Trump Hush-Money Case Got Two New Witnesses--and It's Not Looking Good
Former associates of Donald Trump, look outthe Manhattan District Attorneys Office is lining up witnesses as his hush-money trial is set to begin.
Rhona Graff, Trumps 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 Trumps interference in the 2020 election.
In addition, Deborah Tarasoff, a former employee in the Trump Organizations accounting department, as well Jeffrey McConney, the organizations onetime controller, will likely be called to testify. They all join the most well-known name on this list: Michael Cohen, Trumps former fixer and personal attorney.
The list extends beyond Trumps 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
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,496 posts)rubbersole
(6,723 posts)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.
Delmette2.0
(4,169 posts)I have to plan with baseball game.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,496 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,169 posts)meow2u3
(24,771 posts)But they do report outside the courtroom. I can't wait for the fun to begin.
HighFired49
(351 posts)? Looking pretty good to me! I hope it goes really badly for him.
catnipcoffee
(16 posts)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)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)wife and then having David Pecker buy their silence is not a good look. All of that will be in the news every day.
LiberalFighter
(51,054 posts)Aviation Pro
(12,184 posts)Tetrachloride
(7,865 posts)samsingh
(17,600 posts)SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)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)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)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)Put him on the witness stand and see the Montreal test on display. This imbecile confirms the IQ test metrics.
moniss
(4,274 posts)the National Enquirer people.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,138 posts)He is in prison throwing freezing cold water all over the case by Bragg.