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Cohen: Trump told me to pay off women to influence the election
NYPost.com ^ | 8/21/18 | By Priscilla DeGregory, Nolan Hicks and Max Jaeger

Posted on 08/21/2018 5:13:08 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda

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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
That CEO of National Enquirer best lawyer up, because he will be called to testify...and so will everyone connected to Cohen...

He will have NO support from the POTUS...

Can any of us trust our Attorney's after this slide show of Cohen? Note to all Americans...LANNY DAVIS, CLINTON'S SIDE KICK IS COHEN ATTORNY...

61 posted on 08/21/2018 5:45:44 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: Steely Tom
"This is horrifying, because no Presidential candidate in American history has ever paid anyone to try to influence the election."

They do that the moment they authorize the production of campaign buttons.
62 posted on 08/21/2018 5:46:44 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

So Trump paid a skank to keep her mouth shut, and Hillary paid a foreign national to lie about him. What’s the difference? Both paid someone to influence voter opinion.


63 posted on 08/21/2018 5:47:22 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

How is paying someone as part of a private transaction illegal?


64 posted on 08/21/2018 5:47:26 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Let me see now.
Trump graciously compensated a women he may have had a fling with to defend his reputation.
Clinton on the other hand attacked the women who claimed to have been raped by her better half.
No brainer. Next.
65 posted on 08/21/2018 5:48:01 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Funny, weren’t these Women trying to use the threat of influencing the Election to gain Financially?

I didn’t realize that paying off a Blackmailer with your own Money was a Crime.


66 posted on 08/21/2018 5:50:25 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: Architect of Avalon

“Paying women is not influencing an election”

Why is it not extortion on their part?

No one has said anything about that. And the so-called Federal Attorney for the Southern District of New York hasn’t charged them - how do they walk?


67 posted on 08/21/2018 5:50:55 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: butlerweave
Who is “the candidate” , this is just so everyone plies on Trump again ,they want Trump to resign ,what they wanted from the start

Hillary?

68 posted on 08/21/2018 5:51:11 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Huskrrrr

Lewinksy was given a paying job in exchange for lying under oath

Others were similarly offered connected jobs.


69 posted on 08/21/2018 5:51:14 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

“Cohen: Trump told me to pay off women to influence the election.”

Given that Cohen was caught with his privates in the sausage grinder, and Mueller was reaching for the crank, I rather imagine he would have said almost anything...

That aside, I find it particularly curious that the phrase “to influence the election” is showing up in almost ALL LSM accounts of this crock of equine excrement.

Just sayin’...


70 posted on 08/21/2018 5:52:00 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. Mr Trump, we've got your six.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Isn’t that better than trying to destroy them like Hillary.


71 posted on 08/21/2018 5:52:37 PM PDT by the_daug
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To: Valpal1
"A plea deal does not lead to deposition of witnesses. It’s a guilty plea, no trial, no witnesses, no depositions."

Of course not, it leads to a pre-sentence report upon which the judge will rely to determine the correct penalty under the Federal guidelines, which is basically a point system. The defendant, in this case Cohen, literally gets "good points", if the U.S. Attorney states that he was cooperative. That cooperation in this case will involve disclosure of something which would implicate others, including Trump in a crime.

72 posted on 08/21/2018 5:53:28 PM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Wasn’t this BS brought out months ago


73 posted on 08/21/2018 5:54:49 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: Dogbert41

non-disclosure agreements are no longer binding either.

You can agree to a cash settlement to not pursue criminal charges but you can discloses all of the alleged details in absence of any trial because “ratings” and “publicity”.

Gee it was so unfair that she sold her story to Trump and couldn’t sell it to People or whoever.

Kramer regretted selling his life stories to J.Peterson for his own autobiography.


74 posted on 08/21/2018 5:55:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: Valpal1

Thanks for that clarification.


75 posted on 08/21/2018 5:56:49 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: PUGACHEV

the attacks aren’t necessarily to cause impeachment or removal from office, the first goal is to INFLUENCE the mid-terms with partisan claims of a culture of corruption that rises to the top ranks of the GOP. just as they claimd about a faggot toe tapper and a guy sexting a male Democrat aide.

Convince the so-called evangelical voters to sit out the 2018 election. Depress voter turnout.


76 posted on 08/21/2018 5:58:05 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

“Staying healthy” influences the election.

WTH?


77 posted on 08/21/2018 6:00:00 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Ok so now wanting sexual affairs kept quiet and being generous to a former consensual lover is the crime of "influencing an election"?

But not when Bill Clinton has his wife and the media publicly un-person any of the victims of his non-consensual sexual assault to intimidate his other victims into silence?

The double standard is so stark that its hard to take them seriously.

78 posted on 08/21/2018 6:00:24 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: PUGACHEV

bs. cite your law.


79 posted on 08/21/2018 6:01:03 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: onedoug

So Cohen plead guilty to something that is not a crime so he can say Trump directed him to do it. I have no doubt Mueller dictated the script. Mueller is going for a slow, steady kill on Trump. Trump should have fired Rosenweasel the day after mueller was appointed. Massive mistake. His replacement would have limited mueller. Now it’s open season and no limits.


80 posted on 08/21/2018 6:01:08 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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