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Fox News has now made its articles available to be listened to. A major blunder occurred in the Manhattan hush money trial against Donald Trump when prosecutors summoned Hope Hicks, the former press secretary, who served during the 2016 presidential campaign, to the stand. The case started to disintegrate under cross-examination. Hicks stated that Trump’s suppressing of defamatory stories was intended to shelter his wife, Melania, dismantling District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s primary claim against Trump. She bore out the findings of a federal investigation concluding no crimes were committed or campaign finance laws breached.
Hicks, along with other prosecution witnesses, decried Bragg’s chief witness, Michael Cohen, Trump’s one-time personal lawyer. Cohen’s nickname of “Mr. Fix-It,” she stated, originated from his propensity to rectify the issues he initially caused. Prosecutors calling Hicks to testify was considered a rookie mistake by the legal team since her testimony was unnecessary, as the majority of the information she provided was already established.
Hicks verified that Trump was aware of Cohen’s payment to Stormy Daniels to cease her incessant demands for payment. As the elections drew closer, Daniels threatened to go public about a supposed affair with Trump, which he denied. Daniels later retracted, and then recanted her retraction, regarding this alleged affair.
Regardless of the intent, the payment made to Daniels was futile. Hicks testified that, despite the National Enquirer not running her story, other news outlets did, but voters paid it little attention.
Bragg’s prosecution of Trump has been dubbed politically driven, as he created nonsensical legal charges out of expired misdemeanors. The crime here, according to analysts, is Bragg’s misuse of the law. His charges even include accusing Trump in 2017 of falsifying business records to unlawfully influence the 2016 election, an impossible timeframe.
The prosecution’s fixation on the unrelated “Access Hollywood” tape considered inflammatory, was allowed for presentation by Judge Juan Merchan, yet it has no relevance to the case. There is concern that Merchan may be assisting Bragg with his unfounded charges against Trump. Meanwhile, Bragg has been called constructively fraudulent for manipulating the law and tampering evidence for a wrongful allegation to tarnish Trump’s campaign.
Bragg’s case against Trump is widely seen as a thinly veiled political attack intended to improve President Joe Biden’s chances for re-election. It is hoped the jurors will recognize this.
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