The Commissioner of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) explicitly states the payments by President Trump to Stormy Daniels are not an election campaign violation.Posted on 04/07/2023 7:08:01 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
If the other substantive weaknesses in the politically constructed Manhattan case against Donald Trump do not lead to a pre-trial dismissal, this one should collapse it.
The Commissioner of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) explicitly states the payments by President Trump to Stormy Daniels are not an election campaign violation.
WASHINGTON DC – A key member of the Federal Election Commission today rejected the Manhattan district attorney’s indictment of former President Donald Trump as a violation of federal election laws.
“It’s not a campaign finance violation. It’s not a reporting violation of any kind,” said FEC Commissioner James E. “Trey” Trainor. In trying to stretch the law to make it look like a violation, he added, District Attorney Alvin Bragg “is really trying to make a square peg fit into a round hole.”
In a 34-count indictment of Trump, the first criminal case ever against a former president, Bragg charged that a $130,000 payment made by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to porn star Stormy Daniels, which Cohen went to jail for in a plea deal, violated several campaign finance laws that splashed onto Trump. [T]he FEC and Justice Department already considered the case and tossed it.
First, he said, Cohen took the blame in his plea deal. “At the end of the day, there’s the person who committed the crime, and there’s the person who is behind bars because of it,” Trainor said of Cohen.
Second, the paperwork violation in question came well after Trump’s 2016 election, so it couldn’t have been done to help his election.
Third, it is not obvious that the reason for the payment and the reimbursement to Cohen was to influence the election, thus failing the “objective standard” of law. “It has to be something that anybody on the street can look at and say the only reason you did that was to influence the campaign,” said Trainor. “There’s a lot of reasons that he could have done it that aren’t related to him being a candidate for president, and so therefore, it wouldn’t have met the standard as campaign expenditure under federal law,” he added. (read more)
This is the @FEC hearing room. This is where campaign finance violations are tried. pic.twitter.com/OJFxVMiiUl
— Trey Trainor (@TXElectionLaw) April 4, 2023
Tossed
Toast
Toast with peanut butter , yum
Alvin Bragg and his entire team need to be fired, disbarred, made to pay every dime back that they wasted, face individual civil suits, and lastly imprisoned. Make these bastards suffer the rest of their lives.
They didn’t identify the crime because there was no crime. But they don’t think that matters.
Well the good news is they don’t even have to change the name of “Fort Bragg” now.
Tossed and toast both fit.
Ain’t looking good for Alvin the Chumpmonk. He needs to get rid of his confederate general’s name and have “Wilson” tattooed on his head. It looks like a football and it’s about to get punted by legal experts.
First witness for the defense
Should be
We’ll see how honest his judge is
ABC left the POTATUS's info up.
Pics at the link.
Alvin Bragg and his entire team need to be HANGED
ENOUGH of this arrest, trial, convict, imprisoned crap. Go Straight to the PUNISHMENT process. Democrats already own, have perverted, and corrupted the “legal” process.
We the People should OWN the PUNISHMENT PROCESS!!
Since Democrats love the “Court of Public Opinion” it’s past time to give it to them GOOD AND HARD!!!!
Bragg needs to be jailed or sued, preferably both, not just to punish him, but to deter other little Stalin wanna-bes
I want them to suffer. Hanging can come much later. Make them suffer thru that too; use a short rope.
Good stuff, might have that for lunch.
There should be a gatekeeper of some sort to keep these travesties from taking up court time. The most obvious problem that even a Trump hater can understand is the Election occurring before the alleged election-influencing crime was committed.
Dildo Braggins has proven to be a very small man.
The FEC has no standing in this case. Or some such ruling from the judge. /s
Bragg went to Harvard must have been on the quota list.
If this is true, which laws did Bragg present to the grand jury as being violated by DJT, that they would bring the indictments?
Seems to me he probably mislead (lied) to a gullible and willing jury pool in order to come up with the indictments.
Which I’m pretty sure is probably illegal . . .
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