Kellyanne Conway met with prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney's office on Wednesday

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The New York Times @nytimes
Kellyanne Conway met with prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney’s office on Wednesday, the latest sign that the office is ramping up its criminal investigation into Donald Trump.


NYT:

...prosecutors are scrutinizing Mr. Trump’s role in a hush money payment to a porn star, Stormy Daniels, who has said she had an affair with him. The $130,000 payment was made by Mr. Trump’s longtime fixer, Michael D. Cohen, in the closing days of the 2016 campaign, and Mr. Trump ultimately reimbursed him.

Mr. Cohen has said that Ms. Conway played a small yet notable role in the payment: she was the person Mr. Cohen alerted after making the payment, he wrote in his 2020 memoir.

“I called Trump to confirm that the transaction was completed, and the documentation all in place, but he didn’t take my call — obviously a very bad sign, in hindsight,” he wrote. Instead, he wrote, Ms. Conway “called and said she’d pass along the good news.”

Ms. Conway, who was seen walking into the district attorney’s office shortly before 2 p.m. on Wednesday, is the latest in a string of witnesses to meet with prosecutors in the last month or so. Since the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, impaneled a grand jury in January to hear evidence about Mr. Trump’s role in paying the hush money, at least five witnesses have testified: Jeffrey McConney and Deborah Tarasoff, employees of Mr. Trump’s company; David Pecker and Dylan Howard, two former leaders of The National Enquirer, which helped arrange the hush money deal; and Keith Davidson, a former lawyer for Ms. Daniels.

read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/nyregion/kellyanne-conway-stormy-daniels-trump-inquiry.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

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1. Did she mention alternative facts/reality?

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2. Hopefully, we'll finally get to the bottom of the battle of Bowling Green

Also, did she wear her Paddington Bear outfit?

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3. They should subpoena her husband George. He has a brain.

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4. Oh, DA Bragg impaneled this. When I read that my confidence level went down.

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5. why is that?

...he's already gotten the Trump Organization to pay $1.6 million for criminally dodging taxes.

Prosecuted two Trump companies and sent its top accountant to jail.

So he didn't think he had enough to move forward against Trump in the past. That's how prosecutions work. Prosecutors need to have confidence in their case, in the state of evidence. Just because someone without the authority to move forward thought it was fine and dandy to take Cohen's word, it apparently wasn't enough for Bragg.

Apparently he believes he has evidence to move forward now. That's how these things work.

What isn't real is this attitude by some that these prosecutors are somehow afraid of nailing Trump, or in the bag. What's more evident is that prosecutors want to be certain they have an airtight case, not just a trial based on this certainty of guilt that ends in aquittal because the evidence isn't complete or convincing. Bragg can't just carry some news article into court and read it to the jury.

The cynicism is worthless and it's practicioners in the press are full of misinformation for clicks, many working overtime to discourage Trump opponents. People need to stop imagining and projecting this nonsense and focus on what's actually happening. As of today, the Bragg investigation is moving forward.

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6. We'll see.

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7. of course, we'll see

...but let's get it right about what's occurred in this investigation, and what's happening right now.