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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.
@freemo Stormy Daniels was silent about the affair, not about Trump’s falsification of how what the hush many was for. She didn’t likely know about the illegal act of falsifying the nature of the payment.
@koherecoWatchdog As stated previously, blackmail does not need to be limited to illegal acts. This I know for sure as I have spoken to my own lawyers about it in detail recently.
@freemo (an /express/ threat, i should say)
@koherecoWatchdog Perhaps... if she made no indication she was going to go public, and she was paid anyway "just in case" then yea probably wouldnt be blackmail
@freemo You might be right about the defintion, but I also think blackmail requires a threat to be made. The hush money may have been paid in the absence of a threat.