• Snapz@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    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?

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      7 months ago

      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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            7 months ago

            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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                7 months ago

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

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                  7 months ago

                  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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                    7 months ago

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