Off topic but The China Show recently called out “the guy that fixes MacBooks” on your stance on the restrict act. I think they made some very valid points about the RA that I think many of us failed to see. Anyways as for this video they already arrested his coconspirator. He’s their star witness. Of course he doesn’t need to rile up his base to commit violence to make them see how full of sht NYS is but that’s his MO. As far as calmy presenting the facts that isn’t how that man operates. Look at his evidence on the election being stolen. His star witness for that was Mike Pillow. I will say you’d be a much better lawyer for him than Joey Pizza and Tony Trustee or whatever their names are.
@@Syncrotron9001I tried showing my friend with a master’s degree in finance those episodes and explaining how DS9 predicted the future. The whole time he kept complaining because he never got to see Picard. He basically refused to pay any attention because he thinks he already knows everything.
@@Syncrotron9001 The irony is that it was the "elite" upper-class types ( like Trump ) that came up with the Sanctuary districts in the first place. It seems that having poor people spread throughout a city is less desirable than cordoning off part of the city with walls and sticking all the "undesirables" behind it. Last I checked, Trump was all about keeping undesirables out with walls. From wherest shall Bell spring up in our timeline? You might be surprised by the answer.
If the tiktok debacle last week was anything to go by, the politicians we currently have belong in a nursing home. Unfortunately, the people tech savvy that you would want in Congress are already happy making big bucks in tech
Yeah. If Bush, Clinton, Pelosi etc were all in jail, then I'd be completely fine with them prosecuting Trump. But if obvious war criminals walk free, but Trump get indicted, then it just looks like the establishment weaponizing the so-called "justice" system to destroy political opponents.
@@Ultrajamz When people say that "nobody is above the law," they tend to actually mean "nobody SHOULD be above the law." It's more a statement of their own ideals than it is a statement of reality.
I don't think you understand, they don't press charges unless there is a case. especially one like this. In our country for the better part of a century it's been your guilty till you prove it. Look at literally every case ever. if a cop says you've done it it's enough, its their word against yours. Unfortunately, the government doesn't give a fuck unless you buy an attorney. And the free one, wants the easiest case. You don't talk to cops because of this reason. They are employed by the fuckwit government, to get promotions for them finding you guilty for X crime. There is no good cops... the ones that would be good, do a different job, like security for a private company. This is the case 90% of non-jury cases. If you are on that podium, the state believes you did it. And looking towards the round-up lawsuit. Even if there is a reasonable doubt, they will be found guilty by a jury as if there was no reasonable doubt. When it's the same people that believe fluoride in your water makes you lethargic.
Who said be has to prove his innocence? He has to counter the proof the state presents. Lying and threatening the prosecutor . Calling for his crazy Maga cult members to riot is not how you counter the government's case.
You have literally changed my entire way of operating my business. I meticulously keep all receipts and track literally every single expense. My binders are digital, but now I'm tempted to print it all out. 😅😅
That's how you should deal with them. Complete print out. Any interesting tit bits are inserted between pages 797 and 798, pages 2342..2345 etc. Then when they query you state, its in the evidence, look for it. You know where it is, they have to search for it. Then can simply say, its been provided, look it up, show it to the court. Ask did they look at the evidence, on oath and they will say no. That's their problem....
@@Nickle314 nah we’re beyond that. If they are targeting you for whatever reason, they will find something to pin on you. Doesn’t matter how clean your records are. Democrats are the new soviets.
I closed my business. 2 years of full tax records done online. $120 turn-over, a single transaction in those two years. Government waited till the business was closed, decided I hadn't done a return for the first year, and claims I owe tax on $12,000 turnover. It's all a scam, always will be. Government = mafia.
You should definitely have several digital backups of everything. Also, I‘d recommend scanning any paperwork and receipts to PDFs, and then safely filing away the paper, instead of shredding it. Keeping the originals is never a mistake. ;)
@@ArDeeMee I take photos of everything, which I then organize and attach to each transaction, I'm not so good with physical paperwork. I also started doing email receipts as well. It's crazy. They will do everything they can to get you in trouble. They should help first, then punish.
Having lived in NYC most of my life,and coming from a very liberal family in NYC: i can tell you that the voters here make no connection between how they vote and what takes place in the city. You will hear all the city’s woes blamed on covid - not this nutty DA, not endless mismanagement/bureaucracy…everything but that.
@@SoulAir You sound like an goober. When you vote you generally vote for more than one person, and a bureaucracy requires more than one person. If you vote for people part of the same political machine the machine keeps going!
Agree with most of what you're saying Louis. However I must reiterate that in America, one is innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around. There is no way that 45 could catch a fair and unbiased trial/jury in NY. This seems like a strictly political hitpiece between the accused, the location of the suit, and the timing of the suit. If all the "evidence" was so important, why didn't it come out the day after Sniffy took office, and not 1 year before a pivotal presidential election where the incumbent is so blatantly incompetent???
He's been fortunate so far. Things that would've landed anyone behind bars he's dodged. You do have a point if you categorize him as a member of the wealthy class. In general, they will not get a fair trial in New York City... fair as far as justice being served. If I can afford a phalanx of lawyers, I can get off almost any charge.
Steven Donziger won his case against Texaco/Chevron. Chevron decided instead of paying the people wronged, to spend tons of money on multiple law firms, and wrangle in a judge, to handle and appeal, where Donziger winds up placed under house arrest, for years, on a misdemeanor, and subsequently disbarred. The whole system is captured.
The purpose is the corrupt people play for the long term. They may lose the case, but the persecution continues in order to show others not to oppose the city or company in the future. Because if they oppose, then they will be turned into another persecution example.
the judge who had Donziger arrested was Lewis A. Kaplan. Lewis A. Kaplan (born December 23, 1944) is a United States district judge serving on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He took senior status on February 1, 2011.[2] As a Senior Judge, Kaplan continues to preside over a range of criminal and civil cases. NY is a mafia state.
@@animejanai4657 This is why you dont stay quiet. Staying quiet only allows them to get away with shit time again and again. You have to be loud and bombastic.
Surely if they can backdate a misdemeanour they can further investigate any politician who has taken hush money from corporate interests and imagine there are a few.
It'd be better if they would investigate war crimes commited by past presidents like when Obama had american citizens and civilians executed by drone strikes on civilian targets
I am a bit confused about the idea of proving your innocence. I understand that some people may be able to do so in some cases, but I thought that the burden of proof was on the prosecutor to prove your guilt, and that the defense would advise their clients not to overshare with the public until after the trial, as evidence held by the defense is allowed to surprise the prosecution, while evidence held by the prosecution must be disclosed to the defense before trial.
We've been conditioned to accept it this way. That's why there's this stigma associated with pleading the fifth, or why people will be quick to say that they have nothing to hide when you try to discuss how the government and/or corporations are invading our privacy. We've somehow been brainwashed into this mentality that the only people who resist are those who are guilty.
I was thinking about the rule of innocence until proven guilty, and I'm not sure it's strictly valid as a global rule that works in all situations. For example the police department could imprison someone, then claim to be innocent until proven guilty of wrongful imprisonment. Or, the police could shoot someone, then claim innocence until the victim proves it was an unjustified shooting. A pharmaceutical company could claim their new product is innocent of hurting anyone until someone proves the drug to be unsafe.
What he is saying is that if New York is trying to railroad a innocent person, they are so incompetent that it can be stopped easily and quickly. So if a person is not quickly stopping the false charges and instead just yelling and insulting, this makes him quite suspicious of the person's innocence.
Announcing your innocence on social media won't mean diddly in court. I wouldn't broadcast my personal business to the public unless it was broadcast from court without my consent. That's not reality. Innocent until proven guilty is how it works. The left has all too well brainwashed people to think otherwise.
Yes, but you can’t prove guilt until you get to file charges and present the evidence. Innocent until proven guilty does not mean “innocent because any attempts to prove guilt are a political witch hunt.”
@@username4835 No one is saying all attempts to prove guilt are political witch hunts. What they are saying is that (1) there's been lie after hoax after false attack on Trump and (2) this is explicitly a political prosecution (the DA ran on this), all of which make this look awfully like a political witch hunt.
Louis won because no one in the new york government is emotionally invested in destroying him. Hence his facts / records mattered. But people are emotionally invested in destroying Trump.
The issue is that the DA isn't using a discrete law as a basis to indict. The state law he is citing is a misdemeanor at most (edit: except when it is proven that the misreporting was done for the purpose of concealing additional lawbreaking, in which case it may rise to felony). He is mixing the state reporting law with a federal election law (which has already been examined several times and not pursued). In short: It is like being indicted for grand theft, because you violated a rule at your HOA that might ordinarily carry a 20 dollar fine. This is entirely political. I am not even a Trump voter, and I can see it. The issue that you are missing, is that Trump may have more resources, but he also has people invested emotionally in his personal destruction. You are not really in that position, yet.
What about NY taxes because the company used the payments as a business cost instead of Trump paying from his own accounts? Didn't he cheat on his taxes that way?
@@kennethgreifer5123 If NY wants a reporting issue on taxes to be a felony, then they need to change their laws. It isn't lawful behavior to piggy back a penalty section of a federal election law on to a state tax law. I don't know how this is even happening...
Another way you can tell this is political is because this witch hunt has been going on for 7 years, first it was Russia gate, then 'very fine' people hoax, and it just kept going
No one is stopping anyone from applying the same standard to other presidents. If no legal move has been made to other presidents its either due to laziness or just the lack of strong evidence.
I know this video was mainly about the Trump indictment and all that but as an aspiring business owner, I never realized the importance of recordkeeping until now. The fact you had to spend hours on the phone just to straighten things out with the state and the fact that they ADMIT they've never had someone stand up to them is eye-opening. I'll be sure to straighten my records out before it happens to me. Love your content btw, thanks for being an advocate and for all that you do!
I'm a packrat for important/could feasibly be important documents and whatnot, but I feel like a total slob. I have them, they're just not all in a neat container. I really need to get some damn binders.
Record keeping is incredibly helpful, especially for things like "out of norm" deductions. I have some friends that have very large mileage write offs. Some people had moderately good electronic records, one person had very complete electronic records. And one had about 80 small wired note pads with the start/end time, date, start/end mileage, and purpose of every trip in their vehicle for the entire year. They looked at his boxes, looked at about 6-8 random pages TOTAL, and accepted all of the mileage within about 2 minutes. All the rest of the people had various levels of fighting their deductions.
These types of "recordkeeping" violations have a habit of being used or actually ABUSED by authorities. It is very, very important to get familiar with accounting, not only just to read financial statements, but to understand the systems, so your company has the right type of general ledger which has the FEATURES (e.g. consolidation module, manufacturing cost module, job costing, process costing and many more) to allow for proper management information and proper GAAP accounting. A proper audit may be impossible if the systems are too totally messed up.
Not just for business people dude. As a private citizen, well kept records saved untold amounts of money, time and grief. I now save documents on paper, on my devices and on the Cloud to be sure.
My takeaway from all this is if Bush roams free while trump is prosecuted, then that pretty much tells you all you need to know about the motives behind the system that's prosecuting trump. If there truly were a "rule of law", many actors would be in jail right now
@@dannanddave The US does not recognize international law though. The US doesn't even recognize the international court, not to this day. That's why if Putin stepped on US soil the US doesn't even have legal authority to arrest him even though he's accused to be criminal in international court. The US does not recognize the international court because IT is being investigated on multiple counts.
And yet your politicians still understand what good infrastructure looks like, unlike the us politicians who think everything but infrastructure counts as infrastructure.
Am I missing something here? When people complain about police abuse they are told "that is what courts are for" I will be the first one to admit that I know little to nothing about the charges against Trump. I do understand his lawyer already did jail time for the same crime. So why was it a crime for the atty to pay the porn star, but not a crime for trump to give the money to the atty to then give to the porn star?
This is a 14 month old video I did on the district attorney, Alvin Bragg, reading through his memo in detail when he got elected. I wasn't excited to have him. It is meticulously timestamped for anyone interested in the specifics of how he changed prosecutions in NYC. ua-cam.com/video/ycULqJUydH0/v-deo.html
Trump is doing the politician thing to do and getting free news coverage to gain sympathy from his viewers. The more angry his viewers get, the easiest it is to get them to the polls for support.
