By Evaristo Lara
May 25, 2024, 16:11 PM EDT
Tycoon Donald Trump claims that he is being unconstitutionally tried for an “accounting error” related to the $130,000 payment he paid to Stephanie Clifford, a former porn film actress popularly known as Stormy Daniels.
After 16 days in the first criminal trial carried out against a former or current president, where the testimonies of 22 people who took the stand were heard, Donald Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records.
His file details that he paid his former lawyer Michael Cohen as reimbursement for $130,000 that was given to Stormy Daniels, in 2016, in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair she had with the New York mogul.
However, The nation’s former president continues to deny the charges and, knowing that his process is coming to an end, he turned to the Truth Social platform to point out that he is being judged based on an alleged accounting error by one of his employees, which is being magnified with the aim of prevent him from continuing with his campaign in search of the presidency.
“The accounting error for which I am being incorrectly and unconstitutionally prosecuted is the fact that an accountant innocently and correctly called a ‘legal expense’ paid to an attorney a legal expense.
IN EVEN SIMPLER WORDS, CALL A LEGAL EXPENSE, A LEGAL EXPENSE. WHAT THE HELL WOULD YOU CALL IT?
An Inspired Election Interference Hoax!!! [del presidente Biden]!!!”, wrote.
In addition, The 77-year-old Republican attacked the prosecutors and the judge of Colombian origin who will be in charge of issuing a resolution on his case in the coming days,
“When the Shameful District Attorney and his Thugs, WITH THE FULL APPROVAL, I assume, of the Highly Conflicted Judge, Juan Merchán, and the Crooked Administration of Joe Biden, who are leading the Trial for purposes of ELECTORAL INTERFERENCE, continue to talk about the ‘accounting error’ or ‘crime’, they refer to the fact that an accountant, without any influence or discussion with me, correctly classified the payment of a Legal Expense to a lawyer: a Legal Expense.
In other words, I am being prosecuted because an accountant, with whom I had no contact, marked, from a drop-down menu in the general ledger, a Legal Expense to a lawyer as ‘Legal Expense,’” he emphasized.
In fact, it is planned that the final statements of the trial will take place on Tuesday and then the jury will deliberate.
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