If I Understand all that is Involved, Trump is Guilty

  As Trump's hush-money case in New York reaches the deliberation stage, I consider whether perhaps I finally understand it.
   If I do, it is this: It is not against the law, in and of itself, for Trump to have bribed Stormy Daniels. And, it might have been a misdemeanor to have falsified the books, in and of itself, but if it was done in conjunction with election interference, it is a felony and he is guilty.
   So, do you need to be convicted of election interference before the falsifying of the books can count against you? Or do you just need to be guilty of it -- as in, can this jury make its own determination on whether you were trying to defraud the voters by paying Stormy Daniels hush money so voters would not turn against you?
  To me -- just listening to the news -- it seems neither the prosecution nor the defense pressed too hard on the issue as to whether election fraud occurred? Why? It seems as that if the defense felt Trump needed to be convicted of messing with the election by hushing Stormy Daniels before he could be convicted at all, then they would have been shouting that. They would have been saying emphasizing it over and over. Just reading the news, I never saw that. The media brought up the point, so why didn't the defense go big on it? I'm sure it did get some attention -- I would guess -- but the defense's big effort went into discrediting Michael Cohen. They rested their case on Cohen being a liar instead of the crucial point of whether election meddling was involved.
   And the prosecution? Why didn't it go further in showing the connection to the hush money and it being done to influence the election?
   The judge did instruct the jury last week that they should not convict Trump unless they felt he paid out the hush money to influence the election. Did he do that because he felt the issue was not receiving enough attention?
   I'm of the thought that the jury did get enough feel -- despite it not being emphasized -- that Stormy got her money in order that the sordid affair would be kept secret so Trump wouldn't lose votes.
   And, that makes Trump guilty. I'd come back with a guilty verdict.