Posted on 08/29/2018 10:18:12 AM PDT by davikkm
A week ago today, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen became the sole focus of the 24-hour mainstream media news cycle when he pleaded guilty to eight charges, including bank fraud and campaign finance crimes. What made the MSM really froth at the mouth was Cohen’s implication of the president in a scheme to silence to women from making public their claims of their sexual escapades.
The lying media, deranged Democrats, and crooked anti-Trump Republicans will stop at nothing to remove our duly elected president from office. This latest Cohen debacle was covered like it was the 21st century’s Watergate. Finally, the Trump administration is coming to an end! Sorry liberals, he’s still your president and will be until 2020 and likely 2024.
Last Tuesday, Cohen told federal prosecutors that he made payments to the two pornstars “in coordination with and at the direction” of the president. So what? At the very least they have him on a campaign finance law violation. Essentially a parking ticket in the political realm. Obama was hit with a $375,000 fine in 2008 for violating campaign finance law. Politicians regularly are. So how the hell is this going to bring the president down, you might ask?
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That's where the Fake part comes into play.
If this were about facts and law, it would have been over before it started. This is lawfare conducted by the Demagogic Party, and on its behalf by Partisan Media Shills.
If he paid them with his own money then there’s no campaign finance violation at all. He’s perfectly within his rights to do that.
Leave it to CNN democrat operatives to try to make a crime out of nothing. Disgusting pigs.
Money is fungible, highly liquid and movable. Since Trump is rich and can self-donate with no limits, even though it came from his personal account it's no different because he could have just as easily paid that into his campaign account. Therefore, the payments from his personal account are synonymous with paying from the campaign account.
Then comes the dual use argument. It's only a campaign finance violation if the only reason for doing it was campaign related. Trump would say it's to protect his personal and brand reputation.
-PJ
Financial Fraud: a fake charge, based on Bob Khuzami’s opinion of a building’s value over Mike Cohen’s. Banks never pay attention to what’s on the paper, it’s what the appraiser says.
Campaign Election Violation: by now the whole universe knows this one is totally cooked up as no one in history has been convicted or fined for it. It’s such a strained legal theory, it doesn’t pass the laugh test. Cohen was coerced into admitting to a false crime, which is everything our system of justice was intended to prevent.
That leaves tax evasion. And that always comes down to, is it avoidance or evasion? He must be a half assed attorney if he can’t make it look like the former rather then the latter, corporations do it all day long.
for which Dinesh D'Souza was imprisoned.
Yep.
I believe they used Michael to give them the opening to investigate Trump Organization. The bank records, invoices, tax returns, perhaps even freeze funds.
You’re correct.
Since well before the election I believed that the Clintons would try to get at all his business records and try to make mountains out of molehills. Someone at his level of business always has something that can be exploited.
If we had an AG it wouldn’t happen. He would sensibly stop the opposing party’s deranged fishing expedition.
Two years from now, Cohen will be seen as a victim of a corrupt, deranged prosecutor.
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