and so, what he sees is a relationship between friends that a billionaire, who s failed to intervene in politics. although he s at the center of all sorts of conservative networks. it s like, i m not sure what this actually bought me because donald trump is the standard bearer for the party. i don t like that. i also don t like bernie sanders, aoc kind of left. he sees this as a friendship, and one of the last things that s standing in his intervention into politics is most of the things are gone, but the friendship still stand. the relationship that he has with thomas, though, as you point out, consisted of actual financial transactions. he bought the house that clarence thomas s mother continues to live in. he gave her what s called a life estate, basically allowed to live there until she dies or no longer wants to live there. that meant writing 130,000 dollar check to clarence thomas.
district attorney believes donald trump intended to commit as a result of committing the crime of falsifying business records to corrupt long translator and 30,000 dollar cash payment of hush money to actress stormy daniels. in a court filing the district attorney said, quote, the crime crimes defended intended to commit or to aid or conceal nay include violations of the recollection law, new york tax law, new york penal law, or violations of the federal election campaign act. leading off its gusher tonight s deal catchall, former acting u.s. solicitor general, and nbc legal analyst. neil, i want to bring with william barr s not-so-spirited defense the idea that rudy giuliani would sell pardons for $2 million. haven t heard a word from rulli
declassify certain classified records. if none of those documents say the donald trump could automatically declassified documents, simply by taking them home, then donald trump will be in even more trouble when jack smith gets those documents scheduled to be delivered to him from the national archives next week. in manhattan, where donald trump is a criminal defendant, he received some clarification from the district attorney about the other crimes the district attorney believes donald trump intended to commit as a result of committing the crime of falsifying business records to corrupt long translator and 30,000 dollar cash payment of hush money to actress stormy daniels. in a court filing the district attorney said, quote, the crimes defendant intended to
maloney a trump and barren trump were gonna be alive afte the election, right. but it just lays out in very plain english this whole defense that has been floate by your lawyers. can i just also say there are two things by th michael cohen stormy daniels case that have always bother m about it that never just mad sense to me. one was why did michael cohe get reimbursed $420,000 for 130,000 dollar payment i never understood that before today. first of all, they doubled it. they thought he would be in th 50% tax bracket. they were going to listed as i it was income. and then second of all, they odom another 50 grand fo something else, and there something else got 1000 dollar bonus 50, 60,000 dollar bonus so i m like, okay, that s how you got four and $20, 000, that s tax fraud, that s adorable so, that s one but also, why did it tak michael cohen so long to mak the payment to stormy daniels? why is the delayed why was his lawyer threatening them why did they get to 12 day before
mid-made yet more fals statements, including fo example, an ami, american medi incorporates, business records one of the three people that they paid to keep quiet was woman named stormy daniels less than two weeks before the presidential election, michael cohen wired $130,000 to stormy daniels s lawyer that payment was the hiding of damaging information from th voting public. the participants scheme wa illegal. the scheme violated new york election law, which makes it a crime to conspire, to promote candidacy via unlawful means the hundred 30,000 dollar wire payment exceeded the federal campaign contribution cap. and the false statements i ami s books violated new yor law. district attorney alvin bragg speaking today explaining the nature of the