When asked what happened to the case Alvin Bragg stared into the distance with a strained look on his face.
Posted on 05/02/2024 8:13:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former President Donald Trump was back in New York City Thursday for his criminal trial, and it's been a pretty good day for him. During Thursday's proceedings, Keith Davidson, the lawyer representing adult film actress Stormy Daniels, gave revealing testimony that completely undermines Bragg's charges against Trump.
For starters, Davidson argued that the $130,000 payment to Daniels should not be construed as "hush money" but rather as a legitimate "consideration" payment.
Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Johsua Steinglass pressed Davidson on the witness stand about Daniels’ statement in January 2018, which Davidson prepared for his client, that denied any relationship with Trump and said that her only interaction with Trump was “a few public appearances and nothing more.”
“Rumors that I have received hush money from Donald Trump are completely false,” the statement says.“I don’t believe that Stormy ever alleged that any interaction with Trump was ‘romantic,‘” Davidson testified Thursday. But it is his understanding that Daniels had a sexual encounter with Trump.
He also said the payment “wasn’t a payoff.”“It wasn’t a payoff. And it wasn’t hush money. It was consideration,” Davidson said. Davidson added that he would never use “hush money” to describe the money exchange.
He would only refer to it as “consideration.” “Consideration” is a contractual legal term for what someone gives in return for the promise to abide by a contract; in this case, money. The payment was labeled "legal fees" in Trump's accounting, which prosecutors allege amounted to fraud.
Steinglass asked about the truthfulness of the Daniels’ statement. Davidson replied, “I think it’s technically true.”
If that wasn't bad enough, Davidson also testified that Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was "despondent" when he didn't get a White House job after Trump won the presidency in 2016.
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I got my tin foil hat on but I think the deep state wanted this joke of a case to go first because there is no way a jury would convict even in deep blue Manhattan
“You see Trump can get a fair trial, even in deep blue areas ” they will claim
Then if he is found guilty in fulton county Ga case for example, the excuse that Trump can’t get a fair trial would be gone
This case is so weak and such a joke what other explanation is there?
Weird lawyer, helped her with her statement which said she didn’t have a relationship with Trump, but “understands” that she did. Doesn’t that mean he helped her commit perjury?
When asked what happened to the case Alvin Bragg stared into the distance with a strained look on his face.
GREAT POINT!
Did Pecker pay her AND Trump paid her also?
You could be right, or it could just be all these prosecutors grandstanding and hoping to be the one to take him down. Maybe there’s a bounty the first one to get him gets a fat private sector job somewhere in Silicon Valley or the next Solyndra. It’s so obviously coordinated by the White House and Dem operatives throwing everything they can concoct at him. But they can’t really control the timing as we have seen. Jack smith is ticked at the delays. Fani Willis shot herself in the foot with her affair and the “cash” reimbursements.
Was the statement made under penalty of perjury? Anyway what does Pecker know. He said she said he wasn’t likely in the alleged bedroom, if the alleged bedroom ever existed.
Sorry not Pecker, Davidson.
They are all weak, and a joke to boot. They are
also grounds for legal resolution too. This isn’t
over by a long shot, and when they public sees how
they wind up next year, good luck democrats.
These cases are each a travesty of justice.
Is that Peckerhead of the National Enquirer?
Sorry, must have been a typo; should have “Pecker, head of the National Enquirer.”
p
It was a Perry Mason Moment, which, I thought I would ever see in the real world.
-——————————————————————————————When Cohen’s lawyer was pressed to explain just what was happening at that time.
Cohen was FURIOUS THAT TRUMP WAS NOT GOING TO ASK HIM TO JOIN HIS ADMINSTRATION.
Cohen became enraged and blurted: F-— him (Trump) he keeps delaying payment to Stormy...I (Cohen) will pay her myself.”
AND he wasn’t invited to join Trump in DC.
SO HE, COHEN, PAID STORMY THE MONEY.
THE MONEY WAS NEVER...NEVER TOUCHED TO PAY HER BY TRUMP.
Mike Drop!!!!
President Trump had NOTHING TO DO WITH “HUSH” MONEY.
OOOPPPSSS.
Never assume conspiracy when stupidity would explain it.
Be a shame if somebody punched the teeth out of Fat Alvin's fat lying partisan Democrat face.
Judge: I believe there was more stupidity involved than criminal intent
Gilbert & Sullivan is forever. Alvin Braggs’ career in a nutshell.
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Bragg went to Harvard, not Yale as in Sherman's song
Princeton, Yale, Harvard, UCLA, Wharton, whatever;-)
A NY jury operating on TDS has no interest in any evidence that doesn’t point to a Trump guilty verdict, so it will be disregarded out of hand.
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