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Andrew H. Giuliani@AndrewHGiuliani·1mBlanche: “Where is the evidence of the intent to defraud by President Trump?”
Andrew H. Giuliani@AndrewHGiuliani·1mBlanche makes a very good point: This is a case about false business records, yet the documents were presented by the defense. These records that the government says were schematory.
Andrew H. Giuliani@AndrewHGiuliani·3sBlanche: “Mr. Cohen wants you to believe that on February 8th, he’s in the Oval Office with President Trump for the very first time, having this schematory agreement with President Trump, but just 6 days later, Cohen FORGOT how much he was owed?”
Andrew H. Giuliani@AndrewHGiuliani·12sBlanche: The government’s theory is that President Trump falsified documents in 2017 to affect the 2016 election.
Andrew H. Giuliani@AndrewHGiuliani·1mBlanche: So again, how can there be an attempt to defraud by President Trump if he: 1) Discloses it to IRS, 2) tweets about it, and 3) discloses it on his government ethics forms.
Andrew H. Giuliani@AndrewHGiulianiBlanche: “The payments were compensation to Mr. Cohen from President Trump for legal services. There is nothing wrong with that.”“How else do you know there’s no attempt to defraud. Well you also saw that President Trump sent out a tweet in 2018, saying exactly what he did. If there was an attempt to defraud, why would he do that?”
Andrew H. Giuliani@AndrewHGiuliani·3mBlanche: If there was some deep rooted attempt to defraud, why do you think it was reported to the IRS as exactly what it was (regarding the 1099 of the legal services Cohen provided)?
Andrew H. Giuliani@AndrewHGiuliani·4mBlanche: “Where is the evidence of the intent to defraud by President Trump?”
Andrew H. Giuliani@AndrewHGiulianiBlanche now making the point that Ron Perlman and Ari Emmanuel worked with the media to help themselves and their candidates to help shine them in the best light.“This is not a crime. Mr. Pecker even said that this was ‘standard operating procedure.’” That’s what happens in campaigns.
Andrew H. Giuliani@AndrewHGiulianiBlanche: Let’s talk for a minute about this August 2015 meeting between Michael Cohen, David Pecker and President Trump, and Hope Hicks supposedly was in-and-out.This is the same thing AMI had been doing for decades, per Mr. Peckers testimony. They had been doing this for Mr. Trump since the 90’s.Tiger Woods did this, so did Mark Wahlberg.
@AndrewHGiulianiBlanche: There is nothing wrong with a politician like President Trump trying to get positive news stories and avoid negative stories. That’s a campaign, there is nothing illegal about that.The idea that people could believe that stories in the National Enquirer could influence the 2016 election, at a circulation of only 350k people, compared to the multiples more by that New York Times and other outlets, is absurd.
@AndrewHGiulianiBlanche now bringing up Mr. Pecker’s testimony that he helped kill a story on Rahm Emmanuel, Ari Emmanuel’s brother, about an affair he had to help Rahm run for Mayor of Chicago.Side note: Ari Emmanuel is the inspiration behind the hit HBO show Entourage; the character Ari is based of Ari Emmanuel. Rahm Emmanuel is Barrack Obama’s first Chief of Staff and is the former Mayor of Chicago.