The athlete also told The Daily Beast that in the run-up to the 2016 election he received anonymous calls from strangers asking what he remembered of the weekend.
This is the whole thing that’s ridiculous to me. It’s not the fact that he had sex with her, it’s not even the fact that he paid her to shut the fuck up, it’s the fact that he covered it up and committed fraud. He could have just boasted about it publicly and it’s unlikely anyone would have cared.
Exactly. If he just paid her out of his own pocket, he wouldn’t have any legal issues. This whole thing is a perfect example of penny wise, pound foolish.
The defense argument is that there was no sex, so the payments to Michael Cohen were not hush money but legal feels and Cohen acted independently. So arguing there was no sex supports their defense.
This is the whole thing that’s ridiculous to me. It’s not the fact that he had sex with her, it’s not even the fact that he paid her to shut the fuck up, it’s the fact that he covered it up and committed fraud. He could have just boasted about it publicly and it’s unlikely anyone would have cared.
I believe that attempting to hush her in order to affect the voting is one of the 34 charges
It is, but the crux of the felony charges stem from the fact that he “committed fraud with the intent to commit or conceal another crime.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-trial-guilty-verdict-b2552597.html
Exactly. If he just paid her out of his own pocket, he wouldn’t have any legal issues. This whole thing is a perfect example of penny wise, pound foolish.
The defense argument is that there was no sex, so the payments to Michael Cohen were not hush money but legal feels and Cohen acted independently. So arguing there was no sex supports their defense.
It’s stupid and not what happened.