Cohen’s former attorney is back in the news because he has the goods to prove that Cohen is lying about Trump. Everyone reporting acts like it’s something new. It’s not. It’s been known for about three years and all came out back in the grand jury days. I’m sure I commented on it at the time and now Levin and others are calling on Bragg to be indicted for suborning perjury and violating the Brady rule requiring exculpatory evidence be given to the defendant and the grand jury. They specifically hid a great deal of evidence from the grand jury which would likely have resulted in no indictments but also let Cohen testify to things they know were false. Don’t expect anything to happen in New York but if Trump wins, I would love his DOJ to investigate Bragg et al for election interference.

In case you don’t know who this idiot is, and I’m pretty sure I’ve commented before, he’s either a freshman or sophomore congressman from New York who will say anything to support Magoo’s incompetence and agenda. The most recent was on Friday and still being lazy I didn’t get around to it until today. He said that the fact that Trump had been under investigation for a long time proves that there is no two tiered system of justice or election interring lawfare. While many commented on his stupidity, I haven’t seen anyone comment on the thing that struck me immediately. Namely that his very statement proves election interring lawfare is happening. You don’t wait to get indictments and try matters that have been known for a long time in the middle of an election unless you’re trying to interfere in that election. You could have brought the cases many years ago but didn’t. Hell the Stormy Daniels stuff was known before the 2016 election and I’m sure I commented on it back then. So why wait till now? To interfere in the upcoming election!

This was posted in a lot of places today but just in case you missed it, it totally encapsulates the difference between Magoo and Trump on the economy.

I haven’t commented on the Trump trial because you can see everything I could say on any Fox or Newsmax program. However, over the past couple of days the term “motion for a directed verdict “ has been thrown around frequently but I haven’t seen anyone explain what it is so I will explain it so you understand what’s being advocated.

In most jurisdictions, at the end of the prosecution’s case the defense must file a motion for a directed verdict in order to preserve their right to appeal a guilty verdict. No motion, no appeal.

So what is a motion for a directed verdict? It is a motion that essentially says if you take the evidence presented by the prosecution and consider it in the light most favorable to the prosecution, it still doesn’t prove that the crime charged was committed and therefore the judge must direct a verdict of not guilty. And in this case, it should be granted because the prosecution hasn’t even specified what crime was supposed to have been committed.

( Tomorrow I will be putting up the Cliff’s Notes version of the rant I have been working on. I realized that to do it the way I wanted it would be essentially be a 30 or 40 page Law Review article and I have had several published but I doubt that any of you would want to spend the time to read it.)

Just wanted to let you know I haven’t quit ranting. While it’s true that the actual rant will be stream of consciousness, it’s taking a bit of time to process all the thoughts I want to incorporate in it. It will try to explain how the hell we got here with respect to all the chaos and antisemitism going on our campuses.

Yeah it’s not word. I made it up but get used to it and use it.

I have commented many times on how reproductive rights is actually an oxymoron used by the left and we lost on that one and won on death tax. So what has changed that generated this rant? I didn’t know that apparently the democrats are going to run primarily on abortion but since they are we need to destroy their obfuscation.

Pray tell O wise curmudgeon, how do we do that? It’s actually quite simple! Every time a republican candidate or pundit is confronted by a woman (hopefully not a seriously confused man) claiming her reproductive rights are being violated, look her straight in the eyes and ask her who is stopping her from reproducing? She’s got to say no one or some totally bogus bullshit.

Then follow up by pointing out that she hasn’t been prevented from reproducing but now wants to deproduce by killing what she has produced. And make no mistake, she wants to kill a living thing. You can argue about when it becomes a human being, but once conception has occurred it is a living organism, albeit a parasite. So why do you think you have the right to kill what you produced?

Now I know that some of you might be in the camp of never, but I’m going to be more pragmatic. Approximately 70% plus of voters favor a 15 week cut off and if you want to win elections, you can’t alienate the vast majority of voters.

The important thing is to destroy reproductive rights with deproductive rights!

As I always say, I don’t give a pass to anyone. Last evening and just now on his show he has put forth the proposition that the Supremes shouldn’t be considering things like official acts versus private acts etc because if you look at our history Trump should never have been charged with all the nonsense that he is being charged with and apparently the supremes should not be involved.

That is a very Pollyannish position. Reality is that Trump has been charged with all kind of nonsense and it’s not going away without the Supremes settling it. I have no idea what Levin thinks should happen with the case. I appreciate he thinks none of it should be going on but it is and it won’t end without a resolution by the Supremes.

As I’m sure you saw yesterday, there was a video of a guy catching and removing an alligator. Tyrus commented and if I heard correctly, he said he had wrestled gators before and probably illegally owned a few.

Now having grown up in Florida and being a Gator myself, I thought I would share three things that you may not know about gators. First and surprisingly they are very fast and can outrun a lot of us. They can run at 20-30 mph. Fortunately, they don’t have great stamina and can only last maybe twenty to thirty yards.

Secondly, they can really only run in a straight line. They aren’t worth a damn at turning so just zigzag and laugh. Oh and here’s a point that isn’t in my three. Their tails are extremely delicious and dangerous. They can break your leg if they hit it with their tail.

And now the last thing that I didn’t see mentioned yesterday pertains to the musculature of their mouths. They have tremendous bite strength but they have little strength in opening their mouth. You can literally hold their mouths shut with two fingers. I have seen it done.

I’m pretty sure I’ll have some good stuff tomorrow.

I had planned to write something on the opening statements today but they weren’t televised. So I don’t really have much to say. There are a few basic problems with Bragg’s case that he can’t make go away. Bragg has no authority to prosecute a federal crime! But he is trying to because without the federal law (and we still don’t know what federal law is being used — which should result in the case being thrown out. I have no idea how this case can proceed without the defendant being apprised of the exact charges against him. ) it is a misdemeanor in New York and the statute of limitations has expired.

And the one that really baffles me that the specific acts he is being charged with committing — the payments to Cohen — took place after the election. How can something that you do after an election get you charged with interfering in an election that is already over. You influence my vote after I voted!

As you know I watch American Idol and tonight he was the mentor for the contestants who had to sing Rock and Roll Hall of Fame numbers. I personally think that he was the best mentor I have ever seen on the show. Most of them suggest note changes and the like but he is the only one who suggested how to perform better in terms of emotion and connection with the lyrics exclusively. He made them all better performers. I enjoyed it immensely.

I have not been commenting about the hush money trial because anything I could say is all over the place. However, I plan to watch the opening statements tomorrow and if I can stomach doing so, I will give you my take tomorrow.