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Narrative Analysis - Report

Key Focus

The defendant was paying him back for an illegal payment to Stormy Daniels on the eve of the election.". . Prosecutors need not prove that Mr. Trump personally falsified the records, only that he "caused" someone like Mr ...

Trump are connected.. . Those pieces of paper all stem from the $130,000 hush-money payment to the porn star, Stormy Daniels, who in the waning days of the 2016 campaign was shopping her story of a sexual encounter with Mr ...

New York's law does not require prosecutors to prove that election conspiracy, even though the felony charges are built on it.. . Mr. ...

Momentum supporting factors

(prosecutors,campaign,tower)

(prosecutors,campaign,manhattan)

(prosecutors,manhattan)

(prosecutors,campaign,hashed)

Challenge supporting factors

(trump,stormy_daniels)

(trump,prosecutors,election,prove)

(trump,election,prove)

(trump,prosecutors,false)

(prosecutors,election,titillating)

(trump,election,titillating)

(trump,false,titillating)

(trump,prosecutors,election,titillating)

(prosecutors,election,stormy_daniels)

(trump,election,stormy_daniels)

(trump,election,bragg)

(trump,prosecutors,election,stormy_daniels)

(prosecutors,election,prove)

(trump,prosecutors,stormy_daniels)

(election,sleight)

Work-in-progress supporting factors

(trump,witnesses)

(prosecutors,election,paying)

(trump,election,paying)

(trump,prosecutors,election,paying)

(trump,prosecutors,campaign)

(trump,prosecutors,witnesses)

(trump,prosecutors,spokeswoman)

(trump,hush-money,porn,scheme)

(trump,hush-money,scheme)

(trump,hush-money,indictment)

(trump,hush-money,porn,indictment)

(trump,porn,indictment)

(trump,hush-money,lawyer)

(trump,hush-money,keith_davidson)

(trump,lawyer,keith_davidson)

