It is illegal in most states.
But, you guys like to act like making the payment to the blackmailer is a crime. Not just with trump. Happened with Hastert, who was never charged with what he was blackmailed about, only for making the blackmail payments (actually, for "structuring" the blackmail payments so that they were just under the required bank reporting rules, which is illegal).
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