I read it, not a single criminal statute is listed in the SOF. The indictment requires that trump intended to defraud while committing or covering up another crime. This means that Bragg has to cite that criminal statute that Trump is accused of covering up. Aside from the whole cohen deal, the SOF talks about the catch and kill scheme, and says it violated campaign finance laws, but doesn’t actually say what law he violated. Same
With cohen, it says that Trump paid cohen.
Look, I get it, cohen plead guilty to campaign finance violations, and the SOF mentions that, but cohen also said that Trump didn’t know anything about the payments. Then he said that Trump did…so…which is it?
Bragg is charging TRUMP with a misdemeanor that is supposed to be supported by other crimes, you’d think Bragg would have to, by the laws of creating indictments, make sure that the crimes statutes he’s referring to would be listed…somewhere.
Such as “Trump made a false business entry to cover cohens crime, which is in violation of 18 USC….whatever. “. Not “Trump made false business entries to cover for a crime that cohen plead guilty to”
Also, you still have fi get past the “intent to defraud” part of it, which is listed in the law that Bragg cited. Kind of hard to prove intent to defraud when it was internal business records that nobody was ever intended to see.