Trial bombshell: Hush money was 'all about campaign' Stormy Daniels', Karen McDougal's lawyer says
Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcougal's attorney testified about negotiating prices for the Trump affair allegations stories, which were part of the alleged “catch-and-kill” National Enquirer scheme, saying the hush money payments and negotiations were all about the campaign--not protecting Trump's wife.
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#Trump #hushmoney #trial
I never want to hear that in the United States every citizen is treated equal! SHAME!🤬
Eric may as well get used to being in court.
Hilarious how Trumps least favourite child drew the short straw to attend the trial. Poor Eric. 😂
Did they pull him away from pouring concrete? 🙄
I can just hear Stephen Colbert's impression already. "Dad! I'm here, dad! I'm here to support you! I'll even give you a hug, dad!"
He ans his siblings should be indicted as well
@@b.t.2795 You win the internets today! 😄
Cohen was all in and Trump turned his back on him. I have no problems with either of them.
Just grab them on the psy , why would TRUMP say that if it never happened, TRUMP says it was just locker room talk. Whats Trump doing in the women's locker room.
He just called himself a woman and you allowed him in
@@tatteredshield8120 He was the best woman any woman ever knew.
@@cmanmaxwell and believe her, she knew
How many of those flag folks were compensated, and from where?? 🤔🤔🤔
I would NEVER vote for donald trump..EVER!!!!!
Vote for more inflation then.
@@letsgorandall9848 You're drinking the cool aid
Years ago, before he ever campaigned couple friends and I refused to use sidewalks in front of Trump properties. We'd cross the street..Didn't want to catch The Kooties.😁
What if he was running against Satan?
@@lisettalisetta9841 Yeah, drink the fool-aid then vote for Joe "Pause" Biden.
Thank you for calling it what it is: a "2016 election interference" case, not a "hush money" case. Vote Blue 2024!
So you thought it was illegal to try to keep a false rumor about an affair from a from interfering with the presidential election in the united states? Are you smoking expired crack or did you have first hand personal proof there was actually an affair?
It would be interesting to see how many of those people have an SAG card. I wouldn't put it past 45's campaign to hire a group of people to stand outside and chant for 45. Must keep the ego of 45 stoked! Wonder how much Eric got paid?
“I imagine they drew straws and [Eric] lost…” OUCH!!!!
Eric???? If Donnie had a family dog, that would have been a better choice for his family member in the courtroom.
Lol, Evidently you are angry your food stamps came late.
As long as he didn't let that dog anywhere near Cruella Kristi Noem!
@@lageronimo8012 At least I'm smart enough to qualify, unlike simpletons such as you.
Someone showed up today ONLY because of news stories noting how alone he looked. If they hadn't mentioned it Trump would still have had no one there today.
Show me the man and I'll find the crime! A quote from Lavrentiy Beria, the most ruthless and longest-serving secret police chief in Joseph Stalin's reign of terror! Looks like Joe Biden is working out of Stalin's old play book.
None of this is illegal, so it doesn't matter either way.
@@ryanoglesbee1075 None? How did you come to that conclusion, or did you just adopt someone else's opinion?
@@T.Hecklerya none of it. No Diddy. Oh where is Diddy and all the Biden sniffers I mean supporters
@@modernmalemaniac5766 Hmmm, that's how you came to that conclusion? Says a lot 🤣
❌Donald Trump❌ should be suspended from running for presidential office😂
We tried that, Supreme Court said no.
For what?
If he's convicted he can't even vote for himself.... that's a problem... running and not being able to vote for yourself..
@@Toekneepowersfor lying to and manipulating the living crap out of *you*. You may be a fool of epic proportions but at least the U.S. justice system has your back bro. You will thank them later. I promise. 🇺🇲⚖️👍
Or just suspended.
He'll fund raise off the fines and turn a profit. Sick.
Trial bombshell: Hush money was 'all about campaign' Stormy Daniels', Karen McDougal's lawyer says. Bombshell? We knew this in 2017.
This is the "Art of The Deal". He has all the photos of the women and he lies under the shining sun that he doesn't know the women.
