The Hush Money Trial Witness List Is Trump Worst Living Nightmare

The potential witness listing for the prosecution within the Trump hush cash case is a complete nightmare for the defendant ex-president.

Ari Melber described the listing on MSNBC:

We all know Trump aides who’ve flipped are key to the D.A.’s case, like Michael Cohen. At present one educated supply says the D.A. It’s more likely to name huge names we’ve heard about like Cohen, Hope Hicks, perhaps Stormy Daniel occurs, and people are potential witnesses, there’s no formal listing that comes out in a written method through the trial, and there are stories, and the folks on the display screen have direct contact with Trump. They bring about that to the witness stand.

If you happen to adopted sufficient Trump controversies it’s possible you’ll keep in mind one of many methods his workforce tries to discredit folks is that they didn’t know something. They weren’t there and generally the phrase rumour will get thrown round. Nobody will likely be giving a second hand assertion. They’ll all speak about being within the room when it occurred.

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These witnesses would make sense, and we received’t know till the trial begins. a few of the identical reporting suggests different D.A. witnesses embrace much less well-known people who had been additionally essential to telling the jury what actually occurred, and they’re folks from the very particular rough-and-tumble world of New York tabloids. Individuals who ran the Nationwide Enquirer on the key time again in 2016. The folks in your display screen are extremely important as to whether or not Donald Trump is convicted of a felony and presumably sentenced to jail. So they won’t be as well-known as different folks, and fame and tv time isn’t all it’s cracked as much as be. These are three folks that may matter a ton and I’ll get into why, proper now. David Pecker and Dylan Howard mainly ran “The Enquirer.” They’re central to the case that there was a recognized, formal and financed legal plot to catch and kill these tales.

The opposite title you see there, Keith Davidson, it’s possible you’ll keep in mind, was Stormy Daniels’ lawyer at one level. Let’s begin with the tabloid chief pecker, he’s one of many chief folks that Cohen’s workforce says will corroborate Michael Cohen’s damning story towards Trump. 

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Ari Melber, “We all know Trump aides who’ve flipped are key to the DA’s case like Michael Cohen. At present one educated supply says the D.A. Is more likely to name huge names we’ve heard about like Cohen, Hope Hicks, perhaps Stormy Danielx.” pic.twitter.com/2gSNaogLXs

— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April 11, 2024

It’s like all of the folks that Trump did fallacious within the hush cash case have come again to testify towards him. If this listing is correct the DA has everybody and other people to corroborate the tales of different witnesses.

The witness listing is a nightmare for Donald Trump and when it’s paired with the mountain of bodily proof, it turns into clear why even the ex-president’s allies anticipate him to be convicted.

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Jason is the managing editor. He’s additionally a White Home Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Diploma in Political Science. His graduate work targeted on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.

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