formally pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges he falsified business records to hide $130,000 in hush money paid to an adult film star in the last weeks of his 2016 presidential campaign — a payoff that could well have swayed the outcome of that election.
A New York City grand jury handed up the indictment against him last week after hearing months of testimony about Trump’s successful efforts to prevent porn actor Stormy Daniels from revealing her claims that she’d had an affair with Trump a decade earlier. Former Trump lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to a federal campaign finance law violation in the matter and in 2018 was sentenced to three years in prison for that and several unrelated charges. Prosecutors in that case described Trump as “Individual-1” who directed Cohen to pay Daniels.The Department of Justice has a policy of not prosecuting sitting presidents, and Trump was not charged at the time.
He has been vocal about the case since news reports revealed last month that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was close to presenting charges to a grand jury for a vote. Trump has called Bragg a “racist” beneficiary of Democratic donor George Soros and that his investigation is part of a “witch hunt” he claims has dogged him since his 2016 run.
FELONY charges. Not misdemeanors. FELONIES.
He looks scared.
Yup that’s the expression when you realizing you are starting to reap what you sow. 😉
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