National Inquirer CEO granted immunity in Cohen case

[Claudette]

Well Obama did the same and paid a fine.

https://www.usnews.com/news/article...g-for-hiding-donors-keeping-illegal-donations

Not even close....trump's crimes could lead to years in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. You are grasping at straws.

YOUR PRESIDENT IS A CRIMINAL!

https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/08/22/election-law-violations-compared-obama-2008-vs-trump-2016/

Excuse me while I stand over here and LMAO.

You lefty loons wouldn't know a real criminal if one stole your ass.

Get real. Trump is no more a criminal than you are.

 

[Claudette]

Well Obama did the same and paid a fine.

https://www.usnews.com/news/article...g-for-hiding-donors-keeping-illegal-donations

Obama failed to disclose big name donors, and didn't refund money he was supposed to when people contributed too much.

Trump is being accused of paying off 2 women to keep them quiet so they didn't throw dirt during his campaign. The hush money was to influence the election.

No, they aren't the same thing.

From your link................................

Barack Obama's presidential campaign has been fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for violating federal disclosure laws, Politico reports.

An FEC audit of Obama for America's 2008 records found the committee failed to disclose millions of dollars in contributions and dragged its feet in refunding millions more in excess contributions.

The resulting fine, one of the largest ever handed down by the FEC, is the result of a failure to disclose or improperly disclosing thousands of contributions to Obama for America during the then-senator's 2008 presidential run, documents show.

Bullshit. What Trump did was smart. He didn't want a fight in the middle of his campaign so he paid them off.

From what I've read he used his own money to do so. The fact that it was misnamed as a campaign contribution is a failure to communicate.

As to those women. Kinda funny they waited till he was running for POTUS to approach him.
especially since this supposedly happened in 2006 and 2007. Ten years ago. It was all about the money. He paid them off. You are the only idiots who think its a crime.

However, regardless of what Cohen agreed to in a plea bargain, hush-money payments to mistresses are not really campaign expenditures. It is true that “contribution” and “expenditure” are defined in the Federal Election Campaign Act as anything “for the purpose of influencing any election,” and it may have been intended and hoped that paying hush money would serve that end. The problem is that almost anything a candidate does can be interpreted as intended to “influence an election,” from buying a good watch to make sure he gets to places on time, to getting a massage so that he feels fit for the campaign trail, to buying a new suit so that he looks good on a debate stage. Yet having campaign donors pay for personal luxuries — such as expensive watches, massages and Brooks Brothers suits — seems more like bribery than funding campaign speech.



Opinion | Those payments to women were unseemly. That doesn’t mean they were illegal.

 

[Nia88]

He paid off a couple of women. Not a crime.

You guys should find better material.

It's a crime when the money used for the payoffs wasn't obtained legally.

 

[Defiant1]

Too funny to watch the Party of Family Values defend a guy who cheated on his Trophy Wife with a Porn Star and paid her to keep quiet.

You are assuming what the sluts have to say is true.

 

[Claudette]

He paid off a couple of women. Not a crime.

You guys should find better material.

It's a crime when the money used for the payoffs wasn't obtained legally.

Nope. According to what I've read he used his own money. Not campaign funds to pay these two leeches off.

 

[Claudette]

Too funny to watch the Party of Family Values defend a guy who cheated on his Trophy Wife with a Porn Star and paid her to keep quiet.

You are assuming what the sluts have to say is true.

Of course he's assuming it true.

Kinda funny these two waited ten years to approach Trump. All this supposedly happened in 2006 and 2007.

Did they really happen? We will probably never know but most people don't give a shit.

The only ones that do are the lefty loons.

 

[Penelope]

Well Obama did the same and paid a fine.

https://www.usnews.com/news/article...g-for-hiding-donors-keeping-illegal-donations

Obama failed to disclose big name donors, and didn't refund money he was supposed to when people contributed too much.

Trump is being accused of paying off 2 women to keep them quiet so they didn't throw dirt during his campaign. The hush money was to influence the election.

No, they aren't the same thing.

From your link................................

Barack Obama's presidential campaign has been fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for violating federal disclosure laws, Politico reports.

An FEC audit of Obama for America's 2008 records found the committee failed to disclose millions of dollars in contributions and dragged its feet in refunding millions more in excess contributions.

The resulting fine, one of the largest ever handed down by the FEC, is the result of a failure to disclose or improperly disclosing thousands of contributions to Obama for America during the then-senator's 2008 presidential run, documents show.

Bullshit. What Trump did was smart. He didn't want a fight in the middle of his campaign so he paid them off.

From what I've read he used his own money to do so. The fact that it was misnamed as a campaign contribution is a failure to communicate.

