Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Stormy Daniels Gave "Disastrous" Testimony In Trump Trial, CNN Legal Analyst Says Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 15:35:30 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 17:35:30 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fbd83f39dc1f09deea6698a307cfbe37"; logging-data="272309"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+zECGbFQhG1ND4ey/3cuFVyjhfYIU1hbQ=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:wLx++WgXTRkCpRHNC5VXpwSb9LA= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 3266 Crosspost to newsgroups Ubi doesn't read cut suzeeq wrote: >On 5/14/2024 4:25 AM, NoBody wrote: >>Sun, 12 May 2024 04:30:46 -0400, Ubiquitous wrote: The article that Ubi the shithead plagarized is this: Stormy Daniels Gave 'Disastrous' Testimony In Trump Trial, CNN Legal Analyst Says By Daniel Chaitin The Daily Wire May 8, 2024 https://www.dailywire.com/news/stormy-daniels-gave-disastrous-testimony-in-trump-trial-cnn-legal-analyst-says >>>. . . >>The prosecutors have yet to produce ANY evidence that Trump committed >>any crime. >He's charged with covering up payments to her for killing her story to >interfere with his 2016 campaign. That's the crime and they have proved >it with other witnesses. Just a moment. You need to explain this in full. She was looking for a payout. She approached people close to Trump seeking money and wanted to speed the process along by threating to sell her story to someone else if she didn't receive her payout. That's extortion. No one has yet explained why her actions couldn't have been prosecuted under state law. Trump's first instinct was to treat her like he treated subcontractors on developments: Stall the payment or not pay at all. At first he wanted to wait till after the election, for if he lost, nothing she was selling would be of value. He was advised to spend the money to make problem go away. None of this is criminal. I'm not even sure if paying extortion is a criminal act on the part of the victim. The payment to her was a crime, not because buying rights so she won't publish what she claimed was her story is a crime, but because keeping it from being published was of some benefit to Trump as a candidate and it wasn't disclosed as required in federal law. This is what Michael Cohen was convicted of, but Trump was not prosecuted for this. What Trump is being prosecuted for is ordering that the payment to reimburse Cohen be written from one of the companies Trump controlled and taken as a business expense of that company. The coverup was illegal in and of itself but if there was an underlying crime being covered up, it was extortion committed by her. There was no underlying crime committed by Trump to cover up.