• gregorum
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    867 months ago

    Whether he actually had sex with her or not is irrelevant. He issued a hush-money payment to her not to talk about the encounter, and then committed business fraud to cover up that payment, and because it was during an election, that also constituted election fraud.

    • @0110010001100010
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      487 months ago

      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.

      • @cosmicrookie
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        157 months ago

        I believe that attempting to hush her in order to affect the voting is one of the 34 charges

      • @Revonult
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        37 months ago

        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.

    • @[email protected]
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      27 months ago

      The sex proven in court might be a clause in Melania’s prenup. She and Baron might have a get out of jail free card; it makes sense why trump keeps demanding there was no affair.

      • Dr. Moose
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        77 months ago

        I find it incredibly delusional that people still think that half-brain dead of a lady is somehow entirely innocent 🙄

  • @OhmsLawn
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    27 months ago

    Any headline that runs with “(figure) says” is an automatic skip for me, but athlete says is about as bad as it gets. That’s right up there with deckhand says or house painter says.

    • @jeffwOPM
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      87 months ago

      It’s an anonymous golfer. It all happened during a golf tournament