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‘Never Thought I Would Say’ This: Michael Avenatti Calls Trump a ‘Victim of the System’ in Fox News Interview
Federal inmate and disbarred attorney Michael Avenatti claimed Donald Trump is a "victim of the system" in a Fox News Digital interview from behind bars.
The post ‘Never Thought I Would Say’ This: Michael Avenatti Calls Trump a ‘Victim of the System’ in Fox News Interview first appeared on Mediaite.Lara Trump downplays hush money charges as simple ‘bookkeeping error’
Lara Trump downplayed the criminal charges against her father-in-law Donald Trump as a mere "bookkeeping error."
The Republican National Committee co-chair appeared Wednesday on Sean Hannity's Fox News program, where she suggested Manhattan prosecutors were engaged in election interference for trying the former president on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up alleged hush money payments to adult movie actress Stormy Daniels, reported HuffPost.
"Everyone can see what this is about," Lara Trump said. "They have, and are forcing, Donald Trump to sit in a courtroom — this is a former president of the United States, the current nominee for the Republican side of the aisle for president — for weeks on end. For what, Sean? They claim a bookkeeping error — really?"
“This is insane," she added. "We can all see exactly what this is all about and what the goal of this is. Of course, it’s to keep Donald Trump from the campaign trail."
Prosecutors allege in their indictment that Trump directed his then-attorney Michael Cohen, who has already served nearly three years in prison after pleading guilty in the scheme, to pay Daniels off in the weeks before the 2016 election to ensure her silence about an extramarital affair.
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Trump then allegedly falsified business records by reimbursing Cohen in a series of transactions described as payment for legal services.
Trump has denied all the allegations.
The ex-president's campaign circulated talking points ahead of the trial, which started Monday, directing surrogates to describe the case as a "a full-frontal assault on American Democracy and the Constitution" and a "witch hunt," and recommending that supporters do not refer to the case as a "hush money case," but to instead describe it as "entries in the company’s records."