I see you are just going to ignore the majority of the evidence. That isn't the way it works in court. You have to address all the evidence. Then you don't get to claim things that were not given in evidence.
It is evidence of fraud when a check is written to pay for work that was never done. Once the fraud of paying for work not done is established, in order to include the check writer in the fraud you need evidence that they knew no work was being performed. Trump's public claims that he knew everything that went on in the company and oversaw all payments for work establish that he knew. Trump was free to get on the stand and testify that he didn't know if he wanted to dispute that public claim. The defense was also free to call Allen Weisselberg to testify that Trump didn't know and they didn't call him either.
It's so funny that you want to bring up the fraud of paying for work that was never done while defending the fraud of paying for work that was never done.
Dicky, you still need more help I see. Again, I read all of the evidence and dug in on the case long ago because I knew I'd be dealing with idiots like you offline more than online. You're still not getting it. Luckily, I love to talk about it with dumbasses like you, lol.
First, claiming the checks prove 'fraud' because they paid for work that wasn’t done is laughable. Those reimbursements were labeled as legal expenses for Cohen’s retainer, standard billing practice when paying your lawyer. No actual retainer agreement existed? Big deal. Lawyers get paid monthly retainers all the time without formal contracts sitting in a drawer. Calling it 'fraud' for mislabeling a reimbursement is the kind of stretch only a desperate libtard would make. The checks themselves show Trump paying Cohen, period. They don’t scream 'I’m falsifying records to hide an election crime,” genius.
Second, your big 'gotcha' about Trump’s public statements that he 'knew everything' and 'oversaw all payments”? That’s not evidence of criminal intent, it’s you cherry-picking soundbites to pretend they’re confessions. Trump ran a massive company with thousands of transactions. Saying you oversee payments doesn’t mean you personally scrutinize every line item or know some underling is mislabeling a reimbursement as legal expense. That’s a leap so wide it needs a runway. If every CEO who said 'I watch everything' got convicted for every accounting error below them, half of corporate America would be in prison.
Third, whining that Trump didn’t testify or call Weisselberg is the oldest prosecutor trick in the book.
Defendants don’t have to prove their innocence, YOU have to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Trump had zero obligation to take the stand and give your clown show more ammo, and the defense didn’t call Weisselberg because they didn’t need to. The prosecution’s case was already crumbling on its own Cohen lies and circumstantial garbage. Blaming the defense for not bailing out a failing prosecution is pure libtard logic.
Bottom line: those checks prove Trump paid Cohen back. That’s it. They don’t prove he directed falsification, knew the entries were bogus, or intended to conceal some made-up election violation. No direct evidence ties him to creating or approving the 34 falsified records. No smoking gun. Just Cohen’s word (bought with a plea deal), Weisselberg’s scribbles (not linked to Trump’s knowledge), and your fever-dream inferences. The whole thing is a legal house of cards built on hearsay and politics, and it’s getting appealed into oblivion.
And let's not forget about the others: For anyone following along you might be forgetting about the prosecution dragging in 20 other witnesses, subpoenaed Hope Hicks (who choked up and said Cohen went rogue), grilled David Pecker (who danced around
without nailing Trump personally), and knew Weisselberg would tank their case like he did before, so they didn’t even call him.(The guy dumbass here believes his notes help make the case, but they wouldn't let him testify under oath to clear that myth up.) They fished everywhere for anyone to finger Trump directly, but got zilch except Cohen’s bought-and-paid-for lies to save his own ass. No one else would play ball in this partisan hit job, so they were stuck with their one sleazy rat as the whole foundation. Pathetic desperation, pure lawfare, and that’s why the whole sham will crumble on appeal.
Keep clutching those checks like they’re the smoking gun, Dick. Those of us that are sane see the scam for what it is: lawfare dressed up as justice that will crumble when the adults correct the desperate actions of people that should, at the very least, all be stripped of their right to practice any kind of law again.