The former president is on trial in relation to $130,000 'hush money' he reimbursed his lawyer Michael Cohen for.
Donald Trump's likely main defense in his falsifying business records trial over hush money paid to his former lawyer Michael Cohen will not pass scrutiny, legal experts have said.Former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann and Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe have criticized the former president over his claims that the $130,000 he reimbursed Cohen for should be classed as 'legal fees' as the attorney was representing Trump at the time.
'In response, Tribe said that if Trump's argument were true, then any activity conducted by a lawyer could be classified as legal fees if they are paid for it.'Calling those reimbursements 'legal payments' requires accepting the crazy claim that any payment to a lawyer to cover what it cost him to commit a crime at your behest is ipso facto a 'legal' payment,' Tribe posted. 'That dog won't hunt.
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