Hush money

Prior to being nominated by Trump to the number two position in the Justice Department, Blanche, was Trump's criminal attorney.

In the porn star Hush Money forged business records case in New York in which Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts.

Bro has no shame.

Let me go ahead and appoint my personal attorney, who is not qualified for the job, by the way, to the number two position at the DOJ.

I remember it.

He was indicted for a type of bank fraud that had to do with nearly $2 million in hush money payments that he made to silence a former 14-year-old wrestler whom Hastert sexually abused in a motel while the wrestling team was on the road.

All told, prosecutors said that Hastert sexually abused at least four boys while he was a teacher or coach at Yorkville High, and one of them was the brother of a political protege, Tom Cross, who went on to become Illinois House Minority Leader with Hastert's backing.

Hastert pleaded guilty to one single felony count, and he was sentenced to 15 months, but there were no convictions for his sex crimes because the statute of limitations had expired.

Missouri permanently strips voting rights for certain felony offenses, and only one state, Virginia, permanently disenfranchises all convicted felons, but that law is currently under scrutiny.

As you allude to, then-candidate Donald Trump was convicted on 34 Class E felony counts, the least serious felony classification, in New York in May 2024 for falsifying business records for Trump's payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, widely known as the Hush Money case.

In January 2025, just before Trump reassumed office, the case's presiding judge, Juan Merchan, ordered an unconditional discharge, meaning Trump's conviction remained, but he would not face any jail time, fines, or probation.

Merchan believed that imposing any harsher sentence would improperly interfere with Trump's duties as president.

Breaking.

Ethics complaint alleges Boebert had sexual relationships with three senior staffers, paid $200,000 in hush money to conceal one affair, sworn complaint filed.

Now, what's really interesting, too, is that this woman here is one of them.

That was her district director, Clarice Navarro Ratzlaff.

in March 2025.

And the complaint alleges that after leaving the office, Navarro told Boebert she intended to file an ethics complaint and that a payment of approximately $200,000 is on then made to her to make it go away.

So she got a hush money payment of $200,000.

Very Trump like, huh? Now, This woman here, that's just one of them.