May 31st 2024

Trey Gowdy broke some real bad news about Donald Trump’s criminal trial

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Trey Gowdy couldn’t believe what he was watching play out in court.

These developments greatly disturbed him.

And Trey Gowdy broke some real bad news about Donald Trump’s criminal trial.

The most biased judge Gowdy’s ever seen

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Fox News host Trey Gowdy told viewers that the judge in this case is actively working to help Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg convict former President Donald Trump.

“I’ve had some pro-prosecution judges in my life, but I ain’t never seen a judge like this… That’s what I felt like, is he was a member of the prosecution team,” Gowdy stated.

Gowdy said the judge – a Joe Biden campaign donor named Juan Merchan – even went so far as to refer to the prosecution as “we” in court.

Trey Gowdy on Biden-donor Judge Juan Merchan: “I’ve had some pro-prosecution judges in my life, but I ain’t never seen a judge like this… That’s what I felt like, is he was a member of the prosecution team.”

Trey Gowdy served as a former federal prosecutor.

He knows a thing or two about criminal trials and likely benefited from judges who acted deferentially to the government.

But even he’s never seen anything like this.

How Judge Merchan rigged the trial

Trump faced a rigged show trial.

This judicial sham was engineered by Merchan who allowed Bragg to bring a cockamamie legal theory forward that Donald Trump falsified business records to cover up a nonexistent federal campaign violation.

Merchan knew Bragg didn’t have the authority to enforce federal law – especially against imaginary crimes the feds never charged Trump with – but he allowed this case to proceed because Democrats think their chances of winning in November hinge on being able to call Trump “convicted felon Donald Trump.”

And Merchan instructed the jurors that they could convict Trump of falsifying business records without Bragg even proving that records were falsified to conceal another crime.

“The people weren’t required to identify any object crime,” prosecutor Matthew Colangelo – who worked as the number three official in the Biden Justice Department before joining Bragg’s office in December 2022 – told Judge Merchan.

Colangelo argued that because the state doesn’t even have to prove a second crime took place, they don’t need to meet the standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt to convict Trump.

“Where there’s no obligation to identify even the object crime, there is no reason to be held to the proof standard of the object crime. What we have to prove is the defendant’s intent and the intent to aid or conceal,” Colangelo continued.

Juries must reach a unanimous verdict in a criminal case for a conviction.

But in this case, Judge Merchan let jurors pick and choose from a menu of options that Bragg presented as to what was the second crime Trump supposedly intended to conceal when he allegedly falsified business records.

“The jury does not need to conclude unanimously what the specific unlawful means are,” Colangelo stated. 

“I think the key point for this instruction is to advise the jury that, yes, there has to be some unlawful means, and to alert them as to what those unlawful means are, but also advise them that they don’t have to unanimously agree on each of the unlawful means,” Colangelo added.

So not only did the judge allow a conviction without the prosecution even needing to prove what crime Trump committed, but the jury didn’t even need to reach a unanimous verdict to convict him based on this lower standard of proof.

Legal experts were appalled by this shocking unconstitutional abuse of the law by Merchan and the prosecutors to get Trump.

This is wrong-jury must be unanimous on every element (it can’t be 4 believe one predicate and 8 believe another); judge is wrong

In the end, Gowdy’s fear was proven right when the jury delivered a guilty verdict on all 34 counts

—Patriot Pulse