Posted on 02/27/2019 3:06:12 PM PST by Rummyfan
I gather I was supposed to gasp when Michael Cohen said during his testimony before Congress on Wednesday, "The president of the United States thus wrote a personal check for the payment of hush money as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws."
If that's the best he's got, Trump should demand we hold the election this coming Tuesday.
Cohen was referring to Trump's 2017 reimbursement of the $130,000 hush money he paid to porn star Stormy Daniels to stay quiet about her claim that she'd had sex with Trump, aka Cohen's client -- meaning much of Cohen's testimony is barred by attorney-client privilege. But who cares about this sacred legal privilege? We're trying to get Trump!
Neither the media nor Cohen seem to realize that Cohen wasn't doing anything illegal when he paid the "hush money." (Just because Trump thinks every Jewish lawyer is Roy Cohn doesn't mean you have to, too, New York Times.)
Words like "hush money" and "porn star" make the payments sound unsavory -- especially to The New York Times, known during the Clinton era as Defender of Inappropriate Presidential Sex -- but there's nothing criminal about paying money to suppress embarrassing information, even in the middle of a political campaign.
If it wasn't illegal for Cohen to pay the hush money, it's certainly not illegal for Trump to reimburse him for it. Cohen was, after all, Trump's lawyer. He got reimbursed for a lot of things.
But we have to have days of hearings in hopes of establishing that Trump violated the campaign finance reporting requirements with these payments, in which case, OH MY GOSH, HE'D HAVE TO PAY A FINE.
I'd be more impressed if they got Trump on a jaywalking charge.
(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.com ...
IF Cohen is to be believed, he said Trump paid off a source for a “love baby” he is supposed to have sired. This gives Trump an history of burying unsavory stories to “protect his family.
Not campaign finance contribution.
All Trump needs to do is walk to the Podium and announce to the Country :
In light of Mr COhens guilty plea and the testimony and questions by the House Oversight Committee, I have ORDERED the AG to immediately Investigate and Prosecute every Elected Official in America that has paid or caused to be paid any monies to keep their sexual trysts quiet.
Could you imagine if every office holder has to resign for paying hush money? Aside from Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, who would be left?
Isn’t there a Congressional slush fund for hush money?!
I’d like to see the list of payments made from the taxpayer slush fund to silence all accusers of members of congress. Wasn’t it several million dollars, or more?
So Ann’s back on the Trump train?
Better than stealing from taxpayers to cover up sexual indescretins.
Trump paid personal money, not campaign money. Case closed for a Democrat.
“I’d like to see the list of payments made from the taxpayer slush fund to silence all accusers of members of congress. Wasn’t it several million dollars, or more?”
There are A LOT of people who would like to see that list! Supposedly, it was all going to be made public months ago but it hasn’t happened yet and I strongly doubt that it ever will!
IIRC, Laura Ingraham wasn’t going to stop pursuing this until she got to the bottom of it. That list should be public knowledge if the taxpayers footed the bill.
“IF Cohen is to be believed, he said Trump paid off a source for a “love baby”
Shove your anti Trump speculations.
Go to hell and burn, Anne...
I’m not giving Ann any clicks on her page. I don’t give a flying fig about her opinion. I truly think the shrill is bipolar.
I have no idea if Trump ever fathered a "love child," but if he had paid for a girlfriend to have an abortion, that would make him a hero to the Left. Well, maybe not now, but it would have before he ran for office.
If we reduced the current 535 congressthings to a handful, and started over, it would be good for America.
Could you imagine if every office holder has to resign for paying hush money? Aside from Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, who would be left?
Not so sure Ted wouldn’t have to resign, as well. ;-)
She may be over her hysterics of last week. [That was NOT pretty.]
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