Posted on 12/08/2018 10:25:47 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
The major takeaway from the 40-page sentencing memorandum filed by federal prosecutors Friday for Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, is this: The president is very likely to be indicted on a charge of violating federal campaign finance laws.
It has been obvious for some time that President Trump is the principal subject of the investigation still being conducted by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
..But when Cohen pleaded guilty in August, prosecutors induced him to make an extraordinary statement in open court: the payments to the women were made “in coordination with and at the direction of” the candidate for federal office – Donald Trump.
...Moreover, campaign finance infractions are often settled by payment of an administrative fine, not turned into felony prosecutions. To be sure, federal prosecutors in New York City have charged them as felonies before – most notably in 2014 against Dinesh D’Souza, whom Trump later pardoned.
In marked contrast, though, when it was discovered that Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign was guilty of violations involving nearly $2 million – an amount that dwarfs the $280,000 in Cohen’s case – the Obama Justice Department decided not to prosecute. Instead, the matter was quietly disposed of by a $375,000 fine by the Federal Election Commission.
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I’ts a nothing burger.
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Cohen, apparently, worked for Trump for years. How can you distinguish this act of paying off bimbos between the campaign and Cohen’s prior service? Seems like this is the type of work Cohen did prior to the election.
Wrong.
Unfortunately for everyone, Cohen is an idiot, and took a campaign email address, and then invoiced the Trump org for campaign related services in order to get paid back . Dumb mistake that his going to jail for. There is no credible claim that the payments aren't campaign related.
Didn’t the obama campaign also deliberately disable the address verification component of credit card verification in order to be able to accept foreign contributions?
And at least Pres Trump didn’t tell Cohen to lie about them. Pres Clinton did that and still kept his Presidency and won reelection.
You realize anyone attempting to discipline the ass AG of New York will be attacked for obstructing justice. They will be indicted and taken to a marxist court where they will be convicted and sent to prison. The DOJ and the federal court system is a completely rigged game. They will indict and it will be used as the cover needed for congress to impeach. Planned from the git go IMHO assuming the “blue wave” came in. Hope you are right but I think I am.
It doesn't matter what the intent was, because Cohen muddled the money trail by involving the campaign and taking a campaign email address. If Cohen was a better lawyer, he could have kept the payment clean, and there would be no issue. Cohen is such a moron that he actually invoiced the Trump org for campaign related services to get paid back for the hush money. Cohen deserves to go to jail for being such an idiot.
How did Cohen involve the campaign? There were no campaign monies involved.
There is an Irish Yellow Jackets movement on twitter and surprise! A group began a Canadian Yellow Vest movement on facebook and it now has 20,000 members. 15,000 of them joined in the last 24 hours.
A Trump indictment paper is the prosecutor’s death warrant
2: He billed Trump Org for campaign services to get paid back for the hush money, so he explicitly made it campaign money at that point.
There was a huge grey area to make these payments if Cohen was careful, but he wasn't and made it very black and white. He is going to jail for it.
Informative and clear - no violation by Trump.
Thanks for that!
Why, silly me! I guess Rob Reiner’s right, after all!
I am astounded that McCarthy gives this scenario any credence whatsoever.
He must just be looking for TV time.
Though later in the article he indicates Trump would argue it’s not even a crime if everything transpired as Mueller alleges.
And that argument would prevail in any court. If for no other reason than it’s never, ever prosecuted (payoffs to whores by candidates).
Of course the SDNY could attempt to indict over it. But there would never be a conviction, either in a Federal court and jury, or on the floor of the Senate if the Democrats are stupid enough to run with it.
Let’s hope they are.
I would love to see Democrats impeach over payoffs to whores.
Cohen was Trump’s personal attorney and had been for several years. Years before Trump even decided to run for office.
And who cares how Cohen characterizes it, Cohen is an adjudged perjurer.
I hope you’re right, but I think you’re underestimating the evil of the SDNY, AND it’s jury pool.
We aren't relying on how Cohen characterizes it. We now have the court docs so these are now the facts in evidence. Doesn't matter if Cohen used to be his personal attorney once he starts doing work for the campaign. Cohen left a paper trail. Cohen is going to jail and didn't get any leniency for cooperating.
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