ny attorney announces live on tv they'll be looking for reasons to charge trump with anything they can. they have no reason to believe he commit a crime, they're just going to dig until they find something they can charge him with. again, announces this live on tv. can't really find anything other than a campaign finance violation that is a misdemeanor and a small fine. most presidential campaigns have hundreds of campaign finance violations and end up settling them for peanuts. not good enough, so here's what actually happened.  > stormy daniela is paid off to sign an nda > trump campaign legal team pays daniels out of the firm's pockets.  > legal team reimburses itself from the trump campaign fund (misdemeanor) > trump uses several properties as collateral to take out loans to reimburse the campaign fund. > ny prosecutors find that misdemeanor, which would just be a fine.  > ny prosecutors decide that the properties trump used to were illegally overvalued in the loan paperwork (a misdemeanor).  > banks that lent the money had no issues and didn't think the valuations were exaggerated.  > ny prosecutors press charges for fraud anyways.  > since you need over 30+ of these fraud charges to become a felony, they decide that every single instance in the paperwork where they find the value of a property listed is a single count. totally unprecedented by the way to do this. > end up with 34 counts of fraud, which adds up to a felony under ny law. obviously this is going to be overturned on appeal, obviously it was a political hatchet job designed to do nothing but charge trump with anything and convict him of something just so they could call him a convicted felon, even if the charges were total bullshit. everyone knows it's bullshit, too.
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