Posted on 05/03/2018 2:42:27 PM PDT by Kaslin
Makes sense. Rudy is ten times smarter than any of these jerks. And he was brought in to do this.
Unnecessary rationalization. Trump could spend as much of his money on his campaign as he wanted, including giving $130k to every porn star in America.
So what is the reason?
It didn’t sound like he was saying it in a strategic manner. He said it in a throw away manner, almost as an afterthought. Hannity was in the middle of saying something when he sort of blurted it out.
It didn’t sound like he was saying it in a strategic manner. He said it in a throw away manner, almost as an afterthought. Hannity was in the middle of saying something when he sort of blurted it out.
The Closer™
I have a question about campaign finance laws as they pertain to Presidential candidates.
Where in the Constitution is Congress (laws) or the Executive Branch (regulations) given ANY authority over the procedures State Legislatures use (people voting, in all 50 states at this time) for appointing their Electors?
Article I §4 clearly allows Congress to make regulations pertaining to elections for Members of Congress and Senators.
But the President and Vice President are chosen (indirectly) by the State Legislatures, who are free to use whatever methods and under whatever rules they choose.
Except for the three Electors Congress awarded itself in 1960, how much money is spent by persons seeking Electors is none of Congress’s business.
Rush threw in an important bone :
“Mueller’s office says it has no evidence in its possession responsive to the request from Manafort’s lawyers for transcripts, notes, or tapes of anything to do with Manafort dealing or talking with Russians. However, throughout the past year, NBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN have all run stories claiming the special counsel has evidence of Manafort being in contact with and discussing things with Russian government officials.
But today or yesterday, the special counsel’s office, “No, we don’t have anything, when they were specifically asked for it by Manafort’s lawyers.” So what it means is that somebody in the special counsel’s office has been lying. Have been lying to the media, have been leaking to the media for the past year that Manafort, that they have evidence that Manafort has been communicating with Russians.
To try and pop this balloon and nullify it in the American mind.
If Trump had NOT repaid Cohen, then Cohen could be in jeopardy for making a "gift" to Trump without paying gift taxes. Also, given the timing, the Feds could construe this as an "in kind" campaign contribution, which could also screw Cohen.
So, Trump did the proper thing... he reimbursed Cohen for expenses made on his behalf. Rudy simply set the record straight on that, thus relieving Cohen of any concern over the issue.
Well it is not good news, but yes, it seemed Rudy had to disclose this. The bad is that Trump told a little white lie previously about no knowing about the payment, and clearly yes, he obviously did it as he didn’t need another scandal pre-election.
So he paid hush money. Not a good look. But how many hush payments has Hillary made in her career? If Mueller was looking for a smoking gun this is likely the best he is going to get. Not Russia collusion. Just a negative news story that Trump paid hush money to a prostitute.
It doesn’t make Trump Hitler, but is it enough basis for impeachment? I certainly don’t think even paying hush money to stop a bad news story is grounds for impeachment. But the Senate might differ. The worst of it would, for me, be he lied about knowing about it.
My prediction is that there are going to calls from the Democrats to start impeachment proceedings. Whether we hear the same calls from Republicans remains to be seen.
Now the news is saying if that is the case it was a retainer fine. However if that 130K was listed for expenses and Cohen put that on his taxes, then Cohen might be in trouble for claiming as an expense when it was a retainer.
The sketch incident is not over- because Trump said on twitter that the sketch was a con job- now her attorney is suing Trump for that comment because it is inferring that she is lying and making the sketch up.
In Hillary’s case they rather famously just assume room temperature by the dozens.
don’t sweat over the small stuff, when there’s plenty more to bolster your own narrative:
3 May: MONUMENTAL: The Naked Truth About Robert Mueller
By Rep. Louis Gohmert
Robert Mueller has a long and sordid history of illicitly targeting innocent people. His many actions are a stain upon the legacy of American jurisprudence. He lacks the judgment and credibility to lead the prosecution of anyone.
I do not make these statements lightly...
http://www.trevorloudon.com/2018/05/monumental-the-naked-truth-about-robert-mueller/
“So he paid hush money. Not a good look.”
> So, Trump did the proper thing... he reimbursed Cohen for expenses made on his behalf. Rudy simply set the record straight on that, thus relieving Cohen of any concern over the issue.
This is close. Cohen was on retainer as a ‘fixer’ - some fixes aren’t relayed. Trump ‘knew’ of it at least from the news and he advanced the idea in a comment on Fox and Friends before Rudy, who was the follow-up to that.
“He has a percentage of my overall legal work, a tiny, tiny little fraction, but Michael would represent me and represent me on some things. He represents me like with this crazy Stormy Daniels deal, he represented me. You know, from what I see, he did absolutely nothing wrong.”
. “However if that 130K was listed for expenses and Cohen put that on his taxes,”
Did Stormy put it on her taxes?
....just wait till the marxist find out how Hillary utilized her lawyers, perkins coie
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