A longtime tabloid publisher is expected to tell jurors about his efforts to help Donald Trump stifle unflattering stories during the 2016 campaign.
I mean it’s pretty cut and dry. If I have to report picking up my friend at the airport, because he is a politician, and it’s an inkind donation to his campaign, than obviously a huge favor like this is a donation. We haves laws!
Edit. Why the down votes?
I mean I thought Michael Cohen was found guilty in connection with this. I also don’t see them bringing this case against a former President unless they thought it was a surefire win too.
And Michael Cohen paid her out of kindness to Donny, I’m sure.
Huh. The downvotes suggest lurker brigades, as your comment is reasonable discussion and any one who disagrees could just join the discussion. That sucks.
That’s not a very accurate analogy.
Pecker paid for exclusivity of three different stories, but didn’t run them. The first time, he paid a doorman who claimed that Trump has an illegitimate child $300K for his story, with a $1M penalty for sharing the story anywhere else until after the campaign. The conversations were recorded in voice and text by Cohen, who will corroborate during his testimony.
How is dividing all campaign contributions as either money, or not money an inaccurate analogy? It’s not really an analogy. Services rendered to campaigns have rules. That’s part of the issue here. Trump cooked the books to hide potential campaign finance violations.
The prosecution needs to prove that Trump knowingly used that money for cover up. The defense states that money was paid to Cohen as compensation for campaign-related work. That’s not illegal. Cohen states he paid Pecker and Daniels to cover up stories that would be detrimental to Trump’s campaign, and later received reimbursement payments from Trump. That is illegal. Cohen’s testimony, corroborated by Pecker, is what makes it a crime.
Downvotes go like this:
Person A didn’t actually understand your point or was, for some reason, personally attacked by it and made a downvote. Person B sees Person A’s downvote and goes “hmm, there might be something to this” and gives you a default downvote.
Now you’ve entered the circle jerk stage and every edgy person who comes in after just votes you down without even reading your comment.
I’m. Back to plus 5, from - 16
Weird.
That article was repetitive and went nowhere.
If you think the AP is repetitive, you hate reading as a whole.
