Right Wing Media & Republicans has been lying about Trump’s Hush Money Trial claiming it’s a politically motivated witch hunt to “Take Down Trump” and minimizing his criminal charges.

Right-wing media feedback loop leaves Trump with warped understanding of his legal situation

The feedback loop of Donald Trump promoting commentary from his right-wing media supporters like those at Fox while those supporters are taking cues from Trump in producing that commentary is distorting Trump’s sense of the reality of his legal situation. Lisa Rubin, MSNBC legal correspondent, and Brian Stelter, Vanity Fair special correspondent, talk with Alex Wagner about the disruptive role of Fox and other right-wing media on Trump’s New York criminal trial.

 

Fox News host recklessly describe jurors to create chaos in Trump hush money trial

Andrew Weissmann, Former top official at the Department of Justice and Vaughn Hillyard, NBC News Correspondent join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the issues involving the privacy of prospective jurors in the Trump Hush Money case and how Trump and his favorite media outlet are causing chaos by bringing potential jurors backgrounds into the limelight before the trial even begins.

 

New York Republicans slam Trump indictment as ‘witch hunt’

“[Democrats] know they cannot win elections based on policy or merit,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) told The Post on Friday.

Per the above article: “Republicans slammed former president Donald Trump’s seven-count federal indictment as yet another Democratic “witch hunt” intended to sway the 2024 election, while Democrats lauded the move as belated justice.

“The Biden Department of Justice’s decision to selectively target a former President and the likely opposition candidate in 2024 is the latest example of Democrats weaponizing our justice system and attempting to influence an election,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) said on Friday.

“[Democrats] know they cannot win elections based on policy or merit, so they’ve turned to selective prosecution to keep their party in power.”

Trump, 76, announced on Thursday evening that he had been indicted by a federal grand jury on multiple charges related to the mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home.

All of the charges – which reportedly include willfully retaining the national defense documents, conspiring to obstruct justice and withholding the documents – stem from the Espionage Act, his lawyer later told CNN”.

 

The whole thing is a crock’: Lindsey Graham dismisses catch-and-kill plot

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, dismissed the ‘catch-and-kill’ hush money scheme during the 2016 presidential campaign to help Trump win the election.

 

 

 

Viral claims about Donald Trump’s hush money trial, fact checked

CBS News Confirmed examines three viral claims that have emerged so far during Trump’s first criminal trial.

Viral claims about Donald Trump’s hush money trial, fact checked

Per the above article: As former President Trump’s historic criminal trial gets underway in New York this week, the CBS News Confirmed team has been tracking potentially misleading narratives that have gained some traction on social media. Here are three of the viral claims that have emerged during the trial so far and what to know about them.

Claim 1: Judge Juan Merchan won’t let Trump go to his son’s graduation

On Monday, Trump posted to his nearly 7 million followers on Truth Social that Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the trial, likely will not allow him to go to his 18-year-old son Barron’s graduation in May.

“Who will explain for me, to my wonderful son, Barron, who is a GREAT Student at a fantastic School, that his Dad will likely not be allowed to attend his Graduation Ceremony, something that we have been talking about for years,” Trump wrote in a post that had garnered over 18,000 likes by Tuesday.

The claim was echoed by others online, including his son Eric Trump, who posted on X that “Judge Merchan is truly heartless in not letting a father attend his son’s graduation.”

The facts: Merchan has not yet made any decision about whether Trump can attend his son’s graduation. But on Monday, he signaled that he’s open to it, although it is also possible that if the trial is behind schedule, he will not allow it. In an excerpt from the court transcript obtained by CBS News’ Graham Kates, Merchan said this:

Regarding counsel’s request that the Court adjourn on Friday, May 17th for Mr. Trump to attend his son’s high school graduation and Friday June 3rd to allow a member of the defense team to attend their son’s graduation, I cannot rule on those two requests at this time. It really depends on how we are doing on time and where we are in the trial. If everything is going according to schedule without unnecessary delays, then I am sure we will be able to adjourn for one or both of those days, but if we are running behind schedule, we will not be able to.

Claim 2: Stormy Daniels denies having an affair with Trump

In a tweet from April 10 flagged by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Monday as a potential violation of Trump’s gag order, Trump wrote on Truth Social: “Look what was just found! Will the fake news report it?” The post included a picture of a 2018 letter written by adult film star Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, which included the statement, “I am denying this affair because it never happened.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican operative Roger Stone, and others shared the same picture in posts on X that attracted over 60,000 “likes.”

