By: AJ_Liberty (ec7f74)
I’m with you. There’s more to it than just a simple payoff. It has less of the “threat to democracy” about it but the evidence might not be as weak as the conventional understanding of it suggests. I...
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I am bothered that the last time something like this was charged against a political figure (John Edwards), that political figure walked. I know the charges and laws are different, but jurors are...
View ArticleBy: whembly (5f7596)
If this is going to be the new standard… why limit it to Presidential candidates? Let this herald the new era whereby politicians paying for the silence of former paramours is illegal. Let this be the...
View ArticleBy: Rip Murdock (d2a2a8)
If this is going to be the new standard… why limit it to Presidential candidates? Let this herald the new era whereby politicians paying for the silence of former paramours is illegal. Let this be the...
View ArticleBy: Sammy Finkelman (1d215a)
The People claim that the Defendant paid an individual $130,000 to conceal a sexual encounter in an effort to influence the 2016 Presidential election This is what Michael Cohen claims, and Trump...
View ArticleBy: Sammy Finkelman (1d215a)
The records were made the way they were to protect Michael Cohen – but it only was to cover up a crime if Michael Cohen’s purpose in aying Stormy Daniels was to help Trump get elected. More likely it...
View ArticleBy: Appalled (a47f53)
Sammy, I await the moment you grant Donald Trump agency for anything shady that he does. Your theory has Michael Cohen procuring playboy models and porn stars up his boss in 2006, then desperately...
View ArticleBy: nk (fcda93)
It’s not that I’m foolish enough to think that Cohen got a fair portrayal in the media, but even on Fox News he was half doofus and half creep. Creepy enough to be a towel boy in a brothel, but not...
View ArticleBy: asset (d80031)
Tonight on mark levine show in between screaming he said he was helping trump with a 8th amendment defense. He was ranting that supreme court ruled 9-0 that state couldn’t take a woman’s suv to pay a...
View ArticleBy: Kevin M (ed969f)
Or not. This is a case that a prosecutor has a significant bias on. It’s both ambitious and aggressive and would be so even if the taint of political propaganda did not cover it like the Blob.
View ArticleBy: Kevin M (ed969f)
This is a partisanship litmus test to me. People who view this in the same light as more robust cases (GA and DC) and cannot seen to see the political nature of the charges, their inventiveness, or the...
View ArticleBy: Kevin M (ed969f)
A failure of any case against Trump prior to the election will give Trump the win. The game is not worth the candle.
View ArticleBy: Kevin M (ed969f)
Slightly off topic (more about the fraud case), but that crazy Trump fanatic Jeb Bush has the following to say about NY and Trump in today’s WSJ (free link): Elon Musk and Donald Trump Cases Imperil...
View ArticleBy: whembly (5f7596)
@15 This is the ultimate in SLAPP suits. Kevin M (ed969f) — 2/22/2024 @ 9:15 am How would that work?
View ArticleBy: Rip Murdock (d2a2a8)
This is the ultimate in SLAPP suits. Kevin M (ed969f) — 2/22/2024 @ 9:15 am Uh, no. SLAPP lawsuits occur between private parties, not the government and a defendant. In a typical SLAPP, the plaintiff...
View ArticleBy: aphrael (31f892)
> a disbarred convicted liar and tax cheat is the prosecution’s entire cas A disbarred convicted liar who was punished for lying for his client isn’t credible when testifying against the client on...
View ArticleBy: Kevin M (ed969f)
SLAPP lawsuits occur between private parties, not the government and a defendant. Always immune to simile and metaphor, is our all-too-literal Rip.
View ArticleBy: Kevin M (ed969f)
A disbarred convicted liar who was punished for lying for his client isn’t credible when testifying against the client on whose behalf he lied? When he got a VERY lenient sentence for the effort?
View ArticleBy: Kevin M (ed969f)
Trump has been the ultimate SLAPP plaintiff. True, not that it informs this discussion. A robber can be robbed.
View ArticleBy: Kevin M (ed969f)
How would that work? The argument is that Trump is being punished for sticking his nose into the political arena. It’s not my argument, it’s Jeb’s.
View ArticleBy: AJ_Liberty (5f05c3)
“More likely it was to protect himself because he probably had some role in tricking Donald Trump into having the trysts.” He must have double-dog-dared him.
View ArticleBy: AJ_Liberty (5f05c3)
“And Cohen, a disbarred convicted liar and tax cheat is the prosecution’s entire case.” How do you know that he’s their entire case? Will your slander change if it’s proven to be untrue?
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