New York DA says Stormy Daniels hush money not Trump’s official duty
Washington PostMAY 2023
The Spin
Democratic narrative
With a couple of indictments already on his resume and more possibly coming, Trump is desperately trying to use his time as president as a source of immunity. But there’s no way for him to relate covering up an embarrassing event with an official act as president. The evidence in this case is clearly strong enough to move forward in state court, regardless of what Trump’s lawyers argue.
Pro-Trump narrative
This case is slated against Trump as neither the New York state court system nor the judge overseeing this trial is impartial. At the very least, it should be moved to federal court, but Bragg and his office are afraid their politically motivated witch hunt will be exposed if the jury pool is expanded. Trump didn’t have any relationship with Daniels, so there was no alleged payoff.