Time Period	Challenge	Momentum	WIP
Report	75.72	2.31	21.97

High Level Abstraction (HLA) combined

High Level Abstraction (HLA)	Report
(1) (trump,stormy_daniels)	100.00
(2) (trump,prosecutors,election,prove)	98.32
(3) (trump,election,prove)	84.86
(4) (trump,prosecutors,false)	79.05
(5) (prosecutors,election,titillating)	75.38
(6) (trump,prosecutors,campaign)	75.38
(7) (trump,election,titillating)	74.77
(8) (trump,false,titillating)	74.62
(9) (trump,prosecutors,election,titillating)	72.78
(10) (prosecutors,election,stormy_daniels)	71.25
(11) (trump,election,stormy_daniels)	70.34
(12) (trump,election,bragg)	69.88
(13) (trump,prosecutors,election,stormy_daniels)	68.65
(14) (prosecutors,election,prove)	68.04
(15) (trump,prosecutors,stormy_daniels)	67.89
(16) (election,sleight)	67.43
(17) (prosecutors,election,sleight)	66.21
(18) (trump,election,sleight)	64.98
(19) (trump,false,sleight)	64.83
(20) (trump,prosecutors,election,sleight)	63.61
(21) (election,shield)	62.69
(22) (prosecutors,election,shield)	61.77
(23) (trump,witnesses)	60.70
(24) (trump,campaign,shield)	60.40
(25) (trump,election,shield)	60.09
(26) (trump,prosecutors,election,shield)	59.17
(27) (trump,prosecutors,shield)	57.95
(28) (election,scandal)	57.80
(29) (election,prove)	57.19
(30) (prosecutors,election,scandal)	57.19
(31) (trump,campaign,scandal)	55.50
(32) (trump,election,scandal)	55.20
(33) (trump,prosecutors,election,scandal)	54.59
(34) (trump,prosecutors,scandal)	53.06
(35) (trump,campaign,porn)	49.39
(36) (trump,prosecutors,prove)	46.33
(37) (election,presidential)	46.18
(38) (trump,election,presidential)	45.11
(39) (trump,prosecutors,election,presidential)	44.65
(40) (prosecutors,election,paying)	44.04
(41) (trump,election,paying)	43.12
(42) (president,false)	42.81
(43) (trump,prosecutors,election,paying)	42.66
(44) (trump,prosecutors,election,orchestrating)	42.20
(45) (trump,prosecutors,election,new_york)	41.90
(46) (prosecutors,false)	41.44
(47) (election,bragg)	41.28
(48) (trump,hush-money,false)	40.98
(49) (trump,hush-money,porn,false)	40.83
(50) (trump,porn,false)	40.06
(51) (trump,new_york)	38.99
(52) (trump,liar)	38.38
(53) (trump,prosecutors,witnesses)	36.85
(54) (trump,prosecutors,titillating)	36.39
(55) (trump,prosecutors,spokeswoman)	36.24
(56) (trump,prosecutors,sleight)	36.09
(57) (trump,election,president)	33.94
(58) (trump,hush-money,porn,stormy_daniels)	33.49
(59) (trump,hush-money,stormy_daniels)	33.03
(60) (trump,porn,stormy_daniels)	32.72
(61) (trump,hush-money,porn,scheme)	32.11
(62) (trump,hush-money,scheme)	31.65
(63) (trump,hush-money,porn,prosecutors)	31.50
(64) (trump,hush-money,prosecutors)	30.73
(65) (trump,porn,prosecutors)	30.43
(66) (trump,false,manhattan)	30.12
(67) (trump,hush-money,manhattan)	29.82
(68) (trump,hush-money,porn,manhattan)	29.66
(69) (trump,porn,manhattan)	29.20
(70) (trump,hush-money,indictment)	28.90
(71) (trump,hush-money,porn,indictment)	28.75
(72) (trump,porn,indictment)	28.29
(73) (trump,hush-money,campaign)	27.98
(74) (trump,hush-money,porn,campaign)	27.83
(75) (trump,false,attorney)	27.06
(76) (trump,hush-money,attorney)	26.76
(77) (president,attorney)	26.61
(78) (trump,hush-money,porn,attorney)	26.61
(79) (trump,porn,attorney)	25.84
(80) (trump,hush-money,payoffs)	25.69
(81) (trump,hush-money,lawyer)	25.54
(82) (trump,hush-money,keith_davidson)	25.23
(83) (trump,lawyer,keith_davidson)	25.08
(84) (trump,campaign,witnesses)	24.46
(85) (trump,campaign,stormy_daniels)	24.01
(86) (prosecutors,campaign,spokeswoman)	23.24
(87) (trump,campaign,spokeswoman)	22.63
(88) (trump,campaign,sordid)	22.48
(89) (trump,campaign,scheme)	22.32
(90) (prosecutors,campaign,presidential)	22.17
(91) (prosecutors,election,presidential)	21.71
(92) (trump,campaign,presidential)	21.10
(93) (trump,president,crime)	20.95
(94) (trump,president,bragg)	20.80
(95) (prosecutors,president)	20.64
(96) (trump,president,attorney)	20.18
(97) (trump,porn,scheme)	20.03
(98) (trump,false,lackluster)	19.88
(99) (trump,false,election)	19.72
(100) (trump,lawyer,violation)	18.96

Supporting narratives:

Please refer to knowledge diagram for a complete set of supporting narratives.

momentum - Back to HLA

Cohen in his midtown Manhattan office tower, where they hashed out a plan to buy and bury any damaging stories that might arise and imperil the campaign, Mr ...
High Level Abstractions:

(prosecutors,campaign,tower)
(prosecutors,campaign,hashed)
(prosecutors,campaign,manhattan)
(prosecutors,manhattan)
Inferred entity relationships (6)
(campaign,prosecutors,shield) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,sordid) [inferred]
(manhattan,prosecutors) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,scandal) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,spokeswoman) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,trump) [inferred]

challenge - Back to HLA

Trump's lawyers also argue that prosecutors are using a sleight of hand, leveraging the titillating election conspiracy to compensate for a lackluster false records case. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,election,titillating)
(trump,false,titillating)
(trump,false,election)
(trump,prosecutors,election,titillating)
(prosecutors,election,titillating)
(trump,prosecutors,false)
(trump,false,lackluster)
Inferred entity relationships (16)
(election,prosecutors,scandal,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,sleight,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,titillating,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,stormy_daniels) [inferred]
(election,titillating) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,prove) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,shield) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,scandal) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,prove,trump) [inferred]
(prosecutors,titillating,trump) [inferred]
(prosecutors,trump,witnesses) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,sleight) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,shield,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,titillating) [inferred]
(false,prosecutors) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,stormy_daniels,trump) [inferred]

challenge - Back to HLA

The defendant was paying him back for an illegal payment to Stormy Daniels on the eve of the election.". . Prosecutors need not prove that Mr. Trump personally falsified the records, only that he "caused" someone like Mr ...
High Level Abstractions:

