• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    so it wouldn’t have been a crime if he had just paid her to not tell, in order to protect his presidential candidacy? The actual crime was that he tried to hide that he had paid her not to tell?

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      5 months ago

      He committed a criminal act to hide the source of the funds. He could have just paid her out of pocket and not told anyone. No crime then.