I agree with you and said as much in one of my other posts on this thread. Since Trump used personally money, it’s not a crime. (IMO) The extension they would try to make is what I mentioned - the fungible nature of money.
As for Trump, he cheated on each of his wives with his next wife. He took Marla Maples on vacation with the family while he was still married to Ivana. It’s well documented and not disputed by Trump. Infidelity isn’t a crime. Hell, you could argue it’s almost a pre-req for office. But I don’t have any time believing that Trump was with these women.
Evidence? No. As I said somewhere in this thread it’s no more than he said/she said. But I’m not so naïve.
Stormy could be lying about the timeline as well, a year off and President Trump was single
I believe her extortion was paid because President Trump just didn’t want to deal with her. He just fought off the Billy Bush tape. He didn’t need to deal with this as well.
Stormy looked as this as an opportunity to cash in, like I said true, not true, semi true, whatever, the press would eat it up especially at that time. She figured a 130K pay day right then there was the best she was going to do, after the November election her story would be worth 20K to the national enquirer because nobody believed Trump was going to be president at that time. (we did)
This looks like extortion more then it does ‘hush money’
You’re entitled to your belief, and yes, Trump has had his affairs over the years. The one question I have been asking since the Daniels story came out, is that Trump is a wealthy man. He was wealthy then too. Why would a porn star, or any bimbo wait all those years and settle for a mere pittance, when she could have demanded far more, and possibly have more credibility with her story, back when the alleged affair/one night stand occurred. She began claiming it was an affair, then changed her tune to it being a one night stand. Credible? Hardly.