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.
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.
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.
....just wait till the marxist find out how Hillary utilized her lawyers, perkins coie
“”It does not matter who makes the payment under campaign finance law.””
They just assume because they said so, it’s true! What idiocy!! Their heads should explode when they make ridiculous statements like that.
This is a lot to read and I only got that far...I’m sure I’ll have more comments...
When you think of the prosecutorial careers of Giuliani, Comey and Mueller, what comes to mind?
Mueller: Enron
Comey: Martha Stewart
Rudy: the Mob.
Sure, they all had difficult, dangerous targets in their careers, but these are the ones that define them. There’s a reason for that.
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I am sure that President Trump did not lie. I would bet that Cohen was on a generous retainer to handle this and many other things. He may also have been able to invoice his expenses above a certain level. A person in the Trump organization would then pay the invoice. Not Trump himself. Rudy put President Trump’s $130K into a box that is compliant with the law. In addition it can be logically claimed as a matter protecting the Trump brand; a business requirement.
Fire Giuliani. Real attorneys don’t run their mouth off about their clients cases.
It has nothing to do with the campaign. No one thought Trump was a choir boy relating to ladies.
No mistake, no crime by Cohen or anyone. I bet it drove Mueller crazy.
You know, she’s not very attractive.
I think Roudy spoke for Trump, is all. It buffers the shock factor, as a messenger messaging about the next messenger’s message on his way.
News work like that.