I think a lot of these laws are made to be so complex that the establishment can hang basically anybody they want at will if they brute force investigate you hard enough… even IF he is guilty, the fact they cherry pick enemies of the establishment to investigate is itself an injustice since the pals of the establishment remain untouched… and lets also not forget the process itself is a punishment, what if this takes well beyond the election to settle with all their ability to delay?
Part of the reason why this doesn't pass the political smell test is that the DOJ already declined to prosecute due to how shaky the case was. That Bragg not only took this up but upgraded it to a felony charge to bypass the Statute of Limitations is just the start of this rabbit hole. NYC courts being NYC courts is just the icing on this urinal cake. EDIT: since the comment up with the link keeps getting eaten google this "Get ready for Manhattan DA’s made-for-TV Trump prosecution" to get The Hill article that's a primer for this FUBAR Convention.
"Escape from New York" was supposed to be a movie, not an inevitability, but then people stopped understanding that the local politicians they vote for can influence their personal lives and directly impact the environment they find themselves in.
"When you have done nothing wrong (AND HAVE PERFECTLY PREPARED YOURSELF FOR A SITUATION), the governement can be defeated from an armchair." If you didn't have the binder, the fact you did nothing wrong itself wouldn't have saved you.
That, and if everyone he spoke to just gave him the run around instead of admitting the error. He could have gotten a lawyer….but then it’s up to a judge…..in NY. If Louis was as high profile and spoken about the same way Trump has been….would there be a concern that the NY judge or jury (dear God that head juror that did a interview) would be searching for a particular outcome rather than obeying the law? Our legal system has really shown me how broken it is over the last 10 years.
That is why there is limits on how far you can look back. The law is 2 years and this is 7 years. This is complete trash but people hate Trump so it is ok.
If state can screw you like this without people there that “hate” you, imagine if those people are actively trying to screw you. You cannot compare incompetence with malice.
The FEC already investigated and cleared him of the claims being made currently. The conclusion was his attorney paid her off personally, and wasn't reimbursed. If the feds accepted that as fact, it's going to be hard for a local DA to make it stick at trial.
The FEC did not clear him of falsifying record during campaign. The FEC's investigation was for whether the payment itself was illegal under campaign finance laws. The new indictment is for something entirely different.
@@zxbc1 Tell me about the document Cohen provided showing that he took care of the payment and tossed it onto a standard bill for re-imbursement.. it's all been gone over many times already. They even presented that evidence before the grand jury convened. And the FEC did look at it and refused to proceed.. along with the fed DOJ.
@@zxbc1 They have a record of statement from the attorney that he paid for it out of his pocket and did not bill it as such. He says under oath that Trump knew nothing of the payments until Avenatti popped up
This is what I was lead to believe. The DOJ already refused to investigate so why does NY think this is worth while, unless of course it’s politically motivated.
@@zxbc1dude who the f cares......if it was a legal payment why would anyone care how his lawyer got reimbursed This a polical hatchet job It's not about doing the right thing or any sense of justice It's about "my side" winning
A counter-point about not needing all of the political rhetoric would be, regardless if he is guilty or not, is that it riles up and motivates his base. It may even attract more support from people who feel the government has wronged them. It also keeps him in the spotlight, preventing any political opponents from having a chance to shine. So while all of the rhetoric won't help his case in NY, it very well could help his popularity in the eyes of voters.
I've already heard from a Democratic voter that he plans to vote for Trump in 2024 because he considers this to be a witch hunt. And he has a point. If you let obvious war criminal Bush walk free, but charge Trump over something that's far less serious than war crimes, then it's obvious that this is just the establishment weaponizing the "justice" system to attack their political rival.
Trump has spent his life turning notoriety into profit. 80% of the entire "celebrity" and showbiz industry is based on turning notoriety into profit. Any notoriety helps a person who knows how to profit from notoriety. "There is no such thing as bad press" is the motto of celebrities like Trump. He has admitted this privately and semi-publicly several times.
I think it's a stupid political game. There's more important news out there that's being covered up by this story. And both those for Trump and against Trump are more than happy to use this situation to score political brownie points.
@@grbenway nah they handed him the presidency on a platter. no law says you cant run for office with a criminal record. for 7 years they have looked into this mans life. and 7 years now they have got nothing, the fact they are seeking to upgrade the case from misdemeanor to felony charges on a case well outside of its statutory limits ( yes crimes actually have n expiration date) with their "star witness" being known for charged and convicted of perjury , just proves they dont care. Infact the DA in the case has been proven and known for degrading cases in the lieks of manslaughter, breaking and entering , rape and morelike
I’m a criminal case, the defendant has nothing to prove: the burden of proof rests entirely with the prosecution. In fact, the prosecution might be in serious legal and political troubles since the entire affair might be an unethical and illegal political hack job.
As usual all Trump has to do is pull out his records. Imagine if I had an alibi but I wouldn't give it, and just told you "prove I was there." Not going to go well in court, especially when they have to have evidence to get to trial in the first place.
Once the prosecutors have enough of a case to actually sue, they are already confident enough that they will get a conviction. At that point, unless you come up with stuff that proves your innocence, the things the prosecutors have will prove guilt.
Good video, however, there is one major point you have backwards. Although it is wise to keep good records, the burden of proof falls to the prosecutor. The expectation of the accused to prove their innocence is a BAD default position for society to take. Just because somebody can easily prove their innocence doesn't mean they should be forced to do so, or if they can't (or choose not to) doesn't mean they are automatically guilty.
No, presumption of innocence is a measure to protect the people from the government. Society isn’t the government, hence it need not apply when the evidence clearly indicates they’re guilty (as is the case here), even if not convincing enough for a court. Especially when we’re talking about an expresident.
@@GRBtutorials lmao no, thats just your immature desire to have your feelings validated due to your life being empty enough that your ego is tied into your political views. If someone has not been found guilty in a court of law but can be excised from society do to biased public perception on the part of useful idiots like you, that completely invalidates the entire point of the legal system. Its the soviet system.
@@GRBtutorials No presumption of innocence is much more fundamental than that. It is the idea that it is better for 1000 guilty people to be free than 1 innocent person to be in jail. If the evidence was clear they would have already put him in jail long ago. A jury can indict a ham sandwich that doesn't mean the sandwich is guilty.
You are completely misunderstanding “innocent until proven guilty.” Just having that presumption doesn’t mean you should never defend yourself. Imagine a criminal trial being just a prosecutor talking and the defense saying “I have nothing to say, your honor. My client is innocent until proven guilty.” You’re a moron. You still need to present your case otherwise you will get obliterated.
Thank you for this. This was my second biggest fear that prevented me for 10 years from creating my own buisness. I was affraid I will get picked by someone who knows how to destroy me and take everything I built, and I wouldn't be able to defend my self. The other one is what you said at the beginning that you almost done wrong without your knowledge. I fear I mess up so badly that will cost all my prior work without me realizing I do wrong. But now I know at least I'm on the right path.
No offense, but that’s an awfully specific fear. Maybe it’s rooted in some thing as in maybe you could spend some time with a therapist or someone to talk to to get to the root of that I’ve never heard someone say the reason why they won’t run a business is that someone might pick on me 🤷🏽♀️
Sorry but if you are afraid of doing business or anything because you fear failure, that's on you that's not on the government. There are way more serious threats to your success from all directions, the government being the least of your concern. Just go to a foreign third world country and see how the people are doing, and get a reality check of just how lucky you are.
That's the feeling they want you to have. People that own their own business are independent because they have to be. If you're not a business owner, you're more likely to think government doesn't effect you.
@@kateapple1 Maybe I worded it wrong, the point is that if someone is envious of my success but skillfully cheats, then out of envy and to reduce the competition, he can destroy what I achieve because he is not capable of it. At least it's not rare in my area, but it could also be that you're right and the problem is with me. (By google translate)
Yes. Selective enforcement is the hallmark of a corrupt government. They pass vague laws that could be interpreted as applying to nearly everything. A hate crime is any crime committed against a protected class or group. What are protected classes or groups? Well it's age, immigration, citizenship status, disability, color, gender, gender identity, marital status, etc. So EVERYONE could be protected. So why isn't EVERY crime a hate crime? Because it's vague and subjective. So when I destroy your signs that's just misdemeanor mischief or vandalism. I get a small fine, I appeal it, they don't want to waste $10,000 fighting over a $500 fine so they drop it. But when you destroy my signs well that's a hate crime and you're looking at 10 years in prison and that's a felony going on your record, you can't vote or buy guns, you can't get a job or credit, you're a flight risk, and you're going to spend 20X more on lawyers to defend yourself even if you're not guilty.
thats what annoys me the most when people say that trump must be bad because of how many people around him got arrested. Its not like they threw the book at everyone around him and totally had untainted/unbiased juries. most of them got got on things typically ignored or usually settled out of court quietly but because they were related to trump had amplified perp walks.
@@Pendergast891 Or in the case of Michael Flynn, coerced into a false confession through threats against his family. When this evidence was presented to the state they dropped all charges but the judge being a raging liberal decided that the state wasn't allowed to drop its own charges.
"I have said that Trump might be in the wrong, and now I tell you guys to have a calm and collected comment section" Louis, your humor gets to me in some ways that it is fantastic.
Right now (Friday, March 31), the indictment is under seal. The grand jury, the prosecutors, and the judge know the contents of the indictment. Nobody else, including Trump and his legal team, are supposed to know more than that (a) there is an indictment, (b) Trump has been summoned to be arraigned on Tuesday, and (c) some of the witnesses who were deposed by the jury. So we don't know what he is actually accused of. We can make intelligent guesses from what information we have, and there are probably leaks and there are certainly complete fabrications swirling around. I recommend everyone wait until the indictment is unsealed on Tuesday to start judging things, because 90% of what you're hearing right now is bovine excrement. Forming an opinion right now is a fool's game.
I would also be interested to hear you opinion on the Hunter Biden laptop repair guy getting sued for privacy violations given your background in the industry.
Also would like to hear Louis's opinion on charging Bush for war crimes, because it's clear that he's guilty, and apparently we're charging ex-presidents now. And if we do charge Trump, but don't charge obvious war criminal Bush, then isn't that just the establishment weaponizing the "justice" system to destroy political opponents?
I don't think Trump shouldn't be held accountable just because someone else wasn't... everyone should be held accountable, using the fact some haven't as an excuse not to be held accountable is just downright reprehensible
@@AKATenn That's nice utopian thinking. In reality if in a football match one team keeps getting yellow cards for the smallest possible infringements, some of which aren't even real, while the other side keeps doing fouls left and right and never gets any warning, the other team wins. This isn't just about the things that Trump did wrong individually, this is about the future of the US and probably the entirety of the West. If this had no political implications nobody except for actual Trump fans would care. He is by no means an angel, but you don't put innocent kittens in front of monsters when you want to fight them. He was the first one to ever stand up to them, and you see what they are doing to him now.
@@256shadesofgrey i don't believe all or nothing applies here, i belive if you do something illegal, and get caught, doesn't matter who catches you, it's still illegal. but you might not get caught... also people get seen doing illegal things all the time, people just think not worth the time or effort, or don't want to get involved or make things worse. imagine if every time someone stole a candy or something the police were called, we'd need as many police as there are people... nobody would go for that... people, policing themselves, the horror.
There also is a HUGE difference in dealing with the public (even though you have a business, you are still the public to them) and dealing with a high end official. You'll have everyone double checking everything and making sure he will not have any ammo against him with proof. You dont have the money to run the city through the courts for years, he does.
Yeah, but 'his people' (and I'm assuming you mean Trump), included people who organised a press conference at the Four Seasons gardening company instead of the Four Seasons hotel, just round the corner from a d**do store. Also, no one has as clue about how much money he really has. No tax returns, endless allegations of falsifying valuations to either lower insureance rates or taxes, no idea how large his debts are. We do know, though, that he's been milking this (really very) minor presecution for all it's worth in donations.
