Posted on 12/13/2018 8:29:22 AM PST by Starman417
Which is worse – candidate, businessman and then still private citizen Donald Trump using his own money to make what Hillary Clinton might call “bimbo eruptions” go away to protect his brand and himself from personal embarrassment, or Congress using taxpayer money in a slush fund to pay off those sexually harassed by sitting office holders?
As Penny Nance, president and CEO of Concerned Women for America, notes in USA Today:
Literally a year ago — as the #MeToo era was erupting — the nation was waking up to news that a secret congressional "hush fund" had been used by Members of Congress to pay off accusers of sexual misconduct. Taxpayer money — yours and mine — was used to pay off these alleged victims. …We also know none of the beneficiaries of this slush fund have been threatened with indictment and incarceration for campaign finance violations since suppressing such information, as Rep. Nadler puts it, amounts to committing a fraud on the American people using their own money.If Pelosi doesn't move immediately to disclose the names of those in Congress who used this hush fund, she will be part of the biggest sexual misconduct scandal in history. Nobody knows how many congressman and Senators are involved, and if she is a willing participant to keep all of this a secret she will forfeit credibility on every other issue….
What we know already is devastating. We know congressmen John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Blake Fahrentold (R-Tex.) used this "hush fund" to settle with alleged victims. Both men have already left Congress.
How many of Trump’s accusers are guilty of the very infraction they accuse him of? How many defended the practice and fought to keep it secret and escape accountability with the voters? In Trump’s case, Professor Alan Dershowitz points out, if he was using his own money to contribute to his own campaign, there is no crime:
… Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz frustrated MSNBC's coverage of Donald Trump's payments to former Playmate Karen McDougal and porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, repeatedly siding with Trump on the issue of the legality of a candidate paying "hush money to anyone he wants during a campaign."Veteran campaign finance lawyer Dan Becker agrees with the assessment by Dershowitz that private citizen Trump committed no crime and was merely protecting his brand:"The president doesn't break the law if, as a candidate, he contributes to his own campaign," said Dershowitz (transcript via RCP). "So if he gave $1 million to two women as hush money, there would be no crime. If he directed his lawyer to do it, and he would compensate the lawyer, he's committed no crime."
… a president is entitled to making such payments:
The president is entitled to pay hush money to anyone he wants during a campaign. There are no restrictions on what a candidate can contribute to his own campaign. So if, in fact, the president directed Cohen to do it as his lawyer and was going to compensate him for it, the president committed no crime. If Cohen did it on his own then Cohen commits the crime.
(Excerpt) Read more at Floppingaces.net...
<><> tax-paid hush money disguised as bonuses
<><> tax-paid severances
<><> no-show jobs to silence victims
<><> tax-paid legal assistance
<><> payouts from the Office of Compliance
<><> payouts from tax-paid office budgets
<><> all other forms of tax-paid bribery
<><> all other forms of tax-paid hush money.
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Cong Green also failed to differentiate his sexual mess from Clinton's.
THE GREEN TALE---BEFORE AND AFTER
BEFORE Congressman Slept With And Then Sued Allegedly Drug-Addicted Staffer / BY LUKE ROSIAK
SOURCE http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/27/congressman-slept-with-and-then-sued-allegedly-drug-addicted-staffer/
Texas Democrat Rep. Al Green had sex with a staffer who he said was a drug addict and then sued her when she threatened to go public with claims she suffered a hostile work environment, saying he “will not be extorted or blackmailed.”
Lucinda Daniels, his onetime district director, claimed she suffered a hostile work environment, claimed sexual harassment and demanded $1.8 million. Green sued her, saying she was using their sexual relationship to shake him down at the behest of other unnamed conspirators.
“Daniels has threatened to go public with her complaints if the Congressman does not per her money. Green has done nothing wrong and refuses to pay ‘hush money’ just for political expediency. Green will not be extorted or blackmailed by Daniels. He will not be the victim of a shakedown by Daniels and her agents. Green demands vindication of his actions and now sues Daniels for declaratory judgment relief relating to her workplace allegations and her quest for money,” documents Green filed in federal court in 2008 say. Daniels claimed Greene retaliated against her in the workplace because of her gender and because she refused additional romantic requests.” Green rejected her claims as false.
