@hightor,
Wrong.
It's legal to give money to people to buy their silence or make them go away (which you admitted).
It's legal to authorize someone else to make the payment.
It's legal to reimburse them for the cost.
If you disagree, state the statute explicitly. The idea that it's legal to pay someone to go away but not to have an employee do it for you is laughable. Again, if you disagree, state the law explicitly.
As for writing it off as a business expense on your taxes, if he even did that, businesses probably write off money paid to protect the company's reputation all the time. At most, the IRS should have said, "We disagree with your interpretation. We disallow this deduction. Repay that money with a penalty."
The Democrats have tried accusation after accusation for years to try to pin something on Trump. This is just the first one that got this far. This is clearly a case of, "Let's find a crime for this man."
Countries in which the party in power makes up any flimsy BS they can find to throw the leader of the other party in jail are called dictatorships or banana republics. Thanks for reducing the US to that level.
It's not only Trump. Members of his administration have been questioned and arrested many times before. Most people will at some point make a deal to avoid being ruined financially. Thanks to you, from now on, members of the party out of power, whichever one it is, can expect to have people poring over their lives looking for a defect and to eventually go to jail. Thanks for reducing the US to that level.
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