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Trump's personal fake news organ the Enquirer has even flipped. Melania is next? Lol
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There's so much hype and hysteria especially coming from the anti-Trumps. Don't get too over-excited. Don't pop the champagne nor do any victory dances.
Waiting to see what comes out of this...... I don't fully understand their politics (laws), just relying so far from news stories.
Here's one that argues otherwise. Here's the info about its author:
Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow
Hans von Spakovsky is an authority on a wide range of issues – including civil rights, civil justice, the First Amendment, immigration.A very lengthy detailed explanation, that also touches Barack Obama, John Edwards, and so many Congressmen:
QuoteTrump’s Ex-Lawyer Didn’t Violate Campaign Finance Laws, and Neither Did the President
President Donald Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, may have been convinced by the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York to plead guilty to a supposed violation of campaign finance law, but that doesn’t mean that what happened is actually a federal crime.
In fact, neither the Federal Election Commission—which is the independent agency tasked with enforcing the Federal Election Campaign Act—nor its former commissioners would likely agree with the overaggressive view that the Southern District is taking.
Indeed, the Southern District’s aggressive stance on this issue might have violated the Justice Department’s own policy.
Khuzami asserts these were illegal corporate contributions to the Trump campaign because they were made with “the intent to influence the 2016 presidential election.” Thus, he claims, they were campaign-related expenses and all of the rules governing federal campaigns apply to the payments.
But there are numerous problems with Khuzami’s claim.
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How can Cohen or anyone else involved in these payments be charged with a “knowing and willful” violation of the law by facilitating these payments when numerous campaign finance lawyers, federal election commissioners, and the Federal Election Commission itself have all publicly opined that such payments do not violate the law in the first place?
Some Democrats such as Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., are claiming that these supposed violations of campaign finance law are an impeachable offense. Apparently, they didn’t believe that the $375,000 civil penalty paid by Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign for campaign finance violations—one of the largest in the commission’s history—was an impeachable offense.
So......let's wait and see.
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I imagine among Trump supporters it seems perfectly reasonable to take a wait-and-see attitude as to whether laws have been broken when the guy has already pleaded guilty and sentenced to 3 years in prison
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