• Snapz@lemmy.world
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    The “hush money” framing is such a cutesy, bullshit spin to neuter the actual repeated and unapologetic fraud here. Basic human and business ethics concerns to side for a moment, It’s purely fraud against the American people without remorse and it’s actual election interference.

    You wouldn’t say that a serial killer that stabs and kills their victims is on trial for “night night pokes”. How was this allowed to get casually accepted like this without challenge from society?

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      Can you expand more on the election interference part?

      Totally understand inciting an insurrection to be interference, but using campaign funds to manage public relations problems seems a legitimate use.

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            Yeah, if he was upfront about things then there would be no criminal case

            However saying he set up shell companies to carry out falsification isn’t moralising

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                2 年前

                I think you misread. He said “disguising”, which only means intent to keep hidden by masking the truth.

                • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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                  The only disgusting (immoral) part of this is Trump cheating on his wife.

                  Everything else could have been achieved perfectly legally (i.e. without disgust) if Trump had been smart.

                  I don’t want to disgust you, but “intending to keep things hidden by masking the truth” is practically the definition of politics.

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                    Dude, you have trouble reading. It says “disguising”. Your side really fails at the most basic human functions, over and over again.