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 Trumps 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.
Trumps 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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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...
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.
How is paying someone as part of a private transaction illegal?
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.
“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?
Hillary?
Lewinksy was given a paying job in exchange for lying under oath
Others were similarly offered connected jobs.
“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’...
Isn’t that better than trying to destroy them like Hillary.
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.
Wasn’t this BS brought out months ago
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.
Thanks for that clarification.
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.
Staying healthy influences the election.
WTH?
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.
bs. cite your law.
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 its open season and no limits.
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