Former election commissioner: Cohen and Trump didn't violate campaign finance law

[bripat9643]

The money the DNC and Hitlery paid Steele should be considered a campaign donation by your reckoning.

You sure are stupid.

Look moron, if the Clinton campaign listed the money it aid the opposition research firm, all is legal.

It would be like your fat assed orange buddy if Clinton paid for it out of her own money & not listed it as a campaign donation.

You people are just plain retarded.

Well according to this neither nor Cohen broke any laws.


A candidate is free to contribute to his or her own campaign. It also is not criminal for a candidate to pay hush money to women whose disclosures might endanger his campaign. So if candidate Trump paid hush money to his two accusers, there would be no violation of any campaign or other laws. To be sure, if he did so for the purpose of helping his campaign, as distinguished from helping his marriage, his campaign would have to disclose any such contribution, and failure to do so might be a violation of a campaign law, but the payments themselves would be entirely lawful.


Did President Trump violate campaign finance laws?

If, on the other hand, Cohen made the payments by himself, without direction from the president, that would constitute an impermissible campaign contribution from a third party. But if Cohen was merely acting as a lawyer for Trump and advancing the payments, with an expectation of repayment, then it would be hard to find a campaign finance crime other than failure to report by the campaign.

Failure to report all campaign contributions is fairly common in political circles.

Obama did the same. Didn't see anyone trying to say he committed a felony.

Dumbfuck, while a candidate is free to contribute as much as he or she wants, by law, they must report it if it’s over a certain dollar amount.

It wasn't a campaign contribution, so no such requirement applies.

You said it was a campaign contribution...

It's a contribution, asshole. That makes it actually illegal

I said the guy who wanted to pay Reverend Wright was trying to make a campaign contribution, not Trump or Cohen.

 

[bripat9643]

ou are immune to facts.

This is being prosecuted by the US Attorney's office in the southern district of NY not Mueller. A Trump appointee.

In fairness, the Trump appointee quickly recused himself from the case....However, the discovery of evidence from Cohen's office and home, is irrefutable.....

Evidence of what, asshole?

 

[bripat9643]

The money the DNC and Hitlery paid Steele should be considered a campaign donation by your reckoning.

You sure are stupid.

You seem to have it backwards. Had Steele done it for free it would have been a campaign contribution.

The DNC paid Steele's employer...for a service. I have heard no one claim it wasn't a reported EXPENSE...

YOU are stupid

It's illegal to pay foreigners to work on your campaign, moron. Clinton knows that, and her law firm knows that, so it's an open and shut case.

Clinton didn’t pay a foreigner. She paid Fusion GPS, an American research firm.

Who paid a foreigner. Still illegal. What you're describing is money laundering - another crime.

Nope, not illegal. There’s no law staying an American firm can’t pay a foreigner.

It's illegal, asshole:

11 CFR § 110.20 | eRegulations

§ 110.20 Prohibition on contributions, donations, expenditures, independent expenditures, and disbursements by foreign nationals (52 U.S.C. 30121, 36 U.S.C. 510).

1. Expenditures, independent expenditures, or disbursements by foreign nationals in connection with elections. A foreign national shall not, directly or indirectly, make any expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement in connection with any Federal, State, or local election.
   
   
2. g. Solicitation, acceptance, or receipt of contributions and donations from foreign nationals. No person shall knowingly solicit, accept, or receive from a foreign national any contribution or donation prohibited by paragraphs (b) through (d) of this section.
   

 

[bripat9643]

Dumbfuck, while a candidate is free to contribute as much as he or she wants, by law, they must report it if it’s over a certain dollar amount.

Trump ass kissers simply CANNOT understand that simple requirement......Let them remain ignorant idiots.

We understand that it wasn't campaign donation. Those suffering from brain damage continue to insist, despite all evidence to the contrary, that it was.

Fucking moron, the court has said it would s a campaign contribution.

No, the prosecutor said that, and he's a deep state douchebag, just like Mueller.

 

[bripat9643]

Look moron, if the Clinton campaign listed the money it aid the opposition research firm, all is legal.

It would be like your fat assed orange buddy if Clinton paid for it out of her own money & not listed it as a campaign donation.

You people are just plain retarded.

Well according to this neither nor Cohen broke any laws.


A candidate is free to contribute to his or her own campaign. It also is not criminal for a candidate to pay hush money to women whose disclosures might endanger his campaign. So if candidate Trump paid hush money to his two accusers, there would be no violation of any campaign or other laws. To be sure, if he did so for the purpose of helping his campaign, as distinguished from helping his marriage, his campaign would have to disclose any such contribution, and failure to do so might be a violation of a campaign law, but the payments themselves would be entirely lawful.


