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Revealed: Emails show how Trump lawyers drove Michael Cohen to turn on the president
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Attempts by lawyers working at the behest of Donald Trump tried to keep former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen on the ex-president's side and were not only unsuccessful but helped to drive him into the arms of federal investigators according to a cache of emails analyzed by the Daily Beast.
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According to a report from the Beast's Jose Pagliery, Donald Trump's choice to elevate former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was a major factor in Cohen's decision to come clean about the alleged hush money payoff to adult film star Stormy Daniels which is now at the center of a possible Trump indictment coming from a Manhattan grand jury.
As the report notes, attorney Robert Costello, who testified against Cohen earlier this week, took the lead in encouraging Cohen to stick with Trump but his efforts to ensure the former Trump fixer that he would be protected flopped despite a fluury of encouraging messages.
As Pagliery wrote, "The emails show an attempt to establish a backchannel running from Cohen—who was suddenly being investigated by the feds over the $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels—all the way to then-President Trump. Costello had long been associated with Trump acolyte Rudy Giuliani, so an opportunity presented itself to establish a Cohen-Costello-Giuliani-Trump chain."
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After meeting with Cohen, the report states "Costello kicked right into action, devising a plan to keep Cohen safe—one that relied on a presidential pardon from Trump, internal emails at the firm show," before adding, "That option seemed all the more promising on April 19, when Giuliani announced he was joining Trump’s legal team to try to shut down the special counsel probe that led prosecutors to Cohen. It was a position of direct influence with the president himself."
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However, Cohen lost faith in the promises from Trump's legal team after a Giuliani appearance on Fox News with host Sean Hannity went sideways, with Giuliani blurting that the Daniels' payment was “Funneled through a law firm, and the president repaid it.”
That, in turn, set off alarms, with Costello writing to one of his law partners, "On Saturday, Michael was claiming that he… was convinced that Rudy is screwing things up… I asked him if he would be coming to our office this week and he said definitely, but I do not know if I believe him. I am beginning to wonder if he really has the money to pay us.”
The Beast report adds, "When journalists began speculating whether Trump’s one-time fixer was about to be arrested, the Cohen-Costello-Giuiani-Trump rope started to fray. On the morning of June 14, Costello texted Giuliani a warning: 'He is very agitated and lashing out. Basically he needs a little loving and respect booster. He is not thinking clearly because he feels abandoned. I am very uncertain about our relationship with him.'"
"When Cohen hired Lanny Davis—a Democratic operative who also served as Bill Clinton’s lawyer—it became clear to everyone involved in this backchannel ploy that the party was over. Costello texted Giuliani the news, expressing with certainty that Cohen couldn’t possibly afford such a high-powered lawyer on his own," the report states. |
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hmm trump on tape saying pay n cash... hahahahaha gotcha...
Audio tape of Trump is devastating for his case — and supports Michael Cohen: former prosecutor
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Now that former President Donald Trump is being charged in New York in connection to a $130,000 hush payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels, much of the case will rest on testimony from Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen — and Trump's defense will likely try to discredit him, arguing he's unreliable because he served time for lying to Congress.
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But one cold, hard piece of evidence could still back Cohen up, argued former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann on MSNBC Friday: a tape recording of Trump talking to Cohen about the payments, during which Trump suggested they "pay with cash."
"I mean, I watched enough mob movies to know that innocent people don't say, quote, 'pay with cash,'" said anchor Nicolle Wallace. "What are we entering into if this goes to trial, as Trump said he plans for it to?"
"This is one where, obviously, Michael Cohen is a difficult witness," said Weissmann. "He is not your ideal government witness for a host of reasons, including the fact he's still talking, and that differentiates him from anybody I've ever dealt with as a cooperating witness. That being said, these are really experienced state prosecutors. They've been in this territory, this is their bread and butter doing these kinds of cases. This particular case, not that complicated."
