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FBI believed Trump was closely involved in hush-money scheme, unsealed documents show
https://www.msn.com ^ | July 18, 2019 | Tom Winter and Adam Edelman

Posted on 07/18/2019 11:05:59 AM PDT by NKP_Vet

The FBI believed then-candidate Donald Trump was closely involved in a scheme to hide hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, who claimed an affair with Trump, court documents from the closed campaign finance case against former Trump-fixer Michael Cohen show.

The documents, released Thursday, describe a "series of calls, text messages, and emails" between Cohen, Trump, Trump campaign aide Hope Hicks, Keith Davidson — an attorney for the woman, porn star Stormy Daniels — and David Pecker, an executive of the company that published the National Enquirer.

"I have learned that in the days following the Access Hollywood video, Cohen exchanged a series of calls, text messages and emails with Keith Davidson, who was then Clifford's attorney, David Pecker and Dylan Howard of American Media, Inc. ("AMI"), the publisher of the National Enquirer, Trump, and Hope Hicks, who was then press secretary for Trump's presidential campaign," an FBI agent investigating the matter wrote in the released documents.

"Based on the timing of these calls, and the content of the text messages and emails, I believe that at least some of these communications concerned the need to prevent Clifford from going public, particularly in the wake of the Access Hollywood story," the agent said.

Daniels' legal name is Stephanie Clifford.

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(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: julieswetnick; michaelavenatti; morefakenews; stephanieclifford; stormydaniels
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Here we go again.
1 posted on 07/18/2019 11:05:59 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: NKP_Vet

So what would the crime be? It’s his money?


2 posted on 07/18/2019 11:07:24 AM PDT by IC Ken (Stop making stupid people famous)
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To: NKP_Vet

FakenewsBureauOfInanity


3 posted on 07/18/2019 11:08:02 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: NKP_Vet

Obama’s FBI not even as smart as Obama ,remember he’s the smartest man in the World ,LOL


4 posted on 07/18/2019 11:08:07 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: NKP_Vet

is there anything illegal about paying a hooker not to tell your wife?

seems like good business practice to me.


5 posted on 07/18/2019 11:08:41 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: NKP_Vet

Back to this again? lol. Desperation.


6 posted on 07/18/2019 11:08:51 AM PDT by Hadean (Make Liberals Cry Again. Trump 2020)
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To: butlerweave

Wonder when the FBI is going to get tired of stepping on their d*cks over and over????


7 posted on 07/18/2019 11:09:12 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: NKP_Vet

They didn’t charge him because it was BS.. of course he was talking to his damage control people.


8 posted on 07/18/2019 11:09:20 AM PDT by richardtavor
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To: NKP_Vet
Fake news.

FBI are jack balls. People enter into non-disclosure agreements every hour of every day. Nothing illegal about it.

9 posted on 07/18/2019 11:09:35 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: NKP_Vet

Did someone put the spin cycle on “repeat?”


10 posted on 07/18/2019 11:10:19 AM PDT by IronJack
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Yep, now Stormy Daniels is back in the news.

Can the media give it a rest? Stormy Daniels is baked into the cake, so to speak, as far as potentially hurting Trump, everyone already knows about her and there’s nothing new to hash over


11 posted on 07/18/2019 11:10:37 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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But as the lengthy investigation turned out he wasn’t. Forgot to report that, msn..?


12 posted on 07/18/2019 11:10:45 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: IC Ken

It’s nothing. It was his money. This was not mentioned in the Mueller report, but it will do one big thing. It will get the media off the 4 women of the
apocalypse. Big time.


13 posted on 07/18/2019 11:11:10 AM PDT by NKP_Vet ("Man without God descends into madness”)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The FBI may suspect that I pleasure myself online. And if I run for President, it's not something that should be investigated. It also shouldn't be investigated if I don't run. Meanwhile, the FBI only pretends to investigate Hillary for her actual crimes as S of S, and doesn't even seem to bother to investigate Bill's rapes and trips on the Plane to Pedo Island.

14 posted on 07/18/2019 11:11:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: teeman8r
is there anything illegal about paying a hooker not to tell your wife?

Basically, FBI was being used to do oppo research for Hillary.

Paid for with taxpayer money.

While other serious crimes (like Hillary's server, bribes delivered to her "family foundation," etc.) weren't investigated.

15 posted on 07/18/2019 11:12:07 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: NKP_Vet

So, Trump paid with his own money, maybe into the hundreds of thousands to make people go away.

We have the Clintons taking hundreds of millions. Bidens taking into the billions.

Considering that the Clintons and Bidens had no power at all, under Obama, and Obama is the real power, it would be interesting to know if he shared in that money or if he had his own revenue stream... (OK, I realize, Obama was himself a puppet, but a puppet with signature authority...)


16 posted on 07/18/2019 11:12:54 AM PDT by marron
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THAT’S IT FOR TRUMP NOW!! HE’S DONE!!

:)


17 posted on 07/18/2019 11:13:07 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: NKP_Vet

The FBI believed whatever their Democrat masters told them to believe.


18 posted on 07/18/2019 11:13:15 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (You may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you...)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Yup...
...she admitted she lied.

Which makes Trump the VICTIM.


19 posted on 07/18/2019 11:13:16 AM PDT by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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To: IC Ken

The crime is extortion. Primae facie case if ever there was one.

..but...as I said above...that means Trump is the victim.


20 posted on 07/18/2019 11:13:59 AM PDT by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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