"There is, furthermore, a significant legal question about whether the hush-money payments here qualify as “in-kind” campaign contributions.
There is nothing illegal per se in making a non-disclosure agreement; they are quite common. The criminal law comes into play only if the non-disclosure payment is deemed a donation for purposes of influencing a political campaign."
Considering how common these agreements are, considering how often Mr. Pecker and the National Inquirer has engaged in these acts, the easy legal argument is these NDA's were accomplished in the course of "normal" business. Mr. Pecker did not necessarily act out "only" because of a campaign, rather, in the course of normal business for whatever tradeoff there will be, the NDA's were accomplished.
As others say . . . none of this has to do with the law, legal or not. Its ONLY about scoring political points and damaging the other side. In that measure, Mueller and Special Council has been wildly successful.
Stupid premise.
They were payments made in a private matter and paid by by a trump company and was a refularbpractice of his life and business interests...
No case
Because it’s what the Manhattan fags, pedophiles, thieves, crooks and bottomfeeding, Neanderthal knuckledraggers do.
https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-campaign-illegal-contribution-828044 . . . Bernie fined $14.5k for campaign finance violations - receiving foreign contributions. [Collusion?]
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/25/fec-complaint-accuses-clinton-dnc-violations/ . . . Hillary violated the same laws - paying for foreign information and then hiding that payment as “legal services”. [Collusion?]
https://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/obama-2008-campaign-fined-375000-085784 . . . Obama was fined $375,000 for failing to report over 1,000 large contributions in the last 20 days before the election.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/09/21/fec-issues-record-fines-in-democrats-scandals/2d2ed242-98e1-40a8-8574-caef4b7570e3/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c78a90a161f0 . . . Clinton-Gore was fined $2,000 while the DNC was fined $115,000 for contributions from fake corporations set up to funnel foreign money. [Collusion?]
There are other fines, but the point has been made. And the Deep State acts like it’s appropriate to indict President Trump over a perhaps vaguely campaign related personal payment rather than imposing a fine. What happened to “Equal Justice Under Law” as an ideal worthy of engraving on the front of the United States Supreme Court building?
Indict the President for lying about sex. That precedent was settled when Democrats voted to acquit Clinton on a similar charge.
Yeah, that would go over well in the court of public opinion. Its the politics, stupid.
Time to burn down the SDNY and get Mueller on a collusion to Obstruct Election with the Rooskies, English and Australians.
You cannot reasonably prove that he would never have paid to keep these women from talking about their stories if Mr. Trump weren’t a candidate. Therefore, reasonable doubt is implicit — no prosecutor could get a conviction since you cannot prove the money was for election campaign purposes.
McCarthy should have noted this in his article, a glaring omission. He should have also identified that the amount of money involved is peanuts to Mr. Trump. It’s the same as you or I giving a woman $20 for gas money to get her to leave.
ah you cannot indict a sitting president until he is removed from office.
President Trump just needs to make sure that the next nominee for the Supreme Court is the best *man* with absolutely no consideration in favor of any aberrational social preference (that is, absolutely no consideration for the sex or race of the person chosen). The next nominee should be chosen as much as Justice Kavanaugh was for his position in favor of originalism, outstanding experience making decisions based on that, and *most of all,” no chance of changing his mind on that position favoring originalism (that is, not easily led, no hormonal imbalances, etc.).
STOP THE SMOKE SCREENS, the real crimes by the real criminals including their protectors need to be brought to justice, end of story! If Mueller and his band of criminals can continue unabated for over 500 days with no evidence against a sitting president aside from being a hemorrhoid Trump can convene a commission headed by bulldogs that will crush them where they stand and give the American people justice
I thought a President could NOT be indicted!
Surprise............(snx)
Declare martial law and stand up a national militia numbering in the millions
Trump did not “intend” to violate the law, so no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges......oh, that was Clinton.
if instrux from Trump are on tape, maybe there is a problem. if it is just Cohen’s testimony, a known liar, probably not. i wouldn’t depend on the Edwards situation as precedent - if a certain court/judge is shopped for, who knows? i don’t think it amounts to much - but it kicks up dust. and that is what the Dems want - a duststorm every single day indicating chaos and wrongdoing, whether real or not.
At some point soon, commonsense indicates that
it will be time to mobilize 10 to 100
million patriots to take out the corruption
that is attempting to REMOVE or HURT an ELECTED
President.
Does the prosecutor feel comfortable contemplating the fingers of sixty million people around his neck?
Lest we forget...it was Mueller who directed this trash to the infamous Southern District of New York.
Let me repeat:
It was MUELLER who directed this trash to the...almost as bad as the Ninth Circus ...INFAMOUS SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. A district which is notorious for Left activity.
Which is ALL BAD.
When I read that Mueller did that some months ago, I knew exactly what he was doing.
...and the deep state (shadow government) soft coup of a duly elected president continues!
Keep in mind that Andy Boy was is and always will be a NeverTrump scumbag - yes I called McCarthy a scumbag. This is just more suck up to his masters at Faux News.