I don’t know that he has issued a statement on it. But the law is quite clear, individual money’s spent during a campaign to buy silence are not contributions if it is reasonable to believe that those payments would have been made irrespective of the campaign. Trump is well known as a master of non-disclosure agreements, so in this case “reasonable” is pretty much a given.
this isn’t individual money, this is a newspaper paying off someone on behalf of a candidate.
It is very telling that Trump has yet to text about Enquirer.
What the Judge said was 36 months for five counts of Tax Fraud and one count of lying to a bank on a loan application and 2 months (to be served concurrently) on the special prosecutor’s charge of lying to Congress about the Trump Hotel Moscow deal. No jail time for making payments to porn stars.
I’m not apologizing for anyone. Everything I have posted is factual.
The problem, you guys want this so badly, you don’t care about the facts.
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Clearly, you cannot rebut the facts.
He’s reduced to barking out rage one-liners, like the old men who yell at pigeons and clouds in the park.
Are you not following the conversation? I’m not referring to the NI payoff, I’m talking about Trump’s payments.
High crimes are an interesting thing. They’re not what you think they are.
Its not serious crimes, or even crimes at all from a legal sense.
A High Crime is something that someone in a position of privilege and authority commits. Meaning, the standards they have to live up to exceed those of an average US citizen. Having an affair is not a crime, but it could be a High Crime, for instance.
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Bradley Smith is an anti-campaign finance law activist and every FEC commissioner serves as “Chair” for at least a year. He’s not the bulletproof appeal to authority that you think he is.
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The current chair of the FEC is a woman, named Ellen Weintraub.
And the law is clear - but not how you think it is. There’s a reason why Michael Cohen is going to prison.
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You didn’t read the sentencing memo, did you?
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Here’s the thing about the FEC.
They’re not a law enforcement body.
Nor does the opinion of a single FEC commissioner mean a damn thing. The FEC is a commission, requiring 4 votes (out of 6 commissioners) for any decision.
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He is correct. The framing of the argument as you have done, would not equal the criminal conspiracy that places Trump at risk. But that’s the thing about false framing of arguments. Frame them in a fashion that sets up a straw-man, and it becomes easy to knock them down.
President Trump instead engaged in a criminal conspiracy, with shell companies, falsified book-keeping, and a discussed plan to withhold information from the public, so as to steal the election. No amount of false framing changes these alleged facts as offered by the Prosecutors in the southern district of New York.
The only questions that remain, are whether you believe President Trump, the man who always lies and has lied repeatedly about this issue? Or will you believe the career Prosecutors who have been appointed by President Trump, and have spent their entire adult lives upholding the rule of law.
Where do you stand, in the face of these undeniable facts?
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Honest question when did the National enquirer become a news agency or at least something people take seriously. I haven’t read about the Trump connection but isn’t the Enquirer that magazine at the Kroger’s check out with headlines like “Bigfoot married my mother”?
Being taken seriously is not a requirement to be a “news agency”.
Actually that is weekly world news…
National Enquirer has been a paper of record during the Obama administration…
It was frequently linked to by cons to show obama as a coke sniffing ■■■■ that was msrried to a man…
A credible source for most republicans…
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Has it really been a credible source by republicans ? No joke this is a first for me of hearing this - not doubting just saying I had always thought it was just one of those wacky alien abduction tabloids people read for fun, that occasionally 1% or less contained a shred of truth.
The body behind journalism’s most prestigious award conceded Thursday that the self-proclaimed tabloid can compete with mainstream news outlets for its prizes. Because it broke the story about former presidential candidate John Edwards’s mistress and love child, the Enquirer’s staff is eligible for the Pulitzer in two categories: “Investigative Reporting” and “National News Reporting.”
Wow news to me thanks, I really had no clue.
