Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Stormy Daniels Gave "Disastrous" Testimony In Trump Trial, CNN Legal Analyst Says Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 09:33:32 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 99 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 15:33:33 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="def5f5aa8775bccfb70591c7123d1c80"; logging-data="20476"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19UjOSDh+ZXtYgI1iCL8lWN" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:M1/569mHWJ9ZHPkjz3YsP8H9C9U= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 5550 On 5/18/24 2:22 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. 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. So how do you refute the fact that if a black man violated his gag order 10 times, he'd be sitting in Rikers? -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0