I've read that his defense would be similar to Edwards', but I heard a legal expert, a Republican who was a former head of the US Federal Elections Commission say there are many key factors that distinguish the two cases.

The Edwards case is distinguishable because the payments were ostensibly for child-support, since there was a baby that resulted from the affair. Then, when he dropped out of the race, Edwards kept making the payments.

He offered several key factors that point to a guilty verdict for Trump. First is the existence of recordings that implicate Trump and Cohen. There are hints in the SDNY's court docs in the Cohen case and public announcements from the SDNY regarding immunity and non-prosecution agreements with Pecker, AMI/Natl Enquirer and Weisselberg that they can provide corroborating evidence(documents, tapes, phone records and financial records) that these payments were made knowingly to influence the election. Second is Cohen's testimony under oath about the purpose of the payments. Third is the timing of the payments, which happened years after the affairs and within a few weeks of the elections.

I'm no lawyer, but I sense that there is more peril for Trump than just the campaign finance felonies. The SDNY docs hint at criminal business dealings that involved Trump, his family, his CFO Weisselberg and Pecker, President of AMI. Those two have been cooperating with the SDNY for many months now.

delta1 wrote:

we are witnessing an historic example of criminal malfeasance by the occupant in the highest office of the land and his circle of family and associates, but some are deluded from seeing it because of the toxic nature of partisanship in our politics, some of for which he is responsible...as his past denials of improper behavior by him and his associates have been proven to be lies, he musters more lies that are also disproved...yet his followers do not accept the facts and continue to believe his lies...

I reluctantly pull the "butt Hillary" card here to make that case. If Hillary had won and any of the facts discovered about Trump's wrongdoing was attributed to her, all the cons with blinders on now would be screaming for her head...

we are a civilized society based on the rule of law...a law that applies to all, and despite one's party, wealth or heritage, no one is above the law, not even a "popular" POTUS,

There was quite a bit of over the top zealous Obama bashing which I saw here during his last 4 years in office, and he was NEVER accused of any crime, yet he was mercilessly criticized as if he was the worst person in the world...I submit, Trump leads Obama in that race by a long shot...

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