The outrageous Manhattan trial of Donald Trump, commonly known as “the Hush Money trial” has been dragging on for about three weeks.  Outrageous because it condemns Trump for conduct which: 1) isn’t criminal; 2) should have been barred by the statute of limitations; and 3) is taking place in the jurisdiction least likely to provide the former president with a fair trial.  Clearly I like nothing about this kangaroo court farce, and that includes the name.  Every media outlet keeps reporting that Trump is being tried because of “hush money” payments.  What’s being called “hush money” are non-disclosure agreements, which were negotiated between Donald Trump and two women and a Trump Tower doorman, all of whom either were threatening or were in a position to make allegations of marital infidelity against Trump as he was running for president in to 2016.  All three executed non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), in which they received money in return for promising not to disclose potentially damaging information.   That’s not a crime.  But don’t take it from me.  The following is from Bloomberg Legal, a service that boasts it is used by 96% of law firms and 100% of U.S. Federal Circuit Courts –

“Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and confidentiality agreements are both legal contracts between two or more parties that specify the criteria for maintaining the confidentiality of certain information. Whereas NDAs are often used in business and legal settings to protect trade secrets, client lists, and financial data, confidentiality agreements are typically devised in employment or personal situations to protect sensitive information.”

So if paying the money ( including $150,000 to Karen McDougal and $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels) isn’t a crime, what’s Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg talking about?  Try to follow the bouncing ball.  Alvin, who was elected on a pledge to prosecute Trump, revived an investigation that had been abandoned by the federal U.S. Attorney and by the former Manhattan D.A.  The indictment alleges that Trump’s payments to former attorney, and now convicted perjurer, Michael Cohen, reimbursing him for his making the payments to the two women and the doorman, are crimes because they were listed by Trump as “legal expenses.”  Alvin says this is illegal because instead of legal expenses, they were campaign expenses, which should have been paid for with campaign money from donors.  Although the other prosecutors investigated this and rejected prosecution, Alvin, with the help of a Biden Justice Dept. official, and in league with the Biden Administration, returned 34 felony counts.  Now a false business record isn’t a felony in New York, it’s a misdemeanor.  The payments to Cohen took place in 2017, and the misdemeanor statute of limitations is 2 years.  But wait!  Alvin claims that the false records were made to commit or hide another crime, making them felonies.  Only, when the indictment was returned last year, it failed to mention what other crime.  When the trial began last month we finally learned.  Get this.  Alvin says Trump listed the payments as legal expenses in an attempt to affect the outcome of the 2016 election.  How could payments in 2017 affect an election that was over in 2016?  You got me.  And what about the pesky 5 year statute of limitations on the felony counts, which ran out before the indictment was returned?  No problem.  A provision of New York law allows the extension of the statute if a defendant was “continually out of the State.”  Of course, Trump wasn’t continually out of New York, and the exception was designed for fugitives, and not to capture a President of the United States, who is sitting in the Oval Office and is openly and notoriously on TV every day, but no matter.  The prick judge who’s trying the case brushed off his kangaroo skin robes and allowed this farce to continue.  Along the way, the judge has held Trump in contempt 9 times, and threatened him with jail for violating an unconstitutional gag order, which prevents him from speaking, while permitting State witnesses Stormy Daniels and convicted liar, and disbarred attorney Cohen, to attack Trump to their hearts content.  The trial has, so far, been pretty boring, probably because it’s hard to make exciting testimony which is designed to prove that things were done that every business does every day of the week, not to mention every politician.  Remember Bill Clinton’s War Room employee Betsy Wright, who was in charge of hushing up Slick Willie’s former and current girlfriends?  She did that by calling the incidents “bimbo eruptions,” and by threatening and slandering the women involved.  Bill Clinton used defamation and got away with it.  Trump used legal agreements based on consideration (money) paid, and they want him in prison for life.  By the way, just yesterday, Daniels’ lawyer, testifying for the State, told Alvin that the money “was not hush money, but consideration” for a legal agreement.  I think I just pointed that out.  The Manhattan indictment smells, and the smell is coming from several directions.  First, if you pay your lawyer to prepare and finance legal agreements (NDAs), how are the expenses not legal fees?  Bragg claims they were really campaign expenses, should have been logged that way, and paid for with campaign funds.  The Federal Election Commission, which is in charge of such things, disagrees, saying that payments which would have been made regardless of an election, are not campaign expenses.  So, if Trump used campaign money, the Feds would charge him with a violation and fine him.  Because he used personal funds, Alvin charged him with 34 felonies.  I guess that’s Manhattan justice for you.  Alvin says it was a conspiracy.   A conspiracy to do what?  To defraud the public, by not letting the bimbos reveal embarrassing information before the election, thus permitting Trump to win in 2016.  As I have written before, if trying to bury embarrassing information was a crime, both Hillary and Bill Clinton would be walking the Green Mile.  But Trump’s trial continues, and all media outlets continue to repeat “hush money, hush money” over and over again.  Malcolm X had it right.  “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth.  They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power, because they control the minds of the masses.”  We keep being told, by Trump himself, among others, that he can never get a fair trial in Manhattan.   I’m afraid that may be so, but Trump has two lawyers on his jury, and I keep hoping at least one juror will see this mockery of justice for what it is and at least hang the jury.  Time will tell.  Meanwhile Trump is locked up in the courtroom and forbidden to leave it, while Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden is free to stagger, limp, and wander about, spewing lies that he knows the media will thereupon swear to.  I cling to the hope that this jury will say, “Hush, hush, sweet Alvin, your case is a load of shit – Not Guilty.  Well, I can hope anyway.