(prosecutors,election,stormy_daniels)
(trump,election,prove)
(trump,prosecutors,election,prove)
(trump,election,stormy_daniels)
(trump,stormy_daniels)
(trump,prosecutors,prove)
(trump,prosecutors,election,stormy_daniels)
(prosecutors,election,prove)
(election,prove)
(trump,prosecutors,stormy_daniels)
Inferred entity relationships (18)
(election,prosecutors,scandal,trump) [inferred]
(prosecutors,stormy_daniels,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,stormy_daniels) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,prove) [inferred]
(stormy_daniels,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,shield) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,scandal) [inferred]
(prosecutors,prove,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,prove,trump) [inferred]
(election,prove) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,sleight) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,titillating) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,sleight,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,titillating,trump) [inferred]
(election,prove,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,shield,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,stormy_daniels,trump) [inferred]
(election,stormy_daniels) [inferred]

challenge - Back to HLA

Trump's lawyers also argue that prosecutors are using a sleight of hand, leveraging the titillating election conspiracy to compensate for a lackluster false records case ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,prosecutors,election,sleight)
(trump,false,sleight)
(election,sleight)
(prosecutors,election,sleight)
(trump,election,sleight)
Inferred entity relationships (15)
(election,sleight,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,scandal,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,sleight,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,titillating,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,stormy_daniels) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,prove) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,shield) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,scandal) [inferred]
(election,sleight) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,prove,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,sleight) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,shield,trump) [inferred]
(prosecutors,sleight,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,titillating) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,stormy_daniels,trump) [inferred]

challenge - Back to HLA

Prosecutors say he concealed them to shield his 2016 campaign from scandal, orchestrating an "illegal conspiracy to undermine the integrity of a presidential election." ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,prosecutors,campaign)
(trump,prosecutors,election,scandal)
(election,shield)
(trump,prosecutors,election,shield)
(prosecutors,election,shield)
(trump,prosecutors,shield)
(trump,election,shield)
(trump,prosecutors,scandal)
(trump,campaign,shield)
(prosecutors,election,scandal)
(trump,election,scandal)
(trump,campaign,scandal)
(election,scandal)
(trump,prosecutors,election,orchestrating)
Inferred entity relationships (24)
(election,prosecutors,scandal,trump) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,sordid) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,stormy_daniels) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,prove) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,shield) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,scandal) [inferred]
(prosecutors,scandal,trump) [inferred]
(election,shield,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,prove,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,sleight) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,scandal) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,spokeswoman) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,titillating) [inferred]
(election,scandal,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,sleight,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,titillating,trump) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,shield) [inferred]
(prosecutors,trump,witnesses) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,shield,trump) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,tower) [inferred]
(prosecutors,shield,trump) [inferred]
(election,scandal) [inferred]
(election,shield) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,stormy_daniels,trump) [inferred]

challenge - Back to HLA

New York's law does not require prosecutors to prove that election conspiracy, even though the felony charges are built on it.. . Mr. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,prosecutors,election,prove)
Inferred entity relationships (12)
(election,prosecutors,scandal,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,sleight,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,titillating,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,stormy_daniels) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,prove) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,shield) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,scandal) [inferred]
(prosecutors,prove,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,sleight) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,shield,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,titillating) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,stormy_daniels,trump) [inferred]

challenge - Back to HLA

Prosecutors say he concealed them to shield his 2016 campaign from scandal, orchestrating an "illegal conspiracy to undermine the integrity of a presidential election.". . Mr. Trump is not charged with conspiracy, but New York law requires prosecutors to show that Mr ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,election,presidential)
(trump,prosecutors,election,presidential)
(election,presidential)
Inferred entity relationships (5)
(election,presidential,trump) [inferred]
(election,presidential) [inferred]
(prosecutors,trump,witnesses) [inferred]
(election,presidential,prosecutors) [inferred]
(election,presidential,prosecutors,trump) [inferred]

challenge - Back to HLA

Prosecutors say he concealed them to shield his 2016 campaign from scandal, orchestrating an "illegal conspiracy to undermine the integrity of a presidential election.". . Mr. Trump is not charged with conspiracy, but New York law requires prosecutors to show that Mr. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,prosecutors,election,new_york)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(prosecutors,trump,witnesses) [inferred]

