It was important to the prosecutions case that trump was afraid the truth of the affair would get out.
If all these shenanigans were about someone extorting trump rather than fear of the truth being told, Trump’s actions might create sympathy in the jury.
On Tuesday, he also suggested his opponents could face prosecution.
“You know, it’s a very terrible thing. It’s a terrible precedent for our country. Does that mean the next president does it to them? That’s really the question,” Mr. Trump told the Newsmax host Greg Kelly when asked whether the conviction could help him politically.
He added, “So, you know, it’s a terrible, terrible path that they’re leading us to, and it’s very possible that it’s going to have to happen to them.”
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In an interview with Sean Hannity, the Fox News host, that was broadcast on Wednesday night, Mr. Trump was also offered several opportunities to pledge he would not carry out “retribution” against his political opponents.
Mr. Trump was asked to respond to critics who fear he would look for “retribution” if he wins in November and returns to the White House. “So No. 1, they’re wrong,” he said. “It has to stop because otherwise we’re not going to have a country.”
Mr. Trump instead said that “based on what they’ve done” — referring to Democrats — “I would have every right to go after them.”
He added, “And it’s easy, because it’s Joe Biden, and you see all the criminality, all of the money that’s going into the family and him.”
Mr. Hannity then pushed the former president to condemn “this practice of weaponization.”
Mr. Trump replied: “You have to do it. But it’s awful — look, I know you want me to say something so nice,” but, he added, “I don’t want to look naïve.”
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Mr. Trump was offered several opportunities by sympathetic interviewers in recent days — including an appearance with Dr. Phil McGraw, the television host — to clarify or walk back his previous statements. Mr. Trump instead defended his position, saying at points that “I don’t want to look naïve” and that “sometimes revenge can be justified.”
no it wasn’t. All they had to prove was that “legal expenses” are not legal expenses and were recorded as legal expenses to cover up… something criminal.
Daniels was not needed in this trial as her testimony added nothing. She could not testify to any arrangement between Trump and Cohen because she knew of no arrangement. She could not testify about ledger entries because she knew nothing about ledger entries. She could not testify to anything about Trump at all except for her alleged sex and that Cohen paid her lawyer.
nowhere in there does he say he will take revenge. He pointedly says “it has to stop”.
Having every right to do something, and doing it, are not the same thing.
when asked about condemning the practice of weaponization he said “you have to do it”. meaning condemn weaponization. he was asked about condemning it, not continuing it.
Once again, TDS interferes with your cognitive abilities
Yes, she was needed. If he had nothing to be embarrassed about then he had nothing to hide from the American people. There is no way to tie it to the campaign.
Her details did nothing to add to whether the story was true or not. Anyone, especially of Stormy’s profession, could make up details of a sexual encounter. It was the existence and threat of the story that mattered, not whether it happened or not. It was already shown he paid one story off from another blackmailer that did not happen.
The interview I saw showed him saying that revenge could be justified but it would be bad for the country and this had to stop. Get which part keeps being repeated?
“The unAmerican Weaponization of our Law Enforcement has reached levels of Illegality never thought possible before,” Trump posted. “INDICT THE UNSELECT J6 COMMITTEE FOR ILLEGALLY DELETING AND DESTROYING ALL OF THEIR ‘FINDINGS!'”