FLASHBACK: Remember When Obama Campaign Was Fined $375,000 for Campaign Reporting Violations

Gateway Pundit ^ | August 22, 2018 | Jim Hoft

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FLASHBACK: Remember When Obama Campaign Was Fined $375,000 for Campaign Reporting Violations AND NO JAI

On Tuesday, Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen surrendered himself to the FBI after it was reported he reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors.

Michael Cohen admitted he violated campaign finance laws in relation to the Stormy Daniels payment at direction of a ‘candidate.’ He paid off the porn star over $100,000 in a hush money agreement which she later violated.

Democrats and their liberal media cheered that this was the end of the Trump “regime.”

But it wasn’t that long ago that a presidential campaign was charged with much worse.

In 2013 Maggie Haberman at Politico reported on the criminal campaign reporting violations against the Obama campaign.

According to the Politico the Obama campaign was fined $375,000.

President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign was fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for campaign reporting violations — one of the largest fees ever levied against a presidential campaign, POLITICO has learned.

The fine — laid out in detail in FEC documents that have yet to be made public — arose from an audit of the campaign, which was published in April.

[ealgeone]

Not to mention all of the overseas $$ that bammy and co. received.

[txrefugee]

This fine was a pittance of the TWO MILLION DOLLARS of campaign funds that were illegally given to Obama’s campaign.

Where is there a shred of justice in this anti-Trump harassment?

[SERKIT]

Remember when the House of Representatives paid out $17M (public funds) in hush money for settlements that included sexual activities? How many of these settlements were paid out right before an election of a Congress person with a harrassment charge against them?

So it’s not illegal to pay off someone with tax payers money but it is illegal if you use your own personal money or campaign funds?

Hope Trumps lawyers cite this disparity if it comes to any charges.

(H/T FReeper Engedi)

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Michael Cohen admitted he violated campaign finance laws in relation to the Stormy Daniels payment at direction of a ‘candidate.’ He paid off the porn star over $100,000 in a hush money agreement which she later violated.

No, no, no. With regard to this charge, Cohen was intimidated into pleading "guilty" to something that was neither a crime nor a campaign finance violation. Cohen may have been guilty as sin with regard to various matters pertaining to his private business dealings. He probably was, since he rolled over and became a sock puppet. But the charge that implicated Trump did not involve any crime. The prosecutors' assertion to the contrary does not make it so. The prosecutors are inventing a new "crime" out of whole cloth, and by getting Cohen to plead guilty to it, they have weaponized a baseless innuendo.

[I want the USA back]

OOOOO! there’s a double standard! bammy gets away with it but White Republicans go to jail.

[Vaduz]

In due time he will pay for his abuse of power and a lot of pals fall too.