Posted on 05/30/2024 6:51:54 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator
Edited on 05/30/2024 6:53:08 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Deliberations resume this morning, after Merchan rereads instructions back to the jurors. Thoughts?
Totally bizarre. Raincoats and umbrellas and inferences drawn that it rained during the night. What a joke. We’re talking about a criminal trial with a man’s liberty hanging in the balance. And this county is talking about metaphors?
Pecker also testified Trump called him about the plan to pay off McDougal, and after Pecker urged Trump to pay McDougal to cover up her allegations,
Trump responded, "I don't buy any stories...Any time you do anything like this, it always gets out."
he couldn't be clearer...
AND he did NOT sign the Stormy Daniels NDA.
The guy who was with Cohen when Trump supposedly agreed to pay off Stormy Daniels. The guy in jail. Don’t remember his name.
something like Alan Weiselburg?
How many CEOs are at risk of a zealous Bragg?
AS I understand it, the instructions don’t allow them to dismiss Pecker’s testimony because he has not been shown to have lied. If it’s a question of whether to believe Pecker, or to believe Cohen, the jury has to take Pecker’s word over Cohen’s. Right?
Thank you so much for summarizing this way, Janet.
I saw what you did there.
Prediction: If there is a hung jury, there will be a movement to punish holdout jurors — not just by doxxing them, but also with legal action.
Prediction: If there is a hung jury, there will be a movement to punish holdout jurors — not just by doxxing them, but also with legal action.
I should have said “Who else but those same, damaged witnesses would be called BY THE PROSECUTION in a new trial?”.
The guy you’re talking about IIRC is the Trump Organization CEO (I don’t recall his name either). During the trial it was implied that the prosecution didn’t WANT to call that guy — he’d be beneficial to the defense.
There are quite a few other witnesses the DEFENSE might call... starting with the ones that Merchan wouldn’t allow them to call. And maybe that guy in jail that you refer to would be of benefit to the defense.
You see the video of Biden yesterday when he yelled out “Hello Philadelphia!” His dentures started to fall out of his mouth.
Very true.
I still don’t get how Trump can be charged with falsification of records when he had nothing to do with those records. All he did was sign the checks.
Have the accountants themselves testified? They are the ones who allegedly did the deed, not Trump.
The guy is in Rikers right now, at the control of the prosecution. You have to know if he testified for Trump life could be made very uncomfortable. He is not in a white collar cell but Rikers.
The guy in jail...Jeannine Pirro said the Prosecution had control of him...and didn’t call him for a reason.
He told Trump he owed a pollster some amount ($50,000?) so Trump paid Cohen that amount but then Cohen only paid the pollster $20,000 and kept the $30,000 for himself.
I think it ended up being $60,000 Cohen stole, but the point is that Cohen played fast and loose with what he billed Trump, versus what he SAID the bill was for. All behind Trump’s back, without his knowledge or involvement.
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