Let's keep this thread clean, folks.
If you don't know of evidence that Donald Trump falsified business records to conceal a crime, move along to another thread.
Thanks.
a few quotes from two news articles on this subject:
Daniel J. Horwitz, a veteran defense lawyer who previously worked in the Manhattan district attorney’s office prosecuting white-collar cases, said prosecutors can be expected to corroborate Mr. Cohen’s story wherever possible.
“The prosecution has layers upon layers of evidence to back up what Michael Cohen says,” Mr. Horwitz said.
But in previewing the case for prospective jurors last week,
Manhattan prosecutors emphasized neither the payoff that secured Ms. Daniels’s silence, nor the sex scandal that was buried in the process. One prosecutor, Joshua Steinglass, instead distilled the trial’s stakes to a fundamental question:
“This case is about the rule of law and whether or not Donald Trump broke it.”
Mr. Bragg’s prosecutors will seek to turn that 2016 campaign strategy against Mr. Trump: The tactics that helped propel him to victory will be admitted as evidence and reconsidered far beyond the courtroom. Aides and friends who lied on Mr. Trump’s behalf will take the witness stand to testify against him.
They include: David Pecker, the tabloid publisher who bought and buried damaging stories about Mr. Trump;
Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman who tried to spin reporters;
Mr. Cohen, the fixer who paid Ms. Daniels.
Mr. Pecker, who ran the company that owned The National Enquirer, is set to go first, and is expected to recount for the jury several conversations with Mr. Trump about the hush money, according to a person familiar with the plan.