Trump porn star hush money payment was illegal

[SonOfDaedalus]

This sounds a lot like the John Edwards situation. Edwards was prosecuted and his political career ended. The same should happen to Trump.

A watchdog group filed a pair of complaints on Monday alleging that a $130,000 payment reportedly made to a pornographic film actress who claims to have had an affair with Donald Trump violated campaign finance laws.

In submissions to the Justice Department and the Federal Election Commission, Common Cause said the alleged payment to Stephanie Clifford — who uses the stage name Stormy Daniels — amounted to an in-kind donation to Trump's presidential campaign that should have been publicly disclosed in its official reports.

An attorney for Common Cause, Paul Ryan, said the payment appeared to be hush money. He compared the situation to the series of events that resulted in the prosecution of former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) over nearly $1 million in payments allegedly made to cover up an affair he had with videographer Rielle Hunter during his 2008 presidential bid.

“The purpose is the heart of all this,” Ryan said. “It’s pretty obvious this payment to Ms. Clifford was intended to keep her quiet just weeks before the election so she would not damage the candidate’s effort to win the election.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/22/stormy-daniels-trump-payment-illegal-donation-357250

Trump is the most crooked dishonest immoral politician we've ever seen.

 

[ttwtt78640]

This sounds a lot like the John Edwards situation. Edwards was prosecuted and his political career ended. The same should happen to Trump.



https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/22/stormy-daniels-trump-payment-illegal-donation-357250

Trump is the most crooked dishonest immoral politician we've ever seen.

Nope, just one of the latest.

 

[SonOfDaedalus]

Because the payment reportedly was made about a month before voters headed to the polls, it could be seen as a campaign “expenditure” that affected the election’s outcome in Trump’s favor, according to the complaint.

Stormy Daniels Payment Was a Trump Campaign Contribution and Should Be Investigated, Watchdog Group Says


Now Trump is in a pickle. He needs to show where the money came from. If it came from Cohen, then that's an illegal campaign contribution. If it came from his campaign, it's game over. If it came from him, he has to admit he lied...again.

I have little doubt that to cover up any connection to Trump that Cohen paid out of his own pocket, which is like giving a candidate cash.