LOD: The biggest flaw in the Trump defense's argument
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2024
- Lawrence O'Donnell explains what he thinks was a crucial misstep by the Donald Trump’s defense team when lead Lawyer Todd Blanche cross-examined Michael Cohen in the criminal hush money trial.
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#Trump #DonaldTrump #MichaelCohen
Stormy already told everyone what the $130K was for!
BINGO 🎯‼️💯
And what's your point?
@@VeteranforTrump The point is trump is guilty, cultist.
@@VeteranforTrump Bot or Russian troll? Or really that du mb? I can't decide.
VFT is obviously a troll. The military wouldn't take someone clearly failed civics in middle school.
They are hoping the jury is as dense as his base
Your base valued Mar-a-lago at $18 million. Let that sink in.
@@mg-Q17 I fail to see your point.
@@marialipscomb6988Density
They are hoping that this will hurt his political chances. That's why they indicted him immediately after he announced his run for 2024. If they cared about justice, they would have charged him the moment he left office. That's why this while charade is backfiring and no body, NOBODY cares how these trials end, except for the never Trump people.
Lol
Put that Traitor in prison. He is guilty as sin.
How is he a traitor? Why?
@@ryanhearn1242 Stolen and shared top secret documents.
@@ryanhearn1242 oh that little thing that happened Jan 6, the entire “stop the steal” lie campaign and the attempt to overthrow the election process and reinstall him as president. That was traitorous. To claim otherwise is just BS. He is a traitor. Also a liar, a crook and a con man, and it’s all very well documented. Magats have made him their entire personality so I get why admitting you were wrong now is hard. But the facts just don’t lie. 🤷🏻♀️
@@ryanhearn1242stop playing stupid its not becoming
@@ryanhearn1242
DJT, the only president to ever actively attempt to obstruct the smooth transition of power, faces charges brought by the United States on behalf of the American people he betrayed.
Charges: 4 counts total:
1) Conspiracy to defraud the U.S..
2) Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding.
3) Obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding.
4) Conspiracy against rights.
There's thousands of video footage, witnesses.
It must be difficult for folks like yourself to comprehend and keep up.
He's 100% a Traitor to America.
🦧 If he says outside the courtroom there is no case. I'm not guilty. Then why won't he go on the stand and say the exact same thing? Why not? Why? You preach your innocent! Proove them wrong! Take the stand!! 🤦♂️🤦♀️🤷♂️🤷♀️🤷
😅😊😅guilty af
@@VeteranforTrump Why would a defendant, who professes his innocence, NOT take the stand to look the jury in the eyes & state he is innocent? He is petrified of the cross examination - plain & simple.
@MaggieD-uy7cz it serves him no purpose...9 out of 10 layers would never put their client on the stand...
There is no crime, so what is there for him to defend himself from other than the corrupt political doj?
@@VeteranforTrump Spam troll.
Why should he profess his innocence when the prosecutor cannot state a crime @@MaggieD-uy7cz
Well when you hire Dollar Store attorneys, like the one that didn't know to check the box asking for a jury trial, what can you expect?
To be fair, the only people who they could call to dispute the facts are either in Rikers island (Trump's accountant) or Trump and neither will be taking the stand. The defense had nothing to work with.
I wouldn't call them Dollar Store attorney's they're a lot of things but they're not cheap. Dollar Store quality attorney's.
I bet none of them will get paid, 😂
Is that called pro bono
or pro bonehead?
@@cherylkelly6042 Not in the case, it's money up front. But you just know Trump will stiff them on the finial billing.
That was the civil case he lost to E Jean Carrol. Alina Habba did that. He has two other attorneys on this one. This one is a jury trial and it is criminal so he faces time.
Oops someone dropped the ball 😂
Biden
No defense. No lawyers.
Just....nothing. trump to jail now.
no he is going to overcome what the media is doing to him 24/7. trum p 2024 c:
Why?
