Legal AF by MeidasTouch - NY CRIMINAL Prosecutors give Trump RUDE AWAKENING in Fraud Trial

Episode Date: October 25, 2023

Alvin Bragg sent his executive ADA who will be trying Trump in May to watch Michael Cohen testify in court. Former Prosecutor and Host of Legal AF, Karen Friedman Agnifilo reports. Go to https://GETQUIP.COM/LEGALAF right now, and get 20% off any Electric Toothbrush, Mint & Gum Dispenser, Water Flosser. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://pod.link/1510240831 Legal AF: https://pod.link/1580828595 The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://pod.link/1595408601 The Influence Continuum: https://pod.link/1603773245 Kremlin File: https://pod.link/1575837599 Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://pod.link/1530639447 The Weekend Show: https://pod.link/1612691018 American Psyop: https://pod.link/1652143101 Burn the Boats: https://pod.link/1485464343 Majority 54: https://pod.link/1309354521 Political Beatdown: https://pod.link/1669634407 Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://pod.link/1676844320 Uncovered: https://pod.link/1690214260 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New York State Attorney General, Latisha James, is trial against Donald Trump and his adult children and others is still going. It's in the fourth week now. And there have been lots of witnesses from both insiders inside the Trump organization, as well as outsiders. Donald Trump has shown up with his circus carnival,

like crowd in tow as well to make speeches in between his court appearances, even though he doesn't have to show up because it's a civil case. He's choosing to be there. And he's choosing to be there for certain people, I think, to intimidate them and stare them down and hope that they are not going to testify. And one of them is Michael Cohen, his longtime fixer, also a podcaster here on the Midas Touch Network. And somebody who is the key witness, one of the key witnesses in the Stormy Daniels election

in our appearance case that DA Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan DA, is prosecuting. But he's also testifying here in the Tish James, the Eletisha James, Attorney General, valuation of assets fraud. And he testified today, he faced down Donald Trump, and it's been reported that Donald Trump was scowling at him, sat with his arms crossed, and Michael Cohen, who, he's the guy who, when he testified before Congress, he's the one who prompted with

Tisha James based on what he said, Michael Cohen, about the valuation of assets that Donald Trump was inflating them to make them worth more and to make his net worth more so he could borrow money off of those assets or he would make them worth less if he wanted to pay less taxes. And he's the one who blew the whistle on this scheme that Donald Trump had going. Latisha James opened up an investigation and has found that Donald Trump did this to the tune of over a billion dollars. So Michael Cohen now is is testifying today. And he's not without peril, right? He's don't forget he was prosecuted federally for engaging in all sorts of activities on behalf of Donald Trump in addition to his own tax fraud.

He also was convicted of lying to Congress. He, so he's going to be cross-examined on all of those types of things. But he has come clean. He has made it his life's work to make up for his transgressions on behalf of Donald Trump and being Donald Trump's fixer. And he's testifying publicly today. And he is going to talk about all of these issues, exactly what he did.

He testified, it's been reported that he testified, that he did it on behalf of Donald Trump, you call them Mr. Trump. And if Trump said I want something to be worth a particular number, he would have to, Michael Cohen would have to fudge all other numbers to get to the ultimate number that Trump wanted. So this is absolutely a key testimony in showing that Donald Trump intended to defraud people and that it was him doing it. And so this is absolutely devastating testimony.

Interestingly today, there was somebody in the courtroom coming to watch. It was reported that assistant district attorney and executive assistant district attorney, she holds two titles, Susan Hoppinger, who works for Manhattan DA's office. She works for Alvin Bragg, and she's the chief of the investigation division and the lead trial lawyer prosecuting Trump.

She is the prosecutor who prosecuted the Trump organization and got the 17 count tax convictions with Alan Weiselberg, who testified, and now she's the lead prosecutor in the case against Trump that's scheduled to go next May in front of Judge Juan Mershon where Trump is charged with many counts of I think 34 counts of falsifying a business record, which is a felony for when he did the hush money payments in order to in order for the election to not to to suppress the information that he had in a fair with a porn star and not declared and then gross up the money and hide it as wages to Michael Cohen, even though it wasn't wages, it was just paying him back, right, the money that money that he did.

