to be clear, trump's crime was not "ticky-tack cheating on his wife"

[TomDaisy]

It was committing campaign fraud so he could hide his affair from VOTERS and change the outcome of an election.

SO MANY pundits on TV saying "people are not going to like indicting a president for this little tricky tack affair."

HE WAS PAYING FOR STORMY'S SILENCE ON THE EVE OF AN ELECTION, while concurrently smearing Hillary using the FBI on the EVE OF AN ELECTION.

JFC.

[634-5789]

1. Agreed!

Can't come soon enough!

[Bucky]

2. That's what she said

ba-dum tsssss

[Skittles]

3. will Stormy be arrested?

you know, for blackmail and probably not paying taxes on her "earnings"

what a disgusting pair

[SunSeeker]

5. I'm betting Stormy paid her taxes, unlike Trump. nt

[Rorey]

9. I was also wondering that

I wonder if there's a federal Statute of Limitions on blackmail?

I agree that she's also disgusting. She accepted hush money to keep her mouth shut about her interaction with Trump, when she could have divulged it on her own before the election. I wonder how much this entire thing has enriched her. The hush money that she got was probably a drop in the bucket compared to how much she's made on her notoriety since this whole thing was exposed, to say nothing about her future earnings because of it. She's as much of a grifter as Trump is.

[mackdaddy]

21. Although she also says she was physically threatened over this story in 2011.

So there is a take the 'silver or lead' implication in her keeping quiet at the time.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/25/politics/stormy-daniels-threat-60-minutes/index.html

[SunSeeker]

4. And he was committing felony tax fraud by claiming the payment as a business expense. nt

[Scrivener7]

12. Hopefully. That remains to be seen if that will be the charge.

[Johnny2X2X]

15. There's election laws that were broke too

Paying hush money is an illegal campaign contribution.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

6. the TV pundits are purposely lying

[Walleye]

7. They want to say that Twitter suppressing the hunting laptop totally affect the 2020 election, not f

[BComplex]

8. And Bill Clinton's blow job was "really about him committing perjury" about it.

The media is NOT "LIBERAL". It is all run by republican boards of directors. The 1% owns the media.

[Tickle]

10. I'm glad he's being arrested but

I was hoping it would be for treason and or stealing classified documents. We'll get there I'm sure

[Scrivener7]

11. It really has nothing to do with the affair part. It has to do with misuse of

election funds.

[GoCubsGo]

13. Yes. Using campaign funds for hush money payments is a felony.

I won't be surprised if even more crimes come out of this...

[doc03]

14. It seems to me even on MSNBC the talking heads are going

out of their way to minimize Trump's crime. They are calling it a weak case and a misdemeanor. The Georgia
case, it's hard to prove intent. Meanwhile the DOJ sitts on their f----g hands. Let's face it NY and Georgia will play in
his favor with his base. The longer the DOJ takes the more the Republicans will have to make j6 a tourist visit. Trump
is going to continue running for president and has a good chance of winning.

[brooklynite]

17. It IS a relatively weak crime...

Reminder that this is a STATE charge. Whatever the motives were, campaign fraud in a Presidential race isn't a State matter. I've heard this described as bookkeeping fraud, which is a misdemeanor unless linked to another crime (again it has to be a State crime).

[doc03]

18. Why all the bs about him being arrested? The media has hyped this for a couple weeks now

and apparently it is nothing more than a speeding ticket. If that is all it is then it is just
political.

[Johnny2X2X]

16. Don't forget there were two women

This is more than Stormy Daniels. Trump paid hush money to another woman too

And I agree, he’s going to be charged with felonies.

[Bluepinky]

19. Another example of Repub hypocrisy.

When Clinton had an affair, it was an impeachable offense (which took months of investigation and hundreds of thousands of dollars to discover).
When Drumpy had affairs (as well as sexual assaults), plus illegal handling of hush money, it’s all “ticky-tack cheating on his wife”.

[kentuck]

20. And he may not have won if he had not paid off Stormy Daniels?

It casts a long shadow on his presidency, on top of all his criminality.

[treestar]

23. He still would have won

If the pussy grabbing comment did not do it, the Stormy Daniels incident wouldn't.

[crud]

25. We'll never know...

odds are... it probably wouldn't have made a difference. But keep in mind that trump thought it would make a difference at the time.

[crud]

22. Right on! with this diary!

The news media is missing the forest for the trees. We will never know if the Stormy Daniels affair would have derailed trumps election. But we do know that trump thought it would, because he payed her off.

Who was harmed by his criminal actions? THE WHOLE WORLD

[usedtobedemgurl]

24. I assume those same people are pointing back to

The blow job Clinton got and saying how unfair that was, and this would equally be unfair. Yes, I know it is about the payment, but I am trying to be “realistic” here.