Nothing Burger

[Maxdeath]

Mueller keeps going after things that have nothing to do with someone working with the Russians. He is hoping that he can get Trump on a perjury trap. Funny is how he keeps bypassing or ignoring things done by the other half of the election.

 

[BluesLegend]

Cohen was not convicted you hack, try to get your facts straight before you start a thread and look stupid.

Afraid he is convicted and awaiting sentencing

A guilty plea is a conviction

Look stupid, a plea is not a conviction, its also not a legal precedent, and no judge or jury convicted the guy.

 

[Crixus]

Since Trump took office, Republicans have chanted in unison....

Nothing Burger, No Collusion, Witch Hunt, Waste of time, Fake News

As Mueller is just starting to reveal what he is finding ......Flynn, Cohen, Manafort have already been convicted

We are seeing Money Laundering, tax fraud, election fraud, obstruction of justice

All without Mueller revealing all the cards he holds

Except for the fact that none of that involves Trump or Russia.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

You guys remember that Timothy Geithner committed Tax Fraud, but was made Secretary of Treasury by Obama with full knowledge that he did it???
But it's ok right? Afterall he apologized and said he regretted his Tax "Mistakes".... so it's all good.
Right??

rightwinger
OldLady

During his confirmation, it was disclosed that Geithner had not paid $35,000 in Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes from 2001 through 2004 while working for the International Monetary Fund.[50] The IMF, as an international agency, did not withhold payroll taxes, but instead reimbursed the usual employer responsibility of these taxes to employees. Geithner received the reimbursements and paid the amounts received to the government, but had not paid the remaining half which would normally have been withheld from his pay. The issue, as well as other errors relating to past deductions and expenses, were noted during a 2006 audit by the Internal Revenue Service[51][52][53][54] Geithner subsequently paid the additional taxes owed.[55][56] In a statement to the Senate Finance Committee, Geithner called the tax issues "careless," "avoidable," and "unintentional" errors.[55] Geithner testified that he used the software TurboTax to prepare his 2001 and 2002 returns, but that the tax errors were his own responsibility.[57][58]
Timothy Geithner - Wikipedia

Wow. Maybe the guy should be in prison, right?

Wow... the guy was made Secretary of Treasury despite him making two separate tax "mistakes" that he did not repay. Only after he was vetted, and the IRS documentation was found - did he admit the errors and repay - wait for it - HALF of what he owed. He did not repay the "mistake" he made in 2001 and 2002.
And, as far as 2015... he still never paid the rest.

How do you repay errors you didn't know you made until you know about them?
And you want to share the link you have saying he didn't repay those taxes?

C'mon now. Number one, it is pretty damn difficult to not know you didn't pay half of your income taxes for 4 years for ANYONE. But this guy has not one, but three degrees including a Master in economics...and he didn't realize he only paid half. Laughable.
But that is beside the point. Like I said - during his vetting process, they found the IRS documentation and found the "errors".... so as of 2008 - HE KNEW. But only paid for the 2003 and 2004 back taxes. He did not, and still never has paid what he owes for 2001 and 2002.
Look it up.

 

[Nosmo King]

Is that like the filthy ass Democrats saying that Crooked Hillary didn't commit any crimes even thought Comey said she did?

Why are you pointing backward? How can you strut after the convictions of yesterday? Trump has been implicated as a conspirator in a crime. Darker days are coming.

Donald Trump is a scumbag, yet you are not moved to oppose him in the least.

 

[Thinker101]

Since Trump took office, Republicans have chanted in unison....

Nothing Burger, No Collusion, Witch Hunt, Waste of time, Fake News

As Mueller is just starting to reveal what he is finding ......Flynn, Cohen, Manafort have already been convicted

We are seeing Money Laundering, tax fraud, election fraud, obstruction of justice

All without Mueller revealing all the cards he holds

nothingburger van jones - Bing video

 

[Crepitus]

Cohen was not convicted you hack, try to get your facts straight before you start a thread and look stupid.

Right. He agreed to 3-5 years in prison just for shits and giggles.

He was not convicted FACT. He pled to something that isn't even a crime FACT. Here this is for you

If it isn't a crime why is he going to prison?

The former head of the FEC says its not a crime. For you slow dimwits on the left, Cohen plead DOWN to this hello.

It is a crime.

And yes, he plead down to this in exchange for his testimony.

 

[my2¢]

The Manafort verdict yesterday caused me to wonder what's hiding in Trump's taxes? Given the circumstance, I believe he should honor his campaign commitment to release them.

 

[BluesLegend]

Cohen was not convicted you hack, try to get your facts straight before you start a thread and look stupid.

I wouldn't call someone stupid when you don't know how our justice system works.

Cohen didn't have to be convicted. He plead guilty.

