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

[g5000]

Whoops! Another snowflake scheme to get Trump gets shot out of the saddle.

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

Trump-haters hoping the president’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, will provide the evidence needed to impeach the president and perhaps even “lock him up” are likely headed for a bitter disappointment. The Cohen guilty pleas are likely irrelevant to the fate of President Trump.

That’s because in my judgment – as someone who served for two years as a member of the Federal Election Commission – the campaign finance law violations Cohen pleaded guilty to committing, allegedly at Donald Trump’s direction, aren’t really violations.

If I’m right – that is, if Cohen didn’t really violate campaign finance law, despite his ill-advised guilty plea – then it would be impossible for Trump to have violated campaign finance law by directing Cohen to take a perfectly legal action.

Confused? That’s understandable, because the media lump all the charges Cohen pleaded guilty to together when explaining this complex case. But in reality, Cohen was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in New York City on several separate and unrelated charges.

Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison by a federal judge and was also ordered to pay almost $2 million in fines, restitution and forfeitures after earlier pleading guilty to multiple counts of business and tax fraud. Those crimes have absolutely nothing to do with Trump, but rather involve Cohen’s own business dealings.

In addition, Cohen was sentenced on his guilty pleas to violating campaign finance law on Trump’s behalf – an action that, as I will explain, I believe was not really a crime at all.​

1) 5 counts of tax fraud. Cohen evaded taxes on his personal income from 2012 through 2016.

2) 1 count of making false statements to a financial institution. This is the same crime Republican Speaker of the House Denny Hastert committed when he paid off the boy he raped. Cohen committed this particular crime at the direction of Cowardly Lyin' Trump.

3) 1 count of unlawful corporate contributions. Cohen arranged the $130,000 payment to the porn star from June through October 2016. Note the timing.

4) 1 count of excessive campaign contributions. Cohen made the payment of $130,000 to Daniels, at the direction of Cowardly Lyin' Trump, on October 27, 2016. Again, note the timing.

Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005

The Access Hollywood recording made a YUGE splash in early October.

The GOP Establishment considered right then and there cutting and running from Trump.

Trump then held a presser with Clinton's women in Vegas.

If Stormy Daniels had broken her silence right then, Trump would have been toast.

Thus the payment on October 27.


Without Cohen violating the law and paying off Daniels, and without Putin lending a hand to Trump by releasing the DNC emails, Trump would not be President today.

And that's a fact.

Because as you pointed out yourself at the time, bripat, those emails caused one third of Hillary's voters to abandon her.

Those DNC emails and hiding Stormy put Cowardly Lyin' Donald over the top.


It says a lot about our country that this election was decided by which candidate was the most sleazy.

 

[g5000]

Whoops! Another snowflake scheme to get Trump gets shot out of the saddle.

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

Trump-haters hoping the president’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, will provide the evidence needed to impeach the president and perhaps even “lock him up” are likely headed for a bitter disappointment. The Cohen guilty pleas are likely irrelevant to the fate of President Trump.

That’s because in my judgment – as someone who served for two years as a member of the Federal Election Commission – the campaign finance law violations Cohen pleaded guilty to committing, allegedly at Donald Trump’s direction, aren’t really violations.

If I’m right – that is, if Cohen didn’t really violate campaign finance law, despite his ill-advised guilty plea – then it would be impossible for Trump to have violated campaign finance law by directing Cohen to take a perfectly legal action.

Confused? That’s understandable, because the media lump all the charges Cohen pleaded guilty to together when explaining this complex case. But in reality, Cohen was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in New York City on several separate and unrelated charges.

Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison by a federal judge and was also ordered to pay almost $2 million in fines, restitution and forfeitures after earlier pleading guilty to multiple counts of business and tax fraud. Those crimes have absolutely nothing to do with Trump, but rather involve Cohen’s own business dealings.

