Friday 24 March 2023

The Two Problems With This NY City Trump Grand Jury Business

1.  The bulk of residents in the city are what I'd call 'working-class', and they know that probably over 3,000 incidents a year occur where some Wall Street guy, or some city hall manager, or some Broadway prominent person....pays off some guy or gal for a sexual affair.  

These same jury members are sitting and thinking....no one ever seems to get charged-up, so why does this come up now?  

They aren't stupid....they just see this as BOLD print on the daily newspaper, and ask themselves....will any of the 3,000 incidents ever get picked-up by the federal prosecutor?  

2.  Then we come to the problem of present day crime in NY City, and how no one seems to have a desire to prosecute on assaults or robbery.  This jury could view prosecution now as a joke.

I'm not giving Trump a pass, but when you view the past twenty years of fake news and public skepticism....a Grand Jury review might not have the strength it did....from the 1970s.   

1 comment:

LargeMarge said...

How many jurors are street-people or marginally employable, and see some court time as a momentary relief in their boredom.