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Still on break, but…
#Breaking #News in #Trump #criminal #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #FalsifiedBusinessRecords #HushMoney conviction:
Trump hush-money judge delays ruling on whether to throw out conviction
Postponement follows numerous successful attempts to delay case in which he was convicted on 34 #felony counts
#law #TrumpTrial #MobTactics #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal #NodFarter
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/12/trump-hush-money-conviction-presidential-immunity
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Still on break, but…
#Breaking #News in #Trump #criminal #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #FalsifiedBusinessRecords #HushMoney conviction:
Trump hush-money judge delays ruling on whether to throw out conviction
Postponement follows numerous successful attempts to delay case in which he was convicted on 34 #felony counts
#law #TrumpTrial #MobTactics #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal #NodFarter
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/12/trump-hush-money-conviction-presidential-immunity
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Still on break, but…
#Breaking #News in #Trump #criminal #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #FalsifiedBusinessRecords #HushMoney conviction:
Trump hush-money judge delays ruling on whether to throw out conviction
Postponement follows numerous successful attempts to delay case in which he was convicted on 34 #felony counts
#law #TrumpTrial #MobTactics #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal #NodFarter
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/12/trump-hush-money-conviction-presidential-immunity
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Still on break, but…
#Breaking #News in #Trump #criminal #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #FalsifiedBusinessRecords #HushMoney conviction:
Trump hush-money judge delays ruling on whether to throw out conviction
Postponement follows numerous successful attempts to delay case in which he was convicted on 34 #felony counts
#law #TrumpTrial #MobTactics #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal #NodFarter
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/12/trump-hush-money-conviction-presidential-immunity
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Still on break, but…
#Breaking #News in #Trump #criminal #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #FalsifiedBusinessRecords #HushMoney conviction:
Trump hush-money judge delays ruling on whether to throw out conviction
Postponement follows numerous successful attempts to delay case in which he was convicted on 34 #felony counts
#law #TrumpTrial #MobTactics #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal #NodFarter
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/12/trump-hush-money-conviction-presidential-immunity
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The #verdict must be unanimous on the primary crime falsification of business records.
Once #jurors inform the court they have reached a verdict, Justice Juan #Merchan will summon the parties to the courtroom to hear it read by the foreperson.
Merchan must still affirm the verdict & enter a final judgment.
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal #NodFarter
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There’s a #verdict
They request 30 minutes to fill out the forms.
Trump, who had been smiling a minute ago, is suddenly serious after the judge’s alert that there’s a verdict.
His arms are now crossed across his chest as he whispers with his lawyers.
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal #NodFarter
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#Jurors hear #Pecker recall that after he said he wasn’t going to go thru w/the agreement w/ #MichaelCohen, who was to pay him for the rights to #KarenMcDougal’s story using an LLC, Cohen told him: “The boss is going to be very angry at you.”
Court reporters read the 3rd portion of Pecker’s testimony. This part pertains to the Aug 2015 #TrumpTowerMeeting in which Pecker, Michael Cohen & #Trump entered a #conspiracy to suppress negative news about Trump during the #2016election. -
Next the court reporters read the second part of David #Pecker’s #testimony that the #jurors asked to hear, where he explains that he decided he did not want to be repaid for #KarenMcDougal’s story after purchasing it. The implication was that he was concerned about the #legal consequences of accepting a reimbursement - he testified that the concern was regarding FEC violations.
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference
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#Pecker testified that he recommended that #Trump buy #KarenMcDougal’s story. The portion of #testimony ends before the #jury hears what comes next. Pecker testified that #MichaelCohen called him back & told him to buy McDougal’s story on Trump's behalf.
Jurors heard the portion of Pecker's testimony when he said he believed the story of Trump having had an affair w/McDougal was true, & would be embarrassing to Trump.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference
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This #testimony is good for the prosecution.
David #Pecker testified that #Trump acknowledged speaking to #MichaelCohen about the issue & acknowledged knowing #KarenMcDougal, one of the women who was eventually paid to keep quiet during the 2016 campaign about her story of having had an affair w/ Trump.
“Karen is a nice girl,” Trump said on this call, according to Pecker’s testimony.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney
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Yes, this just happened, court is still very much in session. Only the jury was dismissed.
There’s agreement on the jurors’ 1st, 2nd & 4th requests.
1st was #Pecker’s testimony about a call he had w/ #Trump in June 2016.
2nd was Pecker’s testimony on financial arrangements for #KarenMcDougal’s #HushMoney.
4th was #MichaelCohen’s testimony on the Aug 2015 #TrumpTowerMeeting w/ Pecker & Trump.The only portion that is disputed involves Pecker's testimony about the same meeting.
