They've already poked and found plenty on his tax returns.
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NY cops won't be handling this like other cases. They are working out how to handle the situation with President Trump with Secret Service. That complicates things a bit, the Secret Service have to be within eye contact of President Trump at all times, if what I am seeing in the news is correct. In any event, Secret Service protection complicates it, so NY LE are working out the details with SS prior to Tuesday.
Thinking of President Trump's family at this time, Melania, his youngest son, and his older children. They have all been subjected to so much since President Trump became President, and even before then, during his campaign for President. Keeping them all in my prayers.The Washington Post reported on Friday that the Secret Service director, Kimberly Cheatle, told agents that the agency will take “the necessary steps” to protect Trump from harm, including placing agents in a “bubble formation” to separate him from the public.
Trump will not be handcuffed at his arraignment or subjected to a “perp walk”, and discussions are still being held about whether his booking photo will be publicly circulated. Trump reportedly “wants the mugshot out” because it could harness donations to his presidential campaign.
Melania Trump is not expected to join her husband on his trip to New York, where he will reportedly stay at his triplex in Trump Tower. She plans to “lay low”, according to reports.
Donald Trump huddles with advisers after initial surprise of indictment
Trump said to be buoyed by favorable polling after chargeswww.theguardian.com
Sounds like he is not asking his supporters to join him?"He [DT] has no plans to hold a news conference or address the public while he is in New York, the people said."
Trump Likely to Be Arraigned on Tuesday
The charges against Donald J. Trump will be formally unsealed when he is arraigned. He is the first former U.S. president to be a criminal defendant, and his indictment puts the legal and political systems in uncharted territory.www.nytimes.com
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Federal prosecutors (FEC) investigated campaign finance charges and closed the case, deciding not to bring charges against President Trump. Alvin Braggs is late to the party on this one. But experts say that he needed to bootstrap his business fraud charge (state charge) to a federal charge in order to overcome the passing of the statute of limitations on the state charge he was pursuing. If Braggs does pursue campaign finance charges, it will have to be state campaign laws that he is claiming that President Trump violated.
Still. Paying a mistress and calling it legal expenses while campaigning for President is not going to put him in jail. It's an irritation, perhaps a financial loss, but not a life changer.I believe Michael Cohen showed at least one check to show where the hush money payments came from.
(As posted further back-thread, there were at least several payments to Cohen. I think they have traced where they came from, hence the charges.)
In an opening statement obtained by the PBS NewsHour, Michael Cohen is expected to describe a check for $35,000 as “a copy of a check Trump wrote from his personal bank account – after he became president – to reimburse me for the hush money payments I made to cover up his affair with an adult film star and prevent damage to his campaign.”
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Michael Cohen, on Wednesday, plans to present at least one check showing that President Donald Trump personally reimbursed him for hush money payments made to adult film star Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, during the 2016 campaign in order to keep her from talking about an alleged...
This article gives more insight into it. It's not just campaign expenses, it involves other financial documents.
Interesting. He was smart to make a copy of the check.I believe Michael Cohen provided at least one check to show where the hush money payments came from.
(As posted further back-thread, there were at least several payments to Cohen. I think they have traced where they came from, hence the charges.)
In an opening statement obtained by the PBS NewsHour, Michael Cohen is expected to describe a check for $35,000 as “a copy of a check Trump wrote from his personal bank account – after he became president – to reimburse me for the hush money payments I made to cover up his affair with an adult film star and prevent damage to his campaign.”
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See the check Michael Cohen says Trump signed as reimbursement payment
Michael Cohen, on Wednesday, plans to present at least one check showing that President Donald Trump personally reimbursed him for hush money payments made to adult film star Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, during the 2016 campaign in order to keep her from talking about an alleged...
We'll know more when the indictment is unsealed. If there are more than 30 counts, including felonies, it is quite a bit more serious than entertainment.
FYI: Bragg is not a federal prosecutor, and it is not a federal indictment.
I think it's quite possible that Trump put entertainment expenses in the wrong column. It is a criminal offence, but an ex-president is not going to jail for doing it. He's not the first president to make a misstep on the road to power or during his time in office.I don't know. I have been doing some reading about Michael Cohen's charges (due to some of them being about the Stormy Daniels matter) to try to glean a bit more knowledge about what might be in the indictment. But it is all a guessing game at the moment.
As per Cohen (on 27 Feb 2019) .... "The President of the United States thus wrote a personal check for the payment of hush money as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws. You can find the details of that scheme, directed by Mr. Trump, in the pleadings in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York."
Read Michael Cohen's full prepared testimony on Trump's Russia plans, WikiLeaks email dump
Michael Cohen plans to tell lawmakers that Donald Trump often asked during the 2016 campaign about negotiations with Russia over a planned Moscow Tower project and what the then presidential candidate knew about the WikiLeaks email dump that targeted the Democratic National Convention.
The NDA was signed AFTER Daniels received the money, not before. And she most certainly could still be interviewed by prosecutors. The MSM is reporting the facts.
Nonetheless, our nation does have strict election finance laws and when they are violated, politicians are held accountable.
