[OldGoatCPO]

It is paid to avoid the publicity. Wealthy or famous people pay NDA(s) for many different reasons. It is not always about sex. In this case, an unscrupulous person or persons capitalized on a chance meeting to make a few grand so Trump could avoid bad publicity. You can fight and win outrageous claims or even legitimate claims of an affair between consenting adults and pay tens of thousands of dollars to lawyers and deal with the yellow journalists or pay less and hush the claim.

The charges, I believe, are that he illegally used campaign funds to pay the hush money and knew it. But the feds investigated and said nothing illegal was done, so why a trial now?

[metmom]

That’s what I know about hush money deals.

I don’t run in those circles nor do I even care about it.

At this point in the game, the left has had its daggers out for Trump for so many years that I don’t believe any accusations against him any more.

I think a large part of that is because they have never found anything they could legitimately use against him.

And for all the effort they’ve put into destroying him, there isn’t anything because if there were, they’d have found it and used it by now.

The fact that they haven’t tells me none exists.