It's taken me a while to get my head around the prosecution's case and it seems to be that Donald's payment via Cohen to Daniels & Co represented a campaign overspend because it was in furtherance of his campaign aims and therefore he hid this by falsifying business records - a misdemeanour which becomes a felony because it was committed in pursuance of another crime.
Therefore if Donald can convince the jury that his primary motivation was to hide his affair from his wife and hiding it from the public was just a consequential secondary benefit then he might get off. This theory was, according to the Guardian (see here) given some credence by Donald's former communications director Hope Hicks.
On the down side for Trump she confirmed that he was aware of the payments and it is rather a lot of money to fork out just to keep something from your wife... then again the cash would've been small change to Donald... it seems though from other testimony that like all great misers the cash had to be extracted slowly from him by Cohen.
Much of the rest of the evidence this week is quite boring because much of it was already in the public domain ... I must say I feel somewhat conflicted in that while there is a case here it doesn't exactly feel like a hill of beans ... but with Trump's other cases being kicked down the road by the Supreme Court it's all that's likely to happen before the election .... unless, of course, Trump carries on committing blatant criminal contempt in which case the Judge may be forced to give him a short prison term for his continued attacks on witnesses and jurors...
The question has also been raised of how would the state practically imprison him due to the security implications with answers as weird as build him his own prison (like the Master in the Sea Devils) or perhaps the Island of Elba is available for our modern Napoleon ...or maybe Guantanamo Bay?
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