case is about. laura: well a blatantly false a blatantly false statement. here s the onl y thingin ifn lawyers need to know about this case.ft if after the twenterytion twenty election, donald trump had announced that he was retiring from politics,indict alvin would not have indicted him.ed or let s say if after 2020, trump had gradually evolved ind his views and maybe became more like romney or one of the bushes in that case,ve ind alvin bragg would not haveic indicted him. the real reason that donald trump was bookedngerprin and fingerprinted today comes down to one simple fact. wrong he has the wrongs political views. now to the entire class of politicians and media figures who cheered the proceedings today. donaldding trump represents an existential threat, a threat to the regim thee that s run our country into the ground fort decades, a threat to the credibilit tibility y the mediae calls out relentlessly. but most significant of all,um another trump term is a threata
different for each of those. the defense cannot prepare fles a defense unless this is a fleshel of pard out in a bill of particulars. so that s another thing that s going to be filed here. in addition to the e filed heretion to that wthreed earlier. but i ll tell you this, thiss indictment opens so many defense opportunities to the defense for broaord discovery. , th if you take, for example,nz boo the pomerance book that talks abouk t the deliberations, f li ordinarily those things wouldmi be off limits. the deliberationths within a prosecutor s office.t but pomeranz tells youpomeranz t ells youhow michael cohen s crey was questioned by bragge, s crby miss lozano, the chief oc the economic crimes division bureau over there. es bureau over thereso i think f is opened up. i think there s been a waiver this case offers tremendous opportunities for creative was asked i ers. now, saul, alvin bragg waske asked, i thought the key question at the press conference that i watch this, that the
watch that. he did so to cover up crimes relating to the 2016 election. donald trump, executives at the publishing company american e media, inc., mr. cohen and others agreed in 2015 to ahn catch and killd scheme that isa scheme to buy and suppress negative information to help mrmp s. trump s chance of winnig the election. all right. that was a different sor rightt obviously sound bite.sound bite. but, chris , that was obviously abouuslyt the indictment, wherem again, the underlying criminal inactivity that would make these thirty four counts actual felonious actions. again, not mentioned in the indictment, just variousd. theories were floated. n i call it the frankenstein indictment. you take you a state misdemeanor statute and then you graft itory on to tr ty a grafted onto
to prove.pr nobody is reallyove. no said , oh, no, t michael t do it. we know he he did it. according to michael cohen. t da sold the question is whether or not donald trump will be foundue culpable under this new york statute. okay, when they start doing the letter of the law or the spirit of the law. so where does that usually end up? tthat s that special statute.no you shouldn t you shall not violate the spirit of the law. e you know, the you know, it s like there s an old there s anfr old prosecutor statementom. maym when somebody gets acquitted, you may not do the time,t but you re going to take the ride. and that s what her that s basically what she s saying. yeah, well, i startedersus le listening to spirit versus letter. i m like, okay, trump had a good day. all right, solin, david , thank you both. i donald trump windo wins again and he knows it. tho and i never thought anything like this could happen. ppenin america. never thought it could happen.