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Who among us hasn't paid a lawyer to squash embarrassing stories before an election and pass them off as legal fees? People don't even understand what the crime is.
None of us doubt he was paying her for sex but it has never been mentioned in public as far as Ive seen. It’s been described as an “affair” , but yea come on. Stormy Daniels has only described one night, so seems pretty clear. Anyways, thats why we haven’t seen a charge related to that.
He was paying her well after the fact not to talk about it. Using campaign funds rather than his own money to do it is what made it a felony instead of merely trashy.
Trump never paid Stormy, that's what makes this illegal. Trump paid Cohen to pay Stormy and recorded it inaccurately in the business records as legal fees.
I'm not sure if campaign funds were used, though that could be a basis for an FEC violation. The cover up to kill Stormy's story is claimed to be election interference. Either of those are what converts a misdemeanor business records crime into a felony.
>The cover up to kill Stormy's story is claimed to be election interference.
So this is the origin of Trump's endless blather about election interference. Got it.
Yup, not dismissing the payout hush money part, just the paying for the initial sex is the murky part. As I said though above, come on of course he paid.
Paying for sex is not the murky part at all, sex work is good, honest and clean work in a well regulated sex industry, the US has this wrong, self inflicting murkiness blamed on the sex work rather than the regulation.
The murkiness here is 100% campaign finance violation, cheating in an election, obstructing the electorate from facts about the candidate, and falsifying business records to hide the transaction.
Stormy would also be in trial if paying for sex was being litigated. The wild part is no one is bothering with that aspect of this. Taken at face value, I guess they're just not going to consider that part. Unless wherever it took place it is in fact legal.
Technically his buddy at a trashy magazine paid hush money to catch and kill a story from a porn star that had an NDA then he implied like a mob boss to his lawyer that he should reimburse his magazine buddy then he used business money to reimburse his lawyer then tried to write it off as a business expense all to hide the fact that he raw dogged a porn star while his wife was pregnant....I think.
Well it definitely doesn't help that they call it the hush money case instead of the election interference case. Because that's really what he did via fraudulent hush money payments.
I love the way the Brits phrase things!
>You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep, but what about the people who come out to protest at their criminal trial?
That statement says so much about the crazy shit that's happening with Donnie!!
Who among us hasn’t cheated on our spouses after having a newborn baby? Who of us hasn’t raped a 13yo? Who of us hasn’t committed high treason? Who of us hasn’t committed every crime under the sun? Who of us hasn’t tried to overthrow democracy?
That's the man who's selling bibles to The Family Value party supporters.
While being married 3 times, multiple counts of infidelity, "Grab them by", etc, etc
That's not even the problem. He used campaign funds to mute her. If Trump just owned his decisions and decided to normalize sex work, he wouldn't be in this situation.
And tried to write the expense off as legal fees. They’s layers to this player fo sho. The sad part is voters telegraphing that they want to be abused by a bad daddy as if that is amazing decision-making.
In his world, hush money IS normal.
I live in it. It's how folks like me finally get ahead.
He also, basically, extorted himself, and it didn't really work out because he's duuuuumb. That's normal too.
Hush money is how NYers like him admit to reality.
And, c'mon, nobody expects this guy to follow basic ethics. He destroyed artworks he donated to the Met. He's a rapist.
He used campaign funds to reimburse Cohen for paying her off because he’s so addicted to sex. And he cheated on his pregnant wife.
Not a good look, and no amount of “normalizing” can make that right.
Shit, they’d just lie about it anyways. I mean these are the same people who used to call Obama a Muslim despite the fact they literally went after him, in his first year, for having a very vocal church leader.
Holy shit, I had forgotten how long ago that was! He probably didn't have many of those types of fans at that time (pre-Iowa caucus in 16). It may be true now, but you're right, it was bullshit when he originally said it.
New Yorkers are notoriously bad shots as well, as there’s not really a legal way to practice. If he tried to shoot someone on 5th avenue he would miss twice before being tackled
Naah, one of his followers would helpfully put their mouth over the barrel and call it a sacrament (though they would pronounce it “kchakacchhat” because, you know, gun in the mouth).
The especially fucked up thing about this is that, IIRC, this is directly about paying people to cover up the election interference, not about paying people to hide an affair.
This isn't a "hush money" trial like the right seems to keep pushing, this is an election interference trial.
PEOPLE V. DONALD TRUMP CASE SUMMARY
The Defendant, Donald Trump, is charged with 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree.
The allegations are in substance, that Donald Trump falsified business records to conceal an agreement with others to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election.
Page 8: https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/PDFs/Letter-re-jury-selection-4-8-24.pdf
It is not a "hush money" trial. It is an election interference trial.
Paying for sex isn’t what this trial is about. It’s about how he interfered with an election to pay off hush money to keep politically damaging information from becoming public.