And what this shows (yet again) is that the so-called "fake news media" gets it exactly right MOST of the time. What they report from 'sources' as events are unfolding tends to be pretty accurate, as confirmed by under-oath testimony much later. Fox, on the other hand... 😂😂😂
The lawyer stated an opinion that's not a bombshell. He never heard those words come out of Trumps mouth and according to the FEC (You know the experts on election law) its not a campaign finance violation because Trump has paid off nuisance claims for years and for it to be a violation it has to be something Trump would only do because of the campaign. So since Trumps been doing it for years it's not a violation. There's a reason not even the Biden DOJ, who has no problem trying to put their opponent in prison during an electio , didn't want to touch this case with a 10ft pole
You're right and the FTC investigated it and dropped the case cause they said no crime was committed . But they did fine the DNC , and the Clinton campaign for campaign violations.
@@user-dy8li1lq7gIs that your fancy way of saying you haven't any clue what the obvious point of the comment was?
Eric is there because I hear JR is fighting with daddy and Ivanka is M.I.A as well as the wife. Eric knows. You gotta get while the gettin' is still good and Lara's holding the purse. It's aaaaaalllll good.
And in one of Trumps speeches he totally forgot to mention Eric
omg you sound so dum b
Birds of a feather!!!
Trump told us a couple of days ago that his supporters were barred from getting anywhere near the courthouse. Now, many were right there. What's he saying, now?
Judge isn't sending him to jail, warning after warning
That's because trump wants to be jailed. Makes him more of a martyr and Merchan knows this - he's not stupid
That happens in NY courts.
Because he knows the risk if he tries to enforce an illegal gag order to that extent.
Gag orders are not illegal.
lol @ SAG card comment. Spot on. Probably all paid actors.
Where's Waldo??? I mean Melania 😂 listen too trumps getting closer n closer too conviction
Bombshell how? We all know that.
They like making it sound like they're getting somewhere with this trial
@@billbaggins7355 Trump is done for good.
@@user-he2kx2of1w Haha. That certainly is one opinion.
This trial is going to get better and sentencing will have more views than the super bowl.
How many crimes does he have to commit to be guilty....how many justice system.
I ask myself the same questions regarding joe cadaver.
Sorry, hals the US Supreme Court has been bought and paid for. Remember Clarence T mama's house, how about Alito's fishing trips. US politics is corrupt to the core.
One. He has yet to commit one crime.
How much did Trump’s campaign pay his son to show up in court today?
11780 vacation miles.
About the same amount as they paid the construction workers last week, or was that the Village People?
Your stupid.
He probably suckered them again into thinking they were going to get paid.
Exactly 😂😂😂😂
Im sure the supporters outside the courthouse were paid to be there
He should negotiating to buy Riker's Island so he can put a golf course there ahead of his arrival
👍😂
Guilty as charged...
Guilty of what 😂😂😂 not illegal to pay someone off like this 😂😂😂😂
What's the charge you don't know do you
@@besmart5328falsifying business records. Which is fraud!
@@cartwright77he used it as a business expense! He is falsifying a business expense which is fraud! Why does no one pay attention to the details Both sides too. Like the guy or hate the guy facts are facts and fraud is fraud.
@@besmart5328these bots never no what they're agreeing with.
Nice dig on the SAG card!
The MAGA crowd possibly filled with Scot Baio, Ted Nugent, Roseanne Barr
Huge Paul Butler fan !!
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Oh, wow. The RNC finally coughed up money for MAGA protest actors. 😏
12 of them. OK 11. 1 is the one from a prior day.
😂😂😂😂😂
They understand him for a lot of years😂😂😂😂
I think you mean, “The RNC diverted enough money from Trump’s legal defense for MAGA protest actors.”
Trump must have paid his son and the rest to escort him to court today. 💰
You know he did ! He pays everyone that’s anywhere near him .
or threatened to take his pocket money off him.
@@terryoquinn8199 and with his stench, he should pay them Combat Pay 💰💰
And he paid those 24 people protesting outside the courtroom too. $15 an hour to hold a Trump flag for 6 hours a day. 😂😂😂 Not kidding bro. His goons go by the day labor places every morning before court to pick them up. And ALL they could get were 24!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
" If Stormy wasn't my one-off insufficiently-bought not-so-secret affair, perhaps I would be dating her."
I really like his 2024 presidential campaign so far. It's like watching a dumpster fire within a trainwreck.
This is just a distraction. Trump is colluding with Russians again and it looks to be working quite well!
@@teamginger9134👈🏻😂🤣😅🦄🧜♂️🧚♀️
Truly funny!!!
And heading towards a cliff where the tracks end..
Trump 24
Poor Eric? NO! Well, ...
Can't wait to see him jail. Is just a matter of time.
Maybe Trump should go back to paying his supporters to show up.
Stormy Daniels violated her gag reflex
Good one.
