Posted on 04/22/2024 3:55:23 PM PDT by CFW
Jury selection has begun in the New York City “hush money” trial of Donald Trump, who is charged in a 34-count indictment with falsifying business records of the Trump Organization. This case is part of a Democrat-led effort to engage in lawfare on various Progressive battlefields.
To date, Trump’s legal team has done a masterful job in fighting these politicized prosecutions with a variety of clever legal arguments and maneuvers. Yet even the best attorneys can overlook a compelling weakness in the prosecution’s case. Trump’s legal team has, without success, made dozens of strong arguments for dismissing his New York case. In my judgment, however, Trump’s team has yet to make the most compelling argument on behalf of their client.
Below is the argument that Trump’s team should strongly consider making in his “hush money” trial.
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Trump faces 11 counts alone based upon Cohen emailing invoices to the TO on various dates in 2017. These counts allege that Trump “made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an invoice from Michael Cohen . . . marked as a record of the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.” Notably, the “to wit” language in the indictment serves to limit the prosecution’s allegations, i.e., that the “false entry” in the TO’s records was Cohen’s invoice itself.
Ironically, the very wording of the Cohen-related counts proves that Trump did not violate Art. 175.10.
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That’s where David pecker comes in. The allegation is trump asked him to keep out bad stories about trump in the national enquirer. We will find out more about that tomorrow.
Merchan suggested that Trump’s personal and trust records magically
“became” T/O records once scanned into the corporate records system.
I guess he still believes in the tooth fairy, too.
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
To clear up any confusion as to what Special Counsel Jack Smith sought to conceal in classified documents case, this is what Smith told Judge Cannon in Feb 2024 in response to Trump’s motion to compel discovery from numerous govt agencies:
1) Defendants are not entitled to discovery of internal government correspondence and memoranda, or to documents that are otherwise privileged.
2) The Court Should Deny Defendants’ Requests for Evidence of ‘Improper Coordination with NARA’ and of ‘Bias and Investigative Misconduct.’
3) The Court Should Deny Defendants’ Requests for Evidence Related to Trump’s Security Clearance With The Department of Energy.
4) The Court Should Deny Defendants’ Requests for Evidence Related to Secure Facilities at President Trump’s Residences.
5) The Court Should Deny Defendants’ Requests for Production of Materials Concerning the Search of Mar-a-Lago.
AND FINALLY:
6) Defendants’ Request for Unredacted Discovery of Materials Should Be Denied.
Link to court document:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.277.0.pdf
Thx.
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