The last thing I want to do is send you to prison, said New York judge Juan Merchan, according to The New York Times (NYT).
He stated that fines of 1,000 dollars (23,000 crowns), which is the maximum amount, do not have any effect, and that Trump’s release is a direct flow on the first day. I cannot allow this to continue, Merchan said.
The warning was drunk at the start of testimony in a Manhattan court this week. The ex-president was accused of falsifying dozens of financial statements after being elected in 2016 in an attempt to hide the payment for the wedding of porn actress Stephanie Clifford, known under the pseudonym Stormy Daniels.
Just a few thousand years before Trump’s election, then-prime minister Michael Cohen paid 130,000 dollars (those millions of crowns) to go public with the claim that she had two affairs with Trump ten years later.
Trump denies the blame and portrays himself as a politically motivated scumbag, while he tries to move into the Holy House after all these years.
Similar to the other cases he attended, he verbally assaulted the prosecutors, Judge Merchan, and the witnesses. The judge, before the arrest of the head of the trial, issued an order prohibiting public hearings about witnesses, jurors and some other persons.
Then, last week, after the appeal, he decided that Trump had committed contempt of court nine times, and imposed a fine of 9,000 dollars on him. The ex-president previously publicly criticized Cohen and Clifford, so he published a book about liberal activists in the jury on his social media site Truth Social. According to the Reuters agency, Trump’s account was related to the interview where he declared that the jury members were members of the Democratic Party.
This court will have to call for a prison sentence, said Merchan about the occurrence of further violations of the rules of the process.
According to the cover, Trump wanted to cover up the crimes against him and the people involved
In the following hours, the jury first heard testimony about Trump’s payments to Cohen, the source of which is 34 accused of forging documents. The cover includes several checks and other records connected with transactions in which, according to the prosecutor, the ex-president returned the pension paid to Clifford to Cohen. In the documents, they are characterized as first-service payments, uvd packaging.
The jury began to show them the path that some employee of the Trump Organization, Jeffrey McConney, had subpoenaed. He revealed how he found out about the payments to Cohen when he was instructed to do so by Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s financial editor at the time. etn said at the time that she should record the payments as part of the agreement on the provision of the first services, and in response to the prosecutor’s question, he added that he had never seen a similar agreement.
The falsification of financial records is usually classified as a misdemeanor, but in Trump’s case, the prosecutors charged him with criminal charges because, according to them, it was used to cover up another crime. give fraudulent reports connecting to the 2016 election campaign and present them as part of a conspiracy with the aim of influencing the public with a small amount of classified information that could damage Trump.
In an effort to convince the jury of the Irish dimension, the indictment in the past few days called up some of Trump’s speeches by Hope Hicks, who described the nervousness in the election campaign in June 2016 after the publication of several years-old tapes, on which Trump said he was involved.
The former publisher of the National Enquirer tabloid David Pecker, in turn, described how he helped Trump covertly, gave two reports about his wife and alerted Cohen to Clifford’s claim of an affair.
The process will probably last at least a few weeks, and I expect that Cohen and Clifford will also testify. It is not clear whether Trump will testify.