challenge - Back to HLA

In their opening statement, prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney's office previewed the false records to the jurors, casting them as straightforward paper "lies" that covered up a hush-money payment to the porn star ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,hush-money,false)
(trump,hush-money,porn,prosecutors)
(trump,hush-money,manhattan)
(trump,hush-money,porn,attorney)
(trump,porn,manhattan)
(president,false)
(trump,porn,attorney)
(trump,prosecutors,false)
(trump,porn,false)
(trump,false,manhattan)
(trump,hush-money,porn,manhattan)
(trump,hush-money,attorney)
(trump,porn,prosecutors)
(trump,false,attorney)
(trump,hush-money,porn,false)
(trump,hush-money,prosecutors)
(prosecutors,false)
Inferred entity relationships (14)
(false,prosecutors,trump) [inferred]
(hush-money,porn,stormy_daniels,trump) [inferred]
(manhattan,porn,trump) [inferred]
(attorney,hush-money,porn,trump) [inferred]
(hush-money,porn,prosecutors,trump) [inferred]
(false,prosecutors) [inferred]
(hush-money,porn,scheme,trump) [inferred]
(attorney,hush-money,trump) [inferred]
(false,hush-money,porn,trump) [inferred]
(porn,prosecutors,trump) [inferred]
(hush-money,manhattan,trump) [inferred]
(prosecutors,trump,witnesses) [inferred]
(hush-money,manhattan,porn,trump) [inferred]
(false,hush-money,trump) [inferred]

challenge - Back to HLA

Two members of the jury are lawyers, the type of arbiters who might tune out what the defense calls "salacious" noise.. . Mr. Trump's lawyers also argue that prosecutors are using a sleight of hand, leveraging the titillating election conspiracy to compensate for a lackluster false records case. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,prosecutors,titillating)

challenge - Back to HLA

Two members of the jury are lawyers, the type of arbiters who might tune out what the defense calls "salacious" noise.. . Mr. Trump's lawyers also argue that prosecutors are using a sleight of hand, leveraging the titillating election conspiracy to compensate for a lackluster false records case ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,prosecutors,sleight)

challenge - Back to HLA

New York's law does not require prosecutors to prove that election conspiracy, even though the felony charges are built on it.. . Mr. Bragg did not include the election conspiracy in the charges, partly because Mr. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,election,bragg)
(election,bragg)
Inferred entity relationships (3)
(bragg,election) [inferred]
(bragg,election,trump) [inferred]
(bragg,election,prosecutors) [inferred]

challenge - Back to HLA

Trump's case, the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, has said that the former president was trying to cover up the election conspiracy. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,election,bragg)
(trump,election,president)
Inferred entity relationships (4)
(election,president) [inferred]
(election,president,prosecutors) [inferred]
(bragg,election) [inferred]
(bragg,election,prosecutors) [inferred]

challenge - Back to HLA

New York's law does not require prosecutors to prove that election conspiracy, even though the felony charges are built on it.. . Mr. Bragg did not include the election conspiracy in the charges, partly because Mr ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,election,prove)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(election,prove) [inferred]

challenge - Back to HLA

Trump are connected.. . Those pieces of paper all stem from the $130,000 hush-money payment to the porn star, Stormy Daniels, who in the waning days of the 2016 campaign was shopping her story of a sexual encounter with Mr ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,hush-money,porn,stormy_daniels)
(trump,stormy_daniels)
(trump,hush-money,stormy_daniels)
(trump,porn,stormy_daniels)
Inferred entity relationships (4)
(porn,stormy_daniels,trump) [inferred]
(stormy_daniels,trump) [inferred]
(hush-money,porn,prosecutors,trump) [inferred]
(hush-money,porn,scheme,trump) [inferred]

challenge - Back to HLA

Those pieces of paper all stem from the $130,000 hush-money payment to the porn star, Stormy Daniels, who in the waning days of the 2016 campaign was shopping her story of a sexual encounter with Mr. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,hush-money,porn,campaign)
(trump,hush-money,campaign)
Inferred entity relationships (5)
(hush-money,porn,stormy_daniels,trump) [inferred]
(campaign,hush-money,porn,trump) [inferred]
(hush-money,porn,prosecutors,trump) [inferred]
(campaign,hush-money,trump) [inferred]
(hush-money,porn,scheme,trump) [inferred]

