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[–] [email protected] 127 points 6 months ago (5 children)

It is NOT for pushing money to a porn star. It is for marking the hush money as legal fees. That's ALL it is. They didn't even get him on the moral high ground, but nitpicked his books.

This country is so beyond fucked... Cannot even get basic details correct...

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But the elevation to a felony is the important part. It's a felony because it's part of a conspiracy to illegally defraud the voters and affect the election.

It's a crime in furtherance of a more serious crime, which elevates its severity.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

and it should be elevated clear to jail time at minimum, but it won't, because this country not only has no idea what justice is, but also has no idea how to literally defend itself from "threats within".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

"B-but me gun..."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Election fraud

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Al Capone was only able to be arrested for tax fraud, because it was very hard to prove he and not one of his lackeys. I think this akin to that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Exactly. They really really wanted to get him, and this was the only thing they could get to stick.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Cannot even get basic details correct

The rich being above the law is the correct "basic details" of liberal nation states.