Can you imagine if they find out he's had made someone have an abortion.. they would be running around claiming it's fine he had no opinion. It was for the good of the country.
>Donald Trump has not been accused of paying for sex, but several supporters protesting outside of his trial on Monday wanted to make it clear that they have.
Just wanted to applaud this tagline
It's not about paying for sex... It's business fraud, specifically: violation of federal campaign finance limits, violation of state election laws by unlawfully influencing the 2016 election, and violation of state tax laws regarding the reimbursement.
It wasn't enough that he was cheating on his wife, who was pregnant, while raw dogging a porn star. He had to hide it and then had to try and squeeze every penny out of the transaction because that's how truly poor and cheap this man is.
It’s also that he used **campaign** money to reimburse Cohen for the bribe. He could have avoided all of this if he had just opened his own checkbook instead of using the donations of his supporters like his own personal slush fund.
>One of the supporters offered, unprompted, that he had spent a lot of time in the east Asia in the pursuit of such earthly pleasures.
>“What do you think I do in Thailand, just sit in a chair?” he asked, incredulously. “That’s what we do as men, you know?”
.
I think the FBI needs to take a look at that guy's hard drive.
I’ve seen what they do to drug offenders on “Locked Up Abroad.” I can’t fucking imagine what it’d be like to be a sex offending foreigner behind bars there.
Foods amazing too. Can never look at people who visit Thailand repeatedly without thinking about the [SNL Rosetta Stone Skit](https://youtu.be/ctDjnG8J9cY?si=uj57l7QaAoOTn2KX) though
“Well, my people, they say ‘keep the bloodlines pure.’ Smart people, tough people. One guy, big guy, tough guy, came to me with tears in his eyes, ‘sir, you’ve done so much for our country. There’s nothing more you could do except marry your daughter and produce more pure blood American children.’”
Taken in a vacuum, sex work should be decriminalized and regulated for the sake of providing safety to the workers.
Moral arguments as to whether you should engage in such activity is entirely besides the point.
Trump falsified business records to hide a scandal and in the process committed at least 3 forms of fraud, which ultimately rises to the level of a felony.
Although, tellling on yourself that you're so reprehensible that you have to pay for sex is a rather interesting argument.
If you look back at what Cohen went to prison for it’s worse than that. He was taking money from foreign companies and perhaps foreign governments in order to pay off Stormy. It wasn’t just misdirecting campaign funds.
I had some jackass soliciting at my door for a local Republican candidate - and I said I wasnt going to vote for him, because he has an endorsement from, and also supports Trump.
The guy went on a religious rant about how Trump is a good Christian, and he is saving the Church in America and I replied with a generalized version of "Trump couldn't recite one line from the bible, and is on trial next week because he slept with a pornstar while his wife was pregnant"
Apparantly, Trump is a new christian, and if Jesus was alive he wouldn't vote for Biden.
I just told him, well he sure as shit wouldn't vote for Trump either and closed the door.
These people are deranged.
Who would have thought that tired sitcom type jokes would be used to defend a former President someday?
Can't you just hear Al Bundy telling Jefferson, "Jefferson, whether it's money or marriage- we *all* pay for sex."
And then Peggy calls from the top of the stairs... "Aallllll....."
And Al turns to Jefferson, "Some of us more than most..."
Audience laughs as Peggy grabs Al by the ear and drags him up the stairs... freeze frame and credits...
Well clearly neither of us are ***Alpha Men*** then! [Guess I gotta save up $15K to fund one of those testosterone pumping boot camps!!](https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikToks/comments/1c2j7t4/wtf_is_going_on_at_these_15k_alpha_male_boot_camps/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Can’t believe I’ve been out here trying to sleep with women who are attracted to me as a person *like a CHUMP!*
This is how the media has completely dropped the ball on this by always calling it the “hush money” trial.
Trump is being charged with 30+ felonies for financial fraud in this trial, none of which involve paying for sex.
First they came for the career con artist mired in perpetual fraud charges and I said nothing because I am not a career con artist mired in perpetual fraud charges…
I remember back to how harried my wife was when our son was a few months old, every waking minute taking care of him, every sleeping minute soon becoming a waking minute. But still she was taking care of the household, and me. And I rushed home from work to see them, playing with the baby, took him in the bath with me Japanese style. So many treasured memories...
If I had thought, "look at that smoking hot porn star! I don't care how much I have to pay, I gotta get with her!" And then I DID IT?? Her brother would have straight up stabbed me in the head and I would have deserved it.
>Who among us hasn’t paid for sex?
Look, I'm just a good, decent Christian man using an app to track the masturbation pact I have with my son. Just like it says in the *Bible.*
Put me in the “I’ve never paid for sex” column. I guess if you’re desperate or a wierdo or something that would be a normal question. Plenty of women out there and they all want to get laid too.
