The Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s office has finally revealed what they believe Donald Trump committed when he allegedly falsified his business records.
Fox News reported that “New York prosecutor Joshua Steinglass said on Tuesday the other crime was an alleged violation of New York law referred to as ‘conspiracy for election promotion or prevention.’
New York Law 17-152, which is the law in question, states:
Two or more people who conspire unlawfully to promote or prevent an election to a public position by a person, and one or more parties act on that conspiracy are guilty of a misdemeanor.
Michael Colangelo, Steinglass’ cocounsel, argued in 2015 that Donald Trump, Michael Cohen and former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker were all involved.
The three men conspired to influence the elections.
The allegedly falsified records are all dated 2017. Trump claims that the falsified payments relate to transactions where Trump’s company paid Cohen. Trump also says that these payments were made for legal services, and not as reimbursements for money Cohen may have paid Stormy Daniels.
After pursuing a frivolous suit against Trump, Daniels still owes him $300,000.00 plus interest.
Any reporter breathlessly “reporting” on the rigged NY kangaroo court proceeding v. President Trump, who fails to note than Stephanie Clifford, alias “Stormy Daniels,” owes Trump over $300,000 plus interest for filing frivolous claims against him in state & fed court, is a hack.
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) April 22, 2024
Colangelo said that to carry out the “catch-and-kill” scheme, Cohen would inform Pecker of stories Trump wanted to bury, and Pecker would then buy the information as well as the rights to the article so that it wouldn’t appear anywhere. According to prosecutors the ultimate source of funds used to buy the rights to stories was Trump through his payments made to Cohen.
Colangelo claimed that the practice of paying off Stormy Daniels was also used in two other cases.
The first was to stop a story a former Trump Tower Doorman tried to sell about a supposedly out-of-marriage child. Colangelo claimed that the payment was $30,000 It was later proven that the doorman’s account of what happened was false.
Next, a former Playboy model named Karen McDougal was paid. She claimed to have had a sexual and romantic relationship with Trump. Colangelo claimed that Cohen had asked AMI for the story. Colangelo claimed that AMI had paid McDougal $150k in exchange for her “unlimited rights to life” story.
The prosecution’s theory has a few problems. The first problem is that non-disclosure agreements (NDA) are not illegal. However, the statute underlying the case says there must be a conspiracy to “promote or prevent the elections… by unlawful means.”
Andrew McCarthy has pointed out that the indictment does not mention a conspiracy or a plan.
In its indictment, the grand jury didn’t even mention a scheme.’ Let alone a conspiracy. Bragg used a statement of facts he had written to turn the grand jury’s indictment into an election theft conspiracy.
It’s worth repeating that the grand jury indictment did not charge Trump with a “scheme”, much less a conspiracy. Bragg used a “Statement of Facts,” which he drafted, to turn the grand juror’s indictment into a conspiracy against the election.
Bragg can’t use the term conspiracy, because a conspiracy is an agreement made between two or more individuals to commit a criminal act. Politicians suppress information that could be damaging all the time. It is only illegal to withhold information when the law requires that it be disclosed. Political campaigns are not required by law to disclose extramarital affairs.
The statute of limitations for all misdemeanors is also two years in New York State. Since I am not a lawyer and don’t portray one on television, I’m unsure if the crime that is the basis for the charge of falsifying business records must be within the statute.
The people who conspired against Joe Biden and those who have said anything negative should be on their guard if this legal fairytale somehow leads to a conviction. This includes the 51 former Intelligence officials who lied about where the story about the Hunter Biden Laptop story originated, as well as those who ordered the New York Post to censor its story.
