Posted on 08/22/2018 7:25:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
...if everything went down as Cohen says it did, then why wasn't Obama held to the same standard?
That's right, Barack Obama also offered an individual hush money "for the principal purpose of influencing the election," but you probably never heard about it. It wasn't to silence a mistress though, it was to silence his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Wright's inflammatory, anti-American rhetoric caused Obama significant headaches during his first presidential campaign, and he tried to contain the damage to protect his chances of winning the White House.
Edward Klein broke the story in the New York Post on May 13, 2012 -- the same year Obama was reelected -- that Obama's team tried to buy Wright's silence during the 2008 campaign. According to Wright, he was offered $150,000 through an Obama intermediary (one of Obama's closest friends), and Obama himself tried to persuade him to keep quiet.
"Did Obama himself ever make an effort to see you?"
"Yes," Wright said. "Barack said he wanted to meet me in secret, in a secure place. And I said, ‘You're used to coming to my home, you've been here countless times, so what's wrong with coming to my home?' So we met in the living room of the parsonage of Trinity United Church of Christ, at South Pleasant Avenue right off 95th Street, just Barack and me. I don't know if he had a wire on him. His security was outside somewhere.
"And one of the first things Barack said was, ‘I really wish you wouldn't do any more public speaking until after the November election.' He knew I had some speaking engagements lined up, and he said, ‘I wish you wouldn't speak. It's gonna hurt the campaign if you do that.'
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Partisan Media Shills / Lawfare ping.
it’s Obama he’s untouchable in commieland..the commie media never reported on ANYTHING that Obama did that was illegal because they all voted for him
Delaware AG Beau Biden falsely extradited Larry Sinclair from DC to Delaware to suppress a story detrimental to candidate Soetoro, then Soetoro named Slow Joe as Veep. Donald Young murdered. Media and courts? :::crickets::::
Corrupt biased liars in ‘the press’ didn’t care because Obama had a “D” by his name.
Period.
The Socialist Agenda is the #1 Priority. They must stop a Capitalist President.
Interesting to see if Jeremiah had some unexpected income at this time..I remember the stories of him moving to a gated white community.
I got this from a liberal Democrat law professor who voted for Hillary Clinton:
If Cohen made the payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal at the request of Donald Trump, he was acting as Trump’s representative (his agent), and since Trump reimbursed it, that’s not a crime. A candidate is allowed to give an unlimited amount of money to his or her campaign.
Now, if Cohen did not do it at Trump’s behest, then Cohen committed a crime, but Trump didn’t.
Let’s not forget the Bimbo Eruption Squad
Good catch. Doubt it will help in this crazy oligarchy. Did Wright ever see any of the $?
So many Obama crimes. Skated along anyway.
We need to break the left.
Forever.
It is likely to happen in November and going forward. If they continue with their effin' BS, they'll have to be, uh, yeah, let's say broken.
I'm sure he did, but isn't in interesting that he speculated that Obama might be wearing a wire?
#10. Facts! Logic! The Truth! Why do you bother us with them? We know this. /SARC on steroids
Go pester the Mainstream Media. They have no idea about Logic, the Truth, and Facts. Nor do they care! NOT A SARC, BUT THE TRUTH.
bmp
I wonder how much hush money he paid to the private club Man Country in Chicago. Must have been a lot!
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