FEC Commissioner On Trump-Stormy Daniels Case: “Not A Campaign Finance Violation…Not A Reporting Violation Of Any Kind”

gateway pundit ^ | 4/5/2023 | staff

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[Gay State Conservative]

later

[nopardons]

BTTT

[bray]

Must be nice to have a trillion dollars to target somebody you hate.

[frogjerk]

He explained the reasons the case was dropped in a letter he and FEC Commissioner Sean Cooksey wrote in 2021.

The first reason was that Michael Cohen had already taken a plea deal.

The next reasons were that the paperwork violation took place after 2016 which means it could not have been done to help with the 2016 election and that it isn’t obvious the payments were meant to influence the election.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We don’t need no stinking facts.

[READINABLUESTATE]

Mr Trainor will now be in the crosshairs of the Bolsheviks.

[RoosterRedux]

Alvin “Chipmunk Cheeks” Bragg doesn’t care about the facts or real violations of the law. He’s counting on a hard Left judge and a biased New York jury that hates Trump.

[Red Badger]

Fat Albert has dug himself a hole he cannot get out of............

[linMcHlp]

BuTTT

[Eagles6]

Bragg:"What we've charged Donald Trump with is not a crime, but, Orange Man Bad, so, we'd like you to convict him, anyway."

NYC jury:"Okay. Orange Man Bad!"

[McCarthysGhost]

I despise DeSantis for trying to capitalize off of the communist attacks on Trump and America itself. If he was smart DeSantis would endorse Trump and unite behind him. It would go a long way to repair his self-inflicted political damage and sure up his own political future. Just calling it like I see it.

[TomGuy]

But, it is the seriousness of the charges, not the veracity of the evidence [or lack thereof].

Have we learned nothing from Dan Rather and the Kinko’s fax?

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[unixfox]

But CNN & MSNBC tells me Trump is facing 130 years in prison. Gee, who to believe.

[ConservativeInPA]

Trainor was on Bannon the day (I think it was Bannon). He explained the campaign finance reporting requirements very clearly. If person would pay for something normally, like a haircut, suit or automobile, and then use it as part of a campaign activity, like driving to and looking good at a campaign event, it does not have to be declared as a campaign contribution. The reasoning is that haircuts, clothes and cars are everyday expenses. NDAs fall under everyday expenses. I cannot even count the number of times I signed or had others sign NDAs when I ran my consulting business. Every employee signed an NDA on the first day on the job. It is an everyday expense.

Trump’s campaign did not make payments to Cohen. That’s clearly spelled out in the indictment. So it’s not declared as a campaign donation or expense. It cannot even be misconstrued as a campaign expense give the nature of the expense.

The entry into the general ledger more that likely is legal expenses. There may or may not be some more granularity to that, such as legal expenses on a per-project basis, but there is no law or accounting standard that requires greater granularity. Their maybe some legal expenses that are and are not tax deductible. That would be tracked in Trump’s accounting software. But there’s no tax related accounting error associated with this. Trump over paid his taxes in NY. So-called leftist legal experts have even suggested that overpaying taxes was illegal. That’s just plain stupid. These asswipes will say and do anything to get Trump.

I keep scratching my head over the hideousness of the indictment. There’s a side of me waiting for a hammer to fall, something that would actually make sense. The other side of me is just chalking this up as incoherent ramblings of a fat, stupid-chit negro.

[nesnah]

The Black Grimace is reaching for 1/4 pounders with cheese.

[Robert DeLong]

"I think the jury is going to see that and they’re going to have to rely upon the fact that both the law enforcement experts and the civil enforcement experts, as far as campaign finance are concerned, didn’t find any violation of the law here.”

It's New York City, they could convict a ham sandwich. They don't care. All they care about is convicting Trump. On top of that Alvin Bragg will never face charges of prosecutorial misconduct. He will not be disbarred. He will not even receive a slap on the wrist. Because the law is what they say it is.

[Thank You Rush]

““It’s not a campaign finance violation. It’s not a reporting violation of any kind,””

It’s a bookkeeping error in NY business records! What in the devil are NY business records? Business records belong to a business and not to the state of NY. Many of us here have worked in accounting our whole careers and never thought we were keeping books for ANY STATE!!!!

[Sacajaweau]

So no one else can run except Trump. Since when do we support that concept?