Did President Trump violate campaign finance laws?

If, on the other hand, Cohen made the payments by himself, without direction from the president, that would constitute an impermissible campaign contribution from a third party. But if Cohen was merely acting as a lawyer for Trump and advancing the payments, with an expectation of repayment, then it would be hard to find a campaign finance crime other than failure to report by the campaign.

Failure to report all campaign contributions is fairly common in political circles.

Obama did the same. Didn't see anyone trying to say he committed a felony.

Dumbfuck, while a candidate is free to contribute as much as he or she wants, by law, they must report it if it’s over a certain dollar amount.

It wasn't a campaign contribution, so no such requirement applies.

On top of that...even if he did use campaign funds and failed to report it.... he would just pay a fine...like obama did for the 2 million dollars he didn't report.......

If Trump ordered the illegal payment to be made and provided the funds, that would be a direct violation of law Obama did not tell his campaign to break the law. That is the difference between a civil fine and criminal charges.

What illegal payment?

The difference is that Obama is a Democrat and Trump is a Republican. That's the only difference.

 

[bripat9643]

Well Trump paid for silence that's not a campaign contribution either.

MORON........First, I'm glad that you....at least....admit that Trump "paid for silence".....The law is then BROKEN when you do not report it as a campaign contribution.

Paint yourself in a corner with your cereal box knowledge of the law?....LOL

The money the DNC and Hitlery paid Steele should be considered a campaign donation by your reckoning.

You sure are stupid.

You seem to have it backwards. Had Steele done it for free it would have been a campaign contribution.

The DNC paid Steele's employer...for a service. I have heard no one claim it wasn't a reported EXPENSE...

YOU are stupid

It's illegal to pay foreigners to work on your campaign, moron. Clinton knows that, and her law firm knows that, so it's an open and shut case.

She did not hire Steele. Fusion GPS did. It is a closed case.

She hired Fusion GPS, and both knew what FEC regulations say. That doesn't get her off the hook. She's just in deeper because she's guilty of money laundering via her law firm.

 

[bripat9643]

Dumbfuck, while a candidate is free to contribute as much as he or she wants, by law, they must report it if it’s over a certain dollar amount.

It wasn't a campaign contribution, so no such requirement applies.

On top of that...even if he did use campaign funds and failed to report it.... he would just pay a fine...like obama did for the 2 million dollars he didn't report.......

Cohen did more than use campaign funds and fail to report it. He falsified statements to a financial institution to deliberately hide the payment under false pretenses, just like Republican pedophile Denny Hastert did.

All at the direction of Trump.

And that is why Cohen and Hastert went directly to jail.

They weren't campaign funds, dick head. They were Trump's personal funds.

What statement did he "falsify?"

They became campaign funds because they were used to pay someone to be quiet before the election.

Wrong.

 

[g5000]

Well according to this neither nor Cohen broke any laws.


A candidate is free to contribute to his or her own campaign. It also is not criminal for a candidate to pay hush money to women whose disclosures might endanger his campaign. So if candidate Trump paid hush money to his two accusers, there would be no violation of any campaign or other laws. To be sure, if he did so for the purpose of helping his campaign, as distinguished from helping his marriage, his campaign would have to disclose any such contribution, and failure to do so might be a violation of a campaign law, but the payments themselves would be entirely lawful.


Did President Trump violate campaign finance laws?

If, on the other hand, Cohen made the payments by himself, without direction from the president, that would constitute an impermissible campaign contribution from a third party. But if Cohen was merely acting as a lawyer for Trump and advancing the payments, with an expectation of repayment, then it would be hard to find a campaign finance crime other than failure to report by the campaign.

Failure to report all campaign contributions is fairly common in political circles.

Obama did the same. Didn't see anyone trying to say he committed a felony.

Dumbfuck, while a candidate is free to contribute as much as he or she wants, by law, they must report it if it’s over a certain dollar amount.

It wasn't a campaign contribution, so no such requirement applies.

On top of that...even if he did use campaign funds and failed to report it.... he would just pay a fine...like obama did for the 2 million dollars he didn't report.......

Cohen did more than use campaign funds and fail to report it. He falsified statements to a financial institution to deliberately hide the payment under false pretenses, just like Republican pedophile Denny Hastert did.

All at the direction of Trump.

And that is why Cohen and Hastert went directly to jail.

They weren't campaign funds, dick head. They were Trump's personal funds.

