34 false statements made t cover up other crimes. these are felony crimes in new york state, no matter who yo are. we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct. why did donald trump repeatedl make these false statements? the evidence will show that he did so to cover up crime relating to the 2016 election. donald trump, executives of th publishing company, amiri mr. cohen and others agreed in 2015 to a catch and kill scheme that is, a scheme to buy and suppress negative informatio to help mr. trump s chance o winning the election as part of this scheme, donald trump and others made thre payments to people who claim t have negative information abou mr. trump.
issue an indictment of wha happened in fulton county. the news is not and may i also say, his defense, or the defense that has been floated, and i will point you, ari, by lawyers like joe tacopina, that trump was makin these payments not for his campaign, but to shield hi family and she ll millennia. that was taken apart today like, the one line a defense that he has, bragged sites effectively, you know, trump advised cohen. i have it somewhere. basically that they wanted t delay the stormy daniels payments as long as possible and after the election, because after the election, it did not matter now, presumably, he though maloney a trump and barren trump were gonna be alive afte the election, right. but it just lays out in very plain english this whole defense that has been floate by your lawyers. can i just also say there are two things by th michael cohen stormy daniels case that have always bother m about it that never just mad sense to me. one was why did michael cohe get rei
was about trying to fix th election so tua owed of the three parties went south on him. now, here s donald trump alone hugo lowe talked about havin covered it a long time, this i the first time had no one wh could fix it except all of those facts are established by the souther district of new york all the facts you just asserted, michael cohen s guilt and bein a patsy is a - live tv. he already confessed to that the facts are established. they are black and white they are in michael cohe sentencing hush money scheme to the two women, dorman guy isn t in there, but the two women mcdougal and america sweetheart, as you coined it there, th facts are not in dispute so when you see the lawyers, tacopino and the guy meant t sort of class at the legal team, you could just blur their face and replace them with cohen in 2016, with ruby during mueller with whoever defended amid
regardless of whether it was true, in order to keep his mouth shot ahead of th election interestingly, prosecutors the go out of their way later in the statement to tell the cour that the company eventually di investigate the story, and decided that it wasn t, in fact, true i feel like reading it, it was nice of them to put that i their, in terms of donal trump s reputation but that doesn t change th fact that it is part of this alleged scheme to catch an kill a negative stories abou trump ahead of the election. the company did in fact pa this guy off to keep him quiet, so as to hel trump s chances in the election prosecutors also said toda that the company, the national enquirer company, also a boo that payment to the door man i their financial records, i such a way that was false an illegal. that ends up being important i just a moment. according to prosecutors though, the scheme, the catc and kill scheme, hatched between the guy whose name i embarrassed to say and donal trump and
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