Except for the NDA with a porn star.
Which is not illegal for Trump to enter or pay.
It is however, illegal to not disclose it as a campaign expense. There is no question that the payment was made to benefit the campaign.
Bullshit. Benefitting Trump is not the same as benefitting the campaign. Even if he wasn't running for President, he wouldn't want a hooker running around claiming he slept for her.
That dog don't hunt.
Well, if that were the case, then the NDA would have been proposed back in 2006 when the one night stand was over or in 2011 when she had her magazine interview....The timing indicates it was for hiding it from constituents during the election...
But there is no way this was done simply for breaking campaign finance laws....it takes nearly an act of God to get a no knock warrant, let alone one on the president 's personal lawyer with attorney/client privilege!!!
Also, this does not involve trump imo, or they would not have sent it outside the beltway to do.
But there is no way this was done simply for breaking campaign finance laws....it takes nearly an act of God to get a no knock warrant, let alone one on the president 's personal lawyer with attorney/client privilege!!!
Nothing to do with Trump? Did Cohen do anything that wasn't somehow related to Trump?
Nothing to do with criminal actions of Trump involved with this Stormy Daniel case..... Mueller would have kept that closer to his vest.... as with this entire investigation of the special counsel involved with the President himself.....
I am speculating, but it appears that Mueller passed on the case to the Southern district of New York as a strategic move.....let them do the dirty work.....
In order to get a no knock search, prosecutors have to have tried to get the information first by request, then possibly by subpoena....
apparently, Cohen had to have ignored those requests, or had not been so forthcoming....in other words, Cohen did not give them all that was subpoenaed or just asked for by the prosecutors..... and the prosecutors have information collected through other means, that indicates Cohen is holding back on what was requested.....maybe even asserting the excuse of Attorney / Client privilege.
and, they had to show the Judge, that there was a good reason to believe that Cohen would NOT give the investigators the information they requested and would either destroy or hide it, if a normal, pre-planned knock search, was initiated.
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sending the case over to the Southern District of New York has done a couple of things....
Removes it from Mueller
And
Puts it in to the hand of a Donald trump FRIEND. The prosecutor donated to Donald Trump and was Republican, and was personally interviewed by the president for this position, which is unprecedented!!!! We all thought it was dirtier than dirty for the president to personally choose the prosecutors that involved where he lived or had businesses and pick them himself..... it has never ever been done before by any President, ever!!!
Also, this prosecutor is the longtime ex law partner with Rudy Giuliani, who divested in Rudy's firm when appointed by Trump.
It smelled and appeared as mafioso as it comes!!!
By Rosenstein passing the case on to him in NYC,... put the case in to the hands of a Prosecutor that was "all those things" that Trump wanted, and not like some on the Special Counsel that Trump complains about all the time....'they were democrats, or they donated to Hillary, or donated to the DNC etc etc etc.....it's unfair, it's a witch hunt....blah blah blah'.
The prosecutor in the NYC district was unable to get the information he needed from Cohen.
Cohen and the president could try to hold strong and make their "patsy" do as "they" want....and drop the case or cover their asses.
And the prosecutor was faced with letting Cohen get away with it because he's a "friend" of the President, (while being watched by Rosenstein more than likely)....or the prosecutor could do what was needed to pursue justice and lawbreakers.
When sh*t hit the fan, the prosecutor went with truth and justice, and wanted to show upfront, that he was NOT bought and paid for, by the president.
My second option is backhandedly, Mueller wants Cohen to sing like a canary on other crooked business deals involved with Russia, and this case pressure is the pressure needed for Cohen to eventually....do just that.....?