charge of lying you would have to compare what he said to what the truth was. on the general issue of whether it is appropriate for a presidential candidate to use campaign funds if these were, indeed, campaign funds rather than just a gift from a friend which is another issue but if these were campaign funds comake a plussible argument to a jury that his campaign would have been over had it been reveald that he had had an affair and he had fathered a child so it was a reasonable campaign expenditure. not a moral one to be sure. just looking at a criminal statute can you say it was an utterly unreasonable campaign expenditure to prevent from coming out that which would have destroyed the kanl pain. cam pin. campaign. i suspect we will see a plea in the case. the jury will not like the fact that this man with a wife at home dying of cancer is having