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Hush money isn't illegal, it's 'democracy,' Trump lawyer says in defiant trial opening statements
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Unfortunately for him the case is actually not about paying hush money, it’s about lying about the payments in company documents and its direct impact on the election.
Sure you can give money to people, the lying about it on financial/campaign finance documents is what he’s being tried for.
Of course the media keeps calling it “hush money trial” which it is not.
It’s because Hush Money Trial is pithy. It is succinct yet distinct. Fraud Trial would be a great name if there weren’t several more of them to differentiate from, and Election Fraud Trial Relating to the Disclosure of Hush Money Payments regarding a Mushroom Shaped Erection doesn’t fit in the headline.
Erection Fraud Trial does have a ring to it, though.
Also, you shouldn’t believe Michael Cohen because he’s a liar who went to jail! (for making and then lying about illegal hush money payments for Trump, lol)
Or Stormy Daniels who is a porn star who has a grudge! (yeah, the porn star Trump made illegal hush money payments to after sleeping with her, lol)
Besides, none of what they say matters! (none of the facts matter? lol!)
Also, you should believe trump because he’s a shining beacon of truth and who’s honesty is beyond reproach.
That's not true.
He's being charged with lying on his payments and that being connected to another crime, because that radically upscales the lying crime. The other crime in question genuinely is hush money.
My understanding is that he's denying that he was the one who had the documents altered.
“The buck stops at my paid employees, not me”…
Good luck finding one that actually got paid.
Zing!
Wow, that would be an amazing outcome, if his stinginess made him the only employee, everyone else being a contractor that he can't throw under the bus correctly.
I'm partial to Trial for the crime he committed and his former lawyer went to prison for covering up.
I agree, it's not as pithy.
The case may not be, but another one should be maybe. Paying hush money to hide something from the voters is fraud. He's trying to deprive Americans of the information they need to make an informed decision. It's perpetrating a fraud on the US people.
They're calling it a "hush money" trial because it stands out more than "falsifying documents" trial, and that's not an unreasonable thing to do when Trump has so many different trials going on at once that is kind of hard for the public to keep it all straight.
As for the defense attorney, this is just the opening arguments, he's laying down track and trying to get certain facts on the jury's minds right up front.