NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors on Monday went deep into the business records portion of their falsifying business records case against Donald Trump.
…as a reimbursement for his work on the Daniels case.
The term “work” is doing a lot of heavy-lifting there.
Has anybody been paying particular attention to the demeanor of juror #2 during the presentation of the prosecution’s case? I believe that juror was the one considered most likely to reject the evidence and hold out for acquittal based on political loyalty.
As they present their case it’s “just the facts, ma’m just the facts.”
And all Trump can do is attempt to pay attention.
Two more weeks of the prosecution’s case and he may look worse than the sleepless piece of “hammered shit” he does now.
We can hope.
I thought that attorney Michael Cohen had tapes that would reveal that the criminal ex president’s hands are red. Not fake bronze.
Good reporting, Josh K.
That’s Todd Blanche to Trump’s left? Why does he look like he wants to murder his client? Or does he always look like that
Trump had a close attention to detail when it came to money leaving the Trump Organization as a whole, and his bank account in particular.
Multiple bankruptcies will do that to a person.
Nice summary, Josh. Thanks for giving us the important points of today’s evidence and testimony.
I’m going with #1. To know Trump is to hate him.
“Frugal” is not the word I would use to describe TSF. Cheap-ass bastard would be closer to the truth.
Was the photographer on a moving train when the photo was taken?
No one is going to be able to tell what a juror is thinking, in most cases they are going to try to avoid making any outward indications of what they think about a case. And, we shouldn’t assume the political leaning of a juror will inform their decision…most people really mean it when they say they will set their biases aside and decide based on the facts.
Consider the client, and how difficult he is making the case.
I think the real killer here is that Trump was well known to pay attention to the accounts and everything about a certain number had to go through him. That means there is absolutely no way the payments to Cohen were approved without Trump knowing, it’s impossible to believe that he paid attention to all the other big expenses but just signed where he was told for these ones.
Two possibilities. Trump knew what was going on or everyone but Trump knew what was going on. The latter is known as the Sgt Schultz defense.
Onward, to the head of the snake!
So they are going for the Trump as a victim of his own organization defense.
Truth has a funny way of outing itself in criminal prosecution.
Also, “frugal?” @eaharrison “Chiseling baztard” is the phrase that comes immediately to my mind, since everyone is weighing in on the topic.
Add to it that the checks were FedEx’d from NYC to the defendant at the White House for his signature and then sent back to New York for someone to give to Cohen. That puts even another layer of knowledge and approval as to what the checks were really for. As I understand it, it’s not just like an assistant put a bunch of documents in front of an executive to sign. These were checks from the defendant’s personal account for $35,000 each … for months. And even that lying bastard Weisselberg couldn’t make this arrangement without Trump’s knowledge and approval.
Then there are the tapes that Cohen made - have we yet heard all of those?
i’m starting to get confused - wasn’t the whole problem with this hush money that he used campaign donations for it?
i mean, great, get him for falsifying business records, get him for all the crimes he’s committed - but he’s less likely to do time for this petty misdeed
I think that’s backwards. The hush money itself was the campaign donation. That donation was never reported (a crime) and the business records falsified (paying cohen as if it were earned income instead of a reimbursement) to cover up the crime.
Incidentally, i find the “grossing up” of Cohen’s payment to cover the taxes he would have to pay due to the improper recording of the payments as income vs reimbursements to be pretty slam-dunk evidence of a conspiracy to falsify the business records.