The Trump Verdict: The Case, The Rule of Law & What Comes Next
3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary
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🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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First, they dissect the many different ways this case was twisted to target Trump - from the creative dating on the statute of limitations, to the unprecedented contortions needed to turn it into a felony, to a judge who seemed partial throughout the trial to the basic fact that no one other than Trump would likely have faced these charges. And they note that a lot of legal experts who openly don't like Trump are highly critical of the case being brought and the way it was conducted.
Next, they assess the contention of many on the right that this case and this verdict are clear evidence that the left is openly using the justice system for political ends and that the rule of law itself is in danger of collapse. Jim offers a simple but powerful explanation of what justice should be and why we fell short of that standard in this case.
Finally, they conclude that the Biden team made the right call in sending the president out for an on-camera victory lap on Thursday. They suspect it might have something to do with the disastrous De Niro PR stunt this week - and because Trump may not be the only convicted felon in Biden's orbit within the next few weeks.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Three Martini lunch. |
| 0:04.5 | Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:09.3 | Three Martini's coming up. |
| 0:11.6 | Such a quiet news Friday, Jim. Three Martini's coming up. |
| 0:15.0 | Such a quiet news Friday, Jim. I don't know how we're going to fill three martinis today. |
| 0:18.0 | Oh yeah, yeah, I do. |
| 0:20.0 | First of all, welcome back. |
| 0:21.0 | Thanks to Scott Bertram and as Stepman for filling in the last three days. |
| 0:25.7 | Jim was off in Denver this time. He's doing a whole tour of the AFC West for some reason |
| 0:30.6 | this year. He's been to Kansas City and at Denver, so LA and was the other one. |
| 0:35.6 | Vegas now is where the Raiders are I guess are going to have to be on the list somehow this year. |
| 0:39.6 | But obviously the big news is that yesterday afternoon we heard about the 34 guilty counts against |
| 0:46.7 | Donald Trump guilty on all counts in the it's known as the hush money trial it's basically falsifying campaign expenditures. |
| 0:55.6 | This has been a heated topic, not just since the verdict, but all throughout about whether |
| 1:01.4 | these charges should have ever been brought, would they have been brought |
| 1:03.8 | against somebody who wasn't Donald Trump, did they torture the law to even get to the charges, |
| 1:08.8 | did the jury even know what the charges were until the closing arguments? |
| 1:11.6 | There's a whole lot to discuss here, so we're going to break it down in a number of ways. So it's going to go bad, bad, and a little bit of good towards the end. And so the bad is that, Jim, and I think a lot of people said this well, including Andy McCarthy, |
| 1:26.1 | your colleague who's been talking on Fox, is that if you're going to prosecute a former |
| 1:29.7 | president, it should be a clear crime that people are familiar with and your evidence has to be overwhelming |
| 1:36.8 | This seemed to be like that internet meme with the strings and the pictures and all sorts of other things from a from a detective trying to put a case together here. |
| 1:46.2 | And so the argument was on the right, certainly, that this was being tried in Manhattan |
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