Defense to Stormy: "What did you mean when you said 'Orange Turd'?"

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39. This may be the strategy of the defense

It is not illegal to have sex with a porn star.
It is not illegal to pay her money not to talk about it.
Now paying her money to have sex is illegal, but the prosecution doesn't claim that.
The legal issue is how he manipulated business funds to make and hide the payment. Now that is illegal.
And that is what he is being prosecuted.

The defense here is to keep the prosecution and jury concentrating on paying hush money. Remember that the money was not paid to hide an illegal act. And that is what the defense wants the jury to think. That TFG is not on trial for trying to hide having sex with a porn star. Even paying her hush money for covering up a legal act is not illegal. He is being tried for the way he manipulated business records to hide the money used.
If found guilty, I don's see jail time. Just a big fat fine.