Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon

[Wizard]

So is there anyone who understands law that can help me with the context? I read 34 felony charges--that seems really bad or is this a few charges multiplied?

All 34 charges are for the same thing: "Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree". Basically every time he wrote another check to Cohen (which was monthly) he was committing the same fraudulent acts. Each repayment carries more than one charge but again, each charge is ultimately for falsifying business records.

If he gets the toughest punishment each charge could carry a sentence of maximum 4 years but everything I've read so far suggests that it is highly unlikely that he will do jail time and he will just be fined if found guilty. If the trial goes ahead it won't be until next year at the earliest.

 

[LinekersLegs]

All 34 charges are for the same thing: "Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree". Basically every time he wrote another check to Cohen (which was monthly) he was committing the same fraudulent acts. Each repayment carries more than one charge but again, each charge is ultimately for falsifying business records.

If he gets the toughest punishment each charge could carry a sentence of maximum 4 years but everything I've read so far suggests that it is highly unlikely that he will do jail time and he will just be fined if found guilty. If the trial goes ahead it won't be until next year at the earliest.

I’m not a lawyer but a lot seems to hang on the previous conviction of Cohen to raise Trumps actions from misdemeanor to felony charges - that any falsifying business records was done to cover up a crime.

Seen several interpretations of how likely that is, just a couple here.
https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/4...me-court-stormy-daniels-manhattan-alvin-bragg



Seems like Bragg is being not very clear in the charging documents exactly what the initial crime is although in his press conference he stated 3 laws were broken - NY campaign law, Fed campaign law, AMI business records,


Tax might pop up too. The refunds for Cohen’s outlay of 130k were rounded up to ~ 400k so he could pay state/federal taxes on the “income” and presumably the filing of the payments as allegedly being for 2017 legal work rather than 2016 payoffs altered the Trump org’s tax filings.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[LinekersLegs]

Truly pathetic from Graham.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[TN Toffee]

Truly pathetic from Graham.

He’s literally almost in tears. I didn’t think it was possible to match Ted Cruz levels of pathetic when it came to bending the knee for Trump, but this is close. Almost unbelievable u-turn for the man who once said this…

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Genius

 

[mmmmsnouts]

Some absolute danger just rented a house about a block down the street from mine and put his Trump 2024 yard sign out on Tuesday morning. All I could think of was this tweet:

 

[Alan Whittle]

…..so far…

 

[Alan Whittle]

Half of the argument seems to have been grasped here; “If they can do it to Trump they can do it to you”….therefore;
If they can do it to you they can do it to Trump…duh.
Flipping Founding Fathers and their ridiculous constitution…..apart from the bit about the right to own 37 assault rifles obviously.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Genius

I like the pun aspect.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

I’m not a lawyer but a lot seems to hang on the previous conviction of Cohen to raise Trumps actions from misdemeanor to felony charges - that any falsifying business records was done to cover up a crime.

Seen several interpretations of how likely that is, just a couple here.
https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/4...me-court-stormy-daniels-manhattan-alvin-bragg



Seems like Bragg is being not very clear in the charging documents exactly what the initial crime is although in his press conference he stated 3 laws were broken - NY campaign law, Fed campaign law, AMI business records,


Tax might pop up too. The refunds for Cohen’s outlay of 130k were rounded up to ~ 400k so he could pay state/federal taxes on the “income” and presumably the filing of the payments as allegedly being for 2017 legal work rather than 2016 payoffs altered the Trump org’s tax filings.

If he is found guilty but does no jail time can he still run for president?

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

I like the pun aspect.

Absolutely

 

[MrPerfectNot]

Some absolute danger just rented a house about a block down the street from mine and put his Trump 2024 yard sign out on Tuesday morning. All I could think of was this tweet:

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Is it still there?

 

[LinekersLegs]

If he is found guilty but does no jail time can he still run for president?

Even in the unlikely event he does jail time for these charges before the election he can still run for president.

Obviously some practical issues and he probably would not be able to vote for himself in Florida due to DeSantis felon voting laws.