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Key documents lacking former President Donald Trump’s signature may pose issues for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case, criminal defense attorney Arthur Aidala told CNN on Monday. Trump is confronting 34 felony counts for allegedly falsifying business documents relating to payments to porn star Stormy Daniels for her silence regarding an alleged affair ahead of the 2016 election. Aidala noted that Trump’s signature is present on a check while other key documents were never personally signed by the former president, suggesting the possibility a jury could find “reasonable doubt” over Trump’s involvement when compared to former attorney Michael Cohen, a...

johnny maga @_johnnymaga Michael Cohen, the star witness in Trump’s hush money trial is telling jurors there are threats to themselves & their families, facial recognition will reveal their identities & turn their lives upside down He just screwed the prosecution & did Trump a massive favor

The trial involving former President Donald Trump and alleged hush money payments resumed Friday with jury selection for the fourth day. So far, 12 jurors and one alternate have been seated amid challenging proceedings that saw the dismissal of two jurors. (snip) One potential juror was excused after revealing connections to former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney. She disclosed that her father is a lifelong friend of Christie and she works at the same company as Cohen’s son, which led her to question her impartiality. Cohen is anticipated to serve as a witness...

All jurors, including the replacements and an alternate have been revealed in President Trump’s “Hush Money” trial. As Jim Hoft reported, Fox News host Jesse Watters previously revealed seven of the jurors selected to serve in Trump’s “hush money” trial involving porn star Stormy Daniels. Two were dismissed after radical-left Judge Juan Merchan agreed they could not be fair to Trump. But the jury pool is still tilted far to the left and even includes a woman who has called Trump “very selfish” and “self-serving.” Here’s the FULL list of people deciding Trump’s fate. The following information is gathered from...

One prospective juror broke down in tears after revealing her connection to Trump’s former lawyer and convicted perjurer Michael Cohen and former NJ governor Chris Christie. “I feel so nervous and anxious right now,” the juror said as she began to cry. “I don’t want to waste the court’s time,” she said. “I thought I could do this. This is so much more stressful than I thought it was going to be.” The judge excused the juror. Fox News reported: A potential juror who said she had connections to both former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Donald Trump’s former...

Roger Stone @RogerJStoneJr Former Federal prosecutor, Robert Costello, who formally represented Michael Cohen will now testify for Trump' From apple.news 8:08 AM · Apr 19, 2024

Jury selection has concluded in The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump. After a long voir dire, six jurors have been selected: three men and three women. Here’s the brief summary, per media pool reports of the prospective jurors.

Judge Juan Merchan on Tuesday accused Trump of intimidating a juror who admitted she posted a pro-Biden video to her Facebook page. Jury selection was still underway on Tuesday in the Stormy Daniels ‘hush money’ trial after more than 50 prospective jurors were dismissed from the jury pool on Monday. One potential juror was brought in for questioning after Trump’s lawyers discovered she posted a pro-Biden celebratory video in 2020. “You had to get in the car to spread the honking cheer. it’s a full on dance party at 96th street,” the potential juror’s caption read according to Trump attorney...

VIDEOWe all know that Michael Cohen is a liar. However, his TDS has gotten so extreme that he has gone JUST PLAIN NUTS as you can see here. The Biden White House are so desperate to GET TRUMP that they went to the laughable extreme of directing their chubby puppet Alvin Bragg to make Cohen their STAR WITNESS in their laughable case against Trump. It reminds me of the J6 Committee with all the evidence they supposedly had and their STAR WITNESS turned out to be Cassidy Hutchinson that not only provided only third hand hearsay "evidence" but later had...

Barring some last-second surprise, on Monday a dream will come true for the Democrats, resistance warriors, Never Trumpers, and lawfare specialists who have hoped for years to put former President Donald Trump on trial. It finally happens Monday in a courtroom in Manhattan. Many legal experts, and not just those on the Right, have said the case against Trump is weak. But that doesn’t really matter. The fact is, Trump will be on trial, charged with 34 dubious felonies, and a jury in deep-blue Manhattan will likely find him guilty of something. That’s the point. After this trial, if things...

Far-left New York Judge Juan Merchan late Monday night released his questionnaire for potential jurors in the Stormy Daniels ‘hush money’ trial set to begin April 15. Trump’s attorneys argued that potential jurors and their political affiliations are important. Judge Merchan pushed back and said questions about prospective jurors’ political affiliations and whether they like Trump are “irrelevant.” “Such questions are irrelevant because they do not go to the issue of the prospective juror’s qualifications,” Merchan wrote. “The ultimate issue is whether the prospective juror can ensure us that they will set aside any personal feelings or biases and render...

