Comments by "duncan smith" (@duncansmith7562) on "Forbes Breaking News" channel.

  1.  @mikew764  when you are paying a lawyer, it's a legal expense, just as it's a medical expense when you pay a doctor. not that hard a concept to grasp.
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  2.  @mikew764  then quote the law! quote word for word the statute! cue crickets.
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  3.  @mikew764  so, who's the victim in this crime of writing the words "legal expense" instead of "hush money"?
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  4.  @mikew764  the problem is I know exactly what the word reimbursement means. when my wife goes to the pharmacy and I reimburse her for buying my medication, that is a medical expense. the act of reimbursing does not alter the nature of the expense, and THAT is what you have no idea of.
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  5.  @mikew764  i already said that the ethical reason for recusal is the affiliations he and his family have with the Democrat party. I already said that the ethical reasons for Cannon to recuse herself would be the same, close affiliation to the Republican party. you clearly have very low reading comprehension skills.
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  6.  @mikew764  only if the next judge had the same affiliations demonstrated. this is the nature of having judges linked to political parties. it makes trials featuring political defendants a nonsense. the american system doesn't work when the defendant is a political leader.
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  7.  @mikew764  the problem is that Trump is being held accountable for something that is not a crime, and that is what you can't handle.
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  8.  @mikew764  on the contrary, courts have long determined equality before the law, and defendants can exercise free speech rights to the same extent as anyone else.
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  9.  @mikew764  a witness is in a position to intimidate a defendant just as much as a defendant is in a position to intimidate a witness. failure to grasp that reality speaks volumes for your lack of understanding
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  10.  @mikew764  go ahead. quote the words in the contract that prove any given individual check was specifically for hush money and quote the words of NY law that state only lawyers on retainers can be paid as a legal expense. why so shy to state the law?
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  11.  @mikew764  every time I post I show you have no idea what this case is about. when put on the spot you can't quote the law concerned and you can't identify the crime apart from "he wrote "legal expense" instead of "hush money"...oooooh. such a crime!
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  12.  @mikew764  in other words, there is no victim. thanks for confessing that. yep, if i drive 60 mph in a 50 mph zone and there is no victim, that is such a crime a trial and jail time should result. welcome to N Korea. no victim, so, off to jail. Biden's USA, but not for much longer.
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  13.  @mikew764  who said that a crime requires a victim? i merely asked you who the victim was. again, poor reading comprehension skills, but still, good to see you confess this trial involves no victim at all. seems to be a feature of all the cases against Trump. no one is ever a victim...hmmm
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  14.  @mikew764  in the real world, prosecutors pick and choose which cases to prosecute based on severity of the crime and chances of success. this case has zero on the severity of the crime index, and only ranks high on the likelihood of conviction because we have a Democrat judge and a Democrat jury.
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  15.  @acdc123456781  yep, certainly sounds like a problem to me!
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  16.  @mikew764  on the contrary, the problem for you is that I know exactly what "reimbursement" means, and I can see it is irrelevant in this case. If my wife goes to the pharmacy to buy my medicine, and I reimburse her for the costs, that cost is still medical expenses. what you don't get is the nature of the cost doesn't change when reimbursement is involved. keep learning, you will grow up one day, child
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  17.  @acdc123456781  MikeW keeps drawing a blank when asked the other times a case like this has been prosecuted. For good reason
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  18.  @mikew764  curious how the only "crimes" crooked Biden can pin on Trump are victimless crimes. curious how in NY criminals are released from custody all the time, but writing the words "legal expense" means long expensive trial and jail time. explains why NY has become such a sh**hole
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  19.  @mikew764  so, here are just a few of the unanswered questions you have chosen not to tackle. 1. why does Merchan allow the witnesses to say whatever they wish about the defendant, but gags the defendant so that nothing can be said about the witnesses? 2. why did Bragg initially refuse to take up this case? what changed? 3. why would writing "legal expense" be a crime for Trump, but not for any other person who had an NDA arranged and listed it as "legal expense"? 4. Name one other person indicted and charged with the same "crime". How about you tackle those 4 first?
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  20.  @mikew764  here's a simple question for you. If you pay your friend to pay his friend to fix your car, is it a crime to list that as an "automotive expense"? yes or no?
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  21.  @MikeW165  you are the one that is clueless. it is past the statute of limitations. that is why Bragg had to claim, falsely, that the accounting misdemeanour was done to conceal a further crime, and thus he raised the charge to that of a felony. Of course, when asked what the concealed crime was, he said "I don't have to state that". Par for the course in the banana republic of New York. in NY, the current legal system (there is no justice system in NY) is such that Democrat prosecutors work with Democrat judges and Democrat juries to put whomever they want behind bars, and release whomever they want.
