Democrats are betting Joe Biden’s political fortunes on Alvin Bragg securing a guilty verdict in his criminal trial against Donald Trump.
But Bragg’s case is suffering from one fatal flaw.
And Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump could go down in flames over this huge mistake.
Bragg’s case is a house of cards
Bragg is putting forth the nonsensical argument that the way in which Donald Trump labeled a payment to Michael Cohen in his company’s ledger amounted to an effort to steal the 2016 election.
Bragg charged Trump with 34 counts of falsification of business records for listing payments to Cohen as being for legal services when Bragg claimed that they were a reimbursement for Cohen paying Stormy Daniels $130,000 for a nondisclosure agreement.
On CNN, criminal defense attorney Arthur Aidala poked enough holes in Bragg’s case to make it look like a piece of Swiss cheese.
Aidala said if the case Bragg presented in court is true, then Cohen is a co-conspirator even though he’s facing no changes.
Cohen is also an admitted liar who publicly stated on multiple occasions that he wants to see Donald Trump in jail.
Those facts leave his credibility at zero.
“You just have to attack, attack, attack those witnesses and look, what you’ve got to say is Michael Cohen should be a co-defendant,” Aidala said in an interview with Anderson Cooper. “If you believe what the prosecutors just said, Michael Cohen should be a co-defendant, not a witness. He has so many reasons to lie, so many reasons to pin this on someone else, to keep himself out of jail, which he was unable to do in the federal case.”
Bragg is missing key evidence
Aidala also told Cooper that a huge problem with Bragg’s case is that none of the business records he claimed Trump falsified has his signature on it.
All Trump did was sign checks to Cohen, and witnesses will testify that he signed those checks in part because he understood them to be for legal services rendered by Cohen, which Aidala believes should be enough for an acquittal.
“I think [Cohen’s credibility] has a tremendous impact,” Aidala added. “Look, there is paperwork that corroborates the people‘s evidence, and that‘s obviously hurtful for the President. But my understanding is it’s not paperwork with Donald Trump‘s handwriting on it or his signature on it, except for a check.”
“So the defense could merely be, hey, Michael Cohen did all of this. He never told his client. He just said, look, I need money for this, I need money for that. And you know, one of the witnesses who is going to testify at this trial testified for the feds and he said that the money that was given to Michael Cohen was for Stormy Daniels and for legal fees. That’s a reasonable doubt,” Aidala concluded.