"So this case is going to be — I think it was mentioned, it's really going to be made on documents, and that tape recording is one where there are a number of ways that it could be used," said Weissmann. "Not just for the fact that you have Trump on tape saying pay in cash if it was legit, you would be like, I'll wire the money or send a check. It makes no sense. The fact that Michael Cohen was taping it shows that Michael Cohen is not going to tape record it as somebody who is going to say, what are you talking about? I don't know anything about this, what are you doing? That's not what you hear. What you hear is, wait a second, pay in cash. The very fact of the tape recording is something that the D.A.'s office knows to use very well to corroborate Michael Cohen."
"And then just one small caveat, which is that Donald Trump has not had his day in court in a criminal case, so it's true that there has been no refutation by Donald Trump," Weissmann added. "We have a lot of adjectives, we have a lot of adverbs, we have a lot of epithets about the D.A. and the case, but that's not an argument. That is not a fact. That is not any legal argument that's been made. But he will have a place where he can do that ... and I do think one of the things the media gets wrong is to just cover adjectives and adverbs as if it's anything. It's literally nothing more than the paper it's printed on." |
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here we go a trump employee official legal person of the trump organization. He goes on record at the trump documents hearing that Trump was making payments to stormy daniels. " A federal judge heard testimony from Alan Garten, who you know, the chief legal officer of the Trump Organization"
wow oh wow this seals this case...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-exec-s-significant-mess-up-handed-manhattan-prosecutors-a-gift-michael-cohen/ar-AA1dkCPk?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=9a9ac32683e743a5b40908a41a0ab4c6&ei=8
Trump exec's 'significant mess-up' handed Manhattan prosecutors a gift: Michael Cohen
| Quote: | During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former Donald Trump attorney Micheal Cohen pointed to a "mess-up" by a high-ranking Trump Organization executive that has ended up helping out investigators in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office.
Speaking with host Katie Phang, the former Trump "fixer" agreed with the host that exec Alan Garten didn't do the former president any favors when he confirmed payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels which is at the center of the Manhattan tax fraud indictments.
"A federal judge heard testimony from Alan Garten, who you know, the chief legal officer of the Trump Organization," Phang began. "Alan testified that there's no evidence that you worked on anything other than the hush money in exchange for the payments from Donald Trump, so there is no link to any official act of the presidency for Donald."
"And then Garten actually confirmed as well as some of the payments that Trump made to you that went to Stormy Daniels, and that he, as in Garman, was not aware of any of the work 'that Cohen did from Trump,'" she quoted from documents. "I mean, Michael this completely substantiates, corroborates, validates and verifies what you said from the beginning: that you are acting at the behest of your boss and client at the time, Donald Trump. How big is this mess-up by the Trump legal team in the Manhattan D.A. case?"
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"Of, course it speaks for itself, but I have yet, other than Donald calling me a, convicted perjurer there hasn't been anything that i have said, there hasn't come true or has not been corroborated both by documentary evidence or from other people's testimony," he replied. "What Alan Garten did here is a pretty significant mess-up and again, as you just appropriately stated, corroborating everything that I said." |
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and another legal case against trump, all because this lady became a in essence a "whistleblower"........ hahahahahah she has done more damage to trump than any person in the world to date...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-jr-subpoenaed-for-michael-cohen-legal-fees-trial/ar-AA1dJgzI?cvid=f11c58673b414b028e4824315f18a5ed&ocid=winp2fptaskbar&ei=15
Donald Trump Jr. subpoenaed for Michael Cohen legal fees trial
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The Trump Organization was sent a subpoena Monday demanding its executive vice president, Donald Trump Jr., testify at an upcoming trial.
New York jurors will be asked to decide if the company owes former President Donald Trump's ex-attorney and "fixer" Michael Cohen up to $1.3 million in legal fees. Cohen and his attorney, Hunter Winstead, told CBS News Tuesday that the subpoena to Trump Jr. was sent.
Cohen originally sued in March 2019. He wants the Trump Organization to pay fees stemming from Cohen's defense of Trump and himself during investigations in 2017 and 2018, and during roughly 20 meetings with the Manhattan district attorney and a grand jury before Trump was indicted in March.
