including, american media inc.'s business records. one of the three people they paid to keep quite was a woman named stormy daniels. less than two weeks before the presidential election michael: wired $130,000 to stormy daniels's office -- lawyer to hide information from the public. the participant's scheme was illegal. violating new york election law that makes it a crime to conspire to promote a candidacy by unlawful means. the wire payment exceeded the federal campaign conservation cap and the false statements in ami's books violated new york law. that is why mr. trump made false statements about his payments to michael cohen. he cannot simply say the payments were a reimbursement for michael cohen's payments to stormy daniels. to do so, to make that true statement would have been to admit a crime. instead, mr. trump said he was paying michael cohen for the stick -- fictitious legal services in 2017 to cover up actual legal crime made the prior year. in order to get michael cohen his money back they plan one last false statement. i

donald trump, executives at the publishing company, american media inc., mr. cohen and others agreed in 2015 to a catch and kill scheme. that is a scheme to buy and suppress negative information to help mr. trump's chance of winning the election. as part of this scheme, donald trump and others made three payments from people who claimed to have negative information about mr. trump. to make these payments, they set up shell companies and they made it yet more false statements, including for example ami, america media inc. business records. one of the people they paid to keep quiet was a woman named stormy daniels. less then two weeks before the presidential election, michael cohen wired 130 thousand dollars to stormy daniels lawyer. that payment was to hide damaging information from the voting public. the participant scheme was illegal. the scheme violated new york election law, which makes it a crime to conspire, promote a candidacy by unlawful means. the $130,000 wire payment exceeded the federal contribution cap and the false statements in ami's books violat

everything, allegedly a deal concluded between trump and david packer over the publishing house american media incthis was in 2015. that is, at the start of the presidential campaign of the future forty-fifth head of the white house at a meeting, the ceo of ama agreed to help with the respondent's election campaign, stating that he would act as the eyes and ears of the company. track negative stories about the defendant and alerting the lawyer, and before these stories are published, the southern new york prosecutor's office claims to have knowledge of at least three episodes. the first concerns the janitor, the trumpeter of a certain dean sajudin, he was allegedly paid 30,000 dollars for silence, and the story of a certain illegitimate child of trump is a fabricated story. the already well-known pornographic actress stornelsendi, the accused repeatedly falsely testified in business reports. new york. he also forced others to make false claims. why donald trump repeatedly made these false claims based on the evidence. he did this to cover up crime related to the 2016 election. with the addition of

donald trump, ecutives at the publishing company american media inc., mr.ohen and others agreed in 20 to a catch and kill scheme. that is a sche to buy and suppress negative information to help mr. trump's chance of winning the election. as part of this scheme, donald trump and others made three payments to people who claims to have negative information about mr. trump. to make these payments, they set up shell companies and they made yet more false statements, including in ami business records. one of the three people they paid to keep quiet was a woman named stormy daniels. less than two weeks before the election, michael cohen wired $130,000 to stormy daniels lawyer. that payment was to hide damaging information from the voting public. the participants scheme was illegal. the scheme violated new york election law, which makes it a crime to conspire to promote a candidacy by unlawful means. the $130,000 wire payment exceeded the federal payment contribution cap. and the false statements in ami 's books violated new york law. that is why mr. trump made fal

, a statement of facts that details a much broader array of events that include payments by american media inc, the former publisher of "national enquirer" to playboy model karen mcdougal who says that she had an affair with trump. why did district attorney bragg not include any of the additional details in the indictment? - so that's a really interesting thing that's a peculiarity of new york law. in the federal system, all of this would've been in one document, very, very lengthy document that tells a really lengthy story and at the end of it, there are the charges. well, here it's basically split in two. you have sort of the story of what happened and then you have a charging instrument, which is the indictment. so, that's why you sort of have these two separate pieces but they obviously are gonna be read togeth. - indictments aren't static. is there a chance there could be more charges in the future? - yes. so, you know, pure speculation, but maybe educated speculation. i was interested in sort of two things that happened at the arraignment yesterday, which have to do with scheduling. so,

