Prosecutors mentioned in court docket that they’ve a barrage of emails and cellphone calls to help their allegation that Trump entered into an unlawful hush cash conspiracy.
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Throughout their opening assertion, prosecutors advised the court docket, “You’re going to
see the flurry of text messages, the barrage of phone calls around that meeting.”
CNN’s Dana Bash reacted, “That is fascinating. Very much giving a window into the fact that it’s not just going to be Michael Cohen’s word, or somebody else’s word. Prosecutors are going to bring receipts.”
These receipts are the issue for Donald Trump in this case. Trump’s attorneys will assault the credibility of the witnesses, however what they will battle to defend in opposition to is the bodily proof that Donald Trump engaged in unlawful habits.
It isn’t Trump’s phrase versus Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels, and different witnesses. It’s Trump’s phrase with no bodily proof to again him.
The massive factor that some overlook about this case is that there’s a lot of bodily proof in opposition to Trump, and the way profitable the protection is at explaining away that proof will decide whether or not or not the ex-president is convicted.
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