emptywheel

This should be an issue given how much support Trump has received from prominent moral arbiters. Bob Jones and Falwell Jr and Franklin Graham should be grilled.

Hush money is okay.

My primary issues with with sex work are much the same as any other work -- labor conditions, worker's rights, work rules, equity, and so on. Lots more of this is the latest click-baiting distract-o-matics.

i dunno, an adultery with a prostitute is an issue many in his base would find detestable. it may help sway some away from him, break the malaise.

May I suggest also: if you’re also demanding every violation of immigration law be punished, no exceptions?

No. It's about the total BS that is the 'family values' party and its 'deeply religious' followers. A Democrat in a similar situation would have to resign (Eliot Spitzer).

Another relevant concern is that these things provide leverage for trump to be blackmailed

maybe, just maybe, he'd be embarrassed about the details, and about how he has to pay for sex (because supposedly he's so great women "let him do whatever he wants").

Rhetorical, if adultery is a felony--in whatever state has jurisdiction--could "strict constructionists" expand their opinion to yours?

But wait you can’t go around claiming the moral high ground as a p****-groper and then avail yourself of the services of... nevermind

It's important in US because one party has fake morality they hide behind for their convenience. They they violate their fake morality, they need to be called on it. As a person I could care less. As a Dem, huge issue to hammer R's on.