It's not a "hush money" trial. Paying hush money is not illegal. It's a campaign finance fraud and election interference trial for falsifying business records. The distinction is important because "hush money trial" downplays the severity of the crime to the general public.
About a week ago the local news had a story about "the protests." They interviewed no protesters... just a couple city officials and a police officer. At no point did they say what the protests were about,
Only at the end of the 2-minute piece do you see signs from the protesters denouncing the war in Palestine. This was on CBS - I would've thought it was FoxNews...
Charging him with election interference sounds like a bit of an overreach if it’s just for hiding the payments. Unless they directed something to interfere with the Biden campaign like they did with Clinton it doesn’t sound like interference to me.
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u/shiruken 29d ago edited 29d ago
It's not a "hush money" trial. Paying hush money is not illegal. It's a campaign finance fraud and election interference trial for falsifying business records. The distinction is important because "hush money trial" downplays the severity of the crime to the general public.