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The right thing for the country would be a guilty verdict for treason. And then the appropriate punishment.
That's in one of his other court cases. This is about the one where he paid a prostitute to keep quiet after he paid her for sex.
Actually a good point was made recently that this is not about paying for sex or paying to hush a sex workers as much as it is about illegally using funds to influence election-specific matters. The fact that it’s all focused around a sex worker is just Trump’s specific flavor of illegal campaign finance.
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-trials-of-donald-trump-season
Good point, and true; and the way I put it probably plays into the pattern of Trump voters thinking "well yeah, that's morally questionable but not illegal and not worth this big of a systemic reaction."
I will adjust my mentions of this in the future.
To be clear, that was not the crime he is charged with. He's charged with falsifying business records.
(see other person's same-level comment too)
good point and true. Not the case where he's going to be charged with treason, anyway, but you're right, I should take care to refer to the case properly. Especially if my reason for commenting is to clarify which matter is being discussed!