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Preview of an Indictment (with Joyce Vance, Barb McQuade, and Elie Honig)

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Can You Directly Tie Donald Trump to Payment of Hush Money?

In the John Edwards case was similar in that it involved payment of hush money and he was charged as a campaign finance violation. There are important factual differences, however, including, and I think importantly, the fact that John Edwards's payoffs continued after the election. This could explain also why Michael Cohen gets charged, but not Donald Trump. The key question really is, can you directly tie Donald Trump to the way these payments were booked and logged inside the Trump organization? As far as we can tell right now, that is largely dependent on the word of Michael Cohen.

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