Weisselberg is going to say this and I think it will be true.
He was staying in the Trump apartment like an employee stays in a hotel when on office business. A hotel stay is a legitimate business expense. Why is Weisselberg staying in a Trump condo different?
He was said to be a workaholic. Worked all hours. He needed a place to stay so he didn't need to commute. Is a court going to punish him for that? It shouldn't. It shouldn't even be prosecuted.
Much as I dislike Trump, they shouldn't be trashing a human being who is Trump's employee unless he himself deserves it.
The state (or is it the city) is going to need to work hard to prove a scheme exists in the first place.
Maybe there are parts of the indictment that will stick. But at the moment, a lot of this is looking like state-sanctioned bullying. You really don't want an out-of-control, aggressive AG who uses the law as a political weapon.
We've seen a lot of this coming out of NY.
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