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You're just repeating what I said, that the worst case for Trump is that his payments to these women were unreported campaign contributions, and every presidential campaign pays fines for unreported campaign contributions; it is a civil and not a criminal matter. Both of Obama's presidential campaigns paid fines for unreported campaign contributions.Your article got it wrong. He was guilty of bank fraud and lying several times under oath about paying the hush money but paying the hush money itself is not a crime. If the hush money had come out of campaign funds, that would have been a crime, but everyone has agreed Trump paid it from his personal funds, so it was no crime. If it were a crime, don't you think Mueller or someone else would have charged the President by now? No new information was presented today.Again, paying the hush money was not a crime but lying under oath about it was, and since the President never lied under oath about it, he committed no crime. Come on, you must even be boring yourself with this nonsense by now.Perhaps he lied about it to avoid problems with his wife, or perhaps he lied about it because it was personally embarrassing or perhaps he lied about it because it was politically inconvenient, but there is no evidence of anything illegal in any of this. Cohen is only in trouble on this issue because he lied under oath about, not because there was anything illegal about paying hush money about a sexual affair.Cohen is only in trouble on this issue because he lied under oath about, not because there was anything illegal about paying hush money about a sexual affair.Cohen paid illegal hush money on behalf of Donald Trump and then lied to congress about.
- "Michael Cohen: President Trump's former personal attorney pleaded guilty to eight counts of campaign finance violations, tax fraud and bank fraud as part of a deal, which includes jail time."
Trump lied to the American people about the payment of illegal hush money, and then ordered Cohen to lie to Melania about his cheating.
Is this how you MAGA?
Live: Michael Cohen pleads guilty to 8 counts - CNNPoliticsThen why was Cohen convicted for campaign finance felonies he committed on behalf of Donald Trump?Again, paying the hush money was not a crime but lying under oath about it was, and since the President never lied under oath about it, he committed no crime. Come on, you must even be boring yourself with this nonsense by now.
How Michael Cohen broke campaign finance law
"How Michael Cohen broke campaign finance law
Politics Dec 12, 2018 12:53 PM EST
Michael Cohen was sentenced to 36 months in prison on Wednesday, in part for 'brazen violations of the election laws' when he orchestrated hush money payments on behalf of President Donald Trump during the 2016 election, according to federal prosecutors."How Michael Cohen broke campaign finance lawYour article got it wrong. He was guilty of bank fraud and lying several times under oath about paying the hush money but paying the hush money itself is not a crime. If the hush money had come out of campaign funds, that would have been a crime, but everyone has agreed Trump paid it from his personal funds, so it was no crime.
- During the 2016 election, Cohen paid $130,000 to adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, and arranged for a publishing company to pay $150,000 to model Karen McDougal for her story in exchange for the women agreeing to not go public with allegations that they had affairs with Trump. (Trump has denied having affairs with either Clifford or McDougal.)
- Prosecutors said the purpose of the hush payments was to influence the 2016 election, and treated them as campaign contributions, which are subject to restrictions under the Federal Election Campaign Act.
- Cohen’s payment to Clifford, they said, exceeded the $2,700 limit on personal contributions to a single candidate for an election. The payment he helped arrange for McDougal flouted the ban on corporations contributing directly to campaigns."