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 Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
The shadiness around this situation is extreme, and the immorality of every step of the way is pretty high.
But immoral and illegal are different things.
Was it wrong to "cheat" on his wife?
IDK. Has anyone asked his wife if she cares? Was it even cheating?
Trump wanted to hide that information from the voters, but was it also to hide it from his wife?
IDK.
Was it wrong to pay someone to not talk about something that would maybe discredit him in the eyes of the public less than a month before said public voted him into office?
Absolutely. Hiding pertinent information from the voters is problematic.
Is it criminal, though?
Can't be. Politicians lie and hide their history all the time.
Was it wrong to have his lawyer do it instead of him so he could further hide this from voters?
IDK. I guess? Seems like the kind of thing that is the norm among people with that kind of money, though.
Was it wrong to lie about the money he paid said lawyer to reimburse him for this hush money payment and call it a "retainer?"
IDK. Sounds like fraud, but the kind of fraud that every politician is up to and not really fair to punish only one politician for doing what amounts to the status quo.
It's like all the details around this case sound fishy.
It's being alleged that the hush payment was done to assist the campaign and it went unreported. That makes it a campaign finance violation.
Maybe it's not the cleanest way to punish it, but he didn't just pull one over on voters, he allegedly committed multiple felonies to pull one over on voters.
Further, his m.o. is to perpetually straddle the line, which means there will be not infrequent steps over it. Maybe those steps generally are just barely over it, but when you extrapolate that to a lifetime of abuses and transgressions that individually are hard to justify punishing, it all adds up to an odious record and trail of gain through other's loss that just begs to be punished. Sometimes you get Capone on tax evasion.
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