Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg got some bad news.
It came right off the bat on his sham persecution of Donald Trump.
And now Alvin Bragg is in panic mode after learning Trump has this ace in the hole.
Criminal defense attorney Arthur Aidala told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that Bragg’s case is taking on water and sinking fast.
The lynchpin of Bragg’s case that Donald Trump falsified business records as part of a fabricated conspiracy to steal the 2016 election is the testimony of disgraced former lawyer Michael Cohen.
Cohen – who pleaded guilty to lying to Congress and got called out by a judge for lying on the witness stand in another case – will testify that his payment of $130,000 to Stormy Daniels as part of a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) – a perfectly legal document and payment – was part of a scheme to influence the 2016 election by suppressing Daniels’ affair allegations prior to the election.
Aidala told Anderson that Trump’s lawyers will have a field day tearing Cohen apart as a convicted liar who rehabilitated himself in the media by going on a year-long PR tour to tell liberal cable news audiences that Trump is a criminal who belongs in jail.
In addition, Aidala told Cooper that if the jury is to believe Bragg’s theory of the case, then the obvious question is why Cohen isn’t facing charges as well.
“You just have to attack, attack, attack those witnesses and look, what you’ve got to say is Michael Cohen should be a co-defendant,” Aidala stated. “If you believe what the prosecutors just said, Michael Cohen should be a co-defendant, not a witness. He has so many reasons to lie, so many reasons to pin this on someone else, to keep himself out of jail, which he was unable to do in the federal case.”
Bragg didn’t charge Trump with a conspiracy because there was none.
A conspiracy is an agreement by two or more people to commit a crime.
Had there been such an agreement in this case Cohen would have been indicted and pleaded guilty to become a cooperating witness.
But since there was no conspiracy to commit a crime – because Trump never committed the campaign finance violation Bragg is alleging – Cohen isn’t sitting next to Trump at the defendant’s table.
Aidala also brought this back to the reality of the situation that this is a paperwork case.
The heart of Bragg’s charges is how Trump marked his payments to Cohen in the company ledger.
But Aidala pointed out Trump’s signatures aren’t on any of the documents outside of the payments to Cohen and there are witnesses who will testify that Trump thought he was paying Cohen for his legal services as it was denoted in the Trump Organization books.
“I think [Cohen’s credibility] has a tremendous impact,” Aidala continued. “Look, there is paperwork that corroborates the people’s evidence, and that’s obviously hurtful for the president. But my understanding is it’s not paperwork with Donald Trump’s handwriting on it or his signature on it, except for a check.”
Beyond the fact that Bragg bent the law to try a nonexistent federal campaign finance violation in state court, the lack of a paper trail connecting Trump to the supposed falsification of business records case is enough to create reasonable doubt in the minds of the jurors.
“So the defense could merely be, hey, Michael Cohen did all of this. He never told his client. He just said, look, I need money for this, I need money for that. And you know, one of the witnesses who is going to testify at this trial testified for the feds and he said that the money that was given to Michael Cohen was for Stormy Daniels and for legal fees. That’s a reasonable doubt,” Aidala declared.
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