So you admit the states game plan from day one has little to do with what trumped up charges Trump is actually guilty of. It rests on how much garbage they can throw up against the wall and have some of it stick. The Prosecutors don't even have a clue what is true and what is not. If this is how the law is supposed to work I think we should just go back to the time it was every man for himself. Survival of the fittest. To hell with this kangaroo court bull crap.
I think you misread Vagr1’s post, because he said the polar opposite. The State put forth substantial evidence to minimize the importance of every word Cohen needed to testify. When I prepare for a trial, amongst other things, I draw the equivalent of a pizza pie, with each slice representing a sliver of evidence. When I try the case,I make sure to color each “slice” once I get the evidence in (and sometimes it means going back based in the other side’s case) If any is missing, I know I haven’t done my job. What I think Vagr1 was saying is that the State made Cohen a small, but still important piece, of the pie. The jury will decide whether the State made a complete pizza pie.
Excellent jobs of repeating the party line. While I still think it's the weakest case against the defeated former president, there is more than enough documentation showing that he falsified business records to conceal hush payments to a porn star and that he did so almost entirely to suppress negative publicity immediately prior to the election. The hush money should have been reported as a campaign expenditure and intentionally was not reported as such.
Seems this poster wants to rant on the trial and starts his narrative absent any connection to the post he to which he is responding. Rather interesting.
I don't see the most recent trial transcript up yet, FYI. https://pdfs.nycourts.gov/PeopleVs.DTrump-71543/transcripts/
I haven't been getting fundraising emails from Trump for the last two years or so, but I did get an email from Lara today that Trump's birthday is coming up, and things have been tough for him lately, so my personal message to him on his birthday will really be appreciated. Also, I will need to donate $100 to wish him a happy birthday.
If Trump wasn’t complicit in the recording of The reimbursement of Cohen’s expenditure as the payment of legal fees, why would Trump have agreed to pay Cohen $260,000 instead of $130,000? Bear in mind that the repayment to Cohen of his $130,000 outlay would not have been taxable income to Cohen, while the payment of legal fees to Cohen would have been taxable income to Cohen.
To make it worse, he testified today he would lie if it affected him personally. The judge sustaining the objection here seems ridiculous to me. What is wrong with the question?