I'm all for seeing trump arrested and all.. .but im so confused...

Hush money isnt illegal... however taking money as a payment to not release personal and damaging information to the public, that is blackmail and IS illegal... so if anything isnt Stormy Daniels the one doing something illegal by blackmailing trump and accepting a pay off to not go public?

@freemo Trump falsified the hush money as a “fees to his attorney for services rendered”. If he would not have falsified the transactions he would be in the clear. I think the term “blackmail” is used in common language far more loosely than the legal definition. Strictly speaking, blackmail is offering silence /about an illegal act/ in exchange for money.

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@koherecoWatchdog I recently had dealing with lawyers about black mail.. the act does not need to be illegal, it only needs to seek to defame.

While your explanation as to what trump did makes sense, and sure, sounds like it is illegal from an IRS perspective... it is clear stormy daniels taking the money was blackmail in my eyes.

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