• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    paying off a porn star that you had sex with while your pregnant wife was at home

    Let’s focus on the important parts, not play morality police as if Stormy Daniel’s profession or Trump’s marital status make the crimes worse. Let’s not sink to the level of the hypocritical authoritarians of the Christian Right or the equally hypocritical tabloid press.

    You’re right about everything else, though.

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      Banging a pornstar isn’t the problem.

      Paying off a pornstar on the eve of an election with the intent to influence that election and then falsifying business records to cover up the payments, is a problem.

      It’s less a morals thing and more actual crime things.

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      The right want to bring church and religion into politics. They worship tRump as a “christian”. Cheating on your pregnant wife isn’t very christian. I mean no disrepect to stormy or anyone that does any kind of work like her. It should be legal. The only thing I will give her shit for is for is she fucked tRump, which had to be rather disgusting.

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      5 months ago

      Trump cheating on his pregnant wife DEFINITELY makes the crime worse… What are you talking about?

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        Infidelity is a private matter that has no bearing on the job.

        Judging presidents on whether we approve of their private lives is some bullshit best left to the Republicans and the tabloids.

        Unlike election tampering and campaign finance fraud.

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            5 months ago

            Which isn’t the electorate.

            JFK was also notoriously unfaithful in his marriage, that didn’t make him a bad president and the only ones who pretended that his philandering, as they probably called it at the time, were Republicans and Protestant bigots who were just looking for ways to attack him for anything.

            To be clear: I agree that Trump is absolutely a garbage person and that it was a horrible thing to do to his wife. It’s still completely irrelevant to his professional (mis)behavior, though. Unlike the subsequent coverup.

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              5 months ago

              Cheating on your loved ones is definitely evil, the only time you should be sleeping around with someone who isn’t your partner is if you are in an open relationship or if you and your significant other are both polyamorous.

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                5 months ago

                Yes yes, you’re on the record as being against marital infidelity. Such a brave and controversial stance 🙄

                Let me repeat one last time: his private affairs (double entendre not intended) are not relevant to his public life and as such is none of our business until they break relevant laws and/or otherwise influence the job.

                Or, to put it another way: as far as anything that actually matters that anyone not directly affected is concerned, he could have done the same things while not married or otherwise in a relationship and it would have been exactly as bad.

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                  No it would have been better, because the point was he cheated on his significant other, betraying the trust of the one person who should be able to trust him more than anyone else. If he can do that to those closest to him, how can we trust him with the fate of faceless millions? This is nothing to do with “puritanism” and everything to do with his character

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                    the point was he cheated on his significant other

                    It most certainly was not. The point was that he defrauded the people in order to gain power.

                    If he can do that to those closest to him, how can we trust him with the fate of faceless millions

                    Fun fact: millions of imperfect people who behave badly, sometimes even cruelly, towards those closest to them are excellent public servants. Trump never was, of course, but that’s nothing to do with his private life.

                    Professional and personal lives are separate things and as such, one doesn’t automatically reflect the other.

                    This is nothing to do with “puritanism” and everything to do with his character

                    Maybe not puritanism, but definitely sensationalism and conflating separate parts of the garbage human that he is.

                    Would I prefer that all politicians are both excellent public servants and kind and considerate in their private lives? Of course!

                    Do I believe that failing the latter makes the former impossible? Hell no! That’s just not how people work!