Manhattan prosecutor makes BRILLIANT move to SHUT DOWN Trump

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Glenn you're calling this a strategic

move by the Manhattan da to neutralize

Trump ahead of his criminal trial in New

York that's the first criminal trial

that he'll be contending with can you

speak on what uh Manhattan da Alvin

Bragg just did yeah so this makes me

long for my trial days there's so much

strategy Brian that goes into the

prosecution not only preparing its case

but trying to defeat the defendant's

case even in advance of trial so here's

what just happened Donald Trump's

longtime Chief Financial Officer CFO

Alan weisselberg was sent back to Riker

Island back to jail on Wednesday why

because he was prosecuted a second time

by district attorney Alvin Bragg you may

remember the first time was when the

Trump organization was being prosecuted

for being involved in a 15-year-long

criminal scheme to defraud in the first

degree as part of that investigation

Alan weisselberg pleaded guilty to being

involved in that 15-year-long criminal

scheme to defraud and he was convicted

pursuant to his guilty plea and he was

sent to Riker's Island where he was to

serve a five Monon sentence he got out

uh I think at a 100 days for um some

credit for good time but you would think

that would make Alan weiselberg learn

his lesson but no Alan weiselberg

finished up that that sentence he then

was called as a witness at Donald

Trump's New York fraud trial and he lied

he committed perjury lied under oath

which um in part had the the impact of

trying to help Donald Trump get away

with some of his fraud now Alan

weiselberg has never flipped on Donald

Trump he has never been willing to talk

about or testify about the crimes of his

boss and benefactor actor Donald Trump

right so the prosecution can't possibly

put Alan weiselberg on the stand to say

anything about this conversation with

Michael Cohen because he's a great big

liar right however the defense could

call Alan weiselberg to say wait a

minute I never had that conversation

with Michael Cohen in an effort to knock

down one of the star Witnesses Michael

Cohen but now Alan weiselberg is in

Rikers so if Alan weberg proven a proven

perjurer he's going to be sitting there

in a prison jumpsuit what absolutely and

mind you Brian I've called Witnesses in

prison jumpsuits quite often when they

were cooperating Witnesses they were

serving time for what they did they

flipped and they agreed to testify

truthfully and I could corroborate the

truth and accuracy of their testimony

that's the only way I would call them

but now let Donald Trump's lawyers try

to call Alan weisselberg to help Donald

Trump out he'll be coming over from

Rikers in a jumpsuit Plus he's now a

two-time convicted felon once for you

know committing all kinds of crimes as

the CFO for the Trump organization but

even more importantly lying at Donald

Trump's prior fraud trial trying to help

him out so if people will excuse my

indelicate language just this once Alan

weisselberg credibility is lower than

whale it doesn't get any lower

right so I I see this whole perjury

prosecution as a bit of a Justice twofer

it's great that he's being held

accountable for the perjury that he

engaged in but it's also good because he

has been neutralized and he can't

possibly now be called as a credible

defense witness at Donald Trump's trial

Alan weiselberg is such a striking

figure in all of this but to dat he has

still yet to testify against Donald

Trump and that is what makes him so

striking he already spent 100 days at

the Rikers Island jail complex in part

of the tax scheme in which he took uh

perks from the Trump organization and

during that trial he testified against

the Trump organization but not Donald

Trump now fast forward this has

everything to do with his testimony

related to the Civil fraud trial over

the repeated financial fraud claims that

were made last year and what he has

already admitted to the court is is that

he perjured himself by lying about the

extent to what what he knew about the

value ation of Donald Trump's Penthouse

here in Midtown Manhattan and so we are

looking at him being potentially

sentenced up to 5 months in prison but

as part of this plea agreement he did

not have to commit to testifying in the

hush money payment case so again we see

Alan weiselberg this key figure for more

than 50 years to the Trump organization

not directly testifying against Donald

Trump yet at the same time you go back

and you're talking about Michael Cohen

Michael Cohen says the one other person

that heard Donald Trump directly tell

him in 2016 to go and set up that uh

Financial arrangement with Stormy

Daniels was Alan weiselberg and so part

of the struggle with the trial is if you

don't have Alan weiselberg agreeing to

testify and instead going out to Riker's

Jail at the age of 77 years old that is

a difficult witness here in somebody who

is clearly agreeing to stand on the side

of his old boss and willing to go to

jail instead of truthfully testifying

against him and so now basically the

jury will have to rely on Michael

Cohen's testimony without any what would

be an inevitable rebuttal by Alan

weiselberg who has proven that he's

always willing to back up Donald Trump

no matter the cost exactly and the

prosecutors have so much corroboration

supporting and affirming evidence that

will show Michael Cohen to be a truth

tell for example Michael Cohen made

these payments at the direction of and

for the benefit of Donald Trump and then

what did Donald Trump do he started

writing Michael Cohen reimbursement

checks to pay him back and in fact he

was writing those checks out of the Oval

Office after he was elected as president

so there's lots of Hard corroboration

that will enable the jury to credit

Michael Cohen's testimony because it

will be supported in a number of ways

now just one one quick side note here I

know that we had spoken about the

prospect of trump attempting to delay

this trial by invoking Presidential

immunity that's obviously what happened

in the DC prosecution and it's what

they're seeking to have happen here in

the Manhattan trial as well would the

fact that he was writing these

reimbursement checks from the Oval

Office be enough of a predicate to be

able to have presidential immunity apply

because the bulk of this crime actually

committed was committed while he was a

candidate for office not president but

if he was writing these reimbursement

checks while he was President then does

that give him enough of a predicate to

be able to to basically invoke

presidential immunity it gives him less

than zero and here's why first of all

presidential immunity against prosecut

is not a thing no court has ever said it

actually exists we understand the

Supreme Court has that issue in their

hot little hands now but in the unlikely

event they say there is some minimal

presidential immunity kind of around the

edges at the outer perimeter of a

president's official acts there's no way

that writing reimbursement checks for

these hush money payments that were

designed in the first instance to gain

unfair advantage in a presidential

election those would not be official

acts of a president not at the Outer

Perimeter not at the inner perimeter

nowhere so you know what presidential

immunity one way or the other regardless

of what the Supreme Court might say

these acts would not qualify all right

well I mean it really is a sign of the

times that this is a question we're

asking whether whether a non-existent

premise of president immunity to cover a

president from criminal activity would

count if he was writing his own

reimbursement checks for campaign

violations from the Oval Office I mean

it is just Insanity on top of insanity

and yet thanks to Donald Trump here we

are uh with that said uh we will follow

along with this case as it continues to

progress and hopefully ends up in trial

starting on Monday April 15th as it's

expected to do so for those watching

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on the screen I'm Brian teller Cohen and

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