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The most likely outcome is a hung jury and a mistrial. It seems to me that would a favorable outcome for the dems, they could rush through scheduling a new trial and with it with a new requirement for Trump to set in court and stay off the campaign trail for a few more months.

This judge will never do it, but a 'directed verdict' of Not Guilty is also possible. It's clear to everyone except left wingers in the media that this is a farce of a trial...but things will get interesting when the defense calls Cohen's own lawyer to the stand. Here's what he said to Congress today:

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things...

Costello, once the deputy chief of the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office' prestigious criminal division, alleges in his prepared testimony obtained by Just the News that Cohen repeatedly insisted that Trump had done nothing wrong when he was debriefed in 2018 while federal prosecutors were investigating whether Trump violated any election laws in 2016. Ultimately, federal prosecutors chose not to bring charges.

Ooops. But look at this:

https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1790787263...

Michael Cohen's former attorney reveals huge news:

1. Michael Cohen didn't actually believe the Stormy Daniels allegation.

2. Cohen paid Stormy Daniels all on his own.

3. President Trump had nothing to do with it.

From his prepared remarks:
I specifically asked him — because he kept on going back saying, "I can't believe they're trying to put me in jail for these NDAs" — so I said, "Michael, tell me about the NDA, tell me about Stormy Daniels — what did you do?" He said, "I got a call from a lawyer representing Stormy Daniels, who represented that she was going to testify that Donald Trump had sex with Stormy Daniels." Michael Cohen said, "I didn't believe the allegation, but I knew that such an allegation would be terribly embarrassing." He said it would be embarrassing — he focused on Melania Trump. He said, "I didn't want to embarrass Melania Trump." He said, "That's why I decided to take care of this on my own."

I went back to that several times: "You did this on your own?" "On my own." "Did Donald Trump have anything to do with it?" "No." "Did you get the money from Donald Trump?" "No." "From any of his organizations?" "No." "From anybody connected to Donald Trump?" "No." "Where did you get the money?" "I took out a HELOC loan against my property." I said, "Why would you do that?" He said, "I didn't want anybody to know where I got this money. I didn't want Melania to know; I didn't want my own wife to know because she's in charge," he said, "of the Cohen family finances." He said, "If she saw money coming out of my account, she'd ask me a hundred questions, and I didn't want to answer any of them."

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