TDS.
What is that thing on top of Joy's head?
Defamation suit for Stormy and Karen? 😂
"Never fight uphill me boys! Never fight uphill!" What Robert E. Lee said at Gettysburg according to DJT.
You finally came out of hiding, huh?
Arrrgh Matey! 🤣
@@allenaslin812 my medal shown disagrees with your statement.
"Gettysburg.... wooooow!" - History with Trump LOL
"Magnets don't work in water." Science with Trump LOL
Remember Trump’s presidential day planner ? There wasn’t much happening, right? He couldn’t have “nanna nap” in there but this what he would probably enjoy 😂
Whats the point?
Everyone is telling the truth except one person now who could that be🤔🤔🤔
Yesterday, in a Time interview, Trump made the same promises that Hitler made to Germany in 1936. As the voters, we have the power to end this evil for good.
Foreigner here. SAG card? SAD card? What is it?
It stands for "Screen Actors Guild". The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is an American labor union which represents over 100,000 film and television principal and background performers worldwide. The Guild was founded in 1933 in an effort to eliminate the exploitation of Hollywood actors, who were being forced into oppressive multi-year contracts with the major movie studios.
@@kristinemckeown1746 Thank you! That makes it make sense.
@@eh1702 Happy to help. 😄
Oh yeah, huge shock, none of us guessed the election was what this was all about.
Union Members or a joke over my head.
You're overusing the word "bombshell."to get clicks. The whole point of the trial is it was the campaign cover up. Well DUH.
Still not a crime. It's not illegal to pay for an NDA or suppress negative stories about you.
@@djhergert1995 Any other strawmen and non-sequiturs you want to air? It IS illegal to get other people (the NE) to pay hundreds of thousands to suppress stories for campaign advantage (the doorman & mistress stories) and not declare it as a campaign contribution. Why ELSE would a newspaper buy stories about a NY playboy in order to bury them? It IS illegal to raid a business (inc, ltd, trust etc) to pay for your personal or political (ie personal career) expenses unrelated to the business. People would still keep paying their rent if the CE has an affair. It IS illegal to lie about the money extracted from the business being business expenses or business legal fees. Expenses are for things that benefit *the business*. The entire point of making an inc, ltd, trust or whatever is to separate personal from business finances. There was not even a legal retainer or contract for Cohen in this matter, so how was it even an expense? And the fact that he used his personal finances, (took out a loan in his home!) this betrays the campaign urgency. and effort to disguise the payment = consciousness of guilt. Cohen to be reimbursed more than double - via Trump’s Inc’s business finance officer - because disguising it as income shot him into a higher tax bracket, and to repay loan interest, since Trump tried to stiff him for months.
@@djhergert1995 What CRIME did Cohen serve prison time for in this same matter? Why did Trump, once he became president, have Bill Barr invent a new rule to axe his parole and return him to solitary confinement?
@@djhergert1995 The crime is getting other people to pay for the NDA and not disclosing their contribution to your campaign finances.
@@djhergert1995 Doesn’t even disturb you that the FAMILY TRUST business that Fred left for all his children and grandchildren to live off is routinely raided for Donnie’s personal/political career, his private jet, his bribes to mistresses etc?
There are ways courts deal with mentally disturbed defendants such as Trump who can't stay in their seats, go to sleep, interfere with witnesses, jurors or other court personnel, and other disruptions of the proceedings. There is a possibility that the judge may impose restrictions on Trump while in the courtroom. He can be removed or bound and gagged and removed from the courtroom.
*Now it all makes Sense!!!!!!. Trump WAS NEVER going to Pay. Imagine Michael Cohen have to pay when Trump's Reputation is at stake. As Hannibal from the A Team would say "I Love it when a Plan comes together*
Trump is what my dad would call," A BOLD FACE LIAR"😂
Mine would say bald face, and they'd both be right.
Those "Trump Supporters" may have very well been holding S.A.G cards Just like those around the Golden Escalator.. back in 2015
Biden supporters = actors and medical personnel.
Move to China you moran
Well of course we all knew that.
Love the retro blouse joy stunning
Joy, love your blouse.
Sag card?
Actor's Guild card.
Trump's known for hiring people to show up to events and pose as Trump supporters.
Screen actors guild. Implying that those "supporters" are paid actors. His campaign could have saved some money by gathering up some homeless people. They'd be willing to get paid for doing what they do every day,standing around doing nothing.