Wrong. Cohen took out a HELOC to pay Daniels. He did it because Pecker wouldn't pay.

What statement did he "falsify?"

I can understand a brokedick like yourself is unaware that when you move large sums of money, the Patriot Act requires you file a financial statement as to the purpose of the transfer.

Both Cohen and pedophile Hastert filed false statements to cover up the purposes of their payments. And that's why both are in jail now.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Lesh said Flynn was fired for lying to Pence and the FBI.

Of course, trump told him to do both.

 

[Faun]

They weren't campaign funds, dumbass. You just admitted they were his own funds. In reality they were Trump's funds.

What "statement" did he falsify?

When you give money to someone's campaign, that is a donation. I'm not the the tard who said Cohen used campaign funds to pay off Daniels. That was 2Aguy.

I've made it very clear that Cohen paid off Daniels with his own money at the direction of Trump to get him elected President. That makes it a campaign contribution. An illegal one.

NOW are you FINALLY all caught up?!?

I'm done arguing with someone who is immune to facts and logic.

You're claim is horseshit. If it was prosecutable, Mueller would have done it already.

The authorities have prosecuted. Cohen is off to jail, dipshit. Seriously, you are way behind and need to catch up.

Do you suppose you could post something original? You're boring me to tears.

Is it true the meeting with the National Enquirer guy happened in 2014? And the left wingers think they actually have something?

No, not true.

 

[Faun]

Look moron, if the Clinton campaign listed the money it aid the opposition research firm, all is legal.

It would be like your fat assed orange buddy if Clinton paid for it out of her own money & not listed it as a campaign donation.

You people are just plain retarded.

Well according to this neither nor Cohen broke any laws.


A candidate is free to contribute to his or her own campaign. It also is not criminal for a candidate to pay hush money to women whose disclosures might endanger his campaign. So if candidate Trump paid hush money to his two accusers, there would be no violation of any campaign or other laws. To be sure, if he did so for the purpose of helping his campaign, as distinguished from helping his marriage, his campaign would have to disclose any such contribution, and failure to do so might be a violation of a campaign law, but the payments themselves would be entirely lawful.


Did President Trump violate campaign finance laws?

If, on the other hand, Cohen made the payments by himself, without direction from the president, that would constitute an impermissible campaign contribution from a third party. But if Cohen was merely acting as a lawyer for Trump and advancing the payments, with an expectation of repayment, then it would be hard to find a campaign finance crime other than failure to report by the campaign.

Failure to report all campaign contributions is fairly common in political circles.

Obama did the same. Didn't see anyone trying to say he committed a felony.

Dumbfuck, while a candidate is free to contribute as much as he or she wants, by law, they must report it if it’s over a certain dollar amount.

It wasn't a campaign contribution, so no such requirement applies.

You said it was a campaign contribution...

It's a contribution, asshole. That makes it actually illegal

I said the guy who wanted to pay Reverend Wright was trying to make a campaign contribution, not Trump or Cohen.

Trump/Cohen did the same thing ... paying someone to stay quiet during the election.

 

[Faun]

You seem to have it backwards. Had Steele done it for free it would have been a campaign contribution.

The DNC paid Steele's employer...for a service. I have heard no one claim it wasn't a reported EXPENSE...

YOU are stupid

It's illegal to pay foreigners to work on your campaign, moron. Clinton knows that, and her law firm knows that, so it's an open and shut case.

Clinton didn’t pay a foreigner. She paid Fusion GPS, an American research firm.

Who paid a foreigner. Still illegal. What you're describing is money laundering - another crime.

Nope, not illegal. There’s no law staying an American firm can’t pay a foreigner.

It's illegal, asshole:

11 CFR § 110.20 | eRegulations

§ 110.20 Prohibition on contributions, donations, expenditures, independent expenditures, and disbursements by foreign nationals (52 U.S.C. 30121, 36 U.S.C. 510).

1. 
   
   
   • Expenditures, independent expenditures, or disbursements by foreign nationals in connection with elections. A foreign national shall not, directly or indirectly, make any expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement in connection with any Federal, State, or local election.
   • g. Solicitation, acceptance, or receipt of contributions and donations from foreign nationals. No person shall knowingly solicit, accept, or receive from a foreign national any contribution or donation prohibited by paragraphs (b) through (d) of this section.

Fucking moron, steele’s dossier never went to Hillary‘s campaign.

 

[Faun]

Dumbfuck, while a candidate is free to contribute as much as he or she wants, by law, they must report it if it’s over a certain dollar amount.