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The phone call #jurors asked for from David Pecker’s testimony was call he testified he had w/ #Trump during an investor meeting, in June 2016, during which Trump acknowledged that he knew #KarenMcDougal.
Jurors may also be looking at the part of the #TrumpTowerMeeting when #Pecker testified that he decided to not collect reimbursement from Trump for his #HushMoney deal w/ McDougal. The wording from the jurors is slightly unclear.
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The #jury’s specific requests:
1. David Pecker's testimony regarding the phone conversation w/ #Trump while #Pecker was in the investor meeting
2. Pecker's testimony regarding life rights for #KarenMcDougal
3. Pecker's testimony regarding the Trump Tower meeting
4. #MichaelCohen's testimony regarding the #TrumpTowerMeeting
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #CathAndKill #conspiracy
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#Steinglass, who had stuck to a chronological timeline, goes back to 2016 to connect #Trump to each element that prosecutors say is a #crime. He argues that David #Pecker corroborated the idea that #MichaelCohen had kept Trump up to date on the #HushMoney payments at every step. Cohen, Steinglass says, “is not some rogue actor here.”
Steinglass talks about the infamous tape of Trump & Micahel Cohen discussing the payment to #KarenMcDougal.
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#Steinglass, who had stuck to a chronological timeline, goes back to 2016 to connect #Trump to each element that prosecutors say is a #crime. He argues that David #Pecker corroborated the idea that #MichaelCohen had kept Trump up to date on the #HushMoney payments at every step. Cohen, Steinglass says, “is not some rogue actor here.”
Steinglass talks about the infamous tape of Trump & Micahel Cohen discussing the payment to #KarenMcDougal.
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#Steinglass, who had stuck to a chronological timeline, goes back to 2016 to connect #Trump to each element that prosecutors say is a #crime. He argues that David #Pecker corroborated the idea that #MichaelCohen had kept Trump up to date on the #HushMoney payments at every step. Cohen, Steinglass says, “is not some rogue actor here.”
Steinglass talks about the infamous tape of Trump & Micahel Cohen discussing the payment to #KarenMcDougal.
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#Steinglass, who had stuck to a chronological timeline, goes back to 2016 to connect #Trump to each element that prosecutors say is a #crime. He argues that David #Pecker corroborated the idea that #MichaelCohen had kept Trump up to date on the #HushMoney payments at every step. Cohen, Steinglass says, “is not some rogue actor here.”
Steinglass talks about the infamous tape of Trump & Micahel Cohen discussing the payment to #KarenMcDougal.
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#Steinglass now goes into 4 Nov 2016, four days before the election, the day that The WSJ broke a story about The #NationalEnquirer’s deal w/ #KarenMcDougal on #Trump’s behalf.
Steinglass reminds jurors that #HopeHicks sent over a statement for the story on behalf of Trump, & that Trump lied in the statement, saying he didn’t know anything about the Karen McDougal deal. Steinglass says Trump did know about it because he was on tape 2 months earlier talking about it.
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#Steinglass plays the recording of the conversation between #MichaelCohen & #Trump discussing the #KarenMcDougal deal in Sept 2016.
Steinglass argues that the conversation shows Trump’s “cavalier willingness” to hide this payoff & “unequivocally shows a presidential candidate actively engaging in a scheme to influence the election.”
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics
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#Steinglass tells the jury that #Pecker was willing to sacrifice his bottom line in service of #Trump’s campaign, & adds that this deal was “the very antithesis of a normal legitimate press function.”
Steinglass shows through call records the degree to which Trump would have had knowledge of the discussions around acquiring #KarenMcDougal’s life rights. Cutting against Blanche’s portrayal of Trump as a dupe who people took advantage of.
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#Steinglass notes that after closing the #HushMoney deal w/ #KarenMcDougal, the editor of The #NationalEnquirer did not immediately call his boss. Instead he placed a call to #Trump atty #MichaelCohen, underscoring, again, that The Enquirer was working on Trump's behalf.
We’re over hour 2, & Steinglass has a way to go, this won’t be done today.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics
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#Steinglass now talks# about the 2nd of 3 hush-money deals, which involved #KarenMcDougal & was arranged by The #NationalEnquirer. He says that #Pecker & #DylanHoward of The Enquirer & #KeithDavidson, McDougal's lawyer, spoke in code. But you don’t have to be a codebreaker, he says, to understand what they were talking about
Steinglass also notes that the trio was communicating w/ #MichaelCohen, who testified that he had been charged w/keeping #Trump apprised of their progress
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#Blanche is skipping around in his summation, which is making it a little hard to follow.
