The pattern is a history of philandering and the desire to keep it quiet for the purposes of winning an election,
He didn’t mind the stories coming out before he ran for office.
You continue to lie AFTER you got Jillslapped...
The pattern is hiding it from his family, if the affairs are true. You're the one in the other thread who brought up the Marla Maples story -- what was the election Trump was hiding it over back then?
Even with John Edwards in North Carolina, the argument was hiding it from his wife, not hiding it from voters. Cash is fungible, and Edwards said it was personal money that was used for the NDA, not campaign money.
Trump is saying he didn't do it, but if he did do it he used personal money. Bragg is alleging that Trump used campaign money.
"Hiding it" is not a crime, it's which pocket of money was used? The FEC or DoJ didn't charge Trump, Cyrus Vance didn't try Trump, only Bragg is trying Trump, but he needed a felony to revive a dead misdemeanor, and that's where the campaign funding violation came from. And that's the charge that the Edwards jury rejected in North Carolina.
So it's not about a pattern of hiding affairs at all. There is no crime in that.
-PJ
The pattern is a history of philandering and the desire to keep it quiet for the purposes of winning an election,
But the charges are about falsifying business records. Was there anything on the tape that provides evidence of falsifying business records? It has been quite a while since I watched it, but I don't recall any discussion of business records in any context. It was more like two junior enlisted guys engaged in barracks talk. Jocks talking in the locker room. Proof that he said one can grab some women by the privates does not seem to provide proof that he falsified business records.
I can't see why they can quote what was said, but not produce the actual tape. The best evidence of what was said would be the actual words as spoken, with the context of the occasion, showing two guys b.s.'ing. A transcript removes the context of whether the statements were made in a jocular manner.
Slick Willie would probably be serving three life sentences if philandering were evidence of falsifying business records.