@@Averageytberuser😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@flippineck2825You know nothing my friend.
@@flippineck2825I don’t think you know what he’s done.. But either way, you do not care, Demo crat. 😮
Liars liars liars. Lock him up lock him up lock him up!!!!!!!!!!!!
🦜 🦜
Lock him up for what?
@@VeteranforTrump Being trump GFY cultist
@@VeteranforTrumppay attention princess. Look it up if you have to, but you REALLY need to pay attention.
Pants on 🔥! 😅
Here's the thing: if the $130,000 WASN'T for the hush money payment, why isn't there any testimony about what it was actually for?
Simple. Only two people can testify to that. One is at Riker's (and would certainly plead the 5th anyway) and the other won't dare get on the stand - he would be a perjury risk at best and would get absolutely shredded on cross.
Without any refutation, the jury has no reason to conclude that the money is anything other than what the prosecution says it is - and that being the case, there's almost nothing the defense has offered that casts reasonable doubt.
I wouldn't bet a house or car - juries can be unpredictable - but it looks to me as though the documentation in the case will be Trump's undoing.
Then how do you explain payments to Stormy in the same amount after Tramp decided to keep her quite. Cohen was not the one who used her services
I totally agree 💯 with you. All things point to the fact that Trump is guilty as heck.
Not how the law works. Actually, NONE OF THIS IS HOW OUR LAWS WORK!
@@jeremypassmore7019 well please explain how then.
@@douglaswesson2458 well, I would say that the $130k isn’t on trial but I’m not even sure what the charges are, if any.
Our legal system is a joke when it comes to Diaper Donnie.😂
I agree, the way the law has been used and abused to attack him for pure political purpose is absurd
@@VeteranforTrump Keep huffing the copium, valor thief.
@@VeteranforTrump no more Clorox for you...😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
To veteran for Trump no disrespect offered
Nothing will change your mind have you not heard even one of his 80K wise
Wise = Lies
GUILTY as charged trumpy.
Guilty of what exactly?
@@VeteranforTrump Being trump.
@@VeteranforTrumpcampaign finance fraud.🎉
@@VeteranforTrump Have you been deployed?
@@Ohhappyday764ha ha ha, how does that have anything to do with the fact that Biden’s DOJ is persecuting his political opponent by the likes of which we have never seen in the US?
All lies , he's up to his neck in trouble.
Exactly. Trump is guilty as heck. He should go to prison.
Touble for what ?
Claudio. Stop embarassing yourself you clown. Lol
lol. They don’t have to talk about that. They don’t have to prove burden of proof you clown. lol. Cohen stole money. Admitted it. Lol
@@VeteranforTrumpAre you seriously asking that?
If I were a member of the jury and heard that particular defense, I'd be like... "but the writing in the margins... that's pretty clear, and wasn't done by Cohen".
The defense is trying to make you believe the checks were given because Cohen was his attorney.
THERE IS NO CRIME HERE!!! Please state one.
@Duser-so8tu9yr6q Then why is he on trial for???? Pay attention, it's not that hard to follow, bro
@@treylem3 you don't even know
@@user-so8tu9yr6q
NYS PENAL LAW
SECTION 175.10
Falsifying business records in the first degree
Penal (PEN) CHAPTER 40, PART 3, TITLE K, ARTICLE 175
🇷🇺Hes a Traitor🇷🇺 SIMPLE.😅
How exactly do you think this?
@@VeteranforTrump We don't think. We KNOW he's a traitor, and so are you for voting for him.
You're also a valor thief and a liar. You are NOT a veteran.
@@VeteranforTrumphow do you not? Been living under a rock for 9 years?
@cj0089 nope, I just dont pollute my brain with the lies from the fake propaganda media..
News flash, They lie to you daily
Your correct..... Biden belongs in jail....!! Thank you...!!
Isn't it past your JAIL TIME? PUT THE OOMPA LOOMPA IN A ORANGE JUMPSUIT ALREADY 🤣
He'd be invisible 😅
In jail for what crime?
