Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 03:58:50 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Stormy Daniels Gave "Disastrous" Testimony In Trump Trial, CNN Legal Analyst Says Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: Content-Language: en-US From: trotsky In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 96 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 08:58:50 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 4686 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17d0d8298af24ae6$71877$347424$2d54864@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 5065 On 5/18/24 1:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article , FPP > wrote: > >> On 5/14/24 12:43 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> In article , >>> "Adam H. Kerman" wrote: >>> >>>> 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- >>>> tru >>>> mp-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. >>> >>> If that's the standard, then Democrats have all broken that law by not >>> disclosing MSNBC and CNN, which are a lot more than just some benefit to >>> Democrats as candidates. >>> >>>> 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. >>> >>> They're saying it boils down to Trump notating the payment to Cohen as >>> "legal expenses", which is falsifying a business record. This in a city >>> that's a violent hellhole... >> >> > > Inconvenient evidence of Bragg's prosecutorial hypocrisy snipped for > advantage by Effa restored: > >> where thugs are making a sport out of walking up to random women and >> punching them so hard, the bones in their faces are shattered. And when >> caught, they're released on no bail almost immediately. LOL! If bail is permitted, is there a time frame that's supposed to instituted? Specious, Trump like "logic." Alvin Bragg won't >> aggressively prosecute *that* but Trump putting a vague term in the memo >> line on a check to Cohen is apparently worth spending millions of dollars >> of prosecution resources. >> >> But don't say this is weaponizing the courts against political >> opponents. That means you're a conspiracy theorist! >> >> Trump should have just written "reimbursement" on the memo line. That >> would have been completely truthful and yet in no way revealing.