The Hush Money trial witness list is Trump’s worst nightmare

The potential witness list for the prosecution in the Trump hush money case is a total nightmare for the accused ex-president.

Ari Melber described the list on MSNBC:

We know that U-turned Trump aides are key to the DA’s case, like Michael Cohen. Today, a knowledgeable source says the DA will likely call big names we’ve heard about, like Cohen, Hope Hicks, maybe Stormy Daniel happens, and those are potential witnesses. There is no formal list that is released in writing during the process. , and there are reports, and the people on screen are in direct contact with Trump. They take that to the witness stand.

If you’ve followed enough Trump controversies, you might remember that one of the ways his team tries to discredit people is that they didn’t know anything. They weren’t there and sometimes the word rumors gets thrown around. No one will give a second-hand explanation. They can all talk about being in the room when it happened.

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Those witnesses would be meaningful, and we won’t know until the trial begins. some of the same reporting suggests that DA witnesses, among others, are lesser-known figures who were also crucial in telling the jury what really happened, and that they are people from the very specific gritty world of the New York tabloids. People who led the National Enquirer at that crucial moment in 2016. The people on your screen are incredibly important to whether or not Donald Trump is convicted of a crime and potentially sentenced to prison. So they may not be as famous as other people, and fame and television time aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. These are three people who will matter a lot and I will now explain why. David Pecker and Dylan Howard actually directed “The Enquirer.” They are central to the case that there was a known, formal and funded criminal plot to capture and kill these stories.

The other name you see there, Keith Davidson, was, as you may recall, once Stormy Daniels’ lawyer. Let’s start with the tabloids’ chief pecker: He’s one of the key people Cohen’s team believes will corroborate Michael Cohen’s damning story against Trump.

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Ari Melber: “We know that Trump aides who turned around, like Michael Cohen, are key to the district attorney’s case. Today, a knowledgeable source says the DA will likely call big names we’ve heard about, like Cohen, Hope Hicks and perhaps Stormy Danielx. pic.twitter.com/2gSNaogLXs

– Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April 11, 2024

It’s as if all the people Trump wronged in the hush money case have come back to testify against him. If this list is correct, the prosecutor has everyone and people to corroborate the stories of other witnesses.

The witness list is a nightmare for Donald Trump, and when combined with the mountain of physical evidence, it becomes clear why even the ex-president’s allies expect him to be convicted.

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