Trump didn't do the work, he hired a lawyer to. Yes, Cohen should have documented his work and done a better job of actualy creating a NDA
So was Wray. Appointed by Trump and left to serve by Biden. That’s the way things used to be when people cared more about the job than politics
Of course Trump violated the law. That’s why he was arrested and convicted. As was Cohen.
yeah, agreed. But we see that's not the case anymore, Comey really highlighted that
Trump was not convicted of violating in federal campaign laws. Stop lying. Cohen was, Clinton was, and the DNC was as well. Not trump
Trump reimbursed Cohen for the cost of the NDA. It wasn't for labor, it was for expenses. The payment for services and the payment for expenses has to be listed separately.
Trump and Cohen schemed to make the false business records.
The bills were false. They stated they were for a retainer when it was actually reimbursement for the NDA. These false bills were created to hide the fact that Trump paid for the NDA, not Cohen.
So filing false FEC documents isn't a crime anymore?
1) of course he paid his lawyer for his work
He reimbursed him for expenses too. Did you forget that?
The fact that he didn't indicate what he was paying for. The expenses were not indicated.
I'm saying Cohen paid the NDA and Trump reimbursed him for it. That was not indicated in the records.
The FEC filings that did not include his payments to Cohen to make the NDA.
1) not at all, attorneys should be paid back for their expenses.
Glad we can agree. Cohen paying Stormy Daniels for the NDA was an expense.
They should have made accurate business records. They made it look like it was payment for services when it was actually reimbursement for expenses. This was intentional, as proven in trial.
Sure it did. It was a campaign expense. That's why the NI was found to have violated campaign finance law by the FEC.
That Russiagate scandal was the biggest load of BS from the start, i find it amazing how anyone bought it.
Redacted Russiagate docs show the feds are
STILL lying about Trump and their putsch attempt11 Jan 2025 ~~ By Post Editorial Board
Redacted Russiagate docs show the feds are STILL lying about Trump and their putsch attempt
A recently released doc has everything relating to the real cause of Russiagate redacted. No: The feds owe America a full accounting.nypost.com
The feds are still lying and obfuscating about the Russiagate conspiracy against Donald Trump: Witness the recent release, years late and heavily redacted, of a document about the origin of the FBI probe.
This comes to light thanks only to the dogged efforts of the folks at RealClearInvestigations
The biggest thing the Bureau is still hiding: The “articulable factual basis” on which its 2017 probe of Trump’s alleged role as a Russian intelligence asset was legitimated.
Yes, it’s been obvious for years that there was no factual basis for the probe.
But to see why that’s precisely the issue, and why the Bureau needs to fully come clean, take a look at the whole sordid history . . . .
~Snip~
The FBI’s failed coup — let’s call it what it was — against a sitting American president remains one of the most shameful chapters in the Bureau’s already-shameful history.
It owes the American people a full accounting.
That its leadership still, even now, feels it has the right to lie and conceal and delay and deny proves beyond any doubt that President-elect Donald Trump is more than justified in his plan to shake the Bureau to its foundations.
Commentary:
Putsch: = A coup d’état; an effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.
Synonyms: Coup, Coup d’état, Insurrection, Overthrow, Power Play, Rebellion, Revolt, Revolution, Takeover
We know that Hillary Clinton used the law firm Perkins-Coie to launder the payment to Steele, which was in violation of campaign finance laws. The campaign later had to pay a fine for that activity.
this leads back to Hillary Clinton. Hillary should be arrested and charged with treason. She, at that point should have two choices: One, go to trial and maintain that she is innocent and face the real possibility of being hung or a life sentence in a women's USP. Or two, She can admit her role in this and implicate others that are involved and then spend the rest of her life in a forced seclusion, much like Napoleon was given.
This case has gone on long enough and we need resolution, NOW!
Unfortunately, the Deep State has had 4 years under Joey B. to prepare for another Trump presidency- do you think they're going to be as loud about it this time? They don't care about the "Will of The People". They don't care that they got caught and exposed. They will continue to steal our money, lie to our faces, and destroy this country because nobody can stop them. All with the assistance of the Quisling Media.
Unless Comey has a preemptive pardon for all that he criminally conspired to do, he should also be indicted and tried for treason along with ALL his co-conspirators.
We can only hope the FBIs house can be cleaned from top to bottom. Don’t move the bag guys - fire them, with NO pension and indict them from insurrection and treason.
1) lawyers bill for their expenses all the time
Yes they do and when they do they indicate it.
No, they aren't. Expenses are things that lawyers are reimbursed for and are handled differently for both legal and tax purposes.
That assertion was found to be false at trial. The jury believed it was because of his campaign. The only reason it wound up in Cohen's lap is because NI stopped paying off his affairs since they knew it was a campaign expense.
1) there is not a law that requires Cohen or any lawyer to itemize their invoice
1. Sure there is. There’s a law against falsifying business records.
1) it’s not a false record simply because yoj don’t itemize it.
It's false because it hides the fact that Trump paid for the NDA. This was intentional.
They hid it because it was a crime. People hide their crimes.
Untrue. It was the lynchpin of the case and there was considerable testimony about the fact that it was a campaign expense, which is obviously true.
1) how does it hide that? It’s what the lawyer did
1. The business records and accounting don’t show that Trump was the one who paid for the NDA. Trump wanted it that way.
1) of course it it does, he was billed by the lawyer., the lawyer that was suppose to create one. He admitted to it back in 2017
