Posted on 08/23/2018 9:14:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Trump's disgraced former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, copped a plea deal on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan that includes his making a criminal campaign contribution in the form of hush money to Stormy Daniels.
Mark Levin and former chairman of the Federal Election Commission Brad Smith discussed this "non-crime" on The Mark Levin Show Tuesday night. Levin correctly points out that Cohen pleaded guilty to "a non-existent crime."
Brad Smith later tweeted, "No matter how you cut it, paying blackmail to an alleged mistress is not an obligation that exists because you are a candidate, and hence not campaign expenditure."
Democrat and Washington fixture Lanny Davis, one of Cohen's lawyers, tweeted on Tuesday, "If those payments were a crime for Michael Cohen, then why wouldn't they be a crime for Donald Trump?"
That was bad judgment by Lanny, as I explained: "Lanny's tweet helps Trump, hurts Lanny. His client pled to a 'crime' that is neither a campaign contribution nor a crime. Lanny exposes political motive of that plea deal."
I later tweeted:
Legal settlements are not criminal campaign contributions. If they were, why did Congress (taxpayers, actually) fund them? Deep State now using Star Chamber tactics. America doesn't make law by confessions. Shame on DOJ/#LannyDavis. Unethical/unlawful.
If in fact legal settlements of personal matters are illegal campaign contributions, then the list of guilty politicians certainly is long. And, as we learned in 2017 about the sexual harassment settlements paid by Congress using a slush fund from taxpayer dollars, the leaders in the House of Representatives of both political parties are implicated by the $17 million in payments over a period of 20 years and at least 268 settlements.
The Deep State is indeed acting like the Star Chamber, getting people to confess to nonexistent crimes to help ensnare others
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Kinda makes me want to go watch “The Majestic” again. :)
Question - if Cohen paid “hush money” to Daniels (which I believe there is no question about) - it still doesn’t make it an illegal contribution - unless it came from campaign funds, or if it can be absolutely proven Cohen spent his own money on it - and even then, I’m not sure it necessarily can be tied directly to the campaign.
But considering how attorney’s on retainer operate - there is a budget/fund from the client-side to pay fees, contingencies, etc.
Worst case scenario, from a legal point of view is that Trump had money paid to a woman who was a loudmouth who was extorting him. Oh - wait - Daniels was committing a crime, wasn’t she???
It doesn't matter! The democrat party, their main-stream media propagandists, liberals across academia and entertainment, social media, the republican party, the FBI, the DOJ and others are overtly or covertly working to impeach the President. Truth does not matter to these people! They have not accepted the result of 2016.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” - Joseph Goebbels
I think it is manifestly obvious that the Democratic Party as currently formulated should not run candidates for future federal elections. They have proven that they cannot accept the election results of our citizenry and will not allow office holders to perform their duties without harassment by their media propoganda organs.
I think if they sit out the next four federal elections as far as entering candidates they might behave better.
It’s all Alinsky and DNC playbook.
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