In addition, Cohen was sentenced on his guilty pleas to violating campaign finance law on Trump’s behalf – an action that, as I will explain, I believe was not really a crime at all.​

COHEN: I'm a lawyer. I know the law. I broke the law. I'm guilty.

TARDS: Nuh-uh!

Mueller has a gun to Cohen's head, dumbass.

That "gun" being hard evidence, dumbass.

Falsified tax returns, falsified bank statements, wire transfers.

 

[Lesh]

That "gun" being hard evidence, dumbass.

Falsified tax returns, falsified bank statements, wire transfers.

And recorded cobversations

 

[bripat9643]

Whoops! Another snowflake scheme to get Trump gets shot out of the saddle.

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

Trump-haters hoping the president’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, will provide the evidence needed to impeach the president and perhaps even “lock him up” are likely headed for a bitter disappointment. The Cohen guilty pleas are likely irrelevant to the fate of President Trump.

That’s because in my judgment – as someone who served for two years as a member of the Federal Election Commission – the campaign finance law violations Cohen pleaded guilty to committing, allegedly at Donald Trump’s direction, aren’t really violations.

If I’m right – that is, if Cohen didn’t really violate campaign finance law, despite his ill-advised guilty plea – then it would be impossible for Trump to have violated campaign finance law by directing Cohen to take a perfectly legal action.

Confused? That’s understandable, because the media lump all the charges Cohen pleaded guilty to together when explaining this complex case. But in reality, Cohen was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in New York City on several separate and unrelated charges.

Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison by a federal judge and was also ordered to pay almost $2 million in fines, restitution and forfeitures after earlier pleading guilty to multiple counts of business and tax fraud. Those crimes have absolutely nothing to do with Trump, but rather involve Cohen’s own business dealings.

In addition, Cohen was sentenced on his guilty pleas to violating campaign finance law on Trump’s behalf – an action that, as I will explain, I believe was not really a crime at all.​

COHEN: I'm a lawyer. I know the law. I broke the law. I'm guilty.

TARDS: Nuh-uh!

Do the Trumpanzees even convince themselves? I've wondered. But they do better with the "everbody does it defense."

And in a sense all that access Hillary sold to foreign govts so they'd pose with her to show she was the greatest ever diplomat was essentially campaign advertising.

Do you turds ever stop lying?

 

[g5000]

If I ever shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, and there are two hundred eyewitnesses, plus six video recordings from different angles, I will call Trump and say, "Nuh-uh!"

Then he will pardon me.

Maybe he did, maybe he didn't!

 

[bripat9643]

Whoops! Another snowflake scheme to get Trump gets shot out of the saddle.

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

Trump-haters hoping the president’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, will provide the evidence needed to impeach the president and perhaps even “lock him up” are likely headed for a bitter disappointment. The Cohen guilty pleas are likely irrelevant to the fate of President Trump.

That’s because in my judgment – as someone who served for two years as a member of the Federal Election Commission – the campaign finance law violations Cohen pleaded guilty to committing, allegedly at Donald Trump’s direction, aren’t really violations.

If I’m right – that is, if Cohen didn’t really violate campaign finance law, despite his ill-advised guilty plea – then it would be impossible for Trump to have violated campaign finance law by directing Cohen to take a perfectly legal action.

Confused? That’s understandable, because the media lump all the charges Cohen pleaded guilty to together when explaining this complex case. But in reality, Cohen was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in New York City on several separate and unrelated charges.

Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison by a federal judge and was also ordered to pay almost $2 million in fines, restitution and forfeitures after earlier pleading guilty to multiple counts of business and tax fraud. Those crimes have absolutely nothing to do with Trump, but rather involve Cohen’s own business dealings.

In addition, Cohen was sentenced on his guilty pleas to violating campaign finance law on Trump’s behalf – an action that, as I will explain, I believe was not really a crime at all.​

COHEN: I'm a lawyer. I know the law. I broke the law. I'm guilty.

TARDS: Nuh-uh!

Mueller has a gun to Cohen's head, dumbass.