He now turns back to the recording that #MichaelCohen secretly made of a conversation he had w/ #Trump about the #KarenMcDougal payment.
Blanche suggests there is some kind of dispute over the authenticity of this recording. There isn’t. The recording sounds exactly the same as the one CNN played in 2018.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference
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#Blanche addresses the 3 specific #CatchAndKill deals prosecutors allege #Pecker was involved in, all of which they say were designed to protect #Trump. Defense argues all 3 stories are false.
He characterizes the 1st, involving a doorman at a #TrumpOrganization bldg, as “literally a made up story designed to harm President Trump.”
Blanche talks about Playboy model #KarenMcDougal who sold the rights to her story of an affair w/Trump to The #NationalEnquirer's parent co, #AMI.
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Heading into what may be the final week of the #TrumpTrial, here are links to my threads for each day of coverage starting w/opening statements & then testimony (excludes jury selection)
#criminal #law #Trump #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal #NodFarter
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Justice #Merchan tells the attys he will get them a final version of the #JuryInstructions by end of the day Thurs.
Court is adjourned.
Testimony in the #TrumpTrial is over.
The jury will be back in a week for closing arguments.
Thanks for reading 🥰
#criminal #law #Trump #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #MobTactics #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal #NodFarter
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With defense resting their case, we now know definitively that #Trump did not #testify in his own #defense of 34 #criminal charges.
As he exited the courtroom, & raised his hand in a fist, Trump did not answer reporters’ questions about why he had not testified in the trial.
#law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal #NodFarter
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The defense rests, Todd #Blanche says.
#Testimony in the first #criminal trial of Donald J. Trump has concluded.
. #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #MobTactics #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal #NodFarter
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#Trump's *guests* today in court:
#DonaldTrumpJr
Fmr Acting AG #MattWhitaker
Fmr Florida AG #PamBondi
Sen #EricSchmitt
#US #House Reps
• #DanielWebster
• #DanMeuser
• #RonnyJackson
• #TroyNehls
• #DaleStrong
• #MariaSalazar
#SebastianGorka
#ChuckZito
#JoePiscopo
#BillWhite#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal #NodFarter
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Prosecutors now have 3 days to prepare re-direct, when they will seek to build #MichaelCohen back up & refocus the jurors on the most important elements of their case & the actual charges for which they’ve presented mountains of evidence regardless of whether Cohen is a liar or not.
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#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #Trump #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal #NodFarter -
#MichaelCohen previously testified that in June 2016, he was negotiating w/ The #NationalEnquirer & #KarenMcDougal over her story about having had an affair w/ #Trump. On the stand now, as #Blanche digs in about whether he can remember a specific call from that year, Cohen says that seeing prosecutors’ other evidence has jogged his memory about calls he had back then. (That’s memory for ya)
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics
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Importantly the falsified documents at issue in the #TrumpTrial weren’t to hide Trump’s affair #KarenMcDougal, but the #StormyDaniels #situationship.
Blanche asks about the story about McDougal: “President Trump at least initially, did not think it would hurt him, correct?”
#MichaelCohen: “Initially, yes.”
Though, Cohen concedes that ONE of the things Trump was worried about w/that story was his wife & *children* — that was a nearly year long affair while Melania was preggers so yeah.
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Importantly the falsified documents at issue in the #TrumpTrial weren’t to hide Trump’s affair #KarenMcDougal, but the #StormyDaniels #situationship.
Blanche asks about the story about McDougal: “President Trump at least initially, did not think it would hurt him, correct?”
#MichaelCohen: “Initially, yes.”
Though, Cohen concedes that ONE of the things Trump was worried about w/that story was his wife & *children* — that was a nearly year long affair while Melania was preggers so yeah.
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Importantly the falsified documents at issue in the #TrumpTrial weren’t to hide Trump’s affair #KarenMcDougal, but the #StormyDaniels #situationship.
Blanche asks about the story about McDougal: “President Trump at least initially, did not think it would hurt him, correct?”
#MichaelCohen: “Initially, yes.”
Though, Cohen concedes that ONE of the things Trump was worried about w/that story was his wife & *children* — that was a nearly year long affair while Melania was preggers so yeah.
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Importantly the falsified documents at issue in the #TrumpTrial weren’t to hide Trump’s affair #KarenMcDougal, but the #StormyDaniels #situationship.
Blanche asks about the story about McDougal: “President Trump at least initially, did not think it would hurt him, correct?”
#MichaelCohen: “Initially, yes.”
Though, Cohen concedes that ONE of the things Trump was worried about w/that story was his wife & *children* — that was a nearly year long affair while Melania was preggers so yeah.
