Former President Donald Trump could soon be facing a criminal indictment over hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Trump insisted this week that the ordeal was an “extortion plot” and nothing more than “sick, fake news.”The claim that he was being extorted by Daniels is an admission of guilt, said former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann onTwitter on Tuesday.
After his tweet, Weissmann spoke to MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, making the same case but also recalling that Trump bragged he could commit murder and sexual assault and still get away with it.
“Let’s just remember, for Donald Trump, there haven’t been consequences,” said Weissmann. “There have been civil lawsuits and so far no criminal consequences. So, for somebody who is at that age, who realized that he can say whatever he wants and there are no consequences. I think that’s what we get. We get these things that, obviously, from a prosecutor’s perspective, are potentially very incriminating. I totally agree with the take on his statements that they can be used against him, in the same way he is now embracing the idea that he was an extortion victim and thinks that’s going to be a defense in a Manhattan criminal case when it’s actually an admission.”…
Legal expert: Trump just admitted his guilt in Stormy Daniels hush money case