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  1. #Steinglass says that defense is arguing that #AllenWeisselberg & #MichaelCohen assumed authority over large amounts of #Trump’s money. “That’s crazy,” Steinglass says. “Neither one had anywhere near that kind of authority.”

    Steinglass attacks defense’s “false narrative” about #Trump not attending to his finances after he became president. He notes an assistant in the #WhiteHouse, #MadeleineWesterhout, testified Trump paid extremely close attention to his personal finances.

    #law #TrumpTrial

  2. #Steinglass list the many witnesses who testified who are still loyal to #Trump: #HopeHicks, #MadeleineWesterhout, #JeffreyMcConney, #RhonaGraff & David #Pecker. Steinglass says that Pecker has “absolutely no reason to lie here,” & adds, “and yet, his testimony is utterly devastating.”

    #criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics

  3. The afternoon session is beginning.

    #Trump is back w/his posse, including #DonaldTrumpJr; #ChuckZito, the fmr #HellsAngel ldr; & the actor #JoePiscopo.

    Justice #Merchan asks the defense to argue on behalf of one of its many requests: to add the word “willfully” in 2 places to the #JuryInstructions on a federal #ElectionLaw which isn’t charged.

    #criminal #law #TrumpTrial #MobTactics

  4. #Trump addressed a rally of bikers in DC in 2016 before the election.

    “Do we love the bikers? Yes. We love the bikers,” he told the crowd.

    A group called Bikers for Trump took part in several “Stop the Steal” rallies after Trump lost in 2020.

    #ChuckZito was joined Mon by several Trump allies who have been charged w/ #crimes.

    Zito has experience w/the #criminal #justice system, having served a prison term 1985–1991 for [#racketeering #conspiracy & #DrugTrafficking].

    #law #TrumpTrial

  5. #ChuckZito, helped found in the early 1980s the NY Nomads chapter of the #HellsAngels, the infamous club that started in California. The #DOJ described the org as a #criminal enterprise & linked the NY chapter to the #Gambino #crime family. Zito later left the biker group to try become a movie star in Hollywood.

    #Trump has long shown an affection for macho bikers [#ToxicMasculinity]….

    #law #TrumpTrial #MobTactics #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #criminals

  6. 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.

    #law

  7. #Hoffinger is going through a lengthy list of all that #MichaelCohen has lost financially. This is similar to something #StormyDaniels said, when pushed on cross-examination about whether she had money to gain by telling her story about #Trump. She said that she had also lost a lot.

    Cohen also acknowledges that he has been #disbarred.

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    #criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #MobTactics

  8. #MichaelCohen reads aloud the tweets #Trump put out when Cohen pleaded guilty, saying that he felt “very badly for #PaulManafort & his wonderful family” & praising #Manafort for refusing to “break“
    “Such respect for a brave man.”

    A sitting president was tweeting these things.

    Also shown: Trump's tweets attacking Cohen saying if anyone wants a good lawyer, he doesn’t recommend Cohen. He contrasts Cohen & Manafort, a #loyal ally, & criticizes Cohen for “breaking.”

    #law #TrumpTrial #MobTactics

  9. #MichaelCohen says he told David #Pecker, fmr publisher of #NationalEnquirer, that he had been told that the federal investigation Cohen faced would be “taken care of” by #JeffSessions, then the #UnitedStates #AttorneyGeneral. Cohen testifies that it was #Trump who told him that.

    Cohen testifies he continued to deal w/ #StormyDaniels in early 2018 w/Trump’s backing & blessing. He says that the president asked him to get a temporary restraining order against Daniels.

    #criminal #law #TrumpTrial

  10. #GeorgiaLongstreet is reading a series of #tweets from #Trump, many of them attacks on #MichaelCohen. She just read a post in which Trump unfavorably compared Cohen — who made the #HushMoney payment to #StormyDaniels & is expected to testify starting Monday — to #PaulManafort, who pleaded #guilty to #crimes & was sentenced to 7 years in #prison but was #pardoned by Trump while he was still in office.

    #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference

  11. #DavidUrban, professional choad, Trump lickspittle, and second only to #JacobMiller in defining the term "neck bubble", thinks every aspect of this #TrumpTrial is good for him, but unfair to him, but also good for him. Yes, it's confusing, but it's both unfair and also helps him.

  12. The people called #MadeleineWesterhout. #Westerhout was Trump's executive assistant in the #WhiteHouse. She was fired after she spoke out of turn about the Trump family at an off-the-record dinner.

    Westerhout went on to write a book in which she extensively praised #Trump. Prior to his presidency, she worked for the RNC. Trump is watching her, pursing his lips at times. He smirks when she says she is nervous to be here today.

    #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference

  13. #Steinglass presented texts between #MichaelCohen & #KeithDavidson about a statement prepared before #StormyDaniels' #JimmyKimmel appearance in Jan 2018.

