Trump could still slither out of it the way John Edwards slithered out of legal consequences for accepting a million dollars in donations to hide his misdeeds from the public.
https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...ts-clear-trump-will-be-indicted-on-charges-of
Former federal prosecutor and Fox News contributor Andrew McCarthy said Sunday that "it's clear" President Trump is the target of a Southern District of New York investigation and that he will be indicted.
“The Southern District of New York case on Cohen, They are clearly going after the president on campaign finance violations and I think if you read the sentencing memo the Southern District filed in Cohen’s case, it’s clear that Trump is the target and he’ll be indicted eventually,” McCarthy said on "Fox & Friends Weekend."
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Trump may have been clueless about breaking this law but his henchman Cohen, as a lawyer, should have advised him of the risks involved with paying hush money during the campaign.
https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...ts-clear-trump-will-be-indicted-on-charges-of
Former federal prosecutor and Fox News contributor Andrew McCarthy said Sunday that "it's clear" President Trump is the target of a Southern District of New York investigation and that he will be indicted.
“The Southern District of New York case on Cohen, They are clearly going after the president on campaign finance violations and I think if you read the sentencing memo the Southern District filed in Cohen’s case, it’s clear that Trump is the target and he’ll be indicted eventually,” McCarthy said on "Fox & Friends Weekend."
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Trump may have been clueless about breaking this law but his henchman Cohen, as a lawyer, should have advised him of the risks involved with paying hush money during the campaign.
Serial posting at it's worst?
Ah, but have no fear: an indictment will clearly prove the existence of a vast liberal conspiracy to *get* him, which will be a perfect reason to support Melania the next time. And those liberals will be massive hypocrites if they don't vote for Melania because of their SJW behaviors. Yadda yadda.
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In other words (I'm now translating for others), we seem to be at a point where people will defend Trump no matter what he does and, if they can't stomach that, they'll instead go to threads about Trump and attack "liberals" rather than addressing the actual problem in the thread. Anything that has happened simply gets spun into because liberal conspiracy territory. If this forum represents America in any sense, than it is unlikely a post-presidency indictment of Trump will matter.....particularly if a different GOPer happens to win in 2020 then pardons him.
Fortunately federal juries, vetted before trial in court and after it by appellate counsel (to the extent possible), aren't so easily fooled. So perhaps he may very well go to jail if he has indeed committed crimes within the statutes of limitations.
Fingers crossed?
But still, politics will be broken. Is broken.
Obama was caught with $2 million worth of campaign finance law violations. Why wasn't he charged? Or, need we ask?
I hope this double standard doesn't sit well with the people.
Obama and Hillary both got caught, it's not like this kind of crap is new to the democratic party. But it's only a crime when the one caught isn't a democrat. Though I'm still skeptical about this going anywhere. Firstly they actually have to prove finance laws were broken by him and to the effect of it being intended. If this gets him convicted of anything, it's possible that it could bring the whole house of cards down on the democrats as well.
It’ll be when he leaves office. Whenever and however that may be.https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...ts-clear-trump-will-be-indicted-on-charges-of
Former federal prosecutor and Fox News contributor Andrew McCarthy said Sunday that "it's clear" President Trump is the target of a Southern District of New York investigation and that he will be indicted.
“The Southern District of New York case on Cohen, They are clearly going after the president on campaign finance violations and I think if you read the sentencing memo the Southern District filed in Cohen’s case, it’s clear that Trump is the target and he’ll be indicted eventually,” McCarthy said on "Fox & Friends Weekend."
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Trump may have been clueless about breaking this law but his henchman Cohen, as a lawyer, should have advised him of the risks involved with paying hush money during the campaign.
https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...ts-clear-trump-will-be-indicted-on-charges-of
Former federal prosecutor and Fox News contributor Andrew McCarthy said Sunday that "it's clear" President Trump is the target of a Southern District of New York investigation and that he will be indicted.
“The Southern District of New York case on Cohen, They are clearly going after the president on campaign finance violations and I think if you read the sentencing memo the Southern District filed in Cohen’s case, it’s clear that Trump is the target and he’ll be indicted eventually,” McCarthy said on "Fox & Friends Weekend."
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Trump may have been clueless about breaking this law but his henchman Cohen, as a lawyer, should have advised him of the risks involved with paying hush money during the campaign.
