe Biden which will undoubtedly be completed by President Kamila Harris after 2027, is headed down the toilet.
China is cheering. While Russia and Iran are preparing to trigger World War Three. All we need now is a Great Depression 1929 style collapse in New York to ensure the nuclear war occurs.
