Trump Organization CFO testifies in fraud trial: Live

Attorney Scott Grubman, representing Kenneth Chesebro, argued for the motion to exclude the legal memorandum.

He said the memos Chesebro wrote regarding electors were subject to attorney-client privilege and he said the Trump campaign (the client) has not waived that privilege.

The fact that Chesebro is the subject of the indictment is not sufficient to invoke the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege, Mr Grubman argues.

Similarly, he argues the January 6 Committee report is also not sufficient as it was prepared by a political body and Chesebro had no opportunity to cross-examine witnesses.

Responding for the state, Donald Wakeford says the crime-fraud exception is noa high bar to meet and the state only has to make a “prima facie” case.

The indictment alone is sufficient to make a prima facie case, Wakeford claims. He also points to the January 6 report and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s federal indictment against Mr Trump, which mentions an unindicted co-conspirator who appears to be Chesebro.

Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg is still on the stand and has to be reminded by both Assistant Attorney General Louis Solomon and Justice Arthur Engoron to answer questions in the format in which they are posed — i.e. yes, or no.

For example, Solomon asks Weisselberg if he understood that Donald Trump wanted his assets described in the most flattering way in his financial statements.

Weisselberg confirms this but his response is meandering.

Weisselberg admitted that until Mr Trump became president, he was given the statements of financial condition before they were finalised. This gave Mr Trump the opportunity to review them and he “periodically” gave Weisselberg comments.

After Mr Trump became president, Weisselberg would give the statements to either Donald Trump Jr or Eric Trump — though he can’t remember who (which has been a running theme throughout his testimony). Both Trump sons are co-defendants with their father.

Fulton County prosecutors in Georgia are seeking the testimony of conspiracy theorist and broadcaster Alex Jones and RNC chair Ronna McDaniel in the upcoming trial of the State of Georgia v Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell.

They are both described as necessary and material witnesses to the proof of the state’s case.

Mr Jones participated in the “Stop the Steal” rally at the Georgia State Capitol alongside members of the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and others, and was also at the 6 January 2021 march on the US Capitol alongside Mr Chesebro.

Ms McDaniel received a phone call from Donald Trump and John Eastman about the importance of the RNC in helping the campaign gather “contingent” electors for the 2020 presidential election. Her response was handed to the then-president by his executive assistant.

He posted a montage of photos of Mr DeSantis during a recent appearance on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, where it looks as though he could be wearing heeled boots.

“Tell me he’s not wearing hidden heels,” the post read.

Mr Trump also outlined where he claimed the Florida governor’s feet supposedly really are.

Kenneth Chesebro’s counsel, Manny Arora, is first up to argue the Supremacy Clause motion in which he says that the state of Georgia does not have the power to charge his client for actions relating to organising electors for Donald Trump because this is governed by federal law after the “safe harbour” deadline.

Per Anna Bower of Lawfare.

Donald Trump has posted another screed on Truth Social saying that his rivals for the Republican Party nomination are “getting together with RINO Paul RINO, Mitt ‘The Loser’ Romney, Bill ‘No Guts or Talent’ Barr, and some broken political ‘investors’ that will soon come to me”.

The former president says that by opposing him for the nomination they are only helping “Crooked Joe Biden” with their “failed ideas and policies”.

I understand Candidates that are losing by 57 to 70 Points are getting together with RINO Paul RINO, Mitt “The Loser” Romney, Bill “No Guts or Talent” Barr, and some broken political “investors” that will soon come to me, as most others already have. These failed Candidates should have started by campaigning effectively, which they didn’t because they don’t have the skill or the talent! Romney, who today couldn’t get elected “dogcatcher” in the Great State of Utah, should have beaten an absolutely failed first term Obama. If he and RINO Paul fought as hard against Obama as they do against President Donald J. Trump, they would never have lost, but remember, Republicans “Eat Their Young,” and that’s the problem with so many in our Party, they go after the people who are on their side, rather than the Radical Left Democrats that are DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY. These are LOSERS, and the Republican Nation must stop following their failed ideas and policies. They only help Crooked Joe Biden!