Please don’t perpetuate this myth. He was tried, and found guilty, for falsifying business records to cover up payments that he made for purposes that many of his voters would find objectionable in order to hide that objectionable information from those voters to prevent them from making an informed decision and affecting an election.
Election interference and Fraud.
He is a literal, convicted, fraud.
It’s for lying about paying hush money to a porn star.
Technically, it’s for a combination of election fraud and falsifying business records.
But “paying hush money to a porn star” is definitely a sexier headline.
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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…
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.
The only reason why it’s not for Jan 6th, selling top secret documents to other countries or election interference in Georgia is because Trump is surrounded by corrupt fucks that are running interference for him.
I can never tell if these memes are astroturfing by monied interests/russian bots pretending to be progressives, if populism leads to the same brainwashed takes as the right, or if progressives are actually this dumb.
I consider myself a socialist and a progressive, and I understand that this was a case of defrauding electors and why the case was a felony. It’s not “paying hush money to a porn star”.
I can’t imagine someone on the right saying this in earnest, as they’d never care about Native Americans or any minority. Only thing I can think is that it’s the right trying to sow discord on the left by feigning moral outrage, or the populist progressives on the left being unable to understand how the world works at all. I honestly can’t tell who is making these brain dead memes.
If I remember correctly bad empanada is a flavor of tankie mixed with peronist.