Winstead said in court Friday that a company attorney said during a deposition that the Trump Corporation covered Trump Jr.'s legal fees in relation to some of the same investigations for which Cohen is seeking payment.
"We would like to introduce testimony about what Mr. Trump Jr. paid his lawyers in the exact same matters," said the attorney, Hunter Winstead.
Winstead initially said on Friday that they also intended to call the former president as a witness, saying he could testify about whether there were oral agreements related to Cohen's legal fees in 2017 and 2018.
"No, no need for him," Judge Joel Cohen said Friday, after Trump Organization lawyers agreed not to contest the fact that oral agreements were made.
After the judge, who is not related to Michael Cohen, said Trump Jr. could be called, the company's attorney said it may make a filing opposing the subpoena.
"As far as we're concerned both of those witnesses are irrelevant to the case," said the attorney, James Kiley, calling their inclusion on the list "borderline harassment."
Representatives of the Trump Organization did not reply to emails Tuesday from CBS News.
Cohen entered a guilty plea in 2018 to federal campaign finance violations and tax evasion, and the company has argued his criminal conduct was in violation of any agreements it had with him.
Cohen is now an ardent Trump critic, involved in a tangle of legal cases involving Trump, who is running again for president. Cohen is the key witness in the Manhattan criminal case in which Trump has entered a not guilty plea to 34 state felony counts related to falsification of business records. The case revolves around payments that reimbursed Cohen for an alleged "hush money" transaction with an adult film star days before the 2016 presidential election, which Trump won.
Trump sued Cohen in April for more than $500 million, alleging Cohen breached his "fiduciary duty" and attorney-client privileges in order to be "unjustly enriched." Cohen denied the allegations and said Trump was trying to "intimidate" him.
The legal quarrel is ongoing amid an increasingly dire legal situation for Trump. On Tuesday, 23 Fulton County, Georgia residents will be selected to consider possible charges related to alleged efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the state's results in the 2020 presidential election, which Trump lost.
On Monday evening, attorneys for Trump filed a motion to postpone past the 2024 election a trial for another criminal case, in which last month Trump entered a not guilty plea to 37 federal felony counts related to "willful retention" of classified documents after he left the White House.
Trump has repeatedly denied allegations in connection with all the cases, accusing prosecutors of political animus and a "witch hunt."
Jury selection in Cohen's lawsuit is scheduled to begin on July 17. |
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Isn't such a filing an admission of guilt that he paid off a porn star which he claims he did not do.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judge-rejects-trump-s-request-to-move-hush-money-case-into-federal-court/ar-AA1e5fmj?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=87597721a7ce4478cb6d87c8f6bfd7ce&ei=58
Judge rejects Trump's request to move hush-money case into federal court
| Quote: | A federal judge in New York has rejected former President Donald Trump's request to move his hush-money criminal case into federal court.
"Trump has failed to show that the conduct charged by the Indictment is for or relating to any act performed by or for the President under color of the official acts of a President," Judge Alvin Hellerstein wrote in his ruling Wednesday.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to a 34-count indictment charging him with falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels days before the 2016 presidential election.
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He had argued the case belonged in federal court because Trump reimbursed his then-attorney, Michael Cohen, who made the payment to Daniels, while Trump was in the White House.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had argued that the hush payment had nothing to do with Trump's presidential duties.
"We are very pleased with the federal court's decision and look forward to proceeding in New York State Supreme Court," said a spokesperson for Bragg following Wednesday's ruling.
Trump had argued that arranging the hush payment was an official act, and that his "decision to separate his personal business from his public duties" was "rooted in constitutional concerns."
The judge wholly rejected the theory.
"The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the matter was a purely a personal item of the President -- a cover-up of an embarrassing event. Hush money paid to an adult film star is not related to a President's official acts. It does not reflect in any way the color of the President's official duties," Judge Hellerstein wrote.
