Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 18:13:10 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Stormy Daniels Gave "Disastrous" Testimony In Trump Trial, CNN Legal Analyst Says References: User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 11:22:42 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 87 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-gm5qS5nArD1M2NRpwSmj00sWV+qbLs6CfF+Xq2RS0S2loHg4vdXrfZA+A0Z9kqxlkH9h9HgoTUZOgbv!g2VjS3CBWHE6+B27lacxY1ShETCR8O7tWLKX0hNl0otniOh2istKPladN7hfRlOkwgO0+wlTFX3C!Fms= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4872 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. 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.