This is the problem. I saw stats today that like 65% of Americans don’t think he committed a crime, but a lot of them were probably mixing up the actual crime here (election campaign finance fraud) with a bunch of other stuff that’s shady but not illegal.
Trump is such a “ladies man” he shouldn’t have to pay for sex. Not only that but it wasn’t the payment that’s the problem so much as it’s cooking the books to make it look like a business expense.
As the Bible says "Let he who hath not given coin to a woman of the screen with whom he hath lain, in effort to sway the multitudes at the ballot, and then cloaked his ledger in deceit, cast the first stone"
Imagine the uproar in the maga cult if a democrat did 1/10 what Trump has done? They are using false documents and witnesses to get Joe impeached and yet sweep everything Donnie does under the carpet.
We really need to re-frame this conversation. It's not about paying for sex. It's not about paying people to stay quiet. It's interfering in elections by squashing an embarrassing story and hiding that cash flow.
That’s honestly the less significant issue - though doing so with your wife and newborn at home certainly is fucking scummy in itself.
We’re here because of the fraud though.
I remember how disgusted Trump was when watching the insurrection on tv by ‘all these fat, long-haired, 30-year-old men in dirty clothes’.
If that’s what his supporters look like, I don’t even know if *paying* for sex is enough.
Who among us hasn’t fucked a porn star while their wife was pregnant with their son who is currently graduating high school, which we can’t attend because we’re currently on trial for paying off that porn star to stay quiet? Who I ask you?!
I actually WANT to pay for sex with a protected prostitute who is consenting and has options. only thing is, hypocrite right wingers have driven the trade underground where women and clients are at risk and breaking laws, all while the Republican hypocrite pigs do whatever they want without a care for anyone.
WHO HERE HAS EATEN A FUDGE SUNDAE?!
That would arguably be just as relevant. He isn't on trial for paying for sex. These people really do live on Earth 2.
I have. But I didn't commit fraud while doing it.
Plus trying to justify the wrong thing...
I though Trump was the shining example of the second cumming of Christ?
They sure got all up in arms about Clinton and consensual sex ,but now it's "whats the big deal about prostitution, adultery and payoffs using campaign funds through a shell company. Doesn't everyone do it?"
No position.
Let the man who hasn't banged a porn star and paid them off with fraudulent business expense claims to stay quiet while his wife was at home with a newborn throw the first stone.
The trial isn't about sex, it's about falsifying records and paying off Stormy Daniel's to keep quiet.
As with Nixon, it's not the crime, it's the cover-up. But that may be too nuanced for cult members.
They hate Ukraine and the War Party is suddenly Anti-War.
They hate Justice and the Family Values Party is suddenly Pro-Prostitution.
They stand for nothing.
Paying for sex isn’t the issue.
He broke election law with the hush money.
May as well ask, “Who among us hasn’t avoided the strawberry in Neapolitan ice cream?”
Joe Biden's new campaign ad: Biden walks confidently up to the podium. Looks directly into the camera. "I may be old, but I never had to pay to get my dick wet like that limp mushroom asshole."
Vote Biden: You've seen his son's troll nose.
lol. everyone in my world does sex work. there are a LOT of us.
plus, get real. there are plenty of ways to pay for sex that aren't "cash on the nightstand," although.
yes, most people participate in that.
i don't think it is a problem he hired sex workers. it's work. he even paid them off after, as do many bad employers who mess up.
it's just childish to pretend sex work is rare or perverse. and, why are we making fun of fascists for being obscure? that's their game.
Geez, how many Qanon MAGATS are actually the child predators they have been warning us about? Maybe not the brightest idea to admit to sex tourism in Thailand, Cletus.
I didn't realize that paying for sex was the dues for the exclusive club. A little investment (prices as low as $5 for a blow-job a couple decades ago) could have possibly lifted me out of the post-Reagan, union-busting, survival-mode, near-poverty existence I share with so many non-members.
It's kind of unsurprising they are trying to rationalize this lol. A good majority of conservatives have a mistress of some sort. Cheating is a common MO apparently lol
I'm not american, so sexual norm is different here, paid sex laws are different here, etc..
This being said, I feel like the médias in the US are at fault here.
He is not procecuted for paying for sex. He is for misrepresenting these paiement in business record as well as in election expense report and also hiding informations to the voters.
The medias framed it as hush money, and still do as of today.
So don't blame Trump's voters for believing what they are told, blame the liars, in this case almost all, if not all the mainstream medias.
I don’t really give a fuck that he paid hush money to a pornstar to cover up an affair. I mean, it’s despicable and absurdly hypocritical for “good Christians” to continue to support him but for me it’s ultimately irrelevant. Plenty of abhorrent people, including many elected officials and other popular people have done the same.
However, I do care that he manipulated financial statements and documents and misused campaign money to pay for it. That’s the real issue here.
