Ex-Trump attorney predicts Trump verdict and how long it will take

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "I reach this legal conclusion because of my long experience as a federal prosecutor and white collar defense lawyer, my reverence for the rule of law, and despite my view that Trump remains the greatest threat to Democracy in our nation's history," he said.
39% : Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of an alleged effort to keep salacious -- and, he says, bogus -- stories about his sex life from emerging during his 2016 campaign.
37% : On Monday, Trump called the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg a "scam" and "witch hunt.
32% : But Trump has previously said it had nothing to do with the campaign.
31% : Trump has denied the sexual encounter ever happened.
24% : He paid that sum on Trump's behalf to keep porn actor Stormy Daniels from going public with her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier.
23% : Trump has acknowledged reimbursing Cohen for the payment and that it was designed to stop Daniels from going public about the alleged encounter.
15% : Prosecutors have described it as part of a scheme to bury damaging stories Trump feared could help his opponent in the 2016 race, particularly as Trump's reputation was suffering at the time from comments he had made about women.
9% : The hits keep coming from Donald Trump's former White House lawyer Ty Cobb, who led the the former president's legal response to the Russian election interference investigation before he blasted Trump as a "deeply wounded narcissist.

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