• DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    7 months ago

    Honestly I can’t understand why the “hush money” is all the rage. THIS is the crime that would put ANY other American into a supermax. This isn’t justice.

    • Snapz@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      7 months ago

      The “hush money” framing is such a cutesy, bullshit spin to neuter the actual repeated and unapologetic fraud here. Basic human and business ethics concerns to side for a moment, It’s purely fraud against the American people without remorse and it’s actual election interference.

      You wouldn’t say that a serial killer that stabs and kills their victims is on trial for “night night pokes”. How was this allowed to get casually accepted like this without challenge from society?

      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        7 months ago

        Can you expand more on the election interference part?

        Totally understand inciting an insurrection to be interference, but using campaign funds to manage public relations problems seems a legitimate use.

            • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              0
              ·
              7 months ago

              Yeah, if he was upfront about things then there would be no criminal case

              However saying he set up shell companies to carry out falsification isn’t moralising

                • ssladam@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  0
                  ·
                  edit-2
                  7 months ago

                  I think you misread. He said “disguising”, which only means intent to keep hidden by masking the truth.

                  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
                    link
                    fedilink
                    arrow-up
                    0
                    ·
                    7 months ago

                    The only disgusting (immoral) part of this is Trump cheating on his wife.

                    Everything else could have been achieved perfectly legally (i.e. without disgust) if Trump had been smart.

                    I don’t want to disgust you, but “intending to keep things hidden by masking the truth” is practically the definition of politics.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      7 months ago

      The hush money one is the first one to actually go to trial, so it’s mostly that. The documents case is basically suppressed until they can somehow get rid of this judge, and the other 2 cases are also being held up in places.

      The hush money case isn’t likely to put him in prison though, I don’t think there’s any precedent of a politician going to prison for that. And of course there’s going to be appeals that can easily push it until past November.

      • NoSuchAgency@reddthat.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        7 months ago

        And it is going to get overturned on appeal. It was an obvious political trial with a judge that donated to Biden, his daughter was bringing in millions because of the trial and the prosecutor ran for office pledging to take down Trump. That’s why Trumps bringing in record donations from small donors now.

        • Absolute dumbass commentary. The jury decided the case, not the judge. Trump literally had no defense to the allegations other than bald denials. The evidence that he did the crimes was written in paper and undeniable.

          • NoSuchAgency@reddthat.com
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            7 months ago

            You’re just buying everything the MSM is selling, hook line & sinker. They wouldn’t let Trump have much of a defense. They wouldn’t even let an expert witness testify for the defense. And sure, the jury decides the case based on the instructions given by the judge and this is the only time a judge has ever given instructions like the ones in this case. You really don’t know much about the justice system if you believe that the judge in a case doesn’t play a major role in how a case is decided.

          • NoSuchAgency@reddthat.com
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            7 months ago

            Yeah, that won’t happen, they’ve got such a stranglehold on surveillance in this country, it would never get off the ground and things are just going to get worse. Most younger people and some older people to either keep their face buried into their phones on Facebook or Tiktok propaganda machines or they just buy into everything the MSM tells them so until we fix that stuff there’s really no hope of things getting better