I think judge Jeanine Piro nailed it.....it’s all going to come down to jury instructions from the judge.....and we all know what that means.
If he was protecting Trump why didn't he tell Trump he was taping the conversation. Doesn't make any sense.
I haven’t been following the nitty gritty details, but how does lying about business records cover up a conspiracy in the election? Now I understand when they ask the question “what is the crime?”
Let us assume for the sake of argument that all of what these things were absolutely true (although its doubtful they are):
Trump still was not guilty of even second degree falsification of books. The payments to Cohen were indeed legal expenses and thus the entries were factually true. Nor was anybody defrauded by the entries, since the election was over when the entries were made.
Should one care to argue he should have entered as "reimbursing black mail payment" as being more precise than "legal fees" then by that absurd standard Alvin Bragg's charges are breaking the same law since they do not reveal his motivation to interfere in the current election.
If the members of the jury decide to “believe” the charges are true, then he can be convicted without any evidence. I only served on one jury and I and one other man prevented that verdict. He was an elderly black man who kept repeating, “But there was no evidence.” I stopped the others from bullying him. We ended with a mistrial, hopelessly deadlocked.
It’s obvious Cohen was paying off Stormy for his own sex with her. Why else would he hide the home loan from his wife?
Enough with the legal stuff, just let us find him guilty already.
- The Jury
Judge and prosecutor would have said no, which would have given Trump a perfect opening to accuse them of personal cowardice and political motivation.
I like the image of Trump refusing to show up if the trial was not televised, and the judge and prosecutor threatening to have Trump dragged into the court room by marshals.
The fact that Conservative Americans must depend on the politically corrupt MSM to disseminate trial news is politically insane.
The glove was not too small to fit O.J.’s hand. They had him wearing rubber gloves. He then tried, with exaggerated and comic awkwardness, to put the leather gloves on over top.
Go get a pair of leather gloves that fit you, and then try putting them on while wearing rubber gloves, and see how much they don't “fit”. The whole O.J. trial was a joke.
watching the local Miami Florida tv “news”, one would think the prosecution and Stormy and Cohen have proven their case 10,000 times over.
Barely a mention of the defense poking holes everywhere.
BTTT
They don’t really care if they get a conviction or not, they just want to make Trump look bad to women voters and keep him from campaigning.
Is that anything like a bimbo eruption?