Trump paid $100,000 to a doorman to silence him about some love child hat was totally false. Many very wealthy people do this. It is often just a robbery that is going on and very wealthy people pay off instead of fight because it ends up being cheaper and easier than getting drug though the mud with the world watching. This is actually done quite often in the legal system. Our insurance just settled a case and gave the suiter $300,000 because they just wanted to get the suite off the books. I was very frustrated because it made out insurance costs go up for over 3 years and there was no grounds for the suite. We have another suite on us because a lady fell on the neighbor's sidewalk and we got sued along with the neighbor and the town. I suspect this will get settled with "hush" money too.Szdfan wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2024 8:57 am Russell Moore makes some really good points about Trunp's evangelical supporters in Christianity Today --
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/20 ... moore.html
The former president’s defenders are too smart to believe what some of them imply—that Trump never really knew Stormy Daniels and that he was paying her six figures of hush money to keep her from talking about something that never happened. So what message does it send when—like every other political constituency—we find ways to minimize that by suggesting that the cultural and political stakes are too high to worry about such minor matters as keeping one’s vows or telling the truth?
That’s especially when a figure is held up to the rest of the country as a champion of restoring the country to Christian values—to when “girls were girls and men were men,” as the old sitcom characters Archie and Edith Bunker would sing it. And that’s especially true when Christian leaders hail Trump as a “baby Christian” and he licenses his name to Bibles. For many Americans, the word evangelical now is shorthand for “Trump supporter.” How can we blame them when, in so many arenas of American Christian life, people who deny the Trinity are embraced as Christians, but those who don’t support Trump are ostracized as apostates?
Many will talk about how God uses flawed and imperfect people; that’s true, of course. This is not, though, a Chuck Colson repenting of his sin, taking responsibility for it and pleading for God’s mercy. This is someone who instead now says that he will take revenge on his critics and enemies the moment he is back in office.
What does that say to those who are watching, learning from Trump’s “never admit, never apologize” strategy? It says policy is more important than character. Achievement is more important than integrity. The implication from religious leaders reputedly bearing witness to the God for whom they speak is this: A man is justified by winning alone.
To us, $130,000 is a lot. To Trump CO, it is small change. I look at the amount and see it more a scheme then a real case. If it was a real case, much more money would have been brokered.
The case is not that it was paid, but that is was misfiled. The accountant who does Trump Co books testified that there was no direction from Trump and she was the one who filed it as legal expenses. I trusted the person who did my taxes last year and did not check every line item. Maybe I am guilty of tax fraud and don't even know it.
The thing I look at is Trump, his life and businesses have been dug through very thoroughly. If this is all they could find, he is the cleanest NY businessman around. I suspect few politicians in DC could hold up to that kind of scrutiny.
I still do not think I will be voting for him. I still plan to vote 3rd party or write in. I just do not see this as a real issue that would sway my vote if I was planning to vote for Trump. On the contrary. I am more with those who will now vote for Trump as a protest vote for this kind of political weaponization of the legal system.
Nebuchadnezzar was good for Israel.