here is what donald trump s criminal defense lawyer, james trusty, said on television tonight. this is not publicly accurate because i m not looking at a charging document, i am looking at a summary sheet. so there s ones that might actually be reflecting on single counts too. but i think there was a conspiracy count as well. that means that there could be other indictments, have you been told that anyone else is indicted here? we weren t in fisa of anyone else being indicted. and i have a theory that some of the outrageous misconduct has affected in some other case. potential target. but bottom line is all we know about is our client. donald trump has been ordered to surrender for arrest processing and arraignment in federal court in miami on tuesday at three pm. this is how we got to hear. four months after donald trump left the white house, the
speaking inindictment. as andrew and neal know, indictments come in two flavors. the traditional is a highly legalistic document that tracks what is stated in the law with a very small smattering, if you would, of facts. a speaking indictment, which is often used when there s a conspiracy count, gives the indictment the flavor if you would of telling a much more robust, full story so it s an opportunity to marry narrative and law, and i don t think there s any question that in the prologue to the conspiracy count there s going to be a reference to the election, to the stakes, and to evidence that indicates that now defendant donald trump had an intention to commit these other crimes related to his campaign
conspiracy so, that would be very different. sounds like this is we re in an information vacuum. the conspiracy count is one where people, including myself, thought they might bring that in order to have the david pecker/karen mcdougal information in that as part of broader conspiracy involving this catch and kill scheme so i wouldn t be surprised if they did that so what they re focusing on is not solely stormy daniels and those payments. thiis the number of counts wr look at here any indication of the breadth, the seriousness i think people should not overreact to that. i think that you can have one core set of facts, and it is possible to have sort of many
this contrary to what i think defendant donald trump will say is not simply a case of blackmail. this is part of i think you ll see, a conspiracy count, and this is part of a conspiracy by defendant former president trump, michael cohen, people at the national enquirer to engage in conduct to protect then candidate trump from stories that are going to come out that would reflect poorly on him as a candidate and hurt his candidacy. this catch and kill program that the national enquirer had. i don t think you can look at this and see, we ll see when the indictment is unsealed whether or not this is just related to the stormy daniels payoff or whether or not this is an allegation, this payment made to stormy daniels, was part of this conspiracy to protect then candidate donald trump
ultimately it s a manhattan jury that will decision on these allegations. what we re seeing is a bit confusing, because there s two documents that have come out of the manhattan d.a. s office. one is the indictment, containing 34 charges of falsified being records. and it explains what you re alosing to, this notion it was about the election, that it was about the campaign, that donald trump was faltering, and as the statement of facts explains, he embarked upon a scheme it s conspiracy language, although we don t see a conspiracy count in the indictment itself, saying that he embarked upon this scheme we know the context, no matter what his lawyers try to argue, is that this was all about