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This does support the narrative that this is a vendetta against Trump rather than evidence of actual wrong doing.'This type of case is often settled civilly,' Goldman, who acted as a prosecutor for Trump's January 2020 impeachment, explained: 'If the Trump Organization wanted to, my guess is they could have engaged in good faith negotiations to try to settle this case with a fine and perhaps avoid a guilty plea or a conviction.
'They chose to fight this. That says something. It's typical of Donald Trump. But I am a little surprised that this ultimately ended, based on these allegations, in a criminal charge rather than a settlement.'
'They've already taken a run at Allen Weisselberg. They have also approached Allen Weisselberg, I am certain, and said, "This is what we have. We would like you to cooperate." Allen Weisselberg said, "Thanks but no thanks, I'm not going to cooperate. I'll take my chances,"' Goldman theorized.
'He's not facing that much jail time. And I don't think there's any more pressure to add to him based on the fact that he was in handcuffs today. He knew that was coming. He made that conscious decision to get arrested and get indicted rather than cooperate.
The risk is that it doesn't actually achieve anything, which then weakens the prospect of other, more serious charges being successful.
There is a possibility that they can prove that the accounting was fraudulent, which would give the banks reason to call in their loans and force the Trump Org to the wall, but it might be more in the banks' interests to allow them to keep trading. Certainly the Russians are not predisposed to allow the State to remove Trump as a threat: I think they would want to keep him holding rallies and undermining American democracy, so they'll probably continue to fund him.
