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DB:
--- Quote from: Hoodat on May 01, 2024, 02:57:05 am ---Did he do so just to feel safe (which in itself exposed him to risk)? Or was their a veiled threat?
Just speculating here. None of this is relevant to the trial. Paying Daniels off for whatever reason, whether threatened or not, is not illegal.
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Trump knew where the loose ends were and he sent his fixer lawyer to close them up. I'm pretty sure all this was before it was publicly known he was running. Had the women known, they could have gotten far more from the tabloids. That's why Stormy tried to get he NDA nullified, for a far bigger payout. So it is pretty clear what went down, despite all the lies.
mystery-ak:
Witnesses line up to slam Michael Cohen ahead of Trump trial star’s turn
by Ella Lee and Zach Schonfeld - 05/01/24 11:16 AM ET
NEW YORK — In 2011, Stormy Daniels’s manager phoned a lawyer to complain that “some jerk” had called her up threatening to sue over a blog post claiming the porn actor slept with Donald Trump.
“I hate to ask it this way,” Joshua Steinglass, a prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, said Tuesday while questioning the lawyer, “but who was that jerk?”
Keith Davidson, on the stand in Trump’s first criminal trial, frequently paused before answering Steinglass’s questions. But not this one.
“Michael Cohen,” Davidson replied without hesitation.
A onetime personal attorney and fixer to Trump, Cohen is expected to be a star witness for the district attorney’s office’s case against the former president on 34 counts of falsifying business records connected to hush money deals. Trump pleaded not guilty.
Cohen’s conduct is at the heart of the case. Prosecutors hope to convince a jury of 12 New Yorkers who will determine Trump’s fate that Cohen, now working against his former boss, is credible.
But the image of Cohen portrayed to jurors, at this point, is hardly one of valor.
Some of the prosecutors’ witnesses have torn into him, casting Cohen as difficult to work with to the point where they actively wanted to avoid him.
At one point, Davidson likened Cohen to the dog in Disney’s “Up” who repeatedly becomes distracted by squirrels.
“He was highly excitable, sort of a pants-on-fire kind of guy. He had a lot of things going on,” Davidson said. “I’d frequently be on the phone with him, he’d take another call, he’d be talking out of two ears.”
Cohen paid the hush money to Daniels that prosecutors say Trump unlawfully concealed and helped set up two other so-called catch-and-kill arrangements to keep quiet negative stories about Trump ahead of the 2016 election.
more
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4635754-witnesses-slam-michael-cohen-trump-trial/
mystery-ak:
Trump’s Business Records Trial Resumes with More Witness Testimony
Simon Kent 2 May 2024
Donald Trump returns to a New York City courtroom Thursday as his business records trial resumes. Testimony is expected from a lawyer who represented two women who allege they had sexual encounters with the former president.
AP reports the testimony from attorney Keith Davidson is seen as a base for the prosecution’s case that Trump and his allies sought to bury unflattering stories in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.
He represented both Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal in their negotiations with the National Enquirer and Trump’s former lawyer and sometime personal fixer, Michael Cohen.
Davidson is one of multiple key players expected to be called to the stand in advance of Cohen, the prosecutor’s star witness.
Trump has denied all allegations and maintained his innocence throughout while claiming “election interference” for the judicial challenge.
more
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/02/trumps-business-records-trial-resumes-with-more-witness-testimony/
mystery-ak:
DAY 10
16 minutes ago
Here's what to expect on Day 10 of Trump's 'hush money' criminal trial
By Ben Kochman
We're back inside the courtroom for day 10 of Donald Trump's criminal trial on charges of concealing $130,000 in hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election.
First up today is a 9:30 a.m. hearing on whether Trump, 77, breached the court's "gag order" again by disparaging jurors and witnesses in public statements. The judge has already fined him $9,000 for breaching the order, and prosecutors are likely to urge the court to fine Trump again.
Then we'll hear more testimony from Keith Davidson, the lawyer for both Daniels and alleged Trump lover Karen McDougal, a former Playboy Playmate.
Davidson has so far walked jurors through his negotiations with Trump's ex-fixer Michael Cohen about the payoffs in the summer and fall of 2016.
Once prosecutors are done questioning him, he'll be cross-examined by Trump's lawyers.
mystery-ak:
Trump lashes out at Judge in NY criminal trial over 'unconstitutional' gag order
Former President Trump lashed out at Judge Juan Merchan ahead of Thursday's proceedings in his Manhattan criminal trial.
Trump once again argued Merchan is a "conflicted" judge and a member of the "radical left." Trump has repeatedly raged against the gag order Merchan imposed on him in early April, which prohibits him from speaking publicly about witnesses in the case.
"WE CANNOT LET THIS RADICAL LEFT, CORRUPT AND HIGHLY CONFLICTED NEW YORK DEMOCRAT JUDGE INTERFERE WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2024 — THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY. THE USA IS TRULY A NATION IN DECLINE! REMOVE THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL GAG ORDER," Trump wrote on social media.
Thursday's proceedings are expected to begin with yet another gag order hearing. Merchan fined Trump $9,000 for violating the order earlier this week. The court also warned Trump that further violations could result in jail time.
Posted by Anders Hagstrom
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