McDonnell's Defense is far creepier than the Indictment

[cthulu2016]

McDonnell's Defense is that these gifts were not quid pro quo for political favors, but rather merely tokens of friendship.

OMG... what a concept of friendship!

You meet some guy and get along with him. You watch a football game... talk about some shit. And you like his zillion dollar watch and suggest (in all seriousness) he give you one just like it. Friends do that, right?

You are the governor of a state, but some of the houses you own are underwater after the real-estate crash. So you ask your new friend to, y'know... give you $100,000... and pay for your daughter's wedding, and stuff.

Y'know... like adults do, with adults they met somewhere.

Or the other side...

"Honey, I just met a really nice couple. Real quality folks. I'm thinking about giving them a bunch of jewelry and flying them around on vacations... they're just that nice."

[Mass]

1. His defense was he was not rich enough to pay for the life required of a governor.

He does not come from wealth and neither does his wife, therefore he was in debt.

Yep. That seems to be the defense.

[Blue_Tires]

6. Nevermind the fact that Va. Governor is one of the highest paid in the nation

[madokie]

2. Sounds like he will be making friends

to a whole different class of people in the future.
I have no pity for someone like him if this all proves out to be the way it was.

How do people get so stupid to think they can get but with shit like this?
I really don't need or want an answer to that

[pansypoo53219]

3. so, where were his bootsraps?

[Phentex]

5. OoooOoooh!...

Good question!

[Gothmog]

4. This defense does not pass the smell test

I know that there is a legal basis for this theory but if this case gets to a jury, McDonald and his wife will be convicted.