On Cohen's secret recording of him discussing the $150K payment to AMI to bury the Karen MacDougal story, Trump is heard suggesting that the payment be in cash. Only drug lords & mobsters deal in such large sums of cash money. It shows you Trump's caliber.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...inance-violations-obama-different/1072220002/In 2013, President Obama's campaign was fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission after his 2008 campaign did not turn in reports for about 1,300 last-minute donations that totaled nearly $1.9 million.
The fine was one of the largest against a presidential campaign and topped the $208,000 in civil penalties paid by the Rev. Al Sharpton after failing to accurately report receipts and spending during his 2004 presidential bid.
Republican Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign was fined $100,000.
Trump could still slither out of it the way John Edwards slithered out of legal consequences for accepting a million dollars in donations to hide his misdeeds from the public.
https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...ts-clear-trump-will-be-indicted-on-charges-of
Former federal prosecutor and Fox News contributor Andrew McCarthy said Sunday that "it's clear" President Trump is the target of a Southern District of New York investigation and that he will be indicted.
“The Southern District of New York case on Cohen, They are clearly going after the president on campaign finance violations and I think if you read the sentencing memo the Southern District filed in Cohen’s case, it’s clear that Trump is the target and he’ll be indicted eventually,” McCarthy said on "Fox & Friends Weekend."
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Trump may have been clueless about breaking this law but his henchman Cohen, as a lawyer, should have advised him of the risks involved with paying hush money during the campaign.
Obama was caught with $2 million worth of campaign finance law violations. Why wasn't he charged? Or, need we ask?
I hope this double standard doesn't sit well with the people.
https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...ts-clear-trump-will-be-indicted-on-charges-of
Former federal prosecutor and Fox News contributor Andrew McCarthy said Sunday that "it's clear" President Trump is the target of a Southern District of New York investigation and that he will be indicted.
“The Southern District of New York case on Cohen, They are clearly going after the president on campaign finance violations and I think if you read the sentencing memo the Southern District filed in Cohen’s case, it’s clear that Trump is the target and he’ll be indicted eventually,” McCarthy said on "Fox & Friends Weekend."
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Trump may have been clueless about breaking this law but his henchman Cohen, as a lawyer, should have advised him of the risks involved with paying hush money during the campaign.
Here is the quote from another "ex" - this one from a former Federal Election Commission chair:
…[R]egardless of what Cohen agreed to in a plea bargain, hush-money payments to mistresses are not really campaign expenditures. It is true that “contribution” and “expenditure” are defined in the Federal Election Campaign Act as anything “for the purpose of influencing any election,” and it may have been intended and hoped that paying hush money would serve that end. The problem is that almost anything a candidate does can be interpreted as intended to “influence an election,” from buying a good watch to make sure he gets to places on time, to getting a massage so that he feels fit for the campaign trail, to buying a new suit so that he looks good on a debate stage. Yet having campaign donors pay for personal luxuries — such as expensive watches, massages and Brooks Brothers suits — seems more like bribery than funding campaign speech.
That’s why another part of the statute defines “personal use” as any expenditure “used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense of a person that would exist irrespective of the candidate’s election campaign.” These may not be paid with campaign funds, even though the candidate might benefit from the expenditure. Not every expense that might benefit a candidate is an obligation that exists solely because the person is a candidate.
Suppose, for example, that Trump had told his lawyers, “Look, these complaints about Trump University have no merit, but they embarrass me as a candidate. Get them settled.” Are the settlements thus “campaign expenses”? The obvious answer is no, even though the payments were intended to benefit Trump as a candidate.
If the opposite were true and they were considered campaign expenses, then not only could Trump pay them with campaign funds, but also he would be required to pay these business expenses from campaign funds. Is that what campaign donations are for?
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Yes, those payments were unseemly, but unseemliness doesn’t make something illegal. At the very least, the law is murky about whether paying hush money to a mistress is a “campaign expense” or a personal expense.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattv...-hush-money-unseemly-but-not-illegal-n2512451
Edwards didn't "slither out of it". One jury aquitted him and another jury was deadlocked.
I've explained this to you before. Not all campaign finance violations are equal.
Like "I forgot to file my taxes on time" and "money laundering" are both tax law violations and you're just dumbfounded that only one of them sends people to prison.
Despite your wishful thinking, Trump is not going to prison. :lol:
Not while he's in office, no. There aren't any circumstances in which the GOP would remove him.
He's not going to prison EVER.
Mark time and date when I said this.
Thanks.
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