Donald Trump raged about his own conviction on 34 felony counts hours after Hunter Biden was found guilty of three felony gun charges.
The former president was found guilty himself last month for falsifying business records to cover up other crimes, including violations of campaign finance laws, and he lashed out once again late Tuesday against the prosecutor who brought the charges.
"Corrupt Soros backed Manhattan D.A, Alvin Bragg, at the direction of Crooked Joe Biden and his DOJ, has always known that there was NO CRIME in the Case he filed against me," Trump posted on Truth Social. "He didn’t even want to bring this 'Zombie Case,' but when forced to attack me for Election Interference purposes, Bragg attempted to make it look as bad as possible by 'stacking the counts' - A TOTAL SCAM."
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Prosecutors alleged that Trump falsified business records to conceal reimbursements to his former attorney Michael Cohen for hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to prevent voters from learning about their sexual relationship years earlier.
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"The reality is that the whole Hoax is just about Legal Expenses being paid and marked as….Legal Expenses," Trump posted. "Instead, the Prosecutors made up 34 counts out of 11 Checks, 11 Invoices, and 12 Entries by a highly respected bookkeeper in a Ledger. Even the Invoices said, 'Legal Retainer.' Why? Because that’s what it was, a payment to a then-fully accredited lawyer. Nothing illegal, no 'conspiracies.' THE APPELLATE COURTS HAVE TO END THIS WITCH HUNT AGAINST A POLITICAL OPPONENT!"
Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to violating campaign finance law with the payment to Daniels and other crimes related to his work for Trump, and prosecutors also presented evidence that Trump was aware of his hush money payment that they argued was part of a broader conspiracy to deprive voters of negative information about him that were not properly reported as campaign expenditures.
The bookkeeper who logged those invoices, Allen Weisselberg, pleaded guilty in 2022 to 15 criminal charges, including grand larceny, criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records, and sentenced to five months in jail.
Weisselberg was permanently banned in February from serving in a financial control function for any New York business, and he pleaded guilty in April to lying under oath when he testified on Trump's behalf in a civil fraud lawsuit that ultimately resulted in a $455 million penalty against the ex-president and presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
