It'd be a straight up loss. Signing personal/business checks to a personal lawyer is not an official act of the President, and doesn't even vaguely fall with either the "core duties", or outer edge of responsibilities of his office.
In fact, I doubt Merchan will even consider a hearing on such a specious filing. And neither will an appeals court.
It'd be a straight up loss. Signing personal/business checks to a personal lawyer is not an official act of the President, and doesn't even vaguely fall with either the "core duties", or outer edge of responsibilities of his office.
In fact, I doubt Merchan will even consider a hearing on such a specious filing. And neither will an appeals court.
He wasn’t even president when he did all of this! How can any of this be considered ‘presidential acts’ when he wasn’t even president until January 20, 2017?
Apparently some of the checks he signed, and at least one of the meetings he had with Cohen were in either February or March of 2017.
That said though, it is not an official duty of the president to meet with his personal lawyer unless they're discussing national business. And neither is signing checks to his personal lawyer.
And, most importantly, if I remember correctly, it wasn't the prosecution that introduced the meeting as evidence, but the defense team who brought it up when questioning Cohen on the stand. I might be wrong about that though.
It'd be a straight up loss. Signing personal/business checks to a personal lawyer is not an official act of the President, and doesn't even vaguely fall with either the "core duties", or outer edge of responsibilities of his office.
In fact, I doubt Merchan will even consider a hearing on such a specious filing. And neither will an appeals court.
He wasn’t even president when he did all of this! How can any of this be considered ‘presidential acts’ when he wasn’t even president until January 20, 2017?
Apparently some of the checks he signed, and at least one of the meetings he had with Cohen were in either February or March of 2017.
That said though, it is not an official duty of the president to meet with his personal lawyer unless they're discussing national business. And neither is signing checks to his personal lawyer.
And, most importantly, if I remember correctly, it wasn't the prosecution that introduced the meeting as evidence, but the defense team who brought it up when questioning Cohen on the stand. I might be wrong about that though.