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There there is Parallel that comes with calling someone like Michael Cohen who has these prior convictions, one of them for lying, and a prosecutor or a defense attorney could make all sorts of hay with that information, right, about how he lied under oath in front of Congress. You raised your right hand, you swore to tell the truth, and you sat there and you lied. And here, you came into this courtroom and you raised your right hand, and you swore to tell the truth, and you know, whatever. Like you can just, you can see the arguments that you can make to say this person would lie for, you know, to say of his own soul. And PS, he had no problem doing the bidding of Donald Trump back then, why now?

Why has he changed his tune now? It's to get revenge. In fact, that's the title of his book, revenge, and so you don't believe him. I mean, those are all the things that any defense attorney is going to say. And so Susan wants to see, I'm sure, how he holds up under cross-examination, right? She's going to see how he holds up, how he does, and also see what evidence comes at. I mean, this is, don't forget, the DA's office still has an open investigation into a criminal investigation, into the very exact thing that this trial that's going on

by the Attorney General, the same subject matter, because the attorney general, her case is civil. It's a civil fraud case. There's a parallel investigation, criminally, by the Manhattan DA's office. That was the case, don't forget. That was a joint investigation under Sivance,

the former Manhattan DA, and Letitia James, the current attorney general, where the special prosecutor Mark Palmerance was brought in to investigate the criminal aspect of this. And Mark Palmerance, along with some other A.D.A.'s, thought that there was enough to go into the grand jury. So Ivance asked them to hold off just because he thought it should be the new DA Alvin Bragg's decision because he's gonna have to live with the indictment. He was already

handing Alvin Bragg an indictment into the Trump organization and Alan Weiselberg and that one was ready to go to trial rather than saddle him on his first day with a brand-new indictment against Trump, let him make the decision because it is a little bit of a tricky case criminally. It's absolutely civil, but it's a little bit of a tricky case criminally. But that's the case that Mark Pomerance did not agree

with Alvin Bragg's decision to press pause and to try to get more evidence. And so he resigned, leaked his resignation letter, wrote a book, etc, etc. And Alvin Bragg has said that investigation is still ongoing. And since Mark Pomerantz resigned, a couple of things have happened and come to light. Number one, Donald Trump sat, actually sat for a deposition in this civil case that he's on trial for and answered questions for

seven hours. So that's a lot of information that the DA's office has that they didn't have before. And now the trial, they're going to see how the evidence comes in, how are the witnesses doing, and more importantly, how's Michael Cohen doing since he's so key. It's not the only thing, but he's definitely important to these prosecutions. So it makes sense that the Manhattan D.A.'s office would have a representative there, and it makes sense it would be the ADA

who's prosecuting the case, and she's gonna see how it goes. And we'll see how Michael Cohen does during all of this testimony and see how he holds up under cross. I give him a lot of credit to come and face down the biggest bully in chief that there is. The witness intimidating in chief

and he's doing it and he's doing the right thing and hopefully it holds up. So that's what's going on right now and no matter what Donald Trump says during his his Press conferences in between court appearances We at the mightest touch network are going to bring you facts that are totally objective and

You know they are what they are and it doesn't matter if it's red or blue or it goes along with what we might think personally or not, we try to bring facts and truth in this crazy world of misinformation. And so that's what's going on here. Full disclosure, I work for a firm, I'm a counsel to a firm. It's called, Donia Perry Law that represents Michael Cohen. I have nothing to do with it, but I just wanna put that out there that I am affiliated with the firm

that represents Michael Cohen just to be fully transparent in everything. I'm just, but I'm just reading and I'm basing all of this based on what I see in the news. Anyway, I'm Karen Friedman, Agnifalo, with Legal AF and it's, thank you so much for listening. Hey, Midas Mighty, love this report. Continue the conversation by following us on Instagram.

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