Crash Course: "Where's Melania?": Missing wife is why Trump's lawyers can't pull off the "family man" defense

National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified that Trump's wife was the last thing on his mind Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRoDL0DP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbW8zbmhpOWRxeC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTl1eW56Nmg3bjcmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZigDOCpmDKdzvVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). ~/AASU4wA~/RgRoDL0DP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvaGJucnVkN3lpcy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTl1eW56Nmg3bjdXA3NwY0IKZigDOCpmDKdzvVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRoDL0DP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZHFreW5zancxNS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTl1eW56Nmg3bjdXA3NwY0IKZigDOCpmDKdzvVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRoDL0DP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvd2d2NnFqZDJpdi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTl1eW56Nmg3bjdXA3NwY0IKZigDOCpmDKdzvVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRoDL0DP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZGttZzVobGRmOC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTl1eW56Nmg3bjdXA3NwY0IKZigDOCpmDKdzvVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRoDL0DP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvc3Q2d2c5YnE3OC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTl1eW56Nmg3bjdXA3NwY0IKZigDOCpmDKdzvVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo "Where's Melania?": Missing wife is why Trump's lawyers can't pull off the "family man" defense From Amanda Marcotte: For people who follow politics closely, there is nothing surprising about Trump seeming to have no one in his life that he loves or who loves him. Anyone who has watched the man closely can tell there's [something deeply wrong with him, psychologically.](~/AASU4wA~/RgRoDL0DP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvcnVvOWVub25icC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTl1eW56Nmg3bjcmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZigDOCpmDKdzvVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) He simply isn't like a normal person with normal attachments to other people. But the jury was carefully chosen, after an arduous process, to weed out people who pay enough attention to the news to have previously formed this opinion of Trump. The default assumption most people have is that other people have normal human emotions. So there was an opportunity to trick the jury into believing Trump is, as defense attorney Todd Blanche said, "a person just like you." [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRoDL0DP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbHhnajlvYjlnei8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTl1eW56Nmg3bjcmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZigDOCpmDKdzvVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). ~/AASU4wA~/RgRoDL0DP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsveWlyZWZiOGVycC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTl1eW56Nmg3bjdXA3NwY0IKZigDOCpmDKdzvVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRoDL0DP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvdXhhcHdlZzU4OC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTl1eW56Nmg3bjdXA3NwY0IKZigDOCpmDKdzvVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRoDL0DP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvNG11d3ViYnZ3NC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTl1eW56Nmg3bjdXA3NwY0IKZigDOCpmDKdzvVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRoDL0DP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvN2Y4c282eTVjMC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTl1eW56Nmg3bjdXA3NwY0IKZigDOCpmDKdzvVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo Underestimating Alvin Bragg's case against Donald Trump is a historic mistake From Dennis Aftergut: The core of Shugerman’s faulty argument is that he sees “three red flags raising concerns about selective prosecution upon appeal” because of the “unprecedented” way in which the grand jury used the statute at issue – New York [Penal Code §175.10Â](~/AASU4wA~/RgRoDL0DP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvNXYzenR6cG43Yi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTl1eW56Nmg3bjdXA3NwY0IKZigDOCpmDKdzvVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo)– to charge Trump with a felony. That offense – falsifying business records – becomes a felony only when committed with an “intent to commit or conceal another crime.” As former prosecutors and as current defense lawyers, we know that the claim of selective prosecution is [notoriously difficult](~/AASU4wA~/RgRoDL0DP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvNjE0b2QxY2pnOS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTl1eW56Nmg3bjdXA3NwY0IKZigDOCpmDKdzvVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) for defendants to prove. Justice Juan Merchan, the seasoned judge presiding over the trial, [rejected](~/AASU4wA~/RgRoDL0DP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvaDBibjZ1Nm1yNy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTl1eW56Nmg3bjdXA3NwY0IKZigDOCpmDKdzvVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Trump’s claim, finding that he did not carry his burden of showing that the DA had discriminated against him by not prosecuting any other similarly situated individual. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRoDL0DP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbTl3eXl5dHByeC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTl1eW56Nmg3bjcmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZigDOCpmDKdzvVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). 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