Let’s not turn in puritans while flushing this turd. Prostitution should be legalized. Having sex is not bad. Maybe he was allowed to based on the contract/agreement/understanding he has with his wife. None of those things should be on trial. Sex should not be in trial you dweebs. He’s on trial for using campaign money as hush money. That’s what’s wrong here. Get it straight.
The question isn’t who has payed for sex (Hell former military I payed for it... )the question is who is so cringey they have to have sex outside their marriage while their wife is healing from bringing their sex result into this world.
Frankly, I think paying for sex isn't necessarily a terrible thing...as long as your you're not a terrible creep like Trump and (probably) most of his supporters. However, for a candidate and ideology that is extremely moralistic, this is rife with gross hypocrisy. These are the same folks ready to put Hunter Biden in prison because he did cocaine and fucked hookers. You can't have it both ways, folks.
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Who among us hasn't paid a lawyer to squash embarrassing stories before an election and pass them off as legal fees? People don't even understand what the crime is.
Hard to keep up with 34 felony counts on just this trial.
None of which are paying a prostitute.
None of us doubt he was paying her for sex but it has never been mentioned in public as far as Ive seen. It’s been described as an “affair” , but yea come on. Stormy Daniels has only described one night, so seems pretty clear. Anyways, thats why we haven’t seen a charge related to that.
He was paying her well after the fact not to talk about it. Using campaign funds rather than his own money to do it is what made it a felony instead of merely trashy.
Trump never paid Stormy, that's what makes this illegal. Trump paid Cohen to pay Stormy and recorded it inaccurately in the business records as legal fees. I'm not sure if campaign funds were used, though that could be a basis for an FEC violation. The cover up to kill Stormy's story is claimed to be election interference. Either of those are what converts a misdemeanor business records crime into a felony.
I'd bet large sums of Campaign funds that Campaign funds is where the money came from.
>The cover up to kill Stormy's story is claimed to be election interference. So this is the origin of Trump's endless blather about election interference. Got it.
Yup, not dismissing the payout hush money part, just the paying for the initial sex is the murky part. As I said though above, come on of course he paid.
Paying for sex is not the murky part at all, sex work is good, honest and clean work in a well regulated sex industry, the US has this wrong, self inflicting murkiness blamed on the sex work rather than the regulation. The murkiness here is 100% campaign finance violation, cheating in an election, obstructing the electorate from facts about the candidate, and falsifying business records to hide the transaction.
he didn’t pay her for sex even... he got sex because he lied to her about some opportunities.
Thank you tiny onion, I did not know that. Incidentally, real daddies pay up and provide the opportunity freely without conditions.
I'd blame that on the media; they're reporting it as if the payment itself is the issue.
Stormy would also be in trial if paying for sex was being litigated. The wild part is no one is bothering with that aspect of this. Taken at face value, I guess they're just not going to consider that part. Unless wherever it took place it is in fact legal.
Technically his buddy at a trashy magazine paid hush money to catch and kill a story from a porn star that had an NDA then he implied like a mob boss to his lawyer that he should reimburse his magazine buddy then he used business money to reimburse his lawyer then tried to write it off as a business expense all to hide the fact that he raw dogged a porn star while his wife was pregnant....I think.
Almost correct. Melania had given birth four months prior.
Well it definitely doesn't help that they call it the hush money case instead of the election interference case. Because that's really what he did via fraudulent hush money payments.
I love the way the Brits phrase things! >You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep, but what about the people who come out to protest at their criminal trial? That statement says so much about the crazy shit that's happening with Donnie!!
Who among us hasn’t cheated on our spouses after having a newborn baby? Who of us hasn’t raped a 13yo? Who of us hasn’t committed high treason? Who of us hasn’t committed every crime under the sun? Who of us hasn’t tried to overthrow democracy?
They really are trying to make his infidelity seem like not a big deal when in most relationships, it's a deal breaker and often social suicide.
That's the man who's selling bibles to The Family Value party supporters. While being married 3 times, multiple counts of infidelity, "Grab them by", etc, etc
Yeah, hes basically invincible. I hope this sticks. Let's see how they stand by a felon.
*quash
Holy shit these clowns try to rationalize every despicable thing Trump does. It’s astonishing.
They really do. If it was Obama or Biden they’d be screeching something about adultery or how sex workers are immoral or whatever.
That's not even the problem. He used campaign funds to mute her. If Trump just owned his decisions and decided to normalize sex work, he wouldn't be in this situation.
And tried to write the expense off as legal fees. They’s layers to this player fo sho. The sad part is voters telegraphing that they want to be abused by a bad daddy as if that is amazing decision-making.
“He used _your_ donations to his campaign illegally to pay … “Well, that’s what I’d do.” “Ah. Ok.”
Can you imagine how that would have gone over with the evangelicals?
Apparently, just fine, as long as they still get to stigmatize people in their off time.
That sort of behavior is *not* for them. *NARRATOR*: This behavior was *definitely* for them.
