A Manhattan jury found that he had falsified business records to conceal a sex scandal that could have hindered his 2016 campaign for the White House.

Dated: 2024-05-30. Added: 2024-05-30.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    98·
    28 days ago

    Could not make this shit up:

    Mr. Blanche argued that Mr. Trump had signed the checks without paying them much mind, and that Mr. Cohen was responsible for the invoices. But the prosecution highlighted evidence that portrayed Mr. Trump as a penny-pinching micromanager who would never miss that sort of detail, including Mr. Trump’s own books, which contained a chapter called “How to Pinch Pennies” and the advice “always question invoices.”

  • Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world
    22·
    27 days ago

    And now it’s time to play everyone’s favorite game when it comes to the rich and powerful dealing with legal problems - “Will It Actually Matter At All?” - It’s a decent game but kinda boring because it usually only ends one way…

  • hamid@lemmy.world
    82·
    27 days ago

    First convicted* felon President. All the US presidents and leadership are criminal and felons, just better at not being convicted.

      • hamid@lemmy.world
        11·
        25 days ago

        Oh yeah really clean just directly supporting Pol Pot in Cambodia, Arming the Indonesian fascists who genocided the people of East Timor to the tune of 200,000 people, supporting the military juntas in Central America and began the Contras, Angola, Arming Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan and blocking all aid and reparations for Vietnam. At home is started the modern austerity regime and began the repeal of the new deal, stopped McGovern who might have been the only American politician worth a shit, and crushed unions. Liberal Hero.

    • unreasonabro@lemmy.world
      14·
      27 days ago

      The others haven’t even stood trial yet. Who’s next? Obama was cool, let’s give him a pass, just to piss the rednecks off cuz that’s what they do to us, you want tit for tat you got it bitches. Where’s Bushy at