TDS Live
It would take more than a $100. Bill to get me to stand around with a Trump banner 😂😂😂😂😂😂
WAS?
Joy still rockin that Trump haircut. 😂
The only reason Eric showed up was that someone needed to pay the 'couple of dozen actors.... I mean Trump supporters' that miraculously showed up all of a sudden, at the courthouse! Coincidence??? Hahahahaha! Yeah, right!
Yup, Eric needs to pay these couple of dozen actors.
You people are so lost it's embarrassing. Trump is America's only hope at this point
@@Ada-zn3pw Trump is not america's only hope but he's definitely america's favorite, and they must be clinically insane to think he couldn't easily fill a courthouse with fans or that it would take a "miracle" for any of his fans to show up at courthouse
@@Zachf7775clinical like Diddy and the rest of the Hollywood kid lovers all Biden supporters. Where is ava baroni
@@Ada-zn3pw A man who was ALREADY banned from running charities because he raided their finances, who *bragged* of repeated bankruptcies to routinely stiff his contractors and other creditors, a man who *boasts* that he paid a fraction of the income tax you do, for a decade - what on earth made you consider such an obvious amoral shyster as a candidate?
My ears pricked up! A light lit up in my mind! Everything became clear! He (Trump) has to give his followers a reason for his followers to disbelieve those who would imprison or cause him to become a convicted criminal. Wow, so simple and straightforward yet so powerful and clear. Perhaps, that is what my mind needed to be reminded of, given the extent to which Trump had clouded my thought with the weight of his lies. Thank you for helping me to understand.
Democracy 🇺🇸 vs Russian Maga 🇷🇺 As the voters, we have the power. ❤️🤍💙
One day of lunch money Scheesh not much of a punishment.
Throw alittle in its,but trump said instead,take alot out of there...
Hey old man, let's see what time will tell.
Poor Eric...
So the Lawyer signed the NDA or did Daniels?
Did Trump actually pay the fine for the contempt of court ruling?
He dont know them but thete is picture with them
On good moment for him is his polls are going up
Do these Trump supporters not have jobs to go to?
I guess it got tired of everyone making fun of it. It would have been better off bringing a pillow😂. I wonder where ivan is🤔.
Ms. Reid, et al, please remove false flag financial ad postings. Must not be as capable as Abramoff having such need to post on a news program. Does she or her friends have no shame?
Trump could say the same. Why did they wait 4 years to bring up their issue?
Maybe if Trump spends some time in jail, he can get enough rest and be able to stay awake in court!
He wouldn't be up all night desperately posting begging his followers to throw themselves on their swords to protect his fraudulent butt.
Maybe if you got a job your life wouldn't be so sad 😂
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
😂😂😂😂
There's no reason for him to stay awake in court. He's got a campaign to run. If they're going to make him be in court then he can nap through it so he has energy to work on his campaign when court adjourns.
The shade. "Sag card"... Oh. Oh wow.
I wonder it cost Trump to get Eric there.
Eric is there to tell daddy what he missed when he nodded off.
They ain't trying to let Trump make it good
Supporters now turning out for Trump 😞 The US goes down and down
He is right his followers have no idea
She already admitted that is was all made up.
I’d pay for this woman to hush.
SAG card. Nice burn. 😁
Doesnt that violate his terms of release?
😂😂 You people are so desperate. You people so blinded by hate are doing nothing but making Trump more popular than ever
@@Ada-zn3pw So your stance is one person should be treated differently in the court of law?
Lots of opinions
I’ve no doubt that Trump would want his people to cause a riot outside the courthouse like “January 6th”
Unfortunately this trial will only last another 4-5 wks. cause I wish it was televised and lasted just before the Election for a Grand Finale.
Well.... you can't televise any court cases from New York.... Georgia allows it though:)
This will be the only trial before the election.
Click bate. lol. The bombshell you claim is in Trump favor. You proved that he wasn’t involved genius
Bogus case
Cohen will be the 'final nail'
Form an orderly line ladies as Mr Trump is paying hush money to women he has never heard of.
Not one person here could tell me the crime ? And if so , what about the myriad of all other people that have to do it.
So mr Davidson rode to court on his harley then gave it a few revs which blew out Trumps defence. How sweet.
Her Trump wig looks ridiculous why doesn't anyone tell her?
"Finish the wall" ...LOL... finish your education first and eat your bananas... ... ...and they would still never understand the banana reference...
Tony⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
😂 Trump take the Stand. Who else is playing apart in everything Trump did or doing to get power?