no pun intended, and that ther is no purpose because i don think mr. trump actually wants to litigate this and gets ever case handed to him again as he has so many times, including b mr. cohen in a case i brough against the trum administration and attorne general barr that s a really good point. again, it is the rule of reporting that you try not t report on threatened a lawsuits until they happen for precisely this reason, so they can t have the effect withou filing it s a sort of put up or shu up situation danya perry, thank you ver much still to come, remember th story about the right-wing actually wants to litigate thi and gets every case handed t him again as he has so man times, including by mr. cohe in a case i brought against th trump administration and attorney general barr. that s a really good point. again, it is the rule of reporting that you try not t report on threatened a lawsuits until they happen for precisely this reason, so they can t have the effect withou fili
election violation, that s a misdemeanor under new york state law, where you conspir to promote a campaign by unlawful means he hinted that there is a ta related crime, that these fals statements, by either mr. cohe or the national inquirer, am i was done to mischaracterize fo tax purposes he s clearly stated that he talking about the federa election law, and also, fals statements by ami. the law does not require him t specify, techs fraud, insuranc fraud. but he did say that he is thinking of for different crimes that mr. trum allegedly committed. so so, he attended to commit during this arraignment hearin on tuesday, last tuesday, th prosecutors in the case noted, they are requesting protective order, and workin on a protective order with the trump team, because they are concerned, frankly, that
well, very quickly after that,.n she sued to be released from nda the nda and donald trump because he hadn t signed the nda himself. cohe it was all done by others, including michael cohen. he actually , in that court process when she sued, released her from the nda effectively and said, look, i didn t sign it. and she s noo longer longer ands to abide by it. and on the back of that, she went and did interviews, including with anderson cooper at cbs and others. and donald trump, to my knowledge, has taken no legal ao action against her or those networks as a result of her talking about what she says was the affair. so that s the chronology here. but what s interestingtake, abt i thought my take away was whate she then said about this wholee case, because it doesn t really matter who you believe aboutoutt the affair. that s not what this court caset is . now, about. wha the court case is about whether there was some kind of cover up, what one hundred andl ab thirty thousand dollars was
and how to pay her prosecutors laid out that cohe spoke to weisselberg about quote, how to set this whole thing up and that allen weisselberg played an integral role an figuring out how to reimburs michael cohen. the document also alleges, weisselberg memorialized these calculations, and handwritte notes on the copy of the ban statement that michael cohen had provided well ellen lacewell bergholz over the statement of facts in this case, why wasn t he charged? after all, the only immunity h had concerning the hush mone scheme was from federa prosecutors, not the da office, not alvin bragg. so, could prosecutors use alle weisselberg s allege involvement in that hush money scheme as a leverage to ge allen weisselberg to cooperate on, other broader an ongoing criminal investigation int trump world? because that would be very very problematic for donal trump. problematic on the level of hi
weisselberg reportedly now has a new lawyer, someone who is also not coincidentally paid b the trump organization if allen weisselberg is gettin out of prison, he s getting ou of her acres in two weeks, why does he need a new lawyer? that news stuck out to me, remember, in the federal probe into the hush money payments allen weisselberg was grante immunity in exchange for his grand jury testimony this is the case that resulted in michael cohen going t prison in the unsealing of th statement of facts in alvi bragg s case against trump yesterday, we learned that deeper extent of allen weisselberg s alleged handed that scheme. the da lays out in detail that weisselberg was involved i discussions about how much money to pay stormy daniels, and how to pay her prosecutors laid out that cohe spoke to weisselberg about quote, how to set this whole thing up and that allen weisselberg played an integral role an figuring out how to reimburs michael cohen. the document also alleges, weisselberg me