Posted on 05/06/2024 11:38:02 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A witness in former President Donald Trump’s New York “hush money” trial on Monday appeared to confirm his attorneys’ claims that payments at the center of the case were legal expenses and that he was not personally directed by the former president to make those payments.
Former Trump Organization controller Jeffrey McConney testified Monday that payments that were sent to former attorney Michael Cohen were legal expenses, confirming defense attorneys’ arguments.
“Michael Cohen was a lawyer?” Trump defense attorney Emil Bove asked Mr. McConney. “Sure, yes,” he replied.
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“And payments to lawyers by the Trump Organization are legal expenses, right?” asked Mr. Bove. “Yes,” said Mr. McConney.
Later, Mr. McConney said that President Trump and Trump Organization official Allen Weisselberg never told him to log the payments to Mr. Cohen as legal expenses.
“President Trump did not ask you to do any of the things you just described?” the attorney then asked. “He did not,” Mr. McConney replied.
“And as far as you know, President Trump did not ask anyone to do those things?” Mr. Bove continued. “In none of the conversations that you had with Weisselberg, did he suggest that President Trump had told him to do these things?” he also asked.
“Allen never told me that,” Mr. McConney said.
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The prosecution witnesses keep on backfiring on them and helping Trump instead. This case needs to be dismissed
A reasoned judge would dismiss this case before it ever got to a jury.
LOL
“This case needs to be dismissed”
A judge with a baseline judicial temperament and discernment would have reached that conclusion about 5 weeks ago.
The trial is for show, the jury has already received their instructions.
They will “deliberate”, or eat lunch & watch TV, then deliver a guilty verdict.
Nothing any witness has said will have any bearing on the verdict.
If you read stories from the MSM it sounds like “the walls are closing in” on Trump rather than the opposite.
Ok yeah but still. Trump authorized the hush money payments
AND he had an affair w storm woman what’s her name. I mean she attests in documents that they didn’t have an affair. But trimp had an affair with her. Anyway
Still you know em. Lock him up. Or whatever the latest thing is.
That’s all no more questions
Well what do you want them to say “Trump is gonna beat Biden’s ass in November”
Honestly, I think you just summed up the entire prosecution.
Sadly, in NY it will probably be “enough”.
“ Honestly, I think you just summed up the entire prosecution”
I come from a line of and progeny of New York lawyers going back a century in Ireland Have an in-law out of central casting, cigar, attitude. I came upon my summation by osmotic legal knowledge alone. It’s simple if one is willing to admit the prosecution hopefuls are simply interfering in elections. And of course they are
Gonna play out just like the last “election”. No doubt that a potato who stayed in his basement was losing and the morning comes, and you have President Potato.
No case, everything for the prosecution implodes, appears a sure thing and then last minute, everything changes and Trump is convicted.
The plan is working for the bad people.
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