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So the money was not only in the wrong column, it was also undisclosed campaign finance. And if he'd filed it correctly as payment to a porn star who he fucked just after his wife gave birth to his son Barron, he might well have never been president.
If he’d filed it correctly as a personal expense, we’d have never heard about it beyond speculative rumours. He fucked himself by wanting to claim it was a payment to his lawyer and a business expense, because wealth horders like him won’t spend a single ill-gotten dollar if they can avoid it.
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That's one take on it. The other take is: the prosecution proved that his motivation for shuffling the money around was to improve his chances of winning the 2016 election, which he very narrowly did a few months later. So the money was not only in the wrong column, it was also undisclosed campaign finance. And if he'd filed it correctly as payment to a porn star who he fucked just after his wife gave birth to his son Barron, he might well have never been president.
C4 News put it more succinctly https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1796289412071850212
https://www.channel4.com/news/donald-trump-convicted-of-crime-after-unprecedented-trial