Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Former President Donald Trump attends his trial at Manhattan Criminal Court, Tuesday, May 28, 2024, in New York. , who led the the former president’s legal response to the Russian election interference investigation before he blasted Trump as a “deeply wounded narcissist.”Tuesday he expects a guilty verdict of his former client in the criminal hush money trial. And he doesn’t think it’ll take jurors long to deliberate, either.
“I reach this legal conclusion because of my long experience as a federal prosecutor and white collar defense lawyer, my reverence for the rule of law, and despite my view that Trump remains the greatest threat to Democracy in our nation’s history,” he said.Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of an alleged effort to keep salacious — and, he says, bogus — stories about his sex life from emerging during his 2016 campaign.
Prosecutors say the payments to Cohen were falsely logged as legal fees. Prosecutors have described it as part of a scheme to bury damaging stories Trump feared could help his opponent in the 2016 race, particularly as Trump’s reputation was suffering at the time from comments he had made about women.
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