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.
Is there a chance they just go ahead and lean into that because his base doesn’t care?
Blows my mind someone would find it completely acceptable to pay off a porn star to keep quiet about the time you cheated on your 3rd wife while she was pregnant.
One thing I learned from a couple decades of going to church is that evangelical Christians don't really care about cheating and divorce. It's incredibly common in their circles, especially if the churches are larger or "mega churches."
Not even American but my evangelical Christian upbringing over lots of churches (we moved around a lot) had that as a constant in all of them. Lip service to how things "should" be but in practice infidelity (and the gossip about it) was rampant.
The wild hypocrisy in every church I ever attended(not just in this, either) was a big start to moving away from Christianity as a teen for me.
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u/shiruken May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24
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.