Count me among those who are skeptical about indicting former president Donald Trump on charges that he tried to cover up an affair by paying off a porn star and misrepresenting the expenditure in his business records. Isn’t this what the Bible calls straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel?
Trump has plenty of camels. He called Georgia’s secretary of state and urged him—using not-so-subtle hints of retaliation—to “find” precisely the number of extra votes that Trump needed to win the state. Trump may have mishandled classified documents. He has a long history of questionable business practices. At least one woman is accusing him of rape. And, most alarming, he may have tried to engineer an insurrection.
In light of all this, how important is the charge that Trump was willing to misrepresent hush money payments to cover up an affair, even if the exposure of his dalliance with a porn star might have had an effect on the 2016 election?
