Posted on 12/08/2018 10:25:47 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
The major takeaway from the 40-page sentencing memorandum filed by federal prosecutors Friday for Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, is this: The president is very likely to be indicted on a charge of violating federal campaign finance laws.
It has been obvious for some time that President Trump is the principal subject of the investigation still being conducted by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
..But when Cohen pleaded guilty in August, prosecutors induced him to make an extraordinary statement in open court: the payments to the women were made “in coordination with and at the direction of” the candidate for federal office – Donald Trump.
...Moreover, campaign finance infractions are often settled by payment of an administrative fine, not turned into felony prosecutions. To be sure, federal prosecutors in New York City have charged them as felonies before – most notably in 2014 against Dinesh D’Souza, whom Trump later pardoned.
In marked contrast, though, when it was discovered that Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign was guilty of violations involving nearly $2 million – an amount that dwarfs the $280,000 in Cohen’s case – the Obama Justice Department decided not to prosecute. Instead, the matter was quietly disposed of by a $375,000 fine by the Federal Election Commission.
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Interesting. Where did you see that? I'd love to see that video. Glad parts of Europe are finally waking up... sort of.
Stupid premise.
They were payments made in a private matter and paid by by a trump company and was a refularbpractice of his life and business interests...
No case
Trump should sue Cohen. What a shitty lawyer. Mr.Slick had to take out a home equity loan for $130000? Pathetic!
Lawfare is as close to all out warfare as they dare.
This is a great point you made:
“Its perception, propaganda and swaying the people not the actual blind justice enforcement of the law. Normal people see the law and Constitution as a neutral set of rules.The neo-marxist left view it as a tool/weapon to be used to destroy all opponents and the law/constitution itself.”
Never forget that the high preistess of the Lawfare crowd was fired by her Democrat atty boss for unconstitutional actions, lies, illegal suggestions for taking down a sitting President. And it wasn’t the current one.
This is the Democrats impeachment grounds which will be voted on and passed in the House in early January 2019 probably with a pile of other nonsense thrown in. The media will pile on with unrelenting pressure, the stock market is already pricing on this turmoil. Trump is toast. This country will be at war.
Because it’s what the Manhattan fags, pedophiles, thieves, crooks and bottomfeeding, Neanderthal knuckledraggers do.
https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-campaign-illegal-contribution-828044 . . . Bernie fined $14.5k for campaign finance violations - receiving foreign contributions. [Collusion?]
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/25/fec-complaint-accuses-clinton-dnc-violations/ . . . Hillary violated the same laws - paying for foreign information and then hiding that payment as “legal services”. [Collusion?]
https://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/obama-2008-campaign-fined-375000-085784 . . . Obama was fined $375,000 for failing to report over 1,000 large contributions in the last 20 days before the election.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/09/21/fec-issues-record-fines-in-democrats-scandals/2d2ed242-98e1-40a8-8574-caef4b7570e3/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c78a90a161f0 . . . Clinton-Gore was fined $2,000 while the DNC was fined $115,000 for contributions from fake corporations set up to funnel foreign money. [Collusion?]
There are other fines, but the point has been made. And the Deep State acts like it’s appropriate to indict President Trump over a perhaps vaguely campaign related personal payment rather than imposing a fine. What happened to “Equal Justice Under Law” as an ideal worthy of engraving on the front of the United States Supreme Court building?
Indict the President for lying about sex. That precedent was settled when Democrats voted to acquit Clinton on a similar charge.
Yeah, that would go over well in the court of public opinion. Its the politics, stupid.
So, doesn’t that set a court precedent?
Time to burn down the SDNY and get Mueller on a collusion to Obstruct Election with the Rooskies, English and Australians.
You cannot reasonably prove that he would never have paid to keep these women from talking about their stories if Mr. Trump weren’t a candidate. Therefore, reasonable doubt is implicit — no prosecutor could get a conviction since you cannot prove the money was for election campaign purposes.
McCarthy should have noted this in his article, a glaring omission. He should have also identified that the amount of money involved is peanuts to Mr. Trump. It’s the same as you or I giving a woman $20 for gas money to get her to leave.
ah you cannot indict a sitting president until he is removed from office.
President Trump just needs to make sure that the next nominee for the Supreme Court is the best *man* with absolutely no consideration in favor of any aberrational social preference (that is, absolutely no consideration for the sex or race of the person chosen). The next nominee should be chosen as much as Justice Kavanaugh was for his position in favor of originalism, outstanding experience making decisions based on that, and *most of all,” no chance of changing his mind on that position favoring originalism (that is, not easily led, no hormonal imbalances, etc.).
STOP THE SMOKE SCREENS, the real crimes by the real criminals including their protectors need to be brought to justice, end of story! If Mueller and his band of criminals can continue unabated for over 500 days with no evidence against a sitting president aside from being a hemorrhoid Trump can convene a commission headed by bulldogs that will crush them where they stand and give the American people justice
^this^
Where is the barf alert?
Whoever sent that lawyer along with Comey from the DOJ should be fired today along with the lawyer. That was absurd.
I thought a President could NOT be indicted!
Surprise............(snx)
“Michael Cohen, who was working for the campaign, paid off one of the accusers with his own money (via a fraudulently acquired home equity loan), then he got money from AMI, the publisher of the National Enquirer to pay the other accuser. So these are pretty clearly illegal campaign donations...”
How does it relate to campaign contributions?
Sounds ludicrous.
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