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AFTER--Dem Congressman Al Green Sends Preemptive Press Release Denying Sexual Assault Allegation
freebeacon ^ | November 27, 2017 | Alex Griswold
FR Posted on 11/28/2017, 6:59:28 AM by MarvinStinson
Texas Democrat Congressman Al Green sent an out-of-the-blue press release Monday acknowledging the existence of a previous sexual assault allegation against him, but denying it ever happened. Green sent an unprompted joint statement to Washington Post reporter Mike DeBonis signed by himself and Green’s former district director, Lucinda Daniels, denying anything untoward happened between the two.
“In the present climate, we wish to jointly quiet any curious minds about our former and present relationship with one another. We are friends, and have long been friends,” they wrote.
Greene Spox: “The attached statement is in reference to a circumstance that occurred in 2008. This circumstance did not involve the Cong. Office, nor the Office of Employment Counsel & did not involve the use of any taxpayer money.” 3:04 PM - Nov 27, 2017
“At an unfortunate time in our lives, when both of our feelings were hurt, we hastily made allegations and charges against one another that have been absolutely resolved. As consenting friends, we both regret our former claims and have since then maintained a respectful friendship,” the statement continued.
“We are friends,” they added for good measure.
“The attached statement is in reference to a circumstance that occurred in 2008,” a Green spokesman told DeBonis. “This circumstance did not involve the Congressional Office, nor the Office of Employment Counsel and did not involve the use of any taxpayer money.”
In 2008, Daniels publicly accused Green of forcing her to have sex with him. Green retaliated with a lawsuit maintaining the sex was consensual and claiming she threatened to sue him for workplace discrimination unless he paid her.
Eventually, both parties dropped their accusations against each other and issued a joint statement similar to Monday’s. “Congressman Alexander Green and Lucinda Daniels have both resolved and settled their respective disputes without payment, promise or receipt of any money. They regret any circumstances that created th
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Congressman Al Green is a member of the Black Congressional Caucus and currently serves on the
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<><> Oversight and Investigations, as a Ranking Member,
And is Assistant Whip of the Democratic Party.
<><> Harris says she was “unaware” one of her top staffers “preyed on a female executive” in her office while she was California's AG.
<><>or that the predator was still a defendant when she named him to her Senate staff.
<><>As AG, she said she had no idea her lawyers “argued against releasing non-violent prisoners from overcrowded prisons.”
<><>Or that they refused a DNA test to a black death-row prisoner amid indications of evidence-tampering.
BACKSTORY--- Kamala Harris aide resigns over harassment settlement. The victim's long and highly visible paper trail includes (A) personnel reports, and, (B) a lawsuit. Miss Hartley began as Wallace's assistant in 2011. She reported the harassment to her supervisor. She felt retaliated against, according to her lawsuit. She was transferred to another DOJ office by the end of 2014. Then-Cali AG Kamala knew nothing, she says.
I guess Kamala was too busy putting her vagina into the service of her country. (snx)
KAMAlA'S AIDE: "200 years of oppression and I cant even look up an intern's dress?" ntry. (snx)
Is there not even ONE Republican that will EXPOSE THESE HYPOCRITES and TAXPAYER THEFT!!!
Al Green is one hideous dude.... has anyone really had sex with him willingly????
If a Congressman has funds disbursed on his behalf that should be a “Taxable” benefit, right? F1099 Misc, line 21 miscelleous income?
I suppose the expense will be structured and buried under something like an Annual Miscellaneous Legal Expense Attributable to General House Operations rather than a taxable benefit.
Well, I hear one sex partner agreed....but only if he put a paper bag over his face.
There is deep cynicism among we, the people, WRT politicians and “public service.“ The picture is not pretty:
<><> pols as an entitled nobility,
<><> their own political fiefdoms,
<><> “your-turn” lines of familial succession,
<><> special rules, privileges for pols,
.......typical of the Monarchies & feudal states of old......
IOW, all of the things the founders fled and vigorously fought against in organizing the nascent republic we now call America.
An Amendment calling for Capital Punishment for errant Congressman might be in order......tailor made for Pay-Per-View.
The Geico caveman went into politics.
You know to ask...
You know the answer.
We were promised this list a year ago or more.
What difference, at this point, does it make? The Rats have no shame, and any records of dalliances that might see the light of day would only make them more attractive to their evil base.
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