Move over O.J. A trial like no one’s ever seen. Hush. It’s not about money. The Donald Trump trial that begins jury selection in Manhattan today is about what elevates payments funneled to a porn star through a shall company to the level of felony. A once-skeptical Mark Joseph Stern explains at Slate, “The falsification of business records is, by itself, a misdemeanor under New York law, but it’s a felony when it’s done with the ‘intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.’” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s pretrial briefing erased Stern’s doubts left over from the initial indictment. Stern writes: Bragg has argued, convincingly, that the former president intended to violate at least two election laws—one state, one federal. First, Bragg asserted that Trump and Cohen ran afoul of the Federal Election Campaign Act by making unlawful campaign contributions (in the form of a payoff) at the direction of a candidate (that is, Trump).
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1. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a grad school stipend, must be in want of a ceramics class.”
2. “Shall I compare thee to my yoga classes? Thou art more messy and more expensive.”
3. “Doubt thou the kiln will fire. Doubt that the glaze doth take. Doubt that you will ever buy a home. But never doubt that you’re going to make a plate, goddamnit.”
4. “You should be bisqued, and often, and before the clay dries out.”
5. “Let me not to the marriage of handle to mug admit I forgot to score and slip.”
6. “All beautiful dinner sets are alike; each ugly dinner set is ugly in its own way.”
7. “Reader, I made a planter for my ficus.”
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