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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.They were considered campaign contributions because they were made to prevent damage to his status as a candidate. Think of it like an advertising expense: you buy ads to make your guy look good and you buy ads to make the other guy look bad.
Trump paid stormy Daniels, not Cohen. Cohen got the money back..Your opponent does the same thing in reverse. Advertising/messaging is a big part of a campaign's expenditures and I don't think it's unreasonable to consider as campaign expenses those costs incurred during a campaign to protect a candidate's image . John Edwards was prosecuted for more-or-less the same thing in 2011 for hiding his affair during the 2008 campaign.
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.
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 countryThe problem is that to justify extending the statute of limitations, the prosecution had to prove that the documents were internally falsified with the intent of concealing a crime. Some claim that the other "crime" was election interference. However, no evidence was even discussed or presented pointing to election fraud. Even if there was, this would have been a federal crime to be tried in a federal court. Furthermore, the star witness of the prosecution, Michael Cohen, admitted (under oath) that he internally falsified the documents without Trump's knowledge to steal from Trump because he did not get the bonus he felt he deserved! That in itself should have been enough to close the case. But this is Trump we are talking about and the left could not afford to loose this opportunity to destroy him. So the left just covered their ears and pretended Cohen's confession never happened. Again, no such evidence was presented, nor was there any argument that election interference ever happened. So instead, the judge immediately barred any Trump supporter from being in the jury (so much for having a jury of his peers) and instructed them that as long as they "believed" Trump was covering up a crime, it was enough to find him guilty. So not only was this a trial looking for a crime, it was a trial where the court could literally imagine a crime without evidence. So to answer your question, my evidence is a lack of evidence. When asked what crime Trump committed, all I hear is just regurgitation from left wing sources who tell their followers what to think or believe.
In the end, it doesn't really matter. Trump will defeat Biden on election day, he will pardon himself, he will spend his first day of office purging the leftist corruption, and there will be riots and violent meltdowns never seen before. Days after the election, the violence from the left will make the 2020 BLM and Jan 6th look like a love fest.
How is that a donation? Trump was to pay him back.You should take some time to read up on the relevant laws. You and several others keep getting a bunch of basic stuff wrong that would be remedied with a bit of homework.
There are strict limits on how much a person can donate to a campaign. Cohen greatly exceeded those limits.
Was it a loan? It was a loan to Trump...Candidates are exempt from those limits with respect to their own campaigns, but are not exempt from reporting donations or loans to their campaigns. Trump did not report these contributions.
It was not a donation. They made a non-disclosure agreement a campaign contribution. Ridiculous.It's also true that corporations are not allowed to make any donations directly to political campaigns, and at least some of the reimbursements were made to Cohen through the Trump Organization. I'm not clear on whether or not this played into any of the charges, but it wouldn't surprise me if it did.
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.Like I said, I will not be asking you for anything.
If I really want to know something, I will go to someone who is not biased and actually knows
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 was not a donation. They made a non-disclosure agreement a campaign contribution. Ridiculous.
What previous application? Where has a non disclosure agreement been made into a campaign contribution before? Legal scholars I have watched are educated.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.
But I get it - homework is hard and it's much easier to be angry and rant about how bad the other people are.
What previous application? Where has a non disclosure agreement been made into a campaign contribution before? Legal scholars I have watched are educated.
What previous application? Where has a non disclosure agreement been made into a campaign contribution before?
Legal scholars I have watched are educated.
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.John Edwards took money from DONORS to his campaign.......This is the opposit of what happened with Trump.....
The charges in the first degree apply because these false invoices and payments were falsified in order to disguise "another crime".
Rather than bank robbing, the analogy I've been thinking about is buying drugs.
Michael Cohen buys $130,000 of illicit narcotics with his own money and gives it all to Donald Trump. (Just as Trump is the ultimate beneficiary of the NDA.)
Donald Trump could write a check for $130,000 and put "Repayment for the illicit narcotics" in the memo section. But that might expose the commission of a crime.
Instead, to disguise that crime, he falsifies documents to make the payments be about fictitious legal services that were never performed.
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 really isn't.
Michael Cohen (the donor) paid Stormy Daniels (in an illegal campaign donation).
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....The elaborate scheme for Trump to reimburse Michael Cohen required the falsification of business documents to disguise the campaign donation as imaginary legal services. That is the crime that Trump was charged with and convicted of.
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.The drugs analogy again is helpful
Donald Trump wasn't charged with buying drugs. Because he didn't buy drugs.
Donald Trump wasn't charged with making an illegal campaign donation. Because he didn't make one.
He was charged with falsifying business documents to conceal the fact that a crime was committed.
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.That is where COSTELLO comes in....I think also Hope Hicks. Costello testified Cohen did it all on his own.
Nope!Edwards accepted campaign Money, he used for a hidden purpose.
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....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.among the white house staff
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...Nope!
Payments to Hunter and Young
In August 2008, Fred Baron, Edwards' campaign finance chairman, told NBC News that he had been providing financial assistance to both Hunter and Young without Edwards' knowledge; he further stated that no campaign funds had been used.
Baron/Cohen was not paying that money to benefit himself, but to benefit Edwards'/Trump's election chances. So what does that make the payment? Correct. It is a campaign donation. And an illegal one due to its size.
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