No. of Recommendations: 14
And did he? No way.
Sure he did. Cohen went to jail for this. Both AMI and Pecker were found by the FEC to have violated FECA. The underlying facts weren’t even really disputed.
Then indict Cohen, not Trump.
Trumps the one guilty of causing the falsified business records in order to conceal a crime. It doesn’t have to be his crime - if he conceals Cohen’s crime, it’s a felony. Because the statute says so.
The judge shot down most of his appearance as a witness. The prosecution can object and the judge can sustain, but sheesh let the guy testify to something.
The judge did. He allowed the witness to testify to factual matters, not legal conclusions. As is standard for witnesses. The fact that the only purpose the defense wanted to use him for was to try to make legal arguments in the guise of witness testimony doesn’t change that.
Do you see how a layperson would look at this and say, "This guy got railroaded?"
Not if they actually paid attention to the trial - or got correct information about the trial. If they listened to and believed people that were making inaccurate statements about the trial, they might falsely conclude he got railroaded. But since they’d be wrong about that, that’s no reason not to prosecute - or for any of us to pretend that the prosecution wasn’t valid.
