[Verginius Rufus]

It matters because this was the first time in the history of the United States--no, in the history of the world--when someone was paid money to keep quiet about something embarrassing. If Trump were a Democrat, no money would be needed since the media would hide anything embarrassing without even being asked.

If Ryan & Co. manage to hand Congress to the Democrats in the November 2018 election, and the Democrats go full speed ahead with impeachment, will the American public accept the idea of a President being removed for a "process crime" (not properly dotting all the I's and crossing all the T's on complicated campaign finance laws)? But the Democrats probably don't think they can get to a two-thirds vote in the Senate for conviction--they just want the impeachment process to hamstring Trump so that he cannot accomplish anything and then can be defeated in 2020.

[Pirate Ragnar]

“It matters because this was the first time in the history of the United States—no, in the history of the world—when someone was paid money to keep quiet about something embarrassing. If Trump were a Democrat, no money would be needed since the media would hide anything embarrassing without even being asked.”

Does it matter that Trump denied it?

[bk1000]

I think there will be elected officials who will regret doing this. Trump’s people won’t sit by for that.