That means they avoid indictments and a court case.

Cohen was in court yesterday, he plead GULITY.

You are as dumb as the OP. AFTER sentencing then you can run your mouth about Cohen being "convicted".

 

[2aguy]

Here is a nice summary as to why Trump did not violate any campaign finance laws...... but the democrats are going to impeach him if they take the House....that was always a fact.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...ated_campaign_finance_laws_and_heres_why.html

The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, Title 52, United States Code Section 30101 states in part that individuals are limited to making donations of $2,700 to presidential candidates. Cohen is accused of spending money in violation of the Act. Although Cohen spent more than $2,700 on behalf of Trump, he was reimbursed by Trump, so Trump was ultimately spending money on himself, and there is no limit on how much a person may spend on their own presidential campaign, so this section does not apply.

The Campaign Act also prohibits corporations from contributing directly to presidential campaigns. Cohen set up dummy corporations to make the payments and pled to making improper corporate donations. But again, although the money technically came from corporations, ultimately, all the money came from Donald Trump, so again these limitations do not apply.

But more importantly, this was not a campaign expenditure at all. Constitutional scholar Mark Levin has interviewed former Federal Election Commission Chairman Bradley Smith repeatedly on his show over the past year, and Smith has made the point that "dual use" expenditures are not "campaign expenditures" under the meaning of the Act.

What are campaign expenditures? Payments for advertising, consultants, rallies, transportation, polling, and get out the vote efforts, of course. But has anyone ever reported payments to a mistress as campaign expenditure? Almost certainly not.

That's because any expenditure is not an expenditure simply because it may incidentally benefit a campaign. It must be an expenditure whose only purpose is to benefit a campaign. So if a candidate for office buys an American car, or gets his teeth whitened, these are things that can benefit his campaign, but are not campaign expenditures because they also have personal benefits.

Payments to President Trump's alleged mistresses to stay silent certainly benefitted his campaign. But they also served the purpose of not embarrassing the President's family. There clearly was a dual use to the payments, therefore they were not "campaign expenditures" under the act. If they were, then everything a candidate spent money on during the course of a campaign, whether of a personal nature or not, would have to be reported as a campaign expenditure. Does a candidate eat during a campaign? Well, if so that benefits his campaign and so must be an expenditure! Do you see how ridiculous this can become?

If these payments were not campaign expenditures then there is no violation. But Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to violating campaign expenditure laws. Although no plea deal was announced, it looks like Cohen has flipped and pleaded guilty to these counts to avoid even more charges. But just because Cohen claims he, and Trump, violated campaign finance laws, that is not the same as a legal determination that he did so.



Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...finance_laws_and_heres_why.html#ixzz5OuubIGAZ
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[BluesLegend]

Cohen was not convicted you hack, try to get your facts straight before you start a thread and look stupid.

Right. He agreed to 3-5 years in prison just for shits and giggles.

He was not convicted FACT. He pled to something that isn't even a crime FACT. Here this is for you

If it isn't a crime why is he going to prison?

The former head of the FEC says its not a crime. For you slow dimwits on the left, Cohen plead DOWN to this hello.

It is a crime.

And yes, he plead down to this in exchange for his testimony.

What part of the former head of the FEC stating its NOT a crime can't you comprehend? They read the law out loud for Christ sake, god you are dumb.

 

[Claudette]

Since Trump took office, Republicans have chanted in unison....

Nothing Burger, No Collusion, Witch Hunt, Waste of time, Fake News

As Mueller is just starting to reveal what he is finding ......Flynn, Cohen, Manafort have already been convicted

We are seeing Money Laundering, tax fraud, election fraud, obstruction of justice

All without Mueller revealing all the cards he holds

And still nothing to do with Trump. And even if he did pay off the hookers? It isn't a campaign violation. Mark Levin went through this on his radio show.

Any conservative Trump supporter knew from day one that the democrats are going to impeach Trump as soon as they get control of the House, there is no doubt or maybe, about this. Trump isn't connected to the Manafort conviction or the Cohen plea deal, and the only collusion with Russians was by hilary, the DNC and the Obama administration...... but they are still going to impeach Trump.

So, if you want the democrats to lose, you have to vote to keep the House in Republican hands, like them or not, and I don't, the only way to push back against these socialist monsters is to keep them out of power with the vote.

Yup. They have already said they were going to try and impeach Trump. For what no one but those imbeciles know.

As you said. Trump had nothing to do with Manafort or Cohen and what they did.

Sure has nothing to do with the Russians and the 2016 elections which is what Mueller investigation is supposed to be about. Haven't heard word one about an collusion between Trump and the Russians and we won't since it didn't happen.