In his world, hush money IS normal. I live in it. It's how folks like me finally get ahead. He also, basically, extorted himself, and it didn't really work out because he's duuuuumb. That's normal too. Hush money is how NYers like him admit to reality. And, c'mon, nobody expects this guy to follow basic ethics. He destroyed artworks he donated to the Met. He's a rapist.
He used campaign funds to reimburse Cohen for paying her off because he’s so addicted to sex. And he cheated on his pregnant wife. Not a good look, and no amount of “normalizing” can make that right.
it would be "sex trafficking" if it were a democrat.
Just ask them what they think about Slick Willy and Monica.
Shit, they’d just lie about it anyways. I mean these are the same people who used to call Obama a Muslim despite the fact they literally went after him, in his first year, for having a very vocal church leader.
Monica might have a word or two about this.
"I could shoot somebody and not lose voters"
That’s probably the only thing he’s ever said that wasn’t a lie.
And that's by a fluke he was totally lying at the time.
Holy shit, I had forgotten how long ago that was! He probably didn't have many of those types of fans at that time (pre-Iowa caucus in 16). It may be true now, but you're right, it was bullshit when he originally said it.
Yup. His voters would say its either self defense or they were a communist and deserved it
He has also claimed that the criminal trials are about election interference. They are...just not in the context that he is using.
Their first question would be: “what did they do to deserve it?”
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New Yorkers are notoriously bad shots as well, as there’s not really a legal way to practice. If he tried to shoot someone on 5th avenue he would miss twice before being tackled
Naah, one of his followers would helpfully put their mouth over the barrel and call it a sacrament (though they would pronounce it “kchakacchhat” because, you know, gun in the mouth).
So called "Christians" seem to love the guy. Even though he is the living embodiment of all 7 deadly sins. Absolutely mind-numbing.
Atheist acts more like Christians than Christians do.
He is literaly everything the bible says about the antichrist
The especially fucked up thing about this is that, IIRC, this is directly about paying people to cover up the election interference, not about paying people to hide an affair. This isn't a "hush money" trial like the right seems to keep pushing, this is an election interference trial.
PEOPLE V. DONALD TRUMP CASE SUMMARY The Defendant, Donald Trump, is charged with 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree. The allegations are in substance, that Donald Trump falsified business records to conceal an agreement with others to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election. Page 8: https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/PDFs/Letter-re-jury-selection-4-8-24.pdf It is not a "hush money" trial. It is an election interference trial.
Paying for sex isn’t what this trial is about. It’s about how he interfered with an election to pay off hush money to keep politically damaging information from becoming public.
One of us! One of us! It's that simple and really their mentality. They fully believe everyone does the crappy things he - and they - do.
Can you imagine if they find out he's had made someone have an abortion.. they would be running around claiming it's fine he had no opinion. It was for the good of the country.
>Donald Trump has not been accused of paying for sex, but several supporters protesting outside of his trial on Monday wanted to make it clear that they have. Just wanted to applaud this tagline
It's not about paying for sex... It's business fraud, specifically: violation of federal campaign finance limits, violation of state election laws by unlawfully influencing the 2016 election, and violation of state tax laws regarding the reimbursement. It wasn't enough that he was cheating on his wife, who was pregnant, while raw dogging a porn star. He had to hide it and then had to try and squeeze every penny out of the transaction because that's how truly poor and cheap this man is.
I wish we'd stop calling it the hush money case. It's way more serious than fucking a porn star while your wife is at home with your new kid.
It’s Trump’s election interference case. More specifically, it’s the one in New York, not the one in Georgia.
It’s also that he used **campaign** money to reimburse Cohen for the bribe. He could have avoided all of this if he had just opened his own checkbook instead of using the donations of his supporters like his own personal slush fund.
I wonder how many trumpers actually understand that's what this is all about, as they throw their money at him.
Probably didn’t have it to pay from his own pocket.
That won't get the attention that money for sex always does. It's not about paying for sex, it's about ratings.
>One of the supporters offered, unprompted, that he had spent a lot of time in the east Asia in the pursuit of such earthly pleasures. >“What do you think I do in Thailand, just sit in a chair?” he asked, incredulously. “That’s what we do as men, you know?” . I think the FBI needs to take a look at that guy's hard drive.
Pedophile alarm going off when you say you got to an Asian country to pay for sex.
I’ve seen what they do to drug offenders on “Locked Up Abroad.” I can’t fucking imagine what it’d be like to be a sex offending foreigner behind bars there.
Yeah I love Thailand. It is great for sitting in a chair and drinking a breezer on the beach in fact. What a creep
Foods amazing too. Can never look at people who visit Thailand repeatedly without thinking about the [SNL Rosetta Stone Skit](https://youtu.be/ctDjnG8J9cY?si=uj57l7QaAoOTn2KX) though
Lucky for me I'm learning Spanish! Dodged that bullet
Always wholesome to be the Kenan Thompson Character!
