Trump's Criminal Trail Begins Monday

They are claiming Pecker was involved in buying the rights to stories and then killing the stories. Pecker would find the stories through his connections and then notify Cohen who would provide the money to kill the story, It was direct involvement by the Trump campaign in a "Catch and kill" conspiracy. That is a violation of election law, if true. If Cohen was then reimbursed by Trump with corporate funds or Campaign funds for those payments and they were listed fraudulently in tax returns as legal expense, that would be the furtherance of another crime needed to make it a felony, as I understand the testimony Pecker gave and his and Cohen's involvement in the illegal payments to Daniels and McDougal. Pecker apparently went to Trump to offer his services and outline how to do the "catch and kill" conspiracy. It sounds like he was working for Trump and the campaign directly and not just an incidental case of a candidate urging a media outlet to kill a story. 

That’s their theory, that “catch and kill” is a violation of election laws. I am not sure it is. Its a common practice in the media employed often where media moguls and politicians communicate how to run and spin stories for political gain. Is it distasteful and an abuse of Freedom of the Press? Sure it is. But Trump shouldn’t be selectively prosecuted under a strained theory that the entire Democratic establishment could probably be nuked for doing themselves on a daily basis.

Cohen was convicted for an illegal campaign contribution to Trump, where his payment to Daniels was considered an illegal contribution to Trump’s campaign. So there’s a Federal crime right there that resulted in a conviction. Is the theory still strained? Yes it is. Cohen rolled over and accepted a plea that he might have won on, at least as to the campaign finance stuff. But sticking directly to things Cohen took a conviction for is a lot more conservative of an approach. I think a jury could say “well, Cohen went to prison for an aspect of this. So there must have been a crime there.”

Depends on how you define “crook.” Someone I don’t like and am not supporting? Yes. Likely in violation of laws relating to storing or returning classified documents? Yes.

It wouldn’t be right to frame Al Capone for a crime he didn’t commit. I wouldn’t say Trump is being framed per se. But the law here is being stretched to get him on “something” because “Orange Man very bad,” with the knowledge that a Democratic judge and jury will convict him of anything put before them.

If the purpose of this case wasn’t political, there would be no push to try it before the election. And it wouldn’t be overwhelmingly Democrats pushing it. The DA actually ran on the platform of “elect me and I’ll get Trump.” That’s disgusting.

The issue isn't that he did it, but was he being paid by the campaign to find these people and work with Cohen by buy and then kill the stories. That would be illegal under election laws. Asking a media outlet not to run a story is not illegal. Paying Pecker a fee to stop any media outlet from running the story by buying the rights would be.

Your question about Hillary would be better asked to Donald Trump. When he was running in 2016 he said if he was elected she would go to jail. He said she was guilty of the Russia Hoax, her laptop emails, and assorted other crimes. Once he was elected, he had the power to have the justice department go after her with everything they had. But for some strange reason that he never explained, he forgot all about Hillary and the russian hoax. Maybe he was concerned an investigation might turn up something he didn't want public? But before you vote for him  again, you should get him to answer that question. 

Hunter's laptop story was not killed. Nobody bought the rights and then refused to publish the story, In fact the New York Post bought the story and published it for the world to see. Many other outlets due to Giuliani's involvement and how he sold the story, did not want to report on the story without further proof. The FBI sent notices it could be Russian influence since Giuliani was involved and he was known to have russian connection. The social media sites for a few weeks did stop commentary on the story. 

In the Trumpc case, Trump paid a fee to Pecker to find negative stories and have Cohen pay to buy the rights and kill the story while fraudulently claiming they were legitimate business expenses. That is vastly different than what happened with Biden.  

Also: Pecker released McDougal and the doorman from their NDAs right after the election.

Kind of nixes the idea it was about anything but the puss-grabber's election.

Manhattan weather report

Stormy

The would have if there was anything to go after.

Sure they did.
The whole nation saw it.

.gov has targeting systems for most of their weapons.  
Judicial and propaganda weapons are locked on Trump.  

You woulda though faux news entertainment would be eating that up like trump grabs .

What a devout xristian

You remind me of Ivanka, let’s *%#^

”You remind me of my daughter because she is smart and blonde and beautiful and people underestimate her as well,”

That's what VonShitzInPantz said to (and before he fucked) the porn star while his wife was pregnant.