@@VeteranforTrump Being trump.
He's going to be your President come November 20 like it or not chum.
@kevscranes if only these snowflakes could just get on. Board with that , I think they would not be so angry all the time..
At end of day , you don't have to like Trump the person to know that Trump the president is the best option for this country.
When we vote, we are supposed to be voting on policies , not party line, not personalities..just policies, and Bidens policies have destroyed this country, destroyed this economy and every American family is worse off today than they were 4 years ago pre covid
I wish this trial was about the CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS HE STOLE!!!!
The judge has already said that Joe Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial for stealing, highly top-secret classified documents.
Where's bidens trial for the classified documents he took when he wasn't president dems are corrupt
TELL 'EM AGAIN! YA HEARD?!?! 🫵🤨👍
Trump's personal lawyer is presiding over the case.
Didn’t Tbag also admit a while back that he had reimbursed Michael Cohen?
Fact check it. 👍
Yes indeed. Rudy and Trump both have said it.
@@valdagadsden2956
Yes Rudy did say it was paid off to
Michael Cohen..
😂😂😂
He also lied to the fbi and congress under oath and also just admitted he stole from trump.
Even better, Rudy called it "*funneling*" of money to repay Michael Cohen"
VOTE BLUE NOT POO 💩?
I BELIEVE MICHAEL COHEN 🙄
💯%. Hes not going to lie, and go back to prison.
Me 2
You can't. He is an admitted Liar, right?
Here is the rest of the equation Trumpers
Never finish.
What did he lie about?
Who did he lie to protect?
Why? After admitting those lies?
Did a prior Judge acknowledge that he has since been credible in everything since?
Care to answer these questions?
Of course not
What do Cohen's prior lies?
Have to do with the Testimony from Everyone else?
Notice... Everyone who's testified?
Everyone? We're hired By Trump, Voted For
Trump?( Except Stormi) And were in the room
What does Cohen's prior lies?
Have to do with the audio of Trump and Cohen discussing paying her hush $
What does it have to do with signing them to Non disclosure agreements? Then
Releasing them After he won the Election?
Why did Trump repay him over $400K?
When the payment to her was $130K?
Everyone?
Watch him hide now
So you believe a man who has openly lied to ever court he had ever testified to?
A man who actually went to jail for lying?
With all the other evidence, I'm surprised they needed him.
Great reporting Lawrence!
IF i were Cohen or anybody that worked for the Orange Turd, I would check with Social Security to verify
the tax money withheld from their pay checks were actually paid on their behalf. Nobody seems to have knowledge about taxes. 😮😅
Yes, thank you, I wondered about that. 😮😊❤
Guilty is as guilty is. Donald Liar is guilty.
Guilty of what crime ?
@@VeteranforTrump Being trump.
@MichaelTheRead still no crime listed .....but I'm not surprised by your non answer...I ask hundreds of you marxist idiots simple questions daily and NEVER get an actual factual response
@@VeteranforTrump Again: 34 counts of "falsifying business records in the first degree", if we are limiting the question to just this case.
@DerekHise again I ask, what crime?
Paying off who ever , keeping it from election, giving it to his lawyer....not a single thing is a crime..
So please tell me what crime???
The amounts reimbursed perfectly match the numbers calculated on that bank statement. Case closed.
Exactly, Receipts Don't Lie.
They are a joke 😡 everyone knows it was a payoff 💙🇺🇸💙
I love Lawerence! He is a true asset to MSNBC!
Trump could just get on the stand an explain what that money was for
He can't do that; the truth might accidentally fall out of his mouth.
Not taking the stand,sure makes you look guilty!! If your innocent, why wouldn't you take the stand???😅😅😅😅
@@VeteranforTrump...Not according to the LAW! 45 is far from being a patriot. He is against the Constitution. You, as a veteran, took an oath to uphold the Constitution.
