These 34 counts are basically about 9 payments - but have been made to look worse by the DA. They are like knowingly receiving an invoice, writing a cheque, having a cheque stub and entering the payment in a ledger - so 4 counts for 1 event. No sane DA would be listing charges like this - basically its like prosecuting someone for drink driving on 4 counts - 1, getting into the car drunk, starting the car up drunk, pulling away from the curb drunk and then driving drunk ! Totally insane.
There is no 'hard' evidence against Trump.
The payments were made by Trumps accountant (main witness) who said 1. Trump knew nothing about the payments and 2. said Trump paid him back in payments that he knowingly received as 'retainer' fees !
I support (sort of) Trump, but would support any prosecution that had a chance of being actually being won against him.
The indictments continue to say he did all this to hide another criminal offense - but the DA will not say what it is or put it in evidence/charges.
This is a total joke of a prosecution, that statutes of limitations has expired - or the DA ran away before he would explain how it was still live.
I fully expect this DA to end up in a homeless shelter one day.