The Manhattan district attorney’s office is seeking to move forward in its criminal investigation into Donald Trump through a familiar lens: Stormy Daniels.
Well. That didn’t take long. After all, Cohen was convicted and sentenced in 2018, after cooperating with prosecutors and producing checks signed by Donald Fucking Trump, Donald Fucking Trump Jr., and Allen Fucking Weisselberg.
Weisselberg allegedly has direct knowledge of the hush-money payment, so attorneys are reportedly weighing bringing charges against Weisselberg to reportedly pressure the longtime Trump ally to cooperate.
Because that worked so well the last time. 
And what’s the proposed criminal charge, some piddly improper tax deduction?
Look, I may seem jaded, but I am all for prosecutions that will lay bare extorting Ukraine and fomenting insurrection – things that will expose Trump’s crimes as front man for a complicit GOP political apparatus.
Stormy Daniels hush payments, titillating and prurient as they are, make the focus the man himself.
I fear Mitch McConnell reads headlines like this and has a tiny turtlegasm.
So, if I understand this correctly, the person who signed the check and the person who delivered it are tried as criminals but the person who actually had the affair and authorized and provided money for a hush money payment skates. Am I missing something that would make this make sense?
Oh, and BTW, first.
Now the question for me is: do the jurors believe that Mr. Weisselberg was the ‘evil genius’ of this plan in toto or do they recognize Mr. Weisselberg is still on the Trump payroll and still protecting the organization he has worked for over 40yr?
Hard to understand why Bragg would go down this path, only to fold like a cheap suit in 6 months.
Welp, not first.
Somewhere I’m sure there’s a database (like a simple Excel spreadsheet) with all of DFT’s crimes, sortable by date and category (money laundering, extortion, tax evasion, seditious conspriracy). With multiple tabs, each tab a person’s name. No, I’m not working on this.
I’d spin it as a “top five finish”
I might be misremembering this, but didn’t Trump actually sign the checks on this one?
I don’t think it matters whether Trump, personally, was aware of the tax evasion scheme Weisselberg is protecting him over. Though he’s trying to throw himself under the bus to protect Trump, Fat Donnie isn’t the one on trial. The Trump Org is the defendant, and it unquestionably benefitted from the tax evasion Weisselberg is claiming to have engineered all on his own.
Time to lock up the entire tRump crime family.
Cohen later pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations surrounding the arrangement in 2018 and was sentenced to three years in prison, which he’s currently serving under house arrest. Trump still denies the affair.
Per wikipedia, he was released from home confinement november last year.
And where’s the statute of limitations in all this? The payments took place in 2016.
I noticed that, too. For some time now, he’s been on MSNBC shows in person.
Excel just crashed again.
Carpediementum!
They don’t need Weisselberg, for goodness sake.