@@VeteranforTrump😂😅 Refusing to see them doesn't stop them from existing. 😊
@@VeteranforTrump Keep huffing the copium, lying valor thief.
Why this isn't broadcast In the media so people can see the truth
Because LOD is a very bad liar. Stop the Hammering!
Idoyb: Why does the public took to media to determine reality. Media are for entertainment. 30% of MAGA have already announced that all they need to know is the trial jury verdict. That 30% had already announced that IF Trump is found guilty of ANY fraud indictment, they will abandon him.
Keep reminding MAGA Trump has already had his foundation and his university taken away from him for fraud. There isxaldi the matter of his business being found to be fraudulent.
Is is federal court and that is not permitted, at all, in federal court. The State trials can be televised, with Judges permission.
What happened with him saying that he would absolutely testify in this trial?
I'm guessing someone reminded him that he said only guilty people plead the fifth and he did that over 400 times during deposition.
Learn how a trial works before you comment please.
trump is bad guy 🤮
Lock him up.
Please let the jury find him guilty!!!
FDJT....
KDJT
@@user-iz7cc3xr6m My kingdom for a John Wilkes Boothe or Lee Harvey Oswald type to rid us of this meddlesome demagogue.
We should force him to be president for another 4 years as punishment. When were at it we should audit the money we gave to Ukraine and see which politicians got donations and kickbacks for giving them Billions.
@@northwestgardener5076 Republicans control the money sent to foreign nations.
@@northwestgardener5076 Jarrod Kushner two billion dollars! Let that sink in...
Thank you Mr. O'Donnell for another one of your great reports!
These clowns are like the toddler with lipstick all over his/her face and Mom comes home and asks "were you playing with Mommy's make up"? and the kid says "no"..lol
Not to mention that the amount is equal to the payoff to Daniels. What are the odds of Cohen's legal feels and her payoff being the same???
I'm no legal expert here but if you can't explain away an 130k payment to a judge and jury then I would assume your defence is non existent!
Lock him up. Please.
Lock him up for what crime?
@@VeteranforTrump Existing.
@@VeteranforTrumpputting my government secrets in the TOILET at Mar a Lago.
@jo4n11 as opposed to sitting in a garage in Delaware. At least Trump was constitutionally allowed to have documents...
But you liberals and your hypocrisy knows no bounds
@jo4n11 still have not listed an actual crime
This completely misses the fact that it wasn’t just $130,000. The payments over time amounted to $260K in order to cover Cohen’s 50% tax liability. It’s obvious from this that they were trying to make him whole because of a debt they owed him for a specific $130K amount paid to Daniel’s, and not because they were just paying him 260K for agreed “legal” services.
Exactly
And so what is your point?
And what is the crime?
@@VeteranforTrump Tax fraud
Financial fraud
Breathing
Continuing to breathe
The list goes on, cultist.
@@VeteranforTrump your username suggests that you are a troll. How can you be a “VeteranforTrump” when, according to Trump, fallen soldiers are just “losers” and he prefers people who aren’t captured? The crime is not that he paid the money to Daniel’s. The crime he committed is falsely declaring on his business records/taxes that the payments to Cohen were “legal expenses”, even though they were hush money expenses to Daniels. The other law broken is that the payments were made specifically to suppress information that would influence the election. If you don’t think that is a crime, then you’d be OK if Biden violated campaign finance laws this election year by paying money to CNN to suppress damaging information about Hunter, wouldn’t you?
@@VeteranforTrump From PBS News Hour:
Trump is charged with how he repaid Michael Cohen. Prosecutors allege Trump was responsible for falsifying 34 different business records to hide the true nature of that repayment, calling them legal fees instead, and that Trump did so intending to commit or conceal another crime, a violation of state election law.
And the theory here is that Cohen, by fronting the money to Stormy Daniels, made an unlawful campaign contribution to Trump that also was not disclosed. Now, one of the questions that remains to be resolved is whether it has to be a criminal violation of the federal election law to essentially count for purposes of the New York state statute, or whether a civil violation of the federal election law, which is less demanding, also would count.
