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Trump paid him back. How is that a campaign violation. It was loan. The payback is where the money was found.....Trump paid Stormy Daniels, not Cohen in the end.
Trump paid stormy Daniels, not Cohen. Cohen got the money back..
In the end I hope he does not pardon himself. This needs to be overturned, and his rights being violted needs to be remedied. If this stands, this stuff is going ruin this country
How is that a donation? Trump was to pay him back.
Was it a loan? It was a loan to Trump...
It was not a donation. They made a non-disclosure agreement a campaign contribution. Ridiculous.
Apparently your idea of "not biased" means "tells me what I want to hear". You will also note I didn't actually address the question of what Trump was charged with, other people did, so you have no idea what my bias may or may not be.
It's not only not ridiculous, it's not inconsistent with previous applications of the law, which you would know if you'd educated yourself a bit.
It looks like this is almost the opposite of Trump.
John Edwards took money from DONORS to his campaign. He did not have that kind of money.......This is the opposite of what happened with Trump.....Trump paid for a legal non disclosure agreement. They made it into a campaign contribution.The John Edwards case is the most applicable, but Clarence Norman in Brooklyn was also convicted of soliciting a third party to cover campaign expenses in excess of the contribution limits.
Top Brooklyn Democrat Convicted of Campaign Violations (Published 2005)
Clarence Norman Jr., the leader of one of the largest Democratic Party organizations in the nation, was found guilty yesterday of soliciting illegal campaign contributions. It was a stark fall from grace for the son of a prominent Brooklyn minister who grew up to practice law and become a...www.nytimes.com
What legal scholars?
It really isn't.
That is where COSTELLO comes in....I think also Hope Hicks. Costello testified Cohen did it all on his own. He wanted to be among the staff of Trumps presidency. Hope Hicks, testified that Cohen as a fixer, was mostly fixing things that he himself messed up. He would often go rogue.
It was Cohen's elaborate scheme. TRUMP could easily pay 130,000 . It was also that he was stealing from Trump, that he did stuff like that....
I know what COHEN bought. He bought stormy Daniels silence as that is what non disclosure agreements DO. And they are Legal, not illegal. Even if Donald Trump knew Cohen did it on his own (ridiculous because Trump could have easily done it himself, unlike Edwards) it is not illegal.
You're getting your defenses confused. Correct. Cohen was the donor. He was not paying this money to benefit himself, but to benefit Trump's election chances. Hence, Cohen went to prison for this too-large campaign donation and his other crimes.
Nope!
Non disclosure agreements are done all the time, they are not illegal. No matter why they are done......But that court and prosecutor made the why of it a campaign contribution. The opposite of what EDWARDS DID....
It still does not matter. Edwards was having it paid for by someone else. He could not pay it. Trump DID...... Edwards did not pay for a non disclosure agreement, and then have that classed a campaign contribution, of his own money...
