Posted on 04/15/2024 11:45:08 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Smart.
I’m voting for Trump no matter. This country will be beyond repair if another RAT is elected.
bkmk
exactly one of about a dozen reasons this will the thrown out on appeal
But Trump was never prosecuted for soliciting or accepting that purported contribution. Nor was he prosecuted for later reimbursing Cohen in a series of payments.
Bragg leading an inquisition will cost him and the other neocons.
If Cohen mischaracterized a reimbursement as income on state or city tax forms, that would be a peculiar sort of fraud, since the effect would be to increase his tax liability. This theory of "another crime" requires jurors to accept the proposition that tax fraud can entail paying the government more than was actually owed.
Not if it was the lesser of two evils. Consider this hypothesis:
Did Trump's retainer payment to Cohen go into an IOLTA that most lawyers are required to maintain? An IOLTA (Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts) is essentially an escrow account where lawyers park client retainers until they bill the client for actual legal services rendered. They must itemize a bill that details every transfer of client money from the IOLTA to their personal accounts as earned income.
If Cohen paid Stephanie Clifford from his personal bank account and then illegally transferred money out of the IOLTA in cover the money, that is essentially embezzlement of client funds. If Cohen then billed the Trump organization for legal services to cover the withdrawal of the payment from his IOLTA, is that why Weisselberg doubled the payment to Cohen? Was Weisselberg aware of what Cohen did and basically give Cohen a documented income for his tax returns to cover his withdrawal from the IOLTA and also replenish the retainer?
Did Cohen agree to do this because the alternative was admitting to embezzlement of client funds, similar to what Michael Avenatti was convicted of?
-PJ
Why can’t red states sue New York foe election interference?
Make
Alvin
Go
Away
Look at all the bad news Biden is burying, to secure his reelection, by teaming up with the mainstream media. Not all debts need to be paid in cash.
This guy is not a federal DA. He’s a lowly local DA who
has taken it upon himself to save the nation by any means
at his disposal.
The people prosecuting Trump, the DAs and Judges, need to
be hauled up on charges themselves, and we’ll see who does
the most jail time.
Some of this is flagrantly illegal.
Has everyone forgotten the $18.2 million Congressional Slush Fund using taxpayer dollars to “hush” victims of sexual misconduct by elected officials?
Wasn’t the purpose to “interfere” in elections?
So how many Congressmen who paid off their accusers of sexual harassment and had them sign an NDA were running for re-election during that NDA.
I wonder how they reported those payments to IRS OR did taxpayers make those payments.
“The heart of the case,” Bragg says, is Trump’s attempt to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election by covering up his purported affair with porn star Stormy Daniels. As Bragg sees it, Trump “corrupt[ed] a presidential election” by hiding negative information from voters.
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<> stormy signed a letter saying she didn’t have an affair with trump
<> cohen did have an affair with stormy
<> cohen admitted to lying about the deal
Looks like cohen may have swindled some money from trump to keep stormy up
WATCH and SEE what happens to this so called judge as he attempts to proceed!
The fact that he hasn’t disclosed what the crime is even on the day of the trial shows that due process has been denied.
It would be nice if Cohen could do a little time with Avenatti. Maybe he could run as Avenatti's VP.
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