was a shortcoming of the prepared statement. it was really vague. i was concerned coming in what evidence did cohen have that trump was directly involved. not during the election. that wasn t significant. that wasn t sufficient enough. i think he laid out more clearly how trump was directly involved with not explicitly suborning perjury or false statement doesn t require flash cards saying go pej yoorjure. but the signals were clear enough. i thought that was significant. and also the campaign finance felonies. it is beyond a doubt now that there s probable cause that trump engaged in an intentional campaign finance felony and now that raises some questions about southern district of new york. it s time to start talking about indicting a sit president. and mimi, the development that the felony we thought occurred a couple of weeks, three weeks before the election, extended into the first presidential year. that s huge. and we re talking about a scheme here. that helped get trump
new york city, i ran a big advertising agency for years. there were bankers and lawyers and real estate developers. what everybody knows about donald trump and his organization, it is the slimiest of the slime. it is just the way they do business. it is dishonest. it is unethical. it is criminal. and the southern district will take it apart. so what michael cohen did today that i knew was coming, i knew a lot of the things that michael knew but i also know a lot of things about how the trumps do business, this is the opening act. mimi roka, your old shop, the southern district of new york, kept coming up in every conversation, but they left out the part where the same prosecutors said donald trump directed these crimes. exactly. you hit the nail on the head. what they wanted to do was paint cohen as a liar, which really isn t surprising since the first thing cohen did was admitted he s a liar. he s lied on behalf of trump. and that s the part that they wanted to just, you know, ign
yes. at this moment, are there other frauds we don t know about or other crimes that were committed? yes. of course that s going to make donald trump jump out of his socks. he s in hanoi. he just got epically trolled by michael cohen thousands of miles away. he did to trump what trump has done to everyone else. he has damning testimony, he s insulted him personally and trump s in a box halfway around the world and can t do anything about it. the next leg of this, i think, is people inside the trump organization are going to start to have to decide do they take care of themselves, do they take care of trump or do they try to find a middle ground? i don t think they re going to ultimately be able to have a middle ground. mimi, how does that work? well, i mean, it sounds like allen weissleberg, for one, has already made a decision about that. he reportedly has an immunity agreement with the southern district. i want to be careful there because i don t know for sure, but just based o
organization, it s a dusty office. here is donald. here are the three kids. here is the cfo. stuck in the 1980s. if you went to one of those little, you know, coffee bars. right. so you don t have to pick through a lot of layers. it is a mom and pop licensing company. so it is and it was run that way. and as you see donald trump at see the way he conducts himself as president? just in front of everybody beyond the law, imagine as a private citizen when nobody s watching. imagine in the real estate business, which is a pretty slimy business even if you re a straight shooter to begin with. imagine the antics that he was up to. we re not going to have to imagine. i thank you for those nice things that you said, but i want to extend a future invitation to myself when the permanent invitation. okay. so, mimi, donny tells us more certainly to say this is going to end up in a rico prosecution. and my experience with donny on this subject is he doesn t exaggerate anything
straight shooter to begin with. imagine the antics that he was up to. we re not going to have to imagine. i thank you for those nice things that you said, but i want to extend a future invitation to myself when the permanent invitation. okay. so, mimi, donny tells us more certainly to say this is going to end up in a rico prosecution. and my experience with donny on this subject is he doesn t exaggerate anything, anything. everything is as solid as you could ask it to be. how would we get from here to a rico prosecution? well, it s not crazy, i will say that. if this sense. look, rico there is very technical requirements, but it is and donny didn t go to law school, so you can correct him. i barely got i did go to wharton with donald trump, though. interesting. but rico is meant to capture is when you have all sorts of different kinds of criminal