Posted on 08/26/2018 9:19:19 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Cohen and Manafort off the front pages in hours/day, now what will the media cook up?
Attack of the Clintonoids!
Like a bad case of hemorrhoids, you just can't seem to be rid of them?
I really do not like that picture. Just saying.
Can someone answer a question I have about this whole Cohen thing? Particularly any attorneys who understand campaign finance laws.
As I understand it, Mueller and the left are claiming that he paid $300K to a couple of women. Initially we were told that the money was paid by Cohen, and thus was an illegal campaign contribution on his part to Trump. Now we are told that it was paid by the campaign, and constitutes an illegal use of campaign funds. I am also hearing different assessments of whether these expenditures were campaign or personal in nature.
Trump gave $66.1 million to his own campaign. If Trump had only given his campaign $65.8 million, and given Cohen $300K separately, which Cohen then paid to the women, that would have been perfectly legal, correct?
Whether it was a personal or an campaign expenditure would be entirely moot, because Trump could legally spend as much of his own money on his campaign as he wanted, and whether or not payouts were an in-kind contribution would be entirely irrelevant, right?
And, given the ownership structure of the Trump Organization, as I understand it, even if corporate rather than personal funds were used, it would only mean that the funds were not first disbursed to Trump, and then to Cohen, right? Roughly analogous to signing over a check, rather than depositing it in his own account, then writing a new check to Cohen?
How is this, at worst, anything more than an accounting error? Nothing changes the sources, or uses of funds; they came from the same place, and ended up in the same place.
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