Donald Trump essentially did the prosecution’s work for them while acting impromptu outside the courthouse of his secret New York trial, admitting that he actually had an NDA with porn actress Stormy Daniels .
“Andrew McCarthy: NDAs are legal and common. Yet Bragg claims Trump’s was illegal,” Trump read from a sheet of paper Thursday, quoting Andrew McCarthy in the National review before facetiously inserting a telling line: “I have the only illegal NDA.” »
Trump then continued to respond to lines from McCarthy’s online blog.
“It appears that Trump’s crime in the blue lights of the state allowed him to win the election. » It was my crime. I won an election I wasn’t supposed to win against Hillary Clinton. And it’s not a crime,” Trump said.
Trump’s lawyers tried to argue that the funds intended to reimburse Daniels came exclusively from his fixer, Michael Cohen, and that Trump had no knowledge of the actual payments. Cohen, for his part, has repeatedly denounced Trump as a “micromanager” who is aware of his every move, narrative The court said on Monday that the two men spoke “every day and several times a day”. And, if they weren’t able to communicate one-on-one, Cohen said he would often communicate with Trump through one of his other close confidants, including his former aide Rhona Graff, a staffer of the Trump Organization turned director of Oval Office operations, Keith Schiller. , Trump’s children or Hope Hicks.
Other witnesses in the criminal trial also named Trump as the obvious and understood initiator of the secret payments, although this was not explicitly mentioned to them at the time.
Republican presidential candidate faces 34 criminal charges in this case for allegedly falsifying business records with the intent to commit a predicate crime. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
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