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
This was precedent set by the John Edward’s campaign.
If Every Man and woman in America votes for Trump—he will still lose. The Progs will just print more Ballots, and count them. Then Biden will win with a Majority of one Billion Votes! The Media will be happy, and make the fiction real. Trump will lose a year before the first ballot is dropped in a mail box. Maybe then, people will understand that The American People are no longer citizens, they are subjects to the Soros funded deep state. Look to see Mr. Bragg “elected” (really appointed) Governor of New York State. America is no more. She has been bought out into something like China.
18 U.S. Code § 1623 - False declarations before grand jury or court
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1623
By law he doesn’t have to actually name the law broken, ACCORDING TO HIM.
So i expect he’ll change it to assume other ambiguous interpretation of another law.
Alll VIN!
Why can’t President Trump sue New York city or state? Maybe a billion or 2 defamation suit or some other type of civil rights suit?
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