After tense and dramatic testimony, filled with more than a few moments that would make any one of us blush, the trump election interference hush money trial today got down to brass tacks, a flood of evidence, phone call data, texts, tweets, documents, that cast new light on the mechanics of the scheme to silence Stormy Daniels and conceal the Hush Money Payments. They set the stage for one star witness and possibly the appearance of another witness who is not on anyones list to testify. Read out loud in court today messages sent between Stormy Daniels publicist, Gina Rodriguez, and the National Enquirer editor dylan howard. These Text Messages show that those two were in talks for months about buying Stormy Daniels story. On october 7th, 2016 april 7th, 2016, rodriguez text but stormy was his mistress. Dylan howard texts back, i bet she was. Can you email me what you have on that . Few months later this exchange from june 28th, 2016. Gina rodriguez texts, she doesnt want to go on the
President ial election, prosecutors in the Trump Election Interference Hush Money Trial today have turned to the core of the actual crimes, the actual criminal acts and criminal charges against the expresident. That scheme to cover up Hush Money Payments to Stormy Daniels, using falsified business records. On the stand right now, Trump Employee deborah tarasoff. She handled payroll. Her testimony is critical. She explains that only donald trump could sign checks that came from his personal account. Thats the one used to reimburse Michael Cohen for the Hush Money Payments. Trump did that, even after becoming president of the United States of america. She also testified that if trump did not want to sign a check, he didnt have to. She was one half of a double whammy against the expresident today. Testifying after mcconney. He was a codefendant of the expresident. That was back in the Civil Fraud Case Against Trump and the trump org. He testified that most of the money used to reimburse M
michael cohen would go on to explain to congress exactly how president trump directed him to make those illegal payments and the fact that trump wrote personal checks to michael cohen to try to disguise the source of the money and pay it all off. i am providing the committee today with several documents, and these include a copy of the check mr. trump wrote from his personal bank account after he became president to reimburse me for the hush money payments i made to cover up his affair with an adult film star and to prevent damage to his campaign. i am going to jail, in part, because of my decision to help mr. trump hide that payment from the american people before they voted a few days later. as exhibit 5a to my testimony shows, i am providing the copy
an adult film star and to prevent damage to his campaign. i am going to jail, in part, because of my decision to help mr. trump hide that payment from the american people before they voted a few days later. as exhibit 5a to my testimony shows, i am providing the copy of a $35,000 check that president trump personally signed from his personal bank account on august 1st of 2017. when he was president of the united states, pursuant to the cover-up which was the basis of my guilty plea. regardless of what you think about the president and these alleged affairs, or whether you can bring yourself to think about them at all, personally, i just kind of block about it. can t even get there even if i tried. just oop, oop, i m asleep. nope. asleep.
was signed by the president six months into his presidency. it marks the first time in american history that we have seen a check signed by a president for an illegal purpose. as exhibit 5a to my testimony shows, i am providing a copy of a $35,000 check that president trump personally signed from his personal bank account on august 1st of 2017. when he was president of the united states. pursuant to the cover-up, which was the basis of my guilty plea, to reimburse me. the crime as described by federal prosecutors and in michael cohen s guilty plea testimony took place weeks before the presidential election when michael cohen used his own funds to arrange a payment of $130,000 to stormy daniels to buy her silence. what america learned from michael cohen today is that that criminal scheme extended forward