Posted on 01/30/2023 12:34:58 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has revived its criminal investigation into Trump’s ‘hush payments’ to porn star Stephanie Clifford, AKA, Stormy Daniels.
Trump has been accused of paying Daniels ‘hush payments’ in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the National Inquirer.
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According to the New York Times, the Manhattan DA will begin presenting evidence to a grand jury on Monday.
The former publisher of the National Enquirer was seen walking into the building in lower Manhattan where the grand jury is meeting.
The New York Times reported:
The Manhattan district attorney’s office on Monday will begin presenting evidence to a grand jury about Donald J. Trump’s role in paying hush money to a porn star during his 2016 presidential campaign, laying the groundwork for potential criminal charges against the former president in the coming months, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
The grand jury was recently impaneled, and witness testimony will soon begin, a clear signal that the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, is nearing a decision about whether to charge Mr. Trump.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Not sure where there is a crime there... even if it was true (which I don’t believe- didn’t she already admit it?)
I was under the impression that this has already been dealt with and the main culprit is now in prison.
But Trump is the one abusing the legal system to punish his political enemies.
In a borough of the city is damn near unlivable.
Warfare by Lawfare. The left abuses our courts on vendettas. Need to figure out how to combat this abuse of process.
The previous DA wouldn’t take the case saying it wouldn’t stand up in court. Now this new DA has apparently found a cooperating Grand Jury.
“Need to figure out how to combat this abuse of process.”
Make a few of the abusers disappear.
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Here comes another Deep State witch hunt again.
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Round’em up, ride’em RAWHIDE
Trump has nothing to worry about if he’s innocent
otherwise if he’s involved he needs to be resolved.
Trumps no better than the average citizen when it
comes to rules of the law.
The "hush money" claim is not, in and of itself, illegal. The DA is trying to make the case that campaign funds were used instead of personal money. The Edwards case argued that it was impossible to determine which pocket the money came out of, even if the personal reasons for covering up the story also had a campaign impact.
The New York DA is going to argue the opposite, that it was the campaign interests that led to spending the money, not the personal interests that had a secondary benefit.
This will be another case of the Democrat getting the benefit of the doubt while the Republican is assumed to have the worst-case motives. This is despite the fact that Edwards was cheating on his dying wife and had a child from his affair.
-PJ
They’ll never stop trying to destroy him.
“Trump has nothing to worry about if he’s innocent”
That statement is ludicrous. Have you been hiding under a rock for the last 7 years?
https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/109779764118991362
With murders and violent crime surging like never before in New York City, the Radical Left Manhattan D.A., Alvin Bragg, just leaked to the Fake News Media that they are still going after the Stormy ”Horseface” Daniels Bull….!Working closely with the Weaponized Justice Department, this is a continuation of the Greatest Witch Hunt of all time. They long ago missed the Statute of Limitations, & I recently won big money against “Stormy” in the 9th Circuit - NEVER HAD AN AFFAIR. This is old news!
What crime is alleged?
Lawfare, intended to suppress a candidate in the 2024 election.
Innocent of what? Every single politician has paid hush money, including I am sure this tin horn D.A. Hopefully Trump’s lawyer’s will do a little investigating of their own.
How is that illegal, even if true? Makes me think of the push to release his tax records… a big huge nothing.
Agreed. Having consensual sex with someone is not a crime (even if it is a political candidate having sex with a porn actress). Paying someone to shut up about anything is also not a crime — many settlements of lawsuits actually contain provisions that require the plaintiff to not discuss any details of the case in return for payment of the settlement. Essentially that is a legal agreement to take money to shut up, exactly what Trump’s supposed crime is in this case.
I really don’t see what crime could possibly be alleged here. Trump’s behavior (if allegations were true), might be morally questionable, but certainly not criminal. Of course the facts hardly matter when the lefties think they can pin something on Trump. Facts, rule of law, etc. just don’t apply when Trump is being targeted
Stormy Daniels' attorney Michael Avenatti was sentenced for embezzling money from the proceeds of Stormy's tell-all book. You're probably recalling that conviction.
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