. >> donald trump, executives that american media inc., michael cohen and others agreed in 2015 to ach and kill scheme, a scheme to buy and suppress negative information to help mr. trump's chance of winning the election. shery: that is the manhattan da alvin bragg. our next guest says we all need to see the evidence on top of the charges. joining us as douglas heye from craft digital. i think you so much for joining us today. what was your take away from today's court proceedings. >> two things. these are mostly felony charges, one including a conspiracy charge. conspiracy felony charges, judges and juries viewed the most serious. the next hearing will be in december, which means this will be a very long process. shery: what questions do you have now that we have seen the charges? do we have any answers to where this might lead eventually? >> we still have more questions than we have answers. legally, we do not know what evidence the da will put forward. what prosecution is preparing to say about donald trump. we saw the press conference, but what is about specific evidence that fit

again, the allegation, a company that's a separate corporation, not the trump organization, american media inc. paid money to a former trump tower doorman who claimed to have a child out of wedlock not proven. >> i need to interrupt you trump's lawyer speaking outside the courthouse. >> you don't expect to this happen to somebody who was the president of the united states, and on the one hand -- on the one hand, there's not really any surprises. i know there was a lot of talk over the past several weeks and the past several days about what's going to be in this indictment and what's going to be there that we don't know. there must be something besides who we have been talking about for the past four, pfive years there wasn't there's nothing. the indictment itself is boilerplate. it doesn't allege any federal crime, any state crime that's been violated. it doesn't allege what the false statement is and it's really isappointing it's sad and we're going the fight it >> can you tell us what mr. trump's reaction was >> were you surprised by anything in the indictment >> no. >> how about you, joe? >

conspiracy between the former president michael cohen has fixer and david pecker, the ceo of a american media inchat owned the national enquirer and the conspiracy that they for the criminal conspiracy that they formed together to catch and kill. negative stories to promote positive stories about mr trump and negative ones about his opponents. and it was all about that and then falsifying business records. john swing business records, maybe the technical crime, but i think it dramatically under sells the context, right? i mean, we're talking here about trying to keep information from the american people weeks before days before the election that could have absolutely swayed the election in a different direction. that's the context here and if a democrat had done, this would be an entirely you know, there'd be there'd be a righteous outrage course from republicans and they have a point. so i mean, i understand that this is about banking records. but the context the reason it might matters is because it could have been the arc of american history in a fundamental way by that hush money payments and

conspiracy between the former president michael cohen has fixer and david pecker, the ceo of a american media incthat owned the national enquirer and the conspiracy that they for the criminal conspiracy that they formed together to catch and kill. negative stories to promote positive stories about mr trump and negative ones about his opponents. and it was all about that and then falsifying business records. john swing business records, maybe the technical crime, but i think it dramatically under sells the context, right? i mean, we're talking here about trying to keep information from the american people weeks before days before the election that could have absolutely swayed the election in a different direction. that's the context here and if a democrat had done, this would be an entirely you know, there'd be there'd be a righteous outrage course from republicans and they have a point. so i mean, i understand that this is about banking records. but the context the reason it might matters is because it could have been the arc of american history in a fundamental way by that hush money payments. a

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american media inc, orami, paid $30,000 to a former trump tower doorman, who claimed to have a storyatching the preparations being made at laguardia airport for the plaintiff taxiway to take them to mar—a—lago. do we know what is going to be in the speech night? do we know who is going to be there? it will be interesting to see who turns out there? it will be interesting to see who turns ou— who turns out that's right, christian _ who turns out that's right, christian i _ who turns out that's right, christian i expect - who turns out that's right, christian i expect it - who turns out that's right, christian i expect it will. who turns out that's right, christian i expect it will be who turns out that's right, - christian i expect it will be very similar— christian i expect it will be very similar to — christian i expect it will be very similar to how donald trump announced back in november he was going _ announced back in november he was going to _ announced back in november he was going to run — announced back in november he was going to run once more for the white houso _ going to

media accounts as a prominent online voice supporting russia's war in ukraine describing it among the most widely followed inc. dmrish language media outlets promoting russia's views all run by an americannding to be a russian and with "the wall street journal" is reporting now is amazing on a few different levels you know the classified documents that were allegedly posted online on that gaming server, that discord gaming server by that 21-year-old massachusetts air national guardsman, part of the mystery around that story has not just been how did a kid who looks like he's 11 get access to documents that secret? another part of the logistical mystery has been the timing of it all because this young man allegedly posted all these documents, classified documents, he posted them online starting in december and january. but they didn't come to public attention until much later, until this month well, according to "the wall street journal" part of the reason that happened the way it did, part of the reason these documents finally came to public attention after languishing on this gaming discord server where nobody was noticing them is because one particular social media account with a big