{"id":1906421,"date":"2023-03-29T05:57:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T09:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-hush-money-parallels-to-john-edwards-pave-difficult-road-to-felony-conviction\/"},"modified":"2023-03-29T05:59:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T09:59:36","slug":"trump-hush-money-parallels-to-john-edwards-pave-difficult-road-to-felony-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-hush-money-parallels-to-john-edwards-pave-difficult-road-to-felony-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump hush money parallels to John Edwards pave &#8216;difficult&#8217; road to felony conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-hush-money-parallels-to-john-edwards-pave-difficult-road-to-felony-conviction%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1906421&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p>The story of how former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards beat federal campaign finance charges over hush money payments has become Trump&#8217;s defense strategy. Legal and campaign finance experts have speculated that if Trump were to be indicted, a case surrounding Edwards might offer some insight into his legal strategy, particularly in relation to the alleged preelection hush payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors had alleged that Edwards, in 2011, solicited almost $1 million from wealthy donors to hide his affair with a mistress, who was carrying his child, to prevent damage to his reputation during his 2008 presidential bid. Although Edwards admitted to the affair, he was acquitted by a jury in 2012, finding him not guilty of illegal campaign donations but deadlocked on five other charges the Justice Department subsequently dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Stanley Brand, an election law expert, argued that the theory that &#8216;hush payments&#8217; constitutes a campaign contribution is legally flawed, adding that any attempt to couple a misdemeanor charge with a campaign finance violation, as prosecutor Alvin Bragg is seeking to do to achieve a felony count, would be an uphill battle. A significant difference between the two cases is that Trump is being investigated by New York state prosecutors, while Edwards was charged by federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Trump denied the alleged affair and wrongdoing and characterized the investigation as a &#8216;witch hunt&#8217;. However, some analysts argue the evidence known to the case could warrant a misdemeanor at best, and it&#8217;s uncertain as to the timing of any potential charges against the former president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a ghost from the past, the story of how a former Democratic Party rising star beat federal campaign finance charges over hush money payments has become a calling card for former President Donald Trump&#8217;s defense. If Trump were to be indicted by a Manhattan grand jury in connection to preelection hush payments to porn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1906422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[15927,5732,15140,6914,21889,4475,4755,22994,22993,4988,3634],"class_list":["post-1906421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-conviction","tag-difficult","tag-edwards","tag-felony","tag-hush","tag-john","tag-money","tag-parallels","tag-pave","tag-road","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1906422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}