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Importantly the falsified documents at issue in the #TrumpTrial weren’t to hide Trump’s affair #KarenMcDougal, but the #StormyDaniels #situationship.
Blanche asks about the story about McDougal: “President Trump at least initially, did not think it would hurt him, correct?”
#MichaelCohen: “Initially, yes.”
Though, Cohen concedes that ONE of the things Trump was worried about w/that story was his wife & *children* — that was a nearly year long affair while Melania was preggers so yeah.
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#Trump’s eyes are glued to #MichaelCohen & they’re open for once.
#Blanche is trying to damage prosecution’s argument that Trump’s team orchestrated the #HushMoney payments to #influence the 2016 election. Blanche has already gotten Cohen to confirm under oath that Trump was worried about the #KarenMcDougal story IN PART because of his wife & children.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics
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#Court officers explain, yet again, the courtroom's no-cellphone policy to the people here with #Trump.
The lawyers and the judge are having one of the longest sidebars that have taken place during this trial, if not the longest. Their voices are louder than usual, though the words they're saying aren't clear.
#law #Trump #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal #NodFarter
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There are two objections, quickly sustained, and Justice #Merchan has already asked the lawyers to approach.
Merchan, whispering to Todd Blanche at his desk during a fast sidebar, is shaking his head & speaking to #Blanche, looking him dead in the eyes.
Blanche, frowning, returns to the lectern.
#MichaelCohen
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #NodFarter #GagOrder #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal -
Todd #Blanche, a #Trump defense lawyer, is on cross-examination of #MichaelCohen. He begins by asking Cohen whether or not they have spoken before. Blanche says Cohen went on TikTok & called him a “crying little shit.”
[petty mf]Cohen says that it sounds like something he would say, but the prosecutors object and the judge sustains it.
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #NodFarter #GagOrder #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal
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#MichaelCohen, reads texts instructing #KeithDavidson, lawyer for #StormyDaniels, to “write a strong denial” from Daniels, saying that she had not had an affair w/ #Trump. This is a statement that jurors have seen— & that Trump wrote nonsense about on social media & was fined $1k for violating of his #GagOrder.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal
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#Hoffinger asks #MichaelCohen about meeting w/ #Trump in Jan 2017 & discussing getting reimbursed for his payment to #StormyDaniels. Cohen is shown an email sent a month later by #JeffreyMcConney, the #TrumpOrganization's controller, about the “invoices” [falsified]
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal
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#Hoffinger asks #MichaelCohen about meeting w/ #Trump in Jan 2017 & discussing getting reimbursed for his payment to #StormyDaniels. Cohen is shown an email sent a month later by #JeffreyMcConney, the #TrumpOrganization's controller, about the “invoices” [falsified]
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal
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#Hoffinger asks #MichaelCohen about meeting w/ #Trump in Jan 2017 & discussing getting reimbursed for his payment to #StormyDaniels. Cohen is shown an email sent a month later by #JeffreyMcConney, the #TrumpOrganization's controller, about the “invoices” [falsified]
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal
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#Hoffinger asks #MichaelCohen about meeting w/ #Trump in Jan 2017 & discussing getting reimbursed for his payment to #StormyDaniels. Cohen is shown an email sent a month later by #JeffreyMcConney, the #TrumpOrganization's controller, about the “invoices” [falsified]
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal
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#Hoffinger asks #MichaelCohen about meeting w/ #Trump in Jan 2017 & discussing getting reimbursed for his payment to #StormyDaniels. Cohen is shown an email sent a month later by #JeffreyMcConney, the #TrumpOrganization's controller, about the “invoices” [falsified]
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal
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Here is People's exhibit 35 — The First Republic Bank Statement w/ #AllenWeisselberg & #MichaelCohen handwritten notes
#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal
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#MichaelCohen is talking about discussing w/ #HopeHicks the article revealing #KarenMcDougal's #HushMoney deal, which came out days before the election.
When Hicks testified, she acknowledged that it was *ironic* to be testifying about this exchange she had w/ Cohen, which focused on whether or not the McDougal story was being picked up by other news outlets, at a literal criminal trial that stemmed from the publication of this story & the one about #StormyDaniels.
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Prosecution shows voluminous records of phone calls between #MichaelCohen & #HopeHicks after the article about #KarenMcDougal came out. If anything, these records make Hicks look as if she underplayed the amount that she was speaking to Cohen & his involvement in the campaign.
Next is one of Cohen's calls to #KeithDavidson in documentary evidence, (the lawyer for McDougal & #StormyDaniels) after the story about McDougal being paid off was published.