#Fact check trump press conference today series

AMI ultimately declined to accept reimbursement after consulting their counsel. When TRUMP explicitly directed a lawyer who then worked for the Trump Organization as TRUMP’s Special Counsel (“Special Counsel”) to reimburse AMI in cash, the Special Counsel indicated to TRUMP that the payment should be made via a shell company and not by cash. In a second instance, AMI paid $150,000 to a woman who alleged she had a sexual relationship with TRUMP. (“AMI”), paid $30,000 to a former Trump Tower doorman, who claimed to have a story about a child TRUMP had out of wedlock.

#Fact check trump press conference today series

As this office has done time and time again, we today uphold our solemn responsibility to ensure that everyone stands equal before the law.”Īccording to court documents and statements made on the record in court, from August 2015 to December 2017, TRUMP orchestrated his “catch and kill” scheme through a series of payments that he then concealed through months of false business entries. As the Statement of Facts describes, the trail of money and lies exposes a pattern that, the People allege, violates one of New York’s basic and fundamental business laws. We cannot allow New York businesses to manipulate their records to cover up criminal conduct. “Manhattan is home to the country’s most significant business market. Trump repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal crimes that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election,” said District Attorney Bragg.

“The People of the State of New York allege that Donald J. TRUMP is charged in a New York State Supreme Court indictment with 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree. TRUMP then went to great lengths to hide this conduct, causing dozens of false entries in business records to conceal criminal activity, including attempts to violate state and federal election laws. During the election, TRUMP and others employed a “catch and kill” scheme to identify, purchase, and bury negative information about him and boost his electoral prospects. TRUMP, 76, for falsifying New York business records in order to conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from American voters before and after the 2016 election. today announced the indictment of DONALD J. And also the unemployment went up, I think it doubled or close to doubled during his tenure.Read the Indictment and the Statement of Facts TRUMP'S CLAIM: ' not popular because he asked for tax increases. THE FACTS: While Trump is correct that lawyers might not recommend it, former President Richard Nixon released his tax returns while under audit. She said well no lawyer would let somebody release a tax return when they're under audit.” And as far as the tax returns, as soon as the audits complete, like any lawyer would tell you, Greta Van Susteren she was going over it a while ago, she's a lawyer. I'm under audit, when the audits complete I'll release them. Nobody would release when it's under - I've had audits for 15 or 16 years. TRUMP'S CLAIM: 'And I'll release when the audits completed. While the two did appear on the same episode of '60 Minutes,' they were interviewed in separate countries. Rival Carly Fiorina picked up on that during the debate, saying 'One of the reasons I’ve said that I would not be talking to Vladimir Putin right now, although I have met him as well, not in a green room for a show, but in a private meeting.” Turns out that even Fiorina was overstating the extent of the Trump-Putin meeting. The implication seemed to be that the two met in a CBS greenroom. TRUMP'S CLAIM: 'I never met Putin, I don't know who Putin is.' I will say, we will opt out of NAFTA unless we renegotiate it, and we renegotiate it on terms that are favorable to all of America,' Clinton said back then, per the Los Angeles Times. But this isn't the first time: In an NBC debate during the 2008 presidential, Clinton called to renegotiate NAFTA. THE FACTS: On Tuesday, the president of the United Auto Workers said that Clinton told him she'd promise to rewrite NAFTA. TRUMP'S CLAIM: 'By the way, yesterday for the first time she said she wants to renegotiate trade agreements. Now, she’s been in the public eye for years and years, and yet there’s no - there’s nothing out there.” On Hillary Clinton: “We don’t know anything about Hillary in terms of religion.On Mitt Romney: 'Are you sure he's a Mormon, are we sure?'.I mean, Seventh-day Adventist I don’t know about.”

Boy, that’s down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness.