Yeah, this is where the concern is. It’s not with collusion as I still believe there is none. It’s with these payments.
In retrospect, the women coming out accusing Trump in October didn’t affect him, so I don’t know think these women would have had their allegations come out. That said, I don’t remember when it was they were going to make them - if it was in the summer, they may have led to problems with him securing the nomination & they may have compounded with the Access Hollywood Tape.
If he’d personally paid them and not utilized Cohen, he could have said it wasn’t a campaign expense because he would have paid them anyway because he’s a businessman, has clubs, has a show, has a public persona, and has a wife and kids. I really do believe he would have paid them anyway, and that should be his defense.
POTUS at first said he didn’t know about the payments, didn’t he? Then supposedly it was a re-filling a retainer?
But when he said that he wasn’t under oath.
I heard someone on the radio say that he violated the campaign finance laws because he violated the intent for transparency - trying to hide his affairs from the voters so we couldn’t make a good decision.
I think it’s baloney - especially in comparison with the other stuff that the rats have done that really matters but this may be what the left is going to use since they couldn’t find collusion.