Posted on 08/22/2018 9:35:49 PM PDT by Kaslin
I got this from a liberal Democrat law professor who voted for Hillary Clinton:
If Cohen made the payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal at the request of Donald Trump, he was acting as Trump’s representative (his agent), and since Trump reimbursed it, that’s not a crime. A candidate is allowed to give an unlimited amount of money to his or her campaign.
Now, if Cohen did not do it at Trump’s behest, then Cohen committed a crime, but Trump didn’t.
There is no crime-period.
Exactly
What we know...Cohen had nothing on Trump and wouldn’t have been prosecuted for the non-crimes of campaign finance issues. So the Dems have set yet another trap for Trump should they take the House.
Thank you for this post.
Good summary by Hunter.
The dems and their lot got themselves a midterms campaign issue.
But it won’t work IMO.
They’ve already been talking up ‘Stormy’ ad nauseam and people are sick of it. So now they will conflate it with campaign weeds and people will ignore it while Trump pounds them about the Wall which people are paying attention to.
To Liberals, Trump committed the unforgiveable crime of winning the Presidential election. Everything they have done since then has been about that crime.
It’s called a legal settlement. People do it all the time.
One might want to even ask if Stormy reported the ‘income’ to the IRS folks. I’d have my doubts on that.....particularly if this was in cash.
And if the prosecutors thought he was credible, they would have offered a plea deal.
It’s stupid.
But, for their asocciation with Trump they could have been pursued without Mueller...
The raid on his home and office where all of this evidence was gathered was a blatant violation of attorney-client privilege. It was only justified in the event Cohen was committing a crime on behalf of his client. If the prosecutor DIDN'T include those campaign charges among the counts against him, then none of the charges would have stood.
Cohen did the prosecutor a favor by retroactively justifying the raids. He will get off with a slap on the wrist. He didn't do Trump any harm because his admission to a non-existent crime carries no weight with Trump. It is basically the equivalent of Cohen buying a $250,000 car on behalf of Trump and then claiming in court two years later that he stole it even though there is a cancelled check from Trump's bank account for $250,000 to pay for the car.
Probably, but constantly lying to the people the way the fifth column media is doing should be criminal. Sadly, more than 50% of voters are too stupid and dumbed down to find the truth, they just swallow the bilge spittle spewed from the media at the direction of their demoncrat massahs.
You’ve been saying that for months. Trump has only gotten stronger over that period of time.
Really, the Whole Cohen Thing Is Just a Big Nothingburger
Kevin Drum at Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/08/really-the-whole-cohen-thing-is-just-a-big-nothingburger/
No one mentions that these payments were to women who were blackmailing Donald Trump. That is so much worse than Trump paying the extortion money.
Of course it isn't. If not for double standards, liberals would not have any standards at all.
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