(05-31-2024, 02:50 PM)Coop Wrote: If he gets elected can he pardon himself?
No
(05-31-2024, 02:54 PM)DBCowboy Wrote: A sham trial, a kangaroo court, election interference by the Biden administration.
Prove it.
Going around and looking at the reaction by supporters of the former president it has emerged that there is no way Trump can ever be guilty about anything, even if he is and even if he has been convicted.
(06-01-2024, 04:32 AM)727Sky Wrote: A little history
[Video: https://youtu.be/ZfIMO-glGFc]
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-charg...y-verdict/
Quote:Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsification of business records in the first degree, which is a felony in New York. He pleaded not guilty when he was arraigned last year.
In 2017, Cohen and Allen Weisselberg, an executive at the Trump Organization, reached an agreement about how Cohen would be repaid for the $130,000 that he sent to Daniels in exchange for her silence. Weisselberg detailed the calculations in handwritten notes that were shown to the jury at trial.
Cohen would receive $130,000 for the Daniels payment, plus $50,000 intended for a technology company that did unrelated work for Trump. That amount was doubled to account for taxes that Cohen would have to pay on the income. Weisselberg then tacked on an extra $60,000 as a bonus for Cohen, who was upset that his regular year-end award had been cut. The total worked out to $420,000.
Prosecutors said Trump knew the payments were to reimburse Cohen for the Daniels payment, not for his legal expenses.
Under New York law, falsification of business records is a crime when the records are altered with an intent to defraud. To be charged as a felony, prosecutors must also show that the offender intended to "commit another crime" or "aid or conceal" another crime when falsifying records.
In Trump's case, prosecutors said that other crime was a violation of a New York election law that makes it illegal for "any two or more persons" to "conspire to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means," as Justice Juan Merchan explained in his instructions to the jury.
What exactly those "unlawful means" were in this case was up to the jury to decide. Prosecutors put forth three areas that they could consider: a violation of federal campaign finance laws, falsification of other business records or a violation of tax laws.
The full verdict because it has emerged again on social media that a range of his supporters 'don't understand' why Trump was found guilty and they have been trying to gaslight everyone else. It's like speaking to religious people about their religion who will defend until the end of times.
