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

[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.

Nowhere?

Cohen is going to prison!

Is he part of the Trump administration? Was he convicted of collusion?

 

[g5000]

Clinton lied under oath about a blowjob. I don't recall a single Republican, much less Rudy Giuliani, whining that Clinton was caught in a "perjury trap".

Let's put Cowardly Lyin' Donald under oath and see what shakes out.

 

[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.

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.

So you're admitting there won't be any indictment of anyone in the Trump administration of this non-violation.

 

[JimH52]

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.

The purpose of election campaign laws is to make matters transparent and equal for all the candidates. Voters are entitled to knowing the facts about each candidate. trump and Cohen took the voter's opportunity away to knowing the facts about the orange idiot's affairs. The money was paid to hide who would have been a very embarrassing story, shortly before the election.

If Hillary or a campaign associate had paid the media to hide the issue about her computer server, she would have been guilty of campaign finance law. Does that help? Naw, trumpettes are always going to be trumpettes....

 

[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!

Is he part of the Trump administration? Was he convicted of collusion?

REPORT: The man who sold the gun which Trump used to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue has been convicted.

UNINDICTED Co-CONSPIRATOR TRUMP: See? I've been totally cleared of Russian collusion! Thank you! No questions!

 

[busybee01]

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.​

Judge Napolitano: “We’ve learned that federal prosecutors here in New York City, not Bob Mueller and his team in Washington, D.C., career prosecutors here in New York City, have evidence that the president of the United States committed a felony by ordering and paying Michael Cohen to break the law,”

Fox News’ Judge Napolitano: We Now Know Trump ‘Committed a Felony’

We don't know any such thing. Napolitano has been acting like a deep state douchebag lately. It's hard to believe that he calls himself a libertarian.

You don't like Napolitano because he is acting like a honest broker rather than the Trump sycophant he started as. You are so dishonest. You are the douchebag.

 

[busybee01]

If Mueller and the Democrats try using this for impeachment they are handing Trump or if successful the GOP candidate.

They are making the same mistake the GOP did with Bill Clinton. You can't go from White Water to lying about a blow job.

Democrats are going from Trump and Putin collusion to paying off mistresses

This is not a part of Mueller's investigation. It is being handled by the US Attorney's office in the southern district of NY. The US Attorney was appointed by Trump.

 

[Lesh]

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."

Again...you you direct your lawyer to conduct illegal activities..you are BOTH liable for the activities AND for the conspiracy.

Ignorance is not a defense

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Federal prosecutors and judges:

Cohen and Trump broke campaign finance laws.

/Thread

 

[nat4900]

Makes zero difference if he was his attorney, his barber, his hitman, or any other vocation.

I did get a chuckle from the argument of trying to exonerate Trump because his attorney should have told him “no”.

Probably why he got disbarred/lost his State license along with the 3 years in the pokey.

Anyway, the noose is tightening on the blob.

Good.

None of these Trump ass kissers will EVER admit that.........at the very least.......Trump sucks big time in hiring people....LOL

 

[Claudette]

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?

[/QUOT

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?

Sure before the election.

Giuliani told The Washington Post that Trump did not know about the payment at the time it was made in October 2016. He also said he did not know when Trump learned of it. He said he spoke to Trump “about two weeks ago” about the payment, and it was at that time that Trump “probably” got “the full picture for the first time” about the payment.

 

[Claudette]

Federal prosecutors and judges:

Cohen and Trump broke campaign finance laws.

/Thread

Not according the FEC.

 

[g5000]

Makes zero difference if he was his attorney, his barber, his hitman, or any other vocation.

I did get a chuckle from the argument of trying to exonerate Trump because his attorney should have told him “no”.

Probably why he got disbarred/lost his State license along with the 3 years in the pokey.

Anyway, the noose is tightening on the blob.

Good.

None of these Trump ass kissers will EVER admit that.........at the very least.......Trump sucks big time in hiring people....LOL

Trump does seem to have a proclivity for hiring some real scumbags to work for him, and for our government.

So much for "draining the swamp".

It's weird how Crooked Donald consistently proves he is everything he accuses others of.

Textbook projection.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Not according the FEC.

Wrong. You mean, in the opinion of a guy who worked for the FEC.

 

[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?

[/QUOT

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?

Sure before the election.

Giuliani told The Washington Post that Trump did not know about the payment at the time it was made in October 2016. He also said he did not know when Trump learned of it. He said he spoke to Trump “about two weeks ago” about the payment, and it was at that time that Trump “probably” got “the full picture for the first time” about the payment.

You just blew your own question out of the water!

The payment to Stormy was therefore an illegal campaign contribution.

 

[Issa]

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.​

It is very sad to be you. Blindly backing criminals, even after inductions, judgments being issued and evidence...just because you cant get off trumps dick. Honor yourself dude and be free and independent thinker.

 

[Claudette]

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?

[/QUOT

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?

Sure before the election.

Giuliani told The Washington Post that Trump did not know about the payment at the time it was made in October 2016. He also said he did not know when Trump learned of it. He said he spoke to Trump “about two weeks ago” about the payment, and it was at that time that Trump “probably” got “the full picture for the first time” about the payment.

You just blew your own question out of the water!

The payment to Stormy was therefore an illegal campaign contribution.

Well if that's so then the money the DNC and Hitlery paid to Steele for the fake Trump dossier should be considered a campaign contribution.

 

[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?

[/QUOT

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?

Sure before the election.

Giuliani told The Washington Post that Trump did not know about the payment at the time it was made in October 2016. He also said he did not know when Trump learned of it. He said he spoke to Trump “about two weeks ago” about the payment, and it was at that time that Trump “probably” got “the full picture for the first time” about the payment.

You just blew your own question out of the water!

The payment to Stormy was therefore an illegal campaign contribution.

Well if that's so then the money the DNC and Hitlery paid to Steele for the fake Trump dossier should be considered a campaign contribution.

Wow. That's THREE logical fallacies in a single sentence! Well done!

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

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?

[/QUOT

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?

Sure before the election.

Giuliani told The Washington Post that Trump did not know about the payment at the time it was made in October 2016. He also said he did not know when Trump learned of it. He said he spoke to Trump “about two weeks ago” about the payment, and it was at that time that Trump “probably” got “the full picture for the first time” about the payment.

You just blew your own question out of the water!

The payment to Stormy was therefore an illegal campaign contribution.

Well if that's so then the money the DNC and Hitlery paid to Steele for the fake Trump dossier should be considered a campaign contribution.

Unfortunately for that little fantasy, they didn't pay a cent to Steele. They paid it to Fusion GPS.

 

[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.

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.

ROFL! No they won't. Remember when all you dumbasses said you were going to continue investigating Kavanaugh? Obviously, that was pure bullshit.