Trump's legal defense becomes a confession

Former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on March 4 in National Harbor, Maryland. The inset shows former adult film actress Stormy Daniels on January 26, 2019, in Las Vegas. The Manhattan district attorney's office is investigating Trump for allegedly making a $130,000 hush money payment to Daniels just days before the 2016 election.

However, legal experts say that because Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is making the case that Trump tried to cover up the payment, using extortion as a defense would mean that the former president knew about and directed it. Trump has denied knowledge of the payment, and the Trump Organization, which reimbursed former Trump lawyerfor advancing the payment to Daniels, recorded those expenses as legal fees to Cohen. While hush money payments are not illegal, Manhattan prosecutors are deciding whether to charge Trump with falsifying the Trump Organization's business records for how they accounted for Cohen's reimbursement. In New York state, falsifying business records is a misdemeanor.

If he maintains he was being extorted, Trump would go back on his claim that he knew nothing about the payment—a statement that was captured on tape by reporters, Weissmann continued. Using the defense of extortion would also show that Trump was paying to silence Daniels, not for legal fees, as his company's internal books show.

The 🤡 is going down

Even if he's guilty, who cares? Is there any Dem any better?

😂 😂

All this time tRump had to get his lie straight and this is the best he can do? 7 years too late!

The attorney in turn will always put mr Trump as a little hummingbird same as Michael cohen did or How the people that helped trump and follow his orders they are in prison or went to prison or they are in disgrace

I'm not a fan of him, but damn that dude really needs to hire a better legal team

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