On Monday, April 15, President Donald Trump will become the first former president and the first major presidential candidate in American history to face a criminal trial. Not only is this unprecedented, it's happening with one of the weakest criminal cases in recent memory. The Manhattan District Attorney’s office searched for any way to charge the former president since 2017. The investigation poured over President Trump's personal and business life, and they settled on charging the former president with 34 felonies for the non-felony of his attorney Michael Cohen settling a nuisance claim. The case is so weak that The...

President Trump on Friday filed a motion requesting that the judge overseeing the Stormy Daniels ‘hush money’ case be recused because of his daughter’s political work. The judge’s daughter, Loren Merchan, is a far-left political operative who worked for the Biden-Harris campaign. The media has infantilized 34-year-old Loren Merchan in an effort to attack Trump’s First Amendment-protected speech. Loren Merchan’s firm, Authentic Campaigns, Inc., has received tens of millions of dollars from Democrats who want to take down Trump. According to The New York Post, Loren Merchan helped Democrats raise $93 million off of her father’s case.

Judge Juan Merchan, who silenced President Donald Trump from talking about his family’s financial ties to the current hush money case he is presiding over against President Trump in New York City, shot down his bid to use presidential immunity as part of his defense. Trump previously raised the immunity argument in a March 20124 legal filing. He asked Merchan to postpone the trial until after the Supreme Court has ruled on the extent of presidential immunity in a separate Trump case involving Special Counsel Jack Smith, which deals with bogus federal election interference charges. The 45th President claimed the...

Far-left NY judge Juan Merchan Monday night expanded Trump’s gag order and barred the former president from criticizing his family members. Last week Judge Merchan hit Trump with a gag order. Merchan ordered Trump to refrain from making any public statements about witnesses and jurors in the Stormy Daniels case. Alvin Bragg accused Trump of violating the gag order when he criticized Merchan’s daughter even though she isn’t a witness or a juror. President Trump last Wednesday said the daughter of the far-left judge who just hit him with a gag order in the Stormy Daniels ‘hush payment’ case posted...

A 2018 letter from Michael Cohen’s lawyers admitting Trump knew nothing about the Stormy Daniels ‘hush money’ transaction re-emerged as the judge set the trial for April 15. Last year the Daily Mail obtained a 2018 letter from Michael Cohen’s lawyer stating Cohen used his own personal money to pay Porn Star Stormy Daniels in 2016. The letter also states that the Trump Org nor the Trump campaign reimbursed Michael Cohen for the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels. This directly contradicts Cohen’s testimony – not surprising given Michael Cohen is a convicted perjurer. Trump has been accused of paying Daniels...

A 2018 letter from Michael Cohen’s lawyers admitting Trump knew nothing about the Stormy Daniels ‘hush money’ transaction re-emerged as the judge set the trial for April 15. Last year the Daily Mail obtained a 2018 letter from Michael Cohen’s lawyer stating Cohen used his own personal money to pay Porn Star Stormy Daniels in 2016. The letter also states that the Trump Org nor the Trump campaign reimbursed Michael Cohen for the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels. This directly contradicts Cohen’s testimony – not surprising given Michael Cohen is a convicted perjurer. Trump has been accused of paying Daniels...

Tony Seruga is a highly regarded X (Twitter) political pundit. Seruga, who has over 78,000 followers, also claims to be an “Intel Ops CIA/NSA Contractor and Whistleblower” in his profile. https://twitter.com/TonySeruga/status/1773012872618295439? @TonySeruga "I spoke with Michael Avenatti who at one time had an office in the same building as one of my businesses in Newport Beach, CA (in November 2018, a few days after his arrest on suspicion of domestic violence, Avenatti's law firm was evicted from those same offices in Newport Beach after skipping $213,000 worth of rent payments.) Avenatti was working a long con against Tully’s Coffee and...

Former President Donald Trump's legal team has sought to block testimony from porn star Stormy Daniels and his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, as part of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case against him.Bragg charged Trump in March of last year over a 2016 payment Cohen made to Daniels, alleging conspiracy and that he falsified records. Trump denies wrongdoing and contends the case is part of an ongoing political witch hunt against him. The trial is slated for March 25."Michael Cohen is a liar," Trump's legal team wrote, in reference to his testimony on New York Attorney General Letitia James's...

Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s ex-fixer and personal lawyer, said in newly unsealed court filings that he accidentally gave his lawyer fake legal citations concocted by the artificial intelligence program Google Bard. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman called three case citations into question earlier this month after they were used in a motion to end Cohen’s supervised release early. Cohen pleaded guilty to charges including tax evasion and campaign finance violations in 2018 and served some time in prison. Cohen wrote in a sworn declaration unsealed Friday that he has not kept up with “emerging trends (and related risks)” in...