Catch and kill, hold my martini.
Posted on 04/04/2023 4:32:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Manhattan District Attorney’s case against Donald Trump centers around allegations the former president orchestrated illegal “catch and kill” payments in a scheme to suppress negative stories about him during the 2016 election that continued while he was in office, according to the indictment against him unsealed Thursday.
Trump, 76, is facing a total of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, which each carry a maximum sentence of four years behind bars. Taken together, the ex-president faces a whopping 136 years behind bars, but if convicted at trial and actually sentenced to jail, the time would likely be far less.
Prosecutors are hinging their case on three instances of Trump allegedly employing “catch and kill” tactics, where he, his then-lawyer Michael Cohen and Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg conspired to cover up potential sex scandals from coming to light.
The illegal activity allegedly started in 2015 when the CEO of American Media Inc. (AMI) at the time, David Pecker, agreed to act as the “eyes and ears” for Trump’s presidential campaign and would alert Cohen before a negative story was published, according to the statement of facts filed by prosecutors.
A few months later, around December 2015, AMI paid a former Trump Tower doorman $30,000 to prevent him from going public with allegations that the real estate mogul had fathered a child out of wedlock, the court document states.
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Bimbo eruptions?
Ok this is just BS
“…conspired to cover up potential sex scandals from coming to light.“
Gee, I did not know that this was a crime.. silly me…
What they have done is “take the gloves off”. Now Biden, Obama, both Clintons are subject to prosecution by the new powers to be. Every single country that has gone totalitarian eventually have to ‘disappear’ the former power structure, so as not to leave any potential ‘rebirth’. That is why they are trying to kill Trump. If he rises above this persecution, he will be stronger.
Oh yeah, the Nuts and Sluts Team...
Catch and kill.
That sounds really bad.
Never heard of the term before, but it sounds really bad.
President Trump, they say, was doing catch and kill.
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that women, children, and the poor were hit hardest.
This article makes it sound like the payments were illegal.
Trump and his team did a pretty poor job of suppressing negative stories about him. That’s the only kind we’ve heard since he announced in 2015!
Never hire a guy named David Pecker
Good point!
30,000 emails
Trump should have been screwing kids... then he’d be all good and in the clear
How many such actions have been taken on behalf of Hunter & Joe???
So do we now get to find out who Congress has been paying off with our money… and for which congresspeople?
Wrong word order. Should be "The allegedly illegal activity...."
They are scrubbing all Bidens comments on his administration seeing to it that Trump will not be allowed to run for office again as they will see to it.
Paula Jones?
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