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On 5/14/24 11:43 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <v200c2$89tl$1@dont-email.me>,
>   "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> 
>> Crosspost to newsgroups Ubi doesn't read cut
>>
>> suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:
>>> On 5/14/2024 4:25 AM, NoBody wrote:
>>>> Sun, 12 May 2024 04:30:46 -0400, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> 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.