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In article <v29n5g$2mjdm$1@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> On 5/14/24 12:43 PM, 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.
> > 
> >> 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.
> 
> Nope. Ask John Edwards. Some lawyer you are!

I didn't write that, genius. You're responding to Kerman who has never 
claimed to be a lawyer.