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Why Trump’s Hush Money Matters
The Bulwark ^ | MARCH 23, 2023 | by AMANDA CARPENTER

Posted on 03/23/2023 1:43:10 PM PDT by conservative98

Donald Trump’s defenders would love for people to believe that the former president entered into totally normal, by-the-book, run-of-the-mill legal agreements with adult film actress Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal to purchase their silence, and that he did so in a way that was agreeable and beneficial to all parties.

But that’s not what happened.

Trump risks indictment because, allegedly at his behest, an illegal scheme was undertaken to deceive the public at a critical moment before the 2016 election. That was the purpose of the “hush money” payments—not to enrich the women or settle a personal matter, but, in the words of the man who went to prison for arranging the deals, “for the principal purpose of influencing the election.”

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To: conservative98

Can anyone pull up any articles she wrote about clinton paying Paula Jones $850k

How about the $17,000,000 in taxpayer money that Congress used to for HUSH MONEY?


21 posted on 03/23/2023 1:53:03 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: conservative98

What a poor excuse for — What is this? What? What? What? Is it “journalism”? Is it “opinion”? Nope! This gal apparently can read minds. That’s what she does with this “story”, she conjures up all sorts of stuff. Unfortunately, not many people read this Bill Kristol garbage site that’s likely funded by some loons with deep pockets because there is no way they make money on their own. FAKE NEWS!!!!!


22 posted on 03/23/2023 1:54:29 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: conservative98

Ok - now explain the Hunter Biden laptop coverup?

Is that “a scheme to misinform voters in the run up to the 2020 election?”


23 posted on 03/23/2023 1:55:03 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: euclid216

They are calling it an illegal campaign contribution because he used his personal funds.


24 posted on 03/23/2023 1:55:05 PM PDT by kabar
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To: conservative98

Isn’t this the Ameriskank chick who was letting Ted Cruz nail her? Glass houses chica... glass houses.


25 posted on 03/23/2023 1:55:13 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: conservative98

Wasn’t she the aide/girlfriend of Ted Cruz once upon a time?

I thought I remembered that picture!


26 posted on 03/23/2023 1:55:22 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: conservative98

How much did Amanda Carpenter extort from Ted Cruz?

And were there others?


27 posted on 03/23/2023 1:55:50 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: conservative98

Mandy and her Peanut Butter legs...


28 posted on 03/23/2023 1:56:14 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: conservative98

Related: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/breaking-president-trump-releases-letter-from-stormy-daniels-denying-ever-having-a-relationship-with-donald-trump/


29 posted on 03/23/2023 1:56:16 PM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: conservative98
AMANDA CARPENTER homer-brain-scan URINALIST
30 posted on 03/23/2023 1:56:24 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: conservative98

It’s doubtful whether anyone is any lower than the scum at the Bulwark. They are truly the lowest form of life: Reprobates who warmonger incessantly in order to push degenerate culture around the globe.


31 posted on 03/23/2023 1:57:08 PM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: conservative98

“an illegal scheme was undertaken to deceive the public at a critical moment before the 2016 election”

Dear Amanda-
You are a phookin Lyin’ POS.

Have a nice day-

“Illegal”, “deceive”, “critical” all incorrect.
So disappointed becasue she is actually a vey clever writer-

Can’t hardly explain the deep disgust I have for all things Bulwark.

That gang is first on the pike-


32 posted on 03/23/2023 1:57:10 PM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: conservative98

“Influencing the election” or not, is NOT the matter, when no underlying crime is committed, and a financial arrangement to not publicly talk about something (”an affair”) that was not illegal in the first place, is not a crime. There was no crime that was to be “covered up” by the “hush money” (particulary when the affair was a very well known “secret”). If that were a crime, then politicians could not spend a dime of their own money on anything that might “influence an election”.


33 posted on 03/23/2023 1:57:36 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: conservative98
“for the principal purpose of influencing the election.”

And what was it when the big tech companies all got together and suppressed the Hunter Biden Laptop info during the 2020 election?

34 posted on 03/23/2023 1:57:57 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: no-to-illegals

The ‘ten percent for the big guy’ means it was more than just covering up his son’s illicit arrangements.


35 posted on 03/23/2023 1:59:51 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: conservative98

What was the deception? And how does paying off a nuisance suit by a porn actress “influence the election” esp when even she admits there was no affair? See again https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/breaking-president-trump-releases-letter-from-stormy-daniels-denying-ever-having-a-relationship-with-donald-trump/


36 posted on 03/23/2023 2:01:29 PM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: conservative98
Trump risks indictment because, allegedly at his behest, an illegal scheme was undertaken to deceive the public at a critical moment before the 2016 election... “for the principal purpose of influencing the election.”

Complete and total nonsense.

37 posted on 03/23/2023 2:01:35 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: conservative98

Note: my comments aren’t directed at or questions for you. Just general info.


38 posted on 03/23/2023 2:02:43 PM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: conservative98

Deceiving the public with an election coming up? Would that be like saying the lap top with damning information about Biden was a Russian Hoax?


39 posted on 03/23/2023 2:03:49 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: conservative98

So we can send all the government agents, reporters and social-media mavens to prison for silencing the Hunter Biden stories?


40 posted on 03/23/2023 2:06:08 PM PDT by dangus ( )
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