That "gun" being hard evidence, dumbass.

Falsified tax returns, falsified bank statements, wire transfers.

That's irrelevant. Mueller still has a gun to his head, so any claims he makes are simply not credible.

 

[g5000]

Whoops! Another snowflake scheme to get Trump gets shot out of the saddle.

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

Trump-haters hoping the president’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, will provide the evidence needed to impeach the president and perhaps even “lock him up” are likely headed for a bitter disappointment. The Cohen guilty pleas are likely irrelevant to the fate of President Trump.

That’s because in my judgment – as someone who served for two years as a member of the Federal Election Commission – the campaign finance law violations Cohen pleaded guilty to committing, allegedly at Donald Trump’s direction, aren’t really violations.

If I’m right – that is, if Cohen didn’t really violate campaign finance law, despite his ill-advised guilty plea – then it would be impossible for Trump to have violated campaign finance law by directing Cohen to take a perfectly legal action.

Confused? That’s understandable, because the media lump all the charges Cohen pleaded guilty to together when explaining this complex case. But in reality, Cohen was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in New York City on several separate and unrelated charges.

Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison by a federal judge and was also ordered to pay almost $2 million in fines, restitution and forfeitures after earlier pleading guilty to multiple counts of business and tax fraud. Those crimes have absolutely nothing to do with Trump, but rather involve Cohen’s own business dealings.

In addition, Cohen was sentenced on his guilty pleas to violating campaign finance law on Trump’s behalf – an action that, as I will explain, I believe was not really a crime at all.​

COHEN: I'm a lawyer. I know the law. I broke the law. I'm guilty.

TARDS: Nuh-uh!

Mueller has a gun to Cohen's head, dumbass.

That "gun" being hard evidence, dumbass.

Falsified tax returns, falsified bank statements, wire transfers.

That's irrelevant.

BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!

Just another tard way of saying, "Nuh-uh!"

 

[Mr.Blonde]

If Trump asked him to pay off mistresses it is Cohen's responsibility to tell him "No". If he insists tell him to find another attorney.

If you conspire with your lawyer to do something illegal...you BOTH have committed crimes

But what if the client didn't know it was illegal?

Alan Dershowitz:

"if they claim that the president authorized him to do it or directed him to do it, it is not a crime for anybody. If Cohen did it on his own, then it is a crime for Cohen but not the president.

This is going to be a very difficult case for the prosecution to make, precisely because the laws on election are so convoluted."

 

[JimH52]

Unfortunately, multiple federal judges, show know the law, disagree with this "former elections commissioner."

YOU LOSE!

 

[bripat9643]

Whoops! Another snowflake scheme to get Trump gets shot out of the saddle.

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

Trump-haters hoping the president’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, will provide the evidence needed to impeach the president and perhaps even “lock him up” are likely headed for a bitter disappointment. The Cohen guilty pleas are likely irrelevant to the fate of President Trump.

That’s because in my judgment – as someone who served for two years as a member of the Federal Election Commission – the campaign finance law violations Cohen pleaded guilty to committing, allegedly at Donald Trump’s direction, aren’t really violations.

If I’m right – that is, if Cohen didn’t really violate campaign finance law, despite his ill-advised guilty plea – then it would be impossible for Trump to have violated campaign finance law by directing Cohen to take a perfectly legal action.

Confused? That’s understandable, because the media lump all the charges Cohen pleaded guilty to together when explaining this complex case. But in reality, Cohen was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in New York City on several separate and unrelated charges.

Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison by a federal judge and was also ordered to pay almost $2 million in fines, restitution and forfeitures after earlier pleading guilty to multiple counts of business and tax fraud. Those crimes have absolutely nothing to do with Trump, but rather involve Cohen’s own business dealings.

In addition, Cohen was sentenced on his guilty pleas to violating campaign finance law on Trump’s behalf – an action that, as I will explain, I believe was not really a crime at all.​

1) 5 counts of tax fraud. Cohen evaded taxes on his personal income from 2012 through 2016.

