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Former Trump "fixer" Michael Cohen predicted on Wednesday that New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit would cost his one-time boss hundreds of millions of dollars.
In an interview with CNN's Don Lemon, Cohen explained why James' civil lawsuit represents such a significant threat to the former president.
"I do believe that he will see repercussions for the first time in almost his entire life," he predicted. "We've seen quite a few cases now, whether it's [Trump Organization CFO Allen] Weisselberg's incarceration, whether it's the 17 counts against the Trump Organization, and now with the attorney general's case, I think we're going to see a lot of repercussion to Donald Trump."
Lemon then asked Cohen to elaborate on what such repercussions would look like.
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Cohen replied that he believed that the Trump Organization would eventually be forced to pay $250 million in fines, and that that total was just the base of what Trump would have to fork over.
"I think it will be more in the neighborhood of $700 million, based upon at least the information that I know," Cohen said.
"$700 million in fines?" asked Lemon.
"That's correct," Cohen said.
Watch the video below or at this link.
Trump will get hit with $700 million in fines when Letitia James is done with him: Michael Cohen www.youtube.com
A serial prankster recently pulled off a tremendous feat by infiltrating a right-wing news outlet and spewing harsh truths about former President Donald Trump.
On Tuesday, March 21, footage of the prankster's quick interview began circulating on social media. According to HuffPost, Jason Selvig, one-half of the politically progressive comedic group, The Good Liars, appeared on an online streaming segment for Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN).
As the news outlet was covering the Trump rallies in New York ahead of his impending arrest, Selvig appeared on camera to weigh in.
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“This is a political prosecution, it has to be,” Selvig said during the interview. “That’s the only way it could be happening right now.”
“The only other option is that Donald Trump lost by 7 million votes and is a loser who can’t deal with the fact that he lost the election because he based his whole personality on being a winner and calling people losers," he added.
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Selvig's remarks come as Republican leaders and lawmakers have thrown allegations of political motivation at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg over his office's investigation into a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, with whom Trump allegedly had an affair.
Lawmakers like House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) have all verbalized their concerns.
As Republicans rally behind Trump in the midst of this investigation, there are also predictions about a possible arrest and indictment of the former president — and how such actions may shift the presidential campaign trajectory in Trump's favor.
"If you want to talk about how to unify Republicans behind Donald Trump in the primary, having an unhinged left-wing prosecution, complete with perhaps a perp walk for the cameras, that ends up being thrown out and ends in failure could be the single biggest in-kind gift to the Donald Trump campaign of this entire cycle,” Cruz (R-Texas) said during a segment of his podcast on Monday, March 20.
Although Trump has warned that he could be arrested as early as today, no arrest has been made, as of yet.
Watch the video below or at this link.
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has received communications between Stormy Daniels and an attorney representing Donald Trump, CNN reports.
The communiques between the adult-film star and Joe Tacopina date back to 2018, when Daniels was seeking legal counsel, according to her current attorney, Clark Brewster, who indicated the exchanges show that his client disclosed confidential information.
The latest revelation comes as all indications are that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is nearing a decision on whether to indict Trump over alleged hush money payments to Daniels, and threatens to sideline the celebrity attorney from defending the former president, according to CNN.
Tacopina dismissed the notion that a conflict of interest exists or that Daniels shared confidential information with his office, said he did not meet or speak with Daniels.
But Tacopina during a 2018 appearance with CNN’s Don Lemon said he may have been in contact with Daniels before she found a new lawyer.
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"I can't really talk about my impressions or any conversations we'd had because there is an attorney-client privilege that attaches even to a consultation," Tacopina said in the 2018 interview.
But Tacopina's firm after the video surfaced issued a statement denying that "there was no attorney-client relationship" between him and Daniels.
According to CNN’s Kristen Holmes and Tierney Sneed: “It would ultimately be up to a judge to decide whether the communications amount to a conflict of interest that requires disqualification or some other limitation on the advocacy Tacopina can do on behalf of the former president, if a case is brought against Trump.”
On Monday, the Republican chairs of three House committees — Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan, Oversight Committee chair James Comer, and Administration Committee chair Bryan Steil — sent a letter to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg asking if federal money was used in his investigation of Trump and calling it an “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority.” Other Republican members of Congress want to subpoena Bragg and others in the Manhattan district attorney’s office to testify before Congress about any such indictment.
This would be an unprecedented interference by Congress in a criminal investigation.
If Trump is charged, he may fight extradition from Florida in order to force his major rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, to choose between alienating Trump’s supporters or joining Trump in fighting his extradition and thereby escalating Trump’s war against Blue America.
Today’s Office Hours question: Will Trump succeed in using his likely pending arrest in this or other cases to rally his supporters (and much of Red America) around him and his candidacy?
Yes, he’s a proven demagogue.
Yes, he wants a civil war.
No, they’ll prefer DeSantis.
No, they won’t be fooled twice.
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