Discussion: Trump Calls Hush Payment A 'Simple Private Transaction,' Not Campaign Contribution

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Exhibit “A” to Trump’s sentencing report: The total lack of remorse merits stiffer sentence.

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A ‘smocking’ gun. I guess Be Best is now dressing his weapons. I am (and have been) so embarrassed by this thing occupying the Oval Office! And then there is the non-sensical tweet…

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“Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey’s testimony. No Smocking Gun…No Collusion.”

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A shocking. Gun? Is that what he whipped out in front of stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal?

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Donald Trump sure has a lot of important stuff on his mind…

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Repeated “smocking gun” twice. Think this tweet was solely written by the author.

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The efforts to obscure what they were doing would negate any defense counsel attempts to paint Trump’s crimes as unfortunate misunderstandings and ignorance of campaign laws. Combine that with the multiple subsequent denials that Trump did exactly what Mueller uncovered and you have a strong case of consciousness of guilt.

Nevertheless, he walks. Well, limps to be more precise, to the finish line. Completes his term. Very rarely are rich white men called to account for their crimes, and when they are their punishment seems wholly disporportionate to their deeds, as in receiving a slap on the wrist.

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Someone close to Trump needs to explain to him what “collusion” REALLY means.

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“When you’re explaining, you’re losing” only applies to people not named Donald Trump. When Trump explains that an illegal campaign contribution is just a “simple private transaction”, he’s winning. Don’t take my word for it – just ask him.

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I just posted the gif for that…

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“SIMPLE!” is something of an understatement here… nothing to see here, move along.

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Let’s not forget that Don McGahn was the Trump campaign lawyer and used to be an FEC Commissioner.

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A ‘Simple Private Transaction,’ To hide the fact I was didling these women while Married to Melania and doing one while she was pregnant with my child
Private transaction indeed
Yet Evangelicals and Republicans still support him

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I was foolish enough to google “Hush Money Trump” and got 19 million hits…

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The denials are all taking on a distinct family resemblance: You have no proof, and the proof you do have is only about some different semi-innocent thing, and anyway it’s not even that, and besides I didn’t even do it, it’s someone else’s fault because I was never aware of anything and all these things just sort of happened.

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Bingo, $$$$$$$$$$ have rights also.

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Deluded old raging liar, dotard…lock him up with pencie and the rest of the know and do nothing crooks.

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The judicial system is predisposed to look the other way on exactly these types of infractions, especially when the perps are squarely ensconced in the racial and socioeconomic profile Trump sits in. You can take a $50,000 check made payable to the “Bob Smith for Governor” campaign fund, use it for a vacation to Bermuda, and MAYBE get fined and made to pay it back. I just don’t see Trump in truly hot water for bribing a couple adult entertainment women to keep quiet for awhile. That it may have helped him win the election is a complicating factor, but eventually it’ll be minimized and explained away also.

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