Posted on 04/07/2023 12:43:20 PM PDT by bitt
And they probably used campaign contributions which, of course, is very illegal and an FEC violation but they're the Clintons so what does it matter.
He’s easily disregarded and proven as a liar.
Sorry. My phone autocorrected. My post should have read recorded at least one conversation, not recommended.
The question then would be when did he record it? Before or after the payment took place? And what did Trump actually say?
Dern transplants 😏
I’m not a Google search.
He was ordered, but did he ever pay her? She owes him far more than $44,000. He should have just deducted the $44,000 from the half-million+ she owes him.
Well if you learn how to use google try looking up the definition of “Rhetorical”
I’m familiar.
No idea if he ever paid. Like you said, she is the one that owes him money at this point. She also got ripped off by Avenatti for the $300K she was supposed to be paid for her book. I guess a porn star being an idiot is no surprise. But she’s free to sell “her story” now, so I expect a highly salacious NETFLIX special just in time for the election.
I suspect much of this could have been avoided if Trump had pardoned Cohen. I wonder, how much of this is retribution?
good point
His father handed the company over to the kids by then.
Wouldn’t it be a hoot if they get to december and we discover that the Trump organization uses a signature machine, and DJT doesn’t ever sign anything?
I suspect Joe Biden doesn’t actually sign government checks with his name on them.
In multi-billion companies, I’m betting signing checks would take 24/7/365 of a CEO’s time.
President Trump could not have signed the checks because he didn’t have access to his business accounts. He was POTUS at the time. DJT Jr and Eric were running the Trump businesses.
I love it.
I don’t know if he was a cheapskate. There were all kinds of rumors about him being a Russian plant, pee tapes, Russian servers at Trump tower etc.. I think the DNC/Clinton/FBI/Steele Dossier had 18 or so various allegations but at the time nobody knew for sure who was behind all those innuendos. Trump hired Cohen to track down these rumors and collect any evidence - according to Cohen’s own Congressional testimony.
Trump didn’t really save any money on this. He paid Cohen twice as much as Cohen paid. And Cohen paid to buy the exclusive story rights. Trump Org maybe put it down as “legal fees” when they should have put it down as an asset purchase. You buy a story, it’s an asset not an expense. But it was Cohen who bought the story and billed Trump. The state has to prove Trump knew it. And even if they did, this alone is barely a crime; a misdemeanor. Sure maybe a year in jail and a $1,000 fine (at least, in my state).
Now if Junior is saying he forged his dad’s name, or otherwise had access to sign checks in his own hand... it creates further lengths to prove Trump knew all the details of the pattern and practice. Trump was running for POTUS and the nomination. His son was running the company.
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