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(15,751 posts)calimary
(81,110 posts)mountain grammy
(26,598 posts)Do they run out of things to do with their money that they need to hire teenagers for their pleasure? Ill never understand it...
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Dont try going there.
TeamPooka
(24,207 posts)Ramsey Barner
(349 posts)Is that someone doing a residential sit-in?
"tenet" for "tenant"
Hekate
(90,560 posts)dchill
(38,444 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)question everything
(47,435 posts)ET Awful
(24,753 posts)Solicitation of Prostitution is a crime.
For instance, in California, it's under Penal Code section 647(b).
https://www.shouselaw.com/engaging_in_prostitution.html
Under California law, if you offer a woman something in exchange for sex, even if she says no, you're in violation of this law.
Other states have similar laws.
question everything
(47,435 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)And there was no exchange of money for sex. Its was consenting adults.
But, later both women wanted to write about it so Trump had Michael Cohen pay Stormy to not write the story. He had his friend Pecker buy the Karen McDougals story supposedly to publish it in the Enquirer rag which he never did so he could protect his pal Trump.
EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)I bet it was a statute of limitations thing.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,596 posts)EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,596 posts)EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)And how many of those were in CA I wonder.
littlemissmartypants
(22,588 posts)One was offered and refused. The other money, to Ms. Daniels was for NDA, iow, hush money.
EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)Neither are Stormy Daniels.
One is Karen McDougal. The other is identified in the GQ article.
In addition to those alleged offers, he paid several women hush money.
littlemissmartypants
(22,588 posts)I don't get your point.
EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)Karen McDougal and the woman in the GQ article above.
littlemissmartypants
(22,588 posts)EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)I knew I had seen something like this.
Earlier in this GQ article Stormy says she thought during sex please dont offer to pay but he didnt offer.After she returned to her own hotel room, Drake has said, she got a call from a man asking her to come back to Trump's suite. It was late. She declined, and soon received a call from Trump himself. Trump invited her to dinner and to a party and then steered the conversation toward how he might make it worth her while. "What do you want?" he asked. "How much?"
https://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-stormy-daniels-karen-mcdougal-tahoe-weekend
question everything
(47,435 posts)ET Awful
(24,753 posts)He offered them money well after the acts occurred. That is not the same thing.
Mr. Evil
(2,825 posts)Just more reasons to be added to the already heaping shit-pile of reasons as to why we don't need fucking billionaires.
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CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)I thought he would be satisfied with screwing the 99%.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)...how sad and pathetic an ending. I wish this all wasn't true, but human trafficking?! Getting off knowing that the person servicing you sexually is doing so without consent.... sick!
moonseller66
(430 posts)For those interested, go to SBNation
https://www.sbnation.com/blogs
and choose a sports team's blog to read comments on things sports.
For example, if you wanted to know what the fans of New England think about the current situation (and how it's no big deal according to many of them), find the football site then the conference (AFC), then AFC North and then Pats Pulpit.
By selecting the particular team's blog you get to scoll to the bottom to "load comments" which you can read.
You can also read other team's comments, possibly about what those fans think of the Patriots and the situtation, also.
Interesting reading.
One might even call it a study in hyoocrisy.
EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)It is New England. Lots of Dems are done with Kraft.
Fan site: most people are skewering Kraft and hes got only a few defenders.
http://sonsofsamhorn.net/index.php?threads/kraft-charged-with-soliciting.26358
90-percent
(6,828 posts)Us normal average middle class people would only be able to do this if we were forced at gunpoint. Under age sex slaves for recreation. Maybe they tortured or murdered some of them for the fun of it. That's not too far off, considering their idea of fun!
-90% Jimmy
Hulk
(6,699 posts)Losing track of all of this stuff. Believe I read it someplace, not that it makes it so, that he disagreed with the con artist's gripe about NFL players taking a knee.
We are handling this whole prostitution thing so wrong in this country anyway. If it were honestly regulated, and the men and women were protected and received health care and support, it wouldn't be the ugly underground mess that it is. But, that's another argument for another day. Shame on this rich old fook....I guess. Anybody dumb enough to chum around with the disgusting swine that occupies the White House is reason enough to punish him.
Sancho
(9,067 posts)lock him up.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)Kraft went the sleaziest and dirtiest way that involved human trafficking. Although Trump has probably done that too.
red dog 1
(27,771 posts)How dumb must he be?
He could have gone to the most expensive massage studio in all of Boston.
He could have gotten a hotel room and called the most expensive and attractive escort to come to his room.
He could have, but he didn't.
He deserves all the bad publicity he's getting, not because it was so bad, but because he was so STUPID!!
Midnight Writer
(21,715 posts)red dog 1
(27,771 posts)I think he might have thought that since he was so well known & easily recognized, a massage parlor or an escort service might not be the way to go.....(Big mistake!)
japple
(9,808 posts)in something that caused great harm or death to a young person, possibly even a little child. The buyers of this type of gratification need to be imprisoned for life and the suppliers/traffickers as well.
Cha
(296,848 posts)czarjak
(11,254 posts)ananda
(28,835 posts)..
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)But I wonder what color Mr. Kraft's credit-card inamoratas were. I just wonder.
duforsure
(11,884 posts)To make it acceptable , but if it were say someone who they oppose they'd be calling for the harshest penalties, and be talking non stop about it, or politicizing it.
watoos
(7,142 posts)He said on air that the publicity to a billionaire 77 year old guy for committing a misdemeanor was way overblown.
Smerconish is being brutalized on social media.