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George Conway

@gtconway3d

Jun 1

Absolutely agree with @Delavegalaw, @MichaelCohen212, and @meiselasb. I was in the courtroom that day, and I found that moment to be a good one for the defense, but felt it was only a small one and essentially the only good moment during a rather long, meandering, and ineffective cross-examination.

I was astonished—shocked, in fact—when I learned that television viewers, particularly on @CNN, had been misled into believing that the defense had dealt some kind of death blow to the prosecution’s case.

Some of the mainstream media coverage of the case has been downright bizarre, and remains so. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Here’s what I said about that day right after court, at 5:04 pm EDT on May 16, 2024. I’m not patting myself on the back for being right; I’m just expressing mystification about how many others could have been so wrong.

I think it may have the herd instinct we all have. If just one legal analyst sitting in a studio vigorously pronounces a misguided, albeit well-meaning, take (let’s leave aside the Trump shills the networks absurdly decided to air), that can influence how others (particularly the nonlegal journalists) how they perceive or express things (because they want to appear to play things down the middle). And the public gets misled.

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George Conway

@gtconway3d

May 23

https://twitter.com/chriscillizza/status/1793721857125884221

Chris defends the Goldwater rule in his “deep dive.” It has been the subject of severe criticism among many mental health professionals. Their informed criticisms are far more persuasive than Chris’s cursory defense. I attach a (small) sampling of their articles:

https://twitter.com/chriscillizza/status/1793721857125884221

researchgate.net/profile/Donald…

jaapl.org/content/jaapl/…

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George Conway

@gtconway3d

May 15

https://twitter.com/beneverson40168/status/1790777196161663272

Every bit as funny as, “It’s past your jail time, Donald.”

https://twitter.com/beneverson40168/status/1790777196161663272

Dealing with Trump is actually easy. He’s not normal. So you don’t treat him as normal.

You treat him like the nut job he actually is. But you do it with humor.

He won’t be able to handle it.

He’s a narcissistic sociopath.

He will make Captain Queeg and Colonel Jessup look like pikers.

And it will be glorious to watch.

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George Conway

@gtconway3d

May 3

https://twitter.com/aweissmann_/status/1786479393323225560

Yep. Even if Cohen had advanced the money in October 2016 on his own without any expectation of repayment by Trump—a ludicrous lie—Cohen would have committed a campaign finance violation (which is why he pleaded guilty to one).

https://twitter.com/aweissmann_/status/1786479393323225560

Hicks’s testimony establishes beyond any question that Trump knew about that illegal and undisclosed contribution, and knew that his reimbursement of Cohen was not a payment for legal services.

And that means, beyond any reasonable doubt, that means that Donald Trump intentionally created false business records—including the checks that he himself signed—to cover up the underlying campaign finance violations.

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