In the eyes of Team Trump, nothing DT has done, been accused of doing, or threatened to do is as unethical, illegal and/or morally repugnant as presidenting while black.
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Job 34:30 - ⌠the hypocrite should not reign, Lest the people be ensnared.
This argument that the president should be above the law âbecause North Koreaâ is weak sauce.
Actually its not. They illegality of the payment, and how they structured it, is what is driving this story.
The obfuscation is already in effect. Trump didnât pay Cohen back with his own money. His campaign made a serious of payments to Trump Org to pay Cohen back.
So they attempted to cover up the payments, by using a third party (Trump Org) to launder the money through. So it wouldnât ever show up as a campaign expenditure. Thatâs not just a campaign finance violation, thatâs fraud.
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Hereâs the problem here. Itâs perfectly legal for Trump to pay $130k to Stormy Daniels to keep her from talking. However, since the purpose was to aid his own re-election, the trail from Trump to Trump election committee to Stephanie Clifford has to be disclosed. However, if it happens just before the election that disclosure doesnât happen until after election day.
Instead, they fall back into âhide it under the bills from your lawyer.â Now theyâve done two things to screw themselves. First of all, itâs all much shadier. A simple campaign finance violation doesnât have much more sanction than a speeding ticket. However, the deliberate obfuscation becomes more serious. Even that hasnât sunk the Orange Dickless Shitgibbon yet. What sinks him is that it establishes a pattern. First, the other 40 or 50 or 60 women in similar circumstances can step up. A lot of those donât look good, and the amount of money involved is substantial.
Second, it gets out enough dirt to piss off Mrs. Melania Trump. During her divorce action, as part of getting out of the pre-nup and deciding how much she gets to take Short Fingers to the cleaners, she gets to depose him and his accountants about his finances. Now, itâs getting scary. Mueller and various of the other prosecutors are going to be curious about all the laundered money they find. Oh, yes. Iâm sure that Cohenâs LLCs were used for hiding things other than hush money for Trumpâs women. (I think that Avenatti is indeed angling for a big legal settlement. More power to him. This guy is one of the top civil litigators in the country, and heâll give Trump a reaming royal. But thatâs nothing compared to what happens when Muellerâs legal firepower opens up â that makes anything Avenatti does look like the ranging shots.)
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