'Certain conviction': Watergate prosecutor says Trump can't beat hush money evidence
February 14, 2024
Former President Donald Trump is facing a guaranteed conviction in the Stormy Daniels hush payment case, argued former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman on CNN Wednesday — assuming that the trial is able to move forward.
This comes amid reports that Trump, who is charged by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg with criminally falsifying business records, is planning to attend a hearing on the case Thursday that will decide some of his pretrial motions.
"There's so much going on," said anchor John Berman. "It's hard to keep track of, but the point I want to make is this week there's real rulings coming down and real decisions being made in real court cases. Let's start with one Donald Trump will go to tomorrow. We shorthand it as 'the hush money case,' it's the criminal trial right here in New York, but it's really more than that."
"Oh, it's much more than that," agreed Akerman. "I mean, this is an extremely important prosecution. It's not just about Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels. This is about Donald Trump, in the 2016 election, trying to hide and conceal from the public very important information that would have absolutely torpedoed his election chances.
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"And it came on the heels of that 'Access Hollywood' tape and all of these allegations by other women, this would have been the actual killer item that would have ended his campaign. And he obstructed that, and it was a very organized scheme that involved the National Enquirer, involved his own lawyer. And this is an important case."
"What will we learn, do you think, tomorrow?" Berman asked.
"We're going to learn if it's actually going to trial on March 25th," Akerman replied. "This is a certain conviction as far as I'm concerned. Two co-operating witnesses corroborated by a tape on which Donald Trump's voice appears, as well as a lot of other witnesses who are going to corroborate and support little pieces of that case."
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