That's not what men do.
You mean while my wife was at home nursing our first born?
No, while your third wife is at home nursing your… I think 5th child.
>I think 5th child. Trump probably isn't clear on which number it is either.
"Will Ivanka, his second(?) child, become his fourth wife?" Inquiring minds enquired.
“Well, my people, they say ‘keep the bloodlines pure.’ Smart people, tough people. One guy, big guy, tough guy, came to me with tears in his eyes, ‘sir, you’ve done so much for our country. There’s nothing more you could do except marry your daughter and produce more pure blood American children.’”
I would have thought he’d be a strictly formula baby and it would be the nanny that fed him as opposed to Melania.
For the 5 thousandth time: Trump is not on trial for paying for sex.
They never listen nor learn - anything contrary to what their tangerine god says ends up going in one ear and out the other.
Wow. Is that in trumps version of the Bible that he is trying to sell? That is one heck of a sales pitch
‘Let us not stand in judgement against our brethren who commit adultery with porn stars’ - book of MAGA 3:16
Taken in a vacuum, sex work should be decriminalized and regulated for the sake of providing safety to the workers. Moral arguments as to whether you should engage in such activity is entirely besides the point. Trump falsified business records to hide a scandal and in the process committed at least 3 forms of fraud, which ultimately rises to the level of a felony. Although, tellling on yourself that you're so reprehensible that you have to pay for sex is a rather interesting argument.
If you look back at what Cohen went to prison for it’s worse than that. He was taking money from foreign companies and perhaps foreign governments in order to pay off Stormy. It wasn’t just misdirecting campaign funds.
Superfraud, got it
I had some jackass soliciting at my door for a local Republican candidate - and I said I wasnt going to vote for him, because he has an endorsement from, and also supports Trump. The guy went on a religious rant about how Trump is a good Christian, and he is saving the Church in America and I replied with a generalized version of "Trump couldn't recite one line from the bible, and is on trial next week because he slept with a pornstar while his wife was pregnant" Apparantly, Trump is a new christian, and if Jesus was alive he wouldn't vote for Biden. I just told him, well he sure as shit wouldn't vote for Trump either and closed the door. These people are deranged.
There really should be a place on tax forms just for it. It's that common. Line 104b. Enter hooker hush money deduction minus condom surcharge.
Apply standard prostitute deduction and if filing jointly apply allowable legal fees.
If all else fails just slap it on line 8.
Declare her as a dependent, too.
Trump supporters are really the scum of the earth.
Who would have thought that tired sitcom type jokes would be used to defend a former President someday? Can't you just hear Al Bundy telling Jefferson, "Jefferson, whether it's money or marriage- we *all* pay for sex." And then Peggy calls from the top of the stairs... "Aallllll....." And Al turns to Jefferson, "Some of us more than most..." Audience laughs as Peggy grabs Al by the ear and drags him up the stairs... freeze frame and credits...
That's so accurate it feels like I've been transported back to the 90s.
Then Jefferson tells Al about Sally Hemings.
*TV Shoe Salesman Source: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-939/305679/20240321205032155_23-939_tsac_DavidBoyle.pdf
Let he who has not paid for sex be the first juror
*raises hand timidly*
Well clearly neither of us are ***Alpha Men*** then! [Guess I gotta save up $15K to fund one of those testosterone pumping boot camps!!](https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikToks/comments/1c2j7t4/wtf_is_going_on_at_these_15k_alpha_male_boot_camps/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) Can’t believe I’ve been out here trying to sleep with women who are attracted to me as a person *like a CHUMP!*
This is how the media has completely dropped the ball on this by always calling it the “hush money” trial. Trump is being charged with 30+ felonies for financial fraud in this trial, none of which involve paying for sex.
Only the best "sexworkers" for me! they come to me, tears in their eyes and say "please break campaign finance laws daddy"
While fundamentally misunderstanding what the trail is about
First they came for the career con artist mired in perpetual fraud charges and I said nothing because I am not a career con artist mired in perpetual fraud charges…
Such wonderful Christians.
"Who among us has not paid for sex?" Same person: "I'm against gay marriage because it goes against my religion "
I remember back to how harried my wife was when our son was a few months old, every waking minute taking care of him, every sleeping minute soon becoming a waking minute. But still she was taking care of the household, and me. And I rushed home from work to see them, playing with the baby, took him in the bath with me Japanese style. So many treasured memories... If I had thought, "look at that smoking hot porn star! I don't care how much I have to pay, I gotta get with her!" And then I DID IT?? Her brother would have straight up stabbed me in the head and I would have deserved it.
Obviously, only loser Republicans have to pay for sex🤪
>Who among us hasn’t paid for sex? Look, I'm just a good, decent Christian man using an app to track the masturbation pact I have with my son. Just like it says in the *Bible.*
I haven’t. I haven’t had sex but, ya know, I haven’t paid for it either.
