Update: Robert Costello, a former Trump team lawyer, will appear before the grand jury on Monday. Reports are that Costello wants to discredit Michael Cohen. Cohen has already served three years for his role in the $130,000 payoff to Stormy Daniels, and there is corroboration for Cohen's testimony against 'Hair' Trumpilini. Cohen has been asked by the DA to stand-by as a rebuttal witness. As of this posting Cohen has not reappeared before the grand jury. His payoff to Daniels just prior to the election was mischaracterized on Individual One's campaign books as a legal retainer for Michael Cohen, which is a misdemeanor crime under New York law. If the falsification was used to cover up another crime, such as a federal campaign finance law violation, then the offense becomes a felony. The expert media manipulator has apparently duped them once again in an effort to intimidate by manufacturing outrage. His supporters in the Repugnant Party promptly responded by denigrating the Manhattan DA and the "radical left" for its politically motivated "witch hunt". Rep. Jim Jordan demanded in a letter that DA Alvin Bragg be brought before his House "weaponization" committee to explain Bragg's prosecution of Individual One. Remember, 147 House Repugnants voted to reject the 2020 election results! Meanwhile, the steel barricades are going up around the Manhattan courthouse.
{03.20.2023} At times US Person thought that he would not see this day arrive, but indications are, at last, 'Hair' Trumpillini will be indicted for just one of his crimes, and the least significant at that. The Manhattan DA's office is reported to have discussed security arrangements with New York law enforcement ahead of an indictment for the Stormy Daniels payoff expected Tuesday. Even the former president himself told his followers he expects to be arrested and booked. The grand jury has heard from all the relevant witnesses except Trump who declined to appear voluntarily. This indictment, if it comes to pass, is unprecedented in our history, but none the less supported by the known facts. It may be the first of at least three more indictments: the Georgia election tampering, the Mar-a-Lago Papers, and most significant, the attempted coup.
In another significant legal development, a federal judge has ordered attorney Evan Corcoran to testify about obstruction at Mar-a-Lago. Corcoran was the lawyer who negotiated with DOJ over the classified documents in Individual One's possession despite requests to return them from the National Archives and a grand jury subpoena to produce the documents. He may have been the attorney who directed a certification be made by a junior team lawyer that no more documents were hidden at the resort. Judge Beryl Howell of the DC Federal District Court rejected Corcoran's claims of attorney-client privilege. She agreed with DOJ that there were grounds to invoke the fraud-crime exception to the privilege. At this late stage in the proceedings it would be difficult to conclude otherwise.
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