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attorneys who need to seize the day and own this moment in history is this idea really feasible district attorneys around the country are going to have a harder time going after national political figures. they only have state law to work with. they need to have jurisdiction, which means the thing needs to have happened and then their space. you could see perhaps a red very republican, conservative prosecutor and a purple states like georgia that has us senators who are democrats trying to find some kind of state tax crime against those senators. but it s not like joe biden or hillary clinton or barak obama is running around rural alabama and doing things that then could be a source of a crime. so i think this may be more heat than substance unless and until trump is re-elected, in which case he gains control of the us justice department. and then all bets are off from what you ve learned in your
against him that he will face a trial and the charges that he s going to be confronted with and if there s ambiguity as to what criminal charge would cause this bump up that might cause a bit of a problem, and they even trump s attorney said this at the hearing yesterday. they said, look, you know, we don t even know what the charges are. so we need. we need more clarity. so a lot of smart lawyers were left to make analysis because you don t have alvin bragg says. i have it, but i m just not going to show you right now and again that he says that s his legal right, and we ll watch as it plays out. one veteran new york state prosecutor rebecca rafi, says this, it turns out the indictment also includes a claim that trump falsified records to commit a state tax crime that s so much simpler charge that avoids the potential pitfalls, but we don t know that right, alvin bragg, at one point said these payments exceeded the federal election contribution cap. he can t charge an fcc violation in
to conceal some other crime, it s not clear that includes a federal crime. so that s the challenge. but here s the problem with the state election crimes is that there is usually for a federal campaign, there is a pre-emption doctrine, meaning so this is like now you re [ overlapping speakers ] for the state election crime, you can be sure that the defense team is going to say, wait a second, that can t be used, because this is really a narrative that only the federal law governs. that is why the two things i was really interested to hear were the other two possible grounds a state tax crime, i don t see a problem. and ami falsifying, don t see a problem. how does this get broader and narrower in your view today? i think it got broader that it looks like we have a
falsification work michael cohen in his book talk about how after he and allen weisselberg had decided that they were going to make th payment, allen weisselberg and looked at him and said, well maybe we can lay this off in the golf course in l.a.. or maybe, michael, can you fin somebody to buy a membership a mar-a-lago for whatever amount maybe 130,000. we can try to bury it that way i am really just going to be curious to see, a had toda buried in the books. it was technically booke according to a number of reports as legal fees. but then, where did it go from there. and potentially there could be a state tax crime here as well if it ended up getting put on tax form, which is likely no all of the sort of falsifications of business records. and up that way. you can falsified business records and not have it to be tax crime. but often it is. and we saw that that was the case when the trum