The potential prosecution witness list in the Trump silence case is a total nightmare for the indicted former president.
Ari Melber described the list on MSNBC:
We know that Trump aides who flipped are critical to the DA’s case, like Michael Cohen. Today an informed source says that the DA will probably call big names that we’ve heard about like Cohen, Hope Hicks, maybe Stormy Daniel, and those are potential witnesses, there’s no formal list that comes out in a written way during the trial, and there they are relationships and the people on screen have direct contact with Trump. They take him to the witness stand.
If you’ve followed enough Trump controversies, you might remember that one of the ways his team tries to discredit people is that they knew nothing. They weren’t there and sometimes you hear about rumours. No one will make a second-hand statement. They can all talk about being in the room when it happened.
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Those witnesses would make sense and we won’t know until the trial begins. some of the same reports suggest that other DA witnesses include less famous individuals who were also crucial to telling the jury what really happened, and are people from the very specific turbulent world of the New York tabloids. People who ran the National Enquirer at a key time in 2016. The people on your screen are incredibly vital to whether or not Donald Trump will be found guilty of a crime and perhaps sentenced to prison. So they may not be as famous as other people, and fame and TV time aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. These are three people who will matter a great deal and I will explain why, right now. David Pecker and Dylan Howard basically ran “The Enquirer.” They are central to whether there was a known, formal and funded criminal conspiracy to capture and kill these stories.
The other name you see there, Keith Davidson, you may remember, was Stormy Daniels’ lawyer at one point. Let’s start with the tabloid boss, he is one of the main people who, according to Cohen’s team, will confirm Michael Cohen’s damning story against Trump.
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– Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April 11, 2024
It’s as if all the people Trump wronged in the silence case have come back to testify against him. If this list is accurate, the DA has everyone and everyone to corroborate the stories of other witnesses.
The witness list is a nightmare for Donald Trump, and when combined with the mountain of physical evidence, it becomes clear why even the former president’s allies expect him to be convicted.
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