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  22.  @MikeW165  all of the bias is on your side. read again what I said about Judge Cannon. And read what I said, not what you wanted me to say.
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  23.  @mikew764  why shouldn't there be a gag order on the witnesses when only the witnesses are attacking the defendant?
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  24.  @mikew764  STILL waiting for you to quote the statute that clearly says ONLY when a lawyer is on a retainer can his services be listed as a "legal expense". you do have the wording of the statute in front of you, right?
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  25.  @mikew764  the supporting evidence would be the activities of Merchan's daughter, as repeatedly stated.
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  26.  @mikew764  lawyers do FAR more than legal representation. among other things, lawyers draw up contracts, and paying a lawyer to draw up a contract is what happened in Trump's case, 100% legal expense.
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  27.  @mikew764  what don't you understand about paying a lawyer to fix false claims made about you is 100% legal expense?
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  28.  @mikew764  if I pay you not to talk about me, AND WE HAVE SIGNED A LEGAL DOCUMENT TO TESTIFY TO SUCH A LEGAL AGREEMENT, then guess what, Einstein? The paying of the hush money is all part of a LEGAL AGREEMENT, and therefore is a LEGAL EXPENSE!
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  29.  @mikew764  at the precise moment my wife has drawn up a legal document stipulating the conditions under which payments will be made, then it becomes a legal expense. you are wilfully confusing a hush money payment with the LEGAL process of establishing a contract for both parties to respect an NDA. The moment both parties sign that LEGAL document, it all becomes a legal expense. Capisce? one is a payment outside of a legal framework, the other is all within a legal framework. Trump's case is the second one, all legal, a legal expense.
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  30.  @mikew764  only when you pay hush money that is not part of a legal arrangement.
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  31.  @mikew764  the word is "recused", not "refused". As we say in French, "tu n'as pas inventé l'eau chaude"!
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  32.  @mikew764  the problem is how a prosecutor decides which cases to pursue and which cases not to pursue. Only a rabid, partisan, biased, vindictive prosecutor would have chosen to pursue Trump's case, not a good prosecutor.
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  33.  @mikew764  anyone with political views is linked to a political party. and whatever bias and political leaning is in the judge's head is a BIG problem when a presidential candidate and former president is the defendant. It's a massive problem.
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  34.  @mikew764  donating obviously links you to a political party. a donation is an overt statement of your support for one party over another.
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  35.  @mikew764  because now the Democrats have hijacked the legal system
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  36.  @mikew764  it's not a crime, the world knows it, and you will be the one coping when Joe and Hunter are on trial for real crimes, Hunter in June!
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  37.  @mikew764  You need to join my class on reading comprehension. I never said that I have no idea what New York law says. Re read exactly what I said. On the other hand, the silence is deafening when I ask you to cite the statute, word for word, that covers Trump's supposed crime!
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  38.  @mikew764  no one is disputing that hush money was paid to women. but payment of hush money is 100% legal, and Trump is not charged with making hush money payments. try again.
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  39.  @mikew764  Cohen (at least spell his name correctly, Einstein) indeed arranged hush money payments, and for his legal services in drawing up the arrangement he was paid legal expenses
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  40.  @mikew764  projection
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  41.  @mikew764  and neither does it make you below the law
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  42.  @mikew764  the problem is taxpayers in NY should never have to cough up for a politically motivated trial where there is no crime.
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  43.  @mikew764  on the contrary, the severity of a crime is often what decides if it goes to trial or not.
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  44.  @mikew764  and you are doing all you can to put Trump below the law, so that he is in court when no one else would ever be subjected to such biased nonsense.
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  45.  @mikew764  Trump being prosecuted in NY state is like Malcolm X being prosecuted in Jackson, MS 60 years ago.
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  46.  @mikew764  because the case against them is so weak.
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  47.  @mikew764  he may well be the first to be on trial for falsifying business records when he so clearly never falsified any business records.
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  48.  @mikew764  having great fun hammering you with logic and truth. are you ready to quote the NY statutes that confirm what Trump did is a crime? off you go, start writing, the world is waiting, Einstein.
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  49.  @mikew764  hush money payments are legal expenses when drawn up as part of a legal agreement.
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  50.  @mikew764  still waiting for you to cite the legal statute
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