Manhattan DA Insiders Worry the Trump Hush Money Case Is Weak Sauce

[Jarqui]

6. Certainly a significant possibility

They have a large menu of financial crimes they can consider.
Read AG Letitia James complaint for civil damages and ask yourself as you go along "I wonder what state criminal law that violated?"
AG James made criminal referrals in Sept 2022. Media seems to generally ignore them.

They had all the paper in Manafort's cases. They needed someone to witness and testify.
They flipped Gates. Game over.

They've got a massive amount of paper on Trump's financial crimes now. They needed someone beyond Cohen - an accounting person. Getting Weisselberg is big.

You watch. The whole tone against Trump is going to shift seismically. No more jokes about Stormy case being nothing.
FOX News is already underway dumping him.

Trump's only chance to survive now becomes winning the Oval office before he gets convicted. The bitch for the GOP is they can't help him in NY State - they can't dangle a pardon or have a GOP legislature free him. So if they don't nominate him, he'll run as an independent and neither will win. If they do nominate him, no way he can win as all the cases close in on him.

Flipping Stormy's payoff from a misdemeanor to a felony wouldn't have put him in jail that long in the worst case. Getting him with Weisselberg financial crimes could put him in the slammer for the rest of his life.

We still have a long way to go. But I think this is very big news.