Even if there's only ONE sycophant, amongst the jurors, who knows the GLARINGLY OBVIOUS the truth, but cant bare the thought of displeasing dear Leader, there may be a hung jury. The mere thought is sickening.
Ana: Trial juries most often agree with Grand Juries. Trump wants the appeal process to take long enough for him to get back into office and replace his Secret Service detail with one that will not allow any sort of State Police to get anywhere near him.
He has it all visualized in his brain and desires to impose his imaginings on everyone else. He fantasizes he is more powerful than New York. He fantasizes he is more powerful than voters.
It is termed megalomania.
MAGA want a leader who can prevent Harris from being president. When Trump collapses in failure, MAGA will merely turn to the next old, white guy they hope can win over Harris.
Trumpism Is about racism and misogyny.
I think that's how it will turn out.
If you can have a person who goes out of his marriage, while his son is being born. Then he is guilty of the crimes that he accused of....ones character says a lot about a person
Like Bill Clinton getting Relations in the Oval office from a intern who's life he ruined and you are okay with that
the money is not the question. The question is whether or not Mr. Trump knew about what it was being used for.
That is fundamentally what the entire case boils down to, did Trump know it was being used as a pay-off to help him win the election?
DING! DING! WINNER!!
I know, Joe and his circus is rigging the votes and paying people to be in his rally. 😂
He does know the payment was made. He ordered Cohen to do it. No scandal on Trump prior to his nomination because it would make him look bad. Trump will deny it because his defense is to lie about the truth.
I know! Bi den is rigging the election and is paying ppl to be in the rally. 😂
I know! Gramps is rigging the elect and paying others to be in the campaign. 😂
If Trump is as much of a control freak over money as they say, there's no way he'd approve those invoices without more details than "legal services" if it was actually legal fees. He'd insist on a break down of what it was for.
The payment is not a crime.
You fail to understand that it does not matter, even if it was direct payment to Stormy, there still is no crime
@@VeteranforTrump Keep huffing the copium; trump is GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY as sin.
The indictment indicates 34 felonies and misdemeanors. Find the indictment online and read it, instead of stamping your feet, soiling yourselves like your Dear Leader, and whining that there's no crime. Any middle school kid who passed civics knows what an indictment is. So - you two are either non-Americans (paid trolls) or ignorant even by MAGA's low standards (which effectively is just as unAmerican).
@@timh8324correct but him using the funds he used to make said payment, is a crime and whether or not he knew.
This decision will make or break trump
Politically this is how they answer questions politically. It doesn't work that way in court!
Well, on the books and records and tax returns for Essential Consultants LLC, it was for Stormy Daniels 3 minutes of "Consulting."
3 minutes? I would have bet the under.
@@macofalltrades63962 and a half she had to help him out of his diaper
@@macofalltrades6396 That included the foreplay
Trump said the system is rigged. If so he walk's.
Let's see if there is a two tier system like trump saids. The poor go to jail and the rich walk away. Are we as working class suckered, we will see?
When the defence
says the money is a reimbursement, who is accountable for that lie.
Gregory: The jury is asked whether Trump is accountable.
Trials produce Findings of Fact in addition to Verdict and Sentencing.
The defense has no defense. Fortunately this means the verdict is GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY
Unless there is a red hat on that jury like the red hats in the SC.
True Dawn
He is guilty
Surely Cohen can point out the times that he was paid for legal services, maybe highlight any differences. Like Trump writing 3 or 4 cheques for $30,000 this time. Presumably he wasn't normally paid in this exact manner, when it was actually for services rendered, rather than reimbursement of payments made by Cohen on Trumps behalf
Its a shame the prosecutor can't get hold of the master/ receipt of Cohens actual paycheck
You're foolish to
Lets hope the jury does their job well.
