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On 2/12/2025 12:21 AM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> On 2025-02-12, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
>> What sham was that? He paid hush money to porn actress. That was bad
>> enough but he the felony part was the paper trail to hide the payments
>> as legal expenses. He falsified business records. It was not a sham. He
>> was convicted.
> 
> 
> Deep-state manipulation of, at best misdemeanors, into felonies is the
> real crime. For anyone but him, the hush money would be classified as a
> NDA and not subject to prosecution. The prosecutors dug deep and
> flipped existing law onto its head to convict him.
> The majority of us figured that out. I feel bad for the rest.
> Is common sense starting to return? Probably not. :(
> I remember Russian Show Trials. I thought, "Thank God, that can't happen
> here!" I was wrong.

He is still a criminal, you can argue misdemeanor vs felony but crime is 
crime. Yes, we have a criminal as president.  Does that make you proud?