Originally posted by: Boilerman
Paying hush money for a legal act is not against the law.
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Yes. But the act Daniels was paid for--lying under oath, whether or not she eventually did it, is indeed illegal.
Again, a court of law decided that--not you.
Originally posted by: Boilerman
Paying hush money for a legal act is not against the law.
Next?
Court conviction says otherwise.
You voted for a convictedcrook. You continue to support a convicted crook. You continue to fabricate crimes about someone who was never indicted let alone convicted.
And thats all any needs to know before attempting to engage you in a discussion about law and order.
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Prosecutors argued that because Trump recorded this personal transaction, it's magically a business transaction. The judge agreed. Then prosecutors argued that he falsified this magical business transaction (paid with personal funds, mind you), that is a crime.
This means that if you go to the store and write a check to Kroger for chocolate, but you recorded the transaction, that personal expense is now a business expense. If you recorded the chocolates as apples, so you wife doesn't learn that you're diet isn't going well, that is a criminal act. This is no exageration.
This judge was plucked three times (randomly for Trump related cases), and the odds of this randomly happening is far less than 1/1,000,000.
The fix was in and will eventually be overturned.
Yeah, Boilerboob simply makes shit up, denies reality, and bleats nonsense about what "Liberals" supposedly do or say. When refuted, he runs away or changes the subject.
I don't respect him, not because he's an idiot MAGA, but because he relies on lies and bullshit to make his points.
Boilerman, Im just curious (mostly I just enjoy watching you squirm with your bs).....why do you think Trump made up the story about Cohen paying the hooker with his own money instead of Trump's? According to you Trump did nothing wrong by funneling that money through his lawyer. So why that fake story, then?
Help us legal novices out since you understand the case better than the judges, attornies and jury who rendered a verdict with it.
Let me help you out Boiler......
In Trump’s court case, he wasn't charged with making the payment itself or reimbursing it, but for 34 counts of falsifying business records, based on the fact that his reimbursement payments to Cohen were allegedly disguised as legal payments.
Even if hush money isn't inherently illegal, as you state, prosecutors argued the way Daniels was paid, through Cohen, right before the 2016 election, was a campaign finance crime: Cohen pled guilty to federal campaign finance violations in 2018, after the DOJ alleged that the Daniels $130,000 payment was effectively a donation to Trump's campaign that exceeded whatever the legal limit on political contributions was.
So in essence, Trump, through Cohen, was committing fraud.
Originally posted by: Edso
Let me help you out Boiler......
In Trump’s court case, he wasn't charged with making the payment itself or reimbursing it, but for 34 counts of falsifying business records, based on the fact that his reimbursement payments to Cohen were allegedly disguised as legal payments.
Even if hush money isn't inherently illegal, as you state, prosecutors argued the way Daniels was paid, through Cohen, right before the 2016 election, was a campaign finance crime: Cohen pled guilty to federal campaign finance violations in 2018, after the DOJ alleged that the Daniels $130,000 payment was effectively a donation to Trump's campaign that exceeded whatever the legal limit on political contributions was.
So in essence, Trump, through Cohen, was committing fraud.
And Boilerman understands this very well. He constantly decries the illegal shell companies Joe Biden used to launder money from His sons business transactions. We'll just set aside the fact that he has no evidence of this. Let's just focus on the fact the Boilerman understands that's illegal behavior.
so when he pretends he doesn't understand how Trump using a shell company to pay his hooker hush money you know he's lying. Maybe to himself. I think Boilerman desperately wants to believe people on the left have same morality problems supporting sewer rat felons the same way he does. We don't. But I think it makes Boilerman feel good to think so.
He paid with a personal check. You posted his personal check. Why do you need to lie if your story is so compelling?
He paid his lawyer...not his hooker. Any answer for my question about Trumps story about Cohen paying with his own money? Run, Boiler, run !
Originally posted by: CharlesII
I've always thought BLS was the gold standard for these numbers. Now, not so much. This is serious business. The markets depend on those stats being right. If the Fed had the accurate numbers they probably would have started cutting rates in June. It impacts everyone.
But hey...The liberal intellectual pussies seem to be fine with bureaucrats who publish wrong numbers and then massive corrections with no detailed explaination of the revision or plan to fix the initial reporting....because math is hard and they're ok that??? That's no way to run a country!
You may be onto something regarding the quality of data collection, and it's no way to run a country.
US consumer prices increase moderately in July; data quality concerns rising
"The CPI report was published amid mounting concerns over the quality of inflation and employment reports following cuts in budget and staffing that have led to the suspension of data collection for portions of the CPI basket in some areas across the country."
"Citing the need to "align survey workload with resource levels," the BLS suspended CPI data collection completely in one city in Nebraska, Utah and New York. It has also suspended collection on 15% of the sample in the other 72 areas, on average."
