‘What do we got to pay for this?’ Jurors in Trump hush money trial hear recording of pivotal call

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1. A visibly irritated Trump leaned forward at the defense table, and jurors appeared riveted as prosecutors played the September 2016 recording that attorney Michael Cohen secretly made of himself briefing his celebrity client on a plan to buy Karen McDougal’s story of an extramarital relationship.

2. It definitely ties Trump to the conspiracy. You could convict on this. However, I’d really like to see if Cohen has documentary evidence which ties him to the Daniels arm of the conspiracy directly. That would be dead to rights.

3. Lordy, Michael’s got the tapes!

4. > Trump can be heard suggesting that the payment be made with cash, prompting Cohen to object by saying “no” four times. Trump can then be heard saying “check” before the recording cuts off.

5. Can someone remind me of the worst possible outcome for Trump from all of this?

6. God I wish there were cameras just to catch reactions.

7. It was revealed that one of the jurors got all their news from Truth Social. This has to be a fucking wild ride for them, to see actual evidence of the cult leader being a piece of shit. It’s one thing to stick to your guns in front of your liberal family at Thanksgiving, but quite another to dig in during jury deliberations. Hope whichever juror is the foreman is up to the task.

8. what is the legal term for: “I went to prison for doing this for you”?

9. He’s funny and his followers are scary.

10. Oh boy.

    That call is like…like he is toast. And he knows it.

11. Nothing will happen to the great orange turd. Nothing. At. All.

12. I thought secret recordings could not be entered or used as evidence without both parties consent at time of recording? Or am I just an idiot.

13. Wow. Isn’t this the smoking gun, as they say?

    Donald…you’re going down!

14. Was Donald offered a plea deal? He’s clearly guilty and his defense has nothing to keep him out of jail.

15. It’s an election interference case, not a hush money case

16. Election interference trial, not hush money trial

17. It’s interesting that Trump said 150 but the final number was $130,000. Did Cohen skim some of the top?