[Wuli]

Buying someone’s silence in a matter is not a crime unless the matter itself was a crime.

If two consenting adults have some sort of a fling, and one of them, who is a well known public figure, makes a payment to the other one in return for the other’s pledge to keep silent about the matter, is that a crime? No it is not a crime.

Neither is it a crime to pay a journalist or a publication to keep silent on such a matter either. There is no “criminal” bribe in it.

So why the case? To get to Cohen’s tapes, in a fishing expedition for anything that could be turned over to Mueller.

[Red Badger]

Just imagine if the MSM had been THIS INTERESTED IN BILL CLINTON’S AFFAIRS..............AND HE WAS ACCUSED OF RAPE!!!!!!!............

[Caribou]

IMHO, it’s a crime if the one paying off is in congress using taxpayer’s money.

[Crucial]

There’s no crime here. It was adulterous and he’ll have to answer to Melania.