Trump the latest, but the not the first, U.S. president to have a hush money scandal
Jefferson wrote that he had given money “from time to time” to James Thomson Callender, a journalist Jefferson came to know via his book, which documented abuses in the government in Europe, Asia and America. Jefferson wrote that he had read the book with “great satisfaction” and described Callender as “a man of genius suffering under persecution.”
Once Jefferson found out, he wrote to Monroe that “such a misconstruction of my charities puts an end to them for ever.” Trump’s team has maintained that the payment made to Stormy Daniels was not intended as a contribution towards his campaign and has pointed to the Edwards case as evidence to strengthen that argument.Article content
“The John Edwards case is the exact same type of charge, except the Edwards case was much stronger from a criminal prosecutorial perspective than this Trump case,” Katie Cherkasky, a former federal prosecutor and criminal defence and civil rights attorney, told“Even in that case, they obviously were not able to get a conviction. The reason for that is when you’re charging these campaign finance violations, it’s a specific intent crime.
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