Trump ass kissers simply CANNOT understand that simple requirement......Let them remain ignorant idiots.

We understand that it wasn't campaign donation. Those suffering from brain damage continue to insist, despite all evidence to the contrary, that it was.

Fucking moron, the court has said it would s a campaign contribution.

No, the prosecutor said that, and he's a deep state douchebag, just like Mueller.

”the prosecutor said that”

And by that, you mean the SDNY ”charged” him with that.

... to which, Cohen confessed he was guilty as charged.

 

[RealDave]

Look moron, if the Clinton campaign listed the money it aid the opposition research firm, all is legal.

It would be like your fat assed orange buddy if Clinton paid for it out of her own money & not listed it as a campaign donation.

You people are just plain retarded.

Well according to this neither nor Cohen broke any laws.


A candidate is free to contribute to his or her own campaign. It also is not criminal for a candidate to pay hush money to women whose disclosures might endanger his campaign. So if candidate Trump paid hush money to his two accusers, there would be no violation of any campaign or other laws. To be sure, if he did so for the purpose of helping his campaign, as distinguished from helping his marriage, his campaign would have to disclose any such contribution, and failure to do so might be a violation of a campaign law, but the payments themselves would be entirely lawful.


Did President Trump violate campaign finance laws?

If, on the other hand, Cohen made the payments by himself, without direction from the president, that would constitute an impermissible campaign contribution from a third party. But if Cohen was merely acting as a lawyer for Trump and advancing the payments, with an expectation of repayment, then it would be hard to find a campaign finance crime other than failure to report by the campaign.

Failure to report all campaign contributions is fairly common in political circles.

Obama did the same. Didn't see anyone trying to say he committed a felony.

Dumbfuck, while a candidate is free to contribute as much as he or she wants, by law, they must report it if it’s over a certain dollar amount.

It wasn't a campaign contribution, so no such requirement applies.

You said it was a campaign contribution...

It's a contribution, asshole. That makes it actually illegal

I said the guy who wanted to pay Reverend Wright was trying to make a campaign contribution, not Trump or Cohen.

You mean the story that has absolutely no verification? That story?

 

[RealDave]

MORON........First, I'm glad that you....at least....admit that Trump "paid for silence".....The law is then BROKEN when you do not report it as a campaign contribution.

Paint yourself in a corner with your cereal box knowledge of the law?....LOL

The money the DNC and Hitlery paid Steele should be considered a campaign donation by your reckoning.

You sure are stupid.

You seem to have it backwards. Had Steele done it for free it would have been a campaign contribution.

The DNC paid Steele's employer...for a service. I have heard no one claim it wasn't a reported EXPENSE...

YOU are stupid

It's illegal to pay foreigners to work on your campaign, moron. Clinton knows that, and her law firm knows that, so it's an open and shut case.

She did not hire Steele. Fusion GPS did. It is a closed case.

She hired Fusion GPS, and both knew what FEC regulations say. That doesn't get her off the hook. She's just in deeper because she's guilty of money laundering via her law firm.

Jesus you are dumber than shit. There was no problem with the Clinton campaign hiring Fusion. Will you please get a fucking education & STFU about shit you know nothing about.

 

[bripat9643]

Dumbfuck, while a candidate is free to contribute as much as he or she wants, by law, they must report it if it’s over a certain dollar amount.

It wasn't a campaign contribution, so no such requirement applies.

On top of that...even if he did use campaign funds and failed to report it.... he would just pay a fine...like obama did for the 2 million dollars he didn't report.......

Cohen did more than use campaign funds and fail to report it. He falsified statements to a financial institution to deliberately hide the payment under false pretenses, just like Republican pedophile Denny Hastert did.

All at the direction of Trump.

And that is why Cohen and Hastert went directly to jail.

They weren't campaign funds, dick head. They were Trump's personal funds.

Wrong. Cohen took out a HELOC to pay Daniels. He did it because Pecker wouldn't pay.

What statement did he "falsify?"

I can understand a brokedick like yourself is unaware that when you move large sums of money, the Patriot Act requires you file a financial statement as to the purpose of the transfer.

Both Cohen and pedophile Hastert filed false statements to cover up the purposes of their payments. And that's why both are in jail now.

The Patriot act doesn't require jack shit, dumbass. There has been a law on the books for decades, designed to stop drug dealers from laundering their money, that says if you make a transaction of $100,000 or more, the bank has to report it to the government. It's also against the law if you keep your transactions slightly below $100,000 to skirt this reporting requirement. That's what Hassert did. I'm not aware that Cohen was accused of that. You're just making shit up like you always do.

