Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 15:32:25 -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: 85 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!news.1d4.us!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 20:32:25 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 4333 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17cf751bde1299fa$22477$310004$2d54864@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 4738 On 5/14/24 11:43 AM, 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. Do you know any lawyers that can act on this fake fact? >> 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 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. > >> 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.