Ok....
So, these are criminal charges. Despite your bias or anyone else's....Trump is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
I think that everyone seems to agree that Cohen paid off Daniels. Although I'm not sure where this recording between Trump and Cohen is, or what it contains, it seems very unlikely he'll produce evidence that would contradict previous testimony and result in perjury charges. I also don't know what's in the letter or if the NDA is unsigned. I can certainly understand why it seems unlikely that a lawyer would pay hush money without his client's knowledge. I'm also aware that as a fixer...getting Daniels to sign the NDA without Trump's knowledge protects his client from disclosure in a number of situations....and Cohen probably understood this. He probably waited till after the election to reveal the agreement and payment....or not.
Either way, the important thing isn't what I believe, you believe, or anyone else believes. You may believe Hunter Biden is an amazing painter whose art is worth millions. I don't.
If a crime is going to be proven here....there needs to be some sort of evidence that Trump made the payment with campaign funds. It's possible that Bragg has some bombshell evidence I'm not aware of....but if the summary above is a fair representation of the case, he doesn't have anything. He shouldn't have brought charges and the judge should have thrown this out. I hope Bragg has something more than we know about or it's just going to be an embarrassing thing for the left and push Trump's popularity up.
Surely you understand that without any new evidence, and considering the previous DA didn't move forward with the case, and this DA is one of the many woke DAs turning violent felons loose on the streets, and he's backed by Democratic donors...
That, along with what looks like an absurd number of charges, the number of years sought....
It looks like a political witchhunt to me. I have no problem saying that with some new evidence I haven't seen....that can change. Is there at least evidence he paid Cohen with campaign funds? You don't think the timing of this, along with the Clarence Thomas accusations (which are even weaker) the hundreds of highly classified Pentagon docs being leaked for months now, and the fact that they seem to be closing in on bribery, abuse of power, soliciting bribes, are all being spoken of in open testimony with a lot of confidence lately. These legislators don't really risk being so blatant....because their testimony can get scrubbed if they can't substantiate those kinds of claims. They aren't even being asked to substantiate any of it....the last thing Dems want is evidence being provided.