Trump’s sleazy accusers
By
Byron York
May 13, 2024 8:12 am
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TRUMP’S SLEAZY ACCUSERS. The Trump trial in Manhattan is expected to come to a climax of sorts this week with the appearance of star prosecution witness Michael Cohen. Cohen will follow the prosecution’s other star witness, Stormy Daniels, the porn star who testified last week.
Daniels testified about the sexual encounter she has at times said she had with former President Donald Trump and at times said she did not have with Trump in 2006. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Daniels had a lawyer who specialized in shaking down celebrities who want to quell embarrassing news. In the final days before voting, Trump, through his lawyer Cohen, paid Daniels $130,000 to stay quiet about the matter. Such a transaction, while tawdry, was entirely legal, and there is only a trial because Alvin Bragg, the Democrat who was elected district attorney of Manhattan on a promise to go after Trump, accuses Trump of falsifying his company’s bookkeeping regarding the $130,000 payment in order, Bragg says, to pull off some sort of super-secret scheme to steal the 2016 election.
Here’s the thing about both Daniels and Cohen. They have an extreme animus against Trump, so much so that even if they did not have records of making untrustworthy statements, and they do, their Trump hatred would make it difficult for an unbiased observer to believe anything they said. Much of their lives in the past decade have been devoted either to attacking or trying to get money out of Trump.
Neither is a person of good character. A fundamental fact about this case is that the prosecution’s star witnesses are a woman who had sex for money and a lawyer who did sleazy things. (That’s on top of the felonies, including tax evasion and bank fraud, that Cohen pleaded guilty to a few years ago.) It does not speak well of Trump that he had anything to do with people like Cohen and Daniels, and now he is paying a price for doing so. Before the trial is over, Bragg may regret getting mixed up with them, too.
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