re: WSJ: David Pecker gave evidence of Trump's knowledge of payoffs

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I guess you're gonna go with "A Crime isn't a Crime"?

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No. I’m gonna go with saying “Murder is a crime” does nothing to make the case that someone is a murderer. You have not connected the statement that “X is a crime” to “Trump did X.” Your post is half-assed, literally.

Alan Dershowitz disagrees with you, and I am fairly confident he knows more about the law than this whole board put together.

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As a civil libertarian who voted and campaigned for, and contributed to, Hillary Clinton, I am critical as well of efforts to stretch these laws so as to target a president against whom I voted. The guilty plea of Michael Cohen coupled with the conviction of Paul Manafort do not make President Trump look good politically. He promised the American people to surround himself with the best advisers, but he surrounded himself with too many people who broke the law, even if he himself was not legally complicit. But the rule of law demands that we distinguish between political sins and federal felonies. As the record now stands, Donald Trump appears to be guilty of political sins, but not federal felonies or impeachable offenses.

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