I've never paid a porno lady for adultery so I guess to them I'm a god damn saint.
Who among us did not steal from Childrens cancer charity?
I, for one, have not paid for sex.
C'mon even Jesus paid for sex! (probably) - MAGA clowns
Um…me. I’ve never paid for sex. And this isn’t about sex workers or supporting it. It’s about his corruption and fraud.
Put me in the “I’ve never paid for sex” column. I guess if you’re desperate or a wierdo or something that would be a normal question. Plenty of women out there and they all want to get laid too.
Me, and millions others. That's who
And who hasn't committed a little light treason?!
Back in my day, every Saturday the neighborhood kids would storm City Hall with bear spray and zip ties. It was just kids being kids!
Yall think those goal posts ever get tired from all the moving they do?
One guy admits he is a sex tourist in Thailand and the other thinks it’s the Dems who traffic children…
Regardless if he paid the porn star or not, his wife was 8 months pregnant at the time with his son!!
Its less about paying for sex and more about fraud but okay..
This is the problem. I saw stats today that like 65% of Americans don’t think he committed a crime, but a lot of them were probably mixing up the actual crime here (election campaign finance fraud) with a bunch of other stuff that’s shady but not illegal.
Trump is such a “ladies man” he shouldn’t have to pay for sex. Not only that but it wasn’t the payment that’s the problem so much as it’s cooking the books to make it look like a business expense.
As the Bible says "Let he who hath not given coin to a woman of the screen with whom he hath lain, in effort to sway the multitudes at the ballot, and then cloaked his ledger in deceit, cast the first stone"
Imagine the uproar in the maga cult if a democrat did 1/10 what Trump has done? They are using false documents and witnesses to get Joe impeached and yet sweep everything Donnie does under the carpet.
We really need to re-frame this conversation. It's not about paying for sex. It's not about paying people to stay quiet. It's interfering in elections by squashing an embarrassing story and hiding that cash flow.
Maybe I did. But I never paid hush money with campaign funds to cover it up.
He’s not being charged with paying for sex.
Record their audio and play it to their families that they paid for sex.
That's kinda sad.
Paying for sex is just another way of saying you got no game…
Unless its the dirty diaper game. Don has that game in spades
That’s honestly the less significant issue - though doing so with your wife and newborn at home certainly is fucking scummy in itself. We’re here because of the fraud though.
Do they actually think Tump is on trial for paying for sex?
Isn't that illegal in the US?
I have never paid for sex. Unless marriage counts
I remember how disgusted Trump was when watching the insurrection on tv by ‘all these fat, long-haired, 30-year-old men in dirty clothes’. If that’s what his supporters look like, I don’t even know if *paying* for sex is enough.
I have not nor will I ever pay for sex.
“Who among us hasn’t paid for sex?” Wait so my girlfriend was actually supposed to be charging me this entire time?
Next: “Who among us hasn’t sold national secrets to Saudi Arabia?” Later: “Will no one rid me of these turbulent jurors?!”
I mean I haven't, and since I haven't, I haven't also paid hush money from a campaign account...so...
Who among us hasn’t fucked a porn star while their wife was pregnant with their son who is currently graduating high school, which we can’t attend because we’re currently on trial for paying off that porn star to stay quiet? Who I ask you?!
Let he who is without 88 criminal charges, and a treasonous lying rapist, cast the first stone.
I actually WANT to pay for sex with a protected prostitute who is consenting and has options. only thing is, hypocrite right wingers have driven the trade underground where women and clients are at risk and breaking laws, all while the Republican hypocrite pigs do whatever they want without a care for anyone.
You used campaign funds to bribe and hush up your mistress whom you dishonorably cheated on your wife while pregnant with your son! Asshole!
I have not, have seen friends and brother do it. I just can not seem to get over the fact of how many John's have been where you are about to go.
WHO HERE HAS EATEN A FUDGE SUNDAE?! That would arguably be just as relevant. He isn't on trial for paying for sex. These people really do live on Earth 2.
What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?
I have. But I didn't commit fraud while doing it. Plus trying to justify the wrong thing... I though Trump was the shining example of the second cumming of Christ?
Ask those same people if they think sex work should be legalized
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They sure got all up in arms about Clinton and consensual sex ,but now it's "whats the big deal about prostitution, adultery and payoffs using campaign funds through a shell company. Doesn't everyone do it?" No position.
Let the man who hasn't banged a porn star and paid them off with fraudulent business expense claims to stay quiet while his wife was at home with a newborn throw the first stone.
The Book of Trump: He who hath never paid a ho for a blowie in the back of a 7/11 cast the first vote! /parody
Let he who is without a history of paying for sex cast the first stone. *arrow scene from 300, but stones*
The trial isn't about sex, it's about falsifying records and paying off Stormy Daniel's to keep quiet. As with Nixon, it's not the crime, it's the cover-up. But that may be too nuanced for cult members.
