Why Does Trump Face Felony Charges? What is a felony 101

[Procrustes Stretched]

What is worse, breaking a law or being a genocidal monster like Joe Biden?

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/05/pro-palestinian-protests-columbia-university-funding-donors-00156135

Will you Lefties conduct a Nuremburg trial on Joe?

How crazy can one be?

 

[Lastamender]

Right. A grand jury of US citizens put forth an indictment in your mind, in order to stop Trump.

They heard a one sided barrage of bullshit from dishonest prosecutors. They had little choice but to indict. A grand jury does not know the law they are told the law from one side only. It has backfired anyway.

 

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They heard a one sided barrage of bullshit from dishonest prosecutors. They had little choice but to indict. A grand jury does not know the law they are told the law from one side only. It has backfired anyway.

You hate American citizens?. Okay.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Yeah

Including on 5th Avenue in NYC?

Biden better not go near there.

LOL!

Yeah, NYC is a R stronghold

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Yeah

LOL!

Yeah, NYC is a R stronghold

Queens? Trump, Hannity, Bill Oh Blow Reilly....

 

[theHawk]

Boy, you people are grasping at straws. Take shit out of context and build a straw man out of it? The Jury will not be playing your game. He did not ok-to-pay because of how Cohen worded anything. And the payments came out of Trump's personal account.

If they came out of his personal account, then how is it tied to business records or campaign money as the charges claim? LOL

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

If they came out of his personal account, then how is it tied to business records or campaign money as the charges claim? LOL

If you followed along you'd know. The trust. The filings. The false records.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

If they came out of his personal account, then how is it tied to business records or campaign money as the charges claim? LOL

"Donald J. Trump faces 34 felony counts...The records related to the reimbursement underpin the 34 counts of falsifying business records: 11 counts involve the checks issued to Mr. Cohen, 11 center on monthly invoices Mr. Cohen submitted to the company, and 12 involve entries in the general ledger for Mr. Trump’s trust."

Trump used personal checking account to pay Michael Cohen for Stormy Daniels hush money, trial hears

In the trial’s opening statements, defence attorney Todd Blanche claimed that those payments were merely “for legal services rendered.” The invoices were processed, “somebody at Trump Tower” signed off on them, and they were recorded as such in a ledger, he argued.

“What on earth is a crime? What is a crime about what I just described?” Mr Blanche said last month. “The 34 counts … are really just 34 pieces of paper.”

Those 34 counts include not just the checks but the ledger entries and invoices that created them.

Cohen submitted each invoice “pursuant to the retainer agreement.” Pay stubs to Cohen described each check as payments for his “retainer.” Invoices entered into the company’s accounting software list each payment as a “legal expense.”

Ledgers from Mr Trump’s personal checking account and the Donald J Trump Revocable Trust – which handled the former president’s assets while he was in office – recorded the payments to Cohen as “legal expense,” according to documents shown in court.

Cohen’s first check, which encompassed January and February 2017, totalled $70,000.

That check, which came out of the trust’s checking account, was signed by Weisselberg and Eric Trump.

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"Ledgers from Mr Trump’s personal checking account and the Donald J Trump Revocable Trust – which handled the former president’s assets while he was in office – recorded the payments to Cohen as “legal expense,” according to documents shown in court."

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Problem with all of that is Trump wasn't the guy that did that.

Somebody else did it, and they didn't know that Michael Cohen was going to screw the pooch.

MSN

Donald Trump's Team Makes 'Apparent Slip' in Court

 

[mudwhistle]

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Donald Trump's Team Makes 'Apparent Slip' in Court

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Didn't they object to that as hearsay?

Whatever Weisselberg may have said about it is hearsay.

And it doesn't prove what the alleged reimbursement was for, or who knew about it.