• @[email protected]
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    -249 months ago

    l’d be kind of curious if the people protesting are specifically of the opinion that he’s innocent of the fraud charges, are protesting some kind of other charges against him, or think that he’s guilty but don’t care about that and are just objecting to selective enforcement of the law or something.

    Or if they don’t really have a very clear picture of what the legal situation with him is.

    I mean, this didn’t have anything to do with the election, which I would think is what most people would care about. This is out of his private life.

    • @NegativeInf
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      509 months ago

      He committed fraud (falsifying business records to pay Cohen) in furtherance of election interference (Killing multiple stories that would have been detrimental to his campaign (Pecker explicitly states this as the reason), and then hiding the payments is a kind of campaign contribution which was not disclosed) crimes. So yes, it actually does have something to do with the election. Just the 2016 election. It was rigged. Because he tried to rig it.

      I may be high on parentheticals.

      • Flying Squid
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        239 months ago

        It really, really pisses me off that the Trump people have been able to successfully re-frame this as “he was tried over cheating on his wife.”

        • ASeriesOfPoorChoices
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          69 months ago

          which is hilarious, because it’s well documented that he’s cheated on each of his wives. He’s quite Gingrichy.

          • Flying Squid
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            69 months ago

            I like how they’re split on whether or not they admit he slept with Stormy Daniels.

            • @acetanilide
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              39 months ago

              He didn’t sleep with her. But when he did, it was consensual.