2) 1 count of making false statements to a financial institution. This is the same crime Republican Speaker of the House Denny Hastert committed when he paid off the boy he raped. Cohen committed this particular crime at the direction of Cowardly Lyin' Trump.

3) 1 count of unlawful corporate contributions. Cohen arranged the $130,000 payment to the porn star from June through October 2016. Note the timing.

4) 1 count of excessive campaign contributions. Cohen made the payment of $130,000 to Daniels, at the direction of Cowardly Lyin' Trump, on October 27, 2016. Again, note the timing.

Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005

The Access Hollywood recording made a YUGE splash in early October.

The GOP Establishment considered right then and there cutting and running from Trump.

Trump then held a presser with Clinton's women in Vegas.

If Stormy Daniels had broken her silence right then, Trump would have been toast.

Thus the payment on October 27.


Without Cohen violating the law and paying off Daniels, and without Putin lending a hand to Trump by releasing the DNC emails, Trump would not be President today.

And that's a fact.

Because as you pointed out yourself at the time, bripat, those emails caused one third of Hillary's voters to abandon her.

Those DNC emails and hiding Stormy put Cowardly Lyin' Donald over the top.


It says a lot about our country that this election was decided by which candidate was the most sleazy.

3 and 4 didn't happen, moron. You tards keep dredging up that same old shit no matter how many times it's exploded.

 

[bripat9643]

Unfortunately, multiple federal judges, show know the law, disagree with this "former elections commissioner."

YOU LOSE!

Multiple federal judges agree with the FEC commissioner. Most important, there's a 5-4 Republican majority on the Supreme Court.

This is going nowhere.

 

[Siete]

Weisselberg agreed to testify for immunity - now he knows what happens when you lie to Mueller.

on 3 ..
1
2
3
DOOOOOOOOO'H !

 

[Claudette]

Whoops! Another snowflake scheme to get Trump gets shot out of the saddle.

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

Trump-haters hoping the president’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, will provide the evidence needed to impeach the president and perhaps even “lock him up” are likely headed for a bitter disappointment. The Cohen guilty pleas are likely irrelevant to the fate of President Trump.

That’s because in my judgment – as someone who served for two years as a member of the Federal Election Commission – the campaign finance law violations Cohen pleaded guilty to committing, allegedly at Donald Trump’s direction, aren’t really violations.

If I’m right – that is, if Cohen didn’t really violate campaign finance law, despite his ill-advised guilty plea – then it would be impossible for Trump to have violated campaign finance law by directing Cohen to take a perfectly legal action.

Confused? That’s understandable, because the media lump all the charges Cohen pleaded guilty to together when explaining this complex case. But in reality, Cohen was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in New York City on several separate and unrelated charges.

Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison by a federal judge and was also ordered to pay almost $2 million in fines, restitution and forfeitures after earlier pleading guilty to multiple counts of business and tax fraud. Those crimes have absolutely nothing to do with Trump, but rather involve Cohen’s own business dealings.

In addition, Cohen was sentenced on his guilty pleas to violating campaign finance law on Trump’s behalf – an action that, as I will explain, I believe was not really a crime at all.​

1) 5 counts of tax fraud. Cohen evaded taxes on his personal income from 2012 through 2016.

2) 1 count of making false statements to a financial institution. This is the same crime Republican Speaker of the House Denny Hastert committed when he paid off the boy he raped. Cohen committed this particular crime at the direction of Cowardly Lyin' Trump.

3) 1 count of unlawful corporate contributions. Cohen arranged the $130,000 payment to the porn star from June through October 2016. Note the timing.

4) 1 count of excessive campaign contributions. Cohen made the payment of $130,000 to Daniels, at the direction of Cowardly Lyin' Trump, on October 27, 2016. Again, note the timing.

Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005

The Access Hollywood recording made a YUGE splash in early October.

