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> How does it show that? The campaign broke the law, was caught, and punished (fined). > Degree of severity and attempts to conceal a crime are both considered
by koolba 4y ago
> How does it show that? The campaign broke the law, was caught, and punished (fined).
> Degree of severity and attempts to conceal a crime are both considered serious factors in punishment a crime merits.
Which do you consider a more direct violation of campaign finance law with direct intent to benefit a campaign?
1. Paying a lawyer to pay a woman to not speak about an elicit affair from a decade prior.
2. Paying a lawyer to pay a private investigator to compile a negative dossier about your political opponent in the, at the time, current US general election.
- XorNot 4y agoAs you have written it, neither of those two things are illegal to do, funnily enough. Maybe reflect then on why one campaign settled a law suit, and Trump is being indicted at the moment, if again, neither is actually illegal under campaign finance law. Hint: it's legal to pay for opposition research, but a violation to not disclose that you're doing it. It's also legal to pay for an NDA, but not legal for the NDA to be created by direction of one's private lawyer, and then subsequently to use campaign finances to reimburse and list bonuses to that lawyer for legal services they never rendered to the campaign.
- koolba 4y agoThe comparison is that if it’s indeed illegal, how is one that is clearly only directly benefiting the campaign a mere misdemeanor fine and the other a felony?
- mrguyorama 4y agoIt's very likely Bragg's attempt to push this to a felony fails. It's just speculation (SINCE WE DON'T KNOW THE CHARGES) about what evidence is available and what people might be doing. If Trump gets a $1000 fine for this, I feel like that's justice.
- koolba 4y ago> If Trump gets a $1000 fine for this, I feel like that's justice. It's felony or nothing as the statute of limitations has expired on the misdemeanor. My money is on the latter.
- sanderjd 4y agoYou wrote this like it's obvious which one is worse under current law, but I have no idea. We also don't know what the actual charges against Trump are yet.