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The Dershow

Trump will be indicted-and probably be acquitted

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 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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