The facts: Although it was presented by Trump as being new, this letter from Daniels has been public knowledge since January 2018 — and she has since recanted it. A few months after she signed her name to it, in March 2018, Daniels went on “60 Minutes” to say she had been pressured into signing and releasing the letter by former Trump attorney Michael Cohen and others. Daniels said that she did have an affair with Trump.

Here’s what she said on “60 Minutes” to correspondent Anderson Cooper:

Anderson Cooper: So you signed and released — a statement that said, ‘I am not denying this affair because I was paid in hush money. I’m denying it because it never happened.’ That’s a lie?

Stormy Daniels: Yes.

Anderson Cooper: If it was untruthful, why did you sign it?

Stormy Daniels: Because they made it sound like I had no choice.

She went on to tell Cooper that she felt there might be legal repercussions for not signing the letter.

“The exact sentence used was, ‘They can make your life hell in many different ways,'” she said. She believed “they” in that case was Michael Cohen.

Claim 3: Trump’s gag order is unconstitutional

Trump posted on Truth Social Monday, “This Crooked Judge has GAGGED me. Unconstitutional! The other side can talk about me, but I am not allowed to talk about them!” The claim was later echoed by others on social media.

The facts: Merchan’s April 1 gag order prohibits Trump from speaking about witnesses, court staff, the family members of court staff, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s family, or Merchan’s family. The judge said the order was necessary because some of Trump’s rhetoric might keep jurors, lawyers and court employees from performing their duties in the court.

“This pattern of attacking family members of presiding jurists and attorneys assigned to [Trump’s] cases serves no legitimate purpose,” Merchan wrote of Trump in the gag order. “It merely injects fear in those assigned or called to participate in the proceedings, that not only they, but their family members as well, are ‘fair game’ for Defendant’s vitriol.”

Trump is still allowed to criticize Merchan and Bragg. And the former president may talk about the case publicly and call the trial political if he wishes.

Many legal experts argue Merchan’s gag order is lawful and doesn’t interfere with Trump’s First Amendment rights. Duncan Levin, who worked in the district attorney’s office before Bragg, told Politifact that gag orders “with very limited exceptions have long been found not to violate the First Amendment… [Trump] is free to discuss the criminal justice system but not to make ad hominem attacks on particular people associated with the case.”

However, Trump’s lawyers have challenged the order and said it is unconstitutional because it curbs his free speech rights. Trump’s request to lift the order will now go to a five-judge panel for consideration.

 

2016 Election STOLEN by Coverups

 

 

 

Trump Hush Money Trial About Falsifying Business Records

Trump is accused of Falsifying Business Records and covering up a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, claiming it was for reimbursement of legal fees. Trump allegedly had his former fixer Michael Cohen pay Daniels, while Trump reimbursed Cohen in 2017 and reported the reimbursement as legal fees.

Trump is constantly pretending to be the victim and claiming “he did nothing wrong” in this case and others, which total 91 criminal charges. Trump has no humility, never admits he makes a mistake, never admits he’s wrong, never apologies, never admits defeat and never takes responsibility for anything which goes wrong, but is quick to take credit for other people’s work and success.

Trump & his defenders complaints ignores the high standard of evidence needed to bring criminal charges, and doesn’t refute the allegations.

Trump has consistently characterized the case, as he has with all the criminal charges against him, as a political witch hunt by Democrats to undermine a political rival. Claims that Biden directed charges to brought against Trump in this case and all others are LIES. He calls these prosecutions “Election Interference” and an attempt to derail his campaign. This trial and others is about holding Trump accountable, which most of his life, he’s escaped accountability. This is why he’s been called “Teflon Don”.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records. Prosecutors allege Trump fudged his business records to cover up criminal activity, including trying to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election.

Falsifying Business Records in the Second Degree (Class A Misdemeanor)
N.Y. Penal Law § 175.05: This statute makes it unlawful to intentionally:

• make a false business record;
• cause a false business record to be made;
• alter or erase a truthful entry in a business record;
• omit a truthful statement from a business record; or
• prevent a truthful statement from being made.

Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree (Class E Felony)
N.Y. Penal Law § 175.10: Falsifying business records in the first degree has all of the same requirements as falsifying a business record in the second degree. However, first degree charges requires intent to defraud through the commission of an additional crime–like using your false business record to carry out tax fraud.