Hellerstein also endorsed the Manhattan district attorney's theory of the case that elevated the falsification of business records to felonies because, prosecutors said, Trump allegedly falsified the records in furtherance of another crime.
"Trump can be convicted of a felony even if he did not commit any crime beyond the falsification, so long as he intended to do so or to conceal such a crime," Hellerstein said. |
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/stormy-daniels-says-she-s-set-to-testify-in-trump-s-new-york-criminal-trial/ar-AA1n0CwY?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=9ef28cf088bd4b0cd5c0a134274d4f57&ei=13
Stormy Daniels says she's "set to testify" in Trump's New York criminal trial
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The adult film star Stormy Daniels said on an episode of her podcast released Sunday that she expects to testify in former President Donald Trump's upcoming trial on state criminal charges in New York.
The trial, scheduled for March 25, stems from allegations that Trump agreed to a scheme in 2016 to falsify documents while reimbursing his former lawyer for a "hush money" payment to Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.
"Obviously, things have been next-level crazy, since I am set to testify in, at this point in time, March — obviously, that can change any moment — in the hush money case," Daniels said.
A spokesperson for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is overseeing the prosecution, declined to comment.
Trump became the first former president ever charged with crimes when he was indicted on 34 felony falsification of business records counts by a Manhattan grand jury on March 30, 2023. It was the first of four criminal cases that would be filed against him in the ensuing months, on allegations ranging from retention of national security secrets to attempting to thwart the results of the 2020 election after his loss.
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Attorneys for Trump did not reply to a request for comment, nor did a representative for Daniels.
Trump has entered not guilty pleas and denied the allegations against him in all four cases, a combined 91 counts. He has accused prosecutors of charging him for political benefit.
Daniels met via video with Manhattan prosecutors on March 15 of last year and has previously said she would be willing to testify in the trial.
Daniels was paid $130,000 days before the 2016 presidential election as part of an agreement intended to prevent her from publicly discussing her claim that she had an extramarital affair with Trump years earlier. Trump denied her claims.
The charges against Trump related to a series of reimbursements made through a limited liability company to his former attorney and "fixer" Michael Cohen for the Daniels payment. Trump has said the payments were legitimate and not illegally disguised.
The next hearing in the case is scheduled for Feb. 15. |
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/in-trump-s-ny-hush-money-case-key-decisions-at-his-court-appearance-on-thursday-will-shape-his-first-felony-trial/ar-BB1i6Klu?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=25199a4b525b409e8822e273d43ed086&ei=9
In Trump's NY hush-money case, key decisions at his court appearance on Thursday will shape his first felony trial
| Quote: | Donald Trump returns to court Thursday in his New York hush-money case.
On tap are rulings on scheduling, evidence, and a motion to dismiss ahead of a March 25 trial date.
Thursday will be Trump's first in-person appearance in the case since his arraignment back in April.
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It will be the first time since his April arraignment that he must appear, in person, on his felony hush-money case, the one alleging that he lied 34 times in business documents to hide a $130,000 payment that silenced porn actress Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election. |
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-lawyer-threatened-with-sanctions-at-the-close-of-stormy-daniels-hearing/ar-BB1ikJn8?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=57882428ea2e4838f6f00d51750cbbbd&ei=12
Trump's lawyer threatened with sanctions at the close of Stormy Daniels hearing
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After getting off to a rough start, the hearing in New York over the Stormy Daniels hush money trial ended with another sharp reprimand.
According to Just Security fellow Adam Klasfeld's live updates from the courtroom, "Trump's prosecutor Christopher Conroy complained about not receiving defense exhibits as discovery some six weeks before trial."
The judge wasn't happy.
“There could be sanctions for failure to comply,” the judge said.
The moment came after Trump's lawyers were arguing with the judge over the partisanship of the jurors, claiming Trump was under attack by "a Democrat" — referring to President Joe Biden.
He had previously requested that potential jurors detail campaign contributions, which the assistant district attorney said could become a proxy for asking about party affiliation. |
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