Posted on 04/04/2023 4:28:20 PM PDT by Libloather
Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in a New York City court Tuesday after being charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.
The charges, which are related to hush-money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign, came out of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's years-long investigation.
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Bragg is alleging that President Trump falsified New York business records in order to "conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from American voters before and after the 2016 election."
"During the election, TRUMP and others employed a ‘catch and kill’ scheme to identify, purchase, and bury negative information about him and boost his electoral prospects," Bragg alleged. "TRUMP then went to great lengths to hide this conduct, causing dozens of false entries in business records to conceal criminal activity, including attempts to violate state and federal election laws."
According to New York state law, a charge of falsifying business records in the first degree alleges that the defendant committed a crime of falsifying business records with the intent to defraud. The intent to defraud would be an intent to commit another crime.
President Trump pleaded not guilty. The judge did not impose a gag order.
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Democrats don’t care about actual corruption. Real bribes. Giving secrets and military level technology to China.
All they care about is their Trump hatred.
“…employed a ‘catch and kill’ scheme to identify, purchase, and bury negative information about him and boost his electoral prospects,”
You mean, like, denying having had a laptop FULL of documentation and video of all the crimes that they were supposedly “covering up”????
Related: https://youtu.be/UCc4jSwfhgc
I’m still trying to figure out how there would be “business records” one way or the other for this kind of a payment and how they were recorded could possibly be relevant...to anything, let alone something rising to the level of criminal activity.
President Trump pleads not guilty to 34 felony counts.
Another thing Trump can do and Biden can’t do the list keeps growing.
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