* Because it starts with the answer (the law) and checks if the case fits the question, i.e. the prosection (1992:43).
Read Peter Klevius Origin of the Vikings from 2005 - now again available after Google deleted it 2014 and again in February 2024.  
The essence in the case was blackmailing resting on the foundation of the official nature of the presidential election campaign.
Trump
 has asked Judge Juan Merchan to dismiss the entire New York criminal 
case as a result of his November election victory. Judge Merchan didn't 
rule on that argument. In his ruling, Merchan sided with prosecutors 
from the Manhattan district attorney’s office who said that while the 
U.S. Supreme Court granted presidents wide latitude in having immunity 
for presidential actions, the activities for which Trump was convicted 
were unofficial – not official – conduct.
Peter Klevius: What could be more official than a presidential election?
Merchan
 wrote in his 41-page ruling that the actions Trump took for which he 
was convicted were “decidedly personal acts” including falsifying 
business records that posed “no danger of intrusion on the authority and
 function of the Executive Branch,” including Trump’s actions as 
president. Those “unofficial” actions included steps Trump took to 
falsify records related to payments to adult film actress Stormy 
Daniels, who was threatening to go public with claims of having had 
affairs with Trump just before the 2016 election, Merchan concluded.
Peter Klevius: The election campaign was the very (possibly only) fuel to the blackmailing.
Merchan
 ruled, “It is therefore logical and reasonable to conclude that if the 
act of falsifying records to cover up the payments so that the public 
would not be made aware is decidedly an unofficial act, so too should 
the communications to further that same cover-up be unofficial.”
Peter Klevius: In other words, Merchan nullifies his own ruling. Peter Klevius rests his case.
 
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