I step into this thread with trepidation. The Edwards trial took place here. A client was on the jury. Afterwards, she told me that had Edwards paid out of funds DONATED TO HIS CAMPAIGN, he would have been convicted. Apparently, the judge's instructions on the law were enough to get Edwards off.
My thought is that as long as no money donated to the campaign was used, Trump is within the law. Especially since Trump has done this in the past.
I am very cynical about these things now. The press blows up on something that will "finish" Trump every few days. I did not vote for Trump (because I do not believe he has the character I want in a President), but I am sooooo weary of this crap from the press. Combine that with the double standard you see in everything (if a Dem does it, it's a nothing burger, if a Republican does it, it's jail), I don't know what it would take to convince me Trump had done something truly treasonable or criminal. Shady, yes. I believe the man is shady, but I also think he is a piker in that category alongside most politicians. As I said, I have become very cynical.
Very thoughtful post
@ConstitutionRose And so true. This is exactly why I'm cynical about every single accusation about Trump. The democrats and most of the news media can enjoy a nice dinner of horrible sex abuses by liberals and democrats and then muster up horror ... utter horror and disgust over some rumors about Trump spending a few hours with a high-priced hooker.
Until one democrat admits that Clinton was a serial sexual abuser who threatened his victims instead of paying them off, I am ignoring the Trump stuff. Before Trump was elected, I didn't want him because of that and other character traits that I thought would keep him from being a good President.
But, those things have not kept Trump from being a good President. The very things that have made his administration look like a shambles in some ways ... those things being that Trump was not insured and molded by a background in the inner workings of DC and a total unfamiliarity with who can be trusted and who can't. This has caused disruption in staff which some latch onto as chaos. It is not. It is a somewhat chaotic base from which Trump operates in a sensible manner.
An advantage of not being a part of 'how things are done' for lo, these many years, is that Trump brings a fresh outlook and sensible solutions. Just because America has been content with unfair trade for a long time does not mean we have to be. Just because the socialist wing has made some poor people think that if all the rich people could be brought down they would be rich, does not make it so. Trump wants to make things easier for business to operate here because that's where people get jobs.
And, yes, the U.S. has been way too tolerant of illegals. You cannot turn on an entertainment show without seeing a really sweet, hard-working, family-loving illegal family being threatened by some mean ICE people. We either have laws or we don't. Trump was the first to emphasize that we should have boundaries.
And Trump is almost innocent in some ways. Yes, he marveled at how a lot of women would through themselves at rich men and, yes, he talked about that in public. He wasn't even sneaky about it. But he didn't force himself on anybody and when they threatened publicity, he didn't send a hit man. He paid.
So, yeah, I believe if I try really hard, I will be able to get over these Trump affairs and maybe even go on with my life.