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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,170 posts)
Mon Apr 8, 2024, 09:41 PM Apr 8

Trump Hush-Money Case Got Two New Witnesses--and It's Not Looking Good

Former associates of Donald Trump, look out—the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is lining up witnesses as his hush-money trial is set to begin.

Rhona Graff, Trump’s former assistant, and Madeleine Westerhout, his former director of Oval Office operations, are expected to testify in the trial, ABC News reported Monday, citing anonymous sources. They will join Hope Hicks, the former White House communications director and onetime aide to Trump, who has already testified before a grand jury investigating Trump’s interference in the 2020 election.

In addition, Deborah Tarasoff, a former employee in the Trump Organization’s accounting department, as well Jeffrey McConney, the organization’s onetime controller, will likely be called to testify. They all join the most well-known name on this list: Michael Cohen, Trump’s former fixer and personal attorney.

The list extends beyond Trump’s ex-employees. David Pecker, a former executive with American Media Inc., will likely testify, as well as National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard. American Media Inc. used to own the tabloid newspaper, and prosecutors say both Howard and Pecker were involved in “catch and kill” methods to keep negative stories about Trump from spreading during his 2016 presidential campaign.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-hush-money-case-got-203827665.html

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Trump Hush-Money Case Got Two New Witnesses--and It's Not Looking Good (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 8 OP
This will be fun to watch/follow LetMyPeopleVote Apr 8 #1
Yes.🍿 rubbersole Apr 9 #3
Will this trial be televised? Delmette2.0 Apr 9 #5
No but there will live coverage LetMyPeopleVote Apr 9 #7
Thank you. Delmette2.0 Apr 9 #14
New York State doesn't televise trials meow2u3 Apr 9 #19
---and It's Not Looking Good HighFired49 Apr 9 #17
Yet anothr media cirus in 3..., 2... catnipcoffee Apr 8 #2
Oh, he'll be whining and complaining PatSeg Apr 9 #6
Screwing pornstars while your wife is pregnant and making babies with women who are not your emulatorloo Apr 9 #11
It will have to be someone living in a cave that doesn't hear this. LiberalFighter Apr 9 #12
Castillo would like a word Aviation Pro Apr 9 #4
"Not looking good" - says The New Republic Tetrachloride Apr 9 #8
not looking good for whom? Justice? the traitor? are these stupid headlines ai generated? samsingh Apr 9 #18
Don't be nervous, remember: SayItLoud Apr 9 #9
Sing you song birds sing Botany Apr 9 #10
It's campaign workers who are going to know and hopefully testify to what happened FakeNoose Apr 9 #13
The tide is up and he's not holding on Eddie18 Apr 9 #15
I don't trust moniss Apr 9 #16
Had to turn off Ari Melber's talk with Avenatti SleeplessinSoCal Apr 9 #20

rubbersole

(6,723 posts)
3. Yes.🍿
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 12:22 AM
Apr 9

It is fun to watch and this summer looks like non-stop shitshow city. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. Gonna miss 'em ...and they don't understand what being "owned" really means.

meow2u3

(24,771 posts)
19. New York State doesn't televise trials
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 07:27 PM
Apr 9

But they do report outside the courtroom. I can't wait for the fun to begin.

catnipcoffee

(16 posts)
2. Yet anothr media cirus in 3..., 2...
Mon Apr 8, 2024, 10:03 PM
Apr 8

I can't help but imagine that he'll find a way to turn this into yet another encore of the "woe is me, they're all out to get me. I'm so tragic. Gimme cash" chorus.

When they finally do get around to locking him up, I hope they don't throw away the key. I hope they encase it in Lucite, fly over the ocean, and then "accidentally" let it slip out the window over the Mariana Trench.

PatSeg

(47,573 posts)
6. Oh, he'll be whining and complaining
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 10:42 AM
Apr 9

until he draws his last breath, though I think the time will come when no one is listening besides the walls and perhaps a few cellmates. "Yeah, yeah man, everyone in here is innocent. We've all been framed."

emulatorloo

(44,175 posts)
11. Screwing pornstars while your wife is pregnant and making babies with women who are not your
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 11:54 AM
Apr 9

wife and then having David Pecker buy their silence is not a good look. All of that will be in the news every day.

SayItLoud

(1,702 posts)
9. Don't be nervous, remember:
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 11:25 AM
Apr 9

The DA knows EXACTLY how these potential witnesses will testify. The cross will try to ruin their credibility but they can't ruin all of them.

Botany

(70,567 posts)
10. Sing you song birds sing
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 11:52 AM
Apr 9
&t=17s

Trump is in for 2 straight months of having to be made to be in front of a Manhattan Court Room
for 4 days a week as his crimes are showed to the world and his face.

FakeNoose

(32,726 posts)
13. It's campaign workers who are going to know and hopefully testify to what happened
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 12:19 PM
Apr 9

Hope Hicks worked on Chump's campaign, and she was there when it all went down. Whether Rhona Graff or Madeleine Westerhout actually worked on the campaign or got hired later after Chump was elected, I don't know.

By the time Chump moved into the White House, the payoffs were already done and he thought he got away with it. So the White House staffers wouldn't have witnessed anything.

Michael Cohen gave the names of at least some of the women who accepted the bribes. It would be nice if those people were invited to testify. Steve Bannon (and maybe Kushner?) had a ring-side seat to this event.

Eddie18

(44 posts)
15. The tide is up and he's not holding on
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 02:50 PM
Apr 9

Put him on the witness stand and see the Montreal test on display. This imbecile confirms the IQ test metrics.

SleeplessinSoCal

(9,138 posts)
20. Had to turn off Ari Melber's talk with Avenatti
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 07:38 PM
Apr 9

He is in prison throwing freezing cold water all over the case by Bragg.

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