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Why the National Enquirer cooperation deal is a VERY big problem for Donald Trump

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Why the National Enquirer cooperation deal is a VERY big problem for Donald Trump

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CEO David Pecker of AMI and Donald Trump

12/13/118
On Wednesday, while the political world was focused on the news that former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen had been sentenced to three years in prison for a variety of crimes, something else of potentially huge import got somewhat glossed over: American Media Inc., the parent company of the National Enquirer, admitted it had helped facilitate a hush payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal and agreed to cooperate with the ongoing investigation being run by the Southern District of New York. That is a VERY big deal for two major reasons. First, AMI admitted that, in coordination with Trump's presidential campaign, it had paid McDougal $150,000 in the run-up to the election for the exclusive rights to her story that she had an affair with Donald Trump a decade earlier. Here's the exact wording from the SDNY press release on Wednesday;

  • "AMI admitted that it made the $150,000 payment in concert with a candidate's presidential campaign, and in order to ensure that the woman did not publicize damaging allegations about the candidate before the 2016 presidential election."
So, AMI is acknowledging for the first time that not only did it make the payment to McDougal, which it has long lied about publicly, but it also did so in concert with Trump's campaign.
The AMI settlement jibes with what we learned last week in the SDNY sentencing document on Cohen, in which the office makes clear they believe that Cohen made and sought to hide the payment to McDougal (as well as another six-figure payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels) at the direction and coordination of Trump.

Perhaps the most important thing that the AMI settlement does, however, is make clear that the payment and the coordination with the Trump campaign was, according to the SDNY release, done by AMI "to suppress the woman's story so as to prevent it from influencing the election." That's of critical import, because Trump's latest argument is that while Daniels and McDougal were clearly paid off -- remember that he has long denied that -- it had nothing to do with his campaign or his prospects of winning. AMI is admitting in their settlement deal that the goal of catching and killing McDougal's story was "to prevent it from influencing the election." Which means that the $150,000 amounted to an in-kind contribution to the campaign -- and broke campaign finance law. In short: We may look back on Wednesday -- when this is all said and done -- as not the day that Michael Cohen got sentenced, but rather the day that AMI started working with the feds.

The blue above. That is a criminal campaign finance violation and a felony. Both Micheal Cohen and AMI have testified that Individual-1 (Donald Trump) was a co-conspirator.
 
Why the National Enquirer cooperation deal is a VERY big problem for Donald Trump

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CEO David Pecker of AMI and Donald Trump



The blue above. That is a criminal campaign finance violation and a felony. Both Micheal Cohen and AMI have testified that Individual-1 (Donald Trump) was a co-conspirator.

It was only a matter of time.

Late tonight after a bucket of fried chicken, 6 diet cokes and 2 scoops of ice cream Individual-1 will tweet it’s a hoax staged by Alex Baldwin and Cohen to fool Pecker and frame Individual-1. Tomorrow Trump fans will be repeating Trump’s tweet and defending Trump’s, ah, you know, honor and ****.
 
Why the National Enquirer cooperation deal is a VERY big problem for Donald Trump

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CEO David Pecker of AMI and Donald Trump



The blue above. That is a criminal campaign finance violation and a felony. Both Micheal Cohen and AMI have testified that Individual-1 (Donald Trump) was a co-conspirator.

I know, everything is the end of Trump. Rather than take the totalitarian route of criminalizing your political opposition, why not take the democratic route and come up with a candidate who can beat him in 23 months?
 
Party before country, got it.

One would need to be an idiot to think it would have changed the election results at all. Of course those same idiots believe Russia did.
 
One would need to be an idiot to think it would have changed the election results at all. Of course those same idiots believe Russia did.

So, an illegal act is ok, in your opinion, if it did not change the results?
 
Think about this; if AMI didn't pay off McDougal and Clinton won the election would McDougal's story have been an "in kind" contribution to Clinton?

No because there was no coordination between MaDougal and Clinton.

You are welcome!! :lol:
 
I know, everything is the end of Trump. Rather than take the totalitarian route of criminalizing your political opposition, why not take the democratic route and come up with a candidate who can beat him in 23 months?

LOL, criminalizing your political opposition? LOL

You mean like when Republicans investigated Hillary for lying about Benghazi, subpoenaed her emails util they found a petty crime and tried to lock her up? Republicans are still angry that Hillary is not in prison for email mismanagement.

 
One would need to be an idiot to think it would have changed the election results at all. Of course those same idiots believe Russia did.

If anyone here could judge idiot's.....
 
Think about this; if AMI didn't pay off McDougal and Clinton won the election would McDougal's story have been an "in kind" contribution to Clinton?

Tortured logic is not how the law works. Try again.
 
Don't care...next.

I remember vividly Watergate and about halfway through people like you saying they don't care, oblivious to the reality that surrounds the landscape.
 
It was only a matter of time.

Late tonight after a bucket of fried chicken, 6 diet cokes and 2 scoops of ice cream Individual-1 will tweet it’s a hoax staged by Alex Baldwin and Cohen to fool Pecker and frame Individual-1. Tomorrow Trump fans will be repeating Trump’s tweet and defending Trump’s, ah, you know, honor and ****.

agreed .... plus he will say that just being in the room means nothing as he tuned them out since he was not part of the conversation and really has no idea what they were talking about. Ray Charles can see this coming and he is both dead and blind.
 
Why the National Enquirer cooperation deal is a VERY big problem for Donald Trump

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CEO David Pecker of AMI and Donald Trump



The blue above. That is a criminal campaign finance violation and a felony. Both Micheal Cohen and AMI have testified that Individual-1 (Donald Trump) was a co-conspirator.

ROTFLOL... it’s no BIG DEAL...

Purchasing exclusive rights to stories to kill them happens all the time. There’s a term for it.

It’s hilarious watching Leftists eagerly eat every morsel of dog vomit that passes their yaps.
 
One would need to be an idiot to think it would have changed the election results at all.

Are you arguing that false "facts" being disseminated on Facebook and elsewhere, shown to be orchestrated by Russians, didn't change anything? How do you know that? Are you magic?

Do you not believe that facts are VITAL to a functioning democracy and, by default, a corrupted information stream is harmful? Can people be expected to vote correctly, in your opinion, when they are forced to consume bull**** as "truth"? Or, is that just the status quo for conservatives? This is another case of astonishingly, stupidly naïve denials by conservatives. Would you accept it as irrelevant if the Russians had worked for Clinton? Of course not. You'd be hysterical.

Don't let your personal ambivalence to facts become an assumption for all America. Some of us still care.


Of course those same idiots believe Russia did.

I think Trump and Putin believe it too.
 
Are you arguing that false "facts" being disseminated on Facebook and elsewhere, shown to be orchestrated by Russians, didn't change anything? How do you know that? Are you magic?

Do you not believe that facts are VITAL to a functioning democracy and, by default, a corrupted information stream is harmful? Can people be expected to vote correctly, in your opinion, when they are forced to consume bull**** as "truth"? Or, is that just the status quo for conservatives? This is another case of astonishingly, stupidly naïve denials by conservatives. Would you accept it as irrelevant if the Russians had worked for Clinton? Of course not. You'd be hysterical.
Don't let your personal ambivalence to facts become an assumption for all America. Some of us still care.
I think Trump and Putin believe it too.


Good grief, man!

According to the left, Trump got elected by conservative middle-aged white men and their wives who were told by their husbands who to vote for ... they're not exactly the facebook clientele.

If anybody was "affected" (grin) by Russian ads on facebook, it will have been the Bernie supporters. :lamo
 
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