If Alvin Bragg Indicts Donald Trump, What Will the Case Look Like? (New Yorker)

New Yorker, March 28, 2023 

If Alvin Bragg Indicts Donald Trump, What Will the Case Look Like? 

The lawyers I spokewith agreed that Trump’s intent in paying off Daniels, through Cohen, is centralto the prospect of a successful prosecution. ‘The defense will probably be that the payment, the entire transaction, all the people involved, were not acting in furtherance of the campaign—that it was all about Melania, and the family, and God knows what,‘ [Jerry] Goldfeder, who has chaired the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Election Law, said. ‘That’s the challenge for the District Attorney—to convince the jury that, in fact, it was in furtherance of the campaign.‘ 

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