The Manhattan District Attorney seeks to prove that before the 2016 presidential election, Trump paid, or discussed paying, the two women not to disclose alleged affairs with them, thereby influencing voters as to his character. He denies affairs with either woman.
Under a headline: "I Thought the Bragg Case Against Trump Was a Legal Embarrassment. Now I Think It's a Historic Mistake," Handelsman Shugerman wrote that the case has no clear examples of election fraud.
This "Hush Money" case is still an embarrassment, in terms of prosecutorial ethics and apparent selectivity.
Mr. Trump can fight many other days and perhaps win in appellate courts.
But if Monday’s opening is a preview of exaggerated allegations, imprecise legal theories and persistently unaddressed problems, the prosecutors might not win a conviction at all.
[Jed Handelsman Shugerman is a law professor at Boston University. Earlier.]
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