Donald Trump has lashed out at the ongoing criminal case against him, including why he is in court over “legal fees” he paid towards Michael Cohen.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump questioned why Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office charged him with falsifying business records over money he arranged Cohen to pay adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep an alleged affair she had with the former president a secret ahead of the 2016 election.
The $130,000 sum was listed in Trump’s company records as “legal fees,” which prosecutors allege was part of an unlawful attempt to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential race. Trump has denied all wrongdoing.
“The Corrupt Soros Funded District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, who has totally lost control of Violent Crime in New York, says that the payment of money to a lawyer, for legal services rendered, should not be referred to in a Ledger as LEGAL EXPENSE,” Trump wrote.
“What other term would be more appropriate??? Believe it or not, this is the pretext under which I was Indicted, and that Legal Scholars and Experts CANNOT BELIEVE. It is also the perfect Crooked Joe Biden NARRATIVE – To be STUCK in a courtroom, and not be allowed to campaign for President of the United States!”
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