    The statement said that she was denying an affair w/ #Trump. Asked how truthful that was, Davidson testified that it's technically true because no one had alleged a #relationship between the 2 of them. He said a relationship is an ongoing interaction.
    [#situationship?]

    #criminal #law #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #TrumpTrial

  14. Colony Capital was founded by #TomBarrack, a real estate mogul who chaired #Trump's #inauguration cmte & was the 2016 Trump campaign’s go to on foreign policy stuff.

    Barrack was charged & went to #trial in Brooklyn #federal court re #FARA - it was alleged he was secretly acting as a foreign agent on behalf of the UAE in the campaign & then the WH.

    In the end he was acquitted - but there was a cooperation deal.

    #legal #law #civil #conspiracy #fraud #TrumpOrganization #NYAG #TrumpTrial

  15. (The trust was set up to hold #Trump’s business assets during his presidency to avoid conflicts of interest.)

    #NYAG questions #DonaldTrumpJr about other certifications re #Trump’s #SFCs they sent to #lenders over several years.

    There are more letters to #banks from #Mazars. Each letter, every time says that the #trustees (Jr & #AllenWeisselberg) of the #DonaldJTrumpRevocableTrust are responsible for the Trump's SFCs (oops).

    #law #civil #fraud #TrumpOrganization #TrumpTrial

  16. #NYAG asks #DonaldTrumpJr more about his certification of Trump’s #SFCs for other yrs, & he answers he doesn't recall details, but he that he would have followed the same process in those yrs.

    #NYAG shows another 2017 letter sent to #DeutscheBank from #Mazars, the #TrumpOrganization's fmr accounting firm.

    It says BASED ON discussions Mazars had w/ the #trustees (Jr & #AllenWeisselberg) of the #DonaldJTrumpRevocableTrust, #Trump’s #SFCs are correct.

    #legal #law #civil #fraud #TrumpTrial

  17. #Civil #fraud #TrumpTrial Nov 2, 2023

    Again, #DonaldTrumpJr is testifying & questioning is by #NYAG lawyer Faherty.

    NYAG asks Jr about his role, in inflating #Trump's wealth.

    Jr testifies that he relied on accountants, at #Mazars specifically, & fmr #TrumpOrganization CFO #AllenWeisselberg, for info.

    NYAG shows a 2017 letter *authenticating* Trump's #NetWorth, signed by Jr (oops), which accompanied Trump's statements of financial condition (#SFC) that was sent to a #bank re a #loan.

    #law

  18. #McConney testified that he & then-CFO #AllenWeisselberg reviewed the final version of the #financial compilations & that once #Weisselberg signed off, he would notify their #accounting company, #Mazars.

    But he acknowledged that, through his own handwritten notation, he amended Mazars’ issuance letters to indicate #TRUMP HIMSELF was entitled to a FINAL REVIEW of the compilation of statements of financial condition.

    #law #legal #Fraud #TrumpTrial

  19. #Trump’s attys declined to cross-examine #CameronHarris, but they reserved the right to call him back to the stand later.

    Instead, they spent the last hour of court continuing their cross-examination of fmr #Mazars USA #accountant #DonaldBender.

    After defense highlighted Bender's inconsistent statements about Mazars' use of specialists to evaluate assets, #Bender seemed to struggle to articulate how Mazars provided #accounting expertise.

    #law #legal #fraud #TrumpTrial #TrumpOrganization

  20. The trial resumed w/o #Trump, the mood in the courtroom considerably lighter now that he is is gone.

    #Engoron allowed an interruption to #Bender’s testimony to accommodate #CameronHarris, the partner at #WhitleyPenn who handled Trump’s #accounting work after #Mazars resigned in 2020.

    #Harris is now discussing the role of #JeffMcConney, the #TrumpOrg comptroller, in their engagement to compile the statements of financial condition.

    #law #legal #fraud #TrumpTrial #TrumpOrganization

  21. #Suarez is now cross-examining #Bender about #accounting principles — deep accounting weediness that #Trump is nonetheless sitting through.

    Trump's lawyers are trying to show — despite the #TrumpOrganization’s WRITTEN ASSERTION that it, not #Mazars, was responsible for the preparation of the #statements in #compliance w/standardized accounting practices — that Bender should have known & should have guided Trump better.

    #law #legal #TrumpTrial

  22. #Suarez took #Bender through a series of “engagement continuance forms” internal to his fmr #accounting firm #Mazars that listed #Bender as the partner in charge. The #judge seemed unimpressed, however, & suggested they move on.

    #Trump appeared engaged w/his fmr #accountant's #testimony & complained at one point he couldn't hear what Bender was saying. Bender then started speaking more clearly & closer to the microphone.

    #law #legal #TrumpTrial #TrumpOrganization