Each page yesterday took him just a little more than a minute, so this will take >30 mins.
Between that & the testimony readbacks, also expected to take >30 mins, there will likely be >1 hour this morning w/the jury in the courtroom, not actively deliberating.
All 12 jurors must agree to find #Trump#guilty in order to #convict him of any one of the #felonies w/which he has been charged: 34 counts of falsifying business records. The judge in the case, Juan M. #Merchan, repeatedly made this clear, saying in his instructions to the #jury: “Each count you consider, whether guilty or not guilty, must be #unanimous.”
#MichaelCohen has linked #Trump directly to the scheme to reimburse him for the #StormyDaniels#HushMoney payment, which forms the basis for the falsification of business records charges. And he has said that Trump was personally concerned that Daniels's story, if it got out, could affect his chances w/ female voters, which speaks directly to the underlying election #conspiracy statute that elevates those charges from misdemeanors to #felonies.
#MichaelCohen has now testified that he, #Trump & David #Pecker, the publisher of The #NationalEnquirer, entered into a plot to suppress negative stories about Trump. He says Pecker "would be able to help us to know in advance what was coming out" & try to stop it from doing so.
This is the #conspiracy prosecutors allege Trump participated in - 1 of the potential #crimes that transforms the charges Trump is facing into #felonies.
#Trump has a huge posse today, including #KashPatel; #GerryKassar, a #conservative party leader in NY; #BernieKerik, fmr NYPD commissioner who was imprisoned for tax fraud & false statements; #AlanDershowitz, lawyer who defended Trump during his first impeachment, & #BorisEpshteyn, legal adviser who was #indicted in AZ for attempts to keep Trump in power after the 2020 election.
Prosecutor #Colangelo argues “there’s nothing new at all” about their theory. The charges against #Trump are #felonies because he falsified business records to conceal another #crime. They signaled that other crime was seeking to promote his own #election "by unlawful means," in violation of state #ElectionLaw. That introduces a 3rd potential crime.
3 potential crimes, all wrapped into each of the 34 felony charges of falsifying business records.
His lawyer says it's unfair Eastman should have to fight #criminal charges in #Georgia w/o being able to earn money as a #lawyer to pay his #legal bills.
This is like a convicted drug dealer saying it’s unfair he can no longer sell crack because he has to pay his lawyer.
Fmr #Trump atty #JohnEastman's #attorney status in California has been updated to reflect that he's both charged with #felonies in #Georgia & marked for "inactive" status beginning Saturday as a result of his #disbarment ruling.
An account using the name & photo of #Michigan#BarryCounty Sheriff lawbreaker & [#ConspiracyTheorist] #DarLeaf released >2,100 pages of emails from employees of Dominion; the company says Leaf improperly accessed internal msgs via breach of a #CourtOrder.
#StefanieLambert has been been charged w/ 4 #felonies for participating in a #conspiracy to obtain & analyze voting equipment used in #Michigan's 2020 election. Lambert is currently facing a bench #warrant for her #arrest after not showing up for a court hearing in Oakland County on March 7.
A hearing in #PatrickByrne's #defamation case is scheduled to take place Mon afternoon in DC. #Dominion's lawyers are expected to bring up Lambert's release of the discovery docs.
#Trump may enlist #PaulManafort
…While no formal decision has been made, 4 people described the hiring as expected & said Trump was determined to bring #Manafort back into the fold.
Manafort worked for Trump in 2016 before being ousted & later #convicted of tax & bank #fraud#felonies as part of Robert #Mueller’s investigation into #Russia’s 2016 #ElectionInterference. He served time in #prison before receiving a #pardon in the final days of Trump’s presidency.
Violation of Section 241, Title 18 "The Stop The Count Scheme"
Experts, have focused on false electors, DOJ pressure, Pence pressure, and Capitol attack.
But there was a #scheme that preceded all these, and #DoJ can charge it. The scheme was the effort to "stop the count" on election night.
Donald Trump was told he would lose by his campaign before the election, he knew early counts would show him leading, he knew he would falsely claim victory before the votes were counted to spread his lies & incite his followers.
In a recording of Steve Bannon speaking to a group from China makes it clear that Trump had every intention of installing himself as dictator & subvert the will of the voters.
Listen to the plan, the #conspiracy to defraud the United States and it's citizens. #TheBigLie
Section 241 of Title 18 of US Code (deprivation of rights).
The Justice Department and court precedents under Section 241.
As we write:
"Conspiracies to prevent the proper counting of ballots in federal elections ... are within the heartland of Section 241 prosecutions."
United States v. Mosley, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the indictment of officers of a county election board who conspired to omit certain ballots from the vote count.
(Those facts sound familiar?)
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, wrote this about Section 241.👇
Those facts should sound familiar.
Because criminal defendant trump's premeditated plan to try to "stop the count" of ballots fits like a hand in glove with that and other Section 241 prosecutions.
Outline the factual chronology in depth in the article.