Source:MSNBC with a look at Defendant Don in court.

Source:The New Democrat

“Ex-National Enquirer publisher David Pecker spells out details of a “catch-and-kill” scheme in former President Trump’s hush money trial. Former FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissman and former Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Catherine Christian provide their expertise.”

From MSNBC

As someone who is looking at this case as a non-lawyer, I think the Manhattan District Attorney has a very specific mission to accomplish here. Not just get a conviction of Donald J. Trump, but convict him of a felony, multiple felonies.

Even if the Manhattan DA wins on all 34 misdemeanors, Defendant Don wins, at least politically. But, if they prove that he committed real felonies under New York law by:

They show that he had an affair with Stormy Daniels and perhaps Karen McDougal as well, but that he not just tried to cover up those affairs with hush money.

And not just try to prevent his wife Melania and his son Barron from finding out about these affairs, but to prevent the voters, especially Independents, as well as Republican college educated, urban and suburban women from finding out about these affairs, before they voted in 2016

As well as covered up these affairs and did that with illegal political contributions to his his own 2016 presidential campaign, that he didn’t even report, which is another crime in New York

They can convict Defendant Don of election interference as well, which is a felony in New York.

And this David Pecker-Michael Cohen link with the hush money payments is a direct way to move the ball down that road.