which is one of the reasons wh none of us can t remember when a gag order was issued, if not instate, court definitely no in the manhattan supreme also, there was a protective order requested by the prosecution. that is typically reserved for a violent criminal enterpris cases. basically, you heard the prosecutors saying we do not trust mr. trump to hav sensitive documents. so if he gets sensitiv documents he can only read the in his attorney s office and h has to be directed not to post them on social media that is the direction that usually her in gang cases and violen cases. so it is extraordinary that former president is going to be, well that the judge might orde that at the request of the people of the state of the new york who are prosecuting the case dan horowitz, one of th good parts of that section o the transcript shows that th trump defense lawyers ar inactive, positive negotiation
indictment, but it s married t a narrative that is married to a scheme they don t need to charge th conspiracy because of th actual charges anticipate th scheme the da did a terrific job of why the public should carr bout this. the insidious nature of th attack on our electoral proces goes to the heart of why white-collar cases should be brought. these cases deal with instance where public trust is reached, and the other item that i thin of the da talked about, in the statement of facts, it is no just an assault. one of the under lying crime that now defendant trump i accused of committing, o intending to commit, is a ta fraud, which is an assault o the public -
false statements about his payments to mr. cohen. he cannot simply say that th payments were a reimbursemen but for mr. cohen s payments t stormy daniels with. to do so, to make that tru statement, would have been t admit a crime. instead trump said he wa paying cohen for fictitiou legal services in 2017 to cove up actual crime committed th prior year and in order to get michae cohen his money back, they pla one last fall statement. in order to complete the scheme, they plan to mischaracterize the missed payments to mr. cohen as income to the new yor state tax authorities. the conduct i just described and that which was charged b the grand jury s felon criminal conduct in new york