“payment was a campaign contribution is weak. For starters, the payment was made from Trump’s personal account, not from campaign donations.”
You are required to report personal contributions to a campaign. The argument is that this payment was made to help the campaign, preventing Stormy from divulging damaging info, so it was a contribution to the campaign and thus must be reported.
>>”The argument is that this payment was made to help the campaign, preventing Stormy from divulging damaging info, so it was a contribution to the campaign and thus must be reported.”
Trump is not being charged with making an illegal campaign contribution. The campaign finance laws you’re referring to aren’t even state laws, they’re federal laws. Trump is being charged in a New York court for violating a state statute for an improper book keeping entry. I’m sorry you’re having so much difficulty wrapping your head around this. It’s really not that complicated.