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Former President Donald Trump’s “weird” new filing in his New York City hush money case has a big problem at the heart of its argument, according to MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin: it misrepresents rulings from the trial of convicted crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried. Trump Monday filed notice to New York City judge Juan Merchan — overseeing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s falsifying business records case — that he plans to present a quasi advice-of-counsel defense, court records show. “The problem?” writes Rubin. “The very first case he cites for the proposition that this ‘informal…

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