@@acloserlook5823 I'd rather wipe my ass with filthy ass $1 bills and then burn them, then send money to a politician. They all got the money to spend for their own shit. They just want a free ride to court/campaigns.
Listen if people still can’t catch onto where we are currently in this country, and we still have to argue on the littlest of details, then we deserve everything that comes to us and more. The fact that these things are even controversial topics is dystopic in it of itself. People seriously don’t pay attention.
@@neondystopian Yep. If you want to know the future of your children's lives, there's three central tenets to the future- CBDC's, carbon tax, and medical digital ID passport.
Not world, just Untied States of America. Where I live the government take cares of the people and no Lobbying bullshit and gun violence. So please, stop saying the “world” when you have not seen the world enough to know how corrupted and backward US really is.
As long as Louis become one of a list of people who gets detained and then commit suicide when all the security cameras have been non-functional for that time period.
At about 1:00 According to Robert Barnes, the hush money was the attorney's idea, he paid on his own initiative and asked to be compensated after the fact.
Doesn't matter whose idea it was if Trump knowingly went along with it and paid Cohen off. That's all he has to do to break the law. What he should have done was to report Cohen to the authorities, but he wasn't ever going to do that, because he *IS* a criminal and didn't want the Stormy Daniels story blowing up all over the news during his campaign. Not only that, but he certainly wasn't going to throw Cohen under the bus at that time; Cohen had receipts for a lot of stuff, not just this.
You can prove a record that exists by presenting the record. You can't really prove a negative (except by contra-positive.) So its not really trivial to prove innocence in a claim like this.
It is not on Trump to prove his innocence, but a normal and innocent person would probably dismantle the evidence presented against them, instead of complaining about how the trial is politically charged.
@@JakubMareda Well, a good lawyer will tell you not to talk about evidence before the trial. So he is doing what most people would do whether or not they are guilty or innocent.
@@MegaLokopo There wouldn't need to be a trial if there were no findings to begin with, whether or not they are guilty or innocent. Or if it can be settled before trial occurs or gets dismissed. I work in a state agency. The biggest red flags occur when a business refuses to produce their audit reports (vary rare). The number one reason its a red flag, is because they signed a contract stating it needs to be provided to us. We can request the state to look into these shady businesses and also drop them from any future contracts. But they also need to inform in their audit if they were being investigated by the FBI, contain lawsuits that can be material and other information that can lead to exposing shady operations. Any person with a business who has been involved in over 4,000 legal cases since 1980 to 2016 would raise red flags. Or about 111 cases per year over 36 years (1 case every 3 days). Some of the cases were easily dismiss-able, but others are more concerning. Plenty of other cases- he was involved with were very shading stuff. Why would people think he could come out clean during his presidency when almost half his life was acting shady..... Any person who commits tax evasion or falsifies information in some way will be watched closely forever. Yes, I have a personal story not involving me directly. But the IRS would have to give you a specific code when filing each year. Trump University. Accused of defrauding 5,000 people of $40m. He ended up having to pay them back a total of $25m. So, he still technically made off with $15m after his scam. This started back in 2013 and finished in 2015. Began 3 years prior to his presidency...... In my opinion, this only incentivizes business to do stuff like this since they can still make a profit..... Should require business to fully refund the amount + legal costs + be fully responsible for the university's expense + receive fines for thousands of dollars. And in any legal sense for any reasonable person, they would receive jail time. He shouldn't be allowed to avoid. I believe Logal Paul should also hold more liability to his zootoken scam. He vowed during his presidency that he would take the 400k salary and donate it to state facilities but never did. Although he didn't need to keep that promise, it should hurt his reputation for lying to the general public, let alone his devote followers. He created a $100m lawsuit against Palm Beach County in 2015 that officials deliberately directed the FAA to have air traffic go over Mar-A-Lago and purposely ruined the ambiance and was destroying the building (from the sound I guess). He had a previous lawsuit with the same issue back in 1995. Both cases got dismissed. Back in 2000, he had to pay 250k in fines due to circumventing state law. And back in the 90's when his businesses were connected to organized crime with the mob. Or let alone having 4 bankruptcies that were suspiciously timed over the last 20 years. Much higher than the average business/person will ever face in their lifetimes.
Not to mention all of Jeffrey Epstein's clients still walk free. Biden took 1 million from China while he was VP, lied about being involved with Hunter's Chinese business deals, showered with his granddaughter and tried to institute an illegal vaccine mandate. There are people that need to be arrested and then there's DT.
We should remember that the law is DELIBERATELY written in such an over complicated way so that it's more difficult to NOT to commit a crime in this country. It's called Anarcho-tyranny, and it gives broad discretionary power to the judiciary institutions to go after whoever they want.
It is necessary to follow the law. Assume for a moment he broke the law. The statute of limitations is 5 years. This is year midway through year 6. He should have been impeached and convicted during his presidency in year 1-4 or indicted in year 4-5 by the DA. That's how the law works. The government has to follow the law, too, and you're innocent until proven guilty.
@@vla1ne Actually part of the charges were related to this Stormy Daniels incident. As in Cohen was the one that gave her the hush money, and he was Trump's attorney lol.
Yea but rich people almost always get bail anyway. When I was a kid some rich jerk SA a bunch of young women in New York. They set bail because he was “young” and “not a flight risk” so he took a 10 year European vacation. When he finally did get extradited back to the USA they still didn’t put him in jail. He got put on house arrest pending trial!
The issue for me is that these type of things are only prosecuted for political reasons. There have been numerous cases of people demonstrating how certain candidates are ignoring campaign finance law and nothing was done. Now, many years after the fact, they decided to go after this one guy for this one thing. With blatant political motivations behind it. When laws are selectively enforced only against people you don't like that becomes a miscarriage of justice, IMO.
I agree with what you wrote, however everything in Trump's behavior indicates that he's a heavily corrupt politician. And yes, he's not the only one, there are plenty on both sides and they all should be investigated. It's just that he is so arrogant in his confidence that he can do anything he wants and get away with it that one just want to slap him in the face. (And then keep slapping the rest of politicians as well.)
@@RK-lp5pc As the other commentator said, please give examples and that statement "just want to slap him in the face"....sounds more emotional than rational. I suspect you have been watching too much MSM. Funny thing is that if you go back to the early 2000s all the media and the Celebs thought he was the greatest guy in the world. Then he decided to run for President and the knifes come out. The first step to prevent yourself from being manipulated is to realize that you are being manipulated.
@@RK-lp5pc Well give me an example and don't give me mainstream bs talking points but real evidence...i bet you can't. Edit: i frst posted this under OP's comment but it was meant for you. So OP i totally agree with you.
@@RK-lp5pc Yeah, he's so corrupt, he went into politics rich and being a top New Yorker... Real worth all the trouble and hassle he went trough. Never mind the FBI working with the Hillary campaign to spy on Trump because Hillary made up the russian connection.
Since the indictment hasn’t been unsealed, the legal basis for the prosecution is not knowable as of now. This is likely the weakest case of the many criminal investigations.
@@MoonlightCraftCo Innocent proven guilty is correct, but in all likelihood, Trump probably is guilty here. Especially when you consider his attorney, who was involved with this alleged crime, already pled guilty and went to jail.
@@MoonlightCraftCo None of this shows guilt, but the point is there's a lot of investigations going on, and there's a decent chance at least a few lead to something. Again, I'm not claiming Trump is guilty, but with the ridiculous amount of criminal people who work/have worked for him, it's hard to believe he wasn't involved in criminal activity
Was the transaction made out of a campaign account? I don't believe it was. But what isn't necessarily apparent, personal accounts are considered under campaign financial law because it is your own campaign. The issue that you also have to consider is if the payment would have been made whether he was in a campaign or not. The p0rn star would have never brought this to light if it weren't for a run at being president. It will be a very tricky case to prove. One could argue the money was paid because he wanted to keep it quiet for his personal or family reputation.
His lawyer paid it off using his own funds but then was reimbursed with campaign funds (with interest.) The case is not whether the NDA is legal, because it apparently is, but whether campaign funds can be used in this way.
You won't believe this but you have it EXACTLY opposite. They are saying HE SHOULD HAVE PAID THE PORN STAR WITH CAMPAIGN FUNDS!! Yes. They are saying he should have used funds from the campaign! The fact that he didn't means he illegally donated to his own campaign. This is beyond believable. It's much worse than that. It's passed the statute of limitations. They must believe it was 100% for campaign funds and not hiding from his wife.
It's always legal to donate to your own campaign. Frankly the fact that they can't explain the violation tells me that this is a political hail-mary for headlines.
@@markcromwell They had Al Capone for tax avoidance and false accounting. To his credit a large part of his defence was that if he had declared the money he got for his illegal activities they would have jailed him for those instead. A really good lawyer could have possibly turned that around.. if he had declared and paid his taxes.. with the state being also part of his criminal activities because they received moneys from them.. partners in crime.. their prosecution of him would have also turned into their prosecution of themselves... lmao!!
Links are probably being deleted as spam but google this: " ...Cohen paid $130,000 to the actress directly in exchange for her silence. Neither women’s allegations became public in advance of the 2016 vote. The problem with all this, according to the Southern District of New York, was that these payments constituted illegal, unreported campaign donations to the Trump campaign under federal campaign finance law. The efforts to silence Daniels and McDougal amounted to an in-kind contribution to Trump, in that they were meant to aid the campaign by preventing the women from speaking in public. " In other words he should have used campaign money which is an insane legal theory.
There's a well known saying amongst lawyers that goes like this: "A grand jury could indict a ham sandwich." You should never be asking that ANYONE prove their innocence. The second you've set an expectation that when the government says a person is wrong, that the person should disprove the government, you've already seceded immense amounts of the cultural battle against tyranny. It doesn't take long to go from that to no longer being innocent until proven guilty.
@justsomeguy5470 bro, Trump's own lawyer confessed under oath that they did this crime together and his lawyer was already sentenced to like 3 years in jail for this crime that they did together. We already know Trump did the crime. The only question is whether he will face consequences.
@vla1ne look, I know facts are hard for you, let me break it down for you like this: Trump did this crime in collaboration with his personal lawyer Michael Cohen. Michael Cohen has already been sentenced to prison for this crime that he did WITH Trump. Please tell me you aren't actually this dense?
Louis, you have completely misunderstood the most basic premise of the US legal system. He does not have to prove his innocence in any way - the state needs to prove he is guilty. Please read at least a Wikipedia page about a topic before discussing.
As a person who voted for Trump twice, I would be completely fine if they arrested Trump and banned him from holding a government position ever again, if we could hold every OTHER politician in DC to the same standard. But we all know that's not gonna happen, Trump gets justice for his crimes but nobody else in DC will, unless they oppose the Uniparty aristocracy. So I'm gonna keep supporting Trump out of spite
Also to take a quote from Razorfist, "Boy it is a good thing the New York DA could tear himself away from the 23% percent increase in violent crime year over year, to tackle the truly pressing issues like monetary settlements to aged out porn stars that fall outside the statute of limitations am I right?"
Funny how no Trump supporters are claiming that he's actually innocent though. Because everyone knows damn well he's guilty. People just are annoyed that he's actually finally facing the same consequences that any one of us would have been hit with years ago - just like Michael Cohen was.
And to be clear - the violent crime rate in NYC was extremely low back in 2016 when Trump paid off this porn star with campaign funds. It wasn't until 2020 - the final year of the Trump administration, mind you - that NYC's crime rate shot up. I wonder what it would have been like if the N.Y. district attorney had the balls to indict Trump back in 2016 or 2017 when this crime first came to light. If someone else had been in charge when Covid first emerged, would the massive spike in crime in every city in the country have been avoided? I have no doubt they COULD have been avoided with the right leadership and policies. But I guess we'll never know for sure.
@@rdean150 The issue though is that it's another Joe Arpaio incident where the political class and the courts are all trying to find any reason to throw the book at their target adversary but the best they can do is a misdemeanor.