challenge - Back to HLA

Here's how key figures involved in making hush-money payoffs on behalf of Donald J. Trump are connected.. . Those pieces of paper all stem from the $130,000 hush-money payment to the porn star, Stormy Daniels, who in the waning days of the 2016 campaign was shopping her story of a sexual encounter with Mr ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,hush-money,payoffs)

challenge - Back to HLA

The indictment unveiled in April 2023 centers on a hush-money deal with a porn star, but a related document alleges a broader scheme to protect Donald J. Trump's 2016 campaign. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,campaign,porn)
(trump,porn,scheme)

challenge - Back to HLA

Those pieces of paper all stem from the $130,000 hush-money payment to the porn star, Stormy Daniels, who in the waning days of the 2016 campaign was shopping her story of a sexual encounter with Mr ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,campaign,porn)
(trump,campaign,stormy_daniels)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(stormy_daniels,trump) [inferred]

challenge - Back to HLA

Prosecutors say he concealed them to shield his 2016 campaign from scandal, orchestrating an "illegal conspiracy to undermine the integrity of a presidential election.". ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,campaign,presidential)
(prosecutors,campaign,presidential)
(prosecutors,election,presidential)
Inferred entity relationships (5)
(election,presidential,trump) [inferred]
(election,presidential) [inferred]
(campaign,presidential,trump) [inferred]
(campaign,presidential,prosecutors) [inferred]
(election,presidential,prosecutors,trump) [inferred]

challenge - Back to HLA

Prosecutors can charge it as a felony, rather than a misdemeanor, only if a defendant falsified the records to commit or conceal another crime - and the district attorney's office almost always charges it as a felony.. . In Mr. Trump's case, the district attorney, Alvin L ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,president,crime)
(president,attorney)
(trump,president,attorney)
Inferred entity relationships (2)
(attorney,president,trump) [inferred]
(attorney,president) [inferred]

challenge - Back to HLA

Prosecutors can charge it as a felony, rather than a misdemeanor, only if a defendant falsified the records to commit or conceal another crime - and the district attorney's office almost always charges it as a felony.. . In Mr. Trump's case, the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, has said that the former president was trying to cover up the election conspiracy. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,president,bragg)

challenge - Back to HLA

. Donald J. Trump is on trial for 34 felony counts of what could be the dullest sounding crime in New York's penal code: falsifying business records. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,new_york)

challenge - Back to HLA

Prosecutors say he concealed them to shield his 2016 campaign from scandal, orchestrating an "illegal conspiracy to undermine the integrity of a presidential election.". . Mr. Trump is not charged with conspiracy, but New York law requires prosecutors to show that Mr. Trump falsified the records to conceal another crime ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,new_york)

challenge - Back to HLA

Cohen's credibility at every turn, calling him a felon and an "admitted liar." Mr. Cohen, however, has argued that he committed most of his crimes for Mr. Trump, including a guilty plea to federal charges involving the hush money. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,liar)

challenge - Back to HLA

"This business records violation that the people have brought against President Trump, the 34 counts, ladies and gentlemen, are really just 34 pieces of paper," Mr. Trump's lead lawyer, Todd Blanche, told the jury during his opening statement.. . The Links Between Trump and 3 Hush-Money Deals ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,lawyer,todd_blanche)

challenge - Back to HLA

"This business records violation that the people have brought against President Trump, the 34 counts, ladies and gentlemen, are really just 34 pieces of paper," Mr. Trump's lead lawyer, Todd Blanche, told the jury during his opening statement. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,lawyer,president_trump)

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One defense lawyer, Emil Bove, even painted Mr. Davidson as a serial extortionist, accusing him of shaking down not only the Trump campaign, but Ms. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,lawyer,campaign)
(trump,lawyer,extortionist)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(lawyer,trump,violation) [inferred]

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Bragg, has said that the former president was trying to cover up the election conspiracy.. . In a conversation with the judge last week, Mr. Bragg's prosecutors confirmed that they have seized on a little-known election law that makes it illegal to "conspire to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means." ...
High Level Abstractions:

(prosecutors,election,bragg)
(prosecutors,bragg)
Inferred entity relationships (14)
(election,prosecutors,scandal,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,sleight,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,titillating,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,stormy_daniels) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,prove) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,shield) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,scandal) [inferred]
(bragg,election) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,prove,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,sleight) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,shield,trump) [inferred]
(bragg,election,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,titillating) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,stormy_daniels,trump) [inferred]

