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If campaign money was not used it was not a campaign finance violation. It was a private contract between two parties.
1 posted on 08/21/2018 2:06:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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This has clearly gone beyond the scope and intent of what the special counsel was supposed to be and don’t give me any of that BS that was passed off to the southern district

This whole thing is a scam

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56 posted on 08/21/2018 2:34:09 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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I’m sick of this. I’ll look forward to voting against the Democrats in November, regardless of who the Republicans are.


57 posted on 08/21/2018 2:34:30 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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When are the Clintons, and Podestas, and Sharptons and on and on going to pay for their crimes?


59 posted on 08/21/2018 2:37:43 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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Funny how it works. ANYBODY associated with Hillary with a law degree was deemed
her attorney with attorney client privilege so extended. For Trump not so much.


64 posted on 08/21/2018 2:43:12 PM PDT by Don@VB (Power Corrupts)
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This is why President Trump can't testify to Mueller's Inquisition. Cohen, a lowlife who taped conversations with his client then turned on his client says this is what happened. If President Trump said it didn't happen, would it be called perjury because they believe that lying, self-serving lowlife Michael Cohen?

I'm baffled why President Trump didn't put an August 1 (done before the recess) deadline on the investigation. The stuff that's being invented is so far removed from "Russia, Russia, Russia", it's ludicrous and is nothing but evil intent against President Trump.

66 posted on 08/21/2018 2:43:52 PM PDT by grania (President Trump, stop believing the Masters of War!)
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No one has ever explained to me why these women aren’t guilty of blackmail by trying to get large sums of money from Trump to remain quiet about a consensual sexual act?


67 posted on 08/21/2018 2:45:11 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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He paid w a check


68 posted on 08/21/2018 2:45:38 PM PDT by nikos1121 (Trump w/ Cabinet to the press:"You're free to stay or to go, as I believe in a free press." lol)
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“In its initial report the Wall Street Journal elaborated that the payment was made through a private company, Essential Consultants LLC. The company was founded by Cohen on October 17, 2016, in Delaware.[22] At the time, Daniels was reportedly in talks to tell her account to Good Morning America and Slate.[23] The Daily Beast was also in talks with Daniels ‘after three sources—including fellow porn star Alana Evans—told The Daily Beast that Daniels and Trump were involved. Daniels ultimately backed out on November 3, just five days before the 2016 election.’”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormy_Daniels%E2%80%93Donald_Trump_scandal

Good Morning America apparently must have know about Daniels and Trump before the election.

Apparently Daniels was still trying for a second deal after getting Cohen’s money.


70 posted on 08/21/2018 2:47:43 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Given it was Trump's money, how is it an illegal contribution? It is perfectly legal for candidates to spend their own money on their campaigns without limit.

Cohen was getting $35,000 a month from DJT's personal account. His job was to put out fires without bothering his client. Moreover, DJT specifically reimbursed the $130,000 paid to shut Stormy up.

72 posted on 08/21/2018 2:52:14 PM PDT by cynwoody
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It's time for the President to contact Jeff Sessions and ask if he is going to do his job and if not ask for his resignation. We need an AG that will indict and arrest Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Peter stroker, etc.

Start charging and arresting some of the Obama criminals, lock THEM in solitary confinement and see how fast Mueller wraps up his investigation.

73 posted on 08/21/2018 2:53:25 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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Hmmmm. Anyone remember this?

President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign was fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for campaign reporting violations — one of the largest fees ever levied against a presidential campaign, POLITICO has learned.


74 posted on 08/21/2018 2:53:50 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jeffersons)
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Hmmmm. Anyone remember this?

President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign was fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for campaign reporting violations — one of the largest fees ever levied against a presidential campaign, POLITICO has learned.


75 posted on 08/21/2018 2:53:51 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jeffersons)
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I’m with you!


77 posted on 08/21/2018 2:55:36 PM PDT by ataDude (.)
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i don’t believe the payments were illegal. Cohen says he was directed to make them. what was illegal was not following up with appropriate paperwork if campaign related. there is no statement that he was direted by a candidate to do that. that is what i understand to be true here.


90 posted on 08/21/2018 3:02:59 PM PDT by avital2
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Trump never signed any of those agreements that Cohen made. They were between Cohen and the women.

Stormy Daniels sues Trump, says 'hush agreement' invalid because he never signed

There's no way Trump signed anything related to any money paid.

101 posted on 08/21/2018 3:14:55 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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All the facts were known to Mueller months ago.

Why all the delay?

Cohen could have been arrested if there was a valid legal case months ago.


104 posted on 08/21/2018 3:15:37 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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How did Cohen get his hands on Trump campaign funds anyway ?


105 posted on 08/21/2018 3:18:58 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Note that the FEC has been 100% mum.

They don’t want to see their six-months work every two years with 24 months of pay jobs disappear.

“Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), is a landmark U.S. constitutional law, campaign finance, and corporate law case dealing with regulation of political campaign spending by organizations. The United States Supreme Court held (5–4) on January 21, 2010, that the free speech clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for communications by nonprofit corporations, for-profit corporations, labor unions, and other associations.”

“The majority ruled that the Freedom of the Press clause of the First Amendment protects associations of individuals in addition to individual speakers, and further that the First Amendment does not allow prohibitions of speech based on the identity of the speaker.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC


115 posted on 08/21/2018 3:32:45 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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“If campaign money was not used it was not a campaign finance violation. It was a private contract between two parties.”

They are going to have a hard time proving that campaign money was used.


118 posted on 08/21/2018 3:34:36 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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All is good.

Session’s will come riding in on his white horse in just a little while and make all of this go away.

NOT


124 posted on 08/21/2018 3:39:58 PM PDT by LouisianaJoanof Arc
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