@@giguyjoe That's why there are juries involved. And judges. Remember that Trump himself appointed dozens of judges, who were confirmed by his Republican-lead Senate. Surely a man who was personally responsible for appointing dozens of judges would trust the impartiality of the US justice system, right? If Trump doesn't trust judges to dole out fair and impartial justice, how can we possibly trust any of the rulings made by any of the judges he himself appointed?
@@rdean150 "Surely a man who was personally responsible for appointing dozens of judges would trust the impartiality of the US justice system, right?" You mean the same one that let a rival DA candidate become the judge in Bill Cosby's trial and not only submit a deposition video into evidence despite the agreement between the previous one and the defendant, not only allow the same lawyer that tried twice to sue Michael Jackson on false pedophilia charges and failed to be a part of his trial, not only allowed a friend of his who was also looking to prosecute Cosby to further his career to be allowed on the prosecution team despite the previous DA ordering no further trials in regards to the Cosby case, but even skipped an evidentiary hearing to turn three accusers into sixty with zero vetting? Yeah I don't see why there'd be any reason to worry.
So... Guilty until proven innocent is your standard. Good to know. Do you really think it's this easy when malice is the motivating factor and not incompetence?
What the most difficult thing to acknowledge about these pending charges is how this type of transaction has happened with two other presidents. Along with the amount of crime that has been running rampant in New York City it’s self and how.Bragg doesn’t prosecute convicted felons of murder. These violent felony committing criminals are out even before the mug shot. If any is developed for the books, how is this equal justice?
Yes, but I feel it's important to point out that is an unreasonable expectation for most people. Keeping records requires a level of financial security to store and preserve them, and is an additional expense if you have to move at any time or for any reason. Most people will try but don't feel it is that important so they neglect protecting them from flooding or fire, and didn't just deal with a lien and audit from nyc, so don't feel a need to pay for them to be moved if they move.
That's the thing, if he does have the receipts, he gains a lot by proving that they are going after him. He waits, let's the clown show spin up, then right at it's apex he brings it all crashing down.
It's baffling how sloppy this case has been. It might catapult him back into a winning position. Trump might have another term thanks to his biggest political enemies, that would be extreme irony.
@mehmanuel most of the country seems to believe he's guilty. I do think he'll win the primary, but there's no easy path for him to win the general election. It would have to be a reverse 2020, where people vote for Trump purely to spite Biden, which isn't impossible but Biden isn't nearly as hated a figure as Trump is.
@@mehmanuel similar thing happened here, our Trump from wish - Babiš was sued for missusing EU funds and funnily enough, the case was so garbage that he won, judge said he clearly is not innocent, but the case was so bad that he had to let him go. Babiš was crying the whole time, that it's a political process to stain his name and such and such.
I appreciate your perspective Louis, but I also think you grossly underestimate how much these people hate Trump, and the extent to which it blinds them to reason. If you faced the same animus, you'd find those fines, liens, and warrants akin to a hydra.
No one knows the charges, but you can assume at least 1 felony which could have a 5 year statute of limitations. There is a toll on the statute of limitations in NY when the person is outside of the state. Trump spent very little time in NY since 2016 and changed his address in 2019. Gov. Coumo also issued a toll on the statute of limitations in 2020 due to strain on the courts during the pandemic which lasted about 9 months. Finally, they could get around it all together with a conspiracy or racketeering charge.
In NY the statue of limitations moves. The clock stops when you reside out of state and starts again when you come back. If you never move back the clock is permanently stopped.
@@zxbc1 We have an echo chamber? You don't know what that word means, there is a reason why NY is losing people and not gaining people and I've never heard someone say "I want to move to New York!" And not just New York city but the STATE itself. You are delusional.
@@Delimon007 I don’t even bother with moorons on this app anymore. I just state my truth and keep it pushing. Just because people might think NY is “cool,” for whatever reasons initially, once they get a taste of what NYC is truly about ( because let’s face it most people only think about the city when talking about NY,) only then will they see how their mental health, safety and well-being is being compromised just by VISITING this horrible sht show of a city.
@@Delimon007 Last I checked NY state has a population of 20m, and Louis Rossman channel has a sub count of 1.7m. So yes you're in a chamber compared to the people living in NY. The fact that you haven't heard of anyone wanting to move to NY is just further proof that you're in a real life chamber too, because when I went to school in the midwest, literally everyone wants to move to either NY or California. And this isn't janitors or mailmen we're talking about, this is University students and industry professionals.
Hey Louis, I understand what you're saying, but that is what's so fucked up about our political system, we are no longer innocent until proven guilty, but in your shpeal you're guilty until proven innocent. I am not Republican and I never voted for Trump, nor am I a Democrat, but I usually vote that way.
Eye witness that he DIDN'T FUCK A PROSTITUTE? I mean, Jesus Christ. We know he did it, his lawyer is already in jail and testified against him, what more do you want?
Your cool and calming voice, relaxed lounge chair, and friendly cat next to you....makes me feel like I'm right there in the living room with you having a conversation. Love these videos!! A cup of coffee really goes well with them too. As a small business owner myself, I can truly relate to so much of what you are saying.
I'm not even a Trump guy but him being attacked in the news and sued courts and investigated by Congress is kind of getting annoying. So at this point in time, people just resort to, yeah, it's politically motivated.
Off topic but The China Show recently called out “the guy that fixes MacBooks” on your stance on the restrict act. I think they made some very valid points about the RA that I think many of us failed to see. Anyways as for this video they already arrested his coconspirator. He’s their star witness. Of course he doesn’t need to rile up his base to commit violence to make them see how full of sht NYS is but that’s his MO. As far as calmy presenting the facts that isn’t how that man operates. Look at his evidence on the election being stolen. His star witness for that was Mike Pillow. I will say you’d be a much better lawyer for him than Joey Pizza and Tony Trustee or whatever their names are.
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@@rossmanngroup thank you 🙏
Plenty of evidence that the election was pushed in a specific way.
who riles up their base to commit violence now? *cough* WOMENS MARCH *COUGH*
@@rossmanngroup MIKE GILL STATE OF CORRUPTION BRENDON O'CONNELL THIS IS WHY THEY SEARCHED HIS HOME BEFORE JAN 6TH
Just look at what the NYC bodega store worker went through being charged by the same DA. Just for defending himself from a thug.
@@Syncrotron9001I tried showing my friend with a master’s degree in finance those episodes and explaining how DS9 predicted the future. The whole time he kept complaining because he never got to see Picard.
He basically refused to pay any attention because he thinks he already knows everything.
@@matthew8153 Its creepy. They nail the homelessness, the unemployment, sanctuary cities. They definitely knew something back in 1993.
Charged and found not guilty, what's your point besides fear mongering?
@@iulioh he should never have been charged to begin with.
@@Syncrotron9001 The irony is that it was the "elite" upper-class types ( like Trump ) that came up with the Sanctuary districts in the first place. It seems that having poor people spread throughout a city is less desirable than cordoning off part of the city with walls and sticking all the "undesirables" behind it. Last I checked, Trump was all about keeping undesirables out with walls.
From wherest shall Bell spring up in our timeline? You might be surprised by the answer.
I wouldn't mind all politicians being scrutinized like Trump is, that would actually be justice.
If the tiktok debacle last week was anything to go by, the politicians we currently have belong in a nursing home.
Unfortunately, the people tech savvy that you would want in Congress are already happy making big bucks in tech
Yeah thats what annoys me about the “nobody is above the law” sheep. If only it were true.
Yeah. If Bush, Clinton, Pelosi etc were all in jail, then I'd be completely fine with them prosecuting Trump.
But if obvious war criminals walk free, but Trump get indicted, then it just looks like the establishment weaponizing the so-called "justice" system to destroy political opponents.
too bad we have two tier justice.
@@Ultrajamz When people say that "nobody is above the law," they tend to actually mean "nobody SHOULD be above the law." It's more a statement of their own ideals than it is a statement of reality.
this is a criminal proceeding.... the "proof of guilt" is on the state, there is no "you must prove you are innocent" in our judicial system
Exactly, but also you can't prove a negative
I don't think you understand, they don't press charges unless there is a case. especially one like this. In our country for the better part of a century it's been your guilty till you prove it. Look at literally every case ever. if a cop says you've done it it's enough, its their word against yours. Unfortunately, the government doesn't give a fuck unless you buy an attorney. And the free one, wants the easiest case. You don't talk to cops because of this reason. They are employed by the fuckwit government, to get promotions for them finding you guilty for X crime. There is no good cops... the ones that would be good, do a different job, like security for a private company. This is the case 90% of non-jury cases. If you are on that podium, the state believes you did it. And looking towards the round-up lawsuit. Even if there is a reasonable doubt, they will be found guilty by a jury as if there was no reasonable doubt. When it's the same people that believe fluoride in your water makes you lethargic.
Who said be has to prove his innocence? He has to counter the proof the state presents. Lying and threatening the prosecutor . Calling for his crazy Maga cult members to riot is not how you counter the government's case.
@@TheGoreforce what do you mean they don't press charges unless there is a case. It becomes a case when they press charges.
This is a criminal proceeding. He’ll be either found guilty or will continue to be innocent.
You have literally changed my entire way of operating my business. I meticulously keep all receipts and track literally every single expense. My binders are digital, but now I'm tempted to print it all out. 😅😅
That's how you should deal with them. Complete print out. Any interesting tit bits are inserted between pages 797 and 798, pages 2342..2345 etc.
Then when they query you state, its in the evidence, look for it. You know where it is, they have to search for it. Then can simply say, its been provided, look it up, show it to the court.
Ask did they look at the evidence, on oath and they will say no. That's their problem....
@@Nickle314 nah we’re beyond that. If they are targeting you for whatever reason, they will find something to pin on you. Doesn’t matter how clean your records are. Democrats are the new soviets.
I closed my business. 2 years of full tax records done online. $120 turn-over, a single transaction in those two years.
Government waited till the business was closed, decided I hadn't done a return for the first year, and claims I owe tax on $12,000 turnover.
It's all a scam, always will be. Government = mafia.
You should definitely have several digital backups of everything. Also, I‘d recommend scanning any paperwork and receipts to PDFs, and then safely filing away the paper, instead of shredding it. Keeping the originals is never a mistake. ;)
@@ArDeeMee I take photos of everything, which I then organize and attach to each transaction, I'm not so good with physical paperwork. I also started doing email receipts as well.
It's crazy. They will do everything they can to get you in trouble. They should help first, then punish.
Having lived in NYC most of my life,and coming from a very liberal family in NYC: i can tell you that the voters here make no connection between how they vote and what takes place in the city.
You will hear all the city’s woes blamed on covid - not this nutty DA, not endless mismanagement/bureaucracy…everything but that.
You sound like you think the state is just one guy sitting in the capitol building
@@SoulAir You sound like an goober. When you vote you generally vote for more than one person, and a bureaucracy requires more than one person. If you vote for people part of the same political machine the machine keeps going!
That is totally what I picture about NYC. Thanks for validating it.
NYC is lost
Their new slogan is “We ❤ NY” smfh im not even going to get into why it changed
King tiberius, but how? I killed you!
Agree with most of what you're saying Louis. However I must reiterate that in America, one is innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around. There is no way that 45 could catch a fair and unbiased trial/jury in NY. This seems like a strictly political hitpiece between the accused, the location of the suit, and the timing of the suit. If all the "evidence" was so important, why didn't it come out the day after Sniffy took office, and not 1 year before a pivotal presidential election where the incumbent is so blatantly incompetent???
He's been fortunate so far. Things that would've landed anyone behind bars he's dodged. You do have a point if you categorize him as a member of the wealthy class. In general, they will not get a fair trial in New York City... fair as far as justice being served. If I can afford a phalanx of lawyers, I can get off almost any charge.
Steven Donziger won his case against Texaco/Chevron. Chevron decided instead of paying the people wronged, to spend tons of money on multiple law firms, and wrangle in a judge, to handle and appeal, where Donziger winds up placed under house arrest, for years, on a misdemeanor, and subsequently disbarred.
The whole system is captured.