Jail time
They have nothing to say because he is guilty
Lock him up!!!!!!!!!!
Put Condon in prison already!
I dont like Trump, but, the defense doesn't have to say a thing. The prosecuters have to prove their case.
The prosecutors have shown a lot of incriminating evidence. It's up to the defense to provide a plausible explanation for the facts that induces doubt in one or more jurors. I don't see where they have come close to doing that.
If you think the prosecutors don't have an open-and-shut case against trump, you can go ahead and put your head back in the sand where you had it.
Trump2024🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸. The corrupt Democrat DA is toast ….
Reported for promoting terrorism.
Way past his jail time. Lock him up!
It's the prosecution job to prove a crime not on defense
The most disgusting thing about that line as Donald Trump. He hasn't shown his taxes and he's running for office again.
Have you shown the public you're Tax information
Say what you want about Lawrence. He KNOWS the law.
Agree 100%. Defense never explained the $130,000. Trump had every opportunity to testify.
Nothing says "I have no defense" like refusing to testify under oath and repeat all the claims you've been making at rallies and in front of reporters for weeks.
It has been meticulously presented by the prosecution with witnesses, paper documentation and electronic documentation as well.
GUILTY AS CHARGED!
If that was the case and it was a payment for his job as a lawyer then why did Michael go to jail over that "payment"?
Couldn't they just have given him a 100 ounce gold ashtray for Christmas? 🤷🏻
They can’t defend it because there IS no defence. It was pure & simply a pay off. Bribery to keep quiet. I really hope that what is clear to so many of us & what has been made crystal clear during the trial is also clear to the jury & the judge puts him in jail. But I have no faith that he will ever be held criminally accountable with jail time unfortunately.
Lock him up! 🤞⚖️
Even if trump was a Democrat I still wouldn’t like him
If a person has been charged with murder DOES THEIR INSISTENCE THEY DIDN’T DO IT CONSTITUTE “EVIDENCE” OF THEIR INNOCENCE? NO
Lawrence Rocks, No 1 newscaster of them all!
O’Donnell the Dagger!
I remember trump saying he was going to testify over and over. Does he know how to tell the truth?
Blah! Blah! Blah! he’s lost! Get the shyt over with! This is some BS!!!😡
Nothing but a political Kangaroo court! The truth!
did everyone forget rumpo wanted a refund???
Lock him up for life in prison for disrespecting all American veterans
Lock Trump Up !
That's because the defense can't come up with a defense of phoney "MATH" which wouldn't add up right.
Trump ❤ 2024❤
Now theyre saying Cohen paid money out of the good of his heart to spare Melanie. Yeah like that nakes sense.
MSOMG strikes again.
I always thought the burden of proof was on the prosecution. Imagine my shock when MSDNC tells me otherwise.
I hope with every fiber of my being, that the Jury does due diligence, and he is found guilty by a unanimous vote.
He causes more damage every day, lying, and spewing hate...
Is having no testosterone a prerequisite for being a male liberal?
Trump and logic don't sit well together 😂
Wow, the establishment has eaten this guy alive. Sad.
Lock him up
Great point Lawrence! This is exactly why he should be found guilty! They provided ZERO evidence that it WASN’T a hush money payment! Lock him up!
Imagine being 85 A.P.M and still pretend you're a reporter 😂😂😂😂😂😂
IDK. The chances of a stealth maga on the jury are huge. Besides that, I'm not convinced the jury will think this a matter of any importance anyway.
Guilty
Trump is guilty,lock him up.😅😅😅
Huh. It looks like trump was “praying” again…
It's a Misdemeanor
bring back Christine Cornell!
Especially love you and your shows. Never miss a night of you wisdom and genius insights! ❤🌹
12 citizens will make the determination. Not the judge or any attorney. I love it.
If convicted , please put him in Prison and let him appeal from there.
WOW 😲 he has nothing to say!!
Burden of proof is on the prosecution