Trump will be indicted-and probably be acquitted
The Dershow
Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 14 March 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Dershow over the weekend. |
| 0:06.6 | It's become fairly clear that the district attorney of Manhattan, Bragg, will almost |
| 0:14.6 | certainly indict former president and current candidate for president Donald Trump. |
| 0:23.3 | After months and months and months of scouring the statute books and calling witness after |
| 0:32.4 | witness, it's become finally Bragg settled on some, what appears to be a Mickey Mouse, |
| 0:42.7 | a ledge crime, claiming that the money that was paid to Stormy Daniels, the porn store, |
| 0:53.0 | who claimed that Donald Trump had had a sexual relationship with her, which he denied, |
| 1:00.5 | that the pay off, the hush money, hush money is perfectly legal, prominent people over |
| 1:05.9 | the years have paid it. |
| 1:09.5 | Many, many people have paid hush money, most often it doesn't work. |
| 1:14.7 | The allegations come out anyway, as is commonly the case. |
| 1:19.8 | Nothing wrong with paying hush money, but the claim here was that the hush money was paid |
| 1:25.2 | by his former lawyer Cohen, who is now a government cooperating witness, and that Trump |
| 1:33.7 | then paid back the money in installments, listing it as legal fees of some kind. |
| 1:44.3 | That apparently is a misdemeanor, but Bragg is trying to indict Trump for a felony by |
| 1:54.6 | construing a statute that has never been used before in a comparable situation to say, |
| 2:00.6 | but if the misdemeanor is committed to try to cover up a felony, then it becomes a felony. |
| 2:09.8 | And the felony, the alleged felony that is alleged to be covered up was that it was a secret |
| 2:16.8 | campaign contribution, and that would be a felony. |
| 2:21.4 | But what kind of a campaign contribution could it be who made the contribution, Donald Trump |
| 2:27.3 | made the contribution to himself, or is the argument that Donald Trump paid back Cohen |
| 2:36.4 | from making the contribution, but if you paid back Cohen from making the contribution, |
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