Former President Trump posted on social media Friday night. to condemn strongly He suggested to the judge presiding over the hush money trial that the charges in the case were based simply on a “bookkeeping error.”
“The bookkeeping error for which I am being wrongfully and unconstitutionally charged is the fact that my bookkeeper, innocently and correctly, called ‘legal fees’ paid to my attorneys ‘legal expenses,'” Trump wrote to Truth Social about payments to former fixer Michael Cohen. “More simply, I called the legal expenses ‘legal expenses.'”
“What else can I call you?” he asked. [President Biden] “It’s an election interference hoax!!!”
Former President Trump, who faces 34 charges of falsifying business records in the case, is accused of making the payment to Cohen to compensate him for the hush money he paid porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 to keep quiet about an alleged affair that Trump has denied.
“When the disgraceful District Attorney and his minions continue to talk about ‘bookkeeping errors’ and ‘crimes,’ with the full approval of highly vested Judge Juan Marchan and the unscrupulous Joe Biden Administration that is leading the trial for election interference, what they are referring to is the fact that a bookkeeper with no influence or discussion from me correctly called payments to attorneys for legal fees litigation fees,” Trump said. continuation during a rant on Friday.
“In other words, I was indicted because an accountant who had no connection to me entered legal fees to lawyers as ‘legal expenses’ through a drop-down menu in a ledger,” he added.
His latest attack on Marchant comes as the trial, the first criminal trial of a former and sitting president, nears its end, with both sides wrapping up their arguments earlier this week. Closing statements are scheduled for next Tuesday, after which jury deliberations will begin.
In all, 22 witnesses took the stand over 16 days of testimony, including Cohen and Daniels.
The former president, who is considered a possible Republican presidential candidate, reiterated his belief that the lawsuit was a political attack by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
“…Because of this ridiculous charge, millions of dollars have been spent persecuting a popular President (who received the most votes of any President in history!) and the current poll leader against his Democratic opponent, the villainous Joe Biden. Without Biden, no lawsuits would have been filed,” Trump said. I wrote on Friday In another post.
“Another judge would not have allowed this fraud to occur, and neither would DA Bragg nor any other branch of government have attempted to create it,” he argued. “We are fighting a rigged New York ‘justice’ system. It’s a witch hunt!”
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