What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

You would have to feel really sorry for the bicycle saddle having that lard ar*e sitting on it.

I hoped there would be a few more scintillating details thrown in but I guess it's pretty dry when the business record is the smoking gun.

Ah, manhattan DA contextualizes the charges: they weren't for the hush money for 1 scandal, but 3. He also includes the Statement of Facts, which is the interesting details I wanted.

Read the Indictment and the Statement of Facts

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. today announced the indictment of DONALD J. TRUMP, 76, for falsifying New York business records in order to conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from American voters before and after the 2016 election. During the election, TRUMP and others employed a “catch and kill” scheme to identify, purchase, and bury negative information about him and boost his electoral prospects. TRUMP then went to great lengths to hide this conduct, causing dozens of false entries in business records to conceal criminal activity, including attempts to violate state and federal election laws. 

TRUMP is charged in a New York State Supreme Court indictment with 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree.[]   

“The People of the State of New York allege that Donald J. Trump repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal crimes that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election,” said District Attorney Bragg. “Manhattan is home to the country’s most significant business market. We cannot allow New York businesses to manipulate their records to cover up criminal conduct. As the Statement of Facts describes, the trail of money and lies exposes a pattern that, the People allege, violates one of New York’s basic and fundamental business laws. As this office has done time and time again, we today uphold our solemn responsibility to ensure that everyone stands equal before the law.” 

According to court documents and statements made on the record in court, from August 2015 to December 2017, TRUMP orchestrated his “catch and kill” scheme through a series of payments that he then concealed through months of false business entries. 

In one instance, American Media Inc. (“AMI”), paid $30,000 to a former Trump Tower doorman, who claimed to have a story about a child TRUMP had out of wedlock.  

In a second instance, AMI paid $150,000 to a woman who alleged she had a sexual relationship with TRUMP. When TRUMP explicitly directed a lawyer who then worked for the Trump Organization as TRUMP’s Special Counsel (“Special Counsel”) to reimburse AMI in cash, the Special Counsel indicated to TRUMP that the payment should be made via a shell company and not by cash. AMI ultimately declined to accept reimbursement after consulting their counsel. AMI, which later admitted its conduct was unlawful in an agreement with federal prosecutors, made false entries in its business records concerning the true purpose of the $150,000 payment. 

In a third instance – 12 days before the presidential general election – the Special Counsel wired $130,000 to an attorney for an adult film actress. The Special Counsel, who has since pleaded guilty and served time in prison for making the illegal campaign contribution, made the payment through a shell corporation funded through a bank in Manhattan.

After winning the election, TRUMP reimbursed the Special Counsel through a series of monthly checks, first from the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust – created in New York to hold the Trump Organization’s assets during TRUMP’s presidency – and later from TRUMP’s bank account. In total, 11 checks were issued for a phony purpose. Nine of those checks were signed by TRUMP. Each check was processed by the Trump Organization and illegally disguised as a payment for legal services rendered pursuant to a non-existent retainer agreement. In total, 34 false entries were made in New York business records to conceal the initial covert $130,000 payment. Further, participants in the scheme took steps that mischaracterized, for tax purposes, the true nature of the reimbursements.

Assistant D.A.s Catherine McCaw (Counsel to the Investigation Division), Katherine Ellis (Major Economic Crimes Bureau), Rebecca Mangold (Major Economic Crimes Bureau), Christopher Conroy (Senior Advisor to the Investigation Division), Susan Hoffinger (Chief of the Investigation Division), and Matthew Colangelo (Senior Counsel to the District Attorney) are handling the prosecution of this case with the assistance of Peter Pope (Executive Assistant D.A.), Steven Wu (Executive Assistant D.A. and Chief of the Appeals Division), and Alan Gadlin (Deputy Chief of the Appeals Division).

Defendant Information:

DONALD J. TRUMP

Palm Beach, FL

Charges:

• Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree, a class E felony, 34 counts

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[1] The charges contained in the indictment are merely allegations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. All factual recitations are derived from documents filed in court and statements made on the record in court.

It's a slam dunk case. Certainly we know the evidence of cases 2 and 3. Trump will do a plea by the end of the year to get it out of his way/

Just in case there was any question as to whether the payouts had anything to do with the election.

Trump stinginess.

And it sounds like Bragg has the cooperation of the other conspirators, Weisselberg and Cohen, who both served time and got bargain sentences, and AMI (The National Enquirer) who also skated for cooperation with investigators.

He's right fucked in this case if his motion to dismiss fails.

The memberberries are really kicking in right now

Satisfying to see all that mafia **** chronologged in a statement of facts in a criminal indictment.

"bullshit" as if 😀

So its not just the Stormy payoff? That blows all that nonsense that MisterAnarchy has been spouting as clearly they had no idea of that. And no idea of the veracity of the evidence.

"It's not the stuff of a political slogan, ‘Vote for me – I collected $121,000 from a porn star that I had an encounter with.’ Oh, good.”

Guest Bill Barr and they were mocking Eric Trump trying to distract from the case by tweeting that his dad was awarded $122k in damages from Stormy Daniels for violating the NDA over a sex cheating scandal...

Dead ass think he thought he was pulling a B Rabbit

Your predictions, and bets, have been shown as substantial as trump's codpiece (according to Ms Daniels), bless

Not at all.

He plans to run a campaign as a 'renegade' 'outlaw' etc. against 'an unjust system' etc. and the thrust of his goals will be: a federal pardon for Donald J. Trump. Whether he pie in the sky wins the election again and tests the constitutional theory in the supreme court or he compels a vice president on his ticket or the republican on the winning republican primary ticket (not him) to pardon him.

And the Republicans have put themselves in a bind whoring out their lack of principle or ideology to so many bases: if they don't at least wink and nudge that they will pardon Trump, a lot of the "silent majority TM" won't show up. And if they wink and nudge that they will pardon Trump, voter turnout will once again be huge, because of the nonzero chance they actually issue a pardon (especially one if it precedes a jury conviction), and Republicans would have another "Red Wave November" autopsy on their hands.

Watching them quadruple down on Trump is like watching Sony re-release Morbius in theaters. ITS TRUMPIN TIME

Can you give me the gist, having ostensibly reviewed this podcast before you shared it thus having knowledge of the thrust of his legal argument? 😶

If it's as basic as the headlines suggest I think your argument is bullshit and so is his: not just Cohen but multiple other sources of direct testimony and bank records and even audio recordings of illicit conversations (ie. smoking guns) are also this case. Trying to impugn the character of Cohen or the People of New York is quite the hail mary.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/04/02/dershowitz_braggs_case_is_the_weakest_of_four_cases_against_trump.html