The purpose is the corrupt people play for the long term. They may lose the case, but the persecution continues in order to show others not to oppose the city or company in the future. Because if they oppose, then they will be turned into another persecution example.
The whole 'NY' system is captured. Bullshit like you've described just doesn't happen in other jurisdictions -- look it up, NY only!
the judge who had Donziger arrested was Lewis A. Kaplan.
Lewis A. Kaplan (born December 23, 1944) is a United States district judge serving on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He took senior status on February 1, 2011.[2] As a Senior Judge, Kaplan continues to preside over a range of criminal and civil cases.
NY is a mafia state.
@@animejanai4657 This is why you dont stay quiet. Staying quiet only allows them to get away with shit time again and again. You have to be loud and bombastic.
"The whole system is captured."
That was Ecuador. Hopefully our system isn't completely a banana republic yet.
Surely if they can backdate a misdemeanour they can further investigate any politician who has taken hush money from corporate interests and imagine there are a few.
But they only use the justice system against someone like Trump when they need to get someone out of their way.
It'd be better if they would investigate war crimes commited by past presidents like when Obama had american citizens and civilians executed by drone strikes on civilian targets
I doubt there’s one that hasn’t.
If it's done to influence and election it's a Felony, which I guess is the line they will pursue.
@@freespeechmatters583 Imagine how quickly a new law protecting this behaver would be passed if that happened.
I am a bit confused about the idea of proving your innocence. I understand that some people may be able to do so in some cases, but I thought that the burden of proof was on the prosecutor to prove your guilt, and that the defense would advise their clients not to overshare with the public until after the trial, as evidence held by the defense is allowed to surprise the prosecution, while evidence held by the prosecution must be disclosed to the defense before trial.
The annoying rule nobody tells you about is the guy with the bigger gun makes the rule, and new york state has bigger guns than louise rossmann.
We've been conditioned to accept it this way. That's why there's this stigma associated with pleading the fifth, or why people will be quick to say that they have nothing to hide when you try to discuss how the government and/or corporations are invading our privacy. We've somehow been brainwashed into this mentality that the only people who resist are those who are guilty.
I was thinking about the rule of innocence until proven guilty, and I'm not sure it's strictly valid as a global rule that works in all situations. For example the police department could imprison someone, then claim to be innocent until proven guilty of wrongful imprisonment. Or, the police could shoot someone, then claim innocence until the victim proves it was an unjustified shooting. A pharmaceutical company could claim their new product is innocent of hurting anyone until someone proves the drug to be unsafe.
What he is saying is that if New York is trying to railroad a innocent person, they are so incompetent that it can be stopped easily and quickly. So if a person is not quickly stopping the false charges and instead just yelling and insulting, this makes him quite suspicious of the person's innocence.
Announcing your innocence on social media won't mean diddly in court. I wouldn't broadcast my personal business to the public unless it was broadcast from court without my consent.
That's not reality. Innocent until proven guilty is how it works.
The left has all too well brainwashed people to think otherwise.
"proving innocence should be simple" - Innocence is assumed in the US. You have to prove guilt.
It used to be. Look at the recently released prisoners on Jan 6th for proving their innocence.
Jesus Christ. We know he did it, his lawyer is already in jail and testified against him, what more do you want?
Yes, but you can’t prove guilt until you get to file charges and present the evidence.
Innocent until proven guilty does not mean “innocent because any attempts to prove guilt are a political witch hunt.”
@@username4835 No one is saying all attempts to prove guilt are political witch hunts. What they are saying is that (1) there's been lie after hoax after false attack on Trump and (2) this is explicitly a political prosecution (the DA ran on this), all of which make this look awfully like a political witch hunt.
35 charges, I'd say he's guilty of some.
"Defeating NYC is easy . You just need to keep track of *EVERYTHING* that pertains to the business you're running ".
Louis Rossmann - 2023.
Also you need to have people who accept your bookkeeping.
@@benrex7775 within a timely matter, assuming they have any record of it
Everything except for hush money to porn stars
@@EricJohnson-fh8zj But showering with a daughter is a OK... you get the government you deserve
Louis won because no one in the new york government is emotionally invested in destroying him. Hence his facts / records mattered.
But people are emotionally invested in destroying Trump.
"When you've done nothing wrong, NY can literally be defeated from a lounge chair"
Unless you defended yourself in a bodega?
The issue is that the DA isn't using a discrete law as a basis to indict. The state law he is citing is a misdemeanor at most (edit: except when it is proven that the misreporting was done for the purpose of concealing additional lawbreaking, in which case it may rise to felony). He is mixing the state reporting law with a federal election law (which has already been examined several times and not pursued). In short: It is like being indicted for grand theft, because you violated a rule at your HOA that might ordinarily carry a 20 dollar fine.
This is entirely political. I am not even a Trump voter, and I can see it. The issue that you are missing, is that Trump may have more resources, but he also has people invested emotionally in his personal destruction. You are not really in that position, yet.
Isn't the statute of limitations for the charge long since passed as well?
What about NY taxes because the company used the payments as a business cost instead of Trump paying from his own accounts? Didn't he cheat on his taxes that way?
@@kennethgreifer5123 If NY wants a reporting issue on taxes to be a felony, then they need to change their laws. It isn't lawful behavior to piggy back a penalty section of a federal election law on to a state tax law.
I don't know how this is even happening...
@@Pulmonox yes it is, specially as it was already known and investigated before by the department with no charges brought.
Another way you can tell this is political is because this witch hunt has been going on for 7 years, first it was Russia gate, then 'very fine' people hoax, and it just kept going
I want to know that the same standard is being applied equally to every president and not just the ones we don't like
No one is stopping anyone from applying the same standard to other presidents. If no legal move has been made to other presidents its either due to laziness or just the lack of strong evidence.
They're leftists, integrity is a foreign concept to them.
Me too. But I think Trump is one of the more transparently corrupt presidents we've had. Obviously, if Biden is shady, let's find that out too.
They are. That's the whole fucking point of this action. This *is* the same standard.
@@johnnypopstar Written like a true bootlicker.
When this first came up, my first frivolous thought was "Man, hush money sure doesn't buy the hush it used to..."
MY thought was: "Man, remember when 'hush money' was paid in CASH?..... What's next? Venmo?"
I know this video was mainly about the Trump indictment and all that but as an aspiring business owner, I never realized the importance of recordkeeping until now. The fact you had to spend hours on the phone just to straighten things out with the state and the fact that they ADMIT they've never had someone stand up to them is eye-opening. I'll be sure to straighten my records out before it happens to me. Love your content btw, thanks for being an advocate and for all that you do!
I'm a packrat for important/could feasibly be important documents and whatnot, but I feel like a total slob. I have them, they're just not all in a neat container. I really need to get some damn binders.
Record keeping is incredibly helpful, especially for things like "out of norm" deductions. I have some friends that have very large mileage write offs. Some people had moderately good electronic records, one person had very complete electronic records. And one had about 80 small wired note pads with the start/end time, date, start/end mileage, and purpose of every trip in their vehicle for the entire year. They looked at his boxes, looked at about 6-8 random pages TOTAL, and accepted all of the mileage within about 2 minutes. All the rest of the people had various levels of fighting their deductions.
Well they didn’t say they’ve never had someone stand up to them. Just that they had never handled that specific process before.
These types of "recordkeeping" violations have a habit of being used or actually ABUSED by authorities. It is very, very important to get familiar with accounting, not only just to read financial statements, but to understand the systems, so your company has the right type of general ledger which has the FEATURES (e.g. consolidation module, manufacturing cost module, job costing, process costing and many more) to allow for proper management information and proper GAAP accounting. A proper audit may be impossible if the systems are too totally messed up.
Not just for business people dude. As a private citizen, well kept records saved untold amounts of money, time and grief.
I now save documents on paper, on my devices and on the Cloud to be sure.
Yet still another reminder not to set foot in NY ever again!
I'm with you there. I'm a native New Yorker, left a long time ago and don't plan on ever going back.
He didn't use CAMPAIGN FUNDS! He used his own money from his COMPANY hence the business record charges
My takeaway from all this is if Bush roams free while trump is prosecuted, then that pretty much tells you all you need to know about the motives behind the system that's prosecuting trump. If there truly were a "rule of law", many actors would be in jail right now
@@friendlybane international law? invading a foreign nation under false pretences. War crimes, torture
@@friendlybane The law that says its illegal to suck John Bolton's dick.
@@dannanddave the US literally has a plan to break someone out if they're arrested for war crimes
Bush, Clinton, Obama...then Biden next, of course.
@@dannanddave The US does not recognize international law though. The US doesn't even recognize the international court, not to this day. That's why if Putin stepped on US soil the US doesn't even have legal authority to arrest him even though he's accused to be criminal in international court. The US does not recognize the international court because IT is being investigated on multiple counts.
Here in the Netherlands, politicians routinely lose all receipts and never have an active memory of anything...
And yet your politicians still understand what good infrastructure looks like, unlike the us politicians who think everything but infrastructure counts as infrastructure.
the burden is on the state, he doesn't have to prove anything.
you are wrong Louis. The process IS the punishement, no matter how innocent or guilty you are
This is the correct answer.
The accusation and the painful process acts as a part of discouragement and de facto punishment.
As well as the reputational hit, while the media speculates, with no basis for that speculation.
I do understand that Donald gives zero fucks.
Am I missing something here? When people complain about police abuse they are told "that is what courts are for"
I will be the first one to admit that I know little to nothing about the charges against Trump. I do understand his lawyer already did jail time for the same crime. So why was it a crime for the atty to pay the porn star, but not a crime for trump to give the money to the atty to then give to the porn star?
Correct
You're one of the hardest-working and honest people I've ever seen.
This is a 14 month old video I did on the district attorney, Alvin Bragg, reading through his memo in detail when he got elected. I wasn't excited to have him. It is meticulously timestamped for anyone interested in the specifics of how he changed prosecutions in NYC. ua-cam.com/video/ycULqJUydH0/v-deo.html
Trump is doing the politician thing to do and getting free news coverage to gain sympathy from his viewers. The more angry his viewers get, the easiest it is to get them to the polls for support.
Trump will now go out of his way to turn his followers against anyone who is not one of his followers... A bittersweet revenge.
He will "Get Even".
Thanks!
I think a lot of these laws are made to be so complex that the establishment can hang basically anybody they want at will if they brute force investigate you hard enough… even IF he is guilty, the fact they cherry pick enemies of the establishment to investigate is itself an injustice since the pals of the establishment remain untouched… and lets also not forget the process itself is a punishment, what if this takes well beyond the election to settle with all their ability to delay?
Part of the reason why this doesn't pass the political smell test is that the DOJ already declined to prosecute due to how shaky the case was. That Bragg not only took this up but upgraded it to a felony charge to bypass the Statute of Limitations is just the start of this rabbit hole. NYC courts being NYC courts is just the icing on this urinal cake.
EDIT: since the comment up with the link keeps getting eaten google this "Get ready for Manhattan DA’s made-for-TV Trump prosecution" to get The Hill article that's a primer for this FUBAR Convention.
Louis, you've convinced me to move far away from NY. thanks man for keeping it real
Just remember to leave New York behind you. Don't make the place you go to into another New York.
@@sirzorg5728 Totally agree
"Escape from New York" was supposed to be a movie, not an inevitability, but then people stopped understanding that the local politicians they vote for can influence their personal lives and directly impact the environment they find themselves in.
mega cities are usually utter shitshows, in Europe as well.
"When you have done nothing wrong (AND HAVE PERFECTLY PREPARED YOURSELF FOR A SITUATION), the governement can be defeated from an armchair." If you didn't have the binder, the fact you did nothing wrong itself wouldn't have saved you.
And hey, they could have just disregarded his binder if they’d wanted to.
That, and if everyone he spoke to just gave him the run around instead of admitting the error.
He could have gotten a lawyer….but then it’s up to a judge…..in NY.
If Louis was as high profile and spoken about the same way Trump has been….would there be a concern that the NY judge or jury (dear God that head juror that did a interview) would be searching for a particular outcome rather than obeying the law?
