After the unprecedented indictment of former President Donald Trump, PolitiFact breaks down the indictment to explain the charges, prosecutors' challenges and...
The latter document attempts to show how the evidence of falsified business records speaks to a bigger effort to conceal negative stories before the election.
After the election, the indictment says, Trump reimbursed Cohen through a series of monthly checks, first from a Trump trust connected to his business and then from Trump’s bank account. Each check was processed by the Trump Organization and the records produced were false, according to the district attorney’s statement.tabloid’s role in a “catch and kill” scheme to keep “damaging” stories about Trump from being published before the 2016 presidential election.
Around June 2016, the editor-in-chief of the National Enquirer and American Media’s chief content officer contacted Cohen about an unnamed woman, believed to be McDougal, who said she had a sexual relationship with Trump. American Media paid the woman $150,000 for her silence and for two cover features about her.
In summer of 2017, Trump “invited the CEO to the White House for a dinner to thank him for his help during the campaign,” the statement of facts said.Winning over the jury may not be easy. One issue is Cohen, a central figure in the government’s case. “A jury may not trust him because he is a convicted felon, and he perjured himself, and based on statements he may not be neutral regarding the defendant,” Friedland said.
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