Posted on 08/21/2018 5:13:08 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
Cohen: Trump told me to pay off women to influence the election
President Trump’s personal fixer Michael Cohen admitted in court Tuesday that he paid two women hush money — “at direction of the candidate,” a clear reference to Trump — to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Trump’s name was not uttered but the implication was clear as Cohen admitted he cut a $150,000 check in 2016 to protect “the candidate.”
“On or about summer 2016, in coordination and with and at the behest of the candidate, I and the CEO of a media company worked together to keep an individual with information that would be harmful to the candidate from publicly disclosing this information … under which she received compensation of $150,000,” Cohen said in Manhattan federal court.
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Turns out Cohen was a typical dirty lawyer who overstepped in a big way and is like a leftist "judge" who will manufacture anything to suit his current needs.
The info received by you on ‘taxi fraud’ is coming from the enemy.
You may be dancing to their tune.
We and the public do not know the true facts.
We have seen on numerous occasions how words are put into Cohen’s mouth by enemies only to later be denied by Cohen himeself. Until we hear from Cohen directly, we do not know what is genuinely thought and said by him.
no, I am not dancing to their tune. The Cohen family was eyeball deep in the taxi medallion bubble. Pretty well known story to those in or affiliated with the taxi biz in NYC and elsewhere. Anytime you are doing business with Semyon Shtayner you need to reexamine your life choices.
100%, my point was to the untraceability of the date it was transferred, before or after he declared
> “no, I am not dancing to their tune.”
Oh yes you are.
> “The Cohen family was eyeball deep in the taxi medallion bubble.”
Nobody gives a sh*t except Mueller dogs and their followers of which you are one.
> “Pretty well known story to those in or affiliated with the taxi biz in NYC and elsewhere.”
Irrelevant.
” “Anytime you are doing business with Semyon Shtayner you need to reexamine your life choices.”
Dancing to their time by inserting irrelevant crap.
You’re trying to show you know something by name dropping of people that the public could care less about.
“LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! I KNOW SH*T ABOUT THE NYC TAX BIZ!”
You follow the media releases of Mueller’s dogs and you don’t even question Mueller’s criminality.
Yes. you are dancing to their tune.
Pathetic.
lol..you challenged my knowledge I responded with points. Yes I used names because I am aware of them. I care and so do many others. Who is drinking the Kool-Aid here? Hint it’s not me. This is like chapter 3 in the M. Cohen story. Time will tell that I am right about him - so be it. Cohen is not the slick NY fixer that he sold himself as.
> “lol..you challenged my knowledge I responded with points.”
No. Your knowledge was not challenged because your knowledge is irrelevant. What you know about the NYC taxi crap is irrelevant, By posting about it you are marketing the enemy’s talking points.
> “To get popped on taxi medallion fraud in NYC is just stupid.” (Your post #171)
Irrelevant! You are following the enemy talking points.
Fact: the info about the Taxi issue is coming from the enemy.
You were challenged to show your understanding of the Mueller criminality in the Cohen raid. You had nothing relevant to contribute.
Instead, you tried to sell yourself as a local yokel on NYC taxi sh*t.
No one cares.
The taxi matter is irrelevant.
What is relevant is Mueller’s criminality.
And
How is this different than congress paying off people who attack them with sexual claims, etc.?
Haven't heard much about THAT story lately, huh.
And further, in the case of Congress, they didn't even use their own money to silence these broads.
Spread it to other threads. Every chance you get. Because it shows the hypocrisy, and turns things back on the real bad guys.
“...the charge against Trump would be a criminal conspiracy to violate the FECA.”
It was near impossible to prove it against Johnny “The Scoundrel” Edwards and he paid his mistress with campaign money.
Trump financed his campaign and therefore paid for this private matter with his own money.
Only the DNC Media can twist this to make it sound like it’s dire. Most people will yawn but for many, including myself, it makes me look to check the ammunition inventory.
The headline “Trump told me to pay off women to influence the election” is a bald faced lie.
That is NOT what Trump told him.
They make it seem like Cohen stated that Trump told him
“Hay Cohen, pay off these women so we can influence the election in our favor. Oh and it is a crime”
#Fakenews
Reuters is a solely owned and operated-by Clinton/Soros/Schumer/Pelosi/DeepState/ShadowGovernment-propaganda “news” source
Correction re: Reuters: *NYPost
Not that Reuters doesn’t qualify for the same description.
They have a similar story posted at FR in the News/Activism section.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3681089/posts
“That is just stupid. Every dollar spent is spent with the intention of influencing the election.”
You sound like the government. The President is arguing, no, this money was spent on keeping my marriage intact.
It is an important distinction to get if you want to understand the case.
“Everything that candidates spend money on during a campaign is meant to influence the election.”
That is the argument made by Mueller. The President is arguing this money was spent on keeping my marriage intact.
It is an important distinction to get since the government will try to “prove” their case with a lot of timelines, third-party witnesses, etc - but they are mainly counting on people accepting the argument at the top. That is their wide net.
Right. But when do we hold any candidate to those standards?
Besides, saving one’s marriage is not the only alternative to influencing the election. A good lawyer could argue that since the candidate was already a public figure, the payoff was made to save himself personal embarrassment. How does the prosecution disprove that?
I do agree that the prosecution, along with the media, would hold Trump to a higher standard.
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