Our legal system has really shown me how broken it is over the last 10 years.
Yes, the gub'ment will just lie to screw you.
That is why there is limits on how far you can look back. The law is 2 years and this is 7 years. This is complete trash but people hate Trump so it is ok.
@@DD-sw1dd I was always broken. But it went a 10,000 more broken on December 21,1913.
If state can screw you like this without people there that “hate” you, imagine if those people are actively trying to screw you.
You cannot compare incompetence with malice.
Yup... The malice is the scary part. The incompetence is just insanely annoying when you've kept records of everything.
The irony is the whole "lock the opposition up" thing started under Trump. Turns out his opposition didn't break the law though, but he did.
This is fair.
The DA ran on the platform of "Getting Trump" not exactly a beacon of impartiality.
Ok, but if the people that hate you have hard evidence of you breaking the law, whether they hate you or not is kinda irelevant, isn't it.
The FEC already investigated and cleared him of the claims being made currently. The conclusion was his attorney paid her off personally, and wasn't reimbursed. If the feds accepted that as fact, it's going to be hard for a local DA to make it stick at trial.
The FEC did not clear him of falsifying record during campaign. The FEC's investigation was for whether the payment itself was illegal under campaign finance laws. The new indictment is for something entirely different.
@@zxbc1 Tell me about the document Cohen provided showing that he took care of the payment and tossed it onto a standard bill for re-imbursement.. it's all been gone over many times already. They even presented that evidence before the grand jury convened. And the FEC did look at it and refused to proceed.. along with the fed DOJ.
@@zxbc1 They have a record of statement from the attorney that he paid for it out of his pocket and did not bill it as such. He says under oath that Trump knew nothing of the payments until Avenatti popped up
This is what I was lead to believe. The DOJ already refused to investigate so why does NY think this is worth while, unless of course it’s politically motivated.
@@zxbc1dude who the f cares......if it was a legal payment why would anyone care how his lawyer got reimbursed
This a polical hatchet job
It's not about doing the right thing or any sense of justice
It's about "my side" winning
The state has to prove you are guilty. You dont have to prove your are innocent.
Louis lived in NY for too long, lol.
Once they present evidence of your guilt, you then have to prove you are innocent
Bard DL - That is how it is supposed to work, I don't see that happening often in today's America.
Not according to Nancy Pelosi
fact, the accuser must provide proof
A counter-point about not needing all of the political rhetoric would be, regardless if he is guilty or not, is that it riles up and motivates his base. It may even attract more support from people who feel the government has wronged them.
It also keeps him in the spotlight, preventing any political opponents from having a chance to shine.
So while all of the rhetoric won't help his case in NY, it very well could help his popularity in the eyes of voters.
I've already heard from a Democratic voter that he plans to vote for Trump in 2024 because he considers this to be a witch hunt.
And he has a point. If you let obvious war criminal Bush walk free, but charge Trump over something that's far less serious than war crimes, then it's obvious that this is just the establishment weaponizing the "justice" system to attack their political rival.
Trump has spent his life turning notoriety into profit. 80% of the entire "celebrity" and showbiz industry is based on turning notoriety into profit. Any notoriety helps a person who knows how to profit from notoriety. "There is no such thing as bad press" is the motto of celebrities like Trump. He has admitted this privately and semi-publicly several times.
Whether we like someone or not, we should always look closely at how judical system works.
He will not be going to jail. Nothing at all will happen. This is just for show.
Well, they did pretty much assured that Trump is going to be re-elected.
@@grbenway Yeah people seem to really connect with a rich pompous blowhard who cheats on his wives and says unhinged things.
I think it's a stupid political game. There's more important news out there that's being covered up by this story.
And both those for Trump and against Trump are more than happy to use this situation to score political brownie points.
@@grbenway nah they handed him the presidency on a platter. no law says you cant run for office with a criminal record. for 7 years they have looked into this mans life. and 7 years now they have got nothing, the fact they are seeking to upgrade the case from misdemeanor to felony charges on a case well outside of its statutory limits ( yes crimes actually have n expiration date) with their "star witness" being known for charged and convicted of perjury , just proves they dont care. Infact the DA in the case has been proven and known for degrading cases in the lieks of manslaughter, breaking and entering , rape and morelike
Nah what will happen is people will elect him due to them going after him for so long after he left office
I’m a criminal case, the defendant has nothing to prove: the burden of proof rests entirely with the prosecution.
In fact, the prosecution might be in serious legal and political troubles since the entire affair might be an unethical and illegal political hack job.
As usual all Trump has to do is pull out his records. Imagine if I had an alibi but I wouldn't give it, and just told you "prove I was there." Not going to go well in court, especially when they have to have evidence to get to trial in the first place.
Remember Trump has to prove nothing... .That's the prosecutors that have to do that.
Once the prosecutors have enough of a case to actually sue, they are already confident enough that they will get a conviction. At that point, unless you come up with stuff that proves your innocence, the things the prosecutors have will prove guilt.
He DID NOT use campaign money. The prosecutors are arguing he should have, because it was to benefit his campaign.
He didn't use ANY money. The money came from Cohen.
@@Mythologos Cohen paid first, then Trump reimbursed him over the next year
You and Donald can team up and Make New York Great Again.
Louis not only do I respect the knowledge I've gains from you over the years
thank you for being a real person too
Good video, however, there is one major point you have backwards. Although it is wise to keep good records, the burden of proof falls to the prosecutor. The expectation of the accused to prove their innocence is a BAD default position for society to take. Just because somebody can easily prove their innocence doesn't mean they should be forced to do so, or if they can't (or choose not to) doesn't mean they are automatically guilty.
No, presumption of innocence is a measure to protect the people from the government. Society isn’t the government, hence it need not apply when the evidence clearly indicates they’re guilty (as is the case here), even if not convincing enough for a court. Especially when we’re talking about an expresident.
@@GRBtutorials lmao no, thats just your immature desire to have your feelings validated due to your life being empty enough that your ego is tied into your political views. If someone has not been found guilty in a court of law but can be excised from society do to biased public perception on the part of useful idiots like you, that completely invalidates the entire point of the legal system. Its the soviet system.
@@GRBtutorials And when Society deems someone is guilty when they're not, we get situations like Johnny Depp and Justin Roiland.
@@GRBtutorials No presumption of innocence is much more fundamental than that. It is the idea that it is better for 1000 guilty people to be free than 1 innocent person to be in jail.
If the evidence was clear they would have already put him in jail long ago. A jury can indict a ham sandwich that doesn't mean the sandwich is guilty.
You are completely misunderstanding “innocent until proven guilty.” Just having that presumption doesn’t mean you should never defend yourself. Imagine a criminal trial being just a prosecutor talking and the defense saying “I have nothing to say, your honor. My client is innocent until proven guilty.” You’re a moron. You still need to present your case otherwise you will get obliterated.
Yeah, I'd Vote Rossmann for NY Gov.
Corrupt officials are not incompetent but evil.
Isn't Trump the corrupt official here? Falsifying record during campaign is as corrupt as it gets.
NYC can say that you didn’t pay your taxes, then make you jump through hoops so that you can provide all your documentation. That’s what they do.
That's not NYC, that's everywhere.
That's the cost of doing business. If you can't handle that, just keep collecting your w-2s.
The paid out of campaign funds is wrong, we think. This was supposedly paid out of Trump Org using corporate money. It's a shit show of a case.
Thank you for this. This was my second biggest fear that prevented me for 10 years from creating my own buisness. I was affraid I will get picked by someone who knows how to destroy me and take everything I built, and I wouldn't be able to defend my self. The other one is what you said at the beginning that you almost done wrong without your knowledge. I fear I mess up so badly that will cost all my prior work without me realizing I do wrong. But now I know at least I'm on the right path.
Being good and doing good work isn't something that you become or need to learn how to do. You just need to do it.
No offense, but that’s an awfully specific fear. Maybe it’s rooted in some thing as in maybe you could spend some time with a therapist or someone to talk to to get to the root of that I’ve never heard someone say the reason why they won’t run a business is that someone might pick on me 🤷🏽♀️
Sorry but if you are afraid of doing business or anything because you fear failure, that's on you that's not on the government. There are way more serious threats to your success from all directions, the government being the least of your concern. Just go to a foreign third world country and see how the people are doing, and get a reality check of just how lucky you are.
That's the feeling they want you to have. People that own their own business are independent because they have to be. If you're not a business owner, you're more likely to think government doesn't effect you.
@@kateapple1 Maybe I worded it wrong, the point is that if someone is envious of my success but skillfully cheats, then out of envy and to reduce the competition, he can destroy what I achieve because he is not capable of it. At least it's not rare in my area, but it could also be that you're right and the problem is with me. (By google translate)
I think another issue may very well also be selective enforcement, not just if he committed the crime.
Yes. Selective enforcement is the hallmark of a corrupt government. They pass vague laws that could be interpreted as applying to nearly everything. A hate crime is any crime committed against a protected class or group. What are protected classes or groups? Well it's age, immigration, citizenship status, disability, color, gender, gender identity, marital status, etc.
So EVERYONE could be protected. So why isn't EVERY crime a hate crime? Because it's vague and subjective. So when I destroy your signs that's just misdemeanor mischief or vandalism. I get a small fine, I appeal it, they don't want to waste $10,000 fighting over a $500 fine so they drop it.
But when you destroy my signs well that's a hate crime and you're looking at 10 years in prison and that's a felony going on your record, you can't vote or buy guns, you can't get a job or credit, you're a flight risk, and you're going to spend 20X more on lawyers to defend yourself even if you're not guilty.
This right here.
thats what annoys me the most when people say that trump must be bad because of how many people around him got arrested. Its not like they threw the book at everyone around him and totally had untainted/unbiased juries.
most of them got got on things typically ignored or usually settled out of court quietly but because they were related to trump had amplified perp walks.
@@Pendergast891 "It's not the crime; it's the cover up."
@@Pendergast891 Or in the case of Michael Flynn, coerced into a false confession through threats against his family. When this evidence was presented to the state they dropped all charges but the judge being a raging liberal decided that the state wasn't allowed to drop its own charges.
"I have said that Trump might be in the wrong, and now I tell you guys to have a calm and collected comment section"
Louis, your humor gets to me in some ways that it is fantastic.
"Sloppy Supreme Court! Unbelievable. Sad!"
Who else is here for the cat? 🐈⬛
Meow
7:23 Elmer Fudd when he doesn't catch a wabbit
Right now (Friday, March 31), the indictment is under seal. The grand jury, the prosecutors, and the judge know the contents of the indictment. Nobody else, including Trump and his legal team, are supposed to know more than that (a) there is an indictment, (b) Trump has been summoned to be arraigned on Tuesday, and (c) some of the witnesses who were deposed by the jury. So we don't know what he is actually accused of. We can make intelligent guesses from what information we have, and there are probably leaks and there are certainly complete fabrications swirling around. I recommend everyone wait until the indictment is unsealed on Tuesday to start judging things, because 90% of what you're hearing right now is bovine excrement. Forming an opinion right now is a fool's game.
this 100%
This is somehting they will play until the election.
We know this prosecutor has downgraded felonies for violent criminals.
You are a sucker. "This time they are telling the truth" 🤪
Not if you have enough cogniscience for pattern recognition.
Totally agree. I made an attempt to form an opinion, then realized how wrong and pointless it was to try.
I would also be interested to hear you opinion on the Hunter Biden laptop repair guy getting sued for privacy violations given your background in the industry.
Also would like to hear Louis's opinion on Hilary Clinton's email server which she didn't even get a fine for.
Also would like to hear Louis's opinion on charging Bush for war crimes, because it's clear that he's guilty, and apparently we're charging ex-presidents now.
And if we do charge Trump, but don't charge obvious war criminal Bush, then isn't that just the establishment weaponizing the "justice" system to destroy political opponents?
I don't think Trump shouldn't be held accountable just because someone else wasn't... everyone should be held accountable, using the fact some haven't as an excuse not to be held accountable is just downright reprehensible
@@AKATenn That's nice utopian thinking. In reality if in a football match one team keeps getting yellow cards for the smallest possible infringements, some of which aren't even real, while the other side keeps doing fouls left and right and never gets any warning, the other team wins.