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. New York's law does not require prosecutors to prove that election conspiracy, even though the felony charges are built on it.. . Mr. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(prosecutors,election,prove)
Inferred entity relationships (12)
(election,prosecutors,scandal,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,sleight,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,titillating,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,stormy_daniels) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,shield) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,scandal) [inferred]
(prosecutors,prove,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,prove,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,sleight) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,shield,trump) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,titillating) [inferred]
(election,prosecutors,stormy_daniels,trump) [inferred]

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So the prosecution started with the strongest card in its hand, eliciting testimony about the sordid stories that Mr. Trump is accused of covering up. Prosecutors say he concealed them to shield his 2016 campaign from scandal, orchestrating an "illegal conspiracy to undermine the integrity of a presidential election." ...
High Level Abstractions:

(prosecutors,campaign,sordid)
(prosecutors,campaign,shield)
Inferred entity relationships (7)
(campaign,prosecutors,shield) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,sordid) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,scandal) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,spokeswoman) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,tower) [inferred]
(prosecutors,shield,trump) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,trump) [inferred]

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Trump is accused of covering up. Prosecutors say he concealed them to shield his 2016 campaign from scandal, orchestrating an "illegal conspiracy to undermine the integrity of a presidential election." ...
High Level Abstractions:

(prosecutors,campaign,scandal)
(prosecutors,campaign,orchestrating)
Inferred entity relationships (6)
(campaign,prosecutors,shield) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,sordid) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,spokeswoman) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,tower) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,trump) [inferred]
(prosecutors,scandal,trump) [inferred]

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Trump's Scandals Captivate the Courtroom, but Case Hangs on Dry Details. . Prosecutors started their criminal case against Donald J. Trump with eye-catching and lurid stories, but the heart of the matter is invoices and ledger entries. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(prosecutors,lurid)

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Trump falsified the records to conceal another crime. The purported election conspiracy, in all its lurid detail, would essentially establish his motive. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(prosecutors,lurid)

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Prosecutors started their criminal case against Donald J. Trump with eye-catching and lurid stories, but the heart of the matter is invoices and ledger entries. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(prosecutors,ledger)

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The strategy carries risks, including that jurors could blame the prosecutors for subjecting them to a parade of filth. Two members of the jury are lawyers, the type of arbiters who might tune out what the defense calls "salacious" noise. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(prosecutors,defense)

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Prosecutors can charge it as a felony, rather than a misdemeanor, only if a defendant falsified the records to commit or conceal another crime - and the district attorney's office almost always charges it as a felony. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(prosecutors,attorney)

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Trump's case, the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, has said that the former president was trying to cover up the election conspiracy.. . In a conversation with the judge last week, Mr ...
High Level Abstractions:

(election,president)
(election,bragg)
Inferred entity relationships (4)
(election,president,prosecutors) [inferred]
(bragg,election,trump) [inferred]
(election,president,trump) [inferred]
(bragg,election,prosecutors) [inferred]

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Trump's lawyers also argue that prosecutors are using a sleight of hand, leveraging the titillating election conspiracy to compensate for a lackluster false records case. They portrayed the records as innocuous paperwork, the drafting of which was "not a crime." ...
High Level Abstractions:

(election,titillating)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(election,titillating,trump) [inferred]

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Cohen was not being paid for legal services. The defendant was paying him back for an illegal payment to Stormy Daniels on the eve of the election.". . Prosecutors need not prove that Mr. Trump personally falsified the records, only that he "caused" someone like Mr ...
High Level Abstractions:

(election,stormy_daniels)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(election,stormy_daniels,trump) [inferred]

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. New York's law does not require prosecutors to prove that election conspiracy, even though the felony charges are built on it.. . Mr. Bragg did not include the election conspiracy in the charges, partly because Mr ...
High Level Abstractions:

(election,prove)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(election,prove,trump) [inferred]

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Trump's company who handled the payment, and then, in what could be the crucial moment of the trial, call Mr. Cohen to the stand to say that the former president engineered the false records.. . At the climax of Mr. Colangelo's opening statement, after detailing the prosecution's evidence of the conspiracy, the deal-making and the made-for-tabloid scandal, he returned to the business records ...
High Level Abstractions:

(president,false)