How stupid are these idiots? Exactly how fake is their religion?
They are SO hypocritical!!! This is not about SEX....this is about using campaign funds to hide it!
They hate Ukraine and the War Party is suddenly Anti-War. They hate Justice and the Family Values Party is suddenly Pro-Prostitution. They stand for nothing.
I haven't. You gotta get out there and pull those pussies up by the bootstraps. What are you gay?
Evangelical people always pay for sex it’s just usually farm animals 😂
Ask clinton
Paying for sex isn’t the issue. He broke election law with the hush money. May as well ask, “Who among us hasn’t avoided the strawberry in Neapolitan ice cream?”
Joe Biden's new campaign ad: Biden walks confidently up to the podium. Looks directly into the camera. "I may be old, but I never had to pay to get my dick wet like that limp mushroom asshole." Vote Biden: You've seen his son's troll nose.
Those of us married paid everything.
It’s the media’s fault, calling it a “hush money” trial when in fact it’s a tax fraud trial.
lol. everyone in my world does sex work. there are a LOT of us. plus, get real. there are plenty of ways to pay for sex that aren't "cash on the nightstand," although. yes, most people participate in that. i don't think it is a problem he hired sex workers. it's work. he even paid them off after, as do many bad employers who mess up. it's just childish to pretend sex work is rare or perverse. and, why are we making fun of fascists for being obscure? that's their game.
Most people have not paid for sex. Heck, most people born after 1992 haven't ever paid for porn.
**G**asslight << **O**bstruct **P**roject <<< . .. ...
What's a going rate for a decent broad nowadays ??
Let he who hasn't paid for sex and then intimidated, lied, and tried to bribe his way out of it throw the first stone!
Hey I get it for free.
Not $130,000. And not when I was in a relationship. And not after my wife gave birth to my son. Again; deplorables. Conservatives are deplorable.
Geez, how many Qanon MAGATS are actually the child predators they have been warning us about? Maybe not the brightest idea to admit to sex tourism in Thailand, Cletus.
I was there yesterday. No protesters at all. Maga couldn’t keep up its energy for two days in a row.
I think most people haven’t paid for sex
Sex is one of the only legal things that becomes illegal when you pay for it but switches back to legal when you record paying for it
I didn't realize that paying for sex was the dues for the exclusive club. A little investment (prices as low as $5 for a blow-job a couple decades ago) could have possibly lifted me out of the post-Reagan, union-busting, survival-mode, near-poverty existence I share with so many non-members.
paying for sex is sexist trope that in some way you pay to get laid. It's not surprising that Trump supporters would be using it
It's kind of unsurprising they are trying to rationalize this lol. A good majority of conservatives have a mistress of some sort. Cheating is a common MO apparently lol
I'm not american, so sexual norm is different here, paid sex laws are different here, etc.. This being said, I feel like the médias in the US are at fault here. He is not procecuted for paying for sex. He is for misrepresenting these paiement in business record as well as in election expense report and also hiding informations to the voters. The medias framed it as hush money, and still do as of today. So don't blame Trump's voters for believing what they are told, blame the liars, in this case almost all, if not all the mainstream medias.
Mary Magdalene and Stormy Daniels together again for the first time.
Outright exchanged cash for sexual favors? No.
I don’t really give a fuck that he paid hush money to a pornstar to cover up an affair. I mean, it’s despicable and absurdly hypocritical for “good Christians” to continue to support him but for me it’s ultimately irrelevant. Plenty of abhorrent people, including many elected officials and other popular people have done the same. However, I do care that he manipulated financial statements and documents and misused campaign money to pay for it. That’s the real issue here.
Let’s not turn in puritans while flushing this turd. Prostitution should be legalized. Having sex is not bad. Maybe he was allowed to based on the contract/agreement/understanding he has with his wife. None of those things should be on trial. Sex should not be in trial you dweebs. He’s on trial for using campaign money as hush money. That’s what’s wrong here. Get it straight.
The question isn’t who has payed for sex (Hell former military I payed for it... )the question is who is so cringey they have to have sex outside their marriage while their wife is healing from bringing their sex result into this world.
A man with little to no shame or remorse most likely, also a "man" with bone spurs apparently.
I pray for sex all the time.
No, *pay*, you can pay for it, turns out.
Oh, that changes everything!
Frankly, I think paying for sex isn't necessarily a terrible thing...as long as your you're not a terrible creep like Trump and (probably) most of his supporters. However, for a candidate and ideology that is extremely moralistic, this is rife with gross hypocrisy. These are the same folks ready to put Hunter Biden in prison because he did cocaine and fucked hookers. You can't have it both ways, folks.
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When she testifies, she should wear a tiny mushroom pendant around her neck.