Don't hear any of the lefty idiots on this board talking about Hitlery, Steele, the DNC and Fusion and that dossier they paid for. That's not against the law but it sure shows how low they will go.

Still waiting for the lefty idiots to scream about how honest Hitlery and the DNC are.

 

[PredFan]

Since Trump took office, Republicans have chanted in unison....

Nothing Burger, No Collusion, Witch Hunt, Waste of time, Fake News

As Mueller is just starting to reveal what he is finding ......Flynn, Cohen, Manafort have already been convicted

We are seeing Money Laundering, tax fraud, election fraud, obstruction of justice

All without Mueller revealing all the cards he holds

It is an investigation in search of a crime and makes a mockery of our justice system but hey, as long as the party benefits, screw the country and the laws, right liberals?

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

The Creepy Corrupt Democrats are trying to criminalize politics

 

[Crepitus]

Right. He agreed to 3-5 years in prison just for shits and giggles.

He was not convicted FACT. He pled to something that isn't even a crime FACT. Here this is for you

If it isn't a crime why is he going to prison?

The former head of the FEC says its not a crime. For you slow dimwits on the left, Cohen plead DOWN to this hello.

It is a crime.

And yes, he plead down to this in exchange for his testimony.

What part of the former head of the FEC stating its NOT a crime can't you comprehend? They read the law out loud for Christ sake, god you are dumb.

Lol, a judge signed off on it. Cohen plead guilty to it, you're just engaging in more tRumpkin weaseling.

 

[OldLady]

You guys remember that Timothy Geithner committed Tax Fraud, but was made Secretary of Treasury by Obama with full knowledge that he did it???
But it's ok right? Afterall he apologized and said he regretted his Tax "Mistakes".... so it's all good.
Right??

rightwinger
OldLady

During his confirmation, it was disclosed that Geithner had not paid $35,000 in Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes from 2001 through 2004 while working for the International Monetary Fund.[50] The IMF, as an international agency, did not withhold payroll taxes, but instead reimbursed the usual employer responsibility of these taxes to employees. Geithner received the reimbursements and paid the amounts received to the government, but had not paid the remaining half which would normally have been withheld from his pay. The issue, as well as other errors relating to past deductions and expenses, were noted during a 2006 audit by the Internal Revenue Service[51][52][53][54] Geithner subsequently paid the additional taxes owed.[55][56] In a statement to the Senate Finance Committee, Geithner called the tax issues "careless," "avoidable," and "unintentional" errors.[55] Geithner testified that he used the software TurboTax to prepare his 2001 and 2002 returns, but that the tax errors were his own responsibility.[57][58]
Timothy Geithner - Wikipedia

Wow. Maybe the guy should be in prison, right?

Diversion
Stay on topic

Sorry.

 

[OldLady]

Cohen was not convicted you hack, try to get your facts straight before you start a thread and look stupid.

Right. He agreed to 3-5 years in prison just for shits and giggles.

He was not convicted FACT. He pled to something that isn't even a crime FACT. Here this is for you

I'm no lawyer, but why is he going to prison for 3-5 years if he didn't commit a crime? FACT.

Because they had enough dirt on him to force him to plead down to something else that's not even a crime. Its not a crime, the former head of the FEC says so, as do several legal experts. Flynn took a plea deal because the Feds were bankrupting him with legal costs.

You're crazy. There's no refuting your argument; it's like something the Mad Hatter would say. Tea, anyone?

 

[Indeependent]

If two weeks before the election (when payouts were made) it had come out that a candidate for president had sex with a Porn Star while his wife was home with his infant son

Would it have influenced the election?

/----/ No, because Hildabeast was that bad of a candidate.

She received more votes than Crooked Donnie
Less than 20,000 votes would have won her Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan

50,000 votes would have taken Florida

If news came out that a man trying to be President was banging Porn Stars while his wife was home with his infant son.....it wouldn’t sway a few thousand votes?

Why did John Edwards have to drop out?

Slum votes.

 

[hunarcy]

Since Trump took office, Republicans have chanted in unison....

Nothing Burger, No Collusion, Witch Hunt, Waste of time, Fake News

As Mueller is just starting to reveal what he is finding ......Flynn, Cohen, Manafort have already been convicted

We are seeing Money Laundering, tax fraud, election fraud, obstruction of justice

All without Mueller revealing all the cards he holds

And, except for one reference to "the candidate" by Cohen (who has repeatedly lied and stolen from Trump) none of it involves Trump.

 

[candycorn]

You guys remember that Timothy Geithner committed Tax Fraud, but was made Secretary of Treasury by Obama with full knowledge that he did it???
But it's ok right? Afterall he apologized and said he regretted his Tax "Mistakes".... so it's all good.
Right??

rightwinger
OldLady

He was convicted of tax fraud?