The former president of the United States donald trump (2017-2021) announced this Friday that His legal team is going to appeal Thursday’s verdict, in which he was found guilty by a popular jurybased on numerous arguments.
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Trump also assured this Friday that He continues to lead the polls for the presidential elections next November because the people understand that the trial in which he was found guilty on Thursday was “a rigged trial.”.
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Trump also attacked the verdict against him that he received the day before in New York, describing the criminal process to which he was subjected as “very unfair” and politicized.
“It was very unfair… you saw what happened to some of the witnesses on our side. They literally crucified them,” Trump said in his speech, in which he referred to his opponents as “sick” and “fascists.”
It was very unfair…you saw what happened to some of the witnesses on our side. They literally crucified them.
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The jury has found it proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump voluntarily and knowingly falsified the reimbursements to his then faithful collaborator and legal advisor Michael Cohen in the amount of $420,000 (about 387.78 thousand euros) with the intention of hide the payment to Daniels before the 2016 election, in exchange for keeping his secrets.
Trump wanted Daniels’ version of an alleged sexual encounter between the two at a hotel in Lake Tahoe (California) in 2006, during a golf tournament in which Trump finished in a disgraceful 62nd place, not made known.
The payments and documents were made in 2017 and have been the reason today Trump has become the first former US president convicted in a criminal case.
Of that amount, 130,000 dollars (about 120 thousand euros) were hidden in various ways to reimburse Cohen for the payment of the same amount to Daniels, 180,000 were paid to cover possible tax consequences, 60,000 in a bond for Cohen and 50,000 for other expenses. to suppliers.
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Those $130,000 were attempted to be hidden in 12 reimbursements of $35,000 (about 32.3 thousand euros) that were incorrectly recorded as “legal expenses”; something illegal and that this Thursday the jury considered proven.
Up to nine refunds in the form of checks bore Donald Trump’s now iconic signature.
The charges could have been considered only a misdemeanor under New York state law if they had not also been shown to have “intent to defraud with the motive of committing another crime or permitting the concealment of its commission.”
This concealment of another crime, as the Prosecutor’s Office argued, has been a breach of the New York electoral law that does not allow “the election of a person for public office by illegitimate means.”
All in all, the night in which Trump invited Daniels to his suite in Lake Tahoe wrapped in silk pajamas was, against all odds, historic.
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