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Trump may be in more trouble than people think he is

Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:14 pm
Posted by oldtimefootball
Winnfield La
Member since Feb 2013
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Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:14 pm
I read DA Briggs's "Statement Of Facts" in Donald Trump's indictment. It is a relatively long read but has some interesting things in it. Trump is charged, among other things, with claiming the payments to his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, were business-related attorney retainer fees when the payments were actually reimbursements to Cohen for paying off Stormy Daniels to keep her silent about an alleged affair with Trump.

Here is the interesting part. The initial payments to Cohen were paid by Trustees of Trump's personal trust, so Trump could say that he did not make the payments himself, therefore he was not guilty. However, for reasons unknown, after the second payment, Trump began making the payments from his own personal bank account with his signature on the check. Here is the part of the Statement Of Facts that points that out:

33. The remaining nine checks, corresponding to the months of April through December of 2017, were paid by the Defendant personally. Each of the checks was cut from the Defendant’s bank account and sent, along with the corresponding invoices from Lawyer A, from
the Trump Organization in New York County to the Defendant in Washington, D.C. The checks
and stubs bearing the false statements were stapled to the invoices also bearing false statements.
The Defendant signed each of the checks personally and had them sent back to the Trump
Organization in New York County. There, the checks, the stubs, and the invoices were scanned
and maintained in the Trump Organization’s data system before the checks themselves were
detached and mailed to Lawyer A for payment.

Lawyer A is Michael Cohen. Donald Trump is the Defendent.
Posted by UnAnon
Breaux Bridge
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Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:15 pm to
who cares
Posted by FreddieMac
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Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:15 pm to
Wrong board
Posted by LSURulzSEC
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Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:15 pm to
wong board...
Posted by Buzz Lightbeer
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Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:15 pm to
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
Posted by FLBooGoTigs1
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Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:15 pm to
Trump got this.
Posted by specchaser
lafayette
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Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:16 pm to
Fire Javi?
Posted by Chad504boy
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Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:17 pm to
:can’tseeme:
Posted by oldtimefootball
Winnfield La
Member since Feb 2013
442 posts
Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:17 pm to
I asked Administrators to move this to the Politics Board.
Posted by Vacherie Saint
Member since Aug 2015
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Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:23 pm to
It still sucks.

Hell, it sucks more here than it did there
This post was edited on 4/5/23 at 8:45 pm
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
85503 posts
Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:27 pm to
Idk it’s hard to believe because I heard for years trump didn’t pay his lawyers.
Posted by POTUS2024
Member since Nov 2022
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Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:27 pm to
Every person on earth says Bragg laid an egg. It's the federal case that Trump has to worry about.
Posted by TX Tiger
at home
Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:27 pm to


I wonder how many others are being shepherded by this scripted diversion?

Trump very well could be the greatest troll in the history of this country. Of course he couldn't have pulled it off without the help of our righteous and forthcoming media.

"Politics is like pro wrestling, it's all acting, it's all show business."
--- Jesse Ventura (former pro wrestler and governor of Minnesota)
Posted by rphtx
CO
Member since Apr 2018
1538 posts
Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:27 pm to
He's done. They got him. That Brigg's guy and his galaxy brain got the goods. You see the size of that dudes head? He can't be beat.
Posted by Strannix
C.S.A.
Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:28 pm to
You're a dumbass
Posted by TBoy
Kalamazoo
Member since Dec 2007
27335 posts
Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:33 pm to
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Trump may be in more trouble than people think he is

So the underlying charge is that Trump knowingly misclassified personal payments as business expenses, thereby defrauding the taxing authority? I mean, we all know that’s what he did. If every business owner who misclassified a personal expense as a business expense went to jail, we would need more jails.
Posted by oldtimefootball
Winnfield La
Member since Feb 2013
442 posts
Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:33 pm to
I voted for Trump twice. I think he is going down over these payments to Michael Cohen. The Statement Of Facts states that Trump made payments directly to Cohen. He should have let others in his organization handle the payments so he could say that he had nothing to do with the payments. Claiming the payments as a business expense was dumb. A court in the Manhattan District of New York City will convict Trump in a New York minute.
Posted by Redbone
my castle
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20537 posts
Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:33 pm to
I cain't reed alla dat. Does dat meen dat day got him now, agin?
Posted by jrodLSUke
Premium
Member since Jan 2011
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Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:35 pm to
Can you point out the crime in your op? All I see is an account of bookkeeping.
Posted by oldtimefootball
Winnfield La
Member since Feb 2013
442 posts
Posted on 4/5/23 at 8:38 pm to
Counting personal expenses as business expenses happens all the time, especially in small businesses, but this case will be tried in New York. He is going down after Briggs drags this out as long as he can.
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