As to those women. Kinda funny they waited till he was running for POTUS to approach him. It was all about the money. He paid them off. Not a crime as much as idiots like you want to make it one.

However, regardless of what Cohen agreed to in a plea bargain, hush-money payments to mistresses are not really campaign expenditures. It is true that “contribution” and “expenditure” are defined in the Federal Election Campaign Act as anything “for the purpose of influencing any election,” and it may have been intended and hoped that paying hush money would serve that end. The problem is that almost anything a candidate does can be interpreted as intended to “influence an election,” from buying a good watch to make sure he gets to places on time, to getting a massage so that he feels fit for the campaign trail, to buying a new suit so that he looks good on a debate stage. Yet having campaign donors pay for personal luxuries — such as expensive watches, massages and Brooks Brothers suits — seems more like bribery than funding campaign speech.



Opinion | Those payments to women were unseemly. That doesn’t mean they were illegal.

Problem is he paid them off as a business transaction to attorney fees. Cohen paid more money than usual for a campaign contribution to silence the women with fraudulent money.

 

[WinterBorn]

He paid off a couple of women. Not a crime.

You guys should find better material.

If he used campaign funds it is most certainly a crime.

 

[2aguy]

David Pecker Granted Immunity In Michael Cohen Case: Report

This is very big.for Cohen and his claim that Trump instigated the pay offs. All the Presidents men are turning their back on him...

Moron, they gave this guy immunity to get Cohen.... and again, for you left wing, really slow types, Trump didn't break any laws by paying off the hookers.

 

[2aguy]

He paid off a couple of women. Not a crime.

You guys should find better material.

If he used campaign funds it is most certainly a crime.

Yep.... a fine and call it a day, just as obama paid 300,000 dollars to fix his campaign fund problem that went into the millions...

 

[Claudette]

Yup and he used his own money. Not campaign funds.

 

[EverCurious]

The tape Cohen put out a while back. Trump did tell him to take care of the women, he also specifically asks him if he needed cash to pay for it. Cohen said no, he'd take care of it.

If you read the plea thing, at least the one I read, it actually says the Cohen "caused" a campaign finance violation - that's legal speak for it's Cohen's fault not Trump's...

~shrug~ We'll see what comes out of it, but I'm not buying this is what the MSM want to make it out to be [so they get click and view money...]

 

[charwin95]

Did Pecker comity a crime?

He was granted immunity. What do you think?

 

[charwin95]

David Pecker Granted Immunity In Michael Cohen Case: Report

This is very big.for Cohen and his claim that Trump instigated the pay offs. All the Presidents men are turning their back on him...

Moron, they gave this guy immunity to get Cohen.... and again, for you left wing, really slow types, Trump didn't break any laws by paying off the hookers.

Since when paying hookers become legal? In Nevada maybe. Especially when you paid them to shut up before election.

 

[ABikerSailor]

He paid off a couple of women. Not a crime.

You guys should find better material.

It's a crime when the money used for the payoffs wasn't obtained legally.

Nope. According to what I've read he used his own money. Not campaign funds to pay these two leeches off.

It is called an "in kind" campaign donation because it was used to help influence the election. And, because the maximum for a campaign donation is 2,500 dollars per person, Cohen far exceeded the maximum.

And, by the way conservatives, which is it? Did Cohen use his own money (he said he had to take out a mortgage to pay it), did Trump reimburse him, or what? They seem to change the stories about how the payments came into being about as much as they did when Trump Jr. met with the Russian lawyer.

 

[skookerasbil]

He paid off a couple of women. Not a crime.

You guys should find better material.

It's a crime when the money used for the payoffs wasn't obtained legally.

Nope. According to what I've read he used his own money. Not campaign funds to pay these two leeches off.

It is called an "in kind" campaign donation because it was used to help influence the election. And, because the maximum for a campaign donation is 2,500 dollars per person, Cohen far exceeded the maximum.

And, by the way conservatives, which is it? Did Cohen use his own money (he said he had to take out a mortgage to pay it), did Trump reimburse him, or what? They seem to change the stories about how the payments came into being about as much as they did when Trump Jr. met with the Russian lawyer.

A non-story s0n........but Ive been busy today. Anything new on Russian collusion?

 

[Synthaholic]

 

[Synthaholic]

 

[Dana7360]

Did Pecker comity a crime?

Innocent people don't need immunity.

The only reason why he would need immunity is the he did commit a crime.

 

[Nia88]

Did Pecker comity a crime?

Innocent people don't need immunity.

The only reason why he would need immunity is the he did commit a crime.

And they only give immunity when they can nail someone bigger who committed more serious crimes.

So homeboy must have some juicy information for them to drop all charges.