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In their opening statement, prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney's office previewed the false records to the jurors, casting them as straightforward paper "lies" that covered up a hush-money payment to the porn star. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(president,porn)

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The defendant was paying him back for an illegal payment to Stormy Daniels on the eve of the election.". . Prosecutors need not prove that Mr ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,prosecutors,election,paying)
(prosecutors,election,paying)
(trump,election,paying)
Inferred entity relationships (5)
(election,paying,trump) [inferred]
(election,paying) [inferred]
(prosecutors,trump,witnesses) [inferred]
(election,paying,prosecutors,trump) [inferred]
(election,paying,prosecutors) [inferred]

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. On Friday, prosecutors questioned Hope Hicks, Mr. Trump's former spokeswoman, about the Trump campaign's frenzied effort to contain the fallout when the stories of Ms. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,prosecutors,campaign)
Inferred entity relationships (6)
(campaign,prosecutors,shield) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,sordid) [inferred]
(prosecutors,trump,witnesses) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,scandal) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,spokeswoman) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,tower) [inferred]

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"But those witnesses will no doubt be quick to remind the jury that they were not the authors of that conduct. Mr ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,witnesses)
(trump,prosecutors,witnesses)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(trump,witnesses) [inferred]

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"But those witnesses will no doubt be quick to remind the jury that they were not the authors of that conduct. Mr. Trump was.". . On Friday, prosecutors questioned Hope Hicks, Mr. Trump's former spokeswoman, about the Trump campaign's frenzied effort to contain the fallout when the stories of Ms ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,prosecutors,spokeswoman)

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The indictment unveiled in April 2023 centers on a hush-money deal with a porn star, but a related document alleges a broader scheme to protect Donald J. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,hush-money,porn,scheme)
(trump,hush-money,scheme)
Inferred entity relationships (3)
(hush-money,porn,stormy_daniels,trump) [inferred]
(hush-money,porn,prosecutors,trump) [inferred]
(porn,scheme,trump) [inferred]

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The indictment unveiled in April 2023 centers on a hush-money deal with a porn star, but a related document alleges a broader scheme to protect Donald J ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,hush-money,indictment)
(trump,porn,indictment)
(trump,hush-money,porn,indictment)
Inferred entity relationships (3)
(indictment,porn,trump) [inferred]
(hush-money,indictment,trump) [inferred]
(hush-money,indictment,porn,trump) [inferred]

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The prosecution also called Keith Davidson, the lawyer who negotiated the hush-money deal for Ms. Daniels. He offered jurors a window on the machinations, portraying Mr ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,hush-money,lawyer)
(trump,hush-money,keith_davidson)
(trump,lawyer,keith_davidson)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(lawyer,trump,violation) [inferred]

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Davidson as a serial extortionist, accusing him of shaking down not only the Trump campaign, but Ms. Tequila and Mr. Sheen as well.. . Yet those attacks could sully not only the witnesses, but the man they were testifying about, the former and possibly future president, who had allowed them into his circle ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,witnesses)
(trump,campaign,witnesses)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(trump,witnesses) [inferred]

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. On Friday, prosecutors questioned Hope Hicks, Mr. Trump's former spokeswoman, about the Trump campaign's frenzied effort to contain the fallout when the stories of Ms ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,campaign,spokeswoman)
(prosecutors,campaign,spokeswoman)
Inferred entity relationships (6)
(campaign,prosecutors,shield) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,sordid) [inferred]
(prosecutors,spokeswoman,trump) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,scandal) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,tower) [inferred]
(campaign,prosecutors,trump) [inferred]

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Trump's 2016 campaign.. . So the prosecution started with the strongest card in its hand, eliciting testimony about the sordid stories that Mr. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,campaign,sordid)

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The indictment unveiled in April 2023 centers on a hush-money deal with a porn star, but a related document alleges a broader scheme to protect Donald J. Trump's 2016 campaign.. . So the prosecution started with the strongest card in its hand, eliciting testimony about the sordid stories that Mr ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,campaign,scheme)

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Trump to falsifying the records, and that person, as the defense is fond of noting, is a convicted liar. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,liar)

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"This business records violation that the people have brought against President Trump, the 34 counts, ladies and gentlemen, are really just 34 pieces of paper," Mr ...
High Level Abstractions:

(trump,lawyer,violation)

