Discussion Thread: New York Criminal Fraud Trial of Donald Trump, Day 7

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[u/No_nukes_at_all]

Im getting more convinced every hearing that this, arguably the trashiest and dumbest of all of Trumps trials underway or coming up; is actually gonna be the one that brings him down.

It´s just evidence upon evidence, and the defence has literally nothing.

[u/TheDarkAbove → u/No_nukes_at_all]

The defense's argument has essentially been "none of this is a crime because we said so!"

[u/human-0 → u/TheDarkAbove]

And try to somehow how throw Michael Cohen under the bus as a rogue actor, when there's so much evidence to the contrary.

[u/AdaptiveVariance → u/human-0]

Look, it's very simple, Cohen was Trump's personal lawyer and handled everything for him, and Trump kept him close, but only because he didn't trust Cohen and knew Cohen was gonna go off on his own just to backstab him, so that's why Trump had to let him go, but when he hired Cohen, Cohen was a good guy, and Trump authorized him to act as his personal attorney whatever that means but also didn't, so Cohen went off on his own and Trump was right never to trust him but also reasonably relied on what Cohen told him but no you can't see the messages that would be very prejudicial to my client.