“As soon as I saw the news that the Soros-DA indicted President Trump, I immediately made a donation to 45/47’s campaign,” the former Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake tweeted Thursday night. They are helping him leverage an indictment to raise money for his campaign. Yet with Trump now facing his own complicated and explosive legal battle, one that coincides with his bid to retake the White House, his fiercest allies are not only defending him in the public sphere. In 2018, he pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance laws, lying to Congress, and other charges of fraud and tax evasion. NBC News reported Friday that his office is planning to bring roughly 30 counts against him.Ĭohen himself served jail time over the matter and other offenses. It is not clear yet what charges Bragg is filing against Trump.
Read More: Live Updates on Trump’s Indictmentįalsification of financial records is a misdemeanor under New York State law, but is elevated to a felony if the falsification is in furtherance of another crime. Cohen alleges that Trump then reimbursed him for the same amount in a number of installments, but falsely recorded those disbursements as legal fees. Trump’s lawyer at the time, Michael Cohen, paid Daniels $130,000 in the weeks before the election, when she was on the cusp of sharing her story with the National Enquirer. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, accepted the payments after she agreed not to go public before the 2016 election about an alleged tryst between the two. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment, which remains under seal, stems from allegations that Trump knowingly falsified financial records to cover up payouts to silence adult film actress Stormy Daniels. “He will be mug-shot and fingerprinted,” Dershowitz said. One of the former president’s ardent defenders in the press, emeritus Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, told Newsmax Thursday night that the mug shot might be used as a campaign poster for his presidential campaign. Trump’s arrest may provide the next big boost to his campaign’s coffers, as Trump’s base views his legal woes as evidence of his political persecution. While the grand jury continued to meet for more than a week past that date, the timing of the actual indictment on Thursday was fortuitous: Friday night marks the Federal Election Commission’s fundraising deadline for the year’s first quarterly reports. He raked in $1.5 million in three days after announcing on March 18 that he was going to be arrested the following Tuesday. Trump had already found success earlier this month fundraising off the prospect of his indictment.
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