Trump Spells “Infidelity” with Two Ds

Nice breakdown of some of the allegations against Avenatti:

https://openargs.com/oa181-michael-avenatti-is-never-going-to-come-on-our-show-notalllawyers/

tldr: Avenatti looks pretty sketchy.

For those who think podcasts and videos tend to be a waste of time, is there a transcript?

Is there a point to all the “Avenatti is no choir boy” beyond an attempt to poison the well?

(I realize folks here aren’t specifically trying to do that.)

Mostly it’s a warning not to become what you hate.

He’s quite Trump-like in how he handles things and pretending it’s fine cause he’s on “your side” is what got us here.

Basically bad behavior is bad behavior, don’t make excuses for it because you like the team.

This particular misconduct has no bearing on the Daniels case, except in the sense that it could catch up to him eventually and she’d have to get a new lawyer.

Ahahahahahhahahahahahahahahah!

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The National Enquirer has been in the news lately, with the revelations that Michael Cohen dictated the treatment of Trump stories in the Enquirer during the 2016 campaign.

This has led some people (not here, mind, but elsewhere) to tear their hair out and yell, “How is this allowed? It’s gotta be against the law!”

It’s not, though. There’s nothing necessarily illegal about a newspaper acting as a shill for a candidate during a campaign and catering to the candidate’s every whim. Of course, it’s unethical as hell to keep that a secret from your readers. But it’s not illegal.

However …

If the Trump campaign was coordinating with the Enquirer, then the Enquirer’s payment of $150,000 to Karen McDougal for the rights to her affair-with-Trump-story (which they then did not publish) really, really looks like an illegal campaign contribution.

Which is no doubt why the feds have issued subpoenas to the Enquirer:


Seriously laugh out loud stuff.

My understanding was that coordination isn’t required there, only that the payment was intended to benefit the campaign.

WITCH HUNT!

Apparently the laws against strip club touching say that if you get touched, you’re at fault. Touchers get off (heh) scot-free.


Columbus police, 2 hours ago: “Uhh… our bad”

“One element of the law was missed in error…”
aka
“Our officers don’t know what the laws are and don’t care and neither do we really.”

Laws are for little people.

To be fair, the Supreme Court says they don’t have to know the law, either. (Heien v. North Carolina.)

How much do you want to bet that cop in charge was a Trump supporter.