Jonah Bromwich
May 28, 2024, 7:55 p.m. ET
Jonah BromwichReporting from inside the courthouse
Steinglass says that Trump’s intent to defraud could not be any clearer, arguing that Trump could have simply paid Daniels himself, but instead devised an elaborate scheme to pay Daniels secretly that required the involvement of at least 10 other people. “Everything Mr. Trump and his cohorts did in this case was cloaked in lies,” Steinglass says, adding, “The name of the game was concealment, and all roads lead to the man who benefited the most, Donald Trump.”