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Bragg, has said that the former president was trying to cover up the election conspiracy.. . In a conversation with the judge last week, Mr ...
High Level Abstractions:

(prosecutors,election,president)
(prosecutors,president)
Inferred entity relationships (3)
(election,president) [inferred]
(president,prosecutors) [inferred]
(election,president,trump) [inferred]

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On Friday, prosecutors questioned Hope Hicks, Mr. Trump's former spokeswoman, about the Trump campaign's frenzied effort to contain the fallout when the stories of Ms. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(prosecutors,campaign,frenzied)

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Although the defense has already taken a swipe at the approach, legal experts say it represents the prosecution's best shot at winning the case, the first criminal trial of an American president.. . In their opening statement, prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney's office previewed the false records to the jurors, casting them as straightforward paper "lies" that covered up a hush-money payment to the porn star ...
High Level Abstractions:

(prosecutors,attorney)
(prosecutors,president)
(president,attorney)
(president,manhattan)
(prosecutors,manhattan)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(attorney,president,trump) [inferred]

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Cohen in his midtown Manhattan office tower, where they hashed out a plan to buy and bury any damaging stories that might arise and imperil the campaign, Mr. Pecker said.. . Prosecutors called it "The Trump Tower conspiracy.". . Over several days of testimony, Mr ...
High Level Abstractions:

(prosecutors,pecker)

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Pecker caught and killed the story of Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who said she had a monthslong affair with Mr. Trump while he was married.. . Mr. Trump was supposed to repay Mr. Pecker, and on Thursday, prosecutors played the recording Mr. Cohen surreptitiously made of him discussing the deal with Mr ...
High Level Abstractions:

(prosecutors,pecker)

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Although the defense has already taken a swipe at the approach, legal experts say it represents the prosecution's best shot at winning the case, the first criminal trial of an American president. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(president,defense)
(prosecutors,defense)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(defense,president,witnesses) [inferred]

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Cohen was not being paid for legal services. The defendant was paying him back for an illegal payment to Stormy Daniels on the eve of the election.". . Prosecutors need not prove that Mr ...
High Level Abstractions:

(election,paying)
Inferred entity relationships (3)
(election,paying,trump) [inferred]
(election,paying,prosecutors,trump) [inferred]
(election,paying,prosecutors) [inferred]

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"The fundamental truth is that you take your witnesses as you find them, and inevitably the sleazy, unethical and dubious conduct that was carried out by the witnesses will leave them vulnerable to attack by the defense," said Steven M ...
High Level Abstractions:

(president,unethical)
(president,witnesses,unethical)
Inferred entity relationships (2)
(president,unethical,witnesses) [inferred]
(president,unethical) [inferred]

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. "The fundamental truth is that you take your witnesses as you find them, and inevitably the sleazy, unethical and dubious conduct that was carried out by the witnesses will leave them vulnerable to attack by the defense," said Steven M ...
High Level Abstractions:

(president,witnesses,sleazy)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(president,sleazy) [inferred]

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"The fundamental truth is that you take your witnesses as you find them, and inevitably the sleazy, unethical and dubious conduct that was carried out by the witnesses will leave them vulnerable to attack by the defense," said Steven M. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(president,defense)
(president,witnesses,defense)
(president,witnesses,attack)
Inferred entity relationships (2)
(defense,president,witnesses) [inferred]
(defense,president) [inferred]

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Yet those attacks could sully not only the witnesses, but the man they were testifying about, the former and possibly future president, who had allowed them into his circle.. . "The fundamental truth is that you take your witnesses as you find them, and inevitably the sleazy, unethical and dubious conduct that was carried out by the witnesses will leave them vulnerable to attack by the defense," said Steven M ...
High Level Abstractions:

(president,sleazy)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(president,sleazy,witnesses) [inferred]

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Yet, across nine witnesses and two weeks of testimony, jurors have been treated to hours of mesmerizing courtroom theater.. . There was talk of a sex scandal with a porn star, a surreptitious recording of a future president and the tearful testimony of a former confidante in the glare of the witness stand ...
High Level Abstractions:

(president,scandal)
(president,porn)

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Colangelo's opening statement, after detailing the prosecution's evidence of the conspiracy, the deal-making and the made-for-tabloid scandal, he returned to the business records. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(president,scandal)
(president,made-for-tabloid)

Semantics Relevance

Trump's Scandals Captivate the Courtroom, but Case Hangs on Dry Details