This isn't just about the things that Trump did wrong individually, this is about the future of the US and probably the entirety of the West. If this had no political implications nobody except for actual Trump fans would care. He is by no means an angel, but you don't put innocent kittens in front of monsters when you want to fight them. He was the first one to ever stand up to them, and you see what they are doing to him now.
@@256shadesofgrey i don't believe all or nothing applies here, i belive if you do something illegal, and get caught, doesn't matter who catches you, it's still illegal. but you might not get caught... also people get seen doing illegal things all the time, people just think not worth the time or effort, or don't want to get involved or make things worse.
imagine if every time someone stole a candy or something the police were called, we'd need as many police as there are people... nobody would go for that... people, policing themselves, the horror.
The cat looks either bored or has just eaten and can't be bothered, so just chilin.
There also is a HUGE difference in dealing with the public (even though you have a business, you are still the public to them) and dealing with a high end official. You'll have everyone double checking everything and making sure he will not have any ammo against him with proof. You dont have the money to run the city through the courts for years, he does.
Yeah, but 'his people' (and I'm assuming you mean Trump), included people who organised a press conference at the Four Seasons gardening company instead of the Four Seasons hotel, just round the corner from a d**do store. Also, no one has as clue about how much money he really has. No tax returns, endless allegations of falsifying valuations to either lower insureance rates or taxes, no idea how large his debts are. We do know, though, that he's been milking this (really very) minor presecution for all it's worth in donations.
Well, "he" might not have the money, but he keeps getting plenty from his supporters.
@@MonkeyJedi99 best money I ever spent
@@acloserlook5823 I'd rather wipe my ass with filthy ass $1 bills and then burn them, then send money to a politician. They all got the money to spend for their own shit. They just want a free ride to court/campaigns.
And it's cheaper than adds.
Listen if people still can’t catch onto where we are currently in this country, and we still have to argue on the littlest of details, then we deserve everything that comes to us and more. The fact that these things are even controversial topics is dystopic in it of itself. People seriously don’t pay attention.
I never thought I would live in a reality where I would be using my passport for something other than tourism.
@@neondystopian Yep. If you want to know the future of your children's lives, there's three central tenets to the future- CBDC's, carbon tax, and medical digital ID passport.
Louis, you represent a corner of sanity and reason in a world where everything is insanely polarised and manipulative. Thank you.
Not world, just Untied States of America. Where I live the government take cares of the people and no Lobbying bullshit and gun violence. So please, stop saying the “world” when you have not seen the world enough to know how corrupted and backward US really is.
LOUIS PLEASE STOP SHOWING WHERE ALL YOUR RECEIPTS ARE WHO KNOWS WHAT COULD HAPPEN 😂
As long as Louis become one of a list of people who gets detained and then commit suicide when all the security cameras have been non-functional for that time period.
@Person Personperson would you like a slice of lemon pound cake?
Wasn't the Steele Dossier paid for with campaign funds?
Yes it was by Democrat from NYC. Go figure!!!🤔🤔🤔
Didn't Trump say he financed his own campaign back in 2016? Also he didn't take a salary for being a President
At about 1:00
According to Robert Barnes, the hush money was the attorney's idea, he paid on his own initiative and asked to be compensated after the fact.
yup, that is what happened and why there no case when the feds looking into it years ago.
Here are Cohen's own words for those who aren't intent on being gaslighted.
ua-cam.com/video/td8cZb6Dq-4/v-deo.html
Doesn't matter whose idea it was if Trump knowingly went along with it and paid Cohen off. That's all he has to do to break the law. What he should have done was to report Cohen to the authorities, but he wasn't ever going to do that, because he *IS* a criminal and didn't want the Stormy Daniels story blowing up all over the news during his campaign. Not only that, but he certainly wasn't going to throw Cohen under the bus at that time; Cohen had receipts for a lot of stuff, not just this.
He wanted to be Trumps go to “fixer”
After seeing how Mr. Barnes performed in Alex Jones's trial, I wouldn't be so quick to believe him on ANYTHING.
Doesn't matter how easy it is to disprove if it's political
You can prove a record that exists by presenting the record. You can't really prove a negative (except by contra-positive.) So its not really trivial to prove innocence in a claim like this.
Yea, trump has to proof every penny he spent wasn't spent on stormy daniels. New york state, has to find proof he spent one penny illegally.
It is not on Trump to prove his innocence, but a normal and innocent person would probably dismantle the evidence presented against them, instead of complaining about how the trial is politically charged.
@@JakubMareda Well, a good lawyer will tell you not to talk about evidence before the trial. So he is doing what most people would do whether or not they are guilty or innocent.
@@JakubMareda Trump was impeached for questioning Brandon's involvement in Ukraine, your tribe doesn't have the moral highground
@@MegaLokopo There wouldn't need to be a trial if there were no findings to begin with, whether or not they are guilty or innocent. Or if it can be settled before trial occurs or gets dismissed. I work in a state agency. The biggest red flags occur when a business refuses to produce their audit reports (vary rare). The number one reason its a red flag, is because they signed a contract stating it needs to be provided to us. We can request the state to look into these shady businesses and also drop them from any future contracts. But they also need to inform in their audit if they were being investigated by the FBI, contain lawsuits that can be material and other information that can lead to exposing shady operations.
Any person with a business who has been involved in over 4,000 legal cases since 1980 to 2016 would raise red flags. Or about 111 cases per year over 36 years (1 case every 3 days). Some of the cases were easily dismiss-able, but others are more concerning. Plenty of other cases- he was involved with were very shading stuff. Why would people think he could come out clean during his presidency when almost half his life was acting shady.....
Any person who commits tax evasion or falsifies information in some way will be watched closely forever. Yes, I have a personal story not involving me directly. But the IRS would have to give you a specific code when filing each year.
Trump University. Accused of defrauding 5,000 people of $40m. He ended up having to pay them back a total of $25m. So, he still technically made off with $15m after his scam. This started back in 2013 and finished in 2015. Began 3 years prior to his presidency...... In my opinion, this only incentivizes business to do stuff like this since they can still make a profit..... Should require business to fully refund the amount + legal costs + be fully responsible for the university's expense + receive fines for thousands of dollars. And in any legal sense for any reasonable person, they would receive jail time. He shouldn't be allowed to avoid. I believe Logal Paul should also hold more liability to his zootoken scam.
He vowed during his presidency that he would take the 400k salary and donate it to state facilities but never did. Although he didn't need to keep that promise, it should hurt his reputation for lying to the general public, let alone his devote followers.
He created a $100m lawsuit against Palm Beach County in 2015 that officials deliberately directed the FAA to have air traffic go over Mar-A-Lago and purposely ruined the ambiance and was destroying the building (from the sound I guess). He had a previous lawsuit with the same issue back in 1995. Both cases got dismissed.
Back in 2000, he had to pay 250k in fines due to circumventing state law.
And back in the 90's when his businesses were connected to organized crime with the mob. Or let alone having 4 bankruptcies that were suspiciously timed over the last 20 years. Much higher than the average business/person will ever face in their lifetimes.
The moment literal war criminals can roam free, but a little of dirty money is the top line…..something is very very fucked up
Exactly. This is chump change compared to what these 40+ year career criminal politicians have been up to.
Yep, Obama, Bush and Clinton should be much bigger priorities but we have this circus instead.
Not to mention all of Jeffrey Epstein's clients still walk free. Biden took 1 million from China while he was VP, lied about being involved with Hunter's Chinese business deals, showered with his granddaughter and tried to institute an illegal vaccine mandate. There are people that need to be arrested and then there's DT.
We should remember that the law is DELIBERATELY written in such an over complicated way so that it's more difficult to NOT to commit a crime in this country.
It's called Anarcho-tyranny, and it gives broad discretionary power to the judiciary institutions to go after whoever they want.
Just like Brazil.
Exactly. Soviet style prosecution. Show me the man, I’ll show you the crime.
I remember hearing that a while ago but I can't remember the source. You happen to know it?
It is necessary to follow the law. Assume for a moment he broke the law. The statute of limitations is 5 years. This is year midway through year 6. He should have been impeached and convicted during his presidency in year 1-4 or indicted in year 4-5 by the DA. That's how the law works. The government has to follow the law, too, and you're innocent until proven guilty.
"“Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime.”" - Lavrentiy Beria
His co-conspirator was already sentenced years ago.
@@Ryan-093 on entirely unrelated charges.
@@vla1ne imagine how much of a low IQ cretin you have to be to think Trump isn't a criminal. Marks these days 😂
@@vla1ne Actually part of the charges were related to this Stormy Daniels incident. As in Cohen was the one that gave her the hush money, and he was Trump's attorney lol.
yea and Michael Avenatti is still in prison over extorting Nike. Completely unrelated, your point?
It's kinda funny because I'd already would be in jail if accused of anything either side "supposedly" do
Yea but rich people almost always get bail anyway. When I was a kid some rich jerk SA a bunch of young women in New York. They set bail because he was “young” and “not a flight risk” so he took a 10 year European vacation. When he finally did get extradited back to the USA they still didn’t put him in jail. He got put on house arrest pending trial!
Again "rich people", if I did whatever I'd either be in denied bond or it's so high I wouldn't have enough.
He doesn’t have to say I’m innocent. He should be presumed to be so.
The issue for me is that these type of things are only prosecuted for political reasons. There have been numerous cases of people demonstrating how certain candidates are ignoring campaign finance law and nothing was done. Now, many years after the fact, they decided to go after this one guy for this one thing. With blatant political motivations behind it.
When laws are selectively enforced only against people you don't like that becomes a miscarriage of justice, IMO.
I agree with what you wrote, however everything in Trump's behavior indicates that he's a heavily corrupt politician. And yes, he's not the only one, there are plenty on both sides and they all should be investigated. It's just that he is so arrogant in his confidence that he can do anything he wants and get away with it that one just want to slap him in the face. (And then keep slapping the rest of politicians as well.)
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As the other commentator said, please give examples and that statement "just want to slap him in the face"....sounds more emotional than rational. I suspect you have been watching too much MSM. Funny thing is that if you go back to the early 2000s all the media and the Celebs thought he was the greatest guy in the world. Then he decided to run for President and the knifes come out.
The first step to prevent yourself from being manipulated is to realize that you are being manipulated.
@@RK-lp5pc Well give me an example and don't give me mainstream bs talking points but real evidence...i bet you can't.
Edit: i frst posted this under OP's comment but it was meant for you. So OP i totally agree with you.
very true west
@@RK-lp5pc Yeah, he's so corrupt, he went into politics rich and being a top New Yorker... Real worth all the trouble and hassle he went trough. Never mind the FBI working with the Hillary campaign to spy on Trump because Hillary made up the russian connection.
Why does everyone call it hush money when it is a nondisclosure agreement? They are quite common.
New York strikes again.
Since the indictment hasn’t been unsealed, the legal basis for the prosecution is not knowable as of now. This is likely the weakest case of the many criminal investigations.
There is at least 34 indictments for Trump in this case, plus 2 federal court cases and another state (Georgia) one.
@@MD4564 That means absolutely nothing until evidence and a trial is held. Innocent until proven guilty.
@@MoonlightCraftCo Oh Piss off Kyle, Trump is a narcissists' and guilty.
@@MoonlightCraftCo Innocent proven guilty is correct, but in all likelihood, Trump probably is guilty here. Especially when you consider his attorney, who was involved with this alleged crime, already pled guilty and went to jail.
@@MoonlightCraftCo None of this shows guilt, but the point is there's a lot of investigations going on, and there's a decent chance at least a few lead to something. Again, I'm not claiming Trump is guilty, but with the ridiculous amount of criminal people who work/have worked for him, it's hard to believe he wasn't involved in criminal activity
Was the transaction made out of a campaign account? I don't believe it was. But what isn't necessarily apparent, personal accounts are considered under campaign financial law because it is your own campaign. The issue that you also have to consider is if the payment would have been made whether he was in a campaign or not. The p0rn star would have never brought this to light if it weren't for a run at being president. It will be a very tricky case to prove. One could argue the money was paid because he wanted to keep it quiet for his personal or family reputation.
