The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ~ Marcus Aurelius“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984
One, you think Snopes is reliable. It's a couple, now divorced, sitting on their couch doing a minor amount of confirmation biased research on the internet.
Two.
ErMaHgeRd4!!!! Trump riPPed one in COURT! We GoT Him NAO! JoUrNaLiSmSs!
Sorry, just can't put in enough commas. I tried.
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I asked for neither your Opinion,
your Acceptance
nor your Permission.
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis." Dante Alighieri 3
"It took 2000 mules to install one Jackass." Diamond and Silk Watch the Movie
LOL @ MSNBC
Drowsy Donald strikes again.
Just as I predicted, the gross up will be an issue in Trump's criminal trial. Both the prosecution and the defense mentioned it in their opening statements.
The prosecution..
The bank statement that I told you about that he asked Cohen to bring to their meeting, the from the bank statement from Essential Consultants LLC account, which showed the $130, 000 wire that Cohen had made to Keith Davidson to keep Stormy Daniels quiet; you will see in this trial, Allen Wisselberg's handwriting down the side of that bank statement laying out every one of the steps that I just described, showing how they converted the $130, 000 payoff mount to he 420 grand that Cohen was going to get paid back, as a grossed up way to disguise it, not as a reimbursement, but as income.
Cohen and Weisselberg then met with Trump, who approved that repayment amount of 420 grand on the $130, 000 Stormy Daniels payment and a few others expenses.
The defense..
Based on what you've known for years about the Stormy Daniels hush money, do you already know who is telling the truth even before the participants testify at the trial in the coming days? Do you already know whether or not it was a payback?But, think for a moment of what the People just told you. President Trump did not pay Mr. Cohen back $130,000. President Trump paid Michael Cohen $420,000.
And in the same breath, the People told you that President Trump is known as a frugal businessman, that he pinches pennies.
Ask yourself: Would a frugal businessman, would a man who pinches pennies repay $130, 000 debt to the tune of $420,000?
More significantly than that, ladies and gentlemen, you're going to learn that this was not payback. The $35, 000 a month was not a payback to Mr. Cohen for the money that he gave to Ms. Daniels.
He was President Trump's personal attorney.
Trial transcripts will be posted by the court system daily on the day following the testimony at the below link. They're in pdf but not pdf text, which is dumb.
https://ww2.nycourts.gov/people-v-do...criminal-37026 --click "Transcripts"