The GOP Establishment considered right then and there cutting and running from Trump.

Trump then held a presser with Clinton's women in Vegas.

If Stormy Daniels had broken her silence right then, Trump would have been toast.

Thus the payment on October 27.


Without Cohen violating the law and paying off Daniels, and without Putin lending a hand to Trump by releasing the DNC emails, Trump would not be President today.

And that's a fact.

Because as you pointed out yourself at the time, bripat, those emails caused one third of Hillary's voters to abandon her.

Those DNC emails and hiding Stormy put Cowardly Lyin' Donald over the top.


It says a lot about our country that this election was decided by which candidate was the most sleazy.

Well it seems Cohen broke some tax laws.

As for number 3

Seems the FEC doesn't agree with that one.


In fact, neither the Federal Election Commission—which is the independent agency tasked with enforcing the Federal Election Campaign Act—nor its former commissioners would likely agree with the overaggressive view that the Southern District is taking. Indeed, the Southern District’s aggressive stance on this issue might have violated the Justice Department’s own policy

Trump's Ex-Lawyer Didn’t Violate Campaign Finance Laws, and Neither Did the President

Oh and since when is it illegal to pay off someone accusing you of having an affair with your own money??

If that were the case there would be quite a few DC people in trouble.

Got proof that Trump colluded with the Russians to hack the DNC servers??

Didn't think so.

You should be asking why Barry's intelligence and cyber people did nothing about the hack as they watched it happen.

You might also ask the DNC IT guy why he did nothing after the FBI warned him about a possible hack.

Your whole post is nothing but what you want to have happened.

You sure aren't the smartest guy in ANY room.

 

[g5000]

Unfortunately, multiple federal judges, show know the law, disagree with this "former elections commissioner."

YOU LOSE!

Multiple federal judges agree with the FEC commissioner. Most important, there's a 5-4 Republican majority on the Supreme Court.

This is going nowhere.

Nowhere?

Cohen is going to prison!

 

[JimH52]

Unfortunately, multiple federal judges, show know the law, disagree with this "former elections commissioner."

YOU LOSE!

Multiple federal judges agree with the FEC commissioner. Most important, there's a 5-4 Republican majority on the Supreme Court.

This is going nowhere.

Why would it go to the Supreme Court. No one is taking it there. Your orange king is and will always be an unindicted orange king....wait....until he leaves office. Then the Feds will come knocking.

 

[RealDave]

Mueller has nothing. If he did his report would be out.

As for Trump forcing Cohen?? I call bullshit on that.

How could Trump force his attorney to do something?

That's my point. He couldn't

If Cohen did something illegal he did it on his own.

So if I hire a hit man, I am not guilty.

Wow.

 

[JimH52]

If trump was smart, which of course he is not, he would resign now before the other shoes drop. Then he could rely on the "paint on the wall" Pence to pardon him of all federal crime, like Ford did for Nixon. Otherwise the bad news is going to just keep on coming for him and his crime family...

 

[Siete]

Unfortunately, multiple federal judges, show know the law, disagree with this "former elections commissioner."

YOU LOSE!

Multiple federal judges agree with the FEC commissioner. Most important, there's a 5-4 Republican majority on the Supreme Court.

This is going nowhere.

Nowhere?

Cohen is going to prison!

ANNNNNNNNNND

he has until March to soften his sentence.

 

[g5000]

Oh and since when is it illegal to pay off someone accusing you of having an affair with your own money??

Trump said he didn't know about the $130,000 payment. So how could it have been his own money?

 

[Mr.Blonde]

Mueller has nothing. If he did his report would be out.

As for Trump forcing Cohen?? I call bullshit on that.

How could Trump force his attorney to do something?

That's my point. He couldn't

If Cohen did something illegal he did it on his own.

So if I hire a hit man, I am not guilty.

Wow.

Trump asked him to do something that was legally in question and asking someone to kill another person which is clearly illegal