She didn't make the payments public. They broke the NDA that they wrote.
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This, and bill clinton did it before
His lawyer paid it off using his own funds but then was reimbursed with campaign funds (with interest.) The case is not whether the NDA is legal, because it apparently is, but whether campaign funds can be used in this way.
But Cohen has stated numerous times that he wasn’t reimbursed for the payment.
Cohen went to jail for it.
Don't let your cat near that paperwork! 😂🐈🔪
You won't believe this but you have it EXACTLY opposite.
They are saying HE SHOULD HAVE PAID THE PORN STAR WITH CAMPAIGN FUNDS!!
Yes. They are saying he should have used funds from the campaign! The fact that he didn't means he illegally donated to his own campaign.
This is beyond believable. It's much worse than that. It's passed the statute of limitations. They must believe it was 100% for campaign funds and not hiding from his wife.
It's always legal to donate to your own campaign.
Frankly the fact that they can't explain the violation tells me that this is a political hail-mary for headlines.
No way. That’s insane. It’s not that I don’t trust you, random online commenter, but that’s so absurd I just have to look into it.
@@phezzanfnord1089 You have to report it. That is the alleged, insane, illegality.
@@markcromwell They had Al Capone for tax avoidance and false accounting. To his credit a large part of his defence was that if he had declared the money he got for his illegal activities they would have jailed him for those instead. A really good lawyer could have possibly turned that around.. if he had declared and paid his taxes.. with the state being also part of his criminal activities because they received moneys from them.. partners in crime.. their prosecution of him would have also turned into their prosecution of themselves... lmao!!
Links are probably being deleted as spam but google this:
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...Cohen paid $130,000 to the actress directly in exchange for her silence. Neither women’s allegations became public in advance of the 2016 vote.
The problem with all this, according to the Southern District of New York, was that these payments constituted illegal, unreported campaign donations to the Trump campaign under federal campaign finance law. The efforts to silence Daniels and McDougal amounted to an in-kind contribution to Trump, in that they were meant to aid the campaign by preventing the women from speaking in public.
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In other words he should have used campaign money which is an insane legal theory.
There's a well known saying amongst lawyers that goes like this:
"A grand jury could indict a ham sandwich."
You should never be asking that ANYONE prove their innocence. The second you've set an expectation that when the government says a person is wrong, that the person should disprove the government, you've already seceded immense amounts of the cultural battle against tyranny. It doesn't take long to go from that to no longer being innocent until proven guilty.
You think Trump is innocent? Marks, man.
@@Ryan-093 He's not saying that at all he's talking about something much more than politics. The loss of liberty and freedom.
@@Ryan-093 why yes. innocent until proven guilty is the law of the land. period.
@justsomeguy5470 bro, Trump's own lawyer confessed under oath that they did this crime together and his lawyer was already sentenced to like 3 years in jail for this crime that they did together. We already know Trump did the crime. The only question is whether he will face consequences.
@vla1ne look, I know facts are hard for you, let me break it down for you like this: Trump did this crime in collaboration with his personal lawyer Michael Cohen. Michael Cohen has already been sentenced to prison for this crime that he did WITH Trump. Please tell me you aren't actually this dense?
Im just glad the precedent has been set and we can now send all past presidents to the haige
That's the thing Louis, you haven't proven anything. Sure you proved it to your audience, but the courts are a whole different beast.
Incorrect
@@rossmanngroup What part? Genuinely curious. I hope you do win that court battle if it happens!
Louis, you have completely misunderstood the most basic premise of the US legal system. He does not have to prove his innocence in any way - the state needs to prove he is guilty. Please read at least a Wikipedia page about a topic before discussing.
I do agree with what you say but I just wish they put the same effort to prosecute people on the Democratic Party.
the difference is all in enforcement. EVERY politician could be arrested for the same thing.... just choose to protect those who play ball
So glad you got that win Louis. It's great to see you sucessful.
As a person who voted for Trump twice, I would be completely fine if they arrested Trump and banned him from holding a government position ever again, if we could hold every OTHER politician in DC to the same standard.
But we all know that's not gonna happen, Trump gets justice for his crimes but nobody else in DC will, unless they oppose the Uniparty aristocracy. So I'm gonna keep supporting Trump out of spite
Also to take a quote from Razorfist, "Boy it is a good thing the New York DA could tear himself away from the 23% percent increase in violent crime year over year, to tackle the truly pressing issues like monetary settlements to aged out porn stars that fall outside the statute of limitations am I right?"
Funny how no Trump supporters are claiming that he's actually innocent though. Because everyone knows damn well he's guilty. People just are annoyed that he's actually finally facing the same consequences that any one of us would have been hit with years ago - just like Michael Cohen was.
And to be clear - the violent crime rate in NYC was extremely low back in 2016 when Trump paid off this porn star with campaign funds. It wasn't until 2020 - the final year of the Trump administration, mind you - that NYC's crime rate shot up. I wonder what it would have been like if the N.Y. district attorney had the balls to indict Trump back in 2016 or 2017 when this crime first came to light. If someone else had been in charge when Covid first emerged, would the massive spike in crime in every city in the country have been avoided? I have no doubt they COULD have been avoided with the right leadership and policies. But I guess we'll never know for sure.
@@rdean150 The issue though is that it's another Joe Arpaio incident where the political class and the courts are all trying to find any reason to throw the book at their target adversary but the best they can do is a misdemeanor.
@@giguyjoe That's why there are juries involved. And judges. Remember that Trump himself appointed dozens of judges, who were confirmed by his Republican-lead Senate. Surely a man who was personally responsible for appointing dozens of judges would trust the impartiality of the US justice system, right? If Trump doesn't trust judges to dole out fair and impartial justice, how can we possibly trust any of the rulings made by any of the judges he himself appointed?
@@rdean150 "Surely a man who was personally responsible for appointing dozens of judges would trust the impartiality of the US justice system, right?"
You mean the same one that let a rival DA candidate become the judge in Bill Cosby's trial and not only submit a deposition video into evidence despite the agreement between the previous one and the defendant, not only allow the same lawyer that tried twice to sue Michael Jackson on false pedophilia charges and failed to be a part of his trial, not only allowed a friend of his who was also looking to prosecute Cosby to further his career to be allowed on the prosecution team despite the previous DA ordering no further trials in regards to the Cosby case, but even skipped an evidentiary hearing to turn three accusers into sixty with zero vetting?
Yeah I don't see why there'd be any reason to worry.
Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent (2011) by Harvey Silverglate
So... Guilty until proven innocent is your standard. Good to know.
Do you really think it's this easy when malice is the motivating factor and not incompetence?
What the most difficult thing to acknowledge about these pending charges is how this type of transaction has happened with two other presidents. Along with the amount of crime that has been running rampant in New York City it’s self and how.Bragg doesn’t prosecute convicted felons of murder. These violent felony committing criminals are out even before the mug shot. If any is developed for the books, how is this equal justice?
This is a great example for how important keeping all records is.
Yes I hope Trump has records of the transaction that he denies happened
Yes, but I feel it's important to point out that is an unreasonable expectation for most people. Keeping records requires a level of financial security to store and preserve them, and is an additional expense if you have to move at any time or for any reason. Most people will try but don't feel it is that important so they neglect protecting them from flooding or fire, and didn't just deal with a lien and audit from nyc, so don't feel a need to pay for them to be moved if they move.
SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT. Like on YT where some get away with it and others don't.
That's the thing, if he does have the receipts, he gains a lot by proving that they are going after him. He waits, let's the clown show spin up, then right at it's apex he brings it all crashing down.
It's baffling how sloppy this case has been. It might catapult him back into a winning position. Trump might have another term thanks to his biggest political enemies, that would be extreme irony.
This is some grade A Hopium. I hope you paid your dealer well.
@mehmanuel most of the country seems to believe he's guilty. I do think he'll win the primary, but there's no easy path for him to win the general election. It would have to be a reverse 2020, where people vote for Trump purely to spite Biden, which isn't impossible but Biden isn't nearly as hated a figure as Trump is.
@@mehmanuel Jesus, lets give some credit to the people that actually vote for him.
@@mehmanuel similar thing happened here, our Trump from wish - Babiš was sued for missusing EU funds and funnily enough, the case was so garbage that he won, judge said he clearly is not innocent, but the case was so bad that he had to let him go. Babiš was crying the whole time, that it's a political process to stain his name and such and such.
This is a really fair assessment taking into consideration your own biases. One of the best takes I've seen.
I appreciate your perspective Louis, but I also think you grossly underestimate how much these people hate Trump, and the extent to which it blinds them to reason.
If you faced the same animus, you'd find those fines, liens, and warrants akin to a hydra.
However, the charges are past the statute of limitations. Also, the NY federal court did not prosecute due to lack of evidence
No one knows the charges, but you can assume at least 1 felony which could have a 5 year statute of limitations. There is a toll on the statute of limitations in NY when the person is outside of the state. Trump spent very little time in NY since 2016 and changed his address in 2019. Gov. Coumo also issued a toll on the statute of limitations in 2020 due to strain on the courts during the pandemic which lasted about 9 months. Finally, they could get around it all together with a conspiracy or racketeering charge.
In NY the statue of limitations moves. The clock stops when you reside out of state and starts again when you come back. If you never move back the clock is permanently stopped.
NY is such a joke. I love how you just clown them over and over. 😂
Only New Yorkers think NY isn’t a joke. It’s a damn shame
@@larrybills5840 A lot of people don't think NY is a joke. This is a small echo chamber, you need to step out a little once in a while.
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We have an echo chamber? You don't know what that word means, there is a reason why NY is losing people and not gaining people and I've never heard someone say "I want to move to New York!" And not just New York city but the STATE itself. You are delusional.
@@Delimon007 I don’t even bother with moorons on this app anymore. I just state my truth and keep it pushing. Just because people might think NY is “cool,” for whatever reasons initially, once they get a taste of what NYC is truly about ( because let’s face it most people only think about the city when talking about NY,) only then will they see how their mental health, safety and well-being is being compromised just by VISITING this horrible sht show of a city.
@@Delimon007 Last I checked NY state has a population of 20m, and Louis Rossman channel has a sub count of 1.7m. So yes you're in a chamber compared to the people living in NY. The fact that you haven't heard of anyone wanting to move to NY is just further proof that you're in a real life chamber too, because when I went to school in the midwest, literally everyone wants to move to either NY or California. And this isn't janitors or mailmen we're talking about, this is University students and industry professionals.
Hey Louis, I understand what you're saying, but that is what's so fucked up about our political system, we are no longer innocent until proven guilty, but in your shpeal you're guilty until proven innocent. I am not Republican and I never voted for Trump, nor am I a Democrat, but I usually vote that way.
He provided eyewitness, but when the system wants, then it will not hear anything.
Sovereign immunity needs to be abolished.
Eye witness that he DIDN'T FUCK A PROSTITUTE? I mean, Jesus Christ. We know he did it, his lawyer is already in jail and testified against him, what more do you want?
Your cool and calming voice, relaxed lounge chair, and friendly cat next to you....makes me feel like I'm right there in the living room with you having a conversation. Love these videos!! A cup of coffee really goes well with them too. As a small business owner myself, I can truly relate to so much of what you are saying.
Black cats freak me out though
@@Zoroasterisk 😂. I meant it jokingly bro
Love them. Been there so many times but in California.
I'm not even a Trump guy but him being attacked in the news and sued courts and investigated by Congress is kind of getting annoying.
So at this point in time, people just resort to, yeah, it's politically motivated.
I appreciate your attention to deail and keeping your book organized! Will definitely take this approach on my business.
“New York is a guilty until proven innocent. That’s the American way, right?” - Louis Rossmann
His partner in crime already confessed.
per Nancy Pelosi it is, remember she said Trump would have his chance to prove his innocence.
If Louis were facing politically motivated charges of any kind, his case would be ongoing now.