nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Trump could pay off 50 hookers to stay quiet and it isn't illegal.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

It is a matter of how the money was raised and what it was suppose to be used for..

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

They aren't claiming he used campaign funds, they are saying he made an unreported contribution to his campaign; that the hush money was for campaign purposes and not to protect his family.

Money paid by politicians to silence liars has never before been labels by law enforcement as campaign contributions just as all those who obstructed government proceedings with sit ins, pulling fire alarms and other interfering forms of protest have never been charged with obstruction of gov proceedings. Even the use of RICO laws against protestors is a novel (contrived) use of the law to rid one's self of political rivals is as well.

CounterRevolutionary

What a thoughtful statement.

It is curious how the most beautiful woman in the world, Melania Trump, is married to Donald Trump, deeply religious and steadfast in her fidelity. Women have intuition and instinct and can recognize Stormy Daniels is being pressured and financed by some monstrous criminal organization.

This whole affair is going to backfire against Biden, the Clintons and the entire DNC. Mark my words.

federally indicted mattoid

Liars? Who do you mean?

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Women life Stormy and that Carroll bitch, claiming they were raped or had sex with someone. Gold diggers.

PeterS

It depends on why he's paying them off to stay quiet and how much he pays them. It's clear the money was paid because the Trump team feared that the emergence of her story just before the 2016 election would torpedo Trump's chance of becoming president. That makes the payment a campaign contribution--and the Trump campaign's failure to disclose it to the Federal Election Commission illegal if for no other reason than it exceeds federal election campaign limits.

So no, Trump can't payoff 50 hookers if the individual payment exceeds the maximum allowed...I think the max was around $1,000 at the time so the $130K paid to Stormy was well over the limit as was the $150K value of the Esquire layout for the Playboy model. So if Trump dodges one he's going to get caught by the other. That's 4 years if he's found guilty and I know that doesn't matter to the likes of you but the middle, who Trump needs to be elected, that's another matter and why Biden's chances of being reelected get better with every day...

PeterS

You do know that Trump has admitted to having affairs...on his first wife, his second wife who he had a child out of wedlock, yet somehow you think he didn't have affairs on his third wife? Why would he stop? His cheating on Melania would be before he decided to run for president so hadn't needed to 'find god' so the idiot evangelicals would vote for him. Why do you think he wouldn't cheat on Melania or rape women when he admitted that they would let you do anything you wanted to them! You have Trump's own admissions yet women are the ones who are lying??? Good god man, what have you been smoking???

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-melania-stormy-daniels-affairs-marriages-timeline-2018-3
https://www.wsj.com/video/in-deposition-trump-says-historically-stars-can-grab-women-by-genitals/9925F3D8-9B68-45F9-9DC1-83467D65F42C

PeterS

Biden and the Clinton's? How did either of them come into this? It's not the affairs that are the problem--it's paying off 2 women in an effort to hide the affairs Donald had with them from voters. That's a violation of campaign finance laws and neither Biden nor the Clintons had anything to do with that but falls squarely at Donald's feet. Don't you cons believe in individual responsibility? Well, it's Trump's turn for that and if he's not then he's looking at jail time...and don't blame anyone but Donald if that's what happens to the turd bird...Biden and the Clintons my ass!!!

CounterRevolutionary

There are so many posters, PeterS, on OPP that wish in their hearts that Trump must be a bad man to be successful in his career (managing 500 corporations). It is very difficult for wealthy men to find true love with women gold diggers.

Many wealthy men face this dilemma and deliberately go bankrupt in a divorce shakedown. Look at Ivanka Trump who decided to divorce Donald just as the Soviet Union was breaking up and Slovakia remained communist, hoping to cash in on a a billion dollar fortune.

That "hush money" was most likely to move Madam Stormy out of Trump Towers so she would not ruin Trump's real-estate value in the midst of his bid for the 2016 presidential election. Doesn't it puzzle you why nobody has checked the public records of hooker crimes with the NYPD? Who were (or are) Stormy's other clients pulling her strings?

We are all guessing, but human envy is really surfacing against those who have made it in the corporate world.

I recommend a solution to this human envy. Let's start a class action lawsuit by 40 million senior citizens against the Federal Reserve Bank that has devalued the purchasing power of our dollar to 25 Cents robbing us of a lifetime of time, money and life savings.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

That is a huge lie,, trump in fact manages nothing.... he may own stock in 500 companies but has nothing to do with managing them... You can do the same.. invest in a couple of mutual funds and just like that, make the trump claim that you are involved, own or manage all those companies,, you may not get 500 of them, but a great number will be included in those mutual funds.. so just like that, you become a trumper..

CounterRevolutionary

You couldn't be more wrong. Don't let this systematic counterfeiting Marxist Federal Reserve Bank pit poor against poor, poor against rich, and ignore the biggest swindle transpiring around the world in currency wars, a race to the bottom.

Permfrost, you are suffering Trump Derangement Syndrome.

albertk

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

In a slightly differing point of view.. I agree with you....


As for the TDS... I find it pleasing and a rewarding POV..

federally indicted mattoid

They have both testified under oath.

No pleading the 5th.

Something that somebody so far has refused to do.