prove up criminal intent, neal yeah, so the district attorney here, ari, has done what he does in other cases, which is specify at least one route. he s not required i think dan s right to specify all the routes, but i think the district attorney went pretty far in doing so. specified, as i counted it, five between the indictment and his press conference one bucket was federal election violations and state election violations, so campaign finance. then there was tax, both state and federal. then there was also the idea that any one of these falsifications of business records were done to enable the falsification of a next round. so you went from mcdougal to stormy daniels and the doorman as well. these were enumerated.
course. it s also not true that this has never been charged before. it s never been to a former president. that s true, however, as the new york times reports the false business records charge, which is what people specked with this. is the bread and butter of the district attorney s white color practice. mr bragg took office in 2022. since then, prosecutors have filed 117 felony counts of that charge against 29, individuals and companies that is not never charged before. i think there s a distinction that s important to make what we understand the charges are going to be our falsification of books and records in order to commit some kind of election or campaign finance fraud. right, so that is unclear about how often that s been charged the fact that falsifications of books and records are charged regularly. no surprise. those are often misdemeanors. but this is the felony charges have been filed 117 felony charges, so it has to be connected to another crime. in other words, here, it
charged before in all caps hates me. um which you know, could obviously insight some feelings about that judge. of course. it s also not true that this has never been charged before. it s never been to a former president . that s true, however, as the new york times reports the false business records charge, which is what people specked with this. is the bread and butter of the district attorney s white color practice. mr bragg took office in 2022. since then, prosecutors have filed 117 felony counts of that charge against 29, individuals and companies that is not never charged before. i think there s a distinction that s important to make what we understand the charges are going to be our falsification of books and records in order to commit some kind of election or campaign finance fraud. right so that is unclear about how often that s been charged the fact that falsifications of books and records are charged regularly. no surprise are often misdemeanors. but this is the felony charg
joyce vance, assuming that the primary charges are going to revolve about falsifying business records what does the prosecution have to prove to make that case so, the prosecution s most important focus will be taking the step that makes what s normally a misdemeanor charge a felony and that means they ll have to prove that the records falsifications were committed in order to either encourage the commission of or conceal another crime. that will be an important focus here there are a lot of options there are tax options. there are campaign finance options. there may be others that they uncovered during their grand jury proceedings and so, like any crime, you have to prove the act, and that s the act, and then you have to prove the state of mind that was committed with and here that would involve intent to defraud. that donald trump intended to defraud when the false entry
case want to navigate this unprecedented moment well, it is going to be really interesting to watch. because with the caveat righ now that we don t know what th specific charges are or how alvin bragg is making this case. i do have to say, on its face, it is not a really strong case in fact, there are hug weaknesses just based on the public reporting the theory seems to be tha because business records wer falsified. that was used to conceal a mor serious crime. the falsifications is misdemeanor. the more serious crime would presumably be the campaign finance violation. but i, mean on its face, these business, the trum organization is a privat company. it doesn t report to the scc it is not at all clear tha these business records wer used in any context with the irs, with a bank, with a