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Trump trial has a 'smoking gun' -- and the media missed it: Cohen ex-lawyer

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53% : "That total $210,000 was then doubled by Weisselberg on the document, equaling $420,000 ... then Weisselberg, a former executive in the Trump Organization, does the elementary school math to arrive at Trump's monthly installment payments over a year to repay Cohen - $420,000/12 equals $35,000 per month, the amount of the checks almost all of which Trump wrote to Cohen each month in 2017 while a sitting president from his personal checking account.
52% : ALSO READ: Trump's Manhattan trial could determine whether rule of law survives: criminologist "In Allen Weisselberg's own handwriting, a memo shows that a total of $210,000 was to be reimbursed to Michael Cohen for money owed to him by Donald Trump, including the $130,000 in hush money Cohen paid to Stormy Daniels on Trump's behalf because he was worried her revelations would harm his campaign," wrote Davis.
18% : " Ironically, the phone call that Trump supporters were treating as a large moment discrediting Cohen now appears instead to bolster him, as the prosecution -- over the attempts of the defense to stop it -- produced photographic evidence partially backing up Cohen's account that Trump was present around when the call happened.

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