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1. He didn't want anyone to know he was paying off a porn star that he was lying about not banging, because he's Donald Trump and he lies and schemes. So they tried to hide it. ... enter Michael Cohen.

2. Same answer as 1. He was trying to hide the fact that he banged a porn star and was paying her off, so the scheming bunch of idiots came up with a plan for it to be done by Michael Cohen so if people found out they could pretend it wasn't Trump paying off a porn star he banged, it was something else.

3. Ask Michael Cohen. He probably was afraid of even more jail time if it went to trial and he lost.

 

Yes, in MY opinion. ... none of this nonsense should be something that can send anyone to prison.

You can criminalize anything you want. You can make someone who used heroin into a criminal, for example. And I'll sit there all day long and say, "That's their business, not yours."

How people spend their own money (whether it's to fund a political campaign or if it's to pay off porn stars because they want to do the absurd and pretend that they are an evangelical Christian) should be their business, not something that can selectively be turned into a criminal prosecution.

That's my opinion. And in fact, the contention this kind of weaponizes the law (where it gets wielded in some cases, not in others) is kind of backed up by what you posted. ... Donald Trump wasn't prosecuted by the Feds for a campaign finance law violation of some sort, likely because it is pretty convoluted to turn him paying off a porn star into a campaign contribution in the first place. Yet, New York made that a second-degree element of a "falsifying business" record crime in order to create a felony charge out of it.

But that's not even what I take issue with. They brought the charges and a jury convicted. That's the way our justice system works. It was a fair process. If I don't like it, I will do what I am doing. ... arguing that the laws themselves are bullshit.

What I was saying is that in my opinion, your money, what you do with it (as long as you aren't hiring hit men with it, etc., and then prosecute the person for murder, not bullshit). ... should be your business and no one elses. Even if you are Donald Trump and you pay off porn stars with it because you are lying (when everyone with a brain knows you are lying) about the fact that you are a lecherous creep who sleeps with porn stars to advance the Kabuki Theater we lived with.

You can put a lot of people in prison for things like this (we actually don't). ... it makes them douchebags or liars. It shouldn't make them felons.