If China is a dictatorship, what's the US? Gangster Oligarchy?
Oligopoly is more of an economic term than a political one.
.. i'm hoping people get these references. Risky.
I do wish the more serious charges had been filed first. The reason it was unprecedented was because previous presidents hadn't committed crimes like that, en mass, at scale, and then on top of all the other things organized a rebellion against the next president's election.
Everyone knows other politicians are slimy agents of large corporations and Trump is getting in legal trouble BECAUSE he stands a chance in the upcoming elections.
It is clear to everyone that Trump was blackmailed and he seems to have done something illegal to try to keep his affair out of public eye, where it belongs.
As much as you want to pretend how much you care about the rule of law, these things don't exist in a vacuum and most people are smart enough to see what's up.
That is not what Trump was indicted for. It's like saying my neighbour should be fined for throwing trash in his yard because he killed his wife. Both things are totally unrelated.
> The reason it was unprecedented was because previous presidents hadn't committed crimes like that
Almost every presidential campaign (including Hillary Clinton's) has done campaign funds misuse. But again, Trump is not being indicted for giving money to Daniels from campain funds (which is totally legal, believe it or not!), he is being indicted for mislabeling it as legal fees.
Well, it would be legal if properly reported in campaign expenditure diaclosures, but... that kind of defeats the purpose of hush money payments to accurately and publicly disclose the amount, recipient, and purpose.
So, to make hush money from campaign funds work, you have to break the law, too.