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Tristan Snell

@TristanSnell

Lawyer, legal commentator, fighter for democracy. Prosecuted Trump University @ NY AG. Commentator @ MSNBC, CNN. Author of the new book TAKING DOWN TRUMP.

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Not crimes:
- cheating
- hiding an affair
- trying to influence an election

CRIMES:
- making fake invoices
- failing to report campaign donations
- making fake invoices to hide the fact that you were making in-kind donations to your own campaign

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A gag order stops a defendant from intimidating witnesses and jurors.

The 5th Amendment guarantees a defendant the right to testify — or choose not to.

If Trump does not testify, it’s because he chooses not to — NOT because of a gag order.

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Stock market, four years ago and now:

March 23, 2020 — 18,591.93

Today — 39,908.00

But sure, go ahead and tell me how Joe Biden is bad for the economy 😂

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So the former prosecutor who popularized perp walks to humiliate criminal suspects and fry them in the tabloids while getting positive publicity for himself is now HIDING from prosecutors in Arizona where he’s been indicted for trying to overturn the 2020 election? Got it.

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Trump’s lawyers’ cross-examinations of Stormy and Cohen have been absolutely pointless from a legal perspective. They’re trying to make the witnesses look bad — but none of it is working.

I don’t think they’ve scored a single point with the jury. Total fail.

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Dear Mainstream Media:

STOP calling it the “hush money case”

It is a CAMPAIGN FINANCE case — and that’s the #1 crime for which politicians go to prison

Trump is accused of faking business records to cover up a campaign finance crime

THAT is what this case about

xoxo
America

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Reality check from NYC

There have only been a handful of pro-Trump supporters anywhere near the courthouse. Traffic has been normal.

The biggest issue? All the extra media trucks and camera crews.

Just another day in NYC — and another crooked NYC politician headed for prison.

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Stop over-analyzing the Trump case:

Exhibit A - the audio recording of Trump

Exhibit B - the checks to Cohen - signed by Trump

Trump ordered the whole scheme and literally signed off on the payments. It was clearly a cover-up to help save his campaign.

It’s just common sense.

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Donald Trump gave his team strict orders to chisel on every single invoice, for as little as a few thousand dollars.

Michael Cohen was paid $420,000 — and Trump signed the checks himself.

There is ZERO chance Trump didn’t direct and dictate those payments — personally.

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Why did Trump try to delay the Stormy Daniels payment?

Because it was October 2016 — right before the election.

If he won, he’d be president and would shrug it off. If he lost, it wouldn’t be a big story anymore.

THAT was why he was paying her off and covering it up.

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Who records a conversation with their boss?!?

People who are paying out of pocket to cover something up for their boss — and want to make sure their boss pays them back, that’s who.

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All of the steps of the Trump cover-up — list keeps growing as trial continues:

1) Shell company
2) Fake names
3) Fake invoices
4) Trump paid from slush fund
5) Invoice amount was “grossed up” as though it would be taxed
6) Invoices were chopped up into 11 monthly payments

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Trump claims the payments to Michael Cohen was for legal fees

But Cohen was IN-HOUSE! He was the general counsel of the Trump Organization. He had a salary.

You don’t pay “fees” to your salaried in-house counsel.

One more reason Trump’s excuse is garbage.

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Barron Trump is now an RNC delegate

By the end of this year, perhaps Barron Trump will be a fake Trump elector in Florida — after Biden wins Florida in November

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I find it rich that our judicial system is such that Stormy Daniels, E. Jean Carroll, and Fani Willis are being morality shamed by lawyers who are defending the biggest piece of shit misogynist that ever walked the earth.

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Stormy Daniels withstood the cross well

The more Trump’s lawyers tried to drag her, the more sympathy she’s going to get from jurors — the attempts to attack her will backfire

The prosecution has been winning the trial so far 🤞

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Judge Cannon’s rationale for indefinitely postponing Trump’s classified documents trial is that a large number of pretrial motions remain unresolved—a state of affairs she has literally engineered by failing to resolve them. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

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Who could possibly be opposed to an $8 cap on credit card fees?

Other than credit card companies.

Trump Republicans, that's who -- because the credit card companies have paid them $8,000,000 to oppose the cap.

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