 

[bripat9643]

The money the DNC and Hitlery paid Steele should be considered a campaign donation by your reckoning.

You sure are stupid.

You seem to have it backwards. Had Steele done it for free it would have been a campaign contribution.

The DNC paid Steele's employer...for a service. I have heard no one claim it wasn't a reported EXPENSE...

YOU are stupid

It's illegal to pay foreigners to work on your campaign, moron. Clinton knows that, and her law firm knows that, so it's an open and shut case.

She did not hire Steele. Fusion GPS did. It is a closed case.

She hired Fusion GPS, and both knew what FEC regulations say. That doesn't get her off the hook. She's just in deeper because she's guilty of money laundering via her law firm.

Jesus you are dumber than shit. There was no problem with the Clinton campaign hiring Fusion. Will you please get a fucking education & STFU about shit you know nothing about.

Fusion hired foreign mercenaries. There definitely was a problem with it, or our election laws mean nothing. Fusion is a corrupt law firm that scum like Hillary pay to do all their dirty work. No one is surprised that you don't have a problem with it's illegal activities.

 

[bripat9643]

Well according to this neither nor Cohen broke any laws.


A candidate is free to contribute to his or her own campaign. It also is not criminal for a candidate to pay hush money to women whose disclosures might endanger his campaign. So if candidate Trump paid hush money to his two accusers, there would be no violation of any campaign or other laws. To be sure, if he did so for the purpose of helping his campaign, as distinguished from helping his marriage, his campaign would have to disclose any such contribution, and failure to do so might be a violation of a campaign law, but the payments themselves would be entirely lawful.


Did President Trump violate campaign finance laws?

If, on the other hand, Cohen made the payments by himself, without direction from the president, that would constitute an impermissible campaign contribution from a third party. But if Cohen was merely acting as a lawyer for Trump and advancing the payments, with an expectation of repayment, then it would be hard to find a campaign finance crime other than failure to report by the campaign.

Failure to report all campaign contributions is fairly common in political circles.

Obama did the same. Didn't see anyone trying to say he committed a felony.

Dumbfuck, while a candidate is free to contribute as much as he or she wants, by law, they must report it if it’s over a certain dollar amount.

It wasn't a campaign contribution, so no such requirement applies.

You said it was a campaign contribution...

It's a contribution, asshole. That makes it actually illegal

I said the guy who wanted to pay Reverend Wright was trying to make a campaign contribution, not Trump or Cohen.

You mean the story that has absolutely no verification? That story?

When did snowflake assholes like you ever care about verification?

 

[bripat9643]

It's illegal to pay foreigners to work on your campaign, moron. Clinton knows that, and her law firm knows that, so it's an open and shut case.

Clinton didn’t pay a foreigner. She paid Fusion GPS, an American research firm.

Who paid a foreigner. Still illegal. What you're describing is money laundering - another crime.

Nope, not illegal. There’s no law staying an American firm can’t pay a foreigner.

It's illegal, asshole:

11 CFR § 110.20 | eRegulations

§ 110.20 Prohibition on contributions, donations, expenditures, independent expenditures, and disbursements by foreign nationals (52 U.S.C. 30121, 36 U.S.C. 510).

1. 
   
   
   • Expenditures, independent expenditures, or disbursements by foreign nationals in connection with elections. A foreign national shall not, directly or indirectly, make any expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement in connection with any Federal, State, or local election.
   • g. Solicitation, acceptance, or receipt of contributions and donations from foreign nationals. No person shall knowingly solicit, accept, or receive from a foreign national any contribution or donation prohibited by paragraphs (b) through (d) of this section.

Fucking moron, steele’s dossier never went to Hillary‘s campaign.

Puhleeze, spare us your idiocies.

 

[bripat9643]

Dumbfuck, while a candidate is free to contribute as much as he or she wants, by law, they must report it if it’s over a certain dollar amount.

Trump ass kissers simply CANNOT understand that simple requirement......Let them remain ignorant idiots.

We understand that it wasn't campaign donation. Those suffering from brain damage continue to insist, despite all evidence to the contrary, that it was.

Fucking moron, the court has said it would s a campaign contribution.

No, the prosecutor said that, and he's a deep state douchebag, just like Mueller.

”the prosecutor said that”

And by that, you mean the SDNY ”charged” him with that.

... to which, Cohen confessed he was guilty as charged.

Which makes it utterly meaningless. Plea bargains are not evidence admissible in other cases. How many times do you morons need to have that explained to you?