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The Legal Issues In Trump's New York Trial, In Detail

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With the start of the Trump New York trial, the legal theories behind the various Trump lawfare cases are beginning to become clear. Alan Dershowitz gives a 30,000 foot interpretation in this YouTube video . At 7:28, he gives a simplified version of the prosecution's strategy: Today was the first, pretty much, day of trial for Donald Trump. There's only one problem withthe trial: no reasonable person can figure out what the crime is. For example, today the witness was this guy Pecker from the National Enquirer, this kinda rag, that does "catch and kill", yuou know, he makes money by geting rich people to pay him to buy stories from people who are going to be exposing famous people, and then he buys the story and gets an exclusive with the accuser, and then doesn't run the story. A pretty sleazy journalism, not a crime! Why did we have a whole day of testimony on something that may be immoral but isn't a crime? And in the next days, we're ...