• jeffw@lemmy.worldM
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    8 months ago

    The news part is more that he admitted it in court during Trump’s trial. We already knew he did this

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    8 months ago

    It’s not criminal for a publication to bury or promote stories, but the fact that they are admitting to just making shit up with malicious intent opens up all sorts of lawsuits.

    I bet that there’s a bunch of civil lawyers all chubbed up right now thinking about all of the libel and fraud cases that they can bring.

    The other thing to remember is that the case is not about influencing elections. It’s about cooking the books to hide the payouts. They are only using this guy to show that Cohen was the bag man for funneling payments in this scheme. This refutes Trumps claim that all payments were for legal services.

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    8 months ago

    Do you think that his grandfather dropped the ‘head’ off of his last name at Ellis Island? Because it would explain a few things.