Falsifying business records involves intentionally creating, altering, or destroying documents related to a business or organization. This can include financial records, invoices, contracts, inventory reports, or any other official documentation. The purpose behind falsification can vary, but it often aims to misrepresent financial health, hide illegal activities, or gain an advantage such as tax evasion. [Source: theblanchlawfirm.com/practice-areas/white-collar-crime/falsifying-business-records]

 

On 26 October 2016, 11 days before election day, Michael Cohen initiated a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels, an adult film star who said she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006. While prosecutors have identified two other hush-money payments to people who said they had stories about Trump, one a former Trump Tower doorman and the other Karen McDougal a former Playboy model, the actual charges for the case stem just from Daniels’ payments. That’s because the other hush-money payments were made by American Media, the parent company of the tabloid National Enquirer. Leaders of the company, especially the then CEO, David Pecker, were close allies of Trump and told him early in his campaign that they would help him with any scandalous stories that might come out about him.

But Trump paid Daniels himself, albeit through Cohen. Each of the 34 counts of falsifying business records represents a document that prosecutors said included hush-money payments masked as legal fees to Cohen.

 

Michael Cohen secret recording of conversation with Trump

Trump has tried to claim he’s being unfairly prosecuted for “Business Records”. Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen released a secret recording of him and Trump from 2016, in which they discuss “Hush Money” payments to model Karen McDougal, who alleges she had an affair with Mr. Trump in 2006.

When you hear Michael Cohen state in the recording; “I need to set up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend David”… experts say “David” is David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquire who was involved in a “catch & kill” scheme to buy scandalous stories about Trump and make sure they were never published to the public. This is an example of how Trump had many “protectors” who were complicit in getting Trump elected President and making sure the public never found out about Trump’s scandalous conduct.

Even now, Trump has protectors and accomplices such as FOX’s Sean Hannity who like David Pecker, has been buddies with Trump for years. FOX pundits lies to their viewers by “omission of the facts”, making sure FOX’s viewers are kept in the dark about the damage Trump & Republicans are doing to our country. This is all part of Right Wing Media’s scheme to brainwash their viewers into only watching and trust their networks so they continuing voting for Republicans… who are bought and paid for by the rich and does nothing for average Joe Americans.

 

Trump has been charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records after a Manhattan grand jury voted to indict him for his alleged role in arranging a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

 

This is about cheating, this is about lying to the voters

Susanne Craig, New York Times Investigative Reporter, Tim O’Brien, Senior Executive Editor at Bloomberg Opinion, and Harry Litman, former U.S. Attorney join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to describe the implication of an ex-President going on criminal trial and what to expect when and if he chooses to take the stand and testify under oath, without the ability to unleash his usual parade of lies.

 

Tabloid crimes are key to DA’s case to convict Trump for Jailable crime

 

Trump used National Enquirer to smear his opponents, court testimony confirms

Trump used his relationship with then-publisher of the National Enquirer, David Pecker, to manufacture negative stories about his political opponents when they were performing too well against him during the 2016 campaign, and explains why showing the National Enquirer to be motivated solely by helping Trump’s campaign is key to Trump’s prosecution in his New York criminal trial.

 

Ex-National Enquirer Publisher Testifies in Trump Case

Former Playboy model Karen McDougal is back in the spotlight due to Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial. David Pecker, former publisher of the National Enquirer, testified that he paid McDougal $150,000 for her story. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on whether Trump should have immunity from prosecution for the Jan. 6 riots. Inside Edition’s Ann Mercogliano has more.

 

Trump was born into a rich family of privilege and has managed to evade consequences for his outrageous and despicable conduct his entire life

 

Everything Trump loses is “Rigged”.

 

National Enquirer Helped Elect Trump

Trump’s Cozy Relationship with National Enquirer

Rachel Maddow reports on the outlandish stories the National Enquirer printed leading up to the 2016 election to SMEAR Hillary Clinton to their low information readers, then after she was defeated, the National Enquirer printed stories complimentary to Trump.

 

Above are just a few of the articles the National Enquirer pumped out to help Trump. The type of mindless people who buys tabloids like the National Enquirer & believes the stories they print are the same type of people who were stupid enough to vote for Trump & support him.

According to stats at americanmediainc.com/brands/national-enquirer, the National Enquirer has a weekly audience of 6,965,000 which is easily enough to help influence the outcome of an election.

 

The National Enquirer helped get Donald Trump elected President by posting articles complimentary to him and smearing his opponents.

Articles like the one above, claiming “Hillary is going to Jail!” and Corrupt, Racist, Criminal!” were seen seen by millions of people as they went through check-out lines in stores, painting a very negative image of Hillary in the minds of millions of people.

Decades-Old Housing Discrimination Case Plagues Donald Trump

In the 1970s, the U.S. Department of Justice sued Donald Trump, his father and Trump Management, alleging the Trumps engaged in racial discrimination at their properties.

The claim that Hillary is a Racist was a total lie. Hillary was always an advocate & defender of minorities… the same cannot be said for Trump. Apparently Trump was pissed off that people were calling him a Racist, so he retaliated by calling Hillary a Racist, then the National Enquirer printed the “Corrupt, Racist, Criminal” edition to help Trump.

 

Throughout Trump’s campaign, Trump and his supporters followed in the footsteps of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels by accusing opponents of that of which Trump was guilty.

 

National Enquirer helped Trump and Went after rivals

 

Trump’s Hush Money Payment Came Right Before Election

 

Tracing Publisher of the National Enquirer, David Pecker’s Connection to Trump

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/01/national-enquirer-owner-trump-campaign-491557

Per the above article:

National Enquirer owner pays $187,500 for aiding Trump campaign in hush money deal. The firm that owns the National Enquirer has agreed to pay $187,500 to the Federal Election Commission to settle complaints that it unlawfully aided Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 by suppressing the story of an actress who said she had a sexual relationship with Trump.

The FEC concluded that American Media Inc., now known as A360 Media LLC, made an illegal corporate contribution to Trump’s campaign by paying Karen McDougal $150,000 to give up the rights to her story about Trump.

AMI and its former chief, David Pecker, initially argued through attorneys that they acted as journalists in making the deal with McDougal. However, in 2018 the firm and Pecker entered into a non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors in New York, stipulating that the arrangement was intended to influence the 2016 presidential election.

 

Trump Consulted On National Enquirer Stories To Smear His Political Opponents

Michael Cohen, former personal attorney to Donald Trump, talks with Rachel Maddow about the stories in his new book, “Disloyal,” including how Donald Trump was looped in on stories run in the National Enquirer to hurt his political opponents.

 

When Ted Cruz threaten Trump as the GOP front-runner, the Enquirer published a cover story on Cruz headlined “Ted Cruz’s Father Linked to JFK Assassination”

A Wall Street Journal article titled “National Enquirer Shielded Donald Trump From Playboy Model’s Affair Allegation” and claimed in the article that the Enquirer “agreed to pay $150,000 to a former Playboy centerfold model for her story of an affair but then didn’t publish it”

 

Articles by the National Enquirer about Trump were always Pro-Trump, with no mention about how Trump lies with impunity, his failed businesses, bragging about grabbing women by the pussy or anything negative about him.

The National Enquirer did everything possible to help Trump get elected.

 

National Enquirer shredded Trump documents, Ronan Farrow book claims

Shredding allegedly took place in first week of December 2016 but publisher American Media calls story ‘completely untrue’

 

National Enquirer Keeps Stories About President Donald Trump Locked In Safe

David Pecker, the publisher of the National Enquirer has been granted immunity in the Cohen probe. Chris Jansing explains what Pecker’s cooperation means for President Trump.

 

National Enquirer publisher fined $187,500 for helping Trump campaign

The owner of the tabloid National Enquirer was fined $187,000 for illegal payments it made to kill a damaging story against Donald Trump in 2016.

Per the above article; “The Federal Election Commission fined the publisher of the National Enquirer $187,000 for payments the tabloid made to hide a story about former President Donald Trump’s ex-mistress while letting Trump and his campaign officials skirt any penalties.

The FEC reached a settlement with the publisher after a complaint from the watchdog group Common Cause, which released the details of the agency’s settlement. The FEC similarly recently declined to bring charges against Trump for directing payments of $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels, who claims she had sex with Trump.

In 2018, the owner of A360 Media LLC, then known as American Media Inc., admitted to paying $150,000 to former Playboy model Karen McDougal for exclusive rights to scandalous information about Trump. It was also later found that Trump had attended meetings with the tabloid owner prior to the media group intervening in the story.

Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer, pleaded guilty to counts of campaign finance violations related to payments of the two women in 2018. Trump denies having relations with either woman”.

 

Trump Hush Money to Stormy Daniels Campaign Finance Violation

The above video explains how personal attorney / fixer Michael Cohen paid “hush money” to porn star Stormy Daniels days before the 2016 Presidential Election on Trump’s behalf which NY prosecutors claim is a Campaign Finance Violation. Fixer Michael Cohen served over 1 year in prison for being a co-conspirator for this offense.

This has nothing to do with Politics. This is about violating Campaign Finance laws.

 

Trump could be indicted under New Your State Law for a hush money payment Cohen arranged to porn actress Stormy Daniels on Trump’s behalf days before the 2016 presidential election.