“Federal law requires that any payments made “for the purposes of influencing” an election must be reported in campaign finance disclosures. The court filing Friday makes clear that the payments were made to benefit Trump politically.”
LUDICROUS INTERPRETATION OF FEDERAL LAW.
The law has never been interpreted that way before. And it would not even withstand judicial review, much less the scrutiny of a jury.
Unfortunately Cohen has pleaded guilty to it in these circumstances.
So let’s argue it in the public square.
Accuse Trump of that crime and turn the report over to the US House. And let’s have the media and the professional left, in fact let’s encourage them, to put pressure on their elected House representatives to impeach.
And let’s have the public argument over whether a candidate can be charged with this crime of paying off a mistress during an election campaign.
We WANT the Democrats to be forced into an impeachment vote over this allegation.
Cohen, again, has pleaded “guilty” to a non-crime. And it’d be a travesty of justice to be imprisoned for a non-crime too. This is a constitutional crisis indeed.