One of the most important trials of modern time is finally here. It is about the hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels, a porn star. She was paid to keep quiet in order to keep a sexual encounter she had with President Trump back in 2006 that came to light just before the 2016 Presidential election.
It begins back then when the National Inquirer tips off Trump and Michael Cowen, Trump’s attorney and fixer. Stormy Daniels had a story she was going to publish about a 2006 sexual encounter that she had with Donald Trump. Michael Cowen pays her $130,000 to stay quiet. This was the beginning of the ‘Catch and Kill’ scheme of Donald Trump, in an attempt to have the National Enquirer ‘Catch and Kill’ any story that could impact the election. Cowen’s part was to pay her off to keep her quiet. So the National Enquirer would acquire negative stories and Trump would pay the National Enquirer to not publish them. Michael Cohen also paid off Karen McDougal, to not share her story or interaction with Donald Trump. Karen McDougal was paid $150,000 to keep quiet.
But how did Michael Cohen pay off these women? Did Trump give Cohen the money up front? Of course not. As cheap as Donald Trump is, Cohen acquired the money through a personal home equity loan to pay off Stormy Daniels. He did this for his stand-up boss, Donald J. Trump. In a cover-up in a payback scheme, Donald Trump paid the money back to Michael Cohen in 12 monthly installments, but in Trump’s business records, the transactions were considered ‘legal fees’ in the Trump business organization. They were not legal fees. Trump was paying back Michael Cohen for the hush money payments that he made for his boss. And the main reason for the felony charges now, Trump attempted to cover the National Enquirer stories with another crime using his business as the payments being for ‘legal services to Cohen’, which is a felony. Talk about a ‘cooked goose’. That’s the definition of Donald Trump, when all this gets proven in court.
As the story goes, in 2018, the Wall Street Journal broke the story of the hush money payments. At first, Cohen’s house was searched, and then Cohen takes the fall for Trump. According to Cohen, he took the fall for Trump to protect his wife, who prosecutors said they would also attack but would leave his wife alone if Cohen pleads. Cohen pleads guilty to 8 Federal charges of tax evasion, fraud, and campaign financing violations related to the payments to Daniels and McDougal. McDougal was paid $150,000 to keep quient, but since then has come out and told her story and will testify in court. Michael Cohen also looses his law license and can no longer practice because of his boss, Donald J. Trump.
Trump is a scumbag. He ruined so many people’s lives. Many people hold Trump responsible for many of the lives lost due to Covid-19 on his watch. Now he thinks he’s going to be president again, now running as the Republican nominee. He may be the nominee, but it is my opinion that Trump will not ever get close to the White House ever again, and he is now on the way of becoming successfully prosecuted in this criminal case. The Republicans are in for a severe thumping in the next election in November. Not only will they not gain the White House, they will lose more seats in the Senate and lose the House of Representatives by a very wide margin. Let’s just see if I’m right.
Finally, Donald J. Trump will be gone. He already is known as the worst president ever in U.S. history. No president has ever been despised more than him. He makes President Richard Nixon look like a saint. He makes George W. Bush to be such a stand-up guy. But like I said, no-one else represents the definition of scum than Donald J. Trump. No president except Donald J. Trump has gone so far out of his way, not considering his constituents, to protect himself. He’s only running for president to save himself from being incarcerated. He never cared that the Democrats could beat the Republicans if he were their nominee, so he’s running anyway. If he happens to win, Democracy loses and the country is in for some very dark moments. If he loses, Democracy wins and the country can move forward, and forever put behind them such a man, the 45th President of the United States, who failed his country.
Michael Cohen was sentenced to 3 years in Federal prison. In 2019, Cowan testified before the House Oversight Committee and stated that Trump knew about the payments and directed him to pay the two women. Of course, as the liar that Trump is, he denied that at first. In 2021, Michael Cohen was released from prison, as he was then sentenced to the last half of his sentance in home confinement. Ultimately, he was sent back to jail by Trump for another week in solitary confinement because Cohen was writing a book while in prison for the first year or so of his sentence. He refused to stop writing it and vowed to publish it, so Trump jailed him again to keep Cohen silent. Here is Trump again, trying to cover up a story that was not favorable to him. Trump felt that no one would ever believe a convicted felon. Now in the Stormy Daniels case, Cohen will testify, as would a bunch of others. The extended jail time was eventually overturned in about a weeks’ time, and Cohen then served the remainder of his sentence at home, during the height of the COVID-19 spread. He was safer at home than in jail.
But finally, what goes around, comes around. Trump received his 1st indictment out of 4 in this case a year ago. It was about hush money payments in his attempt to cover it up through his business, which turned into a slew of felony charges because he used his business to cover up the payments. Everything is backfiring on Trump. Cohen will testify, and he is one of the main credible witnesses of the case, along with Pecker of the National Enquirer and others who will ‘spill the beans’ on Trump.
Donald J. Trump’s hardships are just beginning. Last Monday on Tax Day, April 15th, Donald Trump was ordered to be in court during the start of a jury selection of a 12 panel jury and 6 alternates for the hush money payments case. The jury alternates will stand by just in case one of the main jurors vacates their spot or is removed from their position as a juror for any reason. This process took 4 days last week to complete. Opening Arguments by the prosecuting attorneys will take place on Monday, April 22nd, which just a few hours from now.
Trump has yet to pay for his crimes in this case, and will now have daily ‘come to Jesus’ prayers while he sits in the courtroom. On another sick note, Trump has been farting out loud while sleeping in court in a very disgusting display of his very sick ignorance to be considerate of any people around him, including his attorneys that must sit near by. He is already making enemies with the jury, the most important people in the courtroom. They will decide his fate, not Judge Juan Merchan. Everybody seems to respect the jurors except Donald Trump. Getting on the wrong side of the jurors can be the beginning of the end for Donald Trump. If found guilty, by a jury of his peers, citizen Trump should be in jail before the 2024 election. And yes, he is no president. He has absolutely no more power than you or I, and should be treated as such.
It will be another first. The election will still go on, even with Donald J. Trump convicted of a felony. If Trump loses the election, he faces the continued prosecution of this court finding, plus he will then have to face more felony charges that have come his way since the initial charges in this case. If Trump wins, everyone knows what will happen. Trump will pardon himself and prosecute anyone who was against him.
Prior and during the jury selection process, Trump kept filing stays to ask Judge Juan Merchan to stop the trial. He posted at least a dozen requests in a weeks time. He also at one time asked permission to be away from the courtroom because of a Supreme Court immunity ruling that is about to take place that he wants to witness. But Judge Juan Merchan will not let Trump out of the courtroom. Trump is now stuck and must appear every day because the case is not a civil one, but a criminal one. The judge told him if he doesn’t show up for any of the days of the trial, there will be an immediate warrant for his arrest.
While this is all happening, the New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed papers to ask a judge if she can continue with seizing Trumps assets to cover the $464 million dollar judgment. She plans to collect because the bondsman that he had acquired to post the $175 million bond reduction is now found to not be worth the paper it’s written on.
The bonding company does not have $175 million in cash, but maybe less than 10% of the money in cash. This prompted Letitia James to move forward to get ready to seize Trump’s bank accounts, and his properties. Even Mar-a-Lago Club is at risk, even if it’s not in New York State. But the chances may be slim in that case, though, as it has a number of primary property restrictions that would appear to make seizure by a creditor, a government or private entity unrealistic. But what about his Trump Tower in New York City. How about his place of residence there. This can become very interesting. Donald Trump is surely to have many more bad days in front of him. When this is all over, Trump may be broke, his children’s futures dashed.
If ruled in Letitia James’s favor. Trump will come out of court every day to find more and more of his assets seized. He claimed to be the greatest businessman of all time. In actuality, he has been the worst.
Including money from his bank accounts, properties, possibly like Trump Tower, his golf course and anything she can get her hands on to almost anything to get back monies that Trump owes the State of New York after loosing his last court case.
As for Joe Biden, he just barrels along raising money and is out there campaigning every day, while Donald Trump will be stuck in court.
The Republican Party really pulled off a crazy stunt that has now backfired in their laps. Trump cannot campaign. He’s stuck in a courtroom and may find himself in a jail cell fairly soon, as he is already in contempt of court. A hearing on that will be coming up in court as soon as Tuesday that will explain the contempt charges.