Source:Meidas Touch– left to right: Manhattan Criminal Judge Juan Merchan & Defendant Don.

Source:The New Democrat

“Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo on the Legal AF podcast debate: the end of the NY Trump trial, including whether the judge’s decision that the prosecution doesn’t have to prove one particular second crime in order for Trump to be convicted of a felony, is an advantage for the prosecution.”

From the Meidas Touch

I’m not a lawyer, so bare with me. (If you must) But Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Brooklyn defense attorney Arthur Aidala were on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 about a month ago talking about this exact same issue. And even Aidala admitted that Friedman Agnifilo was very informative and helpful in explaining the Manhattan DA’s theory for this case. That they’re arguing that the Trump Campaign back in October, 2016, were committing misdemeanors (in this case filing false business records) to commit a felony. (This case election fraud)

So if two NYPD detectives were in a suspect’s apartment with a search warrant looking for illegal narcotics and they go in there and the suspect is assaulting someone. Even though they didn’t go into the apartment looking for evidence about a criminal assault, they can still not just complete their legal search, but they can arrest the suspect for assault as well. That’s a similar example. Police evidence see another crime happening, while they’re looking for evidence to another crime.

What the Manhattan DA is arguing to this jury is that Donald J. Trump filed false business records, to cover up his illegal campaign contributions to his own 2016 presidential campaign.

DJT paid off Stephanie Clifford (also known as Stormy Daniels) and Karen McDougal, to keep them quiet about the alleged affairs that they had with them, so they wouldn’t make their stories public before the 2016 election. And he filed those payments as legal expenses to his then lawyer Michael Cohen. So yes he’s guilty of filing false business records, which is a misdemeanor in New York. But it’s also a felony because the 150,000 dollar campaign contributions to his own campaign is illegal on two counts: the contributions were too high under New York law and he failed to report them.