In short, purposely telling lies to destroy someone is evil. I want nothing to do with those sorts of people. I will not vote for them, I will not associate with them. They are toxic.

My contention is not as much a legal one, but just more proof and an example of where back in '16 Trump's sleazy dirty politics was taken to new lows.  He crossed lines, and to this day, not only are we not holding him account to it, but instead are rewarding him with his 3rd consecutive GOP nomination.

His only slight out was that the Stone-Pecker slime machine though obviously funded by DJT, at least had a rogue element to it.  But hearing today, it seems the orange menace might have had a more direct and intricate hand in it.   We've had some fine conservatives taken to near ruination (RDS, Cruz) by this POS' antics.

I think he needs to pay.

It is a myth known as "modern monetary theory" that a central bank can control inflation by tweaking interest rates. While inflation is the result of increases in the money supply, those increases come about as a result of big government deficits, and the Fed then buying Treasury debt, which finds its way into the economy when the government spends the money. Politicians and their sycophants in the media will seek to blame all sorts of other boogeymen, but the bottom line is very simple to understand: inflation is a tax, one of the most regressive taxes there is.

Five percent is what they are paying other people who buy treasuries.  The Fed won't be charging the US government a dime on the fantasy money it prints up for them.  Nor will that money ever be paid back.