Trump to Ask Judge to Delay or Dismiss Stormy Daniels Hush Money Case
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Monday,
25 March 2024 06:54 AM EDT
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/donald-trump-judge-juan-merchen/2024/03/25/id/1158468/
Former
President Donald Trump will ask a judge Monday to delay or dismiss his trial on
charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, citing thousands of pages
of potential evidence about witness Michael Cohen that prosecutors turned over
only weeks ago.
Cohen,
Trump's onetime lawyer and fixer, made a $130,000 payment to silence adult film
actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016
election about a sexual encounter she said they had a decade earlier – an
encounter Trump denies.
Lawyers
for Trump accuse Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office, which
brought the criminal charges, of trying to bury documents that could help them
challenge Cohen's credibility.
The
documents came from the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan, which previously
investigated the payment but did not charge Trump. Cohen testified Trump
directed him to make the payment and went to prison after pleading guilty to
violating campaign finance laws.
Trump's
trial was initially scheduled to start Monday, but prosecutors consented to a
30-day delay to give Trump time to review the new documents. Trump's defense is
asking Justice Juan Merchan for another delay or for the charges to be thrown
out altogether because of the late disclosure.
Merchan's
decision will set the course for what could be the first-ever criminal trial of
a former president. Trump, the Republican candidate to challenge Democratic
President Joe Biden in the Nov. 5 election, has pleaded not guilty and called
the case a politically motivated "witch hunt."
The
case is one of several legal travails Trump, 77, faces as he ramps up his 2024
campaign. He faces a deadline on Monday to cover a $454 million civil fraud
judgment for manipulating the values of his real estate holdings to dupe
lenders, or risk New York state seizing his properties.
He
faces three other criminal cases, which focus on his efforts to overturn his
2020 loss to Biden and his handling of sensitive government documents after
leaving office in 2021. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Trump
has sought delays in most cases, and successfully pushed back an early March
start date to his federal trial in Washington, D.C., over the 2020 election
efforts as he pursued an appeal on presidential immunity grounds. The U.S.
Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in that case on April 25.
He
has also leveraged his criminal cases to try to raise money from supporters, as
he lags Biden in fundraising.
Prosecutors
say the payoff to Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was part of a
broader "catch-and-kill" scheme Cohen and Trump hatched to boost his
candidacy by buying the silence of people with damaging information.
Trump's
lawyers say the payment was meant to spare himself and his family
embarrassment, not to benefit his successful 2016 campaign.
Defense
lawyers subpoenaed federal prosecutors for Cohen's bank records and phone and
email accounts in January, after Merchan denied their request to get some of
those materials from Cohen himself.
"They
sought to obstruct our efforts to collect evidence we are entitled to review
and use in connection with our trial defense," Trump's lawyers wrote in a
Feb. 15 court filing, referring to the state prosecutors.
Prosecutors
say no further delay is needed because most of the new documents are irrelevant
to the case or duplicates of material Trump already had.
Bragg's
office said it asked the federal prosecutors for information from their case
against Cohen and turned the materials over to the defense last June.
"Defendant
has taken every possible step to evade accountability in this case,"
prosecutors with Bragg's office wrote in a March 21 court filing. "Enough
is enough. These tactics by defendant and defense counsel should be
stopped."
Stormy
Daniels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormy_Daniels#Trump_affair_allegations
Trump
affair allegations
In
a March 25, 2018, interview with 60 Minutes, Daniels said
that she and Trump had sex once, and that later she had been threatened in
front of her infant daughter and felt pressured to later sign a non-disclosure
agreement.[58][59] On
April 9, FBI agents
raided Cohen's office and seized emails, tax documents and business records
relating to several matters, including payments to Daniels.
Connecting
the Dots:
William H. Webster
was a director at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and is
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank).
George Soros is the founder & chairman
for the Open Society Foundations and the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder
for the Robin Hood Foundation and the International Rescue Committee.
Diane Sawyer was
a director at the Robin Hood Foundation and a co-anchor for 60
Minutes.
Scott Pelley is
a correspondent for 60 Minutes and an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee.
Resources:
Past Research
Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (Past Research on the
FBI)
SUNDAY,
NOVEMBER 10, 2013
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/11/federal-bureau-of-investigation-fbi.html
60
Minutes Showcases "Smart" Guns Technology (Past
Research on 60 Minutes)
SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 7, 2015
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/11/60-minutes-showcases-smart-guns.html
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