NEW YORK (EFE).— Deputy prosecutor Matthew Colangelo, in charge of making the opening statements of the prosecution in the criminal trial that Donald Trump faces in a Manhattan court, charged once morest the former president and described the case as a plot of “conspiracy.” criminal and cover-up.”
“The defendant orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 elections, and then covered up the scheme, lying in his business records, over and over once more,” Colangelo added as the former US president (2017-2021) shook his head and opted for not looking him in the face.
Trump is accused of falsifying business documents to buy the silence of adult video actress Stormy Daniel – who says she had an affair with him in 2006 – for $130,000 and protect his 2016 election campaign.
The Prosecutor’s Office accuses the former president of creating a plan through his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who was supposedly in charge of making the payments, and the former editor of the “National Enquirer” magazine David Pecker, who would have used his media power to try to cover up Trump scandals.
But Colangelo went even further, stating that Trump, Cohen and Pecker met in 2015 to “help the campaign” by eliminating “negative stories” and choosing to publish others that affected internal rivals such as Republican Ted Cruz.
This, according to the deputy prosecutor’s account, is the “core” of a plot orchestrated through American Media Inc. (AMI), the parent company of the National Enquirer, of which Pecker was an executive.
According to Colangelo, in this case, for which the former president is accused of 34 charges that would cost him up to four years in prison, payments were disguised and involved electoral interference in the 2016 elections, in which Trump won over Democrat Hillary. Clinton.
In addition, Colangelo referred yesterday to a payment of $30,000 that would have been paid to a former employee of Trump Tower who claimed to have information that the former president had an illegitimate son; as well as others that would have been done to cover up his affairs with fellow porn actress Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels herself.
“The defendant did not in any way want this information regarding Karen McDougal to become public because he was worried regarding the elections,” said the prosecutor, who stated that the jury will listen to a telephone conversation between Trump and Cohen regarding the alleged affair with McDougal.
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2024-05-06 22:50:44
