'What have we done?': Lawrence examines shocking Trump evidence revealed in trial

Before the jury that appeared in the courtroom today to hear testimony in the case of the people of the state of New York versus Donald J. Trump, Judge Juan Maran issued his ruling to the lawyers about

what

would really happen to Donald Trump If he were to testify in his own defense in this

trial

now, of course, before the judge issued his ruling on

what

evidence

the prosecution would be allowed to use to attack Donald Trump's credibility as a witness, there was absolutely no reason to believe that Donald Trump was actually going to testify on his own. defense Donald Trump is incapable of telling the truth and that would quickly become obvious to the jury, who would probably find themselves watching Donald Trump commit perjury and would probably conclude that they were watching him commit perjury, so there really was no chance that Donald Trump was going to tell the truth. testify, but this is what the judge ruled the prosecution could raise if Donald Trump took as a witness.

The judge said the prosecution could raise the fact that, citing, the defendant was found to

have

violated section 63 of the executive laws by fraudulently misrepresenting the value of his assets for financial benefit, that is the case of the Attorney General in New York and citing that the defendant violated a court order by failing to remove a false, derogatory and personally identifying post about the Court's top law clerk from the website donaldj

trump

.com. The court fined the defendant $5,000 and the prosecution would be allowed to use the fact that, citing, the defendant was found to

have

willfully violated a court order by making public attacks on the judge's law clerk, despite two court orders.

The judge also ruled that prosecutors could bring up the fact that the defendant was found to have defamed egene Carol in public statements in 2019 by making false statements with actual malice and that the defendant had been found to have defamed EEG. Carol in public statements made in 2022 in Truth social by making a false statement with true malice and the prosecution would allow itself to confront Donald Trump with the fact that subpoenaing the defendant stipulated the dissolution of the Donald J. Trump Foundation to resolve claims by The New York attorney general said he engaged in repeated and deliberate self-dealing transactions, so there really should be no suspense tonight about Donald Trump testifying in his own defense.

He couldn't survive questions about how to convey to Carol her public attacks on court staff with seated jurors. there in the room with the court staff wondering if Donald Trump is going to attack those court staff or the jurors themselves and then there was another powerful indication that Donald Trump cannot testify in his own defense today and that's when his Defense lawyer testified for Donald Trump says this. I hope you know that when M. Daniels threatened to go public with her false claim of a sexual encounter with President Trump in 2008, it was as people just said very close to the election and it was almost an attempt by m CLI Miss Daniels to extort to President Trump, to which the prosecutor said objection and the judge held, so Donald Trump's criminal defense attorney says that Donald Trump never had a sexual encounter with Stormy Daniels, which Stormy Daniels has publicly described in detail.

Donald Trump was alone. in the hotel room with Stormmy Daniels while Donald Trump's wife was home with their four-month-old son at the time the only people who can testify about what happened in that room are Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump, not the defense attorney of Donald Trump and Donald Trump. is not going to testify there will never be a time when Donald Trump sits on the witness stand and says I didn't have sex with Stormy DS and that's why today Donald Trump's criminal defense attorney did it for him Todd Blanch tried to get out with hers when testifying for Donald Trump in her opening speech by saying that Stormmy Daniel's description of her sexual encounter with Donald Trump is false according to Stormy Daniels who has spoken publicly many times it was a sexual encounter that did not last long and that In the pre and post sex talk, Donald Trump, among other things, compared Stormy Daniels to his eldest daughter.

Stormmy Daniels has given us a lot of detail that the essence of Trump's defense is that the $420,000 paid to Michael Coan was paid for unrelated legal services. with Stormy Daniels Donald Trump's criminal defense lawyers told jury quote: You'll hear that he Michael Cohen legally worked for President Trump and the first lady as their personal attorney, you'll know that every month in 2017 Michael Cohen sent an invoice to some of the employees of Trump Tower here in Midtown for $35,000 and in this invoice Michael Cohen described his work as a payment to the retainer contract for legal services provided the invoice was processed someone at Trump Tower generated a check the check was finally signed and there was a record in a ledger of President Trump's personal records, but it reflects the invoice for nine of the checks, the check arrived at the White House, President Trump signed it, you will hear that he is the only signer on his personal checking account, reason why he signed. the check So what the hell is a crime?

What is a crime? About what I just described the prosecution's response to that question was that everything was citing a long-running planned and coordinated conspiracy to influence the 2016 election to help Donald Trump get elected through illegal methods. expenses to silence people who had something bad to say about their behavior using corporate medical records and bank forms to hide those payments along the way was election fraud pure and simple prosecutors said quote we will never know and it doesn't matter if this conspiracy was the difference in a close election and then prosecutors

revealed

a communication on election night 2016 between Stormy Daniels' lawyer and Dylan Howard at the National Inquirer, who was part of the conspiracy to suppress negative information about Donald Trump.

The prosecutor told the jury he will do it. Also see

evidence

that on election night, as the media was coming around to call the election for Donald Trump, Keith Davidson, who was Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougall's lawyer, texted Dylan Howard on the national investigation and said: what have we

done

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