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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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KEYWORDS: 1bovineexcrement; 1frpottymouth; absurdlies; amandacarpenter; bulwark; cruzcampaign; cruzmistress; cruzsexscandal; cruzswhore; trump
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To: conservative98

It is because he has an R after his name, and is not part of the uniparty.


41 posted on 03/23/2023 2:06:58 PM PDT by Ingtar
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To: conservative98

Cruz hit that


42 posted on 03/23/2023 2:07:18 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: conservative98

Isn’t there a congressional fund set up to pay out these settlements on a regular basis?

Cost of doing business amongst politicians and whores.


43 posted on 03/23/2023 2:07:47 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: conservative98
The article is full of holes/falsehoods

There is no question that these deals were illegally made.

FALSE. While there were "deals," The Feds looked at same and its impossible to conclude they were somehow "election related." Its a total stretch. The only "evidence" is Cohen claiming, somehow, they were

But had voters known about Trump’s indiscretions with Daniels and McDougal, Trump may never have become president in 2016.

More Nonsense. The MSM made sure everyone knew McDaniels and Clifton's name in 2016

Also, mentioning Hastert has ZERO connection to this case in any way. Its a total red-herring

44 posted on 03/23/2023 2:09:18 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: kabar

Had he used campaign funds, it would have been illegal.


45 posted on 03/23/2023 2:09:26 PM PDT by Ingtar
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To: conservative98
It did not matter for Bill Clinton.

It only mattered for John Edwards when he might have been a challenge to your little tin god BHOII.

You BTW failed so badly with that one they felt it in Antarctica.

Paying someone to shut up never has been a crime.

46 posted on 03/23/2023 2:10:32 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ("EATING... BABIES.... IS NOT.... COOL!" -Rath)
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To: conservative98

I know the hush-money thing is supposedly before the 2016 election, but when did these trysts with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal supposedly take place? In the 90’s sometime (I thought)?


47 posted on 03/23/2023 2:11:59 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: conservative98

AMANDA CARPENTER

funny.

I remember ol’ Amanda starring in her own version of “Hoes Mad” when rumors about her and Ted Cruz started circulating.


48 posted on 03/23/2023 2:13:00 PM PDT by Pelham
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To: conservative98

It’s really really bad

Cuz cuz cuz

It’s really really REALLY bad

Cuz cuz

Orange Man Bad

Waaaah


49 posted on 03/23/2023 2:13:36 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jiim)
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To: Ingtar
"It is because he has an R after his name, and is not part of the uniparty."

Seems similar some religious sects that seek to destroy their heretics. Perhaps by changing his political affiliation back to democrat he can escape the spurious legal problems.
50 posted on 03/23/2023 2:15:13 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: conservative98

I am more concerned the current usurpers in the Whitehouse are corrupt pedophiles.


51 posted on 03/23/2023 2:17:43 PM PDT by Dogbert41
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To: BenLurkin

No kidding. The author is the same class of people who viewed Clinton’s sexual exploitation of a female intern as “just sex”, and the open lying to the nation, as well as the attempts to buy Lewinsky off to obstruct the investigation as no big deal.

Lewinsky is just lucky she didn’t get simply disappeared.


52 posted on 03/23/2023 2:18:37 PM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: conservative98

“deceive the public at a critical moment before the 2016 election”

Let’s see, which is worse...
1. dalliances of a wealthy billionaire with beautiful women he paid to keep quiet
2. the drug-addled spawn of a filthy corrupt politician; son and father paid influence money by Communist China; the spawn documented all of it on a laptop that he forgot at a computer repair shop; the laptop was suppressed for years by the FBI before the 2020 election; 51 “intelligence community” spooks lying and declaring it was Russian disinformation.


53 posted on 03/23/2023 2:21:02 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The government's lying liars love to lie)
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To: conservative98

not illegal is still not illegal

being on China’s payroll is still illegal for certain folks


54 posted on 03/23/2023 2:22:09 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for? which it stands.)
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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.

The same can be said about the FIB's scheme to deceive the public by knowingly mischaracterizing the Hunter Biden scandal as "Russian misinformation" at a critical moment before the 2016 election.

55 posted on 03/23/2023 2:25:45 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: conservative98
Hush
56 posted on 03/23/2023 2:26:20 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: conservative98

Amanda Carpenter...
Where have I heard that name before???


57 posted on 03/23/2023 2:30:07 PM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: joe fonebone

LOL...ask Lyin Ted cRuz all about her.


58 posted on 03/23/2023 2:31:23 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: conservative98

Maybe Lyin Ted didn’t pay Amanda any hush money, and, she’s still bumhurt?


59 posted on 03/23/2023 2:32:48 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: conservative98

The (great) comment on your post #2 suckered me into clicking the article’s link.

Wow!

This whole site is (no other way to accurately describe it) anti-Trump porn. I feel dirty just READING it; I need a shower . . .

So long, Amanda Carpenter; it was good to not know you.


60 posted on 03/23/2023 2:34:11 PM PDT by BraveMan
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