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Judge Merchan orders Trump sentencing

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You mean his labelling a Legal Expense as a Legal Expense?
That's the odd thing about it. If Trump just wrote the check himself instead of playing a payment shell game, it would have been perfectly fine to pay off the porn star to keep his adultery from Melania the voting public.
 
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That's the odd thing about it. If Trump just wrote the check himself instead of playing a payment shell game, it would have been perfectly fine to pay off the porn star to keep his adultery from Melania the voting public.

I'm pretty sure the voting public doesn't care about President Trump’s private life.
 
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I'm pretty sure the voting public doesn't care about President Trump’s private life.
I tend to agree, character used to matter, especially for those associated with Christianity. That is no longer the case as it applies to Trump.
 
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I'm pretty sure the voting public doesn't care about President Trump’s private life.
Apparently he thought otherwise. He thought the moral majority still had morals. He was wrong.
 
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That's the odd thing about it. If Trump just wrote the check himself instead of playing a payment shell game, it would have been perfectly fine to pay off the porn star to keep his adultery from Melania the voting public.
NDAs are legal expenses
 
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How is it not?
Wow.
The payments were legal; if they would have recorded that Cohen had “loaned” Trump the money, and Trump I subsequently paid Cohen back, there would have been no crime and no trial.

But they recorded the transactions as “legal expense”, (which denotes hours billed by an attorney (as well as reimbursements for court/filing fees)). That was fraudulent.
 
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How are payments for NDAs not Legal Expenses?
The same way that mortgage payments are not legal expenses. Legal expenses are costs incurred for legal services. That can include hourly fees, a retainer, payment for specific services etc. Once the NDA is negotiated it's the same as any contract.
 
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