Meidas Touch: Stormy Day For Donald J. Trump

Source:Meidas Touch looking at the Stormy day (pun intended) for Donald J. Trump.

"MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the first part of the testimony at Donald Trump’s criminal trial by the witness he feared the most." 

From the Meidas Touch

"The prosecutors are taking special delight in using TRUMP’S own quotes from his books about KNOWING EVERY DETAIL ABOUT HIS COMPANY down to his penny-pinching, & paper clip counting, to prove that Michael Cohen got fraudulently repaid for paying Stormy Daniels WITH TRUMP’s KNOWLEGE and CONSENT. Michael Popok breaks down the testimony to the jury of Random House executive managing editor Sally Franklin in front of an increasingly frustrated Trump." 

Source:Meidas Touch looking at the Stormy day (pun intended) for Donald J. Trump.

From the Meidas Touch

As my colleague Fred Schneider wrote yesterday: 

"And then again as a non-lawyer, I would like the alleged affairs with Stephanie Clifford and Karen McDougal actually get established in court, so the defense can't argue that these women with their lawyer Keith Davidson, we're extorting Donald Trump." 

From The New Democrat

As I wrote yesterday: 

"I'm with Fred, I want these affairs with Stephanie Clifford and Karen McDougal to be factually established. But maybe in this "perfect omelette" you want both bacon and perhaps chili as well. And if I'm the Manhattan District Attorney, I want both the bacon and chili, not to make my omelette perfect. (One or the other would be fine though) But to make the criminal case against Donald J. Trump perfect." 

From The New Democrat

As my colleague Fred Schneider wrote earlier today: 

"Now that the Manhattan District Attorney is at let's say the 5 yard line (to use a football reference) as far as establishing that Donald Trump not only knew about the payments to Stephanie Clifford (also known as Stormy Daniels) and Karen McDougal, but why they were made, the prosecution now wants to establish the affairs actually happened as well. So the defense can't argue that their client was being extorted. ..

From The New Democrat

I don't want to sound like CNN legal analyst Ellie Honig here, (and I promise this will be last the time I paraphrase him on this post) but when you are looking at cases like this, it helps to look at it from the perspective of a juror on the case. Whether you think Donald J. Trump is greater than Jesus Christ, or worst than Satan, (and you know where The New Democrat is on that question) if you are going to vote to convict or acquit, you want to make sure you have enough evidence to do either first. And you are not there simply to trash Donald Trump and ruin his life, or to save him. 

I only mention that, to try to knock you out into a coma. I'm trying to see how many insomniacs I can put to asleep. Even just for a day. Actually, I have a legitimate reason for that as well. We're now starting to see the heart of the Manhattan District Attorney's case: 

Manhattan has established that Donald Trump not only knew about Stephanie Clifford (also known as Stormy Daniels) not only knew her not just in 2016 (that Trump Tower meeting a good clue there) but they now established that he met her back in 2006 at the Lake Tahoe golf show that she was talking about. 

Manhattan has established that the Trump Campaign was freaking out about the public, perhaps especially Republican suburban and urban women and Independents, about these affairs coming out before the 2016 presidential election. Not what Mr. Trump's wife and son Barron would think about these stories. 

Manhattan has established that Karen McDougal and Stephanie Clifford were paid off to keep silent about these stories, at least until after the 2016 election. And they're damn close to proving beyond a reasonable doubt, that he knew not only that these payments were made, but why they were made. 

If you are familiar with the phrase details matter: well, you should be because they do. You don't just have Stephanie Clifford on the witness stand that she had an affair with Mr. Trump, or that she banged him (to be frank) but you have her up there talking about exactly how they met and what they did that night according to her. 

Stephanie Clifford gave the jury deep details about how Mr. Trump and one of his assistants got her up to his suite and that he wanted (my words) like  the 16 year old guy whose never got any before, trying to impress the hot girl in school, by trying to look like Hugh Hefner with his white robe. With her basically telling him that he looked ridiculous and asking him to put a shirt on. As well as her asking him: 

"Aren't you worried about your wife finding out about us having sex?"And according to Clifford, Trump saying that they sleep in separate bedrooms". I guess suggesting that Melania wouldn't care.

Again, we're not lawyers here. But if the Manhattan District Attorney not only prove that Donald Trump not only knew about the payments, knew why they were being made, and signed off on them, (and hopefully they can do that before Michael Cohen takes the stand) and that he wasn't being extorted by Karen McDougal and Stephanie Clifford, they're going to get their felony convictions. And they're having an excellent week so far in achieving all of that. 

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