Trump Knew All: Cohen Eyes Trump Himself After Company Guilty Of Crimes

Guilty on all charges, that is the verdict in the Trump organization trial, a jury has now convicted the entire

company

that arrived late today on all charges brought in the criminal tax fraud conspiracy and falsification of records case. This is a blow to the entire Trump

company

. to its financial situation and how that company might try to do business in the future now if you follow this here if you are one of those Americans who has watched the American news and wondered when there will ever be accountability for what seems like a long road of bad Trump's conduct and as seen today, condemned illegal activities, well you may know part of the way, let's go over it briefly.

The path to this verdict really took off when a former Trump lawyer and Trump organization executive, Michael Cohen, publicly denounced for the first time what he alleged was financial misconduct and testimony before Congress now, regardless of what you think of that path or whatever you think of Mr. Cohen, who also eventually went to prison for other convicted

crimes

related to working for Donald Trump, the fact is that he made those accusations in public. he did them under oath and that's the kind of thing that investigators and prosecutors then look at and have to make an individual determination about whether to act on that good deed that they did.

The district attorney's office pursued that case based in part on the information they found about Mr. Cohen. be credible and demonstrable because it is necessary to have a jury that convicted Donald Trump's main money man, CFO Allen Weisselberg, that was just last August, which led to his testimony against the entire Trump organization, in this case It also earned him a reduced prison sentence. Today's new verdict is a legal failure. Guilty on all counts. It also came quickly. A speed that may reflect that there was very little doubt among these jurors after hearing the case. They issued this verdict after deliberating. for just over a day Trump's company now faces more than $1 million in fines and some broader questions about how the conviction may limit its future funding.

Legal attention on whether there may be consequences for Donald Trump

himself

, who has now seen his company convicted of him in this case. He faces open questions. in the civil investigation by the New York attorney general, where he recently became the first former president to defend the fifth argument on the grounds that the true answers could incriminate him and further accumulate to open federal criminal investigations, so even with everything going In America tonight and voting tonight we have former personal attorney and former President Trump Michael Cohen is my featured guest. He is also the author of the book Revenge.

How Donald Trump used the Justice Department as a weapon against his critics. He is the host of the Mia Coppa podcast. important news today in that courtroom and as I mentioned Michael there are many facts that go back to what you testified under oath, the prosecutors found it credible, as I mentioned the jurors found credible your response to this conviction of the company where once worked. Yeah, I think one of the big concerns that Alvin Breg had when he first took over as district attorney for Manhattan, Pennsylvania, New York, was whether we could get a jury that didn't have someone who was a Trump Maga supporter and clearly the answer to I mean, yes, the convictions of Donald Trump or should I say the Trump organization, although they are very, very gratifying, so to speak, does not take responsibility and the fact that Alan Weisselberg fell on the sword and also I guess Jeff McConaughey, who is the deputy comptroller.

Again, it doesn't hold Donald Trump accountable, so the next question people should be asking is what's next for Alvin Bragg and in light of the hearing of the new guy Christopher, what's his name? Ari, the last name, the new lawyer he's going to hire. Go on to look at other

crimes

that arose as a result of this investigation, well, you raised several points, Michael, one, there has been this new hiring of a veteran of the Department of Justice, we will publish it and the report on this was that Bragg hired this one. former Justice Department official with a history of taking on Trump, top ratings, latest twist in that long-running investigation, you mentioned what Mr.

Bragg has in store. Nicole Wallace alluded to this before. Tonight he will speak for the first time about the verdict. and a few moments here on MSNBC on the beat, so we'll get his views directly as someone who was a witness in the case, as I mentioned, worked in the Trump organization. I'm curious to hear his point of view when we see a conviction for defrauding the government. about conspiracy about tax fraud about falsifying records at a place called Trump org of his time, does that mean Donald Trump

himself

would be involved in those things? Well, one of the things that I said and I'm sad that it took almost three years since the House Oversight Committee hearing, where people like Mr.

Clay, Ocasio-Cortez and Jamie Raskin asked me very substantive questions that are similar or identical to the issues that the Manhattan DA raised, so the answer as I gave it then and have given it to 20 different organizations, whether it be congressional law enforcement, etc., did not happen nothing in the Trump organization that Donald Trump not only

knew

but would also approve of. Alan Weiselberg was not. authorized to do anything, of course, until Trump became president and then became the administrator on behalf of Don Jr and Eric Trump, but Alan Weiselberg, during my tenure there, who came across his desk, was very specific about documenting it on paper. sign a line and then they would have Donald sign, is it his initial or his name, so yes, Donald Trump

knew

everything that was happening, nothing was approved without his signature, you mean that initialization process, it may seem like this is a little out of place. the weeds of paperwork, but it's also where you have to dig for the evidence and closing arguments.

One of the assistant district attorneys referred to what you just said that they had evidence that they presented to the jury that showed Donald Trump's initial in exactly one of those financial misconducts that is now being condemned tonight in the New York state, when you look at all of that together and your personal knowledge, do you think they would still have a case against Mr. Trump personally? Well, I wouldn't like to say if Yo would do it or not, what if you had Don and you had um, what would you call him? Mark Pomeranz both believe there was more than enough to accuse Donald Don Jr., Eric Ivanka, etc., in different matters, including this one when at seven. week Mark Alvin Bread decided not to pursue that part of the case, they obviously resigned in protest, so I defer to them because they really are the experts in the area, but I definitely agree with them.

I believe that not only was there enough to have charged Donald in the past for the same crimes, but I believe, and if he were in fact charged tomorrow, that the same crimes and the same criminal behavior could be exposed and identified before a foreign jury.