Merchan Delays Trump Prosecution, Either Backing Down or Setting Trap

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Trump was elected to a second term in a modern landslide, with unified government.
37% : He said each juror could look at a menu of options, and so long as the juror found one crime he liked, he could vote to convict Trump -- which resulted in 34 felony counts.
36% : If he could freeze the case where it is now, he could wait until after President Trump's second term, then pull Trump back into his courtroom after January 2029 and attempt to imprison Trump as a private citizen for the rest of his life.
26% : Yet Bragg's indictment alleged that Trump committed a felony by falsifying business records with the "intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof" but never specified what that crime was.
26% : While the facts alleged against Trump in the charge are for a time before he was president -- 2016, specifically -- some of the (absurd) evidence introduced against him is from his time the White House, courtesy of disgraced convicted criminal liar Michael Cohen.
23% : Specifically, Bragg alleges that Trump made a payment as part of a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) to keep quiet an alleged interlude that the president steadfastly denies, with Merchan instructing the jury that they can consider that an illegal federal campaign expense.
20% : Merchan's choose-your-own-adventure instruction saying the jurors could disagree about what the crime is yet still convict Trump is a shocking violation of his constitutional rights.

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