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Machiavellian on 26 August 2018
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EricHiggin said:

Machiavellian said:

First let's stop saying Hush money is legal without the context.  The context is that the hush money was paid during a period when the President was a candidate and the amount of money used had to be reported.  Cohen and his lawyer are not going to plead guilty to a no charge, that is absolutely silly to even keep that pretense up. 

Now if you say that just because Cohen is guilty does that mean the President is guilty that's another story.  The only way to prove that President Trump is guilty is if he had full awareness that the money would violate campaign finance laws and he willingly order it done.  This is the distinction you should be arguing not whether the hush money is legal or not legal.  There is no legal scholar saying that what Cohen admitted to was not illegal as a rep and lawyer for the Trump campaign.  People really need to get their discussion points correct.

Now, this is where other evidence in the case that will determine if this part can be proven or not.  Emails, tapes, receipts you name it.  What no one knows yet is what evidence does Cohen has and the prosecutors that verify his statement that he was order to make the payments with Trump full understanding it was a violation.

It's not like Trump out of the blue remembered he once had a fling with her and decided to phone her up and offer her hush money just in case. If you were her, and wanted something out of it the whole time, or decided since Trump was in an election and was vulnerable, wouldn't you pounce? It's not his fault she was going to come out and that the media was going to make a big deal out of it now, which you can bet they wouldn't have, if it was before he decided to run. Trump just needs to point out that it was a personal issue and he paid it to keep his family and business blind to the situation. The fact that she wanted to use his political nomination to get the money out of him has nothing to do with Trump himself. It was pure chance as far as he's concerned and without hard evidence, that's the way it will be judged.

It's not Trump fault that he had an affair while he was married and they decided while running for the president he should get ahead of the story that could potentially come out and shut it down.  Its totally his fault.  Its his fault for the not one or a couple but many affairs he has had with every wife.  If anything since he has cheated on every wife he has and we all know it, he could have saved himself some coin and just admitted it.  You are basically trying to absolve Trump from any of his guilts, then the lies he stated when it was still found out and saying nothing was his fault.  You have no personal issues when it comes to affairs as a President running for public office.  If he want to keep his dirty laundry quite then stay a private citizen.  What I find funny is another excuse trying to shift blame somewhere else for this man decisions.  Since he had no intention of making payments to any of these women before going for President, it was done for the campaign no matter how you